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2003
PRODUCT
GUIDE
MIPCOM
10 FRANCS
10 Francs, 28 Rue De L’Equerre, Paris,
75019 France. Tel: 33.1.48.74.43.77.
Fax: 33.1.48.74.42.95. www.10francs.fr,
10francs@10francs.fr
At MIPCOM: KNAFO Guy (Head of
Sales and Acquisitions), Dupre Maïa
(International Sales Manager)
Office: Market Place Stand H4.35
3DD
ENTERTAINMENT
LTD
3DD Entertainment Ltd, 190 Camden
High Street, London, NW1 8QP, United
Kingdom. Tel: 44 20.7428.1800. Fax: 44
20.7428.1818. www.3DDtv.co.uk.
sales@3DDtv.co.uk
Company Type: Distributor
At MIPCOM: Dominic Saville (CEO),
Lara von Ahlefeldt (Managing Director),
Stephanie Gilliard (Senior Sales
Manager), Reema Patel (Sales Manager),
James Anderson (Sales Manager), Adam
Wakeling (Sales Manager), Sarah
Andersen (Publicity and Marketing
Manager)
Office: Stand No: 02.42, Tel:
33.4.9299.8032
THE BALLAD OF BERING STRAIT
(98 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Nina Gilden Seavey
Producer: Nina Gilden Seavey
Cast: Ricardo Cuevas, Antony Riviera,
Cipriano Garcia, Leticia Herrera, Jose
Rabelo, Silvia Goiz.
Delivery Status: Complete
Year of Production: 2002, Country of
Origin: USA
Charting the unique and remarkable
journey of six young Russian musicians
in pursuit of country music stardom, this
documentary follows the hopefuls from
their classical Conservatory training to
Nashville.
THE SAME RIVER TWICE
(78 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Robb Moss
Producer: Peter Broderick
Cast: Shea Farrell, Robert Curtis-Brown,
John Putch, Dwier Brown
Delivery Status: Completed
Origin: USA
The film features action-packed suspense
and award winning cinematography to
portray this incredible journey between
four friends.
DEEP IN THE HEART (OF TEXAS)
(91 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Stephen Purvis
Producer: Stephen Purvis
Cast: Kenneth Cranham, Amanda Root,
Marco Perella, CK Mcfarland
Origin: USA
A film-making couple set out to find
colourful stories and interview subjects
and are drawn into a web of
extraordinary story-vignettes involving a
mad dog coach, a pie-maker and an
ancient oak tree.
THRONE OF DEATH
(60 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Murali Nair
Producer: Murali Nair/Preeya Nair
Cast: Lakshmi Raman, Vishwas
Njarakkal, Jeen Mitra, Suhas Thayat
Origin: USA
Winner of the Camera D’or Cannes
1999, this Indian film portrays the story
of the first death of a criminal by the
electric chair on the small island of
Kerala.
LA CIUDAD (THE CITY)
(88 minutes)
Language: English
Director: David Riker
Producer: Mark Dempsey
Cast: Ricardo Cuevas, Antony Riviera,
Cipriano Garcia, Leticia Herrera, Jose
Rabelo, Silvia Goiz.
Origin: USA
A multi award-winning tribute to the
struggles and hopes of a group of newly
disenfranchised Latin American
immigrants fresh to the harsh realities of
urban America.
4KIDS
ENTERTAINMENT
4Kids Entertainment, 1414 Avenue of the
Americas, New York, NY 10019 USA.
Tel: 212.754.5482. Fax: 212.754.5481.
4kidsentertainment.com
At MIPCOM: Alfred R. Kahn (Chairman
and CEO), Thomas J. Kenney (Executive
VP), Brian Lacey (EVP International),
Enna Hozumi (VP International
Acquisition/ Marketing)
Office: R 31.21
YU-GI-OH!
Animation (144 x 30’)
Producer: 4kids Entertainment
YU-GI-OH! follow the story of Yugi, a
smaller than average high school studentand an easy target for bullies.
POKÉMON
Producer: 4Kids Entertainment
In it’s sixth season, with more than 130
new characters, POKÉMON is a lot more
than a kids’ TV series ...it’s a pop culture
entertainment brand.
www.thebusinessoffilm.com
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA
TURTLES
The TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA
TURTLES are back BIGGER and
BOLDER and BADDER than ever with
awesome adventures and irreverent
humor.
KIRBY: RIGHT BACK AT YA!
Kirby, a Warpstar knight-in-training,
crash-lands on the Planet Popstar and
accidentally ends up as the pink protector
of the villagers.
THE WINX CLUB
Delivery Status: Spring 2004
Somewhere in the universe, witches and
fairies begin a battle in the name of good
and evil.
A
AETN
INTERNATIONAL
AETN International, 235 East 45th
Street, New York, NY 10017 USA. Tel:
212.210.1400. Fax: 212.907.9476.
www.aetninternational.com.
intl.sales@aetn.com.
At MIPCOM: Maria D. Komodikis
(Senior Vice President & General
Manager, International Division),
Michael Katz (Vice President
Programming & Production,
International), Isabelle Hen (Wollmaker,
Vice President, Marketing, International),
Simon Pollock (Managing Director,
Europe), Kerri Tarmey (Director,
Corporate Communications), Fabienne
Fourquet (Marketing Manager)
Office: G3-18, Tel: 04 92 99 85 65
BIOGRAPHY®
Documentary (40x1hour)
Language: English
Kim Jung-I1...Condoleezza Rice...Arnold
Schwarzenegger...From the world leaders
whose names are splashed across
headlines to Hollywood’s brightest stars,
the Emmy Award-winning series
BIOGRAPHY® delivers engaging and
in-depth profiles of the people who have
captured our imagination.
D-DAY: THE LOST FOOTAGE
Documentary
Language: English
Delivery Status: In Production
Commemorates the 60th anniversary of
the Normandy Invasion on June 6, 1944.
Beginning at Dawn that day, Allied
reconnaissance planes flew up and down
the coast every hour on the hour,
photographing the largest invasion in
history.
COMIC BOOK SUPERHEROES
UNMASKED
Documentary (1x2 hours)
Language: English
Superman. Batman. Spider-Man. The
Hulk. The X-Men. For much of the past
century, comic book superheroes have
captured the imaginations of readers
around the globe.
HOLY SECRETS: ELECTING A
POPE
Documentary (1x1 hour)
Language: English
Enter the inner sanctum of the Vatican to
see how the 176-member College of
Cardinals determines who becomes the
holiest and the most powerful man in the
Catholic Church.
FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION
Documentary (1x2 hours)
Language: English
Based upon Gene Kranz’s best-selling
book, FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION
provides an insider’s view of over 30
years of technological innovation and
human determination, seen from the
ground up.
ABBEY HOME
MEDIA GROUP PLC
Abbey Home Media Group PLC, 435 437
Edgware Road, London, W2 1TH UK.
Tel: 44.(0).20.7563.3910. Fax:
44.(0).20.7563.3911.
www.abbeymedia.com.
info@abbeyhomemedia.com
At MIPCOM: Ian Miles (Chairman &
CEO), Ann Miles (Managing Director,
Acquisitions & Programme
Development), Mike Robinson
(International Sales & Broadcast
Director), Emma Freeman (Buyer),
Rebecca Hill (Sales & Marketing
Executive)
Office: 04.31
LA CIUDAD (THE CITY)
3DD ENTERTAINMENT LTD
The unabridged version of this Product Guide is available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
The Business of Film
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MIPCOM PRODUCT GUIDE
WIDE EYE
Pre-school animation series (26 x 10
min)
Language: English
Director: Leo Neilson, King Rollo Films
Producer: Anne Miles
Country of Origin: UK
Meet the characters from Natterjack
Forest in this brand new series. The stars
are a cuddly, enthusiastic baby owl, Little
Hoot and his bouncy energetic friend,
Flea.
LOST IN THE SNOW
Christmas Special – animation (30 min)
Language: English
Director: Sara and Simon Bor,
Honeycomb animation
Producer: Anne Miles/David Mercer
A Christmas Special. When Lily goes out
to play in the snow, she leaves her
special friend, Teddy, on the window
ledge. But bang goes the window and
whoosh! goes Teddy on an exciting
adventure.
TEDDY TRUCKS
Pre-School animated series (13 x 5 min)
Language: English
Director: Jo Pullen
“If you want to get it there...call a bear!
Teddy Trucks is the bear’s transport
company.
BUMP
Pre-school animated series (26 x 5 min)
Language: English
Director: Dennis Hooper
Bump is a little elephant who is always
bumping into things but not really
meaning to.
MACDONALD’S FARM
Pre-school puppet series (26 episodes x
22 min 10 secs per episode)
Language: English
Director: Tony Reed
Producer: Anne Miles/Jo Pullen
Based on the famous nursery rhyme,
Macdonald’s Farm centres around seven
lovable animals.
AZUMANGA DAIOH
ADV FILMS
ABC CONTENT
SALES
ABC Content Sales, 700 Harris St.,
Ultimo, NS 2007 Australia. Tel:
61.2.8333.3177. Fax: 61.2.8333.3169.
www.abccontentsales.com.au,
abc.contentsales@abc.net.au
At MIPCOM: James Cuming (General
Manager, ABC Content Sales), Anne
McGrath (Sales Manager, Europe),
Elizabeth Paterson (Sales Manager, Asia,
Africa, Middle East, Latin America),
Alexandra Law (Sales Executive)
Office: 05:33, Tel: 33.4.92.99.80.24
EINSTEIN’S WIFE
Factual (1 x 55’)
Language: English
Director: Nicola Woolmington
Producer: Geraldine Hilton
Origin: Australia
A story of love, marriage, science and
sexual discrimination that casts new light
on the nature of scientific discovery and
collaboration.
SINGER - A DANGEROUS MIND
Factual (1 x 55’)
Language: English
Director: Terry Carlyon
Producer: Margie Bryant
Origin: Australia
A portrait of Dr. Peter Singer, the man
the New York Times calls “the most
dangerous man in the world” and the
New Yorker calls “the most influential
living philosopher”.
KYLIE KWONG: COOKING WITH
HEART AND SOUL
Lifestyle (8 x 30’)
Director: English
Language: Simon Target
Producer: Richard Reisz
Origin: Australia
Fire up the wok, grab the chopsticks and
be inspired by one of Australia’s most
talented young chefs, Kylie Kwong restaurant owner, author, award-winning
chef and fifth generation
Chinese/Australian who cooks with
irresistible energy and passion.
SURFING THE MENU
Lifestyle (8 x 26’)
Language: English
Director: Geoff Bennett
Producer: Marian Bartsch
Origin: Australia
Take two young knockabout Aussies,
head chefs in two top London
restaurants, place them into a four-wheeldrive jeep, and set them off on a
discovery tour of Australia’s great
scenery, characters and fresh produce.
GENIUS OF JUNK
Factual (1 x 27’)
Language: English
Director: Sonya Pemberton
Producer: Ian Cuming
Origin: Australia
The story of how an Australian doctor
enflamed one of the biggest controversies
of our time in patenting the use of 95%
of the DNA of every species on Earth.
ABSOLUTELY
INDEPENDENT
Absolutely Independent,
Nieuwendammerkade 26 M6, 1022 AB
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Tel:
3120.490.5200. Fax: 3120.490.5151.
www.absolutely.nl, info@absolutely.nl
Company Type: Format Distributor
At MIPCOM: Patty Geneste (Managing
Director), Annelies Noest (VP Sales and
Acquisitions), Helena Jench
(International Sales Director)
Office: H4.35, unit 11 (Marketplace
umbrella stand)
THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP OF
MAGIC 2003
Light entertainment (90’ special or 6 x
25’)
Languages: English, Dutch, German
Host: the world’s fastest illusionist Hans
Klok
Producer: TV Industry
Production status: completed
Country of Origin: the Netherlands, Year
of Production: 2003
Coverage of the unique event where the
winner can call himself the new world
champion of magic! Hosted by one of
the most renowned illusionists in the
world, Hans Klok.
ACTION TIME LTD
Action Time Ltd, 35-38 Portman Square,
London, W1H 6NU, UK. Tel:
00.44.207.612.7318. Fax:
00.44.207.612.7524. www.actiontime.com, info@actiontime.co.uk
Company Type: Producer/Distributor
At MIPCOM: Phil Trelease (Joint
Managing Director), Caroline Beaton
(Joint Managing Director), David
Housham (Executive Producer, Format
Development), Laura Burrell (Head of
Sales)
Office: R37.14, Tel: 33.4.92.99.8837
THE SYPING GAME
Reality-based (8 x 60 mins)
Delivery Status: Format only
In THE SPYING GAME ordinary
people are trained by professional spies
to live like spies and operate in
authentic missions in a thrilling threeway contest.
London Head Office Phone
44 207 372 9992
London Office FAX
44 207 372 9993
STARTING OVER
Reality-based
A group of women try to get their lives
back on track after years in the
wilderness- with the help of expert
counselling and each other’s support.
FOR RICHER, FOREVER?
Reality-based (8 x 60 mins)
FOR RICHER, FOREVER? is the show
that sets out to put loveless rich guys on
the road to true romance, with the aid of
a top dating coach and glamorous speeddating events.
LITTLE FRIENDS
Reality-based/comedy (8 x 30 mins)
A cast of kids use adult’s naivety and
preconceptions to persuade them to be
involved in incredible stunts. An
outrageous new comedy show - LITTLE
FRIENDS is rude, edgy and incredibly
funny.
ADV FILMS
ADV Films, 10114 West Sam Houston
Pkwy South, Suite 200, Houston, TX
77099 USA. Tel: 713.341.7100.
www.advfilms.com
At MIPCOM: John Ledford (CEO and
Founder), Kevin Corcoran (COO and
CFO), Sharon Papa (Executive Vice
President)
Office: # 11.01
ANGELIC LAYER
Action Adventure (26 x 30 minute
episodes)
Angelic Layer is a gorgeous anime based
on the popular manga by renowned
creators CLAMP, young people use
telepathy to control and battle
customizable dolls called “Angels” in
arenas called “Layers.”
AUTOMATIC MAIDEN
Comedy-romance (24 x 30 minute
episodes)
A sweet female combat-model android is
retired from military service and chooses
to spend her last functioning year
working as a maid for orphaned highschool student Sugaru.
AZUMANGA DAIOH
Comedy (26 x 30 minute episodes)
Azumanga Daioh follows the day-to-day
adventures of a comical group of high
school girls and their equally eccentric
friends and teachers.
KINO’S JOURNEY
Animated fantasy/adventure (13 x 30
minute episodes)
Centered on the travels and adventures of
Kino, who rides a talking motorcycle
named Hermes to a series of
extraordinarily inventive, metaphorically
charged locations.
FULL METAL PANIC
Animated science fiction/teen adventure
(24 x 30 minute episodes)
An action-heavy science-fiction series,
combining fantastic combat with a highschool subplot that will resonate strongly
with teen viewers.
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MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
ADVANTAGE MEDIA
GROUP
Advantage Media Group, 4298 Bright
Bay Way, Ellicott City, MD 21042 USA.
Tel: 410.465.0532. Fax: 410. 992.806.
At MIPCOM: Michael P. du Monceau
(President); Acquisition executive: LaLee
D. du Monceau
Office: 09.18
LETTERS FROM A SERIAL
KILLER
(1 x 60’)
A scientific exploration into the mind of
a serial killer. Why does a serial killer act
out on his compulsions? How can
science help unravel the mystery of a
psychotic mind?
SPIRITUAL SPAS
(1 x 30 pilot)
In the first episode, Asia, we explore a
resort palace in the foothills of the
Himalayas called Ananda, experiencing
Ayurveda and other health systems.
GREAT CARS
Continuing series (13 x 30’)
This continuing series takes a fresh look
of the greatest automobiles ever created.
RAJA’S KITCHEN
(13 x 28)
Enjoy the flavors and culture of various
states of India as we travel to and sample
the many dishes from the Palaces of
India.
HOLLYWOOD’S BRIGHTEST
STAR: BOB HOPE
(1 x 67’)
Bob Hope was regarded as one of the
world’s best-known and best-loved
entertainers. He was the master of rapid
fire wisecracks. His theme song, “Thanks
for the Memories”, sums up this story.
ALAIN SIRITZKY
PRODUCTIONS
Alain Siritzky Productions, 23, Rue
Raynouard, 75016 Paris, France. Tel:
33.1.42.24.50.50. Fax: 33.1.42 24 66 42.
www.ClickStudiosHollywood.com,
www.asproductions.tv,
asproductions@usa.net
Company Type: Producer, distributor
At MIPCOM: Alain Siritzky, George
Pilzer, Robby Amar
Office: stand at the Palais du Festival:
25.09, Tel: 33.492.99.8281
EMMANUELLE’S PRIVATE
COLLECTION SERIES
Erotic (7X90)
Delivery Status: In-Production
The world only knows one woman that
can transcend total beauty and sexually
to a whole new generation, her name still
is: Emmanuelle.
The Business Of Film
Now in its
24th year
IMAGES OF FEAR
Horror
Delivery Status: In-Development
When Steven Thomas buys a used video
camera at a garage sale and takes it home
to his wife and teen-age daughter, he
quickly discovers he has just let evil into
his life.
ALSO OUR CATALOGUE:
Emmanuelle 2000 7x90’, Emmanuelle,
The New Adventures 7x90’, Justine
7x90’
The Click 7x90’, Butterscotch 7x90’,
Passion & Romance 7x90’, The Sex
Files I & II 14x90’, Scandal 7x90’, The
Emmanuelle TV Series 7x90’,
Emmanuelle 5, 6 & 7 3x90’, Seducing
Fina 90’ and Wages of Lust 90’
ALFRED HABER
DISTRIBUTION, INC.
Alfred Haber Distribution, Inc., 111
Grand Ave., Palisades Park, NJ 07650
USA. Tel: 201.224.8000.
www.haberinc.com
At MIPCOM: Alfred Haber (President),
Robert Kennedy (Executive Vice
President), Andrew Haber (Vice
President, International Sales), Adam
Haber (Director, International Sales),
Chris Brodeur (Director, International
Sales)
Office: # 19.02
WORLD’S WILDEST POLICE
VIDEOS
Reality (56 x 60)
World’s Wildest Police Videos captures it
all, from the insanity of criminal
behavior to the determination of
extraordinary officers. Action so
incredible, so intense, much of it has
never been seen outside the law
enforcement community.
MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT
Pageant (1 x 120)
Hundreds of millions of fans have
watched over the years in 125 different
countries. Who would have thought that
a local “bathing beauty” competition
would metamorphose into the
breathtaking, annual NBC Television
Network tradition
THE GRAMMY AWARDS
Awards program (1 x 210)
The Grammy(Awards, the annual, 3 1/2hour CBS Television Network special,
has been the world’s most popular
television musical event for more than
three decades.
WORLD OF DOGS: BIOGRAPHY
SERIES
Documentary (26 x 1/2 hour)
Director: J.P. Isbouts
Producer: Alice Donenfeld, Coproduction partners: Jim Wallis
Cast: Pat Becker and Tim Hartmann
Delivery Status: 7 1/2 hours complete,
balance delivered over 2004
Year of Production: current, Country of
Origin: USA
Budget: $125,000 per episode
A comprehensive, entertaining and
informative look at the most popular
types of dogs.
UFO’S & ALIENS: SEARCH FOR
THE TRUTH
Documentary, science (3 x 60 min)
Producer: UFO & Aliens Productions,
Inc., Co-production partners: The
Learning Channel
Cast: Jeri Ryan, narrator
Delivery Status: completed
Origin: USA
Budget: $1,250,000
Scientists, engineers, NASA experts,
UFOlogists and abductees are
interviewed to give a rounded view in
this visually exciting series that explores
“Making Contact,” “Saucer Tech” and
“Alien Life Forms.”
BINGO & MOLLY
Children’s series (26 half-hours)
Director: various
Producer: Tom Broadbridge, Alice
Donenfeld, Co-production partners: The
Learning Channel, Avalon Studios (New
Zealand)
Cast: Robin Goodrow, Brian Narelle
Delivery Status: complete
Origin: New Zealand, USA
Budget: $1,500,000
Humor, animation, songs and puppets
entertain the 4 to 8 audience as they
follow the antics of Bingo and Molly
and their friends in Rabbit Hollow.
Funny, educational and enthralling for
the younger audience and intelligent for
the parents.
NUBIA AND THE MYSTERIES OF
KUSH WALKER’S CAY
CHRONICLES
Outdoor adventure (169 half-hours )
Director: Angelo Bernaducci
Producer: SeaLion Productions
Cast: Flip Pallot
Year of Production: 1991-present,
Country of Origin: USA
A different kind of outdoor series, each
episode tells its own complete story
through intelligent writing, spectacular
cinematography and underwater
photography.
CUBA MIA
ALLIANCE
ATLANTIS
Alliance Atlantis, Toronto: 121 Bloor
Street East, Suite #1500, Toronto,
Ontario, M4W 3M5, Canada. Tel:
416.967.1174. Fax: 416.960.0971.
Montreal: 5, Place Ville Marie, Suite
#1435, Montreal, Quebec, H3B 2G2,
Canada. Tel: 514.878.2282. Fax:
514.878.2419. London: 184 - 192
Drummond St., 2nd floor, London NW1
3HP England. Tel: 44.207.391.6900.
Fax: 44.207.383.0404. Australia: 401
Darling Street, Suite 2, Balmain, Sydney
NSW, 2041 Australia. Tel:
612.9810.8922.. Fax: 612.9810.8966.
Dublin: 40 Westland Row, Dublin 2,
Ireland. Tel. 353.1.449.8400. Fax:
353.1.449.8470. Los Angeles: 808
Wilshire Blvd., 3rd Floor, Santa Monica,
CA 90401 USA. Tel: 310.899.8000. Fax:
310.899.8100. Edmonton: 3720-76
Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta T6B 2N9
Canada. Tel: 780.440.2022. Fax:
780.440.3400. Halifax: 1668 Barrington,
Suite 500, Halifax, Novia Scotia, B3J
2G3, Canada. Tel: 902.420.1577. Fax:
902.425.8260. Shannon: Block 1, Unit C,
Shannon Business Park, Shannon, Co,
Clare, Ireland. Tel: 353.61.472.329. Fax:
353.61.472.228. www.aactv.com
Type of Company: Seller, Buyer, Coproducer, Broadcaster
ALICE4TV.COM
alice4tv.com, P.O. Box 2087, Thousand
Oaks, CA 91320, USA. Tel:
805.480.0380. Fax: 805.480.0390.
www.alice4.tv, info@alice4tv.com
Company Type: producer, distributor
At MIPCOM: Alice Donenfeld
(President), Pierre J. Vernoux (Chairman
of the Board); Acquisition Executive:
Alice Donenfeld
Office: 9/38, Tel: 33.06.1546.0848
WORDS APART
CABLEREADY
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At MIPCOM: Ted Riley (President,
Distribution, Entertainment Group),
Maria Sanchez (Managing Director,
International Distribution, Europe,
Entertainment Group), Ken Faier (Vice
President, Production and Distribution,
Children’s Television, Entertainment
Group), Peter Worsley (Managing
Director, International Factual
Distribution, Entertainment Group), Irene
Read (Managing Director, International
Distribution, Australasia and Asia,
Entertainment Group), Rose Marie Vega
(Vice President, International
Distribution, Latin America,
Entertainment Group)
Office: G3.14 Tel: 33.4.92.99.8348
HUMAN CARGO
Miniseries (6 Hour)
Starring Kate Nelligan, Nicholas
Campbell, Cara Pifko, Myriam Acharki,
Leslie Hope, Nthati Moshesh and Bayo
Akinfemi
In a world increasingly suspicious of
asylum seekers and hostile to ‘boat
people’, Human Cargo, a powerful new
six-hour mini-series, examines the oftenharsh realities of immigration.
HITLER: THE RISE OF EVIL
Miniseries (4 Hour)
A four-hour event miniseries for CBS,
starring Robert Carlyle, Stockard
Channing, Jena Malone, Julianna
Margulies, Matthew Modine, Liev
Schreiber, Peter Stormare and Peter
O’Toole.
THE ELEVENTH HOUR
Dramatic Series (26 x 1 Hour)
Starring Shawn Doyle, Waneta Storms,
Jeff Seymour and Tanya Reid with Sonja
Smits. THE ELEVENTH HOUR brings
viewers into the rarely seen world of
investigative journalism.
CSI:MIAMI
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/csi_miam
i/
Dramatic Crime Series (46 x 1 Hour)
Starring David Caruso, Emily Procter,
Adam Rodriguez, Khandi Alexander and
Rory Cochrane
Fast-paced drama inspired by the toprated series CSI: CRIME SCENE
INVESTIGATION that follows a South
Florida team of forensic investigators and
has become the highest rated new drama
in the U.S.
CSI:CRIME SCENE
INVESTIGATION
www.cbs.com/primetime/csi/
Dramatic Crime Series (91 x 1 Hour)
Starring William Petersen, Marg
Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George
Eads, Jorja Fox, Paul Guilfoyle, Eric
Szmanda and Robert David Hall
There’s no shortage of clues as to why
CSI:CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION
is the most watched show on U.S.
television.
AMERICA VIDEO
FILMS
America Video Films, Virrey Loreto
2426, Buenos Aires, 1426 Argentina. Tel:
54.11.4787.9098. Fax: 54.11.4787.9094.
america@americavideofilms.com
At MIPCOM: Enrique Maya (President),
Nicholas Bingham (Advisor), Freddie
Hancock (VP acquisitions)
Office: 14.16, Tel: 9299.8196
WEDDING NIGHT
Comedy (96 ‘)
Nicholas and Florence are not as afraid
of marriage as they are of uniting their
families into a big one.
SAFE
Thriller (120 ‘)
The star and the director of “Far from
Heaven” come together in this gripping,
intense and powerful film.
DARK STORIES
Thriller (54 x 10’)
An award winning collection of spinetingling theatrical short thrillers.
AMERICAN PUBLIC
TELEVISION / APT
WORLDWIDE
American Public Television / APT
Worldwide, 55 Summer Street, 4th Floor,
Boston, Massachusetts 02110 USA. Tel:
617.338.4455. Fax: 617.338.5369.
www.aptonline.org
At MIPCOM: Cynthia Fenneman
(President & CEO), Joan Cavanagh (VP
International Sales), Eric Luskin (VP
Syndication & Fundraising Programs),
Christi Collier (Program Development
Executive), Thomas Davison (Manager,
International Sales): Acquisition
Executive: Eric Luskin (VP Syndication
& Fundraising Programs)
Office: Stand 30.18 in the Riviera Annex.
Tel: 33.(0).492.99.8806
COSMIC JOURNEY: THE
VOYAGER INTERSTELLAR
MISSION AND MESSAGE
Science (1 x 92)
Language: English
Director: Phylis Geller
Producer: Norman Star Media and
Cosmos Studios
Origin: USA
The Voyager spacecraft embark on the
longest journey in human history: to
discover the scientific wonders of the
cosmos, and to communicate something
about us, the creatures who built the
craft.
THE FLUTE PLAYER
Documentary (1 x 60)
Language: English
Director: Jocelyn Glatzer
Producer: Over the Moon Productions,
Inc.
Origin: USA
Musician who survived the Khmer
Rouge returns to Cambodia to seek out
surviving “master musicians” and face
the dark shadows of his war-torn past.
GLOBAL TRIBE
Travel (3 x 30)
Language: English
Director: Amy Eldon
Producer: Creative Visions
Origin: USA
An innovative series combines the spirit
of travel with a searching look at people
and culture.
CHANGEUP
Sports, Documentary (1 x 46)
Language: English
Director: Loren Mendell
Producer: Angry Young Ranch
Origin: USA
From the Dominican Republic come two
teenagers, best friends who have dropped
out of school to pursue a career in
professional baseball.
Los Angeles Office
TEL
323-935-8228
FAX
323-935-8229
SOLSTROM - CBC INTERATIONAL SALES
PERFECT ILLUSIONS
Health, Documentary (1 x 60)
Language: English
Director: Peggy Case
Producer: KCTS/ Seattle Public
Television
Origin: USA
Dramatic stories of four families and
their desperate efforts to save their
children from deadly eating disorders.
Actress Lauren Hutton narrates.
AMERICAN WORLD
PICTURES
American World Pictures, 6355 Topanga
Canyon Blvd., Ste. 428, Woodland Hills,
CA 91367 USA. Tel: 818.715.1480.
818.715.1081.
www.americanworldpictures.com
At MIPCOM: Terese Linden Kohn
(Executive VP of Distribution), Terese
Cell: 011.39.329.1915436
Office: AFMA Booth: 01.02, Tel:
011.33.4.92.99.8207
KNIGHT CLUB
Action
Director: Russel Gannon
Producers: Jim Lotfi; Rob Nittolo &
Tony Rosamillia
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Lochlyn
Munro, Glenn Plummer
A young man (Lochlyn Munro) stumbles
upon a job as a bouncer at a hip LA night
club.
TULLY
Drama
Director: Hilary Birmingham
Producers: Anne Sundberg and Hilary
Birmingham
Cast: Anson Mount, Julianne Nicholson
“Tully” explores a legacy of love
between a family of men, and the events
of one summer that change their world
forever.
MENACE
Action
Director: John Marino
Producers: Spencer Thornton. Johhny
Ciarcia, S. Woody Wagner
Cast: Johnny Green, Alison Lohman
(WHITE OLEANDER)
When Brian Lovero finds himself on the
hit list of the wrong side, he has no
choice but to turn to a pair of street bros
who make him an offer that will change
his life forever.
HELLBREEDER
Horror
Writer/Producer/Director: Johannes
Roberts and James Eaves
Cast: Dominique Pinon, Lyndie Uphill,
Darren Day, Tina Barnes
In the sleepy town of Ludlow, the arrival
of the mysterious stranger Alice suspects
to be the killer of her son coincides with
a renewed spate of horrific murders.
WHITE RUSH
Action / Thriller
Director: Mark L. Lester
Producers: Dana Dubovsky, Mark L.
Lester
Cast: Louis Mandylor (MY BIG FAT
GREEK WEDDING), Judd Nelson
Another chapter in traffic. A group of
young tourist couples come across a drug
deal gone bad while on vacation.
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
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 MIPCOM: Alan Solomon (President),
Joseph Beral (Director of International
Sales and Marketing)
Office: Palais des Festival, Stand #18.12,
Tel: 04.92.99.80.53
XAVIERA: STILL HAPPY
Director: Robert Dunlap
Documentary
Xaviera holds nothing back; from her
precarious beginning in a Japanese
prison camp to her family’s penniless
return to Holland after the war.
POP THE CLUTCH
Documentary
Director: Sam Wright
Hosted by: Rory L. Christian, Lewis Gee
Featuring: Harlem Honies, Perfect Blend
and Ruthless Tactics
Follows the four-day festivities that
occur annually during Memorial Day
weekend in Atlantic Beach and Myrtle
Beach, SC.
LOVE ME DO - A FEATURE ABOUT
THE BEATLES
Documentary (85 min)
In this wonderfully insightful
documentary, Victor Spinetti shares his
unique memories of his time with the fab
four.
STRAIGHT OUT
Action (85 min)
Cast: Daryl Heath, Phil Hayes, Mari
Morrow, Fred Silva
Music: Various Hip-Hop / Rap artists Daz Dillenger, Kurupt, Kay-9ine, Viper,
Spice-1 etc.
On the run and desperate for cash, a
career street hustler (Daryl Heath) and
his accomplice will do whatever it takes
to survive to make one last big deal.
FALLEN ANGELS
Thriller
Director: Ian David Diaz
Cast: Michael Ironside, Jeff Fahey and
Kai Wiesinger
Four girls return to their abandoned high
school to film a documentary about the
tragic events that happened during their
senior year.
ARESO TEKITO
Areso Tekito, 46 rue du Minage, La
Rochelle 17000 France. Tel:
33.6.61.06.05.05. mhumblot@tekito.tv
At MIPCOM: Martial HUMBLOT
(General Manager), Marc SAILLARD
(Producer)
Office: Tel: 33.6.61.06.05.05
TEAM COLEO
Animation (26 x 26 minutes)
Language: French - English
Director: Martial Humblot
Producer: Tekito.tv
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2003 – 2004,
Country of Origin: France
2089, in a desertifying world, the fight
for the drinkable water is intense.
Against the Megalo trust, The team
Coleo is about to discover the secrecy of
the Mokal, a revolutionary process which
purify polluted water.
ARTIST VIEW
ENTERTAINMENT
Artist View Entertainment, 12500
Riverside Drive, Ste. 201, N. Hollywood,
CA 91607 USA. Tel: 818.752.2480. Fax:
818.752.9339. artistview@earthlink.net
At MIPCOM: Scott J. Jones (President),
Jay E. Joyce (Vice President)
Office: 04.19, Tel: 33.4.92998205
THE KISS
Drama (90 min)
Cast: Terence Stamp, Francoise Surel,
Billy Zane, Illeana Douglas, Eliza
Dushku
Year of Production: 2003
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.
ARTWORKS
Thriller (90 min)
Cast: Virginia Madsen, Rich Rossovich,
Daniel von Bargen
A police chief’s daughter, a sales agent
for a home-security firm, meets an art
gallery owner. Love and envy lead them
to hatch a plot to steal overlooked but
valuable paintings from her wealthy
clients.
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.
ETERNAL BLOOD
Horror (90 min)
Cast: Juan Pablo Ogalde, Blanca Lewin,
Patricia Lopez, Carlos Borquez
What started as a game becomes a
nightmare, as students begin to transform
into vampires. It’s up to one student “M”
to try and turn his friends back before it’s
too late.
THE GHOST CLUB
Family (90 min)
Cast: Brittany Robertson, Clayton
Griffin, Lindley Mayer, Derek Thompson
A group of kids discover a friendly ghost
named Carolyn who haunts a nearby
forest and try to come up with a plan to
capture the ghost.
Now in its
24th year
ATLAS MEDIA CORP.
Atlas Media Corp., 148 W.37th St., 10th
floor, New York, NY 10018 USA. Tel:
212.714.0222. Fax: 212.714.0240.
atlasmediacorp.com
At MIPCOM: Bruce David Klein
(President & Executive Producer), Maria
Lane (Senior Vice President,
Programming), Karen Hanley (Head of
New Business Development), Emi
Macuaga (Development Executive)
Office:
BEACH AMBUSH
Reality Game Show (13x 30min.)
Delivery Status: Worldwide Excluding
North America
Unpredictable reality game show brings
plenty of surprises and challenges to
unsuspecting beach-goers on their
favorite beaches.
BRAGGING RIGHTS
Reality Game Show (13x 30 min.)
Delivery Status: Worldwide Excluding
North America
Prepare for the ultimate grudge match, as
tough guys duke it out in this reality
game show competition!
TRAVEL/ ADVENTURE
COLLECTION
Documentary (7x 60 min.)
Delivery Status: Worldwide excluding
North America
Series of the seven specials travels the
world in search of the outrageous, the
extravagant, and the visually stunning.
DR. G., MEDICAL EXAMINER
Documentary (60 min.)
North America
“Every body has a story” -One of
America’s top female medical examiners
solves with her team the medical
mysteries of life and death, working
daily to ease the suffering of loved ones.
CAUGHT: THE ICE CHEST
MURDER
Docudrama (1 x 60 min.)
North America and the Caribbean
Weaving cinematic reenactments with
compelling verité footage, a gripping
docudrama reveals the crucial mistakes
that helped investigators unravel a highprofile murderer’s “perfect crime.”
BLESS THE CHILD
Romance (88.13 min)
Language: Cantonese and Mandarin
Director: Jones Ma
Producer: Ng Kin Hung
Cast: Paulyu Sun, Tse Kwan Ho, Belinda
Hamnett
Origin: Hong Kong
Boni’s client indicates that she has
plagiarized someone’s idea. When she
wake up in the next day, she realizes
time has flowed backward to yesterday.
DREAM & DESIRE
Dance (87.55 min)
Director: Bosco Lam
Producer: Dickson Tang, Ken Wu
Cast: Eric Kot, Sam Lee, Tiffany Lee
Origin: Hong Kong
Yau Hei dreams to express his
enthusiasm in dance on the stage. He and
his friends enroll in the dancing contest.
Their friend Jesus dies before the contest.
THE TROUBLE-MAKERS
Black comedy (84.42 min)
Director: Aman Cheung
Producer: Bennie Chan, Dickson Tang
Cast: Maggie Q, Wan Chi Wai, Lee Chan
Sum
Origin: Hong Kong
Shito was irriated by his housemate Yee’s
behaviour. He even sees ghost in the
house. He moves out at once. He goes to
his friend Wai for help.
A TRAGIC ROOM
Suspicion (88.73 min)
Director: Bosco Lam
Cast: Irene Wan, Sunny Chan, Leila Tong
Origin: Hong Kong
Lok Ping was sentenced into jail after
she killed her husband. She witnessed
her husband rape her sister Lok Yau
Nam.
B
B & S FILMS
CREATION WORKS
HOUSE
B & S Films Creation Works House, 7/F.,
Cheong Tai Factory Bldg., 16 Tai Yau
St., Sanpokong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Tel: 852.2397 0731. Fax: 852.2397 0013.
www.bs-818.com.hk. bsc@bsfilms.com.hk
Company Type: Producer
At MIPCOM:
Office:
THE SADDLE CLUB
CRAWFORD PRODUCTIONS
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
21
THE TWO INDIVIDUAL PACKAGE
WOMEN
Romance (87.88 min)
Director: Roger Lau
Cast: Cheung Man, Alfred Cheung,
Sammy Cheung
Origin: Hong Kong
Two individual stories that describe two
women’s love value.
BARDEL
ENTERTAINMENT
INC.
Bardel Entertainment Inc., 548 Beatty
Street, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6B
2L3. Tel: 604.669.5589. Fax:
604.669.9079.
www.bardelentertainment.com.
info@bardelentertainment.com.
Company Type: Animation Production
Studio
At MIPCOM: Delna Bhesania (CEO),
Barry Ward (President), Cathy Schoch
(Head of New Projects and CoProductions), Juliet Greenberg
(Marketing and Communications
Manager)
Office: The Canadian Pavilion -Stand
00.01- Business Lounge G and H, Tel:
33.4.92.99.8356. Fax: 33.4.92.99.8357
SILVERWING
Animation, Action Adventure (13 x 22
minutes)
Language: English
Director: Keith Ingham
Producer: Cathy Schoch
Origin: Canada
Silverwing is a ground-breaking, high
quality, animated action adventure set
against a backdrop of myth, intrigue and
conflict based on the best-selling novel
by Kenneth Oppel.
DEMOND UNDER GLASSECHELON ENTERTAINMENT
THE CHRISTMAS ORANGE
Animation, Family Holiday Special, 2D
and digital hybrid (1 x 22)
Language: English
Director: Ian Freedman
Producer: Cathy Schoch
Executive Producers: Delna Bhesania
and Barry Ward
Delivery Status: Available now
Origin: Canada
When young Anton Stingley awakes on
Christmas morning to find that instead of
the 600 toys he has requested from Santa,
there is one simple orange, he is outraged
and decides to sue Santa!
THE MR DINK SHOW
Adult Comedy, FLASH animation
Language: English
Director: Ron Crown
Producer: Graham Watts
Origin: Canada
Blissfully unaware that he is missing the
piece of his brain that says ‘wear
clothes,’ Mr. Dink approaches life with a
combination of relentless optimism and
extreme enthusiasm, despite the endless
predicaments his nudity provokes.
BBC WORLDWIDE
LTD.
BBC Worldwide Ltd., Woodlands, 80
Wood Lane, London, W12 0TT UK.
At MIPCOM: Rupert Gavin (Chief
Executive), Mike Phillips (Director of
International TV), Mark Young
(President & CEO BBC Worldwide
Americas and Managing Director of
EMEIA)
Office: G3.40
PRIDE
Drama (1 x 90’)
Real animals are the stars of the
groundbreaking, live-action family film,
set against the visually stunning
backdrop of East Africa.
WILD AUSTRALASIA
Natural History (6 x 50’)
Produced by Neil Nightingale and is a
BBC/Animal Planet/ABC Australia coproduction.
A epic series that journeys through time
and space to explore Australasia’s natural
wonders, from tropical jungle and vast
shallow coral reefs to burning desert and
snowy mountains.
BODY SNATCHERS
Science (3 x 50’)
BBC/TLC co-production and is produced
by Helen Thomas, Alice Harper and
Martin Belderson.
A series that explores the revolting but
fascinating world of human parasites the inhabitants of our bodies who are the
most successful predators on the planet.
D-DAY
History (2x50’)
Produced by Richard Dale (The Human
Body, Walking with Cavemen, Teachers),
D-Day redefines the genre of
drama/documentary in factual
storytelling.
The BBC is planning a major season of
programming to mark the anniversary of
World War II, including D Day - the
story of the largest military invasion and
defence the world has ever seen.
FIGHTBOX
Entertainment (20x26’)
With executive producers Nick Southgate
and Finbar Hawkins, this is a Fightbox
production for the BBC.
Combining TV, Internet and computer
gaming this is a new sporting concept in
which potential contestants log on to the
Fightbox website to build a virtual
warrior on screen, trained to the highest
specification.
BEYOND
DISTRIBUTION
Beyond Distribution, 109 Reserve Rd.,
Artarmon, NSW 2064 Australia. Tel:
61.2.9437.2000. Fax: 61.2.9437.2017.
www.beyond.com.au,
distribution@beyond.com.au
At MIPCOM: Munia Kanna (Head Of
Sales)
Office:
THE ZOO - SERIES 5
Wildlife / Reality (7 x Half Hours) (Total
36 x Half Hours)
Language: English
Producer: Greenstone Pictures
The Zoo continues to take a charming
look at life on both sides of the bars at a
large city zoo.
NOSEY - SERIES 3
Childrens (40 x 5 mins (total 140 x 5
mins)
Language: English
Producer: Rocking Horse Productions
Nosey is a small, chirpy, and child-like
animated video-camcorder superimposed
over the live action of the Nosey series.
Nosey is, not surprisingly, very
inquisitive; he sticks his lens almost
everywhere.
BORN AGAINST THE ODDS 2
Health & Medicine Documentary Special
(One Hour)
Language: English
Producer: Beyond Productions
Details more fascinating stories of
childbirth that defy standard medical
practice. Born Against The Odds
explores the cross over between medical
science and human resilience.
HUMAN PREY 2
Wildlife Special (One Hour)
Language: English
Producer: Beyond Productions
Entering the senses of animals as they
hunt, this documentary combines 3-D
graphics and personal accounts to
recreate with forensic detail the
mechanics of two large animal attacks - a
crocodile attack in Australia and a cougar
attack in the US.
L.A. Office
TEL: 323-935-8228
FAX: 323-935-8229
NAKED - BUM
Health & Medicine Special (One Hour)
Language: English
Producer: Raconteur Film And Television
Productions
New in a series exploring body parts,
Naked – Bum is an expose of this littlediscussed part of the anatomy.
BFC BERLINER FILM
COMPANIE
PRODUCTIONS
GMBH
BFC Berliner Film Companie
Productions GmbH,
themediacentre/Johannisstrasse
20/10117/Berlin/Germany. Tel:
49.0.30.72.619.4621. Fax:
49.0.30.72.619.4647. www.bfc.net
Company Type: animation studio
(production)
At MIPCOM: David Simon (Executive
Consultant), Michael Hefferon (Senior
Vice President of Production), Dr. Volker
Baas; Acquisition Executive: David
Simon (domestic) Michael Hefferon
(International)
Office: Tel: 49.178.726.2326 (Michael
Hefferon cell)
SHADOW OF THE ELVES
Animated TV Series (24 min)
Language: English, German, French,
Spanish
Producer: Rainer Soehnlein and Dr. Carl
Woebcken
Origin: Germany
Within the Meadowlands exists a
microscopic kingdom, where peaceful
fairies and comical trolls must fight to
keep their realm from being captured by
the evil elfin king, Lord Kann.
ALTAIR IN STARLAND
Spanish
Woebcken
Origin: Germany
A young boy growing up in the unusual
world of the Starish people, along with
his best friend Blip, a wisecracking little
star, and his star-herding green dog, set
off on zany adventures in Starland.
MISSION ODYSSEY
Spanish
Producer: Rainer Soehnlein, Dr. Carl
Woebcken, Vincent Chalvon Demersay
and David Michel
Origin: Germany
The classic tale of Ulysses, whose
attempts to return home to Ithaca after
defeating the Trojans are thwarted when
Poseidon sends him and band of warriors
to the edges of the world.
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
ADVENTURERS MASTERS OF
TIME
Spanish
Woebcken
Origin: Germany
When four students upload themselves
by way of time continuum software, they
are whisked back through the ages on a
desperate search for their missing
computer professor.
BLACK DIAMOND
LTD
Black Diamond Ltd, Bedford Chambers,
The Piazza, Covent Garden, London,
WC2E 8HA UK. Tel: 44.7240.4071. Fax:
44.7836.6339.
Company Type: producer/ distributor
At MIPCOM: Guy Chambers, MD,
Brendan Kelly, Head of Television
Office: 12.20
GADGETS ‘N’ STUFF
Lifestyle, Masthead programme (13 x
30)
Language: English
Delivery Status: in production
The series will cover all aspects of the
very latest technology on the market,
from military vehicles, the ultimate home
cinema system retailing at a mere snip at
£200,000 to everybody’s dream items.
OUCH....THAT HAD TO HURT
Clips programme (13 x 30)
Language: English
Motorized mayhem featuring prime crash
footage backed by a turbo fuelled rock
soundtrack. Broken bones and twisted
metal are the prevailing themes in this
symphony of destruction.
DRUNK AND DISORDERLY
Light entertainment series (24 x 2.5
mins)
Language: English
A combination of Jackass, Dirty Sanchez
and far too much hard liquor ! A heady
mix of no fear .....and no brains.
BUENA VISTA
INTERNATIONAL
TELEVISION
Buena Vista International Television, 3,
Queen Caroline Street, London, W6 9PE
United Kingdom. Tel:
44.(0)208.222.1000. Fax:
44.(0)208.222.1620. www.bvitv.com
At MIPCOM: David Hulbert (President,
Walt Disney Television International),
Tom Toumazis (Senior Vice President
and Managing Director, BVITV –
EMEA), Alison Homewood (Vice
President, Sales, BVITV – EMEA),
Steve Macallister (Vice President and
General Manager, BVITV – Asia
Pacific), Fernando Barbosa (Vice
President, Sales, BVITV – Latin
America))
Office: A0.21, Tel: 33 492 99 85 22
LINE OF FIRE
Drama (13 x 1 hour)
Language: English
Director: Rod Lurie
Co-Production Partners: Touchstone
Television in association with Battle Plan
Productions
Producer: Rod Lurie and Marc Frydman
Key Cast: Leslie Hope (24), Leslie Bibb
(ER, Popular), David Paymer (Amistad,
Payback)
Origin: US
Fast-paced drama based in Richmond,
Virginia depicting the war between the
FBI /organized crime. One side enforces
law as the other breaks it, but brawn and
intimidation are used by both.
THREAT MATRIX
Drama (13 x 1 hour)
Language: English
Director: Charles Haid
Producer: Emile Levisetti, Michael
Edelstein Daniel Voll and Keith Addis
Television
Key Cast: Jamie Denton (Face/Off),
Kelly Rutherford (Scream 3)
Origin: US
A series about the men and women of the
Department of Homeland Security,
whose mission is to keep the United
States safe from terrorist activity.
HOPE & FAITH
Comedy (13 x 30’)
Director: English
Language: Gil Junger
Producer: Joanna Johnson, Guymon
Casady, Emile Levisetti, Michael
Edelstein and Gil Junger
Television
Key Cast: Faith Ford (“Murphy Brown”)
and Kelly Ripa (“Live with Regis and
Kelly”)
Origin: US
A suburban homemaker’s life is turned
upside down when her sister, an out-ofwork soap star, moves into her already
full house.
SONIC X
Kids animation (52 x 30’)
Language: English
Co-Production Partners: TMS
Entertainment Limited
Origin: Japan
Sonic, the heroic hedgehog, is back and
in battle with Dr. Eggman, a guru of
robot engineering who is creating evil
robots to fulfil his dream of world
domination.
London Head Office Phone
44 207 372 9992
London Office FAX
44 207 372 9993
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN:
THE CURSE OF THE BLACK
PEARL
http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/pirate
s/
Action/drama (143’)
Language: English
Director: Gore Verbinski
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer
Co-Production Partners: Walt Disney
Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer
Key Cast: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush,
Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley
Origin: US
Captain Jack Sparrow’s life capsizes
when Captain Barbossa steals his ship,
the Black Pearl, attacks Port Royal, and
kidnaps the Governor’s daughter
Elizabeth. Elizabeth’s friend, Will Turner,
joins Jack to rescue them.
BULLSEYE
TELEVISION
Bullseye Television, 1st Floor, 21 Warple
Way, London, W3 0RX UK. Tel:
44.20.8600.3700. Fax: 44.208 600.3709.
Company Type: producer/ distributor
At MIPCOM: Jorg Roth, MD; Dee
Smith, Head of Development; David
Cornwall, Sales Executive
Office: The MarketPlace - H4.35
BRITAIN’S MOST EMBARRASSING
PARENTS
Format (10 x 30 mins)
A hilarious, intimate look at some of the
depths that an embarrassing parent will
go.
OUCH!
Documentary (48 minutes)
Language: English
Shows the amazing resilience of the
human body and its ability to survive
trauma.
MIRACLES DO HAPPEN
Documentary (2 x 60 mins)
Language: English
Miracles do happen -and they happen
everywhere. Regardless of continent,
country, class, religion or race, diverse
civilisations past and present are unified
by their belief in miracles.
MEDICAL
DETECTIVES/FORENSIC FILES
Language: English
Producer: Medstar Television
Delivery Status: Available Immediately
Year of Production: 1996-2003
Go behind the scenes of fascinating
crime stories and rare medical cases to
determine who did it or if something was
really ever done.
INSIDE THE ACTORS STUDIO
Entertainment/Arts (87 x 60 plus 6 x
120)
Language: English
Producer: Bravo/In The Moment
Productions
The impressive list of artists interviewed
includes: Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal,
Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks, Sharon Stone,
Kevin Spacey, Steven Spielberg, and
Harrison Ford.
TRUST ME
Language: English
Producer: Hidden Treasures Productions
33 boys, ages 9-13, of Islamic, Jewish
and Christian faiths set off to spend a
week at the first Interfaith Camp in
North Carolina, USA
WORLDS APART
Documentary/Reality (13 x 60)
Language: English
Producer: True Entertainment
An American family, chosen for its spirit
of adventure and curiosity, joins an
indigenous tribe and fully participates in
its customs, rituals, and livelihood.
THE DIRECTORS
Entertainment/Arts (26 x 60)
Language: English
Producer: Media Entertainment
The director becomes the star when the
spotlight is turned on today’s best
filmmakers. An insightful biographical
series, with first run on Starz-Encore in
the US.
C
CABLEREADY
CABLEready, 98 East Avenue, Norwalk,
CT 06851 USA. Tel: 203.855.7979. Fax:
203.855.8370. www.cableready.net
At MIPCOM: Gary Lico
(President/CEO; Tel: 203.855.7979
x365), Sabrina Sanchez (Director of
Program Marketing / Latin Programming
Specialist; Tel: 203.855.7979 x366),
Kerry Novick (International
Programming Sales Assoc.; Tel:
203.855.7979 x368), Lou Occhicone
(V.P. of Program Operations: Tel: 203855-7979 x363)
Office: #R31.17, Tel: (0)4.92.99.88.46
THE CINDER PATH
GRANADA
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
23
CANAMEDIA
Canamedia, 1670 Bayview Ave., #408,
Toronto ON M4G 3C2 Canada. Tel:
416.483.7446. Fax: 416.483.7529.
www.canamedia.com, www.coordinator@cadia.com
At MIPCOM: Les Harris (President, Intl
sales & Acquisitions), Kate Sanagan
(Manager North American Sales &
Acquisitions)
Office: 02.10 / 10.04, Tel:
33.(0).4.92.99.83.14, Fax:
33.(0).4.92.99.83.57
LOFTY IDEAS
www.loftyideas.ca
Documentary (65 x 30’)
Language: English
Director: Various
Producer Mountain Road Productions
Year of Production: 1999-2002, Country
of Origin: Canada
Hosted design series features lofts in N.
America and the U.K reviewing and
discussing unique design, style, colour,
layout, accessories and furnishings
incorporating 3 distinct lofts per episode.
THE INVISIBLE MACHINE
Language: English
Director: John Whalen
Producer Morag Productions
Budget $500,000
Origin: Canada
Exposé into the secret world of
electromagnetic weapons of mass
destruction; the newest deadly weapon,
along with first time pictures from the
previously secret files of the Canadian
Bell Island “incident”.
DESIGN FOR LIVING
www.kimberleyseldon.com
Lifestyle Docu-series (26’ x 30’)
Director: English
Language: Various
Producer: Kimberly Seldon
Origin: Canada
This series mixes style, history and a few
basic principles with a certain magical
quality.
DROP IN
www.falllineproductions.com
Adventure/Extreme action docuseries (26
x 30’)
Language: English
Director: Various
Producer Fall Line Productions
Origin: Canada
Go behind the scenes in this adventure
and get to know the “family” of athletes
who live the “Free-ride mountain biking”
lifestyle.
TALKING BLUES
Docu-Series (13 x 30’ & 13’ x 30 in
Prod)
Language: English
Director: Mako Funaska
Producer Talking Blues Media
Origin: Canada
“Talkin’Blues - the series” focuses on the
world of the blues. Viewers learn about
the and define it through the eyes of
those performers who are passionate
about this form of music through playing
it.
CARLTON
INTERNATIONAL
MEDIA LTD
4.9299.8837
SWEET MEDICINE
Drama (10 x 1 hour)
Producer: A Carlton Production for ITV1
A compelling series combining strong
dramatic elements of a family saga with
the additional tension of two London
doctors facing the challenge of
transforming a sleepy country practice
into a cutting edge health centre.
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE
Drama (1 x 2 hours or 2 x 90 minutes)
Producer: A Carlton Production for ITV1
Cast: Peter Davidson (At Home with the
Braithwaites) and Niamh Cusack (A&E,
State of Mind)
When an ex-husband cannot deal with
his ex-wife’s new boyfriend, and her new
found confidence, his obsession threatens
to destroy everything they hold dear,
including their children.
STAWBERRY SHORTCAKE - DIC ENTERTAINMENT
MAIDEN VOYAGE
Hollywood TV Movie (1 x 2 hours)
Producer: A Carlton America Production
in association with the Tele München
Gruppe
Cast: Casper Van Dien
When the cruise ship they are
vacationing on is hijacked by terrorists
demanding a $15 million ransom, Kyle
must use his skills to dispatch the
hijackers and save his son and all the
passengers.
THE ANCIENT GREEK OLYMPICS
Factual (2 x 1 hour)
Producer: A Carlton Production for PBS
and Channel 4
Produced by award-winning film-maker
Antony Thomas (“Fat”, “Miracles”)
To mark the Olympics returning to
Athens in 2004, this compelling and
powerful documentary tells the real story
of the ancient games aimed at both lovers
of sport and lovers of history.
INNOVATION
Factual (8 x 1 hour)
Produced for PBS / Thirteen/WNET New
York by a variety of leading producers,
in association with Carlton International
Delivery Status: Three episodes ready for
MIPCOM
Reveals the real-life stories behind the
headlines, uncovering the passions of
today’s most prominent engineers and
researchers, the challenges that must be
overcome and the impact these people
have on our lives and society.
CBC
INTERNATIONAL
SALES
CBC International Sales, Corporate
Headquarters CBC International Sales,
P.O. Box 500, Station A, Toronto, ON
Canada M5W 1E6. Tel: 416.205.3500.
Fax: 416.205.3482. www.cbcis.ca.
cbcis@cbc.ca
At MIPCOM: Executive Director
(Network Programming, CBC
Television), Suzanne Laverdiere (General
Manager Corporate Affairs Strategic
Planning, Radio-Canada), Eva Czigler
(Senior Director, Network Programming,
CBC Television), Debbie Bernstein
(Executive Director, A&E Network
Programming, CBC Television), Jennifer
Stewart (Director, International Coproductions, Sales & Acquisitions, CBC
Television), Cheryl Hassen (Creative
Head, TV Children’s & Youth
Programming, CBC Television)
Office: 11.02-13.01, Tel:
33.(0).4.92.99.8051, Fax:
33.(0).4.92.99.8051
SOLSTROM
Variety Series (13 x 48’)
Directors: Pierre Gagnon, Mario
Rouleau, Pierre Seguin
Producers: Vincent Gagné, Marie Côté,
Martin Bolduc
Cast: Various
Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Canada
Solstrum is an extraordinary new 13-hour
family television series produced
especially for television by Cirque du
Soleil that draws inspiration from
cinema, situation comedy, burlesque
theatre and the world-renowned Cirque
live performances.
CHILLY BEACH
Children’s Animated Series (26 x 22’)
Language: English
Director: Michael Stuart Bass
Producers: Dan Hawes, Catherine Tait &
Liliana Vogt
Status: Completed
Follow Dale and Frank, two beerdrinking, hockey-playing best friends
along with the rest of the quirky
townsfolk of Chilly Beach as they
confront the exaggerated Canadian
customs both old and new, and whatever
other surreal and perilous situations their
unique home throws their way.
72 HOURS
Documentary Series (20 x 30’)
Language: English
Directors: Various
Producer: Robert Lang, Robert Sandler
Status: Completed
A riveting series about the amazing
technologies and clever techniques that
detectives and forensic heroes use to
solve crimes.
AMERICAN IN CANADA SEASON
II
Comedy Series (10 x 22:19’)
Language: English
Director: Shawn Alex Thompson, Steve
Wright, Reid Dunlop
Ex. Producers: David Smith & Howard
Busgang
Producer: Colin Brunton
Cast: Rick Roberts, Helene Joy, Timm
Zemanek, Scott Thompson
Status: Completed
A provocative comedy that takes a quirky
and affectionate look at Canadians and
their somewhat eccentric ways,
illustrated by the reactions of a displaced
American who finds Canada - and
Canadians - strange and perplexing.
THE BUSINESS
OF FILM
London Head Office
41-42 Berners St.
London WIT 3NB
Los Angeles Office
5150 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles
California 90036
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
THE NEWSROOM SEASON II
Comedy Series (13 x 30’)
Language: English
Director: Ken Finkleman
Producer: Jan Peter Meyboom, Ken
Finkleman,
Cast: Ken Finkleman, Peter Keleghan,
Karen Hines
Status: Completed
Written and directed by Ken Finkleman,
THE NEWSROOM SEASON II sees
him back in front of the camera as
George Findlay, the self-serving news
director who continues to be confounded
by life’s realities.
CDC UNITED
NETWORK
CDC United Network, 127, rue Marconi,
1190 Brussels, Belgium. Tel:
32.2.502.66.40. Fax: 32.2.502.66.56.
www.cdcun.com, info@cdcun.com
At MIPCOM: Alexandre Lippens
(Managing Director), Maximilian Weiner
(Co-Managing Director), Audrey Atlass
(International Sales Executive), Adam
Weiner (Acquisition Executive),
Sebastian Lami Dozo (International Sales
Manager)
Office: 11.16-13.15
THE BOY DAVID STORY
Feature Documentary (96’)
Language: English
Director: Alex MacCall
Origin: UK
Narrated by Dougray Scott (Mission
Impossible II), tells the story of David, a
baby given up by his parents to nuns
because his face was terribly disfigured
by a rare disease.
NELSON MANDELA- HIS LIFE IN
HIS OWN WORDS
Event Documentary (1 x 52’)
Language: English
A biography of Nelson Mandela, one of
the world’s most celebrated politicians.
SHOW BIZZ
Weekly Entertainment ( weekly x 30’)
Language: English
The most up-date index of movies
premiere, fashion reviews and celebrities
profiles and events.
CHRYSALIS
DISTRIBUTION
Chrysalis Distribution, The Chrysalis
Building, Bramley Road, London, W10
6SP UK. Tel: 020.7465.6274. Fax:
020.7221.6286.
distribution@chrysalis.com
Company type: Distributor
At MIPCOM: Christina Willoughby
(Managing Director), Liza Thompson
(Senior Sales Executive), Peter Grant
(Senior Sales and Marketing Executive),
Lucy Dawkins (Acquisitions and Sales
Assistant), Gemma Wardle (Sales
Executive)
Office:
CASINO
Language: English
Delivery status: Completed
Producer: BBC
Year of production: 2003, Country of
origin: UK
Set against the backdrop of the opulent
Venetian casino resort in Las Vegas,
‘Casino’ is a 6 x 1 hour series about the
larger than life characters who live and
work in this unique hotel.
GO BIG
Drama (1 x 100’ or 2 x 60’)
Language: English
Producer: RB Films
origin: Australia
A romantic comedy set in vibrant
Sydney: a charismatic trio manage to
double cross the elite business world by
setting up a company that makes and
does nothing.
SERIOUS DESERT
Kids reality (6 x 30’)
Language: English
Producer: BBC
origin: UK
Following on from the award winning
‘SERIOUS JUNGLE’, 8 children are
chosen to brave the harsh and hot
extremes of the Namib Desert whilst
helping with the conservation of the
Black Rhino.
ROOTED
Travel and culture (13 x 30’)
Language: English
Producer: Rooftop Productions
origin: UK
A unique travel and culture series for
kids which follows 13 children on
journeys of adventure and discovery to
their parents’ home countries to trace
their family and cultural roots.
OUR LADYS
Language: English
Producer: Mint
origin: Ireland
A new observational documentary series
filmed in Ireland’s national children’s
hospital, filmed predominantly through
the eyes of the children, who talk openly
about coping with long term and often
potentially life threatening illnesses.
Now in its
24th year
MIDEM • MIPTV • CANNES • MIPCOM
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
Available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
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CINAMOUR
ENTERTAINMENT
Cinamour Entertainment, MGM Plaza
Bldg. B, Colorado Ave. Suite 320, Santa
Monica, CA 90404 USA. Tel:
310.828.4772. Fax: 310.828.3343.
At MIPCOM: Glen Hartford (Chairman,
CEO), Cord Douglas (Pres., Distribution)
Office: 09.18, Tel: 33.4.92.99.82.00
FORBIDDEN WARRIOR
Feature Film (90 min.)
Tells the story of a beautiful young
woman with the skills of a master
warrior who fulfills an ancient prophecy.
CHEATERS
Reality (82 x 44 min.)
Investigators conduct surveillance of
adulterers and empower victimized
spouses to confront their cheating
husbands and wives on live television.
OUT OF THE ORDINARY
Psychic-Reality (26 x 23 min.)
Providing unprecedented access to the
miraculous acts of proven psychic, Out
of the Ordinary features renowned
psychic, Rebecca Fearing, as she takes to
the streets to make metaphysical contact
with everyday people.
THE MESSENGER
Investigator, Tony DeLorenzo, and his
prankster cohorts known as the “Scam
Squad” play practical jokes on cheating
spouses and lying co-workers to get a
measure of revenge for the victims.
SOULMATES
Reality-dating series
Soulmates provides a unique glimpse at
the use of the intuitive arts to find just
the right compatible partners for the
lasting and nourishing relationships.
CINAR
Cinar Corporation, 1055 Rene Levesque
East, 9th Floor, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada H2L 4S5. Tel: 514.843.7070.
Fax: 514.843.7080. www.cinar.com
At MIPCOM: Stuart Snyder (President
and CEO), Louis Fournier (Head,
Distribution), Kelly Elwood (P Licensing
& Merchandising), Alice Cahn (Creative
Consultant), Lesley Taylor (EVP,
Production), Mary Graziano (Senior
Sales Executive)
Office: R30.33, Tel: 33.04.92.99.88.91
THE STRIP
Live-Action & Animation Series (13
half-hour episodes)
Targeting kids and teens, this half-hour
live-action drama with some animation
chronicles the lives of 14-year-old
fraternal twins Cally and Lance.
POSTCARDS FROM BUSTER
Live-Action & Animation Series (40
half-hour episodes)
A spin-off of Emmy-award winning
series, “Arthur”, “Postcards from Buster”
follows the adventures of Arthur’s best
friend Buster and his airline pilot father.
CAILLOU’S HOLIDAY MOVIE
Animation Movie (70 minutes)
Share the warmth of the holidays with
Caillou in his first feature-length movie.
Caillou, a curious four-year-old,
continues his journey of growing up,
with a unique way of relating to the
world around him.
CAILLOU
Animation & Live Action Series (10 new
half-hour episodes) (46 half-hour
completed episodes)
Caillou is an irresistible pre-schooler
who appeals to parents and children alike
as they share in his daily adventures.
ARTHUR
Animation Series (10 new half-hour
episodes) (105 half-hour completed
episodes, 2 x one hour specials)
Based on the best-selling children’s
books by Marc Brown, Arthur follows
the adventures of the world’s most
famous aardvark, eight-year old Arthur
Read, his four-year old sister D.W., and
their family and friends.
CINEFLIX
INTERNATIONAL
Cineflix International, 26 - 28 Wendell
Road, London W12 9RT UK. Tel: 44. 208
746 0574. Fax: 44.208 749 2232.
sales@cineflix.com
At MIPCOM: Paul Heaney (MD), Kate
Llewellyn Jones (Sales Executive), Dorrit
Levy (Executive Assistant)
Office: 04.23, Tel: 33.(0)4.92.99.83.11
MAYDAY
Language: English
Mayday, a popular science and
investigative series documents recent air
24 SEVEN
EM.TV & MERCHANDISING AG
crashes, delving into aerospace
technology, air traffic organization, and
overall air safety.
THE ULTIMATES
Documentary (6 x 1)
Language: English
A brand new documentary co-production
about pushing speed and power to the
limit at MipCom 2003.
GET ME TO THE WEDDING
Language: English
Shot in cinema verité style, tells the
stories of wedding planners in New York,
Philadelphia and Toronto as they help
couples through the excitement and
exasperation of planning the most
important day of their lives.
GET ME TO THE WEDDING
Language: English
Comes with all the beauty and the
beastly details of pulling together that
very big day - from couples in crisis, to
ballooning budgets to stress overload.
CINEINTERNATIONAL
Cine-International Filmvertrieb GmbH &
CO.KG, Leopoldstr. 18, D-80802
Munich, Germany. Tel: 49.89.39.10.25.
Fax: 49.89.33.10.89. www.cineinternational.de. email@cineinternational.de.
At MIPCOM: Lilli Tyc-Holm
(President), Susanne Groh (Head of Sales
& Acquisitions), Caroline Tengler
(Marketing Manager)
Office: 01.15 c/o Export-Union, Tel:
33.4.92.99.82.02
RED AND BLUE
Feature Film (113’)
Language: German, Engl. subt.
Director: Rudolf Thome
Producer: Rudolf Thome, Moana-Film
GmbH, Berlin
Cast: Hannelore Elsner (“NO PLACE TO
GO”), Serpil Turhan, Hanns Zischler
Delivery status: completed
origin: Germany
Architect Barbara is forced to be
confronted with her past which had been
ignored so far.
THE PUPPET GRAVE DIGGER
Thriller (89’)
Director: Claudia Prietzel, Peter
Henning, based on the novel by Petra
Hammesfahr
Producer: filmpool Cologne in
cooperation with WDR
Cast: Suzanne von Borsody, Sven Hönig,
Bernd Tauber
origin: Germany
A small village is plagued by a series of
mysterious murders and disappearances.
Is mentally handicapped Ben the
murderer?
THE RITUAL (DIRECTOR’S CUT)
Thriller (89’)
Language: Original English
Director: Simon Linscheid
Producer: Simon Linscheid / Simeon
Films Ltd., Ireland
Cast: Stella Feehily, Aenne Barr, Leonard
Hayden
origin: Ireland
A mystic, spine-chilling thriller full of
suspense set in Ireland against the
background of Celtic mythology and
mysterious rituals.
LES ENFANTS DE L’AMOUR
Family drama (87’)
Language: French, Engl. subt.
Director: Geoffrey Enthoven
Producer: Fobic Films, Belgium
Cast: Fauve De Loof, Michael Philpott,
Winnifred Vigilante
origin: Belgium
This film draws a catching portrait of six
members of a modern patchwork family.
GONE
Drama (80’)
Director: Zoltan Paul
Producer: Zoltan Paul Productions
Cast: Adele Neuhauser, Christof
Gareisen, Robert Giggenbach
origin: Germany
In flashbacks we learn the story of the
deceased, of an author who is suffering
from writer’s block and of a suicidal and
psychotic publisher.
CINEMAVAULT
Cinemavault Releasing Inc., 434 Queen
St East, Toronto ON, Canada, M5A 1T5.
Tel: 416.363.6060. Fax: 416.363.2305.
www.cinemavault.com.
admin@cinemavault.com
Company Type: Sales agent
At MIPCOM: Nick Stiliadis (CEO),
Steve Arroyave (VP Production), Natalie
Kampelmacher (Director of International
Sales)
Office: AFMA Booth 01.02, Tel:
33.67.367.5210 (cell), 33(0)4.92.99.8207
(booth), 33(0)4.92.99.8207 (2nd booth
line), Fax: 33(0)4.92.99.8615
THE LIMIT
Thriller (90 mins)
Language: English
Director: Lewin Webb
Producer: Gary Howsam, Jamie Brown
Cast: Lauren Bacall, Claire Forlani, Pete
Postlethwaite, Henry Czerny
Origin: Canada / UK
May Markham is trying to protect her
money, her dignity and her life.
PARIS
Thriller (97 mins)
Language: English
Directed: Ramin Niami
Producer: Ramin Niami, Karen Robson
Cast: Chad Allen, Bai Ling, James Russo
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
Origin: USA
A rookie detective embarks on a
disturbing journey through the
underworlds of Los Angeles and Las
Vegas.
THE HUMAN TOUCH
Drama
Language: English
Director: Paul Cox
Producer: Mark Patterson
Cast: Jacqueline McKenzie, Aaron
Blabey, Chris Haywood
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Origin: Australia
Anna is emotionally awakened when she
is seduced by a much older man.
LOST THINGS
Horror (90 mins)
Language: English
Director: Martin Murphy
Producer: Ian Iveson
Cast: Leon Ford, Lenka Kripac, Steve Le
Marquand
Origin: Australia
A group of teens are terrorized during
spring break.
TEKNOLUST
Comedy (85 mins)
Language: English
Director: Lynn Hershman Leeson
Producer: Youssef Vahabzadeh, John
Bradford King and Oscar Gubernati
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Davies
Origin: USA
A lonely woman clones herself three
times giving a whole new meaning to
cyber sex!
CINEPHIL
Cinephil, 18 Levontin Street, Tel-Aviv,
65112 Israel. Tel: 972.3.566.4129. Fax:
972.3.560.1436. www.cinephil.co.il,
info@cinephil.co.il
At MIPCOM: Philippa Kowarsky
(Managing Director)
Office: #AO-09
INSIGHT
Drama (77 min)
Language: Hebrew
Director: Eyal Halfon
Co-Production Partners: Cinema Post
Production / ICP
Producer: David Mandil
Key Cast: Alon Aboutboul, Dan Shapira,
Moshe Folkenflich, Beni Avni, Giuli
Itzik, Danny Niv, Dror Geva Gargi
Origin: Israel
On the 6th of October 1973 the Yom
Kippur/October War broke out. Now 30
years later Israeli maker Eyal Halfon
looks back into the grimmest and
toughest of Wars Israel has ever known.
TANYA 403
Drama (90 min)
Language: Hebrew / Russian
Director: Oded Raskin
Co-Production Partners: Paralite
Productions / ICP
Producer: Uri Sabag / Einat Bickel
Key Cast: Yossi Polak, Anna Stefan,
Vladimir Friedman, Tanya Stolnich
Origin: Israel
Hezi decides to buy a Russian bride. He
brings Tanya, a young woman, who left
her child with her sister, in Russia, to
Israel. Their age difference, their cultural
gaps, promise Hezi and Tanya little
success in their relations.
TWO MINUTES FROM FARADIS
Comic Drama (50 min)
Director: Hebrew / Arabic
Language: Daniel Syrkin
Co-Production Partners: Ricki Shelach
Productions / ICP
Producer: Ricki Shelach
Key Cast: Efrat Baumwald, Hesham
Sliman, Shmuel Vilozny, Nuly Omer, Uri
Omanuti, Lupo Berkovich
Delivery Status: In Development
Origin: Israel
A precocious Israeli teenager
unsuccessfully tries to rebel against her
ultra-liberal parents.
Just as she’s about to give up, she meets
the charming son of the family maid,
who also happens to be Arab.
MISS ENTEBBE
www.missentebbe.com
Drama (80 min)
Language: Hebrew
Director: Omri Levi
Co-Production Partners: Aspamia Films
Producer: Yoav Roeh
Key Cast: Merav Avrahami, Igal Naor,
Merav Gruber, Yael Abecassis
Origin: Israel
Set against the Entebbe airplane
hijacking in 1976, a group of children
becomes involved in a dangerous
adventure that quickly develops a life of
its own and suddenly becomes deadly
serious.
ROUND TRIP
Drama (95 min)
Language: Hebrew
Director: Shahar Rozen
Co-Production Partners: Shiba
Productions / ICP
Producer: Micha Shagrir / Limor Kalo
Key Cast: Anat Waxman, Nathati
Moshes, Eyal Rozales
Origin: Israel
Nurit, a forty year old woman, leaves her
husband and her small town and takes
her two kids to the big city, where she
discovers new things about herself and
redefines her motherhood and femininity.
Visit our website at
CINETEL FILMS, INC.
CineTel Films, Inc., 8255 Sunset Blvd.,
Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA. Tel:
323.654.4000. Fax: 323.650.6400.
At MIPCOM: Marcy Rubin (Sr. Vice
President, International Distribution)
Office: 01.02
DEVIL WINDS
Starring: Joe Lando, Nicole Eggert
Status: Post-Production
After losing his wife in a tornado he
failed to predict, a former expert
weatherman must race against time to
repair his reputation and warn the public
of a coming swarm of killer twisters.
GARGOYLES
Disaster
Directed by: Jay Andrews
Once thought banished forever, winged,
fire-spitting creatures are resurrected and
immediately begin wreaking havoc on a
port city.
I ACCUSE
Starring: Estella Warren, John Hannah
Directed by: John Ketcham (Producer of
“The Hurricane”)
A highly-respected doctor concocts a
way to fake his DNA tests after he is
accused of sexually assaulting a female
patient who, in turn, becomes ostracized
by the community.
SNAKEHEAD TERROR
Action/Disaster
Man-eating Snakehead fish, the size of
small sharks, terrorize the waters and
threaten to destroy the entire North
American ecological system.
HOTEL EROTICA: SECOND
SEASON
Erotic (Episodes: (13) episode series
airing on HBO. Also available as (4) fulllength features. approx. 28:30)
Under the watchful eye of the
establishment’s Proprietor guests of this
special hotel unleash their inhibitions and
truly learn the meaning of ecstasy.
CINEXPORT
Cinexport, 78 avenue des ChampsElysées, 75008 Paris, France. Tel:
33.1.45.62.49.45. Fax: 33.1.45.63.85.26.
www.tvfrance-intl.com.
cinexport@wanadoo.fr.
Company type : sales agent
At MIPCOM: Anne Marie Rombourg
Caraco (General Manager)
Office: c/o TV France International
O2/15, mobile 06.07.54.33.33
EL KOTBIA ( LA LIBRAIRIE ) THE
BOOSHOP
(103 Minutes)
Language: Arabic version with English
subtitles (or french subtitles available)
Director: Nawfel Saheb-Ettaba
Producer: Stratus Films (Tunisie) YMC
Productions (France) co-production
This picture is beautifully scored and
nicely played , with an undemonstrative
feel for the rhythms of marital and blood
relationships.
MARCHE ET REVE ! (MORE AND
PERSISTENCE)
Comedy
Language: French with English subtitles
release
Directed by Paul Carpita
The main theme of this comedy is
disillusion. It wants to ask people not to
let down their craziest dreams. A comedy
in the South of France.
L’ APRES MIDI D UN
TORTIONNAIRE (AN AFTERNOON
WITH A TORTURER)
(80 minutes)
Directed by Lucian Pintilie
A former torturer in the prisons of
Communist Romania has agreed to
confess his crimes to a journalist and a
former political prisoner.
LE BRUIT L ODEUR ET
QUELQUES ETOILES
(106 minutes)
Three boys, the Republic, a police «
error », a country where everything’s
fine, a fine mess. The noise, the smell
and the occasional star… » is an opera,
sung by Zebda, the group from Toulouse.
AVEC TOUT MON AMOUR (WITH
ALL MY LOVE)
Algeria, February 1903 : the verdict of
the trial of Margueritte, an Algerian
village where, in the course of a native
revolt, seven Europeans were killed. She
is dead, and he loves her.
COLORLAND
ANIMATION
PRODUCTIONS LTD.
Colorland Animation Productions Ltd.,
909 Austin Tower, 22-26 Austin Avenue,
Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Tel:
852.23669013. Fax: 852.23679087.
www.colorland-animation.com,
col@colorland.com
At MIPCOM: Louis Sek (Chairman &
CEO), Bill Kowalchuk (Producer)
Office:
RADIO FREE ROSCOE
DECODE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
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IN SEARCH OF SANTA
Animation
Language: English
Director: Bill Kowalchuk
Producer: Bill Kowalchuk, Louis Sek
Delivery Status: In production
Country of Origin: USA/ Hong Kong
Pure-hearted Penguin Princess Crystal
and her skeptical sister Princess Lucinda
embark on a daring Pole-to-Pole quest to
find Santa Claus.
OH MAX!
Animation
Language: English
Director: Bill Kowalchuk
Producer: Bill Kowalchuk, Louis Sek
Country of Origin: USA/ Hong Kong
Meet Max: an overgrown, accident-prone
recently adopted puppy with an
overactive imagination.
CORAL
INTERNATIONAL
TELEVISION CORP.
Coral International Television Corp.,
4380 N.W. 128th Street, Miami, Florida
33054 USA. Tel: 305.688.7475. Fax:
305.685.5697. www.coralintl.com /
info@coralintl.com
At MIPCOM: Marcel Granier (President
and CEO), Pedro Carrera (Executive
Vice President), Jose Escalante (Vice
President and General Manager),
Guadalupe D’Agostino (Vice President
International Sales), Vladimir Gessen
(Vice President International Sales),
Jorge Cabal (Director of International
Sales)
Office: Stand# 10.23, Palais Des
Festivals, Cannes - France
CARMENCITA, LA CUAIMA
(approx 120 hours)
Carmencita Meléndez is a goodhearted
young woman. She is so kind that she
has nothing to call her own, not even a
pair of respectable “boobs”, not even a
rear-end that men can admire.
MY SWEET FAT VALENTINA (MI
GORDA BELLA)
(approx 120 hours)
Valentina, (Natalia Streignard) is tons of
love, an overweight young woman that
will be loved and hated by many.
DESIGNS OF LOVE (TRAPOS
INTIMOS)
(approx 120 hours)
This story places Fernando, Pancho and
Willy; three men in a world of women.
WIFE OF JUDAS (LA MUJER DE
JUDAS)
(126 hours)
Young College student Gloria Leal
decides to do a thesis documentary on
the fascinating story that surrounds a 20year old murder of a priest.
JUANA’S MIRACLE (JUANA LA
VIRGEN)
(153 hours)
This is the story of Juana (Daniela
Alvarado) and Mauricio (Ricardo
Alamo), two people with nothing in
common that are predestined for each
other.
CRAWFORD
PRODUCTIONS
Crawford Productions, 259
Middleborough Road, Box Hill, Victoria,
3128, Australia. Tel: 61.3.9895.2211.
Fax: 61.3.9890.5732.
www.crawfords.com.au,
admin@crawfords.com.au.
At MIPCOM: Nick McMahon, CEO
Office: Eaton Films, Stand Number 17
10, Tel: 04.92.99.8265
THE SADDLE CLUB
Children’s Drama Series
Language: English
Director: Arnie Custo, Stephen Mann,
Chris Martin-Jones, Mandy Smith, Peter
Sharp
Producer: Lynn Bayonas
Co-production partners: Protocol
Entertainment
Cast: Keenan MacWilliam, Sophie
Bennett, Lara Marshall
Origin: Australia/ Canada
Budget: $8 million
Based on the bestselling series of books
by American author Bonnie Bryant, THE
SADDLE CLUB is a live action
children’s series focusing on horse lovers
Lisa, Carole and Stevie and their
adventures at Pine Hollow Stables.
CREATIVE LIGHT
WORLDWIDE
RUSTY THE KNIGHT
JEP PRODUCTIONS
Creative Light Worldwide, 8383 Wilshire
Blvd. Suite #212, Beverly Hills CA
90211 USA. Tel: 323.658.9166. Fax:
323.866.3417.
www.creativelightworldwide.com.
CLW@crlight.com
At MIPCOM: Ray Haboush (Head of
International Sales)
Office: Palais 01.02 (AFMA Stand), Tel:
33.6.793.66449
COMING OUT PARTY
Stand Up Comedy (1 x ‘90)
Language: English
Cast: Daniel Renzi, Bob Smith, Terry
Sweeney, John Riggi, Jackie Beat,
Sabrina Matthews and Rene Hicks
Country of Origin: US, Year of
Production: 2003
Groundbreaking stand-up comedy film
featuring gay and lesbian comedians as
they share funny and poignant stories
about “coming out” to their friends and
family for the first time.
FRAZETTA: PAINTING WITH FIRE
Documentary (1 x ‘90)
Language: English
Cast: Frank Frazetta, Bo Derek, John
Milius, Ralph Bakshi
Production: 2003
Animation is used to illustrate the life
and works of legendary fantasy artist,
Frank Frazetta, with comments from
other artists, filmmakers and critics.
COMIC BOOK: THE MOVIE
Comedy (1 x ‘90)
Language: English
Cast: Mark Hamill (Star Wars), Jess
Harnell (Animaniacs), Billy West
(Futurama), Kevin Smith (Jay and Silent
Bob Strike Back), Stan Lee (comic book
creator), Donna D’Errico (Baywatch),
Chase Masterson (Deep Space 9), Bruce
Campbell (Evil Dead), Jonathan Winters
(Mork & Mindy)
Production: 2002
Mark Hamill will don the mask of a
fictional documentary filmmaker and
plunge into the world of Hollywood and
comic books with his crew of crazy
characters, played by award winning
voice over artists.
SUPERGUY
Dark Comedy (1 x ‘90)
Language: English
Cast: Mark Teague, Charles Dierkop
Production: 2003
In this dark comedy, SUPERGUY comes
from another planet to protect the Earth
and ends up in scandal and lawsuits.
THE BUSINESS
OF FILM
London Head Office
41-42 Berners St.
London WIT 3NB
Los Angeles Office
5150 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles
California 90036
AERO-TROOPERS
Animation (1 x ‘90)
Language: English
Cast: Mark Hamill (voice); Billy West
(voice); Jess Harnell (voice)
Production: 2003
In a distant world, a dark force attacks a
floating society and only the Areo
Troopers cans save them.
CS ASSOCIATES
CS Associates, 200 Dexter Avenue,
Watertown, MA 02472 USA. Tel:
617.923.0077. Fax: 617.923.0025.
www.csassociates.com,
programs@csassociates.com
Company Type: distributor
At MIPCOM: Charles Schuerhoff
(Managing Director), Lisa Carey (V.P.,
Office: 16.23, Tel: 33.(0).4.92.99.81.48
THE THREE PICKERS
Documentary (50:00)
Language: English
Producer: Ginger Group Productions
Cast: Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson and
Ricky Skaggs
Origin: USA
A Bluegrass Showcase with Earl Scruggs
on stage for the first time with both Doc
Watson and Ricky Skaggs.
THE LOST BOYS OF SUDAN
Documentary (56:00 or 83:00)
Language: English
Director: Jon Schenk & Megan Mylan
Producer: Jon Schenk & Megan Mylan
Origin: USA
Follow Peter and Santino, two young
refugees of Sudan’s civil war, through
their first difficult year in America.
KITTY HAWK
Language: English
Director: David Garrigus
Origin: USA
Celebrate 100 years of flight with this
definitive story of the years of invention
that culminated in Orville Wright’s
famous flight of 1903.
THE LAST GAME
Language: English
Director: David Garrigus
Origin: USA
Legendary high school football Coach
Mike Pettine has over 300 wins in 32
years. In his last season, Pettine struggles
against the rival team, coached by his
only son.
SALT OF THE EARTH
Drama (94:00)
Language: English
Director: Herbert Biberman
Producer: Paul Jarrico
Cast: Rosaura Revueltas, Juan Chacon
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
Origin: USA
Produced by a group of Hollywood
Communists circumventing the
industry’s blacklist. Based on a true story
of a strike by Mexican-American miners
and their wives. Selected for the Library
of Congress’ National Film Register.
CUMULUS
DISTRIBUTION LTD
Cumulus Distribution Ltd, Sanctuary
House, 45-53 Sinclair Road, London
W14 0NS, UK. Tel: 44.20.7300.6623.
Fax: 44.20.7300.6529.
www.entercloud9.com
Company Type: Producer / Distributor
At MIPCOM: Aky Najeeb (Managing
Director), Jayne Pitts (Director of Sales),
Rebecca Collis (Sales Manager), Mareike
Pahl (Sales Co-ordinator)
Office: # 05.30, Tel: 33.(0)4.92.99.8264
THE TRIBE SERIES 5
www.tribeworld.com
Live Action Tween Drama Series (52 x
30’) or (26 x 48’)
Production Year: 2003
Against all the odds, the Mall Rats
defeated the Techno Tribe’s quest for
dominance in the city of children.
REVELATIONS - THE INITIAL
JOURNEY
www.theinitialjourney.com
Live Action Children/Family series (26 x
30’)
Anthology series of heart-warming tales
for all the family inspired by different
moments in history. We are taken on a
spiritual journey by our young narrator
Jess who helps us discover many of life’s
lessons.
ATLANTIS HIGH
www.atlantishigh.com
Live Action Tween Comedy Drama
Series (26 x 30’)
Spoof-soap set in the idyllic seaside town
of Sunset Cove - an affluent paradise
where the beach is always round the
corner and the people are always
beautiful! But nothing is quite what is
seems.
WILLIAM SHATNER’S A TWIST IN
THE TALE
www.entercloud9.com
Live Action Children/Family Drama
Series (15 x 52’) or (30 x 30’)
Set in the past, present and future, this
unique anthology series starring William
Shatner as the enigmatic Storyteller.
THE LEGEND OF WILLIAM TELL
www.entercloud9.com
Live Action Children Drama Series (16 x
52’)
This mystical/fantasy series has been
inspired by the famous tale and legend,
focuses on William Tell and his band of
nomads.
CURB
ENTERTAINMENT
INTERNATIONAL
CORP.
Curb Entertainment International Corp.,
3907 West Alameda Ave., Burbank, CA
91505 USA. Tel: 818.843.8580. Fax:
818.566.1719.
www.curbentertainment.com
At MIPCOM: Wendy Reeds (Executive
Director, Head of Sales)
Office: 19.20, Tel: 33.4.92.99.82.15
HAPPY HOUR
Drama
Director: Mike Bencivenga
Producers: J. Todd Harris, Kimberly
Shane O’Hara, Eric M. Klein
Cast: Anthony LaPaglia, Eric Stoltz, and
Caroline Feeney
Set in present day New York, this is the
dramatic and emotional story of a gifted
writer and the two people who come to
understand him best. PREMIERE!
TOUGH LUCK
Thriller
Director: Gary Ellis
Producer: Brian Etting, Josh Etting, Ram
Bergman, Carole Curb Nemoy, Mike
Curb
Cast: Armand Assante, Norman Reedus,
Dagmara Dominczyk
An intricate net of deceit and betrayal
entangles a wandering grifter who is
hired by a traveling carnival owner to
murder his beautiful wife.
NIGHTSTALKER
Horror
Director: Chris Fisher
Producers: Ash R. Shah & Chris Fisher
Cast: Roselyn Sanchez, Bret Roberts,
Danny Trejo
“Inspired by true events, director Chris
Fisher’s haunting and visually inspired
debut, Nightstalker, tells the tale of
horrors that take place when the sun sets
over the city of Los Angeles.” -Shari
Frilot, Sundance Film Festival.
MERCI DOCTEUR REY
Comedy
Director: Andrew Litvack
Producer: Rahila Bootwala, Paul
Bradley, Natalie Gastaldo, Ismail
Merchant
Cast: Dianne Wiest, Jane Birkin, Jerry
Hall, Simon Callow, Vanessa Redgrave,
and Stanislas Merhar
A young man, Thomas Beaumont, is
recruited into an illicit love triangle to
watch a much older man’s sexual liaison,
but ends up witnessing what turns out to
be his murder.
TATTOO, A LOVE STORY
Romantic Comedy
Director: Richard W. Bean
Producers: Stephen Davies and Mike
Vukas
Cast: Megan Edwards, Virgil Mignanelli,
Benjamin J. Burdick
After a giant Harley-riding biker teaches
a beautiful schoolteacher’s grade school
students to tattoo themselves with
permanent pens, her well-ordered life
takes an amusing unexpected turn.
CZECH TELEVISION
Czech Television, Kavci Hory, Prague 4,
140 70, Czech Republic. Tel:
42.02.6113.7047. Fax: 42.02.6121.1354.
http://www.czech-tv.cz/sales.
telexport@czech-tv.cz
Company Type: Sales agent, Producer
At MIPCOM: Jarmila Svorcova (Chief
Executive), Marie Novakova (Sale
Executive)
Office: 01-09, Tel: 33.492.998.077
THE KEY TO DETERMINING
DWARFS OR THE LAST TRAVEL
OF LEMUEL GULLIVER
Documentary (57’)
Language: Czech, English subtitles
Director: Martin ?ulík
Producer: Czech Television and MAGA
Cast: Marek Jurácek, Edita Levá, Julie
Ritzingerová, ?árka Dvoráková, Eli?ka
Dou?ová
Delivery Status: completed, available for
sale
Origin: Czech Republic
Film essay filmed according to the
diaries of the scriptwriter and director
Pavel Jurácek.
LESSONS IN DANCE AND LOVE
TV film (106’)
Director: Viktor Polesn?
Producer: Czech Television
Cast: Ester Geislerová, Boris Rosner,
Zlata Adamovská, Lucie Holánková,
Roman Zach and others
sale
A drama based on the novel by Pavel
Kohout, set during the Second World
War at Theresienstadt concentration
camp, during a single day.
HOSPITAL AT THE END OF THE
CITY TWENTY YEARS ON
TV series (13 x 57’)
Language: Czech
Director: Hynek Bocan
Producer: Czech Television and Media
Consulting Co.Ltd.
sale
The heroes and heroines of Dietl’s
famous serial are back, let us see how
life has treated them.
FOREST WALKERS
Feature film (95’)
Director: Radovan Lipus
Producer: Czech Television and GAGA
(Galina ?ustová), Synergia Film, Studio
Virtual, Margo Films Paris, ALEF Film,
Media Group/Filmservice Slovakia
Cast: Jirí Schmitzer, Jitka Prosperi, Zdenek
Novák, Petra Poláková, Miroslav Bambu?ek,
Ester Hocke, Lenka Volfová, Josef Vinklár
sale
Is it possible to diverge from the path of
one’s fate? This saga from the sixties to
the present, tries to answer this question
as it investigates two generations of
wanderers.
STRANGE YOUNG LADY
Music documentary (56’ 32’’)
Director: Rudolf Chudoba
Producer: Czech Television
sale
A documentary portrait of an interesting
creative personality, original composer,
violinist and singer.
D
DECODE
ENTERTAINMENT
INC
DECODE Entertainment Inc, 512 King
Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M5A 1M1,
Canada. Tel: 001.416.363.8034. Fax:
001.416.363.8919. www.decode.tv.
decode@decode-ent.com
Company Type: Producer, Distributor
At MIPCOM: Neil Court
A FOREIGN AFFAIR - MYRIAD PICTURES
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
29
(Partner/Executive Producer), Steven
DeNure (Partner/Executive Producer),
Beth Stevenson (Partner/Executive
Producer), Dominique Bazay (Director
Sales), Nancy Yeamen (Manager,
Development)
Office: Don Juan Jette Albert-Edouard,
Tel: 04.9.298.7124, Fax: 04.9.298.7125
RADIO FREE ROSCOE
Live Action -Teen (26 x 30 mins)
Language: English
Director: various
Producer: DECODE Entertainment Inc
Origin: Canada
Radio Free Roscoe follows the lives of
four diverse and quirky teenagers who
launch anonymous underground radio
station where they voice the hopes, fears
and confusion of their generation.
FRANNY’S FEET
Pre-school animation (26 x 30 mins)
Language: English
Director: various
Origin: Canada
Franny’s Feet is a pre-school series that
tells the exciting stories of a little girl
whose fantastic feet take her on magical
adventures when she tries on shoes in her
grandfather’s repair shop.
BE THE CREATURE
Factual (13 x 60 mins)
Language: English
Director: Chris & Martin Kratt
Cast: The Kratt Brothers - Chris &
Martin Kratt
of Origin: Canada
What does it mean to “be a creature”?
Why do animals live as they do and what
unique adaptations have they
independently evolved over time in order
to thrive and survive?
THE BLOBHEADS
Live Action/CGI (26 x 30 mins)
Language: English
Director: various
Producer: DECODE Entertainment Inc,
Co-production partners: Wark Clements
of Origin: Canada/UK
With one flush of his toilet, 14 year-old
Billy Barnes’s life changes forever when
the morphing, mess-making Zerek, Kerek
and Derek arrive from Planet Blob.
THE SAVE-UMS
3D animation (52 x 11 mins)
Language: English
Director: various
of Origin: Canada
The Save-Ums! are colorful pint-sized
heroes who use whimsical helicopters
and other cool machines to solve
problems and nurture an interest in
technology and critical thinking.
DIC
ENTERTAINMENT
DIC Entertainment, 4100 Alameda,
Burbank, CA 91505 USA. Tel:
818.955.5400. Fax: 818.955.5409.
www.dicentertainment.com
Company Type: Producer & Distributor
At MIPCOM:
Office: #17.01, Tel: 92.99.82.33
SABRINA’S SECRET LIFE
Animated Comedy (26 Half-Hour
Episodes)
Language: English
Co-Production Partners: DIC
Entertainment, TF1, LST
Origin: France
Sabrina’s Secret Life, which follows the
young witch enrolled in secret witchcraft
training classes, is full of magical
mayhem set in the craziest, most mixedup world of all - high school.
STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE
TITLES:
MEET STRAWBERRY
SHORTCAKE, STRAWBERRY
SHORTCAKES’S BERRY MERRY
CHRISTMAS, SPRING FOR
STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE AND
STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKES’S
GET WELL ADVENTURE
Animated Adventure (4 45 minute titles)
Producer: DIC Entertainment
Year of Production: 2002/2003, Country
of Origin: US
The Strawberry Shortcake stories follow
the good-hearted and lovable adventures
of Strawberry Shortcake and her friends
who live together in the magical world of
Strawberryland.
DISTRACTION
FORMATS
NINE LIVES - NU IMAGE
Distraction Formats, 261 St-Sacrement,
Montreal Quebec H2Y 3V2 Canada. Tel
514.844.5800. Fax: 514.844.8210.
www.distraction.com.
distraction@distraction.com
At MIPCOM: Michel Rodrigue
(President and CEO), Arabelle Pouliot
(VP Sales), Alex Elliot (Head of
Acquisitions), John Gough (Director of
PR and Development), Beata Hegedus
(Sales Director, Eastern Europe, Spain &
Portugal), Jean Huang (Sales Director,
US and Asia)
Office: C1.05, Tel: 0492.99.83.43 /
0492.99.83. 46, Fax: 0492.99.83.47;
Yacht: Adventus - Location: La Croisette,
Jetée Albert-Edouard
NOBODY’S PERFECT
Family entertainment format (140
minutes)
Original Producer - L’Oribel, France
Everyone is driven crazy by somebody’s
infuriating habits! This good-humoured
Saturday night entertainment format puts
nagging mothers, vain husbands and
plenty of others under the spotlight!
DIRTY ROTTEN CHEATER
Comedy game show format (Weekly x 60
min)
Original Producer - The Cheating
Company, US
A simple and entertaining format that is
also deceitful, devious and conniving!
The perfect mix of game show challenge,
suspense and comedy. Honesty is the best
policy. unless, of course, you are the
‘Dirty Rotten Cheater’
UNDER ONE ROOF
Lifestyle entertainment format (Weekly x
30 minutes)
Original producer - Prospect, UK
Have you ever shared a home with
someone and found it difficult? Enter
Under one Roof’s 48-hour lifestyle
consultancy team. The psychologist host
identifies problems and creates
entertaining solutions to change lives for
the better.
THE DEFECTORS
Studio-based quiz show format (Daily x
30 minutes)
Original producer - MAST Media, UK
Only manipulation and knowledge put
the audience on your side! The
interactive quiz show format where
players’ scores are determined by the
audience.
THE KEY QUESTION
Game show format (Weekly x 30
minutes)
Original producer - Big Nose, France
Fun, fast-paced quiz show using newly
developed original software for a cost
effective and unique look.
THE BUSINESS
OF FILM
London Head Office
41-42 Berners St.
London WIT 3NB
Los Angeles Office
5150 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles
California 90036
DLT
ENTERTAINMENT
LTD
DLT Entertainment Ltd, 31 West 56th
Street, New York, NY 10019, USA. Tel:
001.212.245.4680. Fax:
001.212.315.1132.
www.dltentertainment.com.
info@dltentertainment.com
At MIPCOM: Don Taffner Jr (Vice
President), Gary Mitchell (VP
International Sales) Natalie Saletska
(Director of US Sales)
Office: R33.19, Tel: 00.33.4.92.99.8820
MY FAMILY
Comedy (63 x 30 mins)
Language: English
Producer: John Bartlett Co-production
partners: Rude Boy Productions
Cast: Zoe Wannamaker, Robert Lindsay
Year of Production: 2000-04, Country of
Origin: UK
With three teenage children and a dad
suffering a mid-life crisis there is never a
dull moment in the Harper household
GOING BUGGS!
Animation (13 x 30)
Language: English
Producer: Magic Shadows Inc and Red
Rocket Animation
Year of Production: 2003-04, Country of
Origin: US
When twins Will and May find
themselves transported to a world of
bugs hooked on 50’s music the only
thing they want to do is flee!
AS TIME GOES BY
Comedy (66 x 30 mins)
Language: English
Producer: DLT in association with
Theatre of Comedy
Cast: Dame Judi Dench, Geoffrey Palmer
of Origin: UK
Dame Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer
star as two old flames who are reunited
after 30 years and post the question “can
the old flame of passion still flicker in
middle age?”
A TRIBUTE TO SPIKE
(1 x 60 min special)
Language: English
Producer: The Square Smile
Year of Production: Country of Origin:
UK
A special tribute to the comic genius of
Spike Milligan by some of the UK’s best
known comedy talent
GOING HOME
Factual (1 x 60 mins)
Language: English
Producer: New Jersey Studios
Origin: US
“Over one third of all incarcerated
women return to prison” - Inmates at the
Edna Mahan Correction facility open up
their hearts on life inside and their hopes
on release.
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
DO IT YOURSELF
(DIY) NETWORK
DREAM
ENTERTAINMENT
Do It Yourself (DIY) Network, 9721
Sherrill Blvd., Knoxville, TN 37932 USA.
Tel: 865.694.2700. Fax: 865.690.2253
At MIPCOM: Kristen Jordan (Vice
President, International Development),
Paulette Bensussen (Director,
International Development), Anna Alvord
(Manager, International Development)
Office: R35.06, Tel: 33.04.92.99.89.09
DIY GROWING ROSES
(5 x 20’)
Learn details on when, where and how to
plant roses; pruning tips; soil and
fertilizer choices; ideas for rose gardens;
and effective measures for controlling
pests and plant diseases.
ROBOT RIVALS
(13 x 41’)
In each episode students from two
colleges design and build robots from
scratch in a single day. When the time is
up, the two teams meet in head-to-head
competition in their quest to become
Robot-Rivals champions.
SHIPSHAPE BOATING
(26 x 20’)
This series covers all aspects of boat
maintenance and repair, from hull to
halyard, outboard to outriggers, stem to
stern.
SOLAR DECATHLON
(1 x 45’)
The competition challenges teams of
college students to design, build and
operate solar-powered homes that can
accommodate a contemporary lifestyle
— using only the power of the sun!
RC HOBBIES Top Gun
(1 x 41’)
Top Gun brings together the most
advanced and meticulously built scalemodel planes in the world, along with the
most accomplished model-builders and
flyers.
Dream Entertainment, 8489 W. Third
Street, Suite 1038, Los Angeles, CA
90048 USA. Tel: 323.655.5501. Fax:
323.655.5603. DreamEnter@aol.com
Company Type: Producer, Sales Agent
At MIPCOM: Ehud Bleiberg (Chairman
& CEO)
Office: AFMA Stand, 01.02. Tel:
33.4.9299.8207. Fax: 33.4.9299.-8615
DISASTER!
Claymation /Action/Comedy
Language: English
Director: Roy Wood
Producers: Ehud Bleiberg, Yitzhak
Ginsberg, John Glenn, Travis Wright,
Evan Astrowsky
Delivery Status: In Pre-Production
A hilarious spoof of big-budget action
films, “Disaster!” is the ultimate disaster
movie.
MONSTER MEN
Horror/Thriller
Language: English
Director: Michael Davis
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.
HER MAJESTY
Family/Adventure
Language: English
Director: Mark J. Gordon
Producers: Walter Coblenz
Cast: Sally Andrews, Vicky Haughton,
Liddy Holloway, Mark Clare
Origin: USA
Set in 1953, Her Majesty is a widely
appealing coming of age story about a
young girl who realizes her life-long
dream when Queen Elizabeth comes to
visit her small hometown.
GACY
Thriller/Horror
Language: English
Director: Clive Saunders
Producers: Larry Rattner, Tim Swain
Cast: Mark Holton, Charlie Weber
Origin: USA
From the same team that brought you
“Dahmer”, a shocking story about the
infamous American serial killer - John
Wayne Gacy.
WHITE GOLD
Action
Language: English
Director: Victor Ivanov
Producers: Victor Ivanov, Feyodor Popov
Cast: Josh Holland, Alexander
Dyachenko, Yevgeniy Sidikhin
Origin: USA
A rebellious California kid becomes heir
to a map believed to lead to gold stolen
in 1919 Russia and must fight the KGB,
FBI, and Russian mafia for the treasure.
DORO
FILMPRODUKTIONS
GMBH
DoRo Filmproduktions GmbH, Freyung
3 / 2 / 16, A-1010 Wien, Austria. Tel:
43.1.876.88.88. Fax: 43.1.876.55.00.
www.doro.net. doro@doro.net
Company Type: Film- and TV
Production
During MIPCOM: Katharina Amport
Office: Tel: 43.1.876.88.88
Now in its
24th year
DUPUIS
Dupuis, 57 Boulevard de la Villette,
75010 Paris, France. Tel:
33.1.44.84.40.91. Fax: 33.1.44.84.40.98.
www.dupuis.com
Company Type: Production, distribution,
publishing, licensing, merchandising,
multimedia
At MIPCOM: Leon PERAHIA (Head of
Dupuis Audiovisuel), Jean-Philippe
DOUTRELUGNE (Director of
international TV and licensing rights),
Justine BANNISTER (Head of TV
Distribution), Isabelle DENIS (Head of
International Licensing); Acquisition
Executive: Alexia LEPERE (Sales &
Technical Coordination)
Office: 10.34, Tel: 04.92.99.82.40
KID PADDLE
www.kidpaddle.kidcomics.com
Animation (52x13’ and 26x26’) and
(14x3’ flash-animated webtoons)
Language: English, French
Producer: Dupuis Audiovisuel, Coproduction partners: Nocopy, Canal J
Kid Paddle and his friends have the
wildest imagination! They are crazy
about video games, horror films, sciencefiction comics and blob-like monsters.
PAPYRUS
www.papyrus.kidcomics.com
Animation (52 x 26’ Series and 1 x 70’
Special)
Language: English
Director: Michel Gauthier
Producer: Dupuis Audiovisuel, Coproduction partners: TF1 International
Origin: France
Set in an ancient Egypt of marvels and
fantasy, yet firmly rooted in historical
fact, the stories of Papyrus conjure the
myths and legends of its gods, in a world
of magic where anything is possible.
JOJO – THE SERIES
www.jojo.kidcomics.com
Language: English
Director: Michel Gauthier, Guy
Quelquejeu
Producer: Dupuis Audiovisuel
Delivery Status: in development
Told with humour and tenderness, these
heartwarming mini-tales of humanity,
gently guide small children towards the
discovery of life’s wonders. JoJo is the
cutest of ‘beginner guides’ to human
relations and life’s little mysteries.
JOJO
www.jojo.kidcomics.com
Animation (1 x 52’, or 2 x 26’ and 20 x
15 secs. of JoJo Moments)
Language: English
Director: Michel Gauthier, Guy
Quelquejeu
Producer: Dupuis Audiovisuel, Coproduction partners: TF1 Jeunesse
Origin: France
JOJO and Fat Louis are eight years old
and the best of friends - well, most of the
time. The arrival of a new classmate,
Violet, turns their world upside down.
CEDRIC
www.cedric.kidcomics.com
Animation (52 x 13’) and second series
in production!
Language: English
Director: Franck Bourgeron
Producer: Dupuis Audiovisuel, Coproduction partners: France 3, Canal J,
RTBF
Origin: France
Cedric is quite an individual ! Has more
than his fair share of personality and a
rather bad temper to match, but a big
heart to make up for his shortcomings.
Every day is an adventure when you’re
eight years old !
E
E! NETWORKS
E! Networks, 5750 Wilshire Blvd., Los
Angeles, CA 90036 USA. Tel:
323.954.2400. Fax: 323.954.2657.
www.international.eentertainment.com.
worldwide@eentertainment.com.
At MIPCOM: Ken Bettsteller (COO),
Kevin MacLellan (SVP, International),
Duccio Donati (VP, International Sales),
Christine Fellowes (Regional Director,
Asia Pacific, E! Networks), Brad Wald
(egional Director, EMEA, E! Networks)
Office: 26.01, Tel: 334.92.9981.74
LOVE CHAIN
Entertainment documentary (12 x 30
mins)
Language English
Origin: USA
From Brad and Jen, to Ben and J.Lo, to
Pamela Anderson’s rocky romantic path
to love, E! has the scoop on the who’s,
what’s, where’s and why’s of
Tinseltown’s hottest romances.
AMERICAN IN CANADA SEANSON II
CBE INTERNATIONAL
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
31
IT’S GOOD TO BE
mins)
Language English
Origin: USA
Ever considered how Hollywood’s A-list
spends their cold hard cash? Now
viewers can go along for the ride as E!
turns the spotlight on celebrity
pocketbooks and perks to see how the
other half lives.
CELEBRITIES UNCENSORED
mins)
Language English
Origin: USA
There’s raw, there’s candid, there’s jawdropping, and then, there’s Celebrities
Uncensored.
101 MOST SHOCKING MOMENTS
IN ENTERTAINMENT
mins)
Language English
Origin: USA
From the murder of John Lennon to
Rock Hudson’s AIDS announcement to
the tragic death of Princess Diana, E!
counts down the 101 Most Shocking
Moments in Entertainment.
FACING FAME
Reality (13 x 30 mins)
Language English
Origin: USA
Facing Fame gives real people the thrill
of truly stepping into the world of their
favorite celebrity.
ECHELON
ENTERTAINMENT
Echelon Entertainment, 400 South
Victory Blvd., Suite 202, Burbank, CA
91502 USA. Tel: 818.558.1820. Fax:
818.558.1877. www.echelonent.com,
info@echelonent.com
Company Type: Sales agent and
distributor
At MIPCOM: Eric Louzil (President &
CEO), Geoff Jarvis (VP of International
Sales), Stacey Parks (VP of International
Sales), Jeffrey Cooper (VP of Domestic
Sales), John Howard (VP of Press
Relations/Marketing), Ellen
Roongcharoen (Sales Assistant)
Acquisition Executive: Gloria Morrison
(President of Acquisitions/Development)
Office: 21.16, Tel: 492.99.8138
CHECKING THE GATE
Action (30 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Jess Thomas
Cast: Marc Cemron, Athena Demos, Ilva
& Boris Gorovatsky
Origin: USA
Vladamir, a mysterious Russian carrying
a briefcase full of Al Qaeda money,
arrives in Hollywood and forces a punky
chick, at gunpoint, to write his life’s
story.
COCKFIGHT
Thriller (90 minutes)
Language: English
Cast: Robert Knott, Alex Meneses,
Wilford Brimley, Hunter Von Leer
Origin: US
“Cockfight” exposes the pecking order in
the Oklahoma State Legislature when a
proposed law to ban the controversial
sport of cockfighting causes battle lines
to be drawn.
CONFEDERATE SABER
Language: English
Director: Timothy Taylor
Cast: Mary McCullum, Rob Wilds,
Rodney Pickel
Origin: USA
Richard Richmond lives in a ménage a
trios with two beautiful women, one
black and one white. After a dinner with
the women and some passionate
lovemaking, Richard is stabbed to death
through the screen door with a
confederate saber.
DEMON UNDER GLASS
Horror (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Jon Cunningham
Cast: Jason Carter, Garett Maggart, Jack
Donner
Origin: USA
The Delphi Project, an ambitious
program to solve the mystery of life
itself, has found the supreme test subject,
a creature of pure myth, a living
impossibility . . . a Vampire. Now, when
a hunter and a healer collide, the struggle
for survival begins.
DEPRAVED
Erotic Thriller (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Rogelio A. Lobato
Cast: Seidy Lopez, Antonio Guzman,
Mario Lopez
USA
Somewhere between love and fantasy
lies a sacred boundary no man or woman
should ever cross.
ELECTRIC SKY
CHILLY BEACH - CBC INTERNATIONAL
Electric Sky, 1 Clifton Mews, Clifton Hill,
Brighton, BN1 3HR United Kingdom.
info@electricsky.com
Tel: 44.(0).1273.224.240. Fax:
44.(0).1273.224.250
At MIPCOM: David Pounds (CEO),
Karen Young (Director of Distribution),
Ros Ali (Associate Director), Chris
Fletcher (Head of Sales)
Office: 04.42, Tel: 00.33.492.998286
THE FIRST HUMAN CLONE
Language: English
Delivery Status: 1st episode completed
This powerful new 3 part series looks at
the controversial attempts to clone a
human being.
F1 CHALLENGE
Event show/format (6 x 30)
Language: English
Most of the cars we buy have top speeds
in excess of 100 miles per hour but we
spend our days grinding round the
slowest roads in Europe.
BAGELS, BALLERINAS AND
BALALAIKAS
Documentary (2 x 30, 1x 60)
Language: English
This exclusive documentary offers
unprecedented access into the lives of the
performers told through the eyes and
words of the Dancers, Principals and
Conductors including the Kirov
Orchestra.
EM.TV &
MERCHANDISING
AG
EM.TV & Merchandising AG, BetaStraße 11, D-85774 Unterföhring,
Germany. Tel: 49.89.99500.0. Fax:
49.89.99500.111. www.em-ag.de.
info@em-ag.de
Company Type: Distributor and Producer
At MIPCOM: Werner E. Klatten
(Chairman of the Management Board),
Patrick Elmendorff (President TV
Distribution), Dr. Matthias Schulze
(Managing Director Junior.TV and Head
of Programming & Acquisition EM.TV)
Office: R 29.01, Tel./Fax:
33.4.92.99.88.76.
TABALUGA III
Animation (26x24´)
Produced by: EM.TV & Merchandising
AG, Yoram Gross-EM.TV, ZDF
Enterprises
Production Status: in production,
Available: Spring 2004
In Tabaluga III, the young green dragon,
protector of Greenland, goes on a quest
for the powerful pendant his father wore.
TABALUGA AND LEO - A
CHRISTMAS ADVENTURE
Animation (1x70’)
AG, Yoram Gross-EM.TV, EM.TV &
Wavery B.V., ZDF
Production Status: Completed, Available:
Autumn 2003
The little dragon Tabaluga’s world is
thrown into chaos and peril when an
orphan human boy from the real world,
accidentally finds himself in Tabaluga’s
homeland of Greenland.
CREEPSCHOOL
Animation (26x24’ )
AG, Happy Life Animation AB,
Alphanim, CINAR
Production Status: In production,
Available: Summer 2004
Four unsuspecting kids attend a remote
and sinister-looking boarding school, the
Creepschool, and embark on an
adventure into the fascinating world of
the supernatural.
F.T.P.D. II - FAIRY TALE POLICE
DEPARTMENT II
Animation (I: 13 x 24´. II: 13 x 24´)
Produced by: I: EM.TV &
Merchandising AG, Victory Media Group
II: EM.TV & Merchandising AG, Yoram
Gross-EM.TV
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
Production Status: I: Completed, II:
Completed
F.T.P.D II follows a special unit of secret
service agents on a quest in the fairy tale
world to battle evil powers wanting to
put a stop to happy endings.
BLINKY BILL III
Animation (I: 26 x 24´, II: 26 x 24´, III:
26 x 24´)
AG, EM.TV & Wavery B.V., Yoram
Gross-EM.TV, WDR
Production Status: I: Completed, II:
Completed, III: In production, Available:
III: Winter 2004
Blinky, Flap and Nutsy begin an epic
voyage around the world to return circus
animals to their homes.
Director/Producer - Emilio Ferrari
A group of teenage friends on vacation
get caught up in the middle of a series of
murders and have to fight to survive a
serial killer on the lose. Completed
MADE IN L.A.
Action Adventure
Language: English
Director/Producer: Emilio Ferrari
An action adventure about the greed and
deception that runs deep in the
underworld in the City of Angels. A fine
line that separates the good guys from
the bad guys becomes increasingly
obscured.
F
FILM BRIDGE
INTERNATIONAL
ENTERTAINMENT 7
Film Bridge International, 1316 Third
Street Promenade, Suite 105, Santa
Monica, CA 90401 USA. Tel:
310.656.8680. Fax: 310.656.8683.
filmbridgeinternational.com
At MIPCOM: Ellen Wander, Incoronata
“Inc” Pagliuca, Lori Mathison
Office:
DOLAN’S CADILLAC
Producers: Jonathan Sanger (“Vanilla
Sky,” “Mission Impossible 2”) and
Trevor Macy (“Auto Focus”)
A story by Stephen King, about a young
man who seeks revenge on the mobster
who killed his wife after she accidentally
witnesses a murder.
THE FOUR SAINTS
Written and directed by Jean-Pierre
Isbouts (Disney feature, “Walt: The Man
Behind the Myth”)
Starring Famke Janssen and Claire
Forloni
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.
WHEN WE WERE MODERN
Written and directed by Philippe Mora
(“Thick and Thin”, “Snide and
Prejudice”) and Sue Milliken (“Sirens”
Starring Hugh Grand, “Paradise Road”)
Starring Glenn Close
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.
BIG SPENDER
Starring Casper van Dien and Graham
Greene
Delivery Status: Completed and ready
for delivery
The story of a prisoner who finally finds
a way out of the prison walls by getting
himself assigned to a farm to care for an
ailing racehorse.
Entertainment 7, 15030 Ventura Blvd,
Suite # 762, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
USA. Tel: 818.709.9595. Fax:
818.709.9597. www.ent7.com. salesent@ent7.com
Company Type: Sales Agent, Producer,
Distributor
At MIPCOM: Emilio Ferrari (onsultant),
Bill Wilder (International Sales)
Office: 19.19
INSIDE TAKE
Drama
Language: English
Producer: Entertainment 7
Host: Darla Artura
Status: Completed
Entertaining and exciting coverage of
Hollywood’s biggest movies including
interviews with the stars, the director,
behind the scenes, premiers and much
more. 300x 30 min. Delivery
MISS MANAGEMENT
Comedy
Language: English
Producer: Emilio Ferrari
Cast: Caprice
Super Model, Blanche is forced to take
over the family business of running one
of the top modeling agencies in the
world. Pre-production 13x30 min.
HOUSE OF HORROR
Horror
Language: English
Director: Emilio Ferrari Producer: Emilio
Ferrari
Fictitious modern day story based on the
famous Tales of Terror by Edgar Alan
Poe. The young Poe is drawn into a
psycho realm of a delusional nurse.
WHITE - OUT
Action Thriller (90 minutes)
Language: English
Top Hotels Worldwide
Boutique Hotels Worldwide
FILMS BY JOVE INC
Films by Jove Inc, 11325 Sunshine
Terrace, Studio City, CA 91604 USA. Tel:
818.506.0550. Fax: 818 752.0387.
filmsbyjove@earthlink.net
Company Type: Producer/distributor
At MIPCOM: Oleg Vidov (CEO). Joan
Borsten (President, Sales), Lucia
Hussong, Len Giarraputo
Office: 04.24, Tel: 33(0)4.92.998198
GREEK MYTHS
(6 x 22 min) NEW
CHEBURASHKA AND FRIENDS
(1 x 60)
The charming new HIT
MASTERS OF RUSSIAN
ANIMATION
(26 x 22 min)
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV’S
STORIES FROM MY CHILDHOOD
(26 x 22 min)
Celebrity voices
RUDYARD KIPLING’S THE
JUNGLE BOOK
(1 x 90 min)
Celebrity voices.
FILMS
DISTRIBUTION
Films Distribution, 6, rue de l’Ecole de
Médecine, 75006 Paris France. Tel:
33.1.53.10.33.99. Fax: 33.1.53.10.33.98.
www.filmsdistribution.com.
info@filmsdistribution.com
Acquisition Executive: Nicolas BrigaudRobert
Office:
WHERE IS MADAME CATHERINE
?
Drama (110 min)
Language: French
Director: Marc RECHA
Producer: Jacques BIDOU (JBA
Production), Luis MINARRO (Eddie
SAETA), Alain MONNE
Cast: Olivier Gourmet, Eduardo Noriega,
Mireille Perrier, Jérémie Lippmann
Origin: France/Spain
FEATHERS IN MY HEAD
Drama (100 min)
Language: french
Director: Thomas de THIER
Producer: JBA PRODUCTION /
MAGELLAN PRODUCTION
Co-production partners: Arte France
Cinéma, R.T.B.F. (Télévision belge),
FMB 2 Films, 47ème Parallèle
Cast: Sophie MUSEUR, Francis
RENAUD, Ulysse de SWAEF, Alexis
Den DONCKER
Delivery Status : completed
Origin: FRANCE- BELGIUM
MUD
Drama (98 min)
Language: turkish
Director: Dervis ZAIM
Producer: MARCO MULLER for
DOWNTOWN PICTURES
Cast: Mustafa Ugurlu, Yelda Reynaud,
Bülent Emin Yarar, Taner Birsel
Origin: TURKEY - GREECE - CYPRUS
SANSA
Adventures (115 min)
Language: French
Director: SIEGFRED
Producer: VAGABONDAGES / ARTE
FRANCE / MATE PRODUCTION
Cast: Roschdy Zem, Ivry Gitlis, Emma
Suarez.
Origin: FRANCE
ANY WAY THE WIND BLOWS
Urban Tale (125 min)
Language: Dutch, French & English
Director: Tom Barman
Producer: CORRIDOR
Cast: Natali Broods, Jonas Boel, Diane
de Belder, Titus de Voogdt.
Origin: BELGIUM
FINE LIVING
Fine Living, 9721 Sherrill Blvd.,
Knoxville, TN 37932 USA. Tel:
865.694.2700. Fax: 865.690.2253
Office: R35.06, Tel: 33.04.92.99.89.09
SIMPLIFY YOUR LIFE
(24 x 22’)
Learn how to tackle a different problem
each week on Simplify Your Life and
find more time for the things you really
want to do.
A BIKEOGRAPHY
(13 x 22’)
Explore the evolution of the motorcycle
through the ages. A BIKEography
presents captivating stories about the
motorcycle industry, its icons and
industrialists, and out fascination with
motorcycles.
LOST IN ITALY
(25 x :80)
Follow the real-life adventures of
Douglas and his wife Ombretta as they
discover the hidden places and everyday
people that define Italy.
GOING BUGGS!
DLT ENTERTAINMENT LTD.
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
33
THE ZEN OF ORGANIZING
(1 x 45’)
Join Regina Leeds, author of The Zen of
Organizing, as she reorganizes and
revitalizes two very different households.
THE SOUL OF SOUTH BEACH
(1 x 45’)
In the 1970s, Miami Beach was a
dilapidated senior citizens’ community.
See how this sunny spot has been
revitalized into a pop culture icon, known
for its music and bold sense of style,
design, and architecture.
FIREWORKS
INTERNATIONAL
Fireworks International, Tennyson
House, 159-165 Great Portland Street,
London, W1W 5PA, UK. Tel:
00.44.20.7307.6300. Fax:
00.44.20.7307.6399.
www.fireworksentertainment.com.
info@firecorp.co.uk
At MIPCOM: Greg Phillips (President),
Michael Weisbarth (President,
Television), Saralo MacGregor (VicePresident, Sales), Kathryn Rice (VicePresident Sales, Europe), Clare Caufield
(Vice-President, Marketing &
Communications), Victoria Ryan
(Director of Sales Administration,
Strategy & Special Projects)
Office: R30.26, Tel: 00.33.4.92.99.88.23
ZOE BUSIEK: WILD CARD
Drama (13 x 1 hour)
Language: English
Director: Steve Surjik (pilot). Various for
episodes
Producer: Tony Thatcher
Cast: Joely Fisher, Rae Dawn Chong,
Chris Potter, Bronson Picket
Origin: Canada
Zoe Busiek’s life is turned upside down
when the sudden death of her sister in a
car crash forces her to return home to
Minnesota to care for her nieces and
nephew.
FERGUS MCPHAIL
Kids Live Action (26 x 1/2 hour)
Language: English
Producer: Alan Hardy
Cast: Sean Ohlendorf, Heli Simpson,
Megan Harrington, Michael Harrison
Origin: Australia
The comedy series features teenager
Fergus McPhail (and his irrationally
optimistic alter-ego), stumbling from
crisis to crisis - mostly of his own
making.
THE LIFE
Movie of the Week (1 x 120 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Lynne Stopkewich
Producer: Lynn Barr, Laura Lightbown,
Arvi Liimatainen
Cast: Bruce Greenwood, Brian
Markinson
Origin: USA
The Life is an engaging drama of police
officers who struggle to help drug addicts
in a world on the edge.
SCOUT’S SAFARI
Language: English
Executive Producer: Tom Lynch, Jim
Rapsas
Cast: Anastasia Baranova, Chantell
Stander, Jarred Uys, Ashley Dowds
What if traffic jams were caused by
elephants rather than cars? What if a
giant dung beetle crawled among the
clothes in your closet . would that be a
problem? Welcome to the brave new
world of Jennifer “Scout” Lauer.
BLACK HOLE HIGH
Language: English
Director: Various
Producer: Kevin May, Tony Thatcher
Cast: Emma Taylor-Isherwood, Shadia
Simmons, Michael Seater, Noah Reid,
Robert Clark
Origin: Canada
Water that runs up the wall. teachers
getting sucked into a vortex. These
spooky, and sometimes frightening
events, aren’t magic; they are science run
amok.
FIRST HAND FILMS
First Hand Films, Friedrichstrasse 123,
10117 Berlin, Germany. Tel:
49.30.285.290.88. Fax:
49.30.285.290.99.
www.firsthandfilms.com.
info@firsthandfilms.com
At MIPCOM: Esther van Messel (CEO),
Gitte Hansen (Sales & Acquisitions)
Office: H4.35, Palais fifth floor, under
the umbrella of The Marketplace, Tel:
41.79.335.15.72
BLINKY
EM.TV & MERCHANDISING AG
SLAVES OF THE SWORD (MOSHE
DAYAN, ITZHAK RABIN, ARIEL
SHARON)
Documentary Series (3 x 56 min)
Language: Hebrew, Arab, English
Production: Belfilms/First Hand Films
co-production
With: Alliance Atlantis, ARTE, BBC,
NOGA, SBS, TV2 DENMARK, VRT,
ZDF
Director: Paul Jenkins
Produced by Liran Atzmor, Noemi
Schory, Executive producer: Esther van
Messel
origin: Israel, Germany
Moshe Dayan, Itzhak Rabin and Ariel
Sharon: Three generals, men of fast
deeds, with little patience for words.
MY CAMERA DOESN?T LIE
Language: Chinese
Director: Solveig Klassen and Katharina
Schneider-Ross
Produced by More Films Production
origin: China, Germany, Austria
A film about Chinese underground
filmmakers who were the first to express
their truthful and realistic views on China
from 1989 until today.
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
Director: Ruth Walk (directed also THE
SETTLERS)
Produced by Perlov Production
origin: Israel
Every year, on the 5th of May, they
throw a big party. Food, dance, music.
Joy.
FIRST LOOK
MEDIA/OVERSEAS
FILMGROUP
First Look Media/Overseas Filmgroup,
8000 Sunset Blvd., East Penthouse, Los
323.337.1000. Fax: 323.337.1037.
www.firstlookmedia.com.
info@firstlookmedia.com
Company Type: Sales Agent/Distributor
At MIPCOM: Liz Mackiewicz (Sr. Vice
President, Worldwide Sales and
Distribution), Ildi Davy (Director,
International Home Entertainment), JD
Beaufils (Director, Worldwide Sales and
Library Licensing), Acquisitions Exec:
Peter Lawson (Director, Acquisitions)
Office: Riviera Stand R32,29, Tel:
04.92.99.88.29
BLIZZARD
Family/Fantasy (93 min)
English Language
Director: LeVar Burton
Cast: Christopher Plummer, Brenda
Blethyn, Whoopi Goldberg as the voice
of Blizzard, Kevin Pollak
A magical story which highlights the
most unlikely of friendships between the
fun-loving, flying, talking reindeer called
Blizzard, the young girl, Katie, and their
exhilarating adventure to the North Pole.
KART RACER
Family/Action (93 min)
English Language
Director: Stuart Gillard
Cast: Randy Quaid, David Gallagher,
Will Rothhaar
Determined to overcome all obstacles, a
troubled young boy realizes his dreams
when he finally achieves victory in the
Kart Racing Championships.
THE TESSERACT
Thriller (95 min)
English Language
Director: Oxide Pang
Cast: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Saskia
Reeves
In Bangkok’s underworld, the destinies
of a desperate drug dealer, young
runaway, beautiful assassin and an
English psychiatrist collide, changing
their lives forever.
VIRGINIA’S RUN
Family (103 min)
English Language
Director: Peter Markle
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Joanne Whalley,
Rachel Skarsten, Lindze Letherman
A teenage girl, trying to come to grips
with the death of her mother in a
horseriding accident, nurtures the foal of
her mother’s horse, and creates an
everlasting, life-changing bond.
OCTANE
Action/Thriller (90 min)
English Language
Director: Marcus Adams
Cast: Madeleine Stowe, Bijou Phillips,
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Mischa Barton
A woman plunged into a dark, deranged
world when her teenage daughter is lured
away by a young, blood-obsessed cult.
FOOD NETWORK
Food Network, 9721 Sherrill Blvd.,
Knoxville, TN 37932 USA. Tel:
865.694.2700. Fax: 865.690.2253
Office: R35.06, Tel: 33.04.92.99.89.09
DATE PLATE
(22 x 21’)
What happens when two eligible
bachelors (or bachelorettes) are each
given a shopping budget, and asked to
plan and cook a romantic meal in hopes
of winning over a blind date?
EVERYDAY ITALIAN
(13 x 21’)
In Everyday Italian, our chef shares
updated versions of the homey recipes
she grew up with in her Italian family.
EMERIL LIVE!
(585 x 42’)
In front of a live audience, Emeril
Lagasse—a master chef and owner of
Americas’ most talked-about
restaurants—demonstrates gourmet
cooking, with his own special flair.
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
BEACH EATS
(1 x 42’)
Clam bakes, funnel cakes and “surfer
chow” are on the menu as we pull up a
chair to the sea side tables of coastal
cuisine.
AFTER MIDNIGHT.NEW YORK
CITY
(1 x 42’)
“After Midnight.New York City” takes
viewers on an all night culinary journey
through the city that never sleeps.
FORTISSIMO FILM
SALES B.V.
Fortissimo Film Sales B.V., Veemarkt 7779, 1019 DA Amsterdam, The
Netherlands. Tel: 31.20.627.3215. Fax:
31.20.626.1155.
www.fortissimofilms.com,
info@fortissimo.nl
At MIPCOM: Michael J. Werner (Co
Chairman), Esther Bannenberg (Director
Sales & Acquisition), Noel de Rooij
(Manager Servicing)
Office: AFMA STAND # 01.02, Tel:
33.4.92.99.82.07
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE
Drama (97 min)
Language: Chinese
Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Producer: Wong Kar-Wai
Cast: Maggie Cheung, Tonly Leung
Origin: HONG KONG
Chow and Li-zhin become friends but,
one day, they are forced to face the facts:
their respective partners are having an
affair...
SHOWER
Drama (92 min)
Language: Chinese
Director: Zhang Yang
Producer: Peter Loehr
Cast: Zhu Xu, Jiang Wen
Origin: China
The closure of his father’s traditional
bathhouse forces one young hot-shot to
take a long hard look at where the
modern world is taking him.
CHUNGKING EXPRESS
Drama (97 min)
Language: Chinese
Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Producer: Chan Yi-kan
Cast: Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia, Kaneshiro
Takashi, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Faye
Wang
Origin: Hong Kong
The film opens on the night of 30 April
to 1 May 1994 in Chungking House, a
mazelike commercial complex in Hong
Kong.
THE BEST OF TIMES
Drama (109 min)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Chang Tso-chi
Producer: Lu Shih-yuan
Cast: Wing Fan, Gao Meng-Jie
Origin: Taiwan
A multi-layered look at two Taiwanese
teenage boys trying to find their place in
the Universe. After a shooting incident
they find themselves on the run.
THE CHATEAU
Comedy (91 min)
Language: English / French
Director: Jesse Peretz
Producer: Robin O’Hara & Scott
Macaulay
Cast: Paul Rudd, Sylvie Testud
Origin: USA
THE CHATEAU is the story of two
estranged American brothers who
compete over family, love and money
when they inherit a French chateau from
long lost relatives.
FRANCE ANIMATION
France Animation, 14 rue Alexandre
Parodi, 75010 Paris, FRANCE. Tel:
00.33.1.53.35.90.90. Fax:
00.33.1.53.35.90.91. www.franceanim.com, france-animation@franceanim.com
Company Type: Producer and Distributor
At MIPCOM: Maia Tubiana (Managing
Director), Lionel Marty (Head of Sales
and Acquisitions), Christophe Goldberger
(Head of Business Afairs), Marie-Pierre
Journet (Head of Production);
Acquisition Executive: Lionel Marty
Office: R27.18
LITTLE VAMPIRE
Animation (52 x 13 mins)
Language: French/English
Producer: Maïa Tubiana Co-production
partners: Story and Telegael
Year of Production: Delivery fall 2004,
When a cast of likeable monsters enters
the world of a regular little boy, the
mischief they create together brings them
all on a rollicking ride of fun and antics.
COSY CORNER
Animation (52 x 6 mins 30 secs)
Director: Eric Cazes
Producer: Odile Limousin Co-production
partners: Storimage, France 5 and
Teletoon France
Delivery Status: Completed March 2003
Origin: France
Budget: 2.5 million Euros
Cosy Corner tells the story of a bunch of
animals with strong characters including Stella, Margot, Arthur, Jacky who have been thrown together by
chance.
DR DOG
Animation (52 X 13 mins)
Producer: Maïa Tubiana, Co-production
partners: ZDF, TF1, Silver Lining
Productions
Delivery Status: In development
Dr Dog is a working dog - a highly
respected medical doctor. He is
constantly torn between the drive to be
the finest doctor he can be and the
impulse to act the dog he is.
TAM & MELODY
Animation (52 X 13 mins)
Producer: Maïa Tubiana
Tam & Melody is seen through the eyes
of two musical children, an African boy
named Tam and a western girl called
Melody, both aged 12.
SPACE LUNIES
Animation (39 x 7 mins)
Director: Terry Ward
Producer: Maïa Tubiana, Co-production
partners: TV4C
In the outer reaches of space at the point
at which most telescopes start to go out
of focus, there is a solar system similar
to our own.
FRANCHISE
PICTURES
8228 Sunset Blvd., L.A., CA 90046 USA.
Tel: 323.848.3444. Fax: 323.822.2165
At MIPCOM: Helen Lee Kim (Director,
International Distribution)
Office: Riviera 01.02 (AFMA Booth),
Tel: 33.4.92.99.8207
OUT OF REACH * NEW *
Action - US Theatrical
Director: Po-Chih Leong
Starring: Steven Seagal
Status: Production - Ready For Deliver
Spring 2004
A former helicopter pilot attempts to
rescue a young Peruvian girl from
military imprisonment.
RETROGRADE * NEW *
Action
Dir./Writer: Christopher Kulikowski
(Aurora)
Starring: Dolph Lundgren
Status: Production - Ready For Delivery
Spring 2004
Two time travelers with opposing views
are sent back to the present aboard a
research ship in the Antarctic to prevent
a global biological disaster from
occurring.
THINGS YOU CAN TELL BY
LOOKING AT HER
Drama
Director: Jon Avnet
Starring: Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz,
Calista Flockhart, Holly Hunter, Kathy
Baker, Amy Brenneman, Gregory Hines
Status: Completed - Ready For Delivery
A dramatic and gripping anthology about
the lives of six women living in the San
Fernando valley in California which
confronts the very real issues for women
in the world today.
CAVEMAN’S VALENTINE
Suspense Thriller - US Theatrical
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson
A mysterious homeless man living in
central park, who was himself once a
member of the elite, aids New York
police in apprehending the “society”
murderer of a young boy.
BIG KAHUNA
Comedy- US Theatrical
Director: John Swanbeck
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Danny Devito,
Peter Facinelli
A convention offers a small business the
chance for a huge contract?the salesmen
are dismayed when their best prospect
fails to show up - or is he there
incognito.
FREE SPIRITS FILM
PRODUCTIONS
Free Spirits Film Productions, 130
Muswell Hill Road, London N10
3JD.UK. Tel: 0208.4442668. jaap@freespirits-film.co.uk
Compay Type: production
At MIPCOM: Jaap Mees
Office: Tel: 0208.4442668
OFF THE BEATEN TRACK
Director: Jaap Mees
Producer: Jaap Mees, Billy Barton, coproducer
Centred round banjo virtuoso Tommy
Barton, alias The Gentleman Busker
from Dublin. His story is told by his
three sons, who are all musicians.
Featuring: The Dubliners and piper
Finbar Furey.
INSIDE THE CIRCLE
Documentary (55”)
Director: Jaap Mees
Producer: Jaap Mees
Year of production: 2003.
A portrait of the leading Willie Clancy
Summerschool in Ireland. Focused on
seven top musicians like fiddle virtuoso
Martin Hayes, legendary Uilleann piper
Paddy Keenan and leading concertina
player Noel Hill.
JAKERS! THE ADVERNTURES OF PIGGLEY
WINKS - MIKE YOUNG PRODUCTIONS
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
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GAUMONT
Gaumont, 30 Avenue Charles de Gaulle,
92200 Neuilly Sur Seine, France. Tel:
33.1.46.43.21.80. Fax: 33.1.46.43.20.33.
www.gaumont.fr
At MIPCOM: Philippe ROSTAIN
(President, International Distribution and
French TV Sales), Philippe de
CHAISEMARTIN (Senior VicePresident International Sales Feature
Films), Loïc TROCME (Director,
International Sales Feature Films), Anne
BERNSTEIN (French TV Sales),
Virginie ROYER (Teledis), Manuela
PADOAN (Vice-President of Gaumont
Cinematheque)
Office: N° 2502
L’EMPIRE DES LOUPS (AKA
EMPIRE OF THE WOLVES)
Thriller
Production: GAUMONT
Casting: Jean Reno
Status: Shooting January 2004
From Jean-Christophe Grangé (Crimson
Rivers)’s latest best-selling book.
RIPOUX 3 (AKA PART-TIME COPS)
Thriller Comedy
Director: Claude Zidi
Production: CPZ/GAUMONT/PLAZZA
PRODUCTIONS INTERNATIONAL
Casting: Philippe Noiret, Thierry
Lhermitte, Lorant Deutsch
Status: French Release December 10th
2003
Ten years after, our two scam artists from
the crooked days as cops, meet again. but
pitted against each other!
ALBERT EST MECHANT (AKA
MEAN OLD ALBERT)
Comedy
Director: Hervé Palud
Production: GAUMONT
Casting: Michel Serrault, Christian
Clavier, Arielle Dombasle
Status: Post-production
Patrick is in tough financial straits, but he
thinks he’s been saved by the death of his
unknown wealthy father, until he learns
that the only legitimate heir is Albert, his
half-brother.
UNDER THE RADAR
PICTURES IN PARADISE
QUI PERD GAGNE (AKA LOSER
TAKES ALL)
Comedy
Director: Laurent Bénégui
Production: GAUMONT / MAGOURIC
Casting: Thierry Lhermitte, Elsa
Zylberstein
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.
L’ENQUÊTE CORSE (AKA THE
CORSICAN FILE)
Comedy
Director: Alain Berbérian
Production: LEDENDE ENTREPRISES
/ GAUMONT
Casting: Christian Clavier
Jack Palmer, a hip Parisian private-eye,
has a mission: to find Ange Leoni, a
Corsican who has inherited a tidy sum,
but who has vanished into thin air.
GLOBAL
TELEMEDIA
Global Telemedia, 98 East Avenue
Norwalk, CT 06851 USA. Tel:
203.854.9985. Fax: 203.855.8370.
www.globaltelemedia.com,
gt@globaltelemedia.com
At MIPCOM: Greg Kimmelman
(President, CEO)
Office: # 7.40
HAUNTED CASTLES
Documentary (1 x 50 minutes with 26
episodes planned)
Country of Origin: Germany
Delivery Status: Available in North
America for broadcast and Home Video
This intriguing program takes the
audience on a mysterious journey,
inviting them into the most infamous
haunted castles around the world.
BEYONCE: FIRST SOLO CONCERT
Entertainment
Global Telemedia is proud to announce
our association with Northstar Media as
they present this BRAND NEW
BEYONCE KNOWLES CONCERT!
THE GREATEST CIRCUS ACTS IN
THE WORLD
Entertainment (13 x 30 min)
Delivery Status: Available for telecast
and home video and DVD.
The series is designed for a broadcaster
to insert a host or for a narrator to “voice
over” breaks in the action. Customize the
show and make it your own, with your
own talent.
DIGGING FOR DINOSAURS
Children (1 x 30 min)
Delivery Status: Available immediately
for Broadcast and Home Video
Join Professor Fossilworth in helping to
put together the 65 million-year-old
puzzle of where dinosaurs come from,
and how they lived and died.
FEATURE FILMS
Please ask to see our Feature Film
Catalog with 156 FULLY
COPYRIGHTED
Feature films in the following categories:
Drama, Action / Adventure, Animated,
Horror, Family, Romance, Western,
Exploitation, Karate, Adult.
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 MIPCOM: Stephen Johnston
(President - Goldcrest Films Inc.), Peter
McRae (SVP of Production), Abigail
Walsh (Sales Executive)
Office: 09.30, Tel: 00.33.49.299.8213,
goldcrestmkt@aol.com
Goldcrest Films International’s library
has over 80 titles available to license
world-wide for Television and DVD
rights, including many award winning
features:
ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS
Patsy Kensit, David Bowie
ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN
With the voices of Burt Reynolds, Dom
De Louise
ANOTHER COUNTRY
Rupert Everett, Colin Firth
THE KILLING FIELDS
John Malkovich, Sam Waterston, Haing
Hgor, Julian Sands
THE MISSION
Robert DeNiro, Jeremy Irons, Liam
Neeson
GOLDEN SUN FILM
CO., LTD.
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 MIPCOM:
Office:
SHANHAI LOVE STORY
Drama (23 episodes x 48 min.)
Language: Chinese
Director: Yeh Hung-Wei, Siu Pik Chun,
Yiu Tin Hung
Producer: Allan Lan Hai Han
Cast: Jacklyn Ng, David Ng, Marcellino
Origin: China, Hong Kong
The Story is about a romantic great love
of a youthful couple since the end of
Tong Dynasts to today.
HIGH VOLTAGE
Action/Adventure (92 Min.)
Language: Chinese
Director: Kam Yeung Wah
Producer: Movie Master International
Film
Cast: Donnie Yen, Roy Cheung
Origin: Hong Kong (China), Philippine
Since Chiang’s wife was murdered by a
drug dealing maniac name Meed, Chiang
has become the most lethal weapon of
the Hong Kong Police force.
IRON SISTER
Drama (92 Min.)
Language: Chinese
Director: Yeh Hung Wei
Producer: Yang Su Mei
Cast: Shu Qi, Jackson Lou, Ada Yeung,
Allan Lan
Origin: Hong Kong (China)
The story is set in the period during the
Japanese in invasion of China in the
1930’s. A Chinese traitor Tung’s wife is
saved by Iron Sister, a member of
guerrillas.
HERO AMONG HEROES
Martial Arts
Language: Chinese
Director: Yuen Woo Ping, Chan Chin
Chung
Producer: Chan Chin Chung
Cast: Donnie Yen, Yuen Kit Ying
During the reign of Emperor Tao Kwang,
Ching Dynasty, opium does harm to our
folk. Tao Kwang appoints Lin Shih Tsui
to get rid of opium in South China.
DEATH CAGE
(92 Min.)
Language: Chinese
Director: Robert Tai
Producer: Lan Tien Hong
Cast: Joe Lewis, Robin Chou, Kim Hee
Ching
Kent’s tick boxing gym in Bangkok is
working as a front for the mob.
GONDWANA FILMS
Gondwana Films, C/ Forjadores, 32 P.I.
Prado del Espino- 28660-Boadilla del
Monte-Madrid. Tel: 0034.91.634.10.66.
Fax: 0034.91.632.68.67.
gondwana@gondwanafilms.com
At MIPCOM: Javier Linares (President),
Joaquin Linares (Managing Director),
Luisa Romeo(Head of Development),
Beatriz Diez (International Business
Executive)
Office: 03.05, Tel: 33.4.9299.8151
THE THIRD PLANET I&II
Documentary wildlife and ethnology (26
x 26’)
Language: English/Spanish
Director: Fernando Gonzalez I.-Sitges /
Jose Manuel Novoa
Producer: Javier Linares -Transglobe
Films, Co-production partners: Impala
origin: Spain
Takes us on a journey across the five
continents, showing the most amazing
natural spaces, wild fauna, unknown
tribes and ethnic groups, secret religions
and rituals and the submarine life of seas
and oceans.
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
THE LAST PARADISES I&II
Documentary wildlife (26 x 26’)
Language: English/Spanish/French
Director: Fernando Gonzalez I.-Sitges /
Jose Manuel Novoa
Films, Co-production partners: Via
Digital
origin: Spain
This documentary will introduce us to
the last remaining virgin sanctuaries of
wild nature.
BUETI
Documentary ethnology (1 x 52’)
Director: Jose Manuel Novoa
origin: Spain
In the depths of the jungle of Ecuatorial
Guinea the bandjis or those initiated in
bueti invoked protective spirits.
THE HIMALAYAN DWELLERS
Documentary ethnology (1 x 52’)
Director: Gerardo Olivares
origin: Spain
Some people have managed to survive in
a hostile world, and have made the most
of what nature offers them.
ADAPTATION
Documentary wildlife (3 x 52’)
Director: Fernando Gonzalez I. - Sitges
origin: Spain
Oceans and seas had been conquered by
plants and animals, but beyond this,
outside the sheltering sea, the world of
surface stretched out, a different world
full of promises but also full of countless
obstacles and restrictions.
GRB
ENTERTAINMENT
GRB Entertainment, 13400 Riverside
Drive suite 300 Sherman Oaks
California 91423 USA. Tel:
818.728.7600. Fax: 818.728.7676.
www.grbtv.com. sales@grbtv.com
At MIPCOM: Gary R. Benz
(President/CEO), Michael Branton
(Executive Senior Vice -President,
Creative Affairs), Gavin Reardon (Senior
Vice -President, International
Distribution), Marielle Zuccarelli
(Director, International Distribution),
Gary MacKinney (Manager, International
Distribution)
Office: #R35.11, Tel: 33.04.92.99.88.73
NEXT ACTION STAR
Reality - Format (10 x 60 minutes & 1 x
120 minutes)
Co-production Partner: Silver Pictures
Will search the country for America’s
next male and female action stars. The
winners, chosen through competition and
voting, will star in an action film
produced by Silver Pictures titled HIT
ME.
THE SURREAL LIFE
Reality - Format (Season I - 8 x 30
minutes & Season II - 12 x 30 minutes)
Brings together a diverse group of some
of America’s most beloved celebrities.
This unlikely group of housemates move
in together and share a fun and funky
house in the Hollywood Hills for ten
days.
THE WORLD’S MOST
DANGEROUS GAME
Format (13 x 60 minutes)
THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS
GAME is a futuristic ‘cat and mouse’
competition where the Prey has no
choice but to survive the violent world of
the Vortex.
NOW SEE THIS
Reality (Season I - 30 x 30 minutes &
Season II - 22 x 30 minutes)
52 exciting half-hours of the most
amazing stories that have ever been
caught on tape in easily formatted
sequences. See the stories.see the
footage.NOW SEE THIS.
X-QUIZ
Reality-Format (4 x 60 minutes)
This power-packed series tests viewer’s
survival know-how by plunging them
into life’s most terrifying challenges being attacked by a great white shark, in
a jetliner about to crash, held hostage and
more.
GREAT CHEFS
TELEVISION
Great Chefs® Television, PO BOX
56757, New Orleans LA 70156-6757
USA. Tel: 504.581.5000. Fax:
504.581.1188. www.greatchefs.com.
info@greatchefs.com
At MIPCOM: John Shoup (President),
Marc Cosnard de Closets (Dir., Int’l
Sales)
Office: 20.19
GREAT CHEFS® EVENTS
Lifestyles (13 x 30 min.)
Language: English
Viewers are taken around the world from
Hong Kong to Kansas City: Australia to
Singapore, and Memphis to Lyon, France
sampling culinary competitions.
GREAT CHEFS® DREAM
Language: English
After spending months paring down
nearly 500 hopefuls to fewer tha 50
candidates and then down to half-dozen
semi-finalists, the winner receives a
multi-million dollar restaurant in a new
Las Vegas resort
GREAT CHEFS® OF THE WORLD
Language: English
An international feast follows Great
Chefs around the world, while they show
how they create their distinctive cuisine
in their kitchens in celebrated restaurants.
GREAT CHEFS® OF AMERICA
Language: English
America’s celebrated chefs open their
kitchens and show how they prepare
their famous signature dishes; each
program includes an appetizer, an entrée,
and a dessert.
GREAT CHEFS®, GREAT CITIES
Language: English
The renowned chefs working in
America’s cities create their justlyfamous dishes before cameras in their
own restaurant kitchens.
GRUPO PI
Grupo Pi, C/ Lanzarote, 2, San Sebastián
De Los Reyes, Madrid, 28700 Spain. Tel:
34.91.659.20.32. Fax: 34.91.659.28.65.
www.grupopi.tv. info@grupopi.tv
At MIPCOM: José Huertas (General
Manager), Geraldine Gonard (Sales
Director), Laura Miñarro (Sales
Executive)
Office: R. 32-37, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.88.82
ONE STEP FORWARD (UN PASO
ADELANTE)
Musical (40 x 60)
Language: Spanish, Subtitles English
Director: Jesús Del Cerro
Production Company: Globomedia
Key Cast: Lola Herrera, Beatriz Rico,
Miguel Angel Muñoz, Pablo Puyol,
Beatriz Luengo, Mónica Cruz
Country of Origin: Spain
tells of the aspirations, frustrations and
conflicts of a group of young people
devoted body and soul to their
preparation in a school of stage art and
their ultimate success as artists.
THE SERRANO´S (LOS SERRANO)
Comedy (13 x 60)
Language: Spanish Subtitles
Director: Begoña Álvarez Y José Ramón
Ayerra
Production Company: (Companies)
Globomedia
Key Cast: Antonio Resines, Belen
Rueda, Jesús Bonilla
Country of Origin: Spain
the experience of a new family living
together, brings funny situations that
make the Serrano´s family such a
dynamic family series.
CHE. THE MAN. THE END (CHE.
EL HOMBRE. EL FINAL)
Language: Spanish Subtitles
Director: Mario Pacho O’Donnell
Promofilm
Country Of Origin: Argentina
a documentary that specifically focuses
on the last months in the life of Ernesto
“Che” Guevara, during his final days in
Bolivia.
THE WITCH AFFAIR (COSA DE
BRUJAS)
Drama (102 min)
Language: Spanish. Subtitles English
Director: José Miguel Juárez
Taznia Media
Key Cast: José Sancho, Antonio
Hortelano, Pilar Bardem, Manuel
Manquiña, Jorge Sanz
Country Of Origin: Spain
San Juan 1980, a man murders his friend
and associate. Two elderly people are
witness to the crime. Both show up on
the funeral and predict to him that all his
dreams will come true thereafter.
EROTIPS (EROTIPS) - FUNNY
EROTIC CARTOON SERIES
Erotic (31 x 2:30 min) (+ 19 Eps In
Production)
ISKRA
Country Of Origin: Spain
A series that wants to approach sex
through the sense of humour, the only
way to dispel many of the taboos still
persisting around this subject.
H
HALLMARK
ENTERTAINMENT
Hallmark Entertainment, 1325 Avenue of
the Americas, 21st Floor, New York, NY
10019 USA. Tel: 212.977.9001. Fax:
212.977.9049. www.hallmarkent.com
At MIPCOM: Robert Halmi Jr.
(Chairman and CEO, Hallmark
Entertainment Holdings, Inc.), Peter von
Gal (President and COO, Hallmark
Entertainment Holdings, Inc.), Joel
Denton (President of Production and
Distribution, Hallmark Entertainment
Distribution, LLC), Kelly Coogan
Swanson (SVP, Marketing), Beth
Nussbaum (VP, Public Relations),
Torquil Macneal (Senior VP,
Office: R 31.34, Tel: 33.4.92.99.88.85,
Fax: 33.4.92.99.88.88
MARY HIGGINS CLARK MOVIES
RIGAL ENTERTAINMENT
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
37
10.5 (ABC)
Action-Adventure (4 Hour Mini-series)
Cast: Kim Delaney, David Cubitt, Kaley
Cuoco, Beau Bridges
When a series of increasingly powerful
earthquakes start hitting America’s
northwestern coast, a seismologist
concludes that the temblors are related
and will get worse unless they can be
stopped.
FIRST FAMILY: THE REAGANS
(CBS)
Drama (4 Hour Mini-series)
Cast: Judy Davis, James Brolin
From the bright lights of tinseltown to
the Oval Office and the US Presidency,
this is the true story of Ronald Reagan’s
(Emmy and Golden Globe winner James
Brolin) rise to notoriety, celebrity and
world power.
FRANKENSTEIN
Cast: Alec Newman, Luke Goss, Nicole
Lewis, Julie Delpy
Mary Shelley’s immortal novel truly
comes to life in this made-for-television
miniseries, the most elaborate and
chillingly faithful version of her classic
of the macabre.
KING SOLOMON’S MINES
Cast: Patrick Swazye, Alison Doody,
Gavin Hood, Roy Marsden, Ian Roberts
Renowned safari hunter, Allan
Quatermain, is lured back into the
unknown recesses of the African jungles.
HARMONY GOLD
Harmony Gold, 7655 Sunset Blvd., Los
323.851.4900. Fax: 323.851.5599.
sales@harmonygold.com
At MIPCOM: Frank Agrama (Chairman
& CEO), Colleen Morris (President),
Alan Letz (Executive Vice President,
Business Development), Melissa Wohl
(Vice President, Sales and Acquisitions)
Office: R31.28, Tel: 33.4.92.99.8871
GOING DOWN
Comedy (84 minutes)
Starring: Jay Michael Ferguson, Joshua
Blake, Christine Lakin, Hope Riley, Ed
Begley, Jr., Renée Estevez and Dennis
Haskins
A blow-out party, complete with one
trashed house, two buddies, three hot
girls, four dumb jocks, a hooker, a couple
of dead bodies and only three hours to
clean up the mess before mom and dad
return home.
WELCOME TO THE
NEIGHBORHOOD
Suspense-Comedy (89 minutes)
Starring: Anthony Michael Jones, Alicia
Coppola, Michael Cudlitz, Ian Kahn, Tim
Dekay, Brian Palermo, Nicholas
Cascone, Tia Texada, and Kathleen
Wilhoite
An edgy film that revolves around the
inherent challenges of sharing the planet
(or the neighborhood) with people you
wouldn’t choose as friends.
THE DOGWALKER
Drama (98 Minutes)
Starring: Diane Gaidry and Pamela
Gordon
THE DOGWALKER is a poignant,
award-winning film about an abused
young woman, Ellie, fleeing her latest
abusive relationship, and a cynical
dogwalker, Betsy, struggling with her
own dark past.
CRAZY JONES
Drama (94 Minutes)
Starring: Joe Aaron, Francesca Catalano,
Elizabeth Ince, Tess Borden
CRAZY JONES is a story about an
unusual friendship between a 40-year-old
cemetery worker, Finnegan Jones, and a
12 year old girl wise beyond her years,
Syd, who teaches him how to embrace
life.
DIRT
Action-Comedy (98 minutes)
Starring: Michael Covert, Trace Fraim,
Patrick Warburton
DIRT is an offbeat action/comedy about
two simple-hearted brothers, Junior and
Scooter who find themselves ill prepared
for life on their own after their mother
dies.
MOVING ALAN- SHORELINE ENTERTAINMEN, INC
HDH
COMMUNICATIONS
HDH Communications, Via Lusardi, 7,
Milan 20122 Italy. Tel:
0039.02.5830.5949. Fax:
0039.02.5830.9965. hdh@iol.it
At MIPCOM: Mr. Francesco Robatto
(President), Ms. Robi Colangelo
(International Sales & Co-productions),
Ms. Karla Ramirez (Sales Executive),
Ms. Caterina Giobbio (Acquisitions)
Office: G3.11
A CHRISTMAS’ TALE
Animation (30 minutes)
Language: English, Italian
Director: Alessandro Trettenero
Producer: Alessandro Trettenero
Production
Origin: Italy
“...A few people know that in a cold
night in the humble barn of Betlehem
there were two little mice...” And it is
right on Christmas night that Granpa
Mouse will tell his little grandchildren
the story of their adventure.
THE VATICAN
Language: English
Producer: CTV Vatican Television Center
Co-Production Partners: HDH
Communications
Origin: Italy
The official documentary on The Vatican,
a nation as big as a small town. It shows
how The Vatican works and how it can
balance a life between ancient traditions
and complex rituals with our
contemporary reality.
NEW ZEALAND’S CURIOUS
WILDLIFE
Documentary – Nature (4x10 minutes)
Director: English, Italian
Producer: SGI
Origin: Italy
In a continent that has maintained intact
its eco-system, aided by prominent
scientists, we get close to some of the
most curious animals.
NEW ZEALAND, THE LAST EDEN
Documentary – Nature (30 minutes)
Language: English, Italian
Producer: SGI
Origin: Italy
New Zealand is often called “the last
Eden”. Geographical distance has kept
this land uncontaminated throughout
millenniums. This documentary crosses
New Zealand’s regions exposing a
natural beauty that seems a concentrate
of Mother Nature.
THE VENICE ISLES
Language: English, Italian, French,
German
Producer: VIDEOLAB
Origin: Italy
Do you need one more excuse to visit
Venice one more time? Well, the many
little isles surrounding Venice like a
handcrafted lace expose a tightly knitted
reality and a common cultural continuity
between each isle and Venice itself.
HIGH POINT FILMS
AND TELEVISION
High Point Films And Television, 25
Elizabeth Mews, London NW3 4UH, UK.
Tel: 44.20.7586.3686. Fax:
44.20.7586.3117.
www.highpointfilms.co.uk.
sales@highpointfilms.co.uk
At MIPCOM: Carey Fitzgerald
(Managing Director), Ronald de Neef
(CEO), Julie Murphy-Delaney (Director),
Sonja Mendes (International Consultant),
Isabel Pascual (Sales Executive), Andrea
Staerke (Sales and Marketing
Coordinator), Piers Nightingale
(Development Executive)
Office: 18:16 - Palais des Festivals,
Cannes, Tel: 33.04.92.99.81.36
CARLA
Psychological Thriller (1 x 95 mins)
Language: English
Director: Diarmuid Lawrence
Producer: Alison Jackson
Executive Producer: Debbie Shewell
Production Companies: RDF Media in
association with West End Films plc.
Starring: Lesley Sharp, Helen McCrory
A chilling account of how an intense
holiday friendship between two women
leads to a brutal murder. Based on the
acclaimed novel, “Improvising Carla”, by
Joanna Hines.
BELLA BETTIEN
Thriller (1 x 102 mins.)
Language: 60% English, 40% Dutch
Director: Hans Pos
Producer: Hans Pos
Production Companies: Shooting Star
Film Company BV
Starring: Thekla Reuten, Kim Van
Kooten, Vincent Riota
Country of Origin: Netherlands
Based on the incredible true story of
Bettien Martins, an ordinary woman who
rose to become a ruthless drugs baron
and eventually one of the biggest
informers in crime history.
PETER BELL
Family (1 x 110 mins.)
Language: Dutch
Director: Maria Peters
Producers: Dave Schram, Hans Pos
Film Company BV, Filmpool GmBH
The fast-paced adventures of Rotterdam’s
favourite little rascal, Peter Bell is
capable to turn the whole town upside
down with his mischief and charm.
LITTLE CRUMB
Family
Language: Dutch
Director: Maria Peters
Producers: Dave Schram, Hans Pos
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
Film Company
A ten year-old boy, affectionately known
as “Little Crumb”, has made the streets
his home, but longs to be reunited with
the parents that he has never known.
HIT
ENTERTAINMENT
PLC
HIT Entertainment plc, 5th Floor, Maple
House, 149 Tottenham Court Road,
London W1T 7NF UK. Tel:
44207.554.2500. Fax: 44207.388.9321.
www.hitentertainment.com.
sales@hitentertainment.com
At MIPCOM: Names not confirmed at
time of going to press
Office: R34.11
ANGELINA BALLERINA
39 x 15’ (Series 1 & II)
Xmas Special - The Show Must Go On
(1 x 50’)
Follows the adventures of a remarkable
little mouse who dreams of becoming a
prima ballerina.
BARNEY
40 x 30’ (Series 800 & 900)
Entertaining and educating, Barney the
purple dinosaur strikes a chord in the
hearts of his young followers who love
his generous nature and his funny,
appealing ways.
BOB THE BUILDER
26 x10’ (Series IX & X)
Delivery Status: Available February 04
Bob and his team of talking building
machines continue to delight pre-school
audiences worldwide; Special - Knights
of Can A Lot (1 x 50’) Available now, A
Christmas To Remember (1 x 50’)
Available now.
FIREMAN SAM
26 x 10’ (Series V)
Delivery Status: Availability: Episodes 113 = Oct 03 Episodes 14-26 = May 04
Fireman Sam is everybody’s favourite
fire fighter; Series 5 features new
puppetry, great new characters and a new
mountain rescue service complete with
helicopter!
OSWALD
(52 x 15’ or 26 x 30’ )
Oswald, the whimsical blue octopus,
invites us to join him and his pet dog,
Weenie, on further adventures in the Big
City. Created by distinguished children’s
book author and illustrator, Dan
Yaccarino.
London Head
Office Phone
44 207 372 9992
London Head
Office FAX
44 207 372 9993
HOLLYWOOD
CLASSICS
Hollywood Classics, 8 Cleveland
Gardens, London, W2 6HA UK. Tel:
44.20.7262.4646. Fax: 44.20.7262.3242.
www.hollywoodclassics.com. email:
info@hollywoodclassics.com
At MIPCOM: Joe Dreier (Director),
Melanie Tebb (Sales Coordinator), David
Llewellyn-Jones (TV Sales Executive)
Office: H4.35, Tel: 44.774.774.3615
BRIDE OF THE WIND
Drama/biography (99 mins)
Language: English
Director: Bruce Beresford
Producer: Evzen Kolar, Lawrence Levy
Co-Production Partners: Ama UK
Limited, ApolloMedia, Firelight Films
Key Cast: Sarah Wynter, Jonathan Pryce,
Vincent Perez
Origin: UK/Germany/Austria
The story of Alma Schindler who was
the muse of great European artists,
including Gustav Mahler, Oskar
Kokoschka and Walter Gropius.
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
AKA MONTY PYTHON’S AND
NOW FOR SOMETHING
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
Comedy compilation (85 mins)
Language: English
Director: Ian MacNaughton, Terry
Gilliam
Co-Production Partners: Kettledrum
Films, Columbia Pictures Corporation
Producer: Patricia Casey
Key Cast: Graham Chapman, John
Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael
Palin, Terry Gilliam
Origin: UK
Compilation of Monty Python TV
sketches.
GREGORY’S GIRL
Comedy (91 mins)
Director: English
Language: Bill Forsyth
Co-Production Partners: Lake, NFFC,
Scottish Television
Producer: Davina Belling, Clive Parsons
Key Cast: John Gordon Sinclair, Dee
Hepburn, Clare Grogan
Origin: UK
Gregory is infatuated with classmate and
has to work hard to win her.
HOME & GARDEN
TELEVISION (HGTV)
Home & Garden Television (HGTV),
9721 Sherrill Blvd., Knoxville, TN 37932
USA. Tel: 865.694.2700. Fax:
865.690.2253
International Development), Anna G.
Alvord (Manager, International
Development)
Office: R35.06, Tel: 33.04.92.99.89.09
DATE WITH DESIGN
(26 x 22’)
Date with Design is the show where
design taste is the catalyst that brings
two single people together. It’s the only
show that features designing and
decorating on a blind date!
SIGN DESIGN
(13 x 22’)
Sign Design combines the fun of
horoscopes with great home design! This
entertaining series solves decorating
dilemmas using homeowners’
astrological signs.
OUTER SPACES
(26 x 22’)
The crew creates beautiful new
backyards for unsuspecting homeowners.
Each episode is loaded with unique
design ideas and inspiration for outside
spaces large and small, great stories and
lots of fun.
ROCK GARDENS
(1 x 45’)
This story-driven “rock-umentary”
examines the private gardens of
celebrated recording artists. Far from the
stage lights and studios, these rock stars
are regular people, savoring the sunshine
and singing with the birds in their own
backyards.
TOP 10 MOST ROMANTIC
BEDROOMS
(1 x 45’)
It’s the one space where the most
luxurious, inviting, and unusual design
ideas are indulged – the bedroom. Meet
the people who live in these spaces and
hear why they made their design choices.
HORIZON
ENTERTAINMENT
Horizon Entertainment, Suite 205, 1040
Hamilton Street, Vancouver BC Canada
V6B 2R9. Tel: 604 632 1707. Fax: 604
632 1607. www.filmhorizon.com
At MIPCOM: Michael Taverna (Sales
and Acquisitions Executive)
Office: Kadokawa Shoten / Horizon
booth, Cell: 39.349.444.5160.
JAPANESE HORROR ANTHOLOGY
Horror (45-60 min episodes)
Language: Japanese
Directors: various
Producer: Kadokawa Shoten Publishing
Co. Ltd
Chilling feature length horror episodes
from Japan.
JU-ON: THE GRUDGE 2
Horror (92 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Producer: Taka Ichise
Cast: Noriko Sakai, Chiharu Niyama,
Kei Horie, Yui Ichikawa, Shingo
Katsurayama
Budget: $US 3.5 million
The second theatrical sequel in a series
of four horrors about a lethal and
contagious curse originating from a
wrongful angry death.
HALLOW’S END
Horror
Language: English
Director: Jon Keeyes
Producer: Brandon Baker, Richard T.
Carey, Jon Keeyes, and Faras Rabadi
Executive Producers: Robert Straight and
Michael Taverna
Cast: Stephen Cloud, Brandy Little, Amy
Morris, Amy Jo Hearron, Matt Moore
Delivery Status: Post-production
Budget: $US 1.2 million
Country of Origin: (USA)
Trapped inside the haunted house,
students are murdered one by one, only
to come back as the creatures whose
costumes they were wearing.
T.R.Y.
Action Drama
Language: Japanese
Director: Kazuki Omori
Cast: Yuji Oda, Ken Watanabe, Hitomi
Kuroki, Shao Bin, Peter Ho, Yang Rue
Xi, Sohn Chang Min
A swindler, a geisha and a gang of con
men face mounting obstacles to swindle
a Japanese General out of arms needed to
overthrow the Qing Dynasty in 20th
Century Shanghai.
JULY RHAPSODY
Drama (103 minutes)
Language: Chinese (Hong Kong)
Director: Ann Hui
Producer: Derek Yee, Ann Hui
Cast: Jacky Cheung, Anita Mui, Karena
Lam, Shaun Tam
A high school teacher finds himself in an
emotional tailspin when the return of his
wife’s ex-lover coincides with a student
falling in love with him.
HS MEDIA CONSULT
HS Media Consult, Wasenstrasse 29,
Dettenhausen, 72135, Germany. Tel:
0049.7157.620008. Fax:
0049.7157.620009.
heide.schramm@freenet.de
At MIPCOM: Heide Schramm (MD);
Acquisition Executive: Heide Schramm
(MD)
Office: H4.35. Tel: 0049.172.9415939
OUT OF THE COLD
MOONSTONE ENTERTAINMENT
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GSG 9 - GERMANY`S SPECIAL
OPERATIONS UNIT
Language: German, English
Director: Dietmar Noss
Producer: Noss tv und film produktion
Co-production partners: ARD/SR
Origin: Germany
Budget: $100, 000
The only documentary on the legendary
GSG 9 anti- terror unit who became
famous at Mogadishu. Unique material
shows their training, equipment,
recruiting and actual missions.
IAG BARI - BRASS ON FIRE
Director: Ralf Marschalleck
Producer: Umweltfilm GmbH Coproduction partners: ARD
Origin: Germany
Budget: $150 000
One of the last Gyspy brass bands from
Romania, the Fanfare Ciocarlia, sets the
globe on fire with its fascinating music.
SKY MARSHALS
Documentary (45 and 52 min.)
Director: Dietmar Noss
Producer: Noss tv und film produktion
Co-production partners: ARD/SR
Year of Production: 2003 Country of
Origin: Germany
Budget: $80,000
One of the most risky jobs to make
flying secure is the SKY MARSHAL.
Not to let a terrorist suspect on board is
the main duty.
BLIND IN MANHATTAN
Director: Florian Fickel
Producer: floff pictures
Origin: Germany
Budget: $ 100 000
Maren is blind and visits her pen-pal in
New York City. She can explore the
spellbinding “sights” of the metropolis
by emotions, humor and sensitivity.
THE GREATEST ERRORS AND
LEGENDS IN SCIENCE HISTORY
Magazine (52 x 5min.or 13x 25 min.)
Language: German
Director: Holger Douglas
Producer: Douglas Film GmbH
Delivery Status: pre
Year of Production: 2003/04, Country of
Origin: Germany
Budget: $ 200 000
Entertaining series about common myths
in science history, where they come from
and why and what grain of truth there
might be in them.
I
IBC
IBC - International Broadcast
Communications, 8033 Sunset Blvd.,
Suite 935, Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA.
Tel: 323.365.1231. Fax: 323.935.6905.
jhelmrich@earthlink.net
At MIPCOM: Jon Helmrich (President),
Laura Law Ney (Worldwide & Inflight
Sales)
Office: Riviera Village, US Independents
- Stand number R30.18
ON THE SET
Light Entertainment Series (44 x halfhour)
A behind-the-scenes series on films
ranging from big-budget blockbusters to
stunningly original independents.
CINENEWS
Entertainment News Series (52 x halfhour)
A weekly half-hour inside look at the
movie business centered around the
world of movie making.
FAMOUS
Celebrity Documentary/Biography Series
(26 x half-hour)
An in-depth look at Hollywood’s biggest
celebrities and the career steps that have
made them Famous.
HOLLYWOOD FAME & INFAMY
Light Entertainment Series (13 x halfhour)
An irreverent half-hour series tracing the
many links between today’s stars and the
biggest names from past glory days
exploring celebrity scandal and tragedy
from shop-lifting to under-age sex
scandals to just plain misbehaving!
ICON
ENTERTAINMENT
INTERNATIONAL
Icon Entertainment International, The
Quadrangle, 180 Wardour Street, London
W1F 8FX England. Tel:
44(0)20.7494.8100. Fax:
44(0)20.7494.8101. www.iconmovies.net
At MIPCOM: Nick Hill (Chief Executive
Officer UK Icon Group), Simon Crowe
(Head of Sales), Anthony Buckner (TV
Sales Manager), James Norrie (Sales
Manager)
Office: 05.01, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.8049,
Fax: +33(0)4.92.99.8604.
THE YOUNG VISITERS
Period Comedy
Language: English
Director: David Yates
Producer: Christopher Hall
Key Cast: Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie,
Lindsey Marshall, Bill Nighy, Geoffrey
Palmer, Simon Russell-Beale
Delivery Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: England
A charming and hilarious fairytale based
on the best selling book by nine year old
Daisy Ashford, The Young Visitors is an
eccentric love story about getting the
right girl rather than the girl of your
dreams
THE SAFETY OF OBJECTS
Comedy/Drama
Language: English
Director: Rose Troche
Producer: Dorothy Berwin, Christine
Vachon
Key Cast: Glenn Close, Dermot
Mulroney, Jessica Campbell, Patricia
Clarkson, Joshua Jackson, Moira Kelly,
Robert Klein, Timothy Olyphant, Mary
Kay Place
London Head
Office Phone
44 207 372 9992
London Head
Office FAX
44 207 372 9993
LENNY AND TWEEK - JEP PRODUCTIONS
An all star cast, The Safety of Objects
uncovers the lives of four neighbouring
families in suburban America as they
struggle to make honest relationships.
FOYLE’S WAR (TWO SERIES OF
FOUR EPISODES)
Murder Mystery
Director: English
Language: Jeremy Silbertson
Producer: Jill Green, Simon Passmore
Key Cast: Michael Kitchen (Proof of
Life), Honeysuckle Weeks, Anthony
Howell, Julian Ovenden
Country of Origin: England
BAFTA award winning detective murder
mystery series set during World War II
starring Michael Kitchen
THE RECKONING
Medieval Thriller
Language: English
Director: Paul McGuigan
Producer: Caroline Wood
Key Cast: Willem Dafoe, Paul Bettany,
Brian Cox, Gina McKee
In 14th Century England a serial killer is
brutally murdering young children. Only
a disgraced priest and his travelling
companions hold the key to solving these
horrific crimes
THE LUZHIN DEFENCE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Marleen Gorris
Producer: Caroline Wood, Stephen
Evans, Louis Becker, Philippe Guez
Key Cast: John Turturro, Emily Watson,
Geraldine James, Stuart Wilson
Based on the classic novel by Vladimir
Nabokov - an eccentric chess Grand
master travels to the Italian lakes to play
the game of his life and unexpectedly
find the love his life
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. In
Australia: IFM World Releasing Inc.,
2/25 Second Street, Clayton, Victoria
3169, Australia. Tel: 61.3.9515.9249.
Fax: 61.3.9515.9248. www.ifmfilm.com /
ifmfilm@optusnet.com.au
At MIPCOM: Antony I. Ginnane
(President), Anthony J. Lyons (VP
International), David Makhlout (Director
Office: Palais des Festivals, Stand 14.09,
Tel: 33.4.92.99.82.18. Fax: 818.550.9728
OFF THE VINE
Completed Wine / Cooking Series (39 x
24 minutes)
Director: Chris Jenkin
Producers: Chris Jenkin
Cast: Michaela Cantwell / Chris Jarmer /
Stephen John / John Edwards
Country of Origin: Australia
Off the Vine talks to experts in the
Australian wine industry each week
discussing reds, whites and everything in
between.
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
OUT OF THE BLUE
Cooking / Travel Series (6 x 26 minutes
Completed)
Producers: Greg Parker, Yvonne Merendi
Director: Greg Parker
Cast: Michael Keelan and Michael
Angelakis
Out of the Blue will take you to places
few people have seen from the most
pristine fishing grounds in the world,
magnificent marinas that now dot this
beautiful part of the coastline.
THE RISEN
Psychological Thriller (94 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Jeff Beesley
Producer: Gail Tilson
Cast: Alberta Watson, Eugene Lipinski,
Daniel Maslany, Peter Outerbridge,
Helen Shaver
On the operating table, Amanda suffers a
near-death experience. When she
awakens she can’t remember
anything. At home, strange things
occur.
GRIM WEEKEND
Language: English
Director: Bob Willems
Producer: Bob Willems / Ken Hebert
Cast: Ken Hebert, Amanda Watson
Brandon asks a few friends to join him at
his family’s cabin in the country for a
weekend. On the road the four friends
pick up a young female hitchhiker who
scares them.
TURNER AFFAIR
Mystery Thriller (89 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Geoff Cox
Producer: Pascale Cox, Geoff Cox
Cast Rachel Blakely, David Paterson,
David Orth, Peter Kent
David, who runs the family dance
academy, is on his way to meet his wife
Natalie for dinner when he is beaten
senseless by a group of thugs.
IMAGEWORKS
ENTERTAINMENT
INTERNATIONAL,
INC.
Imageworks Entertainment International,
Inc., Warner Center, 6140 Variel Avenue,
Woodland Hills, CA 91367 USA. Te;:
818.716.1670. Fax: 818.716.8004.
www.ImageworksEntertainment.com.
ImageworksEntInt@aol.com
Company Type: International
Distribution, International Production
At MIPCOM: David Shoshan (President,
Sales); Acquisition Executive: David
Shoshan
Office: 01.02, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.82.07.
Fax: 818.716.8004
THE OTHER SIDE OF HEAVEN
Adventure/Drama (113minutes)
Language: English
Director: Mitch Davis
Producer: Gerald R. Molen
Cast: Christopher Gorham, Anne
Hathaway, Joe Folau
Year of Production: 2001, Country Of
Origin: USA
A farm boy from Idaho gets much more
adventure than he bargained for when he
leaves behind the girl of his dreams to
serve as a missionary in the remote
Kingdom of Tonga.
BLUE HILL AVENUE
Action (127 min)
Language: English
Director: Craig Ross, Jr.
Producer: Mike Erwin, Max Kirishima
Executive Producers: Mark Holdom,
David Shoshan, Richard Pepin
Cast: Allen Payne, William Forsythe,
Clarence Williams III
Origin: USA
As kids, the streets of Boston made them
lifelong friends; As men, it made them
gangsters
THE 4TH TENOR
Comedy (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Harry Basil
Producer: Joseph Merhi
Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, Robert Davi,
Charles Fleischer
Delivery STATUS: Completed
Origin: USA
A restaurant owner(Dangerfield) falls in
love with an opera singer and, desperate
to impress her, travels to Italy to learn
how to sing.
THE BOX
Language: English
Director: Richard Pepin
Producer: David Shoshan, Richard Pepin
Cast: James Russo, Theresa Russell,
Brad Dourif, Steve Railsback, Jon Polito,
Michael Rooker
Origin: USA
A reformed prisoner falls in love with a
woman upon his release; together they
find THE BOX which leads to a web of
suspense and terror.
KISS THE BRIDE
Drama (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Vanessa Parise
Producer: David Shoshan, Richard Pepin
Co-Production Partners: Jordan Gertner
Cast: Amanda Detmer, Sean Patrick
Flanery, Alyssa Milano, Brooke Langton,
Monet Mazur, Johnathon Schaech,
Vanessa Parise, Talia Shire, Burt Young,
Johnny Whitworth.
Origin: USA
Three radically different sisters return
home for the wedding of their traditional
sister, to find themselves in constant
struggle for love and validation.
INDIGO
Indigo, 116 Great Portland Street,
London, W1W 6PJ United Kingdom. Tel:
44.20.7612.1700. Fax: 44.20.7612.1705.
www.indigofilm.com,
info@indigofilm.com
At MIPCOM: Paul Shields (Chairman),
David Lawley (Managing Director: ),
Emma Collin (Sales Manager), Solange
Ribeiro (Sales Manager), Oi Yee Wong
(Sales Executive)
Office: R34.10, Tel: 33.4.92.99.88.14
VALENTIN
Theatrical Film (83 mins)
Language: Spanish
Director: Alejandro Agresti
Producer: Laurens Geels
Key Cast: Carmen Maura, Rodrigo
Noya. Julieta Cardinale, Jean Pierre
Noher, Mex Urtizberea, Alejandro
Agresti, Carlos Roffe
Origin: Argentina
Humorous and touching account of an 8year old boy, raised by a philandering
father and bitter grandmother who tries
to solve the problems of his
dysfunctional family while pursuing his
own dream to become an astronaut.
TOM & THOMAS
Family movie (106 mins)
Language: English
Director: Esmé Lammers
Producer: Laurens Geels/Dick Maas
Key Cast: Sean Bean, Inday Ba and
introducing Aaron Johnson
Origin: Netherlands
Identical twins Tom and Thomas were
separated at birth and unaware of each
other’s existence, meet by chance nine
years later, but Tom is in trouble and
needs his brother’s help.
BRADY’S BEASTS
HOW TO CARE FOR YOUR
MONSTER
Animated series (52 x 13 mins)
Director: English
Co-Production Partners: Vivatoon,
Treehouse Productions
Producer: Toon Factory
of Origin: Canada, France, Italy
Modern comedy in which traditional pets
are replaced by Monsters - after all,
gerbils and goldfish are so passé!
TOBY THE PRINCE OF WHALES
Animated series (26 x half hours)
Language: English
Producer: Comet Entertainment
Year of Production: 2003/4, Country of
Origin: Canada
Toby is an ordinary young whale, loved
by family and friends, however, when he
is sleeping, Toby’s dreams carry him
around the world on an urgent mission to
stop the evil Dream Eater from
destroying the environment.
HOTLINES
Glamorous adventure show (13 x 30
mins)
Language: English
Director: Scott Gurney
Co-Production Partners: Michael Berk,
Steve Ecclesine
Producer: FM Productions
Key Cast: Girls from Baywatch and
celebrity appearances to be confirmed
Origin: US
Hotlines travels around the globe visiting
the hottest resorts, enjoying the wild
nightlife, drinking in the local culture
and experiencing adrenaline packed
extreme adventure activities that will
take your breath away and leave you
wanting more!
J
JANSON MEDIA
Janson Media, 88 Semmens Road,
Harrington Park, New Jersey USA
07640. Tel: 201.784.8488.
Fax: 201.784.3993. www.janson.com.
tvsales@janson.com
Company Type: Distributor, Producer
At MIPCOM: Stephen Janson
(President), Zara Janson (Vice President),
Lynne Warshavsky (Manager,
Administration), Barbara Weissenbeck
(Sales Executive)
Office: R30.18, Tel: 492.99.8806
ARMED & INNOCENT
Documentary (18’)
Language: English
Origin: USA
This compelling short film, narrated by
Robert DeNiro, shares the personal
experiences of child soldiers in war-torn
countries such Angola, Columbia,
Lebanon, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Sudan
and Uganda.
B-17 FLYING LEGEND
Language: English
Origin: USA
This new documentary examines the
importance of WWII’s most famous
airplane and raises awareness about the
importance of keeping the remaining B17s flying for generations to come.
NATRAL DISASTER
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GOTHAM TV
Language: English
Year of Production: 2002-2003 Country
of Origin: USA
Segments from this weekly magazinestyle series, produced by New York’s
Metro TV, are now available for
production companies creating magazine
series for their own local broadcasters.
VENICE BEACH: LOST AND
FOUND
Language: English
Origin: USA
This engaging documentary takes an
affectionate look at the past and present
of Southern California’s most colorful
beach community through the eyes of
many residents.
DISCOVERIES.SPAIN
Travel (7 x 60’)
Language: English
of Origin: USA
This seven-hour HDTV series explores
the diversity of Spain’s people, history,
architecture, and landscapes.
JEP PRODUCTIONS
JEP Productions, Schillerstr. 6, 50968
Köln, Germany. Tel: 49.221.934745-0.
Fax: 49.221.934745-11. ege@jepnolf.de
At MIPCOM: Juergen Egenolf
(managing director); Acquisition
Executive: Juergen Egenolf
Office: Marketplace booth, Tel:
49.170.3162210
LENNY AND TWEEK
Animation, pre school (26 x 5 min)
Language: German / English
Director: Theo Kerp
Producer: Jürgen Egenolf
Co-Produciton partners: WDR
Cast: animation
Delivery Status: Pilot completed, series
in production
Origin: Germany
“LENNY AND TWEEK: Fun and
philosophy in five minutes!
CENTIPEDE!
SHORELINE ENTERTAINMENT
RUSTY THE KNIGHT
Animation, Christmas Special (28 min)
Language: German
Director: Dietmar Kremer
Producer: Jürgen Egenolf
Co-Produciton partners: WDR
Origin: Germany
When RUSTY is in need, his friends are
friends indeed.
K
KEYSTONE
ENTERTAINMENT
INC.
Keystone Entertainment Inc., 23410
Civic Center Way, Suite E-9, Malibu,
310.317.4883. Fax: 310.317.4903.
films@keypics.com
At MIPCOM: Romana Danicova (VP
International Sales – cell: 310.980.2027)
Office: #01.02, Tel: 33.04.92.99.82.07
SPYMATE
Family (87 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Robert Vince
Producer: Robert Vince, Anna McRoberts
Cast: Chris Potter, Emma Roberts,
Richard Kind, Pat Morita
Country of Origin: Canada, Year of
Production: 2003
Minkey, the highly trained super spy
chimp, must team up with his ex-partner
Mike in this high action comedy to
rescue Mike’s daughter from the clutches
of the evil Dr. Farley.
CHESTNUT
Family
Language: English
Producer: Robert Vince, Anna McRoberts
Production 2003
Sal is a happy little girl living in your
average New York City apartment with a
loving family and a Great Dane that no
one but Sal knows about!
AIR BUD: SPIKES BACK!
Family (90 minutes)
Language: English
Producers: Robert Vince & Anna
McRoberts
Cast: Katija Pevec, Jake Smith, Tyler
Boissonnault, Cynthia Stevenson, Edie
McClurg
Delivery status: Completed International Release July 24, 2003
Production: 2002
The fifth in this highly successful
franchise! Buddy and Andrea hit the
beach for some volleyball!
MXP: MOST EXTREME PRIMATE
Family (90 minutes)
Language: English
McRoberts
Cast: Devin Drewitz, Gwynth Walsh,
Rob Tinkler, Ian Bagg
Delivery Status: International Release
Date - Late Fall 2003
Production: 2002
He was the Most Valuable Primate on the
ice in MVP1. He brought skateboarding
to new heights as the Most Vertical
Primate in MVP2 and now Jack’s off to
the slopes in Utah for his most extreme
adventure yet!
AIR BUD 6
Family
Language: English
McRoberts
Delivery Status: Development
Production: 2003
Buddy’s eager to try his paw at Rugby.
KIDDINX MEDIA AG
Kiddinx Media AG, Lahnstrasse 21,
Berlin, 12055, Germany. Tel:
49.30.689.72.0. Fax: 49.30.689.72.125.
www.kiddinx.tv. media@kiddinx.de.
At MIPCOM: Andrea Bannert-Drooff
(Director TV and Merchandising)
Office: Screening our tapes at MIPCOM
Junior videolibrary, no booth at
MIPCOM this year
BENJAMIN THE ELEPHANT
Children animation (52 x 26 minutes)
Language: Benjamin the Elephant
English and German; Bibi Blocksberg:
German
Director: Karsten Kiilerich
Producer: Kiddinx Studios GmbH; Coproduction partners: A-Film Copenhagen
Origin: Germany
Benjamin the Elephant: Benjamin is a
lovable talking Elephant. In exciting
adventures he explores the world for
children. His stories combine fantasy and
reality, excitement and familiarity, the
daily life of the contemporary child and
heavenly adventures.
BIBI BLOCKSBERG
Children animation (15 x 27 minutes)
Language: German
Producer: Kiddinx Studios GmbH; Coproduction partners: A-Film Copenhagen
Origin: Germany
Bibi is lovable, cheeky and smart.
Completely normal, really, but who can
actually perform witchcraft. Every now
and then, Bibi´s attempts to use her spells
to solve everyday problems or injustices
have some surprise effects.
KOAN INC
Koan Inc, 2860 Sackett Drive, Park City,
UT 84098 USA. Tel: 435.645.7244. Fax:
435.645.8644. www.koaninc.com,
sales@koaninc.com
At MIPCOM: Gil Aglaure (President),
Devin Carter (Director: of Sales), Roger
Bird (Acquisitions Manager)
Office: G3.12, Tel: 334.9299.8327
STERLING: THE SECRET OF THE
LOST MEDALLION
www.sterling-themovie.com
Family Adventure (82 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Clayton Miller
Producer: Mark Kurchak, Alyssa Forhan
Key Cast: Bradley Dorsey, Chris
Ebeling, Misty Lockheart, Lora E.
Keady, Jon Brown, Benny Costanza,
David Norris
Origin: USA
An old journal leads a group of friends
on an adventure to find a legendary
medallion believed to have belonged to
the Biblical King Solomon of Israel.
L
LAKESHORE
INTERNATIONAL
Lakeshore International, 5555 Melrose
Avenue, Gloria Swanson Bldg. 4th Floor,
Hollywood, California 90038, USA. Tel:
323.956.4222. Fax: 323.862.1456. email:
info@lakeshoreentertainment.com. Web:
www.lakeshoreentertainment.com
At MIPCOM: Julie McLaughlin (Vice
President, Worldwide Television Sales),
Elisabeth Costa de Beauregard (Director,
Office: 07.08, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.8096
MAYOR OF SUNSET STRIP
Feature Documentary (94 Minutes)
Cast: Rodney Bingenheimer, David
Bowie, Cher, Mick Jagger, Alice Cooper,
Courtney Love, Gwen Stefani, Paul
McCartney, Keanu Reeves, Neil Young,
Beck, Tori Amos, Joan Jet, Sonny Bono
This emotional documentary follows the
remarkable life of Rodney Bingenheimer,
a trend setting Los Angeles Disc Jockey,
who for the last 27 years helped launch
the careers of Van Halen, No Doubt,
Blondie, Billy Idol and Coldplay.
ENTRUSTED
Drama (1 x 120 Minutes-Movie Version)
(4 x 60 Minutes-Mini-Series Version)
European Co-Production: ARD:
Germany, Mediaset: Italy, TF1: France
Cast: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Klaus
Maria Brandauer, Thomas Sangster,
Stephen Moyer, Claire Keim
One woman’s compelling story to
extradite the Jews from Nazi France, by
using funds secretly deposited into Swiss
Bank Accounts.
JUST A KISS
Romantic Comedy (1 x 98 MinutesFeature film)
Cast: Marisa Tomei, Kyra Sedgwick, Ron
Eldard, Marley Shelton, Taye Diggs
An innocent kiss is more than best
friends can handle when infidelity
becomes a comic adventure into the dark
side of modern relationships.
WWW.THEBUSINESSOFFILM.COM
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
LANGBEIN &
SKALNIK MEDIA
GMBH & CO KEG
Langbein & Skalnik Media GmbH & CO
KEG, Spittelberggasse 3/13, Vienna,
1070 Austria. Tel: 43.1.5353696. Fax:
43.1.5353696.9. Website: www.langbeinskalnik.com email:
b.weissenbeck@langbein-skalnik.com
At MIPCOM: Kurt LANGBEIN
(Managing Director), Barbara
WEISSENBECK (Production Manager)
Office: H 4.35, Tel: 43.664.320.3753,
Fax: 43.1.5353696.9
FREAK WAVES
of Origin: Austria
Director: Kurt LANGBEIN, Andreas
LASCHOBER
Producer: Kurt Langbein
Budget: EUR 186.000
There are only few who saw them and
are still alive: eyewitnesses who escaped
the force of the giant waves are telling
their story.
HIGHWAYS - AN ASPHALT MYTH
Producer: Kurt LANGBEIN
Origin: Austria
Takes the viewer on an episode-filled trip
around the globe. In addition to some
breathtaking highway constructions and
landscapes, each episode features people
whose lives have been influenced by
highways in many different ways.
PERMAFROST
Director: German, English
Producer: Kurt Langbein
Origin: Austria
In large areas of the north and high up in
the mountains eternal frost holds earth
and rock together. As a result of global
warming, the frozen earth is now
becoming active.
LIBERTY
INTERNATIONAL
ENTERTAINMENT
INC.
Liberty International Entertainment Inc.,
1990 Westwood Boulevard Penthouse,
Los Angeles, California 90025 USA. Tel:
310.474.4456. Fax: 310.474.7455.
www.libertyinteractive.com.
admin@libertyinteractive.com
Company Type: Distributor; Also Buying
At MIPCOM: Randy Naft (President),
Irv Holender (Chairman)
Office: 13.30, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.8142
THE LOST WORLD
1999 ( 66 x 60 Minute Series)
Language: English
Cast: Peter McCauley, Michael
Sinelnikoff, David Orth, Rachel Blakely,
William Snow, and Jennifer O’Dell
The expedition team is forced to escape a
tribal attack in a hot air balloon, which
crashes, on the eerie plateau of The Lost
World.
KITARO (MUSICAL EVENT)
8 Musical Concerts
Cast: Kitaro
Eight Special event concerts, featuring
extraordinary Japanese musician Kitaro
and his ensemble as they perform all
over the world.
SKID ROW
Musical Event (90 Minute)
Language: English
Director: Various
Cast: Rachel Bolan, Johnny Solinger,
Snake, Phil Varone, Scotti Hill
SKID ROW one the hottest music groups
in the 80’s/90’s roars back into the
limelight with this remarkable DVD
chronicling the making of their new
release “THICKSKIN” featuring 11
songs.
THAT’S BLACK ENTERTAINMENT
Documentary Special (4 x 60 Minute)
Language: English
Director: Various
Producer: Five Star Productions
Cast: Hosted by - Mario Van Peebles
Each compelling installment presents a
rare, unique look into performances,
many not seen since their original
release, of famous Black entertainers.
RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD
1999 Series (13 x 60 Minute)
Language: English
Director: Various
Cast: Narrated by Ben Kingsley
An exploration of the history of the
world through the development of
religious beliefs.
LOOKS
MEDIENPRODUKTIO
NEN GMBH
LOOKS Medienproduktionen GmbH,
Haedgestr. 23, Rostock, 18057 Germany.
Tel: 49.381.20.30.611. Fax:
49.381.20.30.610. www.looksfilm.tv,
dedio@looksfilm.tv
At MIPCOM: Gunnar Dedio
Office: H4.35, Tel: 49.171.19.37.196
VOLKS VACATION - HILTER’S
SEASIDE RESORT FOR 20,000
Language: German
Director: Steffen Schneider
Producer: Gunnar Dedio/Erik Loetsch LOOKS
Co-Production Partners: Greenspace
Productions
Budget: 250,000
Origin: Germany
A film about the colossal and mysterious
ruins of Hitler’s never finished project of
a seaside resort for 20,000 on the Baltic
Sea.
CHECKMATE - THE
SUPERPOWERS BEHIND THE
ROMANIAN REVOLUTION
Director: Susanne Brandstaetter
Budget: 350,000
Origin: Germany
A new and unusual way of looking at the
game of international political intrigue,
including the role it played in German
reunification and the downfall of the
Soviet Empire.
WAR REQUIEM IN PEENMÜNDE
Documentary (52 / 80 min)
Director: German, English
Language: Joerg Herrmann
Budget: 150,000
Origin: Germany
Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem on the
60th anniversary of the first successful
launch of an A4 (V2) rocket in
Peenmuende.
M
M6 DROITS
AUDIOVISUELS
M6 Droits Audiovisuels, 89 avenue
Charles de Gaulle, 92575 Neuilly sur
Seine cedex, France. Tel:
33.1.41.92.68.66. Fax: 33.1.41.92.68.69.
www.m6da.com
At MIPCOM: Caroline Mougey (Head of
TV sales), Christine Hodanger (Sales
Executive)
Office: M6 24.02, Tel: 33.4.92.99.80.98
A/ PART OF THE COLLECTION
REBEL YEARS
TV Movies (13 x 90’)
CLARA’S SUMMER
Language: French
Director: Patrick Grandperret
Producers: Nicole Flipo
Cast: Selma Brook, Stéphanie
Sokolinski, Salomé Stevenin, Bastien
Catenacci
Clara and her best friend Zoe are about
to go off on summer camp away from
their parents. This is their chance at long
last to make love with a boy!
LOVE ON THE RUN
Language: French
Director: Steve Suissa
Producers: Hervé Chabalier, Claude
Chelli
Cast: Nicolas Cazale, Jennifer Decker,
Bruno Wolkowitch, Pierre-Olivier
Mornas
Simon and Noemie are 18 and 16. Barely
out of childhood and already plunged in
the ruthless world of adults.
B/ PART OF THE COLLECTION
THRILLERS
TV Movies (51 x 90’)
THE SHADOW WOMAN
Language: French
Director: Gérard Cuq
Producers: Denis Karvil and Pierre
Roitfeld
Cast: Sophie Broustal, Olivier Pagès,
Grégory Fitoussi, Valérie Sibilia
Carole and her daughter Alice drive to
town, they hit a woman on a motorcycle.
Carole takes her to the hospital. But
when Carole returns to her car, her
daughter is missing.
GUILDY AS SIN
Language: French
Director: Philippe Monpontet
Producers: Denis Karvil and Pierre
Roitfeld
Cast: Delphine Rollin, Cédric Chevalme,
Vincent Lecoeur
The murder of Beatrice, a promising
young pianist, appears to be part of a
sinister plot.
MONIQUE
Feature Film (90’)
Language: French
Director: Valérie Guignabodet
Produced by: Pan Européenne
Cast: Albert Dupontel, Marianne
Denicourt
BLIZZARD - FIRST LOOK MEDIA
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
43
She has a gorgeous body, she’s always
available, she never has headaches, never
cries or gets depressed: her name is
MONIQUE and she’s going to turn
Claire and Alex’s life upside down.
LITTLE KINDS OF THE WORLD
Documentary Series (3 x 26’)
Sayed the mover boy – India
Language: French
Director: Alexandra Riguet
Producer: Tony Comiti Production
Sayed is twelve years old. In 1999 he
lived in the South of India but ran away
from home after quarrelling with his
parents; he came to Hyderabad by
chance.
MAINLINE
RELEASING
Mainline Releasing, 301 Arizona Ave,
Suite # 401 Santa Monica, CA 90402
USA. Tel: 310.255.1200. Fax:
310.255.1201.
www.mainlinereleasing.com.
info@mainlinereleasing.com
At MIPCOM: Rich Goldberg (President),
Tannaz Anisi (Vice President,
International Sales), Jenn Thomas
(Director, International Sales)
Office: 03.02, Tel: 334.9299.8225
THE CACTUS KID ** NEW &
COMPLETED**
Family (90 min)
Director: Don Ashley
Producer: Don Ashley, Kevin Candido,
Daniel Wulkan
Cast: William R. Moses, Thomas Curtis,
Christine Elise, Mike Starr, Randy Travis
A dying boy’s last wish is granted by his
very best friend who happens to be his
police officer father, even though the
adventure calls for a daring daylight bank
robbery, in the tradition of the young
boy’s comic book idol, The Cactus Kid.
THE ADVENTURE OF THE LOST
TREASURE ** NEW &
COMPLETED**
Family (90 min)
Director: Dan T. Hall
Producer: Dan T. Hall
Cast: Molly Hall, Abbey McAllsiter,
EXTREME CLOSE UP
MOONSTONE ENTERTAINMENT
Caleb Ely, Alex Ruppert
Country of Origin: 2003
Molly’s young life is thrown into turmoil
when she is faced with moving away
from her best friends after her mother
dies.
BIKE SQUAD II ** NEW &
COMPLETED**
Family (87 min)
Director: Robert Sperra
Producer: Michael Feifer
Cast: Daniel Massey, Danni Goldman,
Robert Pierce, Erica Shaffer
A group of kids that call themselves ‘The
Bike Squad’, during their summer
vacation, take it upon themselves to save
the local park from a corporate
developer.
SIMPLE REVENGE
Thriller (90 mins)
Director: Brian Averill
Producer: Josh Eggleston
Cast: Frank Avoleita, Mellissa Picarello,
Holly Perkins, Anne Hawthorne, Andrew
Garman
A psychological thriller where nothing is
as it appears. A woman denied a
promotion kills her boss, frames the
husband and all the while turning the
tables on the police.
JACK THE DOG
Comedy/Drama (90 min)
Director: Bobby Roth
Producer: Bobby Roth, Jeff White
Cast: Nestor Carbonell, Barbara
Williams, Andrew F. Ferchland, Peter
Coyote, Anthony Paglia, Jurgen
Prochnow
A love story about a womanizer who
discovers true love. Unfortunately, that
often ends in pain, but the child of that
union can sometimes be the most perfect
love of all.
WINE TELEVISION
Lifestyle/Travel/Leisure & Food (30 min)
Language: English
Producer: Canoe Productions Coproduction partners:
Origin: Canada
A polished series about all there is to
know about a fine glass of wine.
STONE UNDERCOVER (AKA TOM
STONE)
Drama/Thriller (60 min)
Language: English
Producer: Alberta Filmworks Inc./
Visionlane Distribution Inc.
Origin: Canada
The story of a Calgary ex-cop, ex-rig
worker and ex-con who gets recruited to
work undercover for RCMP Corporal
Marina Di Luzio, a commercial crime
specialist from Toronto
THE SIVANANDA YOGA VIDEO
Well being/Lifestyle (63 min)
Language: English
Producer: Nague/Francis Productions
of Origin: USA
This video presents all the fundamental
aspects of Yoda including expert
instruction of the 12 basic Yoga postures,
breathing and relaxation techniques
ROCKTHOLOGY
Music and Entertainment (60 min)
Language: English
Producer: John House - VME
Year of Production: mid 1990s, Country
of Origin: USA
A collection of the Best of Rock,
including Hard Rock, Heavel Metal, and
Alternative Rock. Exclusive in-depth
interviews, featuring music videos and
concert performances.
MAR VISTA
ENTERTAINMENT
MARCO POLO FILM
AG
Mar Vista Entertainment, 12519 Venice
Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90066, USA. Tel:
310.737.0950. Fax: 310.737.9115.
www.marvista.net. info@marvista.net
At MIPCOM: Joseph Szew
(President/CEO), Michael Jacobs
(President of Production and
Distribution), Mar Gaya (Managing
Director, Mar Vista Europe), Fernando
Szew (Managing Director), George Port
(Head of Business Development)
Office: 09.06
CRAWFORD’S CORNER
Animation series (5 mins)
Language: English
Producer: Perennial Pictures Film
Corporation
Origin: USA
Aimed at preschoolers, Crawford the
green cat promotes positive values by
giving simple lessons on personal,
practical and social skills
Marco Polo Film AG, Reichardtstr. 10,
Halle/Saale, 06114 Germany. Tel:
49(0).345.523.593.24. Fax:
49(0).345.523.593.29. www.marco-polofilm.de, info@marco-polo-film.de
At MIPCOM: Annette Scheurich (Head
of Development), Klaus Scheurich
(CEO), Rudolph Herzog (Executive
Producer)
Office: Marketplace, Tel:
46.160.15.236.15
STREET MAGIC
Language: English
Director: Rudolph Herzog
Producer: Annette Scheurich
Co-Production Partners: Windfall Films
ltd
Key Cast: Jeff Sheridan
Budget: US$ 250.000
Origin: Germany
Jeff Sheridan, the uncontested father of
modern-day street magic, takes us to see
the eye-popping miracles of traditional
tricksters in New York, in Delhi, and in
the bustling market of Marrakech. (trailer
available)
THE CAT AND THE CHARIOT
Wildlife Documentary (53 min.)
Language: German and English
Director: Gerhardt Thiel
Producer: Klaus Scheurich
Co-Production Partners: NDR
Budget: available on request
of Origin: Germany
follows the chronology of wildlife films,
starting with the silent era and following
the path of time right up to the present.
FANTASTIC SEA CREATURES
Wildlife Documentary (24x5 min.)
Director: English, German
Co-Production Partners: Sunburnt
Pictures
Origin: Germany/Australia
High Class Under Water Short Films
telling astonishing stories of the
dangerous, bizarre and wonderful sea
creatures.
FRUIT BATS- ON THE WINGS OF
THE NIGHT
Wildlife Documentary (53 min.)
Director: Larry Zetlin
Co-Production Partners: ZDF, Gulliver
Media Australia
Key Cast: Wiruungga
Budget: 350.000 US$
Origin: Germany/Australia
Exploring the astounding similarities
between one of the worlds biggest bat
colonies and the surrounding human
suburbs.
WILD EUROPEANS
Wildlife Documentary (3 x 53 min.)
Language: German/English
Producer: Annette Scheurich
Budget: US$ 700.000
Origin: Germany
In spring 2003, Europe’s governments
vowed to stop the rapid loss of the
continent’s biodiversity within 7 years.
This 3 x 53 min. series introduces the
incredible species richness that is at stake
MDC-INT GMBH
mdc-int GmbH, Schillerstr. 7 A, Berlin,
10625 Germany. Tel: 49.30.264.979.00.
Fax: 49.30.264.979.10. www.mdc-int.de,
info@mdc-int.de
At MIPCOM: Wigbert Moschall (Chief
Executive), Barbora Ondrejcakova (Head
of Sales)
Office:
CARTOUCHE
Animation series (23 minutes)
Language: English/German
Director: Xavier Giacommetti
Producer: Marc De Ponatvice, Odile
Limousin, Michaela Rothmund
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
Budget: 6.500.000,00 Euro
Origin: Germany/France
Stealing from the rich to case the burden
of the poor, Cartouche and his
honourable outlaws brave danger sword
in breathtaking duels and fiery fights.
DIE WISENDETEKTIVE (AKA THE
MEADOW SHOW)
Animations Series
Language: German/English
Director: Ralf Kukula
Producer: Grit Wißkirchen
Budget: 750.000,00 Euro
Origin: Germany
“Life on our summer meadow is terribly
boring”, the meadow-residents
complained about and wished to move
far away.
FICKENDE FISCHE (AKA DO FISH
DO IT?)
www.fickendefische.de
Teeny Drama (105 minutes)
Director: German with english subtitles
Language: Almut Getto
Producer: Icon Film, Ott Film
Key Cast: Tino Mewes, Sophie Regall,
Angelika Milster, Jörgen Toukel, Annette
Uhlen, Manuel Cortez, Matthias Zelic,
Ferdinand Dox, Ellen Ten Damme,
Suzanne Vogolt, Veit Stuoner
Origin: Germany
Jan likes Shakespeare, water and fish.
Nina loves inline skates, cars and
brigthly died hair. Jan loves Nina. Nina
loves Jan. But.
REZERVNI DELI (AKA SPARE
PARTS)
Drama (87 minutes)
Language: Slovenian with german and
english subtitles
Director: Damjan Kozole
Producer: Danjel Hocevar
Key Cast: Peter Musevski, Aljosa
Kovacic, Primoz Petkovsek, Valter
Dragan, Aleksandra Balmazovic,
Vladimir Vlaskalic, Verica Nedeska
Origin: Slovenia
Two men between humanism and
Europe.
ROSEN, DORNEN UND TRÄUME
(AKA SWANG SONG)
Documentary Film (58 minutes)
Language: Russian with german/english
subtitles
Director: Tatiana Yankina and Ralf
Brings
Co-Production Partners:
Producer: Tobia Büchner
Budget: 350.000,00 Euro
Origin: Russia
This house is their last great stage, a
place of commitment, of passionate
feeelings, of longing and of dreams.
They know all too well that death only
comes when one ceases to perform.
MEDIA LUNA
ENTERTAINMENT
Media Luna Entertainment,
Hochstadenstrasse 1-3, Cologne, D50674 Germany. Tel: 49.221.1392222.
Fax: 49.221.1392224. www.medialunaentertainment.de. info@medialunaentertainment.de
At MIPCOM: Ida Martins (Managing
Director), Andrew Chang (Sales
Manager)
Office: 18.15, Tel: 8070, Fax:
49.221.1392224
ELEPHANT HEART
(ELEFANTENHERZ)
Drama (100 min.)
Language: German (English subtitles)
Director: Züli Aladag
Producer: Cameo Films
Key Cast: Daniel Brühl, Manfred
Zapatka,Jochen Nickel, Angelika Bartsch
Origin: Germany
Once you’re in, you gotta win. Marco
had been born into a world that never
really left him much of a chance.
JAGODA IN THE SUPERMARKET
(AKAJAGODA U
SUPERMARKETU)
Comedy (82 min.)
Language: Serbian (English subtitles)
Director: Dusan Milic
Producer: Emir Kustirika
Co-Production Partners: Pegasos,
Fandango, Network Movie, ZDF/Arte
Key Cast: Branka Katic, Srdjan
Todorovic, Dubravka Mijatovic, Danilo
Lazovic
Origin: Serbia/Germany/Italy
Branka Katic plays Jagoda
(“Strawberry”) a checkout girl at the
brand-new “Yugo-American”
supermarket in some unnamed Serbian
town.
THREE DAYS OF RAIN
Drama (93 min.)
Language: English
Director: Michael Meredith
Producer: Bill Stockton, Bob Casserly
Key Cast: Don Meredith, Michael
Santoro, Joey Bilow, Peter Falk
Origin: US
Three wet days in Cleveland, Ohio.
Michael Meredith’s debut as a Director:
is a film inspired by six short stories by
Anton Chekov, portraying everyday
conflicts in the lives of ordinary people.
MARIA
Drama
Language: Romanian/English, French
and Russia(english subtitles)
Director: Peter Calin Netzer
Producer: Pandora Film, Cine
Manufacture, Artis Film.
Key Cast: Diana Dumbrava, Horatiu
Malaele, Serban Ionescu, Luminitia
Gheorghiu, Rona Hartner
Origin: Romania
Maria is a film that presents a destiny. In
a desperate situation, a woman chooses
prostitution as a last-ditch solution to
fend for her children.
BONJOUR MONSIEUR SHLOMI
Comedy (94 min)
Language: Jewish (English subtitles)
Director: Shemi Zarhin
Producer: Evanstone Films
Key Cast: Oshri Cohen, Arie Elias, Esti
Zakhem, Aya Koren
Origin: Israel
A heartening family comedy, a surprising
love story that focuses on the captivating
character of one boy.
MEGAFILMS.NET
Megafilms.net, 66, avenue des champs
elysees, Paris, 75008 France. Tel:
33.388.312.310. Fax: 33.388.312.311.
www.megafilms.net,
francois.barraud@megafilms.net
At MIPCOM: Francois Barraud (TV
Sales Manager)
Office: Marketplace H4.35, Tel:
33.663.425.914, Fax: 33.492.998.597
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Feature Film / Thriller (95’)
Language: English
Producer: Another Dimension of an Idea
Co-Production Partners: Rinkel Films Samsa Films - 8 1/2 Films
Budget: 6 000 000$
Origin: Belgium
When “Shallow Grave” meets “The
Whole Nine Yards”!
WORD GAMES
Animation fillers (100 x 1’)
Language: No voice only actions!
Director: Bruno Collet
Co-Production Partners: JPL Films
Producer: Vivement Lundi!
Budget: 800 000$
Origin: France
Three as funny as crazy characters race
through a supermarket to play the role of
a given- word. The entertainment version
focuses action when the edutainment
version becomes a foreign Language:
vocabulary learning program
YELLOW JACKET (LA TÊTE DANS
LE GUIDON)
Animation / Sport (26 x 1’30”)
Language: Bruno Collet
Producer: Vivement Lundi
Budget: 250 000$
Origin: France
Small cycling toys we were playing with
kids are back alive on the beach to run
famous cycling themes and funny
situations.
R.I.P. (REPOSE EN PAIX)
Animation / Thriller (26 x 1’30”)
Language: No dialogue only action!
Director: Bruno Collet
Producer: Vivement Lundi !
Budget: 300 000$
Origin: France
Night after night, a killer breaks in his
apartment to murder his roommate.
However, R.I.P is more likely a serial
loser than a serial killer… The “Road
Runner” Thriller !
SAFETY COWS (LES VACHES À
RESCOUSSE)
Animation / Young Adults (26 x 2’)
Language: No dialogue only action!
Director: François Roux
Producer: 8 1/2 Films
Budget: 75 000$
Origin: France
A weird world in which Cows always
happen to rescue people in trouble!
HOWARD FAST, BEING RED
Documentary - Arts / Politics (52’ and
44’)
Language: English
Director: Richard Hamon
Producer: Vivement Lundi !
Key Cast: Howard Melvin Fast
Budget: 120 000$
Origin: France
The story of the writer of “Spartacus”
and many other best-sellers, an American
Communist who struggled US
Capitalism with his arts over the 20th
Century.
MIKE YOUNG
PRODUCTIONS
Mike Young Productions, 20335 Ventura
Blvd., Suite 225, Woodland Hills, CA
91364 USA. Tel: 818.999.0062. Fax:
818.999.0172.
At MIPCOM: Mike Young
(partner/producer), Liz Young
(partner/producer), Bill Schultz
(partner/producer), Regis Brown (vice
president, international distribution)
Office: R34.14
JAKERS! THE ADVENTURES OF
PIGGLEY WINKS
Fantasy-adventure Children’s CGI
animation 4-7 year olds (40 x 22
minutes)
Produced by: Entara Ltd. and Mike
Young Productions
Follows the adventures of Piggley, a
spunky eight-year-old pig, and his
friends Dannan the Duck and Ferny the
Bull on Raloo Farm in Ireland. While the
intrepid trio are enjoying their escapades,
American transplant Wiley the Sheep
(voiced by Mel Brooks) is busy offering
wild and woolly advice to his all-toosheepish flock.
DIVE OLLY DIVE!
Children’s CGI animation, preschool
Fantasy and bathtime fun (52 x 11
minutes)
Produced by: Mike Young Productions
Dive into excitement with Olly the
Submarine, and his friends, for an ocean
of magical deep-sea adventure and
learning.
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PET ALIEN
3D, CGI animation for 6-11 year olds
Fantasy-adventure (26 x 22 minutes)
Goofy aliens from another dimension
take up unwanted residence in ten-yearold Tommy’s home. “Tex Avery meets
SpongeBob in 3D, CGI.”
HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF
THE UNIVERSE
2D animation for 6-12 year-olds Actionadventure (39 x 22 minutes)
The mighty warrior of legend returns to
do battle with his arch enemy Skeletor
and his evil minions.
TEEN COUNSELORS
2D animation, 12-17 year olds Comedy
(26 x 22 minutes)
Created by Kelly Ward, Cliff
MacGillivray and David Feiss for MTV,
Teen Counseling is an animated sit-com
described as “Breakfast Club Meets
Clueless.”
MODERN
ENTERTAINMENT,
LTD.
Modern Entertainment, LTD., 16255
Ventura Blvd., Suite 1100, Encino,
California 91436, USA. Tel:
818.386.0444. Fax: 818.728.8294.
kdubow@mtgla.com
At MIPCOM: Allyson Hall (VP,
International Sales), Leah Durston
(Marks) (Director, International Sales);
Acquisition Executive: Ken DuBow
(Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales)
Office: AFMA Stand #01.02, Tel:
33.04.92.99.82.07
EDITH PIAF, HER STORY.HER
SONGS, STARRING RAQUEL
BITTON
Language: English
Director: George Elder
Producer: George Elder/Gerald Prolman
Cast: Raquel Bitton
Budget: $1 million
A tribute to Edith Piaf through the power,
passion & awe-inspiring voice of Raquel
Bitton.
SHIRA - THE VAMPIRE SAMURAI
Action/Adventure (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Simon & Jeff Centauri
Producer: Jeff Centauri
Cast: Chona Jason, Adrian Zmed, James
Lew
Half Human, Half Vampire. A woman
between two worlds.
CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES
Drama (88 min.)
Language: English
Director: Eric Byler
Producer: Marc Ambrose
Cast: Michael Idemoto, Jacqueline Kim,
Eugenia Yuan
Budget: $500,000
A triangle of friendship, love and
deception tangles the lives of an auto
mechanic and the two women in his life.
TEDDY BEARS’ PICNIC
Comedy (0 min.)
Language: English
Director: Harry Shearer
Producer: Marc Ambrose
Cast: Michael McKean, Fred Willard,
Morgan Fairchild
THE SLEEPOVER CLUB - SOUTHERN STAR SALES
Budget: $2 million
For fifty-one weeks a year, they run the
country. For one week, they run amok.
LIQUID BRIDGE
Action/Adventure (103 min.)
Language: English
Director: Phil Avalon
Producer: Phil Avalon
Cast: Ryan Kwanten, Simone Kessell,
Jeremy Sims
Budget: $3 million
A young man attempting to become a
professional surfer faces drug-smuggling
and his own fears.
MONSTER
DISTRIBUTES
Monster Distributes, The Monster Mews,
Rear 51 Merrion Square, Dublin,
Ireland. Tel: 353.1.6114934. Fax:
353.1.6114935.
www.monsterdistributes.com
At MIPCOM: Andrew Fitzpatrick
(Chairman), Deirdre Barry (Vice
President of Sales and Acquisitions),
Susan Broe (Producer)
Office: The Marketplace, H4.35
DOMINATOR
CGI Animation
Language: English
Director: Alan Grant
Producer: Tony Luke
Cast: Doug Bradley (Hellraiser), Dani
Filth (Cradle of Filth)
Origin: UK
The UK’s first full-length CGI movie,
Dominator is a fusion of heavy metal
rock and Manga animation.
PLANET ROCK PROFILES
Music Documentary Series (90 x 30
mins)
Language: English, German, Italian,
French (subtitled)
Director: Susan Broe
Producer: Susan Broe
Cast: Artists including Kylie Minogue,
Pink, Sting, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom
Jones
Origin: Ireland
Planet Rock Profiles is the world’s
leading music artist profile series.
HARVIE KRUMPET
(30 mins)
Language: English, French subtitles
Director: Adam Elliot
Producer: Adam Elliot
Cast: Geoffrey Rush
A triple award winner at ANNECY,
Harvie Krumpet is the biography of an
ordinary man seemingly cursed with bad
luck.
WHY?
(52 x 2 mins)
Language: English, Italian, Arabic,
French
Director: Cathal Gaffney
Producer: Daragh O’Connell
Origin: Ireland
An animated series aimed at pre-school
children. Why? explains how things work
in a simple and colorful way.
GIVE UPYER AUL SINS
(7 x 5 mins)
Language: English, Swedish and Italian
subtitles
Director: Cathal Gaffney
Producer: Daragh O’Connell
Origin: Ireland
An animated series including the original
Oscar-nominated short, Give Up Yer Aul
Sins is based upon the 1960s recordings
of young children telling Bible stories in
a classroom to their teacher.
MOONSTONE
ENTERTAINMENT
Moonstone Entertainment, P.O. Box
7400, Studio City, CA 91614 USA. Tel:
818.985.3003. Fax: 818.985.3009.
At MIPCOM: Mr. Ernst “Etchie” Stroh
Office: 01.02 (AFMA Stand), Tel:
04.92.99.82.07
EXTREME CLOSE UP
Thriller
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Producers: Geoff Garrett, Sean S.
Cunningham
Principal Cast: Sarah Chalke, C. Thomas
Howell, Jay Michael Ferguson
Status: Completed
Cntry of Origin: U.S.A.
A reality TV show gets a boost in ratings
when a mysterious “accident” claims one
of the cast. As one member after another
is murdered, the show takes reality to an
EXTREME.
OUT OF THE COLD
Drama
Director: Sasha Buravsky
Producers: Roee Sharon, Leonid
Zagalsky
Principal Cast: Keith Carradine,
Mercedes Ruehl, Mia Kirshner, Brian
Dennehy, Bronson Pinchot, Kim Hunter
Status: completed
Cntry of Origin: USA / Estonia
Caught between the Soviets and the
Nazis, an American entertainer and an
Estonian woman fall in love, only to be
are torn apart by war and prejudice.
T HE B USINESS
OF F ILM ’ S
home on
the internet.
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
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
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.
THE REAL DEAL
Producers: Michael C. Cuddy, Jai Stefan
Comedy/Thriller
Director: Tom Burruss
Principal Cast: Daniel Baldwin, Angie
Everhart, Michael Madsen, Lillio
Brancato, Costas Mandylor
Status: completed
When an assistant to a high powered
Hollywood Producer is cut out of a deal
he orchestrates, he decides to head his
bosses advice and find his “killer
instinct”!
CHILDREN ON THEIR BIRTHDAYS
Drama
Director: Mark Medoff
Producers: Ginger T. Perkins, William J.
Immerman
Principal Cast: Sheryl Lee, Christopher
MacDonald, Joe Pichler, Tania
Raymonde, Jesse Plemons, and Tom
Arnold
Status: completed
Cntry of Origin: USA
Sometimes extraordinary things happen
in the most ordinary places: A precocious
13-year-old girl steps off the five o’clock
bus and a small sleepy town is startled
into a new awareness.
MORGAN CREEK
INTERNATIONAL
Morgan Creek International, 4000
Warner Boulevard, Building 76,
Burbank, California 91522 USA. Tel:
818.954.4800. Fax: 818.954.4990.
www.morgancreek.com
At MIPCOM: Howard Kaplan (CFO),
Jonathan Deckter (VP International)
Office: Majestic Hotel, Tel:
33(0)4.929.87700
ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF
THEIVES
Action (2:22:57)
Language: English
Production: Completed
Cast: Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman,
Christian Slater
Origin: United States
Robin Hood: the infamous swashbuckler
who was cloaked in obscurity, but set
free a kingdom.
ACE VENTURA
Comedy (1:29:47)
Language: English
Cast: Jim Carrey
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. He’s the best
there is. In fact, he’s the only one there
is.
LAST OF THE MOHICANS
Action (1:51:43)
Language: English
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine
Stowe
Based on the novel by James Fenimore
Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
follows the life of one brave man’s
struggle through the complex war
between the English, the French and their
respective Indian allies.
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FILM TITLES AND TV SERIES
MOVER SHAKER
INTERNATIONAL
LTD.
Mover Shaker International Ltd., 47
Uxbridge Road, Stanmore, Middlesex,
HA7 3LH United Kingdom. Tel:
44.20.8621.3464. Fax: 44.20.8931.4744.
www.mover-shaker.com, info@movershaker.com
At MIPCOM: Dawn Morton (Joint
Managing Director), Mandy Payne (Joint
Managing Director)
Office: Mover Shaker International, Tel:
33(0)4.94.39.22.81. Fax:
33(0)4.94.39.22.82
STAND TALL (AKA THE BEST OF
THE BEATLES)
Music Documentary (2 x 52 mins)
Language: English
Director: Geoff Wonfor
Producer Cath Buchanan, Alan
Humphries, Chad Marshall & Konweiser
Bros.
Key Cast: Pete Best
Origin: England
A story about surviving a public
nightmare - Pete Best’s story, throwing
new light on early years of the greatest
group ever - a story of human spirit,
youth, friendship and healing.
ROSES REVEALED
Observational Documentary (50 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Mike Chamberlain
Producer Trish Emery
Origin: UK
Observing the quirkiness and colouful
nature of Irish culture, revealing the ups
and downs of a hugely competitive
competion to find the girl who is ‘The
Rose Of Tralee’!
MOTHER OF ALL BABES (AKA
JANE BIRKIN’S DOCUMENTARY)
Director: English
Language: Gabrielle Crawford
Producer Gabrielle Crawford
Origin: England
Gabrielle Crawford, Jane’s best friend,
has been given unlimited access to Jane’s
private archive, allowing access to
footage which could only be obtained by
such a close friendship.
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WHO KILLED MY KIRSTY (AKA
KIRSTY MCCOLL
DOCUMENTARY)
Language: English
Director: Robin Bextor
Origin: UK
Two years ago whilst on holiday in
Mexico, Kirsty was killed in a horrific
boating accident - her tries to piece
together just exactly what
happened...why the killer remains free
MYRIAD PICTURES
Myriad Pictures, 405 S. Beverly Drive,
5th Floor, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 USA.
Tel: 310.279.4000. Fax: 310.279.4001.
At MIPCOM: Eric Christenson
(Executive Vice President, Sales and
Distribution), Mary Herne (Senior Vice
President, Worldwide Television), Alice
Weston (Sales Executive)
Office: Stand 20.02, Palais Des Festivals,
Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.8298. Fax:
33(0)4.92.59.0212.
A FOREIGN AFFAIR
Romantic Comedy (82 minutes)
Director: Helmut Schleppi
Cast: David Arquette, Tim Blake Nelson,
Emily Mortimer
Status: Completed
When their doting mother passes away,
two small-town American vegetable
farmers join a “romance tour” to Russia
in search of a wife to take care of them
both.
PORN ‘N CHICKEN
Comedy (87 minutes)
Director: Lawrence Trilling
Cast: Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Angela
Goethals, Alex Burns, Josh Pais
Status: Completed
Comedy Central’s first original movie based on a true story about Yale’s Porn ‘n
Chicken Club- an underground club that
ultimately tests the backbone of this Ivy
League institution.
WHAT I WANT MY WORDS TO DO
TO YOU: VOICES FROM INSIDE A
WOMEN’S MAXIMUM SECURITY
PRISON.
Directors: Dyanna Taylor and Paul
Gibson
Cast: Eve Ensler, and featuring Glenn
Close, Rosie Perez, and Marisa Tomei
Status: Completed
A poignant documentary, set in a New
York correctional facility, playwright Eve
Ensler (“The Vagina Monologues”) leads
women convicts on a journey to purge
their hearts and minds of the most
horrific crimes imaginable.
HOME ROOM
Drama (129 minutes)
Director: Paul F. Ryan
Cast: Erika Christensen, Busy Philipps,
Victor Garber
Status: Completed
Two girls form an unlikely friendship in
the aftermath of a high school shooting; a
friendship tested by grief, fear and
ultimately, doubt.
HILDEGARDE
Family Adventure (88 minutes)
Director: Di Drew
Cast: Richard E. Grant, Tom Long, Tara
Morice, Sam Geer, Dayne Hudson,
Gezelle Byrnes
Status: Completed
When bird smugglers abduct their
beloved pet duck Hildegarde, it is up to
Christopher, Isabel and Jeremy to save
the day.
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NBC ENTERPRISES
NBC Enterprises, 3400 West Olive Ave,
Suite 600, Burbank, CA 91505 USA. Tel:
818.526.6905. New York, 30 Rockefeller
Plaza, New York, NY, 10012 USA. Tel:
212.664.5511.
At MIPCOM: Ed Wilson (President),
Jerry Petry (Ex. Vice President, NBC
Enterprises), Leslie Jones (Director,
International Sales), Fred Cohen
(Consultant), Mara Jacobberger
(Director, Marketing), Steve Reich
(Associate, International Sales)
Office: 38.09 Espace Riviera
AVERAGE JOE
Format and U.S. episodes (12 x 60)
available
Women often say they want true love that looks don’t matter and what a man
has on the inside is what counts. NBC’s
new reality program, Average Joe, will
put this theory to the test.
STARTING OVER
available in select territories
Will follow an ever-changing group of
diverse and captivating women as they
attempt to make extraordinary changes in
their lives - all while living under the
same roof.
QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT
GUY
available
The summer’s biggest hit and the
media’s darling, Queer Eye for the
Straight Guy takes a stylistically
challenged straight guy and transforms
him into a hip and happening
Renaissance man.
FOR LOVE OR MONEY
Format and U.S. episodes (2 x 120 and 4
x 60) available
NBC’s newest drama is all real – a single
man looking for one true love among 15
handpicked gorgeous women - all of
whom share the same secret: the woman
he chooses wins $1 million!
FOR LOVE OR MONEY 2
Format and U.S. episodes (7 x 60 and 1 x
120) available
After the huge success of For Love or
Money, NBC doubled the love – and the
money.
NDRL EIGA
NDRL Eiga, 12, quai Papacino, 06300
Nice, France. Tel: 33.4.93.01.96.55. Fax:
+1.240.331.7196. ndrl1@wanadoo.fr
At MIPCOM: Renaud Lombart, Nathalie
Delin; Acquisition Executive: Renaud
Lombart
Office: H4-35 (Media), Tel:
33.6.13.25.84.63. Fax: 240.331.7196.
AMAZING JAPAN!
Light Entertainment (21 x 3min)
Language: Japanese/English scripts
Director: Renaud Lombart/Nathalie Delin
Producer: NDRL Eiga
Delivery Status: 21 eps completed + 10
in preprod.
of Origin: France
The most eccentric Japanese clips:
NEW!!! Dog sommelier, a woman who
can guess 170 breeds just by licking
dog’s noses... Rice sommelier, Vibrating
condoms, Ice cream for dogs,...
NEW DOMINION
PICTURES
New Dominion Pictures, 1000 Film Way,
Suffolk, VA 23434, USA. Tel:
757.923.1300. Fax: 757.923.1340.
www.newdominion.com
At MIPCOM: Tom Naughton (Executive
President & CEO), Nicolas Valcour
(Executive Vice President & COO),
Kristen Eppley (Head of International
Sales & Distribution)
Office: 14.28, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.8087
THE NEW DETECTIVES
Documentary/Reenactment (103 x 60
minutes)
The New Detectives profiles the work of
world-renowned forensics experts and
criminal investigators and the techniques
they use to solve murders and other
crimes.
THE FBI FILES
Documentary/Reenactment (90 x 60
minutes)
Whether it handles bullets or bombs,
fingerprints or fibers, the FBI takes on
tough cases, grappling with fraud, drug
trafficking, kidnapping and murder,
extortion and terrorism.
CRITICAL RESCUE
Documentary/Dramatic Reenactment (14
x 60 minutes)
These are the true stories of emergency
rescue and medical teams who battle
impossible odds, risking everything to
save lives.
NAVY SEALS: THE UNTOLD
STORIES
Docu-Drama (7 x 60 minutes)
Based on first-person accounts, this
extraordinary mini-series captures the
danger and emotion of seven actual,
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classified SEAL missions.
GHOST STORIES
Drama (44 x 30 minutes)
Unrequited love. Abiding fear. Infinite
vengeance. Unfinished business.
Sometimes the dead return.Ghost Stories:
the stuff that screams are made of.
NONSTOP SALES AB
Nonstop Sales AB, Döbelnsgatan 24, SE113 52 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel:
46(0)8.673.99.80. Fax: 46(0)8.673.99.88.
www.nonstopsales.net.
info@nonstopsales.net
Company Type: International sales
agents
At MIPCOM: CG Anderson (C.E.O,),
Michael Werner (Sales Director –
Mobile: 46.70.733.28.55), Karin Thun
(Sales Coordinator – Mobile:
46.704.16.99.89)
Office: Media Stand number H4.35,
located on the 4th and 5th floor. The
Marketplace/MEDIA Reception Desk
Fax: 33.4.92.99.85.97
BUDDY
Love/ drama Comedy (100 min)
Language: Norwegian, Subtitles: Yes
Director: Morten Tyldum
Producer: Knut Jensen, Gudny
Hummelvoll
Prod. Comp: Happy Endings AS
Cast: Nicolai Cleve Broch, Aksel
Hennie, Anders Baasmo Christensen
Status: Completed
Country: Norway, Year: 2002
Buddy is a story about honesty,
responsibility and to suddenly discover
that your wild twenties are over.
MIFFO
Love/ drama Comedy (100 min)
Language: Swedish
Director: Daniel Lind-Lagerlöf
Producer: Daniel Lind-Lagerlöf
Prod. Comp: Sonet Films
Cast: Jonas Karlsson, Livia Millhagen,
Ingvar Hirdwall
Status: Completed
Country: Sweden, Year: 2003
A newly graduated church minister
unexpectedly encounters love at work. A
romantic comedy about taking the risk of
falling in love in what ever shape it
comes.
EMMA & DANIEL -THE MEETING
(ORIG. TITLE: EMMA OCH
DANIEL -MÖTET)
Young teenage Drama (80 min)
Language: Swedish, Subtitles: Yes
Director: Ingela Magner
Producer: Lennart Dunér, Peter
Kropenin, Ilkka Matila
Prod. Comp: Sonet Films
Cast: Maria Gidlöf, Stasse Soulis, Örjan
Landström and Marie Richardson
Status: Completed
Emma and Daniel thought they could
manage alone but when they faced fear
the only thing they had was each other.
MAKE BELIEVE (ORIGINAL
TITLE: KOMMER DU MED MIG
DÅ?)
Drama (105 min)
Language: Swedish, Subtitles: Yes
Director: Kjell Grede
Producer: Katinka Faragó
Prod. Comp: Sandrew Metronome
Cast: Tuva Novotny, Shanti Roney, Örjan
Ramberg
Status: Completed
Theodor and Paula grew up together but
now live totally different lives; he holds
on to the old world, she is a part of the
new. But for how long can two people
love each other, without knowing it.
CATALOGUE
We would also like to mention our
catalogue of with 600 titles, our new
Sucksdorf-film library and very
interesting war-documentaries that we
have in our stock.
NU IMAGE /
MILLENNIUM FILMS
Nu Image / Millennium Films, 6423
Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles,
310.388.6900, Fax: 310.388.6901.
nimage@msn.com
At MIPCOM: Danny Dimbort (CoChairman & CEO), Carole DeLosSantos
(V.P. International)
Office: 20.15, Tel: 334.92.99.82.70
CONTROL
Action/Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Cast: Ray Liotta, Willem Dafoe,
Michelle Rodriguez, Stephen Rea
Status: Production
Origin: USA
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.
DIRECT ACTION
Action/Drama (90min)
Language: English
Cast: Dolph Lundgren
Origin: USA
His fellow police officers hunt Frank
Gannon, a veteran cop, after they learn
he has betrayed the fellowship and
exposed wide scale corruption of the
LAPD to the Feds.
CREATURE
Sci Fi / Action (90min)
Language: English
Cast: John Savage, Nathan Perez, David
Kallaway, James Marshall, Michelle
Goh, Mel Stewart, and Martin Kove
Status: Post - Production
Origin: USA
In a secret high-tech government
laboratory, a military experiment goes
wrong, unleashing a 5000-year-old
creature with the potential to destroy the
world.
TARGET OF OPPORTUNITY
Action /Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Cast: Dean Cochran, Todd Jensen
Status: Post - Production
Origin: USA
An ex-CIA operative breaks his best
friend (who is a suspected arms dealer)
out of prison. Together they stop the
detonation of a nuclear “dirty bomb.”
SKELETONMAN
Horror (90 min)
Language: English
Cast: Michael Rooker, Casper Van Dien
Status: Production
Origin: USA
An unknown predator goes on a killing
spree in an ancient Indian burial ground.
Now, a Special Forces team joins with
elite female ops and goes undercover in
search of it.
O
O2C
o2c, 12718 Short Avenue, Los Angeles,
CA 90066 USA. Tel: 310.301.9101. Fax:
928.438.2544. www.o2c.us.
sales@o2c.us
At MIPCOM: Dorothy Crompton, Jeff
Houser
Office: O3.21, Tel 04.92.99.81.46
WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?
Non-Fiction/ Entertainment Reality (4 x
60 Minutes)
The strange, the bizarre, the unexpected,
fascinating secrets, wacky places,
medical oddities, strange animals and
amazing discoveries which will have
viewers asking - Would You Believe It?
MAN HUNT
Non-Fiction / Lifestyle Reality (90
Minutes)
An unflinching and humorous look at a
year in the life of three different, 30
something bachelorettes in search of a
man!
SAILING CENTER
Non-Fiction / Lifestyle Sports (13 x 30
Minutes)
A thrilling lifestyle series based on
sailing themes demonstrating that sailing
is a fun, exciting, lifetime sport for all
types of people.
OASIS
INTERNATIONAL
Oasis International, 6 Pardee Ave, Suite
103, Toronto, Canada M6K 3H5. Tel:
416.588.6821. Fax: 416.588.7276.
www.oasisinternational.com.
info@oasisinternational.com.
Company Type: Distribution
At MIPCOM: Peter Emerson (President),
Valerie Cabrera (Executive VP), Steve
Murphy (VP, Sales and Acquisitions),
Prentiss Holman (Sales Executive)
Office: 26.02, Tel: 8002
HEY JOEL!
Animated Series (2003) (13 x 30 min)
Language: English
Producer: Blueprint Entertainment
Starring the voices of: John Cryer (Pretty
in Pink), Kevin Tierney (The Hunger),
Daphne Rubin Vega (Spin City) and
Nancy Giles (Star Wars: Episode one)
Somehow Joel Stein has been given his
own celebrity talk show. The problem is
he has been given his own talk show.
MRS. ASHBORO’S CAT
Family (90 min)
Language: English
Producer: Shaftesbury Films
Cast: Michael Ontkean (Twin Peaks),
Shirley Knight (Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood) Ellen Page (Marion
Bridge)
When a father and daughter move into a
new house they begin to suspect that
they might not be the only ones living
there! The ghost of the previous owner’s
cat seems to have stayed behind.
CORNERED
Mafia Drama (90min)
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.
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LORD HAVE MERCY!
Comedy series
Language: English
Producer: Leda Serene Films
“Side splitting”, “Hilarious”, “Finally
something unique!” Critics are raving
about the latest series from Oasis
International. Not your typical sitcom,
Lord Have Mercy makes even the
greatest cynic into a die-hard fan.
HEMINGWAY VS. CALLAGHAN
Mini-series (2 x 90 min)
Language: English
Producer: Shaftesbury Productions
Cast: Vincent Walsh (Random Passage)
Robin Dunne (American Psycho 2)
Gordon Pinsent (Shipping News) Maury
Chaykin (Nero Wolfe) and Ada Turturro
(The Sopranos)
Based on “That Summer in Paris” this
exciting new mini-series explores the
early career of Ernest Hemingway.
OHM:TV GMBH
ohm:tv GmbH, Albertusstrasse 45, D50667 Cologne, Germany. Tel:
49.221.7591455. Fax: 49.221.7591456.
www.ohmtv.com. sales@ohmtv.com
At MIPCOM: Hans Spielthenner
(Managing Director - Format
Development and Acquisition), Joris
Eckelkamp (Managing Director International Sales)
Office: H4.35 (Media), Tel: Mobile
(Hans Spielthenner) 43.650.864.5908.
Mobile (Joris Eckelkamp)
49.172.929.5499
PETEY AND JAYDEE GO
EXPLORING
Animation Filler (52 x 45 seconds)
Language: No dialogue
Director: Rachael Perry
Producer: Momentum Animations
Status: Completed
Meet Petey and Jaydee, two ferocious
little aliens with an insatiable curiosity.
Off on a voyage of discovery they land
wherever something appeals to their
overly inquisitive nature.
THAT’S ART FOR YOU
Format, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Arts
(Various x half hours)
Language: Various
Status: Finished format
Country of Origin: Belgium
In each show our host and expert
introduces a world famous painting,
followed by a short analysis of the artist
and the technology used.
THE ADVENTURES OF BRO’SIS
Animation, Music, Event (13 x half
hours)
Language: English, German
Director: Boris Kifelicki
Producer: Tresor TV Produktions GmbH
Status: Available
Country of Origin: Germany
Bro’Sis, a successful pop band with a
double life as secret agents, have to
protect the world from a psychotic
madman who tries to win over the world.
TREASURE HUNT
Format, Life Style, Game Show (Half
hour)
Language: Various
Director: Denise Keniston
Producer: TVS & Maine
Communications Network
Status: On air
Country of Origin: US
One massive Outdoor Antique Market,
two determined teams and 150 Euros in
cash. Which team will be able to
purchase the greatest bargains within a
one-hour time limit and walk away with
the big prize?
CULTURE QUEST
Format, Game Show (Half hour)
Language: various
Producer: TVS, Dogfish Entertainment
Status: On air
Country of Origin: US
Welcome to “Culture Quest”! A Game
Show created to educate, appreciate and
have fun with the differences in customs
and cultures of everyday people all over
the world. What better way to embrace
our differences than with humour?
ONE31 MEDIA
One31 Media, Radclyffe House, 66
Hagley Road, Birmingham B16 8PF
United Kingdom. Tel: 44.121.248.5131.
Fax: 44.121.248.2175.
info@one31media.com
At MIPCOM: Kieran Leahy, (Director,
One31 Media), Manoj Bhardwaj
(Director, One31 Media), John Bullivant
(Co-Producer, and MD Kickback Media)
Office: Tel: Kieran Leahy
44.7771.502263, Manoj Bhardwaj
44.7771.502252, John Bullivant
44.7770.381028
BC BATTLERS™
Animation (52 x 26 min)
Language: English
Co-production Partners: One31 Media
and Kickback Media
origin: United Kingdom
Budget: $300k per episode
Followed by a malevolent force known
as Caledon, BC Battlers and Telepathic
humanoids, both highly developed
mutated life forms escape to the planet
earth in the ultimate fight for survival!
OVC MEDIA
OVC Media, 88 Berkley Court, Baker
Street, London, NW1 5ND England. Tel:
44(0).207.402.9111. Fax:
44(0).207.723.3064. ovcmedia.co.uk,
eliot@ovcmedia.com
At MIPCOM: Joanne Goldring Cohen
(Chairman), Eliot Cohen (Managing
Director)
Office: Tel: 44(0).7831.109666
AFRICAN ODYSSEY
Wildlife (13 x 30min)
Language: English
Director: Robin Taylor
Origin: England
A photographers journey through Africa.
THE OLYMPICS: THE FIRST 100
YEARS
Sport (75 min)
Language: English
Origin: England
A celebration of the first 100 years of the
modern Olympic games.
GREAT WOMEN OF THE
OLYMPICS.
Sport (60 min)
Director: English
Origin: England
A look into the lifestyle and training of
the worlds leading female athletes.
THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
CUP
Sport (60 min)
Language: English
Key Cast: Gareth Hunt
Origin: England
Going back to footballs humble
beginnings we follow the sports
development and transformation into the
phenomenon it is today.
EXTREME BLOOPERS
Sport (60 min)
Origin: England
Language: English
An entertaining programme of bloopers
including some painful and often
embarrassing mistakes from the world of
extreme sports.
P
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)20.7434.4179.
www.parkentertainment.com,
sales@parkentertainment.com
At MIPCOM: Jim Howell (CEO), Simon
Barnes (Head of Film Sales), Patricia
Kershaw (Television Sales Director),
David Llewellyn-Jones (Television Sales
Executive)
Office: R31.11, Tel. 33(0)4.92.99.8830.
Fax. 33(0)4.92.99.62.82
IN MY CORNER’ ANGELO
DUNDEE: A BOXING LEGEND
Documentary (60 minutes )
The life of one of boxing’s most
influential coaches.
THE LOST WORLD 4
Action Adventure TV Series (22 x 1 hour
episodes)
At the dawn of the 20th Century the
survivors of a daring scientific expedition
continue their search for an escape route
from a mysterious plateau forgotten by
time and where dinosaurs reign.
PEPPERMINT ASIA
SDN BHD
peppermint Asia Sdn Bhd, D309, Block
D, Phileo Damansara 1, No. 9 Jalan
16/11 Petaling Jaya, 46350 Malaysia.
Tel: 603.76653133. Fax: 603.76653233.
www.seepeppermint.com, email:
mail@seepeppermint.com
At MIPCOM: Patrick Keller (Director),
Oliver Rollar (International Sales
Manager), Audrey Woon (Event Manager
Peppermint Asia), Elena Faggiano
(Management Assistant Peppermint
Asia), Arwed-Ralf Grenzbach (Managing
Director: Peppermint International)
Office: Tel: 33.(0)4.92.99.83.21.
BOOHBAH - RAGDOLL LTD
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
TARZAN: THE EPIC ADVENTURES
Action Adventure (22 x 45 minutes)
Language: English
Producer: Keller Siegel Entertainment
Key Cast: Joe Lara as Tarzan
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures marks the
emergence of the original Tarzan - as
envisioned by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
WICKED SCIENCE
Comedy Series (26 x Half Hours)
Director: Grant Brown, Richard Jasek
Co-Production Partners: Jonathan M.
Shiff Production, Network Ten, ZDF &
ZDF Enterprises
Key Cast: Bridget Neval, Andre de
Vanny, Brook Sykes, Saska Burmeister,
and others
When an accident in the school
laboratory leaves them exposed to secret
rays Elisabeth and Toby are left with
‘scientific’ super-powers.
PILOT & TV
PRODUCTIONS LTD
Pilot & TV Productions Ltd, The Old
Studio, # 18 Middle Row, London W10
5AT United Kingdom. Tel:
44.20.8960.2771. Fax: 44.20.8960.2721.
www.pilotguides.com,
info@pilotguides.com
At MIPCOM: Mr. Ian Cross (Managing
Director), Mrs. Lucy Hockey (Sales
Executive), Miss Maud Nahmias
(Marketing and PR Executive)
Office: 16.25, Tel: 44.7880.707.294
IAN WRIGHT LIVE
Travel Comedy (13 x 26 min)
Language: English
Co-Production Partners: THA, OLN
Key Cast: Ian Wright
Origin: United Kingdom / Canada
Crazy traveller, Ian Wright, hosts this
comedy travel series which looks at life
on the road including embarrassing
moments, love disasters and worst hotels.
BAZAAR
Travel Documentary (6 x 26 min)
Origin: UK
Language: English
Producer Executive Producer: Ian Cross
Key Cast: Katie Comer
Our stylish traveller, Katie Comer,
samples the shopping, hotels, restaurants,
design and architecture of six world
cities including Miami, Rio de Janeiro,
Florence and Marrakesh.
PILOT GLOBE GUIDES
Director: English
Origin: UK
A month-by-month guide to what’s on in
the world including tips on where to
witness the best festivals, take in a trek
or find a great beach. Also includes a
Mardi Gras Special.
ADVENTURE GOLF
Travel & Sport Documentary (6 x 26
min)
Language: English
Origin: UK
Our golfing traveller visits four top
courses in France, Portugal, Spain,
Scotland, Ireland and Japan and samples
sight seeing adventures between rounds.
THE PILOT HOUR
Language: English
Origin: UK
The first in a series of branded blocks
taking in a whole range of travel
experiences which will also include
themed Pilot Nights, Pilot Days and Pilot
Weekends.
PLAYBOY TV
INTERNATIONAL
Playboy TV International, 2706 Media
Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90065,
USA. Tel: 323.276.4000. Fax:
323.276.4500. www.ptviorignals.com
At MIPCOM: Mark Rudolph (Managing
Director), William Campbell (Managing
Director UK), Isabelle Mitsch (VP of
International Sales), David Porter (Sales
Director); Acquisition Executive:
William Campbell
Office: Hotel Majestic, Suite #755, Tel:
04.92.98.77.00
7 LIVES XPOSED III
Language: English
Delivery Status: Post-production
Origin: USA
In this reality-style program, you’ll join
seven twentysomethings living in a loft
under the watchful lenses of cameras that
broadcast live to the Internet.
TOTALLY BUSTED
Language: English
Origin: USA
Real people, hidden cameras, and
sexually-charged situations make for
hilarious and sexy reality TV.
MAKING IT BIG
Language: English
Origin: UK
A pre-selected group of guys and group
of girls are pitted against each other to
make an adult movie to match the high
standards of Playboy TV.
PLAYBOY’S HIP HOP & ROCK
Special (146 min.)
Language: English
Origin: USA
See your favorite rap and rock stars,
beautiful Playmates and exotic models
get wild in the photo studio! Features Ja
Rule, Xzibit, DMX, Korn, Disturbed, and
Tommy Lee.
VINYL DOLLS
Movie (90 min.)
Language: English
Origin: USA
On the verge of success, an all-girl rock
band is torn apart by personal
differences, late nights, and life on the
road. But do they really have what it
takes to make it big?
POINT ALVIN LTD
Point Alvin Ltd, Maurinkatu 2, Helsinki
00170 Finland. Tel: 358.9.5622123. Fax:
358.9.5622.125. www.pointalvin.com,
tom@pointalvin.com
At MIPCOM: Mr. Tom Carpelan (CEO)
Office: H4.35, Tel: 358.40.7250318.
DIGITAL GOLF SCHOOL BY
SIMON HOLMES
Instructional (150 min)
Dutch, Swedish, Finnish
Director: Ere Kokkonen
Producer: Point Alvin Ltd
Key Cast: Simon Holmes
Origin: Finland
Probably the most complete Golf lesson
in the World using all the benefits of the
DVD technique.
GOLF STRATEGIES WITH
ROBERT KARLSSON & SIMON
HOLMES
Instructional (about 165 min)
Language: English
Director: Simon Holmes
Producer: Point Alvin Ltd
Key Cast: Robert Karlsson , Simon
Holmes
Origin: Finland
“The best golfers are those who hit
longest”. Wrong! Excelling in golf has
very little to do with hitting hard. It is
knowing where you are going, and how
to get there.
Production company / producer: POINT
DU JOUR / Luc Martin-Gousset
origin: France
One cannot assess JFK’s presidency,
without taking into account Robert
Kennedy’s profound influence. In truth,
it was Bob who came to symbolize the
hopes of the nation until his own violent
death in 1968.
CE QUE SAVAIT JACKIE (WHAT
JACKIE KNEW)
Documentary tv documentary contemporary history (55 min.)
Original Language of production:
French, Other languages available:
English
origin: France
Director: Patrick Jeudy
DU JOUR / Luc Martin-Gousset
She has changed the role of the First
Lady and will remain an American icon
forever. From the start, she did
everything with her very personal style
and she went into marriage with John F.
Kennedy with open eyes.
HOTEL PALESTINE (PALESTINE
HOTEL)
Documentary - politics & current affairs
(52 min.)
English
Director: Antonia Rados
DU JOUR / Serge Gordey
origin: France
An insider’s view of the sequence of
events which led to the collapse of the
regime - a key to interpret the events that
remain to come.
POINT DU JOUR
INTERNATIONAL
Point du Jour International, 38, rue
Croix des Petits Champs, Paris. 75001
France. Tel: 33.1.47.03.17.11. Fax:
33.1.47.03.39.48. www.pointdujourinternational.fr
Company activity: producer & distributor
At MIPCOM: Luc Martin-Gousset
(Managing Director & Producer), Doris
Weitzel (Head of Sales & Development),
Doris Weitzel (Producer, current affairs)
Office: 12.19 (umbrella “Studioexpand”)
BOB KENNEDY
Documentary – profile tv documentary
(55 min.)
English
Director: Patrick Jeudy
SOLSTROM - CBC INTERNATIONAL
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
51
LE CARREFOUR (THE JUNCTION)
Documentary - politics & current affairs
(52 min.)
Original Language of production: French,
Other languages available: English
Director: Ilan Ziv
DU JOUR / Serge Gordey
origin: France
The Junction investigates and explores
two societies, Israel and Palestine,
imprisoned by a culture of death which
values land more than it values life.
GAS MURDER IN MOSCOW
Current affairs (28 min.)
Original Language of production: Dutch,
Other languages available: English
Director: Gert Corba
Production company / producer: IKON
TV & Human Content
Year produced: 2003, Country of origin:
The Netherlands
Investigation into the composition of the
gas that had been used by the Russian
Army to end the siege at a Moscow
theatre in October 2002. Is this proof of a
new variety of chemical weapons? Legal
substances, untraceable? Not banned
under any convention.?
PORCHLIGHT
ENTERTAINMENT
PorchLight Entertainment, 11777
Mississippi Avenue, LA, CA 90025 USA.
Tel: 310.477.8400. Fax: 310.477.5555.
www.porchlight.com
At MIPCOM: Bruce D. Johnson
(President & CEO), William Baumann
(Executive VP, COO & CFO), Stephanie
Slack (VP Worldwide Sales), Adam
Wright (VP Worldwide Sales), Laura
Hoffman (Senior Manager Worldwide
Sales), Fred Schaefer (VP &
Producer/Children’s Programming)
Office: R34.03, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.8804
LIGHTNING: BOLTS OF
DESTRUCTION
Action/Adventure (1 x 90’)
Language: English
Director: Brenton Spencer
Producer: Deboragh Gabler
Cast: Joanna Pacula, Nick Mancuso
Park), Ken Tremblett
A race against time to save the Earth
from a global lightning storm.
TUTENSTEIN
Language: English
Directors: Rob Laduca, Bob Richardson
Producer: Tom Gleason
Supervising Producer: Fred Schaefer
Tutenstein is a half-hour animated series
about a 10 year old boy mummy who is
struck by lightning and brought back to
life in a modern-day museum with a
larger than life attitude.
FOUR EYES
Language: English
Director: Patrick Claeys
U.S. Executive Producers Bruce D.
Johnson, William T. Baumann, Fred
Schaefer
French Executive Producers: Philippe
Lenglet, Gilbert Hus
A hip, fun new animated series about
Emma, a popular 10 year old alien girl
from planet Albacore 7 who is shipped
off to repeat the 5th grade as a geeky
human on planet Earth!
FREEDOM FIGHTERS
Drama (1 x 90’)
Language: English
Director: Cristobal Krusen
Producer: Gary Wheeler
GOLDWYN - MYRIAD PICTURES
Cast: Stars John Kani, Marius Weyers,
Jan Ellis
Set in South Africa, one man’s journey to
triumph over a lifetime of hatred, fear
and violence to become a harbinger for
peace.
THE YEAR THAT TREMBLED
Drama (1 x 90’)
Language: English
Director: Jay Craven
Producer: Scott Lax and Tyler Davidson
Cast: Fred Willard, Henry Gibson,
Martin Mull
A 1970 coming-of-age story set in the
shadow of the turbulent events at Kent
State, based on the award winning novel
by Scott Lax.
PORTFOLIO
ENTERTAINMENT
INC.
Portfolio Entertainment Inc., 110
Eglinton Ave. E. #602, Toronto ON M4P
2Y1 Canada. Tel: 416.483.9773. Fax:
416.483.6537. portfolio@portfolioent.com
At MIPCOM: Joy Rosen (President),
Stephen Kelley (Head of Sales and
Acquisitions)
Office: 00.01, Tel: 33.4.92.99.83.56. Fax:
33.4.92.99.83.57
TOAD PATROL
www.toadpatrol.com
Children, animation (26 eps x 30’)
Language: English, French
Director: Jerry Popowich
Co-Production Partners: Vision, RME,
Funbag, Edward Sarson
Producer: Toadbag Productions
Origin: Canada
The quest continues as the eight toadlets
set out on a treacherous journey through
the forest once again, to find and help
their friend. Worldwide excluding North
America.
HEADS UP!
Live Action Kids Edutainment (13 eps x
30’)
Language: English
Producer: Soapbox Productions
Key Cast: Hosted by Bob MacDonald
Origin: Canada
A series that takes kids beyond the basics
of the Big Dipper and the Moon, and
introduces them to the magical content
and practical context of the night sky.
Worldwide. Demo available.
TAIPEI DIARIES (THE ENGLISH
TEACHERS)
www.theenglishteachers.com
Unscripted Drama – Reality (16 eps x
30’)
Director: English
Language: David C. Hansen
Co-Production Partners: In association
with Life
Producer: WestWind Pictures
Key Cast: ‘Cecile’, ‘Jaymie’, ‘Zen’,
‘Inger’, and others.
Year of Production: 2002, 2003, Country
of Origin: Canada
No scripts. No gimmicks. No secrets.
This series takes viewers into the real
and culture- shocked world of young, hip
teachers on assignment in Taiwan, who
came to teach English and stayed to learn
about life. Worldwide.
CARL 2 (CARL SQUARED)
Kids Animation (13 eps x 30’)
Language: English
Producer: Portfolio Entertainment
Origin: Canada
This animated series is about a young
teen who sends away for a clone to do
his homework and his chores, only to
wind up with double the trouble ! In
development.
KNOW LIMITS
Adventure Sport (52 eps x 30 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Amy Bodman
Producer: Kennerson / Outdoor Gal
Year of Production: 1997 – 2000,
A fast-paced “generation X” adventure
series highlighting risk-taking thrill
seekers, from helicopter skiing to white
water rafting to desert mountain biking.
Worldwide.
POWERSPORTS POWERDOCS
Powersports – Powerdocs, 18226
Ventura Blvd. #102, Tarzana, CA 91356
United States. Tel: 818.708.9995. Fax:
818.708.0598. www.ps-mill.com, email:
intl@ps-mill.com
At MIPCOM: William McAbian
(President), Tal Dean McAbian (Vice
President), Adi McAbian (Vice
President), Joes Bailey (Acquisitions),
Riki Ella (Sales)
Office: 21.12 & 23.09, Tel:
04.92.99.82.55
NATURAL JOURNEYS
Self-help/instructional
Language: English
A catalog of eight different healing,
exercise and holistic living series
including YOGA PRACTICE – Vinyasa
Flow, ON THE BALL – Pilates Workout,
DAVID CARRADINE’S TAI CHI,
BELLYDANCE FITNESS,
REFLEXOLOGY and more.
PEACH PLEASURES
Adult/Erotic (26 x 26 min.)
Language: English
Producer Peach DVD
Offering the very best in soft erotic &
late night entertainment, PEACH
PLEASURES features exotic locations,
rich sets, unsurpassed production values
and the most sensuous talent.
CLASSIC WRESTLING
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
SUPERSTARS
Sports (52 x 60 min.)
Director: English
No warrior is ever loved if he is not
matched with a worthy
opponent…CLASSIC WRESTLING
SUPERSTARS brings to life the fierce
battles, raw power and legendary
adversaries that created those infamous
rivalries.
WARREN MILLER’S STORM
Sports feature (93 Min.)
Language: English
Producer Warren Miller Entertainment
The latest feature from legendary winter
sports adventure maker, Warren Miller,
STORM dives through danger and
adventure into the magical world of
extreme skiing and snowboarding.
PROMARK
ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP
Promark Entertainment Group, 3599
Cahuenga Blvd. West, 3rd Floor, Los
Angeles, CA. 90068 USA. Tel:
323.878.0404. Fax: 323.878.0486.
sales@promarkgroup.com
At MIPCOM: Jonathan Kramer
(President), Eric Bernstein (Vice
President, International Sales), Jim
Marrinan (Consultant), Dorothy
Crompton (Consultant)
Office: 03.21, Tel: 33.4.92.99.8146
OCEAN AVE.
Mystery Serial Drama (130 x 60 min.)
Language: English
Director: Adele Bertei, Connie Maverick,
Jason Sklaver, Jonathan Wyche
Producer: Guido De Angelis, Bill
O’Dowd
Co-production partners: Victory
Millennium TV Production
Cast: Timothy Adams, Jean Carol,
Antoni Cornacchine, Steve Dumouchel,
THE BUSINESS
OF FILM
London Head Office
41-42 Berners St.
London WIT 3NB
Los Angeles Office
5150 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles
California 90036
Leigh Lombardi, Victoria Jackson
Delivery Status: Completed 2003
Origin: USA
Set against the throbbing beat of night
clubs and the silver-white sands of South
Beach, Florida, OCEAN AVE. is the
seductive story of two family dynasties.
MEN & MOTORS
Light Entertainment for Men (550+ x 30
min.)
Language: English
Producer: Various
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
This extensive collection contains
hundreds of new Investigative, Lifestyle
and Travel as well as Game Show
specials and series episodes.
NEW ULTIMATE 10 EPISODES
Non-Fiction (5 x 60 min.)
Language: English
Producer: Nancy Jacobs Miller, Tracy
Verna
Brand new episodes to the Ultimate 10
series include: Mummies, Speed
Machines, Military Machines,
Archeological Disasters, and
Technological Inventions.
PROBABLE CAUSE
Non-Fiction (4 x 60 min.)
Language: English
Producer: Bill Evashwick, Lawrence
Frank
An investigative series that looks into the
world’s biggest airline crashes, leading
up to NTSB’s final determination,
“probable cause.”
3 KIDS FILMS: SCAVENGER HUNT,
IN SEARCH OF A LOST PRINCESS,
BIG TROUBLE
Children’s Films (3 x 90 min.)
Language: English
Director: Eric Hendershot
Producer: Jon Kramer, Steve Beswick,
Karri O’Reilly
Cast: Jonathan Cronin, Brittany
Armstrong, Michael Glauser, Cameron
Manwaring
Origin: USA
Join the clubhouse detectives gang in an
all-new series of misadventures and
hilarious hijinks as the kids fall into one
escapade after another!
Director: Various
Producer: Anne Wood
Delivery Status: Series 1 completed :
Series 2 in production
of Origin: UK
The magical and innovative format of
Boohbah and its irresistible characters,
five sparkling atoms of energy,
encourage children to jump up and join
in. The live-action Storyworld sequence
encourages children to help solve
‘storypuzzles’.
OPEN A DOOR
(17 x 5 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Various
Producer: Ragdoll
Origin: (17) Participating countries:
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China,
Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, India, Iran,
Kenya, Mexico, Mongolia, Philippines,
South Africa, Taiwan, USA and UK
An award-winning international
programme exchange of five-minute
films without words showing an event in
a child’s life. Open A Door offers
producers/directors an opportunity for
their films to be shown globally.
R
RAI TRADE (SALES)
Rai Trade (Sales), Via Umberto Novaro
18, 00195 Rome, Italy. Tel:
39.06.374.981. Fax: 39.06. 370 1343.
www.raitrade.it. info@raitrade.it
At MIPCOM: Roberto di Russo
(President and CEO), Andrea Portante (
Marketing and Sales Director), Anna
Cammarano (Classical Music,
Performing Arts and Cultural Heritage
Director), Sesto Cifola (Head of Cinema
and Fiction International Sales),
Giovanna Maccagno (Formats
International Sales Executive), Sabrina
Eleuteri (Fiction International Sales
Executive), Marco Tiberi (Head of
Consumer Products)
Office: R 30.03
IMPERIUM
AUGUSTUS - THE FIRST
EMPEROR
Historical Drama (2 x 100’)
Director: Roger Young
Producer: Rai Fiction, Lux Vide, Rai
Trade, EOS Entertainment for ZDF,
Telecinco and
Quinta Communication for France 2.
Cast: Peter O?Toole, Benjamin Sadler,
Charlotte Rampling
Augustus is the first title in the
IMPERIUM series centred around
Ancient Rome at the peak of its power
and the stories of the five emperors who
ruled this immense empire.
THE BEST OF YOUTH -LA
MEGLIO GIOVENTÙ
Drama - Miniseries and also theatrical (4
x 100’ or 383’)
Language: Italian with English sub-titles
Director: Marco Tullio GiordanaA Rai
Fiction Production and BiBi Film Tv
production, produced by Angelo
Barbagallo
Cast: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni,
Adriana Asti, Sonia Bergamasco,
MayaSansa, Andrea Tidona, Fabrizio
Gifuni
A strong and emotive epic covering more
than 40 years of human drama and social
history in Italy.
MARCINELLE
Mini Series (2 x 100’)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Directors: Andrea and Antonio Frazzi
A Rai production, Rizzoli Audiovisivi
Cast: Claudio Amendola , Maria Grazia
Cucinotta, Omero Antonutti
Taken from the true story of a terrible
mining tragedy in 1956 in the Belgium
mine of Marcinelle, the miniseries traces
the lives of some of the Italian families
and personalities involved in the disaster.
Great acts of courage, hopes and dreams
are the essence of this drama.
AN ALMOST PERFECT FATHER
(UN PAPÀ QUASI PERFETTO )
Series (6 x 100’)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Maurizio dell? Orso
Producer: A Rai Fiction and Clemi
Cinematografica production
Cast: Michele Placido, Elena Sofia Ricci
, Barbara Rizzo
Michele is the father of 6 children (from
RAGDOLL LTD
Ragdoll Ltd, Heath Farm, Pinewood
Studios, Pinewood, Iver Heath,
Buckinghamshire, SL0 0NH, England.
Tel: 44(0)1753.631800.
www.ragdoll.co.uk
Company Type: Producers of Children’s
TV Programmes
At MIPCOM: Nick Kirkpatrick, David
Levine, Tina Iacovelli, Carole Thomson,
Pernille Hughes
Office: Stand 11.19
BOOHBAH
(104 x 20 minutes)
Language: English
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER II - RIGEL ENTERTAINMENT
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
53
9 to 30 years old) , and manager of a
supermarket. When suddenly his wife
dies he is faced not only with bringing
the family up on his own, but also with
the possibility of losing his job.
A LITTLE ITALIAN WHO FACED
THE SS –(SALVO D?ACQUISTO)
Drama (Miniseries 2 x 100)
Language: Italian with English sub-titles
Director: Alberto Sironi
Co -production with Rai Fiction, Sacha
Film , produced by Sergio Giussani
Cast: Beppe Fiorello, Giovanni Esposito,
Eugenia Costantini
From the director of the successful
Detective Montalbano series, this is
based on the courage and life of a young
police officer who during the second
world war who takes on the blame for
the death of two German soldiers.
REGENT
ENTERTAINMENT
Regent Entertainment, 1401 Ocean
Avenue, Suite 300, Santa Monica,
310.260.3333. Fax: 310.260.3343.
www.regententertainment.com
Company type: Producer and distributor
At MIPCOM: Gene George (President,
Regent Entertainment), Meggan
Kimberley (Exec. VP, Intl’ Sales)
Office: 03.24 - 05.23, Tel:
33(0)4.9299.8038, Mobile: 310.804.9360
CAVE IN
Action Disaster (93 minutes)
Language: English
Producers: Stephen P. Jarchow, Paul
Colichman, Jeffrey Schenck
Director: Rex Piano
Cast: Mimi Rogers, Ted Shackleford
A tough woman in charge of a large
mining operation learns that a massive
cave-in has trapped her husband and son
deep underground in a tunnel that is
rapidly filling with water.
THE PARADISE VIRUS
Language: English
Producers: Stephen P. Jarchow, Paul
Colichman, Jeffrey Schenck, Brian
Trenchard-Smith
Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith
Cast: Lorenzo Lamas, Ralf Moeller,
Melody Thomas-Scott
A virologist and her son, vacationing on
an island, race against time to prevent a
deadly virus from reaching the mainland.
A GOOD NIGHT TO DIE
Crime Drama (98 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Craig Singer
Executive Producers: Jeffrey Schenck,
Gary Stretch, Mark R. Harris
Producers: Chris Williams, Paul
Colichman, Stephen P. Jarchow, Jeffrey
Schenck
Cast: Michael Rapaport, Gary Stretch,
Seymour Cassel, Robin Givens, Deborah
Harry, Ralph Macchio, James Russo,
Ally Sheedy, Lainie Kazan
In this tense and gritty crime drama, two
screwed-up hit men trying to get out of
the mob business discover that one is
hired to kill the other.
FRIENDS & FAMILY
Comedy (87 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.
TERROR PEAK
Language: English
Executive Producers: Stephen P. Jarchow,
Paul Colichman, Jeffrey Schenck
Producers: Grant Bradley, Jozsef Fityus
Director: Dale G. Bradley
Cast: Parker Stevenson, Lynda Carter,
Antony Starr
While on tour in New Zealand, a thrillseeking family confronts the forces of
nature when the volcano they are
exploring becomes active. Battling
earthquakes, rockslides, and hot lava,
they race to save themselves and the
village below.
REVUELTA 10, S.L.
Revuelta 10, S.L., Calle Pintor Agrasot,
6, Alicante, 03001 Spain. Tel:
34.965.212.532. Fax: 34.965.211.475.
revuelta10@terra.es
At MIPCOM: Jose Ten Juan (C.E.O.),
Alfredo Garcia Revuelta (Author)
Office: Tel: 33.4.9299.8596. Fax:
33.4.9299.8597
BASIC WORLD (MUNDO BASICO)
Animation (26 min)
Language: Spanish – English
Director: Manuel Sirgo
Producer: Jose Ten Juan
Budget 3.000.000
Origin: Spain
Max, Yoko and friends face a thousand
and one adventures involving the plans
of a super villain, Mr. One, who only
believes in money and power.
RIGEL
ENTERTAINMENT
AS TIME GOES BY - DLT ENTERTAINMENT
Rigel Entertainment, 4201 Wilshire Blvd.,
Suite 555, Los Angeles CA 90010 USA.
Tel: 323.954.8555. Fax: 323.954.8592.
www.rigel.tv. info@rigel.tv
At MIPCOM: John Laing (President &
CEO), Kristie Smith (International Sales)
Office: #10-02, Tel: 33049.299.8181
MARY HIGGINS CLARK MOVIES 13 MOVIES
Suspense / Drama (13 x 90’)
Language: English
Produced by: Sonny Grosso Larry
Jacobson/ Lance Robbins/ Bruce Cohn
Curtis/John F. S. Laing
Cast: Lesley Anne Down; Emma Samms;
Nastassja Kinski; Nicolette Sheridan;
Patsy Kensit; Amanda Donohoe; Laura
Leighton; Erika Eleniak; Sean Young;
Cynthia Gibb
Production Status: 10 completed; 3 in
pre-production
Country of Origin: United
Kingdom/Canada
DEAD RAIL
Thriller / Horror (90’)
Language: English
Produced by: Glow Worm Pictures
Status: Pre-production
After a luxurious passenger train is
attacked by a pack of ravenous alien
creatures, the survivors must now out-fox
their ferocious predators to stay alive and
save the human population.
PACIFIC BLUE
Action / Adventure / Drama (101 x 60’)
Language: English
Produced by: North Hall Productions
Cast: Mario Lopez, Paula Tricky, Shanna
Moakler, Rick Rossovich
Status: Completed
The Santa Monica bike patrol teams up
to keep the shores and the streets of
California’s sunny paradise and most
celebrated Coastline “Santa Monica Bay”
to be free of crime.
ROBOCOP: THE FUTURE OF LAW
ENFORCEMENT
Action / Adventure (One 2-hour movie,
Twenty one 1-hour episodes)
Language: English
Produced by: Fireworks Entertainment
Cast: Richard Eden, Yvette Nipar, Blu
Mankuma, Andrea Roth, David Garner
Status: Completed
Alex Murphy is a cybernetic policeman,
Robocop, created by a vast corporation to
fight crime and occasional corporate
conspiracy in the near-future of Old
Detroit.
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER II:
BROTHERS IN ARMS
Action/Adventure (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Jeff Woolnough
Produced by: Catalyst Entertainment
Cast: Matt Bataglia, Chandra West, Jeff
Wincott, Gary Busey
Status: Completed
Luc Devereux, his brother Eric, and
Veronica Roberts attempts to expose the
UNISOL program that recycles soldiers
in an attempt to create the ultimate
mercenary army.
RIVE GAUCHE
INTERNATIONAL TV
Rive Gauche International TV, 15442
Ventura Blvd., #101, Sherman Oaks, CA
91403 USA. Tel: 818.784.9912. Fax:
818.784.9916. www.rgitv.com.
RiveGaucheInt@cs.com
At MIPCOM: Ron Glazer, Christiane
Nicolini
Office: 03.21, Tel: 33.4.92.99.8146
JIM ROSE TWISTED TOUR
Reality, (7 x 60 min.)
Language: English
Producer: Paul Buccieri
Origin: USA
Follow the escapades of the Jim Rose
Circus, the world’s freakiest troupe of
performers, as they travel by bus from
California to New York.
THE MENTALIST
Language: English
Producer: Stu Schreiberg, Stephen
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
Kroopnick, Gerry McCambridge
Cast: Gerry McCambridge
Origin: USA
Follow the real-life activities of Gerry
McCambridge, a mentalist who can read
the thoughts of total strangers.
SCARE TACTICS
Language: English
Producer: Scott Hallock, Kevin Healey
Cast: Shannen Doherty, Host
A hidden camera show with a Sci-Fi
twist. Everything from alien abductions
to brushes with the living dead is
perpetrated on unsuspecting people.
ANIMAL KIDDING
Reality (15 x 60 min. & 1 x 120 min.)
Language: English
Producer: Eric Schotz, Bill Paolantonio
Cast: Dave Coulier, Host
A new series from Animal Planet,
exploring the frequently hilarious, often
touching innocence of children
interacting with different species —
ranging from common pets to a talking
goat to psychic pony.
BATTLEGROUND
Documentary (3 x 60 min.)
Language: English
Director: Gary Tarpinian
Producer: Gary Tarpinian
USA
Normandy, Waterloo, Gallipoli,
Yorktown, Iwo Jima. For the first time
ever, viewers can see what really
happened on these fields of glory
through the magic of motion picture
quality, computer-generated images.
ROAD SALES USA
Road Sales USA, 3599 Cahuenga Blvd.
West, 3rd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90068
USA. Tel: 323.878.0404. Fax:
323.878.0486.
roadsalesusa@promarkgroup.com
At MIPCOM: Jonathan Kramer
(President), Eric Bernstein (Vice
President, International Sales)
Office: 03.21, Tel: 33.4.92.99.8146
THE BLUES
Documentary Drama (7 x 90 min.)
Language: English
Director: Charles Burnett, Clint
Eastwood, Mike Figgis, Marc Levin,
Richard Pearce, Martin Scorsese, Wim
Wenders
Producer: Martin Scorsese, Uli Felsberg,
Jody Patton
Now in its
24th year
Under the guiding hand of Executive
Producer Martin Scorsese, THE BLUES
is a series of impressionistic and
iconoclastic films- each director
exploring the music through his own
personal connections.
TEN MINUTES OLDER: THE
TRUMPET & THE CELLO
Art House (2 x 85 min.)
Language: Various
Director: Victor Erice, Werner Herzog,
Jim Jarmusch, Chen Kaige, Aki
Kaurismaki, Spike Lee, Wim Wenders,
Bernardo Bertolucci, Mike Figgis, Claire
Denis, Jiri Menzel, Istvan Szabo, Volker
Schlondorff, Michael Radford, Jean-Luc
Godard
Producer: Ulrich Felsberg, Nicolas
McClintock, Nigel Thomas
Cast:
Origin: Germany
Each of the distinguished directors has
been given exactly ten minutes on the
screen for their vision. With complete
creative freedom, the directors bring their
own unique interpretation of “time” to
the screen.
MALUNDE
Drama (97 min.)
Language: English
Director: Stefanie Sycholt
Producer: Jurgen Biefang, Dieter Horres
Cast: Ian Roberts, Kagiso Mtetwa
Country of Origin: Germany/South
Africa
Malunde is a story of hope and triumph
during the turbulent times of Apartheid.
A black street kid and white soldier
strike up an unlikely friendship in South
Africa.
S
SCREEN MEDIA
VENTURES, LLC
Screen Media Ventures, LLC, 757 Third
Avenue, New York, NY 10017 USA. Tel.
212.308.1790. Fax. 212.308.1791.
www.screenmedia.net
At MIPCOM: Joseph Kovacs (President),
Steve Nurkin (Executive VP), Almira
Malyshev (VP, International Sales),
Michael Dwyer (Director of International
Sales)
Office: Riviera - Stand R-3602, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.88.10
AUSTIN POWERS:
INTERNATIONAL MAN OF
MYSTERY
Comedy (90 min )
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.
THINGS BEHIND THE SUN
(117 min)
Directed by Allison Anders
Starring: Rosanna Arquette, Don
Cheadle, Kim Dickens, Patsy Kensit,
Gabriel Mann, Elizabeth Pena, and Eric
Stoltz
Sherry McGrale (Dickens) is an up-andcoming singer-songwriter in the tough
and tender female rocker tradition.
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.
TWO BITS
Drama (119 minutes)
Directed by James Foley
Starring: Al Pacino, Mary Elizabeth
Mastrantonio, Gerlando Barone
It’s a hot summer day in 1933 in South
Philly, where 12-year old Gennaro lives
with his widowed mom and his ailing
grandpa, who sits outside holding his last
quarter, which he promised to Gennaro.
SCREENTIME PTY
LTD
Screentime Pty Ltd, 108 Alexander
Street, Crows Nest, NSW, 2065,
Australia. Tel: 61.2.9439.4911. Fax:
61.2.9439.4922. www.screentime.tv,
mail@screentime.com.au. ScreentimeCommunicado: 68 Sale Street, Freemans
Bay, Auckland New Zealand. Tel:
64.9.30.33.339. Fax: 64.9.30.78.885.
reception@screentimecommunicado.co.n
z. Screentime-ShinAwiL, The Coach
House, Marlborough Lane, Donnybrook,
Dublin 4, Ireland. Tel: 353.1412.5200.
Fax: 353.1.412.5290. info@shinawil.ie.
Screentime Partners Ltd, Great Titchfield
Street, London, Tel: 44.207.072.2400.
Fax: 44.207.072.2401.
info@screentimepartners.tv.
www.screentimepartners.tv
Company Type: Television Production
Company
At MIPCOM: Des Monaghan (Executive
Director - Mbl: 61.410.300.456), Bob
Campbell (Executive Director - Mbl:
61.419.989.837), Jacqui Culliton (Head
of Entertainment Mbl: 61.438.521.092),
Ross Jennings (Executive Director - New
Zealand - Mbl: 64.21.734.869), Larry
Bass (Managing Director - Ireland),
Lynda McQuaid (Producer/DirectorIreland). London: Chris Bonney, Tom
McClelland, Maria Rakhmatullina,
Belinda Ronalds; Acquisition Executives:
Des Monaghan, Bob Campbell, Larry
Bass (Ireland office) Mbl:
353.86.381.2044, Chris Bonney (London
office)
Office: c/o Screentime Partners (UK)
Stand No. R29.32
AUSTRALIA:
MDA
Drama (22 x 1 hours: Series I - 22 x 1
hours: Series II - 22 x 1 hours)
Language: English
Directors: Various
Producer: Denny Lawrence
Cast: Kerry Armstrong, Jason Donovan,
Shane Bourne, Alice McConnell, Angus
Grant, Petra Yared, Angie Millikin &
Felix Nobis
Delivery status: Series II currently in
production for the ABC
Budget: AUD$7.8million per annum
Years of Production: 2002/2003, Country
of Origin: Australia
The cases, the personalities, the issues
involved in medical litigation.
JESSICA
Period drama (2 x 2 hours)
Language: English
Director: Peter Andrikidis
Producer: Anthony Buckley
Cast: Sam Neill, Leanna Walsman, Lisa
Harrow, John Howard, Tony Martin
Delivery Status: Completed and
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delivered to Network TEN
Budget: AUD$7.5 million
Origin: Australia
Adapted from the best selling novel by
acclaimed Australian author, Bryce
Courtenay. It is based on the real life of a
remarkable young Australian who defied
the conventions of her time.
NEW ZEALAND:
PET DETECTIVES
13 x 1/2 hours (Language: English)
Directors: Peter Sharp, Wayne Tourell,
Mark Beesley
Producer: Christina Milligan
Delivery Status: For TVNZ in early 2004
Year of Production: 2003 and 2004,
Country of Origin: New Zealand
The team from PET Detectives are just a
group of normal kids helping out pets in
distress . or are they? .only until they
kick in with their Para-normal
Extraterrestrial Time travel powers.
SINGLE GIRLS
Reality (1 x 1 hr, 6 x 1/2 hours)
Language: English
Director: Alan Gibb & Philip Swain
Producer: Jacqui Farry, Fiona Baker &
Clare Bonham
Delivery Status: Completed. Been on air
for TV One New Zealand
Origin: New Zealand
A group of young women living together
with one mission - to find Mr Right!
IRELAND:
YOU’RE A STAR
Music
Producer: Lynda McQuaid
Language: English
Delivery Status: Series II currently in
production for RTE
Year(s) of Production: 2002 & 2003,
Country of Origin: Ireland
Distribution: Screentime Partners
The smash hit of 2003 in RTE’s schedule
follows the fortunes of the Irish aspirants
to represent their country in the
Eurovision Song Contest
SEVENTH ART
RELEASING
Seventh Art Releasing, 7551 Sunset
Blvd., Suite 104, Los Angeles,
State/Province: CA 90046 USA. Tel:
323.845.1455. Fax: 323.845.4717.
www.7thart.com, seventhart@7thart.com
At MIPCOM: Udy Epstein (Principal)
Office: R35-08, Tel: 323.708.6876.
FIVE SIDES OF A COIN
Language: English
Director: Paul Kell
Producer Paul Kell
Origin: Canada
Exploding the myth that hip-hop is
merely “rap music,” FIVE SIDES OF A
COIN documents the international
culture of hip hop.
KHACHATURIAN
Language: English
Director: Peter Rosen
Producer Peter Rosen
Origin: USA
Based on the memoirs of famed
Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian
(1903-1978), this documents the life and
music of one of the world’s most loved
composers.
VALLEY OF TEARS
Director: English/Spanish
Language: Hart Perry
Producer Hart Perry
Origin: USA
VALLEY OF TEARS documents the
lives of Mexican-American migrant farm
workers in Raymondville, TX since 1979
when the onion workers strike broke out.
SFM
ENTERTAINMENT
LLC
SFM Entertainment LLC, 1180 Avenue of
the Americas Suite 2010, New York, NY
10036 USA. Tel: 212.3980.4496. Fax:
212.398.5738. http://www.sfment.com
At MIPCOM:
Office:
INSTANT LOVE
2-hour movie.
A TIME TO REMEMBER
2-hour Christmas Special.
DENNIS THE MENACE - MAYDAY
FOR MOTHER
1/2-hour special.
Top Hotels World Wide
Top Boutiques World Wide
OCTANE
FIRST LOOK MEDIA
HOW THE TOYS SAVED
CHRISTMAS
half-hour special.
BENNY CARTER: A SYMPHONY IN
RIFFS
Documentary (1 hour)
SHORELINE
ENTERTAINMENT,
INC.
Shoreline Entertainment, Inc., 1875
Century Park East, Suite 600, Los
Angeles, California 90067 USA. Tel:
310.551.2060. Fax: 310.201.0729.
Mobile Tel: 310-985-2152.
www.shorelineentertainment.com
At MIPCOM: Morris Ruskin (CEO),
Steve Chicorel (Executive VP of
Worldwide Sales and Marketing)
Office: Carlton Hotel, Tel:
33.4.93.06.40.06. Fax: 33.4.93.06.40.25
REAL TIME
Action (90 minutes)
Language: Spanish (w/ English subtitles)
Director: Fabrizio Prada
Production Company: Hugo Steiglitz &
Associates
Producer: Fabrizio Prada, Cesar Balestra,
Hugo Stieglitz
Key Cast: Jorge Castillo, Raul
Santamaria
Delivery Status: RFD
Year of Production: 2002, Country:
Mexico
A successful heist leaves its thieves
anything but satisfied, as greed and
jealousy turn what seemed to be a
painless robbery into a deadly episode.
MOVING ALAN
Road Movie/Comedy (90 minutes)
Year of Production: 2003, Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Christopher Donahue
Production Company: Roadkill
Productions
Producer: Ray Donahue and Andrew
Berman
Key Cast: Marley Shelton, Samantha
Shelton, Misha Collins
Delivery Status: Ready for Delivery
A young widow thinks she killed her
husband and convinces her estranged
sister to go on the road and get rid of the
body.
BUTTERFLY MAN
Romantic Thriller (94 minutes)
Year of Production: 2002, Country: UK
Language: English
Director: Kaprice Kea
Production Company: De Warrenne
Pictures, Ltd.
Producer: Tom Waller
Key Cast: Stuart Laing
The story of an English backpacker who
rescues a Thai masseuse from a ring of
human traffickers.
PARASITE
Horror (95 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Andy Prendergast
Production Company: Fearnot and
Shoreline Entertainment
Producer: Jason and Chris Kingsley
Key Cast: Saskia Gould, Conrad
Whitaker
A mutated Parasite feeds on the crew of
an oil rig.
CENTIPEDE!
Horror (95 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Greg Gieras
Production Company: San Diego Films,
Ushakiron, and Shoreline Entertainment
Producer: Eileen Craft
Key Cast: Larry Casey, Margaret Cash
Giant centipedes attack a group of
adventure enthusiasts as they explore a
deep cave.
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 MIPCOM: David A. Jackson
(President), Bruce Livingston (Chief
Financial Officer), Monica Vespe (Vice
President, International Sales), Shauna
Shapiro Jackson (Executive Vice
President), Cara Shapiro (Vice President,
Acquisitions), Leslee Jones-Allmon
(Director Worldwide Distribution
Services), Linda Paolucci (Sales
Administration)
Office: Palais - Stand 09.02, Tel:
011.33.4.92998305
DEAD CANARIES
Thriller
Directed by Robert Santoli
Produced by Robert Santoli
Stars Charles Durning (“Tootsie”, “Turn
of Faith”), Dan Lauria (TV’s “The
Wonder Years”), Frank Gio (“Analyze
That”, “Moonstruck”), and Dee Wallace
Stone (“E.T”, “Cujo”)
When informants in a witness protection
program are suddenly being assassinated
all over the country, a reporter begins to
dig deep for answers, only to uncover a
much broader terrorist plot.
BACHELORMAN
Directed by John Putch
Produced by Karen Bailey, Rodney Lee
Conover, Helen Woo
Cast: David Deluise (Between the
Sheets)
Ted Davis has an uncanny ability to
attract the opposite sex! He seems to
attract every woman he meets! But
there’s one thing that he didn’t count on
meeting - his Match!
SUPER SUCKER
Comedy
Directed by Jeff Daniels
Produced by Tom Spiroff
Cast: Jeff Daniels (“Gods and Generals,”
“The Hours”), Matt Letscher (“Gods and
Generals,” “Good Morning Miami”),
Harve Presnell (“Legally Blonde,” “Mr.
Deeds,” “Patch Adams”) and Dawn
Wells (“Gilligan’s Island”).
A couple of door- to-door vacuum
cleaner salesmen compete for territory,
when one of them discovers new uses for
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
his vacuum cleaner attachments, thrilling
housewives beyond their wildest
imaginations!
SHELTER ISLAND
Erotic thriller
Directed by Geoffrey Schaaf
Produced by Paul Corvino, Allen Bain,
David Michaels III, Jesse Scolaro
Stars Patsy Kensit (“Twenty One,”
“Lethal Weapon 2”), Ally Sheedy
(Independent Spirit Award winner for
“High Art,” “The Breakfast Club,” “St.
Elmo’s Fire”), Stephen Baldwin (“Sex
Monster,” “Table One,” “Friends &
Lovers,” “The Usual Suspects”), Chris
Penn (Award winner for “The Funeral,”
“Stealing Harvard,” “Murder by
Numbers,” “Reservoir Dogs”).
After being mugged, a wealthy New
York woman retreats to her country
estate with her girlfriend. Everything
goes terribly wrong when they let a
stranger into their home during a storm.
LEFT BEHIND 2: TRIBULATION
FORCE
Action Thriller
Directed by Bill Corcoran
Produced by Nicholas D. Tabarrok and
Cloud Ten Pictures
Stars Kirk Cameron (“Left Behind,”
“Growing Pains”), Brad Johnson (“Left
Behind,” “Always,” “Nam Angeles,”
“Flight of the Intruder”), Clarence
Gilyard ((“Left Behind,” “Die Hard,”
“Top Gun,” “Earthquake”), Chelsea
Noble (“Left Behind,” “Growing Pains”),
Gordon Currie, Janaya Stephens.
Sequel to the international sleeper hit
LEFT BEHIND, based on the best
selling book series that has sold copies
worldwide in numbers comparable to
Harry Potter.
SOFA
ENTERTAINMENT
SOFA Entertainment, 9121 Sunset
Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90069 USA.
Tel: 310.276.9522. Fax: 310.276.1238.
www.sofa4u.com, www.edsullivan.com,
beatrice.mcmillan@sofaent.com
At MIPCOM: Andrew Solt (President),
Claudia Falkenburg (Vice-President),
Beatrice McMillan (VP, International
Sales & Distribution), Harvey Becker
(Sales Consultant)
Office: R32.27, Tel: 33.4.92.99.88.49
THE HUNT FOR AMAZING
TREASURES, SERIES 4
Language: English
Director: Ken Wiederhorn
Producer: Andrew Solt Productions
Origin: USA
Includes the incredible stories of a
Rubens painting auctioned for a record
sum, never-before-seen photos of
Hollywood’s biggest stars, the world’s
most valuable coin and Andy Warhol’s
enormous collection of time capsules.
ELVIS: THE GREAT
PERFORMANCES
Music Documentary (5 x 60’)
Language: English
Director: Andrew Solt
Co-Production Partners: Elvis Presley
Enterprises
Key Cast: Elvis Presley, Priscilla Presley
Year of Production: 1992,1997, Country
of Origin: USA
With riveting performances, intimate
home movies and exclusive footage,
these specials remind us why Elvis will
always be the “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll”
ED SULLIVAN’S ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
CLASSICS
Music Documentary (36 x 30’)
Director: English
Key Cast: The Beatles, The Rolling
Stones, The Supremes, The Temptations,
The Mamas & The Papas, The Jackson 5,
The Doors, The Beach Boys, James
Brown, Janis Joplin
Origin: USA
For over two decades, some of the
greatest performances in rock and pop
music were featured on The Ed Sullivan
Show
LAS VEGAS: THEN & NOW
Travel Documentary (3 x 60’)
Language: English
Director: Steve Gerbson
Origin: USA
Experience Las Vegas from its humble
beginnings to the amazing new
attractions that make it the world’s
greatest resort destination
ROGUES GALLERY
Language: English
Director: Ken Wiederhorn
Key Cast: Narrated by William Devane
Origin: USA
The most notorious criminals of the 20th
Century come to life in this fascinating
series
SONY PICTURES
TELEVISION
INTERNATIONAL
Sony Pictures Television International,
10202 W Washington Blvd., Culver City,
CA 90232-3195 USA. Tel: 310.244.4000.
Fax: 310.244.1874. www.spti.com
At MIPCOM: Michael Grindon
(President, Sony Pictures Television
International), Andy Kaplan (Sr.
Executive Vice President, International
Networks), John McMahon (Sr.
Executive Vice President and Managing
Director, Europe), Peter Iacono
(Executive Vice President, Distribution),
Steve Kent (Executive Vice President,
International Productions), Stuart Baxter
(Senior Vice President, European
Distribution)
Office: # M5.01
STEPHEN KING’S KINGDOM
HOSPITAL
One-Hour Drama (15 Hours) (2-hour
pilot, 11 hour-long episodes and a 2-hour
season finale)
The “Kingdom” is a hospital with a
bizarre population that includes a nearly
blind security guard, a nurse who
regularly faints at the sight of blood and
a paraplegic artist whose recovery is a
step beyond miraculous.
JOAN OF ARCADIA
One-Hour Drama (13 Episodes)
Life becomes complicated for Joan when
God pays her a few visits via a variety of
different people including a cute boy on
the bus and the lunch lady with attitude
in her school cafeteria.
MISSING
One-Hour Drama (18 Episodes)
Cast: Gloria Reuben (The Agency, ER),
Caterina Scorsone (Once a Thief), Martin
Chase (The Princess Diaries, Rodgers
and Hammerstein’s Cinderella)
Executive Producers: Glenn Davis &
William Laurin (Once a Thief, Power
Play) and Debra
FBI agent Brooke Haslett is reluctantly
teamed with a young woman whose
uncanny psychic abilities assist them in
locating missing persons.
RESIDENTS
One-Hour Non-Fiction Drama (13
Episodes)
RESIDENTS is reality programming in
the vein of ER. All stories are true in this
non-scripted drama that follows the
residents of the UCLA Medical Center
through their daily rounds and into their
personal lives and relationships at home.
ASTRO BOY
Half-Hour Animated (50 Episodes)
ASTRO BOY was created 50 years ago
by the legendary Tezuka Osamu, the
pioneer of Japanese animation and
known as the father of manga’ (Japanese
comic books).
SOUTHERN STAR
SALES
Southern Star Sales, Level 9, 8 West
Street, North Sydney NSW 2060,
Australia. Tel: 61.2.9202.8555. Fax:
61.2.9956.6918.
www.southernstargroup.com,
sales@sstar.com.au
Company Type: Distributor and Producer
At MIPCOM: Catherine Payne (Chief
Executive), Alison Baker (Head of
European Sales), Gisela Minnbergh
(Senior Sales Executive); Acquisition
Executive: Catherine Payne
Office: H4.12, Tel: 33.492.99.87.72. Fax:
33.49.2.99.87.73
THE NEWSROOM SEASON II - CBC INTERNATIONAL
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
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FIREFLIES
Drama Series (1 x 2 hour pilot and 20 x
1 hours)
Language: English
Producer: A Southern Star Production for
ABC TV Australia
Cast: Jeremy Sims, Libby Tanner and
John Waters
Origin: Australia
When you’re facing the driest hottest
summer in decades, it pays to belong to
the volunteer fire brigade.
MARKING TIME
Drama Miniseries (4 x 1 hours)
Language: English
Producer: A Southern Star John Edwards
Production for ABC TV Australia
Origin: Australia
Tale of a young Australian man falling in
love with the daughter of an Afghani
refugee, young love against the odds told
on an intimate, personal and highly
emotional level.
WIRE IN THE BLOOD SERIES 2
Drama telemovies (4 x 85 minute Total
of 7 telemovies available)
Language: English
Producer: A Coastal Production for ITV
Network
Cast: Robson Green, Hermione Norris
Origin: United Kingdom
Following the enormous success of the
first three telemovies, clinical
psychologist Dr Tony Hill returns for
another four thrilling telemovies starring
Robson Green and Hermione Norris.
CAMERA TRAP
Half Hour Hidden Camera Series
Language: English
Producer: A Nine Network Australia
Production
Origin: Australia
A fast-moving, hilarious and slightly
raunchy variation of one of television’s
most enduring and popular formats, that
of the hidden camera.
COMEDY INC.
Half Hour Sketch Comedy Series
Language: English
Producer: A Nine Network Australia
Production
Origin: Australia
A mix of sharp, fast-paced humour and
irreverence featuring sketch, TV and
movie parody, the world seen through the
eyes of the Comedy Inc team is often just
a step away from reality. but viewed with
a hilarious twist.
SPECTRA
INTERNATIONAL
DISTRIBUTION
Spectra International Distribution, 822
Sherbrooke St East, Montreal QC H2L
1K4 Canada. Tel: 514.286.2500. Fax:
514.525.8033. www-spectrainternational.com,
international@equipespectra.ca
At MIPCOM: Marie -Sylvie LEFEBVRE
(Senior Director, International
Distribution), Nachida KARA SLIAMNE
– SLIMANE (Sales Representative), Luc
Chatelain (Vice President)
Office: Palais des Festivals -Booth C1.05
PATOU THE POLAR BEAR
Children series - from 3-6 year old (15
minutes x 52 episodes)
Language: French
Director: Michèle St Pierre
Co-Production Partners: Martyne Prévost
Producer: Pierre Beaudry - s Zingaro
Origin: Canada
PATOU the Polar Bear is Big, fuzzy,
funny and friendly! Children adore
PATOU the Polar Bear, and you will too!
BOBBY MC FERRIN
Live show performance - Musical TV
program (58’00 and 98’00 in High
Définition)
Language: Original - English
Producer: Pierre Touchette - Amerimage
Spectra
THE SAVE-UMS - DECODE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
Origin: Canada
During this live performance, Bobby
McFerrin, the winner of almost a dozen
Grammys for his recorded work, delivers
an impromptu performance featuring
musical guests.
SPANISH HARLEM ORCHESTRA
program (58’00)
Director: Original
Spectra
Origin: Canada
Featuring a spectacular live performance,
this program celebrates both Latin music
and New York’s hottest salsa group at the
Montreal International Jazz Festival:
Spanish Harlem Orchestra!
ACROBATS & MANIACS
Documentary (52’00)
Language: English
Director: Michael Jarvis
Producer: Michael G.Curry - Highlander
Production Group
Origin: Canada
A spectacular visual documentary on
“Cirque Nouveau,” this production was
shot in the new Panavision/Sony highdefinition 24P format.
HOLLY COLE
program
Language: Original
Spectra
Origin: Canada
Holly Cole’s repertoire is a delightful
blend of jazz and subtle pop, and she
beguiles her audience with a voice that
shifts from sweet to sultry and with a
charismatic elegance.
SUMMIT
ENTERTAINMENT
Summit Entertainment, 77 Dean Street,
London, W1D 3SH UK. Tel:
44.207.494.1724. Fax: 44.207.494.1725.
At MIPCOM: David Garrett (Executive
Vice President), Harold Van Lier (Vice
Office: Palais des Festivals, Espace
Riviera, Stand Number 04.01, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.8027
DANCES WITH WOLVES
Drama (183 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Kevin Costner
Producers: Kevin Costner, Jim Wilson
Cast: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell
Having been sent to a remote outpost
during the American Civil War, Lt. John
Dunbar is eventually accepted into the
local Sioux tribe.
POINT BREAK
Action/Adventure (122 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Producers: Peter Abrams, Robert L. Levy
Cast: Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves,
Gary Busey, Lori Petty
Maverick FBI agent, Johnny Utah
(Keanu Reeves), is sent undercover to
infiltrate a group of surfers who are
suspected of being a notorious gang of
bank robbers.
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK
Mystery (107 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Peter Weir
Producers: Hal McElroy and Jim
McElroy
Cast: Rachel Roberts, Dominc Guard,
Helen Morse, Anne Lambert
On St. Valentine’s Day 1900, a party of
schoolgirls set out for a picnic at
Hanging Rock. Some were never to
return.
BITTER MOON
Erotic Thriller (138 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Roman Polanski
Producer: Alain Sarde
Cast: Peter Coyote, Emmanuelle Seigner,
Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas
A repressed English couple takes a cruise
in the hopes of rekindling their passion,
but instead find themselves drawn into
the sexual games and sado-masochistic
power struggles of a strangely alluring
couple.
G.I. JANE
Action/Drama (124 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Ridley Scott
Producers: Roger Birnbaum, Demi
Moore, Ridley Scott, Suzanne Todd
Cast: Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen,
Anne Bancroft, Jason Beghe
Lt. Jordan O’Neil is the only female
trainee in the elite Navy SEALS
commando force. No one expects her to
survive the punishing training regime,
but she is determined to prove them
wrong.
SURF FILM
Surf Film, Via Padre Giovanni Antonio
Filippini 130, Rome, Italy, 00144 USA.
Tel: 39.06.52.62.101, Fax:
39.06.52.93.816. www.surfFilm.com,
surf@surfFilm.com
Company Type: Producer and Distributor
At MIPCOM: Mr. Massimo Vigliar
(President), Mrs. Stefania Carnevale
(foreign sales manager), Mrs. Elena
Francot (Italian sales manager), Mrs.
Agnes Trincal (foreign sales executive)
Office: Padiglione Riviera R. 38.08
THE END OF A MYSTERY - LA LUZ
PRODIGIOSA
Art movie/drama (102’)
Language: Spanish, Italian, subtitles:
English
Director: Miguel Hermoso
Producer: Azalea Producciones
Cinematografica S.A. - Surf Film S.r.l.
Key Cast: Nino Manfredi, Alfredo
Landa, Kiti Manver
Status: Completed
Federico Garcia Lorca did not die after
an execution by Franco’s troops in
August 1936. Disfigured from the shot
which also made him amnesiac and
mentally disturbed, he lived many long
years without knowing who he really
was.
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
TRAVELING WITH CHE GUEVARA
Making of the film “The motorcycle
diary” directed by Walter Salles
Director: Gianni Minà
Status: Completed
Young Ernesto Guevara’s journey
through Latin America with Alberto
Granado in 1952, before he became the
CHE, and during which he discovered
his vocation as a revolutionary.
CORAZON VERDE
Documentary (36’/46’)
Director: Luis Sepúlveda, Diego Meza
Producer: Yaganes Producciones S.A. Duque Film S.A. - Parox S.A.
Status: Completed
A news item makes its way around the
world, one of those muted reports that
gets buried beneath the headlines filled
with world conflicts which, in the final
analysis, seem to leave everyone
indifferent anyway.
HERE WE ARE
Documentary
Director: Gianni Minà
Status: Completed
A series of historical documentaries that
narrate the struggles and hopes of a
continent through the eyes of it’s
protagonists, heroes and heroines: Fidel
Castro, Ernesto Che Guevara, Rigoberta
Menchù, Diego Maradona,
Subcomandante Marcos.
FILM NOWHERE
Art movie (110’)
Language: Italian, Spanish, English,
subtitles: English, French
Director: Luis Sepúlveda
Producer: Surf Film (Italy) - Patagonik
Film Group (Argentina) - Castelao
Productions S.A. (Spain)
Key Cast: Harvey Keitel, Angela Molina,
Jorge Perugorria, Luigi Maria Burruano
Status: Completed
The secret services of a 1980s Latin
American dictatorship round up a group
of opponents. The prisoners are taken to
an old abandoned railway station in the
desert, called “Nowhere”.
T
TANDEM
COMMUNICATIONS
Tandem Communications,
Josephspitalstrasse 15, Munich, 80331
Germany. Tel: 49.89.96.22.83.00. Fax:
49.89.96.22.83.10.
At MIPCOM: Tim Halkin (Managing
Director), Irina Ignatiew (Head of
International Sales), Saevar Lemke
(Production Coordinator), Christian
Mohr (International Sales)
Office: 10.15, Tel: 33.492.99.8115,
www.tandemcom.de,
info@tandemcom.de
THE RING (WORKING )
Action Adventure (2 x 94 Mins or 1 x
120 Mins)
Language: English
Director: Uli Edel
Co-Production Partners: Tandem
Communications; DO Productions;
Lucky 7 Productions
Producer Konstantin Thoeren
Budget $ 22 Mil.
The story about Siegfried the dragonslayer and the two women who loved
him: Brunhilde, daughter of Odin, the
strongest of all the gods, and Kriemhild
the most beautiful of all earthly women.
A LIGHT IN DARK PLACES
Action Drama (2 x 95 Mins)
Language: German
Director: Kaspar Heidelbach
Producer Michael Souvignier and Sam
Davis
Key Cast: Heino Ferch, Heike Makatsch,
Jan Josef Liefers
Budget: Euro 7 Mil.
The true story of a horrific mining
disaster. 20 miners are trapped alive 60
meters underground. A story of loss and
suffering, but also of hope, love,
friendship and the perseverance of the
human spirit.
POST IMPACT
Action Adventure (90 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Christopher Schrewe
Key Cast: Dean Cain, Bettina
Zimmermann
Budget Euro 4 Mil.
In 2012, a meteor crashes into Siberia
with the force of several thousand
nuclear warheads. A few survivors locate
a device that could give mankind new
hope - or forever finish it.
SUMURU
SciFi (90 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Darrell James Roodt
Key Cast: Alexandra Kamp, Michael
Shanks
Budget: Euro 3.5 Mil.
Two astronauts land on a planet where
women are the ruling class. They have to
deal with beautiful queen Sumuru and
the fact that the planet is about to break
apart.
Producer: TechTV
Delivery Status: Completed and in
production
Origin: USA
Take an up-close look at the most
fascinating inventors and see how these
ordinary people with revolutionary ideas
are developing gadgets that are certain to
change the way we live.
FUTURE FIGHTING MACHINES
Documentary (13 x 30 min)
Language: English
Producer: TechTV
Origin: USA
Check out the latest gear and machinery
being used, from unmanned combat
fighters to spying robots, as Future
Fighting Machines delivers the ultimate
in futuristic gadgets.
UNSCREWED
Comedy (120 x 30 min)
Language: English
Producer: TechTV
Delivery Status: Complete episodes and
in production
Origin: USA
This is the ultimate showcase for the
darker, funnier, sexier world of the
modern technophile, revealing the pop
culture side of technology.
WIRED FOR SEX
Language: English
Producer: TechTV
Origin: USA
Explore technology’s ever-changing role
beneath the sheets, from fertility, to the
act of sex, to gender, to genetic
engineering and sexual dysfunction.
TECHNOLOGY NEWS FEED
Information News (weekly, 25 min.)
Language: English
Producer: TechTV
Delivery Status:
Origin: USA
This feed delivers cutting-edge
technology news with natural sound,
complete video and suggested scripts.
Producers can use this to create fully
customized technology news
programming.
THE TELEVISION
SYNDICATION
COMPANY, INC.
The Television Syndication Company,
Inc., 501 Sabal Lake Drive, Suite 105,
Longwood, Florida 32779, USA. Tel:
407.788.6407. Fax: 407.788-4397.
www.tvsco.com, tvsco@prodigy.net
Company Type: Producer/Distributor
At MIPCOM: Cassie M. Yde (President),
Robert E. Yde (Director of Marketing).
Acquisition Executive: Barbara Ohnsman
Office: Hotel Abrial, Tel:
33.4.92.59.44.44, Fax: 33.4.92.59.44.45
CHILD DEVELOPMENT:
STEPPING STONES
Family Series (26 x 30 min)
Language: English
Origin: USA
Budget: $50,000
An up-to-date look at child development
and psychology from birth through
adolescence, exploring the field of
developmental study as a science.
HAVING A BEER WITH MIKE
Reality (26 x 30 min)
Language: English
of Origin: USA
Budget: $25,000
He’s not your regular type of guy and
you learn to expect the unexpected from
this off-the-wall series.
LE MANS CLASSIC
Sports Special (1 x 120 min)
Language: English
Delivery Status: October of Each Year
Year of Production: Current, Country of
TECHTV
TechTV, 650 Townsend Street, San
Francisco, CA 94103 USA. Tel:
415.355.4054. Fax: 415.355.4055.
www.techtv.com,
international@techtv.com
Company Type: Producer, Distributor,
Full Channel
At MIPCOM: Peter Gochis (SVP
Worldwide Distribution), Karen
Kaufman Perlman (VP, Europe/ Asia),
Greg Brannan (SVP, Programming),
Gaynor Strachan Chun (SVP Marketing),
Hud Woodle (International Sales
Executive); Acquisition Executive: Laura
Civiello (Director of Acquisitions and
Commisions)
Office: 18.02, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.8180
INVENT THIS!
Language: English
CREEPSCHOOL - EM.TV & MERCHANDISING AG
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
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Origin: France
Budget: $500,000
Exciting auto racing as classic cars and
drivers from all over the world compete
at the world famous Le Mans raceway.
LIFELINES
Language: English
Origin: USA
Budget: $50,000
Real-life documentaries about families
from different backgrounds who
overcame difficulty in learning.
MADISON HEIGHTS
Language: English
Origin: USA
Budget: $50,000
Powerful dramas about “hot button”
issues and stories of hope and nobility
revolve around a small-town school.
SHADE
Language: English
Director: Damian Nieman
Cast: Sylvester Stalone, Melanie Griffith,
Gabriel Byrne
BOOGEYMAN
Language: English
Director: Stephen T. Kay
Producer: Sam Raimi
Cast: Barry Watson, Lucy Lawless
CONFIDENCE
Language: English
Director: James Foley
Cast: Edward Burns, Dustin Hoffman,
Rachel Weiss, Andy Garcia
TELEFILMS
TeleProductions International – TPI,
4520 Daly Drive, Chantilly, VA 20151
USA. Tel: 703.222.2408, ext 227. Fax:
703.222.3964. www.tpiltd.com,
tpiintl@aol.com
At MIPCOM: Larry Higgs (President),
Ron Alexander (Director, International
Sales), Nancy Epstein (Manager,
Program Acquisitions)
Office: R35.03
CHILDREN OF TERROR
Language: English
Origin: USA
A compelling look at children on three
continents caught up in war, revolution
and terrorism and how it has affected
their lives.
GREAT TASTES OF EUROPE &
THE MEDITERRANEAN
Lifestyle/Travel (67 x 30 minutes)
Language: English
Origin: USA
We travel all around Europe and the
Mediterranean in search of great food
and sights. No host.
Telefilms, Av. Del Libertador 1068 p.11
Buenos Aires, Argentina (C1112ABN).
Tel: 54.11.5032.6000. Fax:
54.11.5032.6099. www.telefilms.com.ar,
telefilms@telefilms.com.ar
At MIPCOM: Sebastián Darcyl
(Principal), Tomás Darcyl (Principal),
Alfredo Andreotti (Vice President),
Humberto Delmás (Sales Manager);
Acquisition Executive: Tomás Darcyl,
Sebastián Darcyl
Office: Stand 13.12 Palais Des Festivals,
Tel: 33.4.92.99.8297, Fax:
33.4.92.99.8297
21 GRAMS
Language: English
Director: Alejandro González Iñarritu
Cast: Benicio del Toro, Sean Penn
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE
SPOTLESS MIND
Language: English
Director: Michel Gondry
Cast: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Elijah
Wood, Kristen Dunst
TELEPRODUCTIONS
INTERNATIONAL TPI
FIREFLIES - SOUTHERN STAR SALES
TRAVELING LITE
Travel (23 x 30 minutes)
Language: English
Origin: USA
Tips for the traveler planning on visiting
a variety of European destinations.
COOKING CARIBBEAN
Lifestyle / Travel (13 x 30 minutes)
Origin: Trinidad
Language: English
Join us for the culinary and cultural
sights from the Caribbean.
360 DEGREES
Current Affairs (39 x 30 minutes)
Language: English
Production: USA
We travel the globe in search of stories
ranging from America’s body piercing
craze to Egypt’s protector of the
pyramids.
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: Distributor / Sales Agent
At MIPCOM: Joey Thompson (resident),
Jen Starr (Sales), Chaya Finton
(Marketing), George Thompson
(Acquisition)
Office: Hotel Bleu Rivage, 6l La
Croisette 06400, Cannes, Tel:
3.93.94.224.25 or at Palais Festival:
4.93.39.0l.0l. Fax: 3.93.43.74.92
ROD STEWART IN CONCERT
Music (75 min)
Language: English USA
Cast: Rod Stewart, Faces
Status: completed
This electrifying concert was his farewell
performance with Faces.
RUDE BOY
Music (l20 min)
language English - USA
Cast: The Clash
Status: Completed
The Clash were the advance guard of
exploding punk rock.
NASHVILLE SOUND
Music (85 min)
Language: USA English
Cast: Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Charlie
Pride, Earl Scruggs.
Status: completed
Filmed at Nashville with 40 of America’s
top stars.
BLIZKRIEG BOP
Music (60 min)
Cast: BLONDIE, The Ramones
Status: completed
This Rockumentary is into the CBGB
Club and New York punk-rock scene.
VOLUNTEER JAM
Music (l03 min)
Cast: Clie Daniels band, Charlie Daniels
band, Marshall Tucker
band, Dicke Betts
Status: Completed
Considered the premiere of Souther Rock
from below the Mason Dixon Line.
TMC
ENTERTAINMENT
TMC Entertainment, 12200 W. Olympic
Blvd., Suite 470, Los Angeles, CA 90064
USA. Tel: 310.264.3993. Fax:
310.264.3987. TMC@tmcent.net
At MIPCOM: Drew Levin (CEO), Eve
Joffee (EVP Acquisitions and CoProductions), Barbara Conte (VP
Office: 18.11, Tel: 04.92.99.80.56
WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?
Non-Fiction/ Entertainment (4 x 60
Minutes)
The strange, the bizarre, the unexpected,
fascinating secrets, wacky places,
medical oddities, strange animals and
amazing discoveries which will have
viewers asking - Would You Believe It?
THE SECRET PASSAGE OF DR.
ZHIVAGO
Non-fiction / Documentary (1 x 52
Minutes)
When Boris Pasternak allowed his novel,
“Dr. Zhivago,” to be smuggled out of
Russia to Italian publisher, Giangiacomo
Feltrinelli, and Feltrinelli made the
decision to publish the novel, it would be
the beginning of the end for Pasternak.
LOVE BEHIND BARS
Minutes)
LOVE BEHIND BARS is a look at the
surprising world of marriage, love affairs
and old fashion romance that takes place
despite - and sometimes because of - the
prison walls.
PRISON DOCTORS
Minutes)
PRISON DOCTORS.go behind the
prison walls to explore a completely
original and unique view of prison life –
meet the medical professionals who
unconditionally care for the imprisoned.
TMS
ENTERTAINMENT,
LTD.
TMS Entertainment, LTD., 5-39-1,
Kamitakada, Nakano-ku Tokyo 164-0002,
Japan. Tel: 81.3.3319.1133. Fax:
81.3.3319.1159. mami@tms-e.co.jp.
Company type: Producer and Distributor
At MIPCOM:
Office : #00.26
A CHEEKY ANGEL
TV Series Action (30 min x 50)
SECRET OF CERULEAN SAND
PROJECT ARMS
PUPPET PRINCESS
Ova Action (45 min)
LITTLE NEMO
Feature Action (85 min)
MIPCOM OCTOBER 2003
TOMWIL, INC.
Tomwil, Inc., 4905 Gentry Ave., Valley
Village, CA 91607 USA. Tel:
818.769.0883. Fax: 818.769.0887.
tomwil@earthlink.net
At MIPCOM: James Rokos (President),
Wilda A. Rokos (Exec. VP), Acquisition
Executive: James Rokos
Office: 09.20, Tel: 04.92.99.81.61
INTERNATIONAL FIGHTING
CHAMPIONSHIP - WORLD
DOMINATION
Sports (3 hours)
Language: English
Producer: Howard Petschler
Delivery Status: Tapes September 6,
2003
Origin: USA
The newest edition of the best “no holds
barred” fighting events in the world.
From Denver, CO on September 6th,
2003.
ARENA FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Sports (17 x 2 hours)
Language: English
Origin: USA
The AFL will be back bigger than ever
on NBC starting February 2004.
USAC SPRINT & MIDGET CAR
SERIES
Sports (7 x 60’ and 15 x 120’)
Language: English
Delivery Status: preproduction
Origin: USA
The best in midget and sprint car racing
across the U.S. returns for 2004
promising more exciting action.
TRANSFAX
PRODUCTIONS LTD.
Transfax Productions Ltd., 22 Nachmani
Street, Tel-Aviv, 65201 Israel. Tel:
972.3.566.1484. Fax: 972.3.566.1450.
transfax@netvision.net.il
At MIPCOM: Mor Eldar (VP of Sales)
Office: A0.09, Tel: 334.92.99.85.03
A FIVE MINUTE WALK
Thriller-Drama (85 minutes)
Language: Hebrew
Director: Itai lev
Key Cast: Sharon Alexander, Tal Cahana,
Adam Horowitz
Origin: Israel
A Five minute walk, and 24 hours, stand
between a Tel Aviv police detective and
redemption.
IT’S PROBABLY ME
Language: Hebrew
Director: Roi Ben Ami
Origin: Israel
The story of a 32 years old Israeli
transexual.
BETTER THAN THE BEATLES
Director: Hebrew
Language: Yoni Zigler
Origin: Israel
The struggles of an Israeli hip hop band,
on the way to fame, in the Big Apple.
LIFELINE
Language: Hebrew
Director: Ayelet Heler
Origin: Israel
An enduring friendship between 24 Nave
warriors and one bereaved mother, is
being put to the test.
YOU’LL LIVE, BUT IN ISRAEL
Language: Hebrew/Russian
Director: Tom Barkai
Origin: Israel
A group of Russian immigrants tries to
win a nationwide satire competition.
TREMENDOUS!
ENTERTAINMENT
Tremendous! Entertainment, 17113
Minnetonka Blvd., Suite 200,
Minnetonka, MN 55345 USA. Tel:
852.258.0220. Fax: 952.258.0155.
At MIPCOM: Colleen Needles Steward
(President), Jane Durkee (Director,
Program Sales), Kathy Dittmar
(Marketing Manager)
Office: R31.24, Tel: 04.92.99.88.41
BIZARRE FOODS
Travel/ Adventure (1x 60 min.)
Language: English
Delivery Status: Available November
2003
Just when you thought it was safe to
order off the menu, Bizarre Foods serves
up food and experiences from around the
planet that take dining-out to a whole
new dimension.
TOP DOCS
Science/ Health (4x60 min.)
Language: English
Year of Production: Available November
2003, Country of Origin: USA
World leaders, celebrities and the most
not so famous regularly seek out the
doctors at the esteemed Mayo Clinic in
the U.S. for the diagnosis and treatment
of virtually every difficult medical
condition.
EXTREME
(12 x 60 min.)
Language: English
Delivery Status: October 2003
Get the adrenaline flowing with 12 new
hours of non-stop action with Extreme, a
series featuring the best of the best
skiers, snowboarders, kayakers and
surfers from around the world.
BODY FARM: BIOGRAPHY OF A
CORPSE
Science/ Forensic Science (1 x 60 min.)
Language: English
Delivery Status: Available Now
USA
This forensic science documentary
features anthropologist Bill Blass and his
dedication to the study of the human
body after the time of death.
AMERICA TAKES FLIGHT
History (1 x 60 min.)
Language: English
Delivery Status: Available Now
As the world prepares to celebrate 100
years of flight, America Takes Flight
features the little known story of how
commercial aviation got off the ground
during the Golden Age of Aviation in the
US.
TRICKSTUDIO
LUTTERBECK GMBH
TrickStudio Lutterbeck GmbH, Neusser
Str. 476, Cologne 50733 Germany. Tel:
49.221.216.427. Fax: 49.221.216.547.
www.trickstudio.de, info@trickstudio.de
At MIPCOM: Richard Lutterbeck
(Manager)
Office: The Marketplace, Tel:
49.171.233.6471
DUSTY, THE MIGHTY MITE
Animation (11 min)
Language: English
Director: Matthias Bruhn
Producer Richard Lutterbeck
Origin: Germany
Once upon a time there was a teddy bear
who lay forgotten on the top shelf in a
child’s room, home sweet home to our
hero, Dusty the Mighty Mite.
THE STONE THAT GREW UP
WITH CARROTS
Animation (4.20 min)
Language: English, french, german
Director: Jon Bon Goesel
Producer Richard Lutterbeck
Origin: Germany
By mistake, the stork delivers a stone to
the carrot field instead of a baby carrot.
TV-LOONLAND
Loonland U.K., Royalty House, 72 - 74
Dean Street, London W1V 6AE U.K. Tel:
44(0)20.7434.2377. Fax:
44(0)20.7434.1578. www.loonland.com,
tv-sales@loonland.com. TV-Loonland
AG, Munchner Strasse 16, D-85774,
Munich, Germany. Tel:
49.89.20.50.8.100. Fax:
49.89.20.50.8.199. www.loonland.com,
info@loonland.com
At MIPCOM: Peter Völkle (President &
CEO), David Ferguson (COO), Marion
Edwards (MD, Telemagination), Suzanne
Berman (VP, Creative Affairs, North
America, Sunbow Entertainment), Jerry
Diaz (Executive VP, Salsa
Entertainment), Natalie Gordon (Sales
Manager)
Office: 09.19, Tel: 00.33.4.92.99.8162
METALHEADS
Animation (26 x 11 min or 13 x 22)
Language: English
Director: Chris Hermans
Producer: TV-Loonland/ZDF
Status: In production
Set in the Middle Ages, ‘Metalheads’
centers on a motley crew of five kids and
their enthusiastic efforts to become
knights (or Metalheads).
THE CRAMP TWINS, SERIES II
Animation (26 x 30 min) (or 52 x 30 min
for Series I & II)
Language: English
Director: Frank Gresham
Producer: TV-Loonland
Co-producer: Cartoon Network Europe
Wayne and Lucien Cramp are back at
each other’s throat in a brand new series
of bug-saving, trike-riding, junk-bashing
mayhem. Some twins are identical. Some
twins aren’t.
DRAGON’S ROCK
CGI Animation (26 x 22 min)
Language: English/German
Director: Greg Manwaring
Producer: TV-Loonland/Super
RTL/GUM Studios
Country of Origin: UK/Germany
Dragon’s Rock is a CGI sitcom about a
family of dragons trying to make ends
meet in a dragon world not that
dissimilar from our own.
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SOMETHING ELSE
Animation (26 x 11 min or 13 x 22)
Language: English
Director: Brad Neave
Producer: TV-Loonland/Studio B
Productions
Status: Completed
Country of Origin: UK/Canada
‘Something Else’ follows the
unpredictable adventures of two loveable
misfits - the small, blue and furry
Something Else and the long-nosed,
orange and furry Something.
PETTSON & FINDUS
Animation (13 x 13 min, 2 x 75 min)
Director: Hanan Kaminski
Producer: TV-Loonland/Happy Life
Productions
Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Germany/Sweden
‘Pettson and Findus’ is based upon the
multi-million selling books by Sven
Nordquist. The series features the kindly
Pettson and his highly imaginative and
playful cat Findus.
TWENTIETH
CENTURY FOX
TELEVISION
DISTRIBUTION
Twentieth Century Fox Television
Distribution, P.O. Box 900, Beverly Hills,
CA, 90213-0900, USA. Tel:
310.369.1000. Fax: 310.369.8877.
www.fox.com
At MIPCOM: Mark Kaner (President),
Marion Edwards (Exec. VP International
TV), Peter Levinsohn (Exec. VP
Worldwide Pay TV & PPV), Mark
Rosenbaum (Sr. VP International TV),
Jamie McCabe (Sr. VP Worldwide Pay
Per View); Acquisition Executive: Mark
Rosenbaum
Office: E3.01
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
Drama (30 min)
Language: English
Producer: Mitchell Hurwitz, Brian
Grazer, Ron Howard, David Nevins
Cast: Jason Bateman, Portia DeRossi,
Jessica Walter, Michael Cera
Origin: USA
A wealthy, multi-generational family in
Orange County bonds together for
survival after the patriarch is arrested and
the family assets are frozen.
THE LYON’S DEN
Drama (60 min)
Language: English
Producer: Remi Aubuchon, Rod
Holcomb, Rob Lowe, Bernie Brillstein
Cast: Rob Lowe, Matt Craven, Elizabeth
Mitchell, Kyle Chandler, Frances Fisher,
James Pickens Jr.
Origin: USA
Drama set in a 100 year-old law firm,
detailing the relationships between the
lawyers and those who work for them.
THE BROTHERHOOD OF POLAND,
N.H.
Drama (60 min)
Language: English
Producer: David E. Kelley, Michael
Pressman
Cast: Randy Quaid, Brian Haley, John
Carroll Lynch, Ann Cusack, Mare
Winningham, Elizabeth McGovern
Origin: USA
The lives of three brothers - ranging in
age from late 30s to late 40s in a small,
New Hampshire town - are explored.
MISS MATCH
Drama (60 min)
Language: English
Producer: Jeff Rake, Darren Star, David
Nevins, Brian Grazer
Cast: Alicia Silverstone, Ryan O’Neal,
THE BLOCK - SOUTHERN STAR SALES
Lake Bell, James Roday, Jobeth Williams
Origin: USA
Miss Match is based on the life of
Samantha Daniel, a New York City
divorce attorney who started a successful,
elite matchmaking service.
TRU CALLING
Drama (60 min)
Language: English
Producer: Jon Feldman, Marty Adelstein,
Neal Moritz, Dawn Parouse, Bob
Goodwin, Philip Noyce
Cast: Eliza Dushku, Shawn Reaves,
Heath Freeman, A.J. Cook, Zach
Galifianakis, Jessica Collins
Origin: USA
A young woman who witnessed her
mother’s murder as a child can step back
in time to try and stop other murders
from occurring.
Cast: Chef Rocco DiSpirito
The Restaurant is a one-hour unscripted
drama that offers a behind-the-scenes
look at rising star Rocco DiSpirito
(Union Pacific and Tuscan), a first
generation Italian-American chef. (U.S.
Premiere Date: July 20, 2003)
PEACEMAKERS
Drama (8 One-hour + 1 Ninety Minute)
Exec Producer: Rick Ramage
Co-Exec Producer: Larry Carroll
Cast: Tom Berenger, Peter O’Meara,
Bellamy Young, Barbara Tyson, Roger
Cross,
Amy Carlson
The Western Frontier is disappearing as
encroaching civilization and the
industrial age meet in the late 1880’s.
(U.S. Premiere Date: July 30, 2003)
BLIND DATE
Series (30 x 1050 Episodes)
U
VITAGRAPH
UNIVERSAL
INTERNATIONAL
TELEVISION
Universal International Television, 100
Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA
91608 USA. Tel: 818.777.1300. Fax:
818.866.1554.
At MIPCOM: Rick Finkelstein (President
and Chief Operating Officer, Universal
Pictures), David Goldhill (President and
Chief Operating Officer, Universal
Television Group), Belinda Menendez
(President, Universal International
Television)
Office: H4.05, Tel: 33.4.92.99.87.91,
33.4.92.99.87.92, 33.4.92.99.87.93; Fax:
33.4.92.59 02 87
COUPLING U.S.
Comedy (13 x 30 min)
Exec Producer: Ben Silverman, Beryl
Vertue, Sue Vertue, Steven Moffat, Phoef
Sutton
Cast: Rena Sofer, Jay Harrington,
Lindsay Price, Colin Ferguson, Sonya
Walger, Christopher Moynihan
Based on the hit BBC (UK) show,
Coupling is a sexy, hip new comedy that
gives you an insight into how the
opposite sex ticks. (U.S. Premiere Date:
September 2003)
KAREN SISCO
Drama (13 x 60 min)
Exec Producer: Michael Dinner, John
Landgraf, Danny DeVito, Michael
Schamberg, Stacey Sher
Cast: Carla Gugino, Robert Forster, Bill
Duke
Based on the popular character from the
Elmore Leonard novel, portrayed by
Jennifer Lopez in Universal’s Feature
film Out Of Sight, Karen Sisco is smart,
sexy and tough.
(U.S. Premiere Date: October 1, 2003)
THE RESTAURANT
Reality Series (6 x 60 min)
Exec Producer: Ben Silverman, Mark
Burnett, Robert Riesenberg
V
Vitagraph, Via Schiavonia 1 I-40121
Bologna Italy. Tel: 39.051.267150. Fax:
39.051.267310. www.vitagraph.it,
vitagraph@libero.it
Company Type: Sales agent, distributor
At MIPCOM: Filippo D’Angelo
(Managing Director); Acquisition
Executive: Filippo D’Angelo (Managing
Director)
Office: Palais des Festivals - MEDIA
Umbrella Stand H 4.35, Tel:
33.4.92998596
A BORDER OF MIRRORS
Language: original version English
Subtitled
Director: Stefano Savona
Producer: Alessandro Arangio Ruiz
(Tipota Movie Company) & Maat
Produzioni
Origin: Italy
Sicilian emigrants in Tunisia and
Tunisian emigrants in Sicily, exchanges
and flows: the daily life of a precarious
life on the borderline.
IT WAS THEM - 48 HOURS IN NOVI
LIGURE
Language: Italian original version with
Tabaluga & Leo-A Christmas Adventure
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English subtitles
Director: Guido Chiesa
Producer: Guido Chiesa; Fandango Coproduction partners:
Origin: Italy
Budget: $ 100.000,00
One night the life of a peaceful town was
dramatically changed: Susy Cassini and
her son were knifed to death. For 48
hours Novi became an issue: from the
questions of the illegal immigrants to the
death penalty.
TV_SLUM
Language: original Kenyan African and
English version with English subtitles
Director: Angelo Loy
Producer: Fandango Co-production
partners: Amref - Indigo Film
Origin: Italy
Budget: $ 125.000,00
A documentary entirely shot by eight
street kids after a training in the
Nairobi’s slum. A multitude of faces are
framed, telling the epic of street life, the
hope and the injustice of their existence.
W
WELLSPRING MEDIA
Wellspring Media, 419 Park Ave South,
New York, NY 10016 USA. Tel:
212.686.6777. Fax: 212.685.2625.
www.wellspring.com,
worldwidesales@wellspring.com
Company Type: Distributor/Producer
At MIPCOM: Sheri Levine (Executive
VP Worldwide Sales), Michael Thornton
(VP Sales), Linda Saetre (Director of
Sales & Co-Pro), Julia Panely-Pacetti
(Director Of Marketing & Creative
Development), Vanessa Arteaga (Senior
Production & Programming Executive)
Office: R3303
AFGHAN BEAUTY SCHOOL
Documentary
Language: English
THE DIRECTORS
Documentary Series
Language: English
Producer: Media
Entertainment/Wellspring
Co-production partners: in cooperation
with The American Film Institute
documentaries and animation movies.
WORLDWIDE FILM
ENTERTAINMENT
Worldwide Film Entertainment, 280 So.
Beverly Drive, Suite 208, Beverly Hills,
CA, 90212 USA. Tel: 310.205.9324. Fax:
310.205.9325.
http://home.comcast.net/~worldwidentert
ainment/index.html,
info@worldwidentertainment.com
At MIPCOM: Barbara Mudge
Office: AFMA Stand 01.02
LAST FLIGHT OUT
Action Adventure
Language: English
Director: Jerry Jameson
Producer: Melissa Barrett
Cast: Richard Tyson, Bobbie Phillips,
Cliff DeYoung
A missionary finds herself in dire need of
rescue from Colombian drug lords who
are pillaging her village.
CHARLY
Romantic Drama
Language: English
Director: Adam Anderegg
Producer: Lance Williams, Micah
Merrill, Tip Boxell
Cast: Heather Beers, Jeremy Elliot,
Bernie Diamond
An uptight, small town guy meets a
feisty, New York girl resulting in
opposites first clashing, then attracting.
BELLS OF INNOCENCE
Supernatural Thriller
Language: English
Director: Alin Bijan
Producer: Chris Bessey
Cast: Mike Norris, Marshall Teague and
Chuck Norris
Three men crash land in a remote
Mexican village and become embroiled
in a classic fight for the souls of the
innocence between Ultimate Good vs.
Evil.
ON THE EDGE
Drama/Action
Language: English
Director: Rick Garside
Producer: Rick Garside
Cast: Jay Roberts Jr., Amy Linden, Mark
Parra, Kenny McMurphy
A group of college kids on a ski trip
leads to self-evaluation, then a mountain
climbing accident forces the issues.
THE INVITATION
Drama/Thriller
Language: English
Director: Pat Bermel
Producer: Patrick Ramsey, Mathew
Robert Kelly
Cast: Lance Henriksen, Christopher
Shyer, Stellina Rusich, Sarah-Jane
Redmond, Douglas O’Keefe
Ronald Levy is a great writer – a teller of
tales – setter of scenes. But the six guests
he has invited to his island home are in
for a scene they could have never
imagined. They have one night to
confess the lies on which their lives are
built – or die.
WORLD WRESTLING
ENTERTAINMENT,
INC.
World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.,
1241 East Main Street, Stamford CT
06902 USA.Tel: 203.328.2511. Fax:
203.359.5168. www.wwe.com
At MIPCOM: Andrew Whitaker (Senior
Vice President & Managing Director,
International TV), Jennifer Tacujan
(Director, International TV & Affiliate
Relations), Dominic Hayes (Director,
International TV), Alex Romer (Director,
International Licensing), Thomas Sitrin
(Sales Representative, International TV
& Affiliate Relations), Michael Coffey
(Assistant, International TV & Affiliate
Relations)
Office: 12.02, Tel: 33.4.92.99.80.60
RAW
Live Action (52 x 1 hour episodes) (also
available in a 2-hour version)
RAW features an incredible roster of
“larger-than-life” Superstars. It combines
in-ring matches with over-the-top
athleticism and intriguing storylines.
SMACKDOWN!
Live Action (52 x 1 hour episodes) (also
available in a 2-hour version)
WILD BUNCH
Wild Bunch, 99 rue de la Verrerie, 75004
Paris, France. Tel: 33.1.53.01.50.24.
Fax: 33.1.53.01.50.49.
www.wildbunch.biz,
ssimonutti@exception-wb.com
At MIPCOM: Carole Baraton (Sales),
Vincent Maraval (Sales), Gaël Nouaille
(Sales)
Office: 16.11, Tel: 33.4.92.99.82.75
WILD BUNCH has a catalogue of over a
hundred feature films including
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Guaranteed to blow the lid off television
worldwide, SMACKDOWN! is a liveevent program with a brilliant array of
talent.
SPECIALS
Live Action (12 x 2.5 hour episodes)
(also available in a 3-hour version)
No one features unique and emotional
stories, unparalleled athleticism and
larger-than-life confrontations like World
Wrestling Entertainment.
VELOCITY
Live Action (52 x 1 hour episodes)
This one-hour, live-event show features
Superstars from “SmackDown!”.
VELOCITY showcases original matches
and entertaining storylines.
CONFIDENTIAL
Magazine (52 x 1 hour episodes)
CONFIDENTIAL provides an insider’s
look at the world of sports-entertainment,
redefining what people thought they
knew about their favorite WWE
Superstars and shows.
Z
ZENPIX, INC.
Zenpix, Inc., 3599 Cahuenga Blvd. West,
3rd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90068 USA.
Tel: 323.878.0404. Fax: 323.878.0486.
sales@promarkgroup.com
At MIPCOM: Susan Jackson (CoPresident), Jonathan Kramer (CoPresident), Eric Bernstein (Vice
Office: 03.21, Tel: 33.4.92.99.8146
ANNE B. REAL
Drama (95 min.)
Language: English
Director: Lisa France
Producer: Luis A. Moro, Josselyne
Herman
Cast: Janet “J-Nyce” Richardson, Julia
Mora, Omas Diaz, David Zayas
Origin: USA
Cynthia Gimenez is a young girl in the
New York ghetto who tries to ease the
pain of loneliness, shyness and urban life
by hiding in her diary.
HUNTING OF MAN
Thriller (95 min.)
Language: English
Director: Joe Menendez
Producer: Roni Eguia Menendez, Susan
Jackson, Jon Kramer
Cast: Douglas Spain, JoJo Henrickson,
Ruben Garfias, Jill-Michele Melean,
Manolo Travieso
“Hunting of Man” is an edgy film noir
thriller about a young Latino man who
must stop his hotheaded younger brother
from carrying out revenge.
VENUS AND MARS
Romantic Comedy (90 min.)
Language: English
Director: Harry Mastrogeorge
Producer: Bernd F. Lunkewitz, Emmo
Lempert, Uwe Schott
Cast: Daniela Amavia, Ryan Hurst, Lynn
Redgrave, Michael Weatherly, Julie
Bowen
Origin: Germany
Kay Vogel may only be 26 but she’s
already given up on love, blaming it as
the cause of her worst mistakes.
NO TURNING BACK
Drama (103 min.)
Language: English/Spanish
Director: Jesus Nebot
Producer: Eduardo Campoy, Jesus Nebot
Cast: Jesus Nebot, Chelsea Rendon,
Vernee Watson-Johnson, Susan Haskell
Pablo is an illegal US immigrant hoping
to build a better future for his young
T HE B USINESS
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