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MIFED Product Guide - HOME Connect to Daily Editions @ Berlin
MIFED
A
A.V. RELEASING
CORPORATION
A.V. Releasing Corporation, 410 S.
Lincoln Blvd #132, Venice, CA 90291
USA. Tel: 310.392.5844.
Fax: 310.392.9711.
Website: www.vreleasing.com,
email: exmedia@comcast.net
At Mifed: Andrew Van Slee (President),
Elke Kummerow (VP of Distribution)
Office: Hall 25/2 Stand A-27
ADAM & EVIL
Horror
Language: English
Director: Andrew Van Slee
Producer: Steven Popper
Key Cast: Sean Arnfinson, Barbara
Kottmeier, Brody Harms, Lynsey
Brothers, Erica Cerra, Kevin Robson,
Jeffrey Fisher, Jodie Graham, Allison
Warnyca
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003, Country of
Origin: USA
A psychotic killer stalks a group of
graduating seniors on a camping trip.
THREAT OF EXPOSURE
Thriller (96:35)
Language: English
Director: Tom Whitus
Producer: Dennis Fallon
Key Cast: Sean Young, William Devane
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002, Country of
Origin: USA
A man poses as a hypnotherapist's patient
to find the truth about his missing
brother.
NET GAMES
Thriller (98 minutes)
Director: English
Language: Andrew Van Slee
Producer: Andrew Van Slee
Key Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Samuel
Ball, Lala Sloatman, Marina Sirtis,
Reggie Lee, Ed Begley Jr., Maeve
Quinlan, Monique DeMers and Lochlyn
Munro
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002, Country of
Origin: USA
A married man is unwittingly drawn into
a voyeuristic Internet affair the becomes
a chillingly horrific fatal attraction.
TOTALLY BLONDE
Romantic Comedy (100 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Andrew Van Slee
Producer: Andrew Van Slee
Key Cast: Krista Allen, Michael Buble,
Maeve Quinlan, Brody Hutzler, Mindy
Sterling and Colin Mochrie
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2001, Country of
Origin: USA
A sexy brunette dyes her hair blonde to
change her life.
2003
PRODUCT GUIDE
TRANCERS 6
Sci-Fi (88 minutes)
Year of Production: 2002, Country of
Origin: USA
Delivery Status: In Development
REVENGE OF THE EXTRAS
Comedy
Director: Andrew Van Slee set to produce
and direct
Cast: TBD
Delivery Status: Pre-Production. Shoot
is scheduled for July 2004
The cast and crew are no match for the
extras in this underdog revenge comedy.
AB SVENSK
INDUSTRI
AB Svensk Industri, Greta Garbos VÄG
11-13, Stockholm, 169 86 Sweden.
Tel: 46.8.680.35.00. Fax: 46.8.710.44.22.
Website: www.sfsales.se
At MIFED: Rasmus Ramstad (President CEO), Ann-Kristin Westerberg (Sr. V.P.,
Head of Int'l Div.), Robert Enmark (Sr.
V.P., Head of Acq.), Kajsa Hedstrom
(V.P. Int'l Distribution), Peter Formstam
(Acq. Consultant)
Office: Pavillion 10/II, stand 23 B
LET'S PLAY HOUSE
Drama/comedy (100 minutes)
Language: Swedish
Director: Kjell-Åke Andersson
Producer: Jan Blomgren
Co-Production Partners: AB Svensk
Industri
Key Cast: Torkel Petersson, Maria
Bonnevie, Sven Nordin
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003, Country of
Origin: Sweden
Can true love be built, just the way we’d
like it?
QUEEN OF SHEBA'S PEARLS
Drama
Language: English
Director: Colin Nutely
Producer: Colin Nutely, Sweetwater
Rights AB
Co-Production Partners: AKA Pictures,
AB Svensk Industri, TV4
Key Cast: Eileen Atkins (The Hours,
Gosford Park), Helena Bergström (Under
the sun), Tim Dutton (Ally McBeal),
Peter Vaughan (The Mother)
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2003-04, Country of
Origin: Sweden/UK
The Queen of Sheba is a glittering slice
of magical realism, a meditation on the
cycle of life and the mysteries of eternal
recurrence.
POPULAR MUSIC
Drama Comedy
Director: Swedish
Language: Reza Bagher
Producer: Joachim Stridsberg, Happy
End Productions AB
Co-Production Partners: AB Svensk
Industri, Solar S Oy, Pool Nord
Key Cast: Niklas Ulfvarsson, Max
Endefors, Tommy Vallikari, Kati Outinen
(Man without a past)
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2003-04, Country of
Origin: Sweden/Finland
Based on the bestselling novel by Mikael
Niemi
It is the mid-60s and Rock n’ Roll is
about to set the world alight.
ABSOLUTELY
INDEPENDENT
Absolutely Independent,
Nieuwendammerkade 26 M 6,
Amsterdam 1022 AB The Netherlands.
Tel: 31.20.4905.200.
Fax: 31.20.490.5151.
Website: www.absolutely.nl,
email: info@absolutely.nl
ALL STARS
Comedy (109')
Language: Dutch
Director: Jean van der Velde
Producer: M+B 3 BV
Co-Production Partners: Mischa
Alexander and Rolf Koot
Key Cast: Anthonie Kamerling, Thomas
Acda, Danny de Munk, Daniel
Boissevain, Peter Paul Muller, Raymi
Sambo,Kaspar van Kooten
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: The Netherlands
Being a winner is not for all of us.
However, a good team is all you need.
Sunday is the best day of the week.
Friends forever.
ADRIANA CHIESA
ENTERPRISES
Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, Via
Barnaba Oriani 24/A - 00197 Rome,
Italy. Tel: 39.0680.86052. Fax:
39.0680.86052.
At Mifed: Adriana Chiesa Di Palma
(President), Rossella Gori (Head of
sales), Celine Dalix (Assistant)
Office: E06 - Hall 10/3°
AGATA AND THE STORM
Comedy
Language: Italian With English Subtitles
Director: Silvio Soldini
Production Company: Albachiara, Amka
Film, Mercury In Association With
Lumiere & Co.
Cast: Licia Maglietta (Pane E Tulipani),
Giuseppe Battiston (Pane E Tulipani),
Emilio Solfrizzi, Marina Massironi
(Pane E Tulipani)
Status: In Post-Production
Country of origin: ITALY
Scents, colours, feelings of lives that
interweave. Agata a beautiful and gentle
woman suddenly finds herself in the
midst of a raging storm of passions.
THE CARD PLAYER
Psycho-Thriller
Language: English
Director: Dario Argento
Production Company: Medusa Film Opera Film
Cast: Stefania Rocca, Liam Cunningham,
Claudio Santamaria, Silvio Muccino,
Fiore Argento
Status: In Post-Production
Country of Origin: Italy
A serial-killer challenges the police
through a videogame.
Spring Breeze - Cinema Service
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THE WEDDING DRESS (IL
VESTITO DA SPOSA)
Thriller
Language: Italian With English Subtitles
Director: Fiorella Infascelli
Production Company: Palomar Endemol
Cast: Maya Sansa (Buongiorno Notte By
Marco Bellocchio), Andrea Di Stefano
(Angela By Roberta Torre), Piera Degli
Esposti
Status: First Market Screening
Country of Origin: Italy
Joyful, happy moments, brutally shattered
at sunset when a sudden and disturbing
event changes completely Stella's life.
RUNAWAY (IL FUGGIASCO)
Thriller
Language: Italian With English Subtitles
Director: Andrea Manni
Production Company: Feelmax - Rai
Cinema
Cast: Daniele Liotti, Roberto Citran,
Joaquim De Almeida
Status: First Market Screening
Country of Origin: Italy
11 trials – 86 judges – 6 years in prison –
5 years on the run. The true story of a
fugitive on the run from Italy to France,
to Mexico to prove his innocence.
LOST LOVE (PERDUTO AMOR)
Sentimental Comedy
Language: Italian With English Subtitles
Director: Franco Battiato
Production Company: Ottava - Sidercar
Cast: Corrado Fortuna, Donatella
Finocchiaro (Angela By Roberta Torre)
Status: First Market Screening
Country of Origin: Italy
An exceptional lyrical fresco of Italy in
the sixties through the experiences of life
of a young Sicilian with a passion for
music and later his success as a writer.
SUMMER & FALL - LOVE &
BROKEN HEARTS (PASSATO
PROSSIMO)
Ironic, Sentimental Comedy
Language: Italian With English Subtitles
Director: Maria Sole Tognazzi
Production Company: Medusa Film Seal Production
Cast: Valentina Cervi, Paola Cortellesi,
Claudio Santamaria
Status: First Market Screening
Country of Origin: Italy
A film that focuses on the generation of
twenty years-olds.
LITTLE MORE THAN A YEAR AGO DIARY OF A MALE PORN STAR
(POCO PIU' DI UN ANNO FA)
Erotic-Drama (101 min)
Language: Italian With English Subtitles
Directed By: Marco Filiberti
Production Company: Campitella
Productions - Corsaro Production
Cast: Marco Filiberti, Urbano Barberini,
Alessandra Acciai, Rosalinda Celentano
Status: Market Screening
Country of Origin: Italy
The last year in the life of famous gay
porn star, Riki Kandinsky, fifteen years
after his mysterious death.
GINGER AND CINNAMON (DILLO
CON PAROLE MIE)
Comedy
Language: Italian With English Subtitles
Directed By: Daniele Luchetti
Production Company: Conchita Airoldi
For Studiocanal Urania
Cast: Stefania Montorsi, Giampaolo
Morelli, Martina Merlino, Alberto Cucca
Status: Market Screening
Country of Origin: Italy
A comedy-of-errors.
IT'S NOT OUR FAULT (MA CHE
COLPA ABBIAMO NOI)
Comedy (154 min)
Language: Italian With English Subtitles
Directed By: Carlo Verdone
Production Company: Warner Bros.
Pictures - Virginia S.R.L.
Cast: Carlo Verdone, Margherita Buy,
Anita Caprioli, Stefano Pesce, Antonio
Catania
Status: Market Screening
Country of Origin: Italy
Eight magnificent neurotics in search of
a shrink!
THE LEGEND OF AL, JOHN AND
JACK
Comedy (95 min)
Language: Italian With English Subtitles
Directed By: Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo
And Massimo Venier
Production Company: Paolo Guerra For
A.Gi.Di. And Medusa Film
Cast: Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti,
Giacomo Poretti
Country of origin: Italy
The exhilarating comedy of three
gangsters in New York, set in the fifties.
A pure comedy with a dizzying rhythm
that at times makes them seem like the
grandchildren of the Marx brothers.
ALLIANCE ATLANTIS
Alliance Atlantis, 121 Bloor St. East,
Suite 1500, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M4W 3M5. Tel: 416.967.1174.
Fax: 416.960.0971
At Mifed: Charlotte Mickie (Managing
Director, International Motion Picture
Sales, Entertainment Group), Irene Read
(Managing Director, International
Distribution, Asia & Australasia), Ariel
Veneziano (Director, International
Motion Pictures Sales and Home Video
Distribution, Entertainment Group), Ted
Riley (President, Distribution,
Entertainment Group), Victor Loewy
(CEO, Motion Picture Distribution
Group), Patrice Theroux (President,
Motion Picture Distribution Group)
Office: Fiera Milano, Pavilion 26/2,
Stand E04, Tel: 39.02.4342.3207.
Fax: 39.02.4342.3208
FOOLPROOF
Caper
Director: William Phillips
Producers: Bill House, Seaton McLean
Exec Producers: Peter Sussman, Atom
Egoyan
London Head Office Phone
44 207 372 9992
London Office FAX
44 207 372 9993
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Kristin Booth,
Joris Jarsky and David Suchet
Status: Completed/screening
Origin: Canada
These three friends have dead-end day
jobs but a kick-ass hobby -- plotting
seamless virtual crimes.
GAME OVER: KASPAROV AND
THE MACHINE
Documentary
Director: Vikram Jayanti
Producers: Andre Singer, Hal Vogel
Executive Producers: Andre Singer, Andy
Thomson, Nick Fraser, Paul Trijbits, Tom
Perlmutter, Eric Michel
Status: Completed/screening
Origin: Canada/UK
A high-tech corporate thriller set in the
fascinating world of chess.
HOW MY MOTHER GAVE BIRTH
TO ME DURING MENOPAUSE
(COMMENT MA MERE
ACCOUCHA DE MOI DURANT SA
MÉNOPAUSE)
Drama
Director: Sébastien Rose
Producers: Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal
Cast: Micheline Lanctôt, Paul Ahmarani
Status: Completed/screening
Origin: Canada
At thirty, Jean Charles still lives on – er rather intimate terms with his mother and
his sister, but his new girlfriend should
change all that. Or maybe not.
THE BLUE BUTTERFLY
Drama
Director: Léa Pool
Producers: Francine Allaire, Arnie
Gelbart, Claude Bonin, Michael Haggiag
Cast: William Hurt, Pascale Bussières,
Marc Donato
Status: Completed/screening
Origin: Canada
Based on a true story, a terminally ill 10year-old boy persuades a renowned
entomologist to take him on a trip to the
rain forests of Central and South America
in search for the mythic and elusive Blue
Morpho butterfly.
THE STATION AGENT
Drama
Director: Tom McCarthy
Producers: Mary Jane Skalski, Robert
May, Kathryn Tucker
Cast: Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson,
Bobby Cannavale
Status: Completed/screening
Origin: US
Audience Award, Best Screenplay, Best
Performance - Sundance Film Festival
Special Jury Award - San Sebastián Film
Festival
A mismatched threesome forge an
unlikely bond, which ultimately reveals
that even isolation is better shared.
MILWAUKEE, MINNESOTA
Drama
Director: Allan Mindel
Producers: Michael J. Brody, Jeff
Kirshbaum and Allan Mindel
Executive Producers: Frances Grill,
Joseph Grill
Cast: Troy Garity, Alison Folland, Bruce
Dern, Randy Quaid
Status: Completed/screening
Origin: U.S.
Albert can hear the fish talking under the
ice. That's his secret to winning hundreds
of thousands of dollars in prize money as
a champion ice fisherman.
SERAPHIN: HEART OF STONE
(SERAPHIN: UN HOMME ET SON
PÉCHÉ)
Drama
Director: Charles Binamé
Producers: Lorraine Richard
Exec Producers: Vivianne Morin, Louis
Laverdière, Guy Gagnon, Patrick Roy
Cast: Pierre Lebeau, Karine Vanasse,
Roy Dupuis
Status: Completed/screening
Origin: Canada
In a noble effort to save her father from
ruin, a beautiful young woman marries a
despicable miser despite her continuing,
clandestine love for another man.
FAR SIDE OF THE MOON (LA
FACE CACHEE DE LA LUNE)
Drama
Director / Writer: Robert Lepage
Producers: Bob Krupinski, Mario StLaurent
Executive Producers: Daniel Langlois,
Robert Lepage
Cast: Robert Lepage, Anne-Marie
Cadieux. Marco Poulin
Status: Completed
Origin: Canada
Adapted from Lepage's criticallyacclaimed stage play of the same name,
Far Side of the Moon is an exploration of
duality--of the moon with its two faces.
TOUCH OF PINK
Comedy
Director / Writer: Ian Iqbal Rashid
Producers: Jennifer Kawaja, Martin
Pope, Julia Sereny
Executive Producers: Charlotte Mickie
Cast: Jimi Mistry, Kyle MacLachlan,
Kristen Holden-Ried, Suleka Mathew
Status: Post- Production
Origin: Canada/UK
Alim is confused. His imaginary friend
from childhood, the ghost of Cary Grant,
keeps telling him to live a lie -- just like
in the movies -- and so far it's worked!
CHEMINS DE TRAVERSE
Drama
Director / Writer: Manuel Poirier
Producers: Philippe Godeau, Luis Angel
Bellaba, Rodolfo Montero, Andrea De
Liberato
Executive Producers: Gavin Emerson
Cast: Sergi López, Kevin Miranda
Status: Post-Production
Origin: France/Spain/Italy/UK
Father and son travel on a unique journey
as they cross Brittany in the hope of a
better life.
Being Julia - Myriad Pictures
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ALLIED
ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP, INC.
Allied Entertainment Group, Inc.,
8899 Beverly Blvd., Suite 911,
West Hollywood, CA 90048, USA.
Tel: 310.271.0703. Fax: 310.271.0706.
email: info@alliedentertainment.com
At Mifed: Mr. James Moder (Chairman),
Mr. David Newman (VP), Ms. Janet Y.
Liu (VP Sales Consultant, Asia)
Office: Booth B35, Hall 10, Level 2
NIGHT ALL DAY
Action / Psychological Thriller (94 min)
Director: Basil Schlegel
Producer: Sandra Fragel
Starring: George Tasudis ("White
Oleander", "City of Angels"), Ilia Volok
("Airforce One" "Swordfish"), Olga Vilner
Year of Production: 2003
A young and seemingly angelic girl,
Sady (Olga Vilner), comes to L.A.
following clues to the mysterious
disappearance of her father.
LAS VEGAS WARRIOR
Action (97 min) NEW
Director / Producer: Nastasha Baron
Starring: Laurie Hanley, Suk Woo Nam
Year of Production: 2002
When a martial arts fighter gets killed
during a bare fisted kick-boxing fight, an
investigative journalist decides to pursue
this story and follows Suk into the depth of
the world of illegal underground fighting.
THROTTLE
Action-Thriller (92 min) NEW
Director: Atul Sharma
Producer: Atul Sharma & Cheryl Bedford
Starring: Liam Watson, Jody Booth
Year of Production: 2002
Jon, a career criminal, gets out of prison
determined to live it up in Baja with
millions that he and his only friend,
George, stole from a Drug Cartel. Things
change when they find George and
savagely murder him and his wife.
HORRORVISION
Horror (85 min)
Director: Danny Draven
Producer: J.R. Bookwalter and Scott Phillips
Starring: Jake Leonard, James Black as
"Bradbury" ("The Return", "Out of
Sight"), and Special Appearance by
Scream Queen Brinke Stevens
("Sideshow", "Victoria's Shadow")
Year of Production: 2001
Dez, a web master, mistakenly logs onto
"horrorvision.com" - a website that kills
all who come across it.
HOME SWEET HOBOKEN
Comedy (92 min)
Director: Yoshifumi Hosoya
Producers: Yuko Yoshikawa & Daisuke
Sekiguchi
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Elizabeth Ashley,
Richard Kind ("Spin City"), Aida
Turturro ("The Sopranos")
Year of Production: 2000
Beth is a waitress in a Hoboken diner
who's raised two good-for-nothing
grandsons. When an appraiser offers her
cash for some old jewelry, she discovers
that a ring she thought was worthless is
actually a rare Louis XV diamond valued
at $10 million!
PUPS
Action Drama (95 min) *Premiered on HBO*
Director: Ash
Producer: Daniel Berger
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Mischa Barton
("Sixth Sense", "Notting Hill"), Cameron
Von Hoy Year of Production: 1999
Chronicles the story of a rebellious
teenager who finds his mother's gun, and
instead of heading to his suburban
school, he embarks on a spontaneous
bank robbery with his girlfriend (Barton)
that holds the nation's attention.
PLANET PATROL
Sci Fi Action (72 min)
Director: Russ Mazzolla
Producer: Kirk Edward Hansen
Starring: Michael David, Anthony
Furlong, Robert Garcia
Year of Production: 1999
Four teen members of the galactic patrol,
dedicated to protecting the citizens of the
Universe from evil intelligence forces,
face the battle of a lifetime.
TOTEM
Horror (80 min)
Director: Martin Tate
Producer: Kirk Edward Hansen
Starring: Marissa Tait ("The Bold & the
Beautiful"), Jason Faunt, Eric Edwards
Year of Production: 1999
Three teenage guys and their prom-queen
wanabee friends find themselves
mysteriously drawn against their will to a
forgotten cemetery in the middle of
nowhere.
FLESH GORDON I
Comedy (90 min)
Director: Michael Benveniste
Producer: Howard Ziehm
Starring: Jason Williams, Cindy Hopkins,
Joseph Hudgins
Year of Production: 1974
Football player Flesh Gordon teams up
with his girlfriend, Dale Ardent, and
Professor Flexi Jerkoff to travel to Planet
Poro, where he must defeat Emperor
Wang and his galactic sex ray.
FLESH GORDON II
Comedy (90 min)
Director: Howard Ziehm, Producer:
Maurice Smith
Starring: Vince Murdocco, Robyn Kelly,
Tony Travis
Year of Production: 1986
In his daring quest to save Earth from
galactic impotence, Flesh Gordon joins
forces with the Cosmic Cheerleaders,
travels down the Mammary Mountains to
the land of the Massive Penetrator to have
his final showdown with Emperor Wang.
FATE
Psychological Thriller
Language: English
Director: Ace Cruz ducer: Ace Cruz
Cast: Lee Majors, Philip Michael
Thomas, Michael Pare
Delivery Status: post production
Year of Production: 2002, Country of
Origin: United States
Budget: $2.5 million
Detective Cody Martin (Michael Pare)
and Detective Ciprian Raines (Philip
Michael Thomas) hunt a killer (Lee
Majors) who is using his victims as
characters in a demented story.
MENACE
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Amir Mann
Producer: Dana Janklowicz-Mann
Cast: Laura Rogers, Robert Mammana,
Patrick Belton
Delivery Status: Complete
Country of Origin: United States
Escaping an abusive relationship,
Michelle and her 10 year old daughter
return to the house she grew up in.
Hidden in the house are diamonds and
one climatic night the burglars come
back to get them.
THE STRIKE
Action (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Donald Farmer
Producer: Andre Buckner
Cast: Andre Buckner, Tony Luke
Delivery Status: Complete
Year of Production: 2001, Country of
Origin: United States
Sibling rivalry takes on a new dimension
as a former cop battling his demons tries
to win back the trust of the younger brother,
a kickboxing champ who has become
part of an underground fight circuit.
SLEEPLESS NIGHTS
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: William Hopkins
Producer: Howard Nash
Cast: Jacqueline Anderson, Matthew
Thomas, Duke York
Delivery Status: Complete
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: United States
A hunter turned vampire teams up with a
member of a government vampire
hunting organization to go after a
vampire looking to take over the world.
ON THE DOWN -N LOW
Action (82 min)
Language: English
Director: Andre Buckner
Cast: Andre Buckner, Vince C. Gresham,
Brian Wicker
Delivery Status: Complete
Country of Origin: United States
Story of two good cops who hit the
streets to uncover the mobs drug game
and corruption that lies deep inside the
police force.
AMERICA VIDEO
FILMS S A
America Video Films S A, Virrey Loreto
2426, Capital Federal 1426 Rep.
Argentina. Tel: 54.11.4787.9098 / 9101.
Fax: 5411.4787.9094.
america@americavideofilms.com
At Mifed: Enrique Maya (President),
Beba Maya (Public Relations), Freddie
Hancock (Senior V.P. Acquisitions),
Nicholas Bingham (Adviser), Claudio
Braslavsky (Marketing Director), Utako
Niimi (Japanese Consultant), María
Fernanda Fernández Vila (Business
Affairs)
Office: Stand A38 - Hall 8, Tel:
3902.4342.3025 / 3026
WEDDING NIGHT
Comedy (92 min)
Language: French w/English subtitles
Director: Emile Caudreault
Producer: Denise Robert Daniel Louis
Principal Cast: Francois Morency,
Genevieve Brouillette
Delivery Status: Completed/Screening
Country of origin: Canada
Florence and Nicolas are not as afraid of
marriage as they are of uniting their own
families into one big family!
ALPHA FILM GROUP,
INC
Alpha Film Group, Inc, 216 South Main
Street Alpharetta, Georgia 30004 USA.
Tel: 770.740.1962. Fax: 770.740.1046.
Website: www.alphafilmgroup.com,
email: afg@alphafilmgroup.com.
Company Type: Distributor
At Mifed: Ray Guthrie (CEO), Ace Cruz
(Director); Acquisition Executive: Susan
Viggiano
Office: 770.740.1962, Tel: 770.560.2277.
Fax: 770.740.1046
Golden Swallow - Celestial Pictures
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DEVIL'S ARITHMETIC
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Donna Deitch
Producer: Dustin Hoffman Mimi Rogers
Principal Cast: Kirsten Dunst , Brittany
Murphy
Delivery Status: Completed/Screening on
VHS
Country of origin: USA
A young woman is magically transported
into a WWII Nazi death camp.
FIDEL & CHE
Action (200 min)
Language: English
Director: David Attwood
Producer: David V. Picker
Principal Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal ,
Victor Hugo Martin
Delivery Status: Completed/Screening on
Videocassette
Country of origin: USA
The explosive untold true story of Fidel
Castro and Che Guevara´s rise to power.
VARIAN´S WAR
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Lionel Chetwynd
Producer: Barbra Streisand Cis Corman
and Edward Wessex
Principal Cast: William Hurt , Julia Ormond
Delivery Status: Completed/ Screening
on videocassette
Country of origin: USA
The untold true story of World War II and
an ordinary man who saved those without
hope from a fate no one could imagine.
VORTEX / INFERNO
Science Fiction (90 min)
Language: German / English
Producer: ; Clarens Grollman / Teun Hilte
Director: Michael Pohl / Paul Kousoulides
Principal Cast: Harry Krugger, Jr. /
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Delivery Status: Completed/Screening on
Videocassette
Country of origin: Germany/UK
In the future, punishment is unlike
anything you've seen before.
AMERICAN CINEMA
INTERNATIONAL
American Cinema International,
4640 Lankershim Blvd Suite 500,
N. Hollywood, CA 91602 USA.
Tel: 818.985.8500. Fax: 818.985.4848.
www.aci-americancinema.com
At Mifed: George Shamieh (CEO),
Chevonne O'Shaughnessy (President)
Office: Pad 8 Booth Number B-34, Tel:
818.445.3812
FALCON
Action (91 minutes)
Director: William Web
Producer: William Webb
Cast: Stephen Baldwin
To live a new life he must kill the past.
TARGET
Action (91 minutes)
Director: William Web
Producer: William Webb
Cast: Stephen Baldwin, James Russo,
Deborah Worthing, Yorgo Constantine
and Debra Wilson
Delivery Status: Screening in the office
When you become the "Target", in an
Army Sniper's game.
HATCHETMAN
Horror (93 minutes)
Director: Robert Tiffe
Cast: Cheryle Burns, Nina Tapanin, Chris
Moir, and Jon Briddell
Producer: George Shamieh
Claudia Wagner's dream to become a
lawyer seems almost within reach when
her girlfriends and co-workers start
turning up dead, victims of a brutal serial
killer.
Girl with a Pearl Earring - Pathé International
LOCO LOVE
Romantic Comedy (93 minutes)
Director: Bryan Lewis
Producer: Bryan Lewis
Cast: Laura Elena Harring, Roy Werner,
Gerardo Mejia, Margaret Scarborough,
Frank Gallegos
Love moved in. and so did the rest of the
family.
WILDFIRE
Family/Disaster (93 minutes)
Cast: Michael Preston, Jordan Seider,
Claire Smithies, Bob Lauder and Jr. Brad
Sergi
Director: Henri Charr
Producer: Jess Mancilla
The biggest fire of the season.
AMERICAN WORLD
PICTURES
American World Pictures, 6355 Topanga
Canyon Boulevard, Suite 428,
Woodland Hills, CA 91367 – USA.
Tel: 818.715.1480. Fax: 818.715.1081.
Website: www.americanworldpictures.com.
Email: info@americanworldpictures.com
At Mifed: Mark Lester (President), Dana
Dubovsky (President of Production),
Terese Linden Kohn (Executive VP of
Distribution), Lawrence Silverstein (VP
of Acquisitions and Co-Productions)
Office: E08 Pavillion 26/2
FUGITIVES FOR A DAY
Action/Comedy
Director: Philip Spink
Producer: Jack Clements, Eda Lishman,
Lars Lehmann, Bob Neufeld, Chad Oaks,
Mike Frislev
Cast: David Hasselhoff, Michael Moriarty
Delivery Status: Completed
A washed-up rodeo cowboy (David
Hasselhoff) and a corporate Indian
(Gordon Tootoosis) find themselves
unlikely partners on the run after they're
mistaken as the culprits of a huge heist!
DARKHUNTERS
Horror
Director: Johannes Roberts
Producer: Caroline Hancock
Cast: Dominique Pinon, Susan Paterno
and Jeff Fahey
Delivery Status: Completed
Charlie (Dominique Pinon) is dead, but
his soul has been left behind - trapped
between realms.
WILD ROOMIES
Sexy Comedy
Director: Oliver Robins
Producer: Michael Baumgarten
Cast: A. J. Buckley, Holly Fields,
Jennifer Lyons
Delivery Status: Completed
Reno (A. J. Buckley) is worried that his
new roommates, Chad and Nicole
(Jennifer Lyons), want to sleep with his
girlfriend Holly (Holly Fields).
TWO DAYS
Drama
Director: Sean McGinly
Producer: Mohit Ramchandani
Executive Producer: Jonathan Roberts
Cast: Paul Rudd, Donal Logue,
Mackenzie Astin, Adam Scott
Delivery Status: Completed
Paul Miller (Paul Rudd) has struggled in
Hollywood for years, and now he's had
enough. But not just of show business life. In two days, he will kill himself.
KEEPER OF SOULS
Horror
Director: Tim Card
Producer: Tim Card
Cast: R. G. Armstrong, Kelly Rowen,
Tim Card, Graham Timbes
Delivery Status: Completed
The sleepy southern town of Grove Hill
harbors a deadly secret. The Keeper of
Souls lives in its shadows, a demon cast
out of New England centuries ago.
KNIGHT CLUB
Thriller
Director: Russell Gannon
Producers: Jim Lofti, Rob Nittolo, Tony
Rosamillia
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Lochlyn
Munro
Delivery Status: Completed
A young man (Lochlyn Munro) stumbles
upon a job as a bouncer at a hip LA night
club.
TULLY
Drama
Director: Hilary Birmingham
Producer: Anne Sundberg and Hilary
Birmingham
Cast: Anson Mount, Julianne Nicholson
Delivery Status: Completed
"Tully" explores a legacy of love
between a family of men, and the events
of one summer that change their world
forever.
MENACE
Action/Thriller
Director: John Marino
Producers: Spencer Thornton, Johnny
Ciarcia, S. Woody Wagner
Cast: Johnny Green, Alison Lohman
Delivery Status: Completed
Brian Lovero, (Johnny Green), equal
parts hustler and idealist, gets by as best
he can by selling dope and running petty
scams.
HELLBREEDER
Horror
Director/Producer: Johannes Roberts and
James Eaves
Cast: Dominique Pinon, Lydie Uphill,
Darren Day, Tina Barnes
Delivery Status: Completed
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: Mark L. Lester and Dana
Dubovsky
Cast: Judd Nelson, Louis Mandylor
Delivery Status: Completed
A group of young tourist couples come
across a drug deal gone bad while on
vacation.
The Business Of Film
Now in its
24th year
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ARCLIGHT FILMS
Arclight Films, 1201/39 McLaren Street,
North Sydney, 2060, Australia.
Tel: 61.2.99558825. Fax: 61.2.99558828.
Website: www.arclightfilms.com,
email: info@arclightfilms.com.
Company Type: Sales agent, distributor
At Mifed: Gary Hamilton (Managing
Director), Nicolas Chartier (VP World
Wide Sales), Ian Gibbins (General
Manager), Michael Cowan (Co-Head
Production & Acquisition), Jason Piette
(Co-Head Production & Acquisition);
Acquisition Executive: John Kim
Office: Pavilion (Hall) 25, A 16 (Level 2),
Tel: 02.4342.3063. Fax: 02.4342.3064
MERCHANT OF VENICE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Michael Radford
Producer: Cary Brokaw (THE PLAYER),
Michael Cowan, Jason Piette
Co-production partners: Spice Factory
Cast: Al Pacino, Ian McKellan, Joseph
Fiennes (additional cast to be announced
at Mifed).
Delivery Status: pre production
Shakespeare?s story of lovers who make
hasty commitments and come to
understand that life is not so simple.
COMING OUT
Musical Comedy
Language: English
Director: Joel Zwick (MY BIG FAT
GREEK WEDDING)
Producer: Catherine Zeta Jones, David Jones
Cast: Catherine Zeta Jones, Alan Cummings
Delivery Status: pre production
An entertainer returns to his home town
to drum a motley rugby team into shape
with his stage skills.
A DIFFERENT LOYALTY
Spy Thriller
Language: English
Director: Marek Kanievska (WHERE THE
MONEY IS, ANOTHER COUNTRY)
Producer: Spice Factory, Demitri Samaha
Productions
Cast: Sharon Stone, Rupert Everett
Delivery Status: post
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: UK
A spirited woman turns her world upside
down to be with the man she loves. But
when she discovers he?s a Russian spy,
her love will be put to tests no-one
should have to face.
HEAD IN THE CLOUDS
Romance
Language: English
Director: John Duigan (SIRENS, FLIRTING,
THE YEAR MY VOICE BROKE)
Producer: Bertil Ohlsson, Maxime
Remillard, Andre Rouleau, Jonathon
Olsberg,
Michael Cowan, Jason Piette.
Co-production partners: Dakota Films,
Remstar, Tusk Productions, Spice
Factory in association with Movision
Cast: Charlize Theron, Penelope Cruz,
Stuart Townsend, Thomas Kretschmann
Delivery Status: post
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: UK
When 18 year old Guy Malyon takes up
a scholarship at Cambridge University
his world is forever changed.
LOVE’S BROTHER
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Academy Award Nominee Jan
Sardi (SHINE)
Producer: Academy Award Nominee Jane
Scott (SHINE), Sarah Radclyffe
Co-production partners: Great Scott and
Sarah Radclyffe Productions
Cast: Giovanni Ribisi (THE GIFT),
Adam Garcia (COYOTE UGLY), Amelia
Warner (QUILLS)
Delivery Status: post
Year of Production: 2003, Country of
Origin: Australia
In despair of ever finding love, shy
introverted Angelo uses a photo of his
handsome brother to convince a beautiful
Italian girl across the sea to marry him.
PIAZZA OF THE FIVE MOONS
Political Thriller
Language: English/Italian
Director: Renzo Martinelli
Producer: Co-production partners: Spice
Factory/Blue Star
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Giancarlo
Giannini, Stefania Rocca, Academy
Award Winner F. Murray Abraham.
Delivery Status: post
Year of Production: 2003, Country of
Origin: Italy
The arrival of a mysterious parcel
plunges a guileless magistrate into a
perilous web of political intrigue.
ARMADA PICTURES
INTERNATIONAL
Armada Pictures International, 9720
Wilshire Boulevard, 5th Floor, Beverly
Hills, CA 90212 USA. Tel. 310.205.9600.
Fax 310.205.9610.
At Mifed: Yarek Danielak (Vice
President, International Distribution)
Office: Hall 2, Office A32, Tel:
39.34.7899.8495
OVERNIGHT
Action Thriller
Producers: Doug Liman, Chris
Sievernich, Matt Milich
Status: Development
In the world of New York’s trendy, posh
nightclub and drug scene a case of
mistaken identity leads a young couple
into arms of dangerous underworld.
DRUM
Thriller
Exec Producers: Matt Milich, Andreas
Schmid, Andreas Grosch
Producers: Chris Sievernich, Rudolf
Wiechman
Director: Zola Maseko
Cast: Taye Diggs, Jason Flemyng
Status: In production
A pair of journalists risk their lives
exposing the brutal nature of the
Apartheid regime and ultimately help
spark the popular movement against
Apartheid.
FAMILY OF THE YEAR
Comedy
Producers: Chris Sievernich, Matt Milich
Director: TBA
Cast: Danny de Vito, Ray Liotta, Edi
Falco, Famke Janssen
Status: Pre-production
When the Miller family moves to a new
town, they have more problems getting
along with each other than with their
new neighbors.
ONE POINT O
Thriller
Exec Producers: Matt Milich, Andreas
Schmid, Andreas Grosch
Producer: Chris Sievernich
Directors: Jeff Renfroe, Marteinn
Thorsson
Cast: Jeremy Sisto, Deborah Unger, Udo
Kier
Status: screening / Ready for delivery
A young programmer becomes a guinea
pig in a major corporate advertising
experiment.
ARRI MEDIA
WORLDSALES
Tuerkenstr. 89, 80799 Munich, Bavaria,
Germany. Tel: 0049.89.3809.1288.
Fax: 0049.89.3809.1619.
website: www.arri-mediaworldsales.de,
email: AExacoustos@arri.de
Company Type: Sales Agent
At Mifed: Antonio Exacoustos (Head of
Worldsales)
Office: Stand no. C 12, Hall 10, Level 2,
Tel: 39.02.43.42.30.05
ARTEDIS
Artedis, 12 Rue Raynouard, 75016 Paris,
France. Tel: 331.5392.2929. Fax:
331.5392.2920.
email: ArtedisF@aol.com
At Mifed: Pierre-Richard Muller
(Director), Chantal Lam (Director);
Acquisition Executives: Pierre-Richard
Muller & Chantal Lam
Office: Hall 26-2 D12 (Lola Films), Tel:
39(0)333.522.9027
THE MOON IS RED
Drama
Delivery Status: completed
Country of Origin: France
Despite their difference of age, Charlotte
and Vincent have an intense love.
TRIGGERED (LES PERCUTES)
Thriller
Director: Gerard Cuq
Producer: Denis Karvil
Cast: Christophe Laubion, Bernard Farcy
Delivery Status: completed
Country of Origin: France
After celebrating a colleague's birthday, a
slightly drunk police detective goes into
his bank to ask for his credit card that
was just swallowed by the ATM
machine.
THE TARGET TO KILL (LA CIBLE)
Comedy/thriller
Director: Pierre Courege
Cast: Daniel Russo, Hippolyte Girardot,
Anemone.
Delivery Status: completed
Country of Origin: France
Chris, a young navy serviceman
desperate to find a lost love, tries to
enlist the help of a TV show star to help
him find his girlfriend.
THE POACHER (LA BRACONNE)
Comedy
Director: Serge Penard
Cast: Francis Perrin, Henri Guybet
Delivery Status: completed
Country of Origin: France
For young Jean, life in Normandy after
World War II takes on a new beginning
when he start living with his relatives.
THE SETTING SUN
Drama
Director: Tomono Ro
Cast: Kato Masaya, Diane Lane, Donald
Sutherland
Delivery Status: completed
Country of Origin: Japan
Set in the 1930's during the opium wars
between China and Japan, an idealistic
Japanese soldier is forced to question
alliances when he meets and falls in love
with the leader of the rebel movement in
Manchuria.
ARTEDIS LIBRARY
A collection of over 80 European Classic
Films including works by such Directors
as Claude Chabrol, Andre Techine,
Claude Sautet, Michel Deville, Just
Jaeckin, and Henry Verneuil among
others, offers a diverse selection of
adventure, comedy, drama, and eroticism.
ARTIST VIEW
ENTERTAINMENT
Artist View Entertainment, 12500
Riverside Drive, Ste. 201, N. Hollywood,
CA 91607 USA. Tel: 818.752.2480.
Fax: 818.752.9339.
email: artistview@earthlink.net
At Mifed: Scott J. Jones (President), Jay
E. Joyce (Vice President)
Office: Hall 8 A18
THE KISS
Drama (90 min)
Cast: Terence Stamp, Francoise Surel,
Billy Zane, Illeana Douglas, Eliza
Dushku
Country of Origin: 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
Year of Production: 2003
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
Year of Production: 2003
A former Navy Seal finds himself thrown
into a deadly game of survival with five
other players while being hunted for sport.
DEVIL'S KNIGHT
Action (95 min)
Cast: Elizabeth Alvarez, Martin Kove,
Garry Marshall, Pepe Serna
Year of Production: 2003
A US Army Specialist soldier learns of
her brothers deaths while training in the
Gulf She returns home to seek vengeance
for her brother's murders.
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ETERNAL BLOOD
Horror (90 min)
Cast: Juan Pablo Ogalde, Blanca Lewin,
Patricia Lopez, Carlos Borquez
Year of Production: 2003
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
Year of Production: 2003
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.
13TH CHILD: LEGEND OF THE
JERSEY DEVIL
Thriller (95 min)
Cast: Cliff Robertson, Lesley Anne
Down, Christopher Atkins, Robert
Guillaume
Year of Production: 2002
For the first time, a 200 year-old legend
known as the "Jersey Devil" is brought to
life on the big screen. As Investigators
follow up on a series of intense, unusual
murders, they are pointed to the infamous
legend.
TRAIL OF MURDER
Action Thriller (95 min)
Cast: David Midthunder, Phil Becker,
Victoria Regina, Kevan Michaels
Year of Production: 2003
The Mob meets their match when their
accounting records end up in the hands
of a an innocent bystander named Jimmy.
Chased out of the city and onto an Indian
Reservation, Jimmy must elude the big
city gangsters or be killed.
THE FACE OF THE SERPENT
Action (90 min)
Cast: Dean Paul, Lana Novac, Steve
Roth, Bo Brinkman and Brandon Smith
Year of Production: 2003
An assassin falls in love with his beautiful,
innocent target, so he takes her under his
protection to uncover the corruption that
has caught both of them in this conflict.
THE ASYLUM
The Asylum, 6671 Sunset Blvd., Bldg.
1593, Hollywood, CA 90028 USA.
Tel: 323.463.6575. Fax: 323.463.6299.
Website: www.theasylum.cc,
email: AsylumThe@aol.com
At Mifed: Sherri Strain (International
Sales), David Rimawi (Domestic Sales,
Acquisitions)
Office: Level 2, Stand C28, Tel:
44.7764.414.406
KING OF THE ANTS
Thriller (97 min)
Language: English
Director: Stuart Gordon
Producer David Michael Latt
Key Cast: Daniel Baldwin, Kari Wuhrer,
George Wendt, Chris McKenna
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1.5 million
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
When Sean Crawley is hired to stalk a
government official, little does he realize
it will lead to murder, torture and a wild
love affair with his victim’s widow.
CHAOS
Action (89 min)
Language: English
Director: Geraldine Creed
Producer Torsten Leschly
Key Cast: Jason Barry, Phelim Drew
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: Ireland
In a post-apocalyptic future, sports
consist of gladiator battles with fire,
motorcycles and chainsaws.
CROAK
Horror
Director: English
Language: David Michael Latt
Producer David Rimawi, Sherri Strain
Key Cast: TBD
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2004,
Country of Origin: USA
When a deep space comet slams into a
tanker truck with a radio-active load, a
bucolic American town falls victim to a
plague of mutant frogs who infect the
townspeople, turning them into killer
amphibians.
KILLERS 3
Thriller
Language: English
Director: David Michael Latt
Producer David Rimawi
Key Cast: Kim Little
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2004,
Country of Origin: USA
The final chapter in this successful
trilogy finds Heather in the desert, barely
alive after a car crash.
DEMON SLAYER (AKA MONSTER
HUNTER)
Horror (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Mark Bristol
Producer Barbara Morgan
Key Cast: David Carradine, Michael
Bowen, Bob Balaban, Darren Burrows
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2001,
Country of Origin: USA
When two serial killers begin their reign
of terror in the same small town, the FBI
sends out their secret weapon against evil an agent who can see into the soul to the
demon beneath
AURA
ENTERTAINMENT
AURUM
PRODUCCIONES S.A.
Aura Entertainment, LLC., 9350 Wilshire
Blvd., Ste. 400, Beverly Hills, CA 90212
USA. Tel: 310.278.9991. Fax:
310.278.9992. Web: www.auraent.com,
email: mail@auraent.com
At Mifed: Steve Bickel
(President/Partner), Brian Stearns
(Creative Affairs)
Office: Fiera Milano - Pavillion 25,
Salon 2, Stand A18
THE BIG EMPTY
Dark Comedy
Directed by: Steve Anderson
Produced by: Gregg Daniel, Doug
Mankoff, Andrew Spaulding, Andy
Spaulding
Production Company: Aura
Entertainment, Echo Lake Productions
and Rainstorm Entertainment
Executive Producers: Steve Bickel, Steve
Kaplan, Keith Resnick, Peter Wetherell,
Jon Favreau
Starring: Jon Favreau, Rachael Leigh
Cook, Sean Bean, Adam Beach, Daryl
Hannah, Kelsey Grammer and Joey
Lauren Adams
Status: US Distributor, Artisan
(Theatrical - November 2003)
Tells the story of John Person, a budding
actor who is faced with a stalled career
as well as a mountain of debt.
LOVE COMES TO THE
EXECUTIONER
Dark Comedy
Directed by: Kyle Bergersen
Production Company: Aura
Entertainment
Produced by: Steve Bickel, Doug Draizin
Status: Production
Starring: Jonathan Tucker, Jeremy
Renner and Ginnifer Goodwin
An insightful comedy centered on a
recent college graduate who is offered
the position of executioner at the local
prison where his own brother is slated to die.
SIEGFRIED & ROY: THE MAGIC
BOX
Live action/documentary
Directed by: Brett Leonard
Produced by: Michael Lewis
Production Company: L-Squared
Entertainment, Lexington Road
Productions and Foundry Film Partners
Starring: Siegfried & Roy; Narrated by:
Anthony Hopkins
Status: Complete
Narrated by Academy Award winner
ANTHONY HOPKINS, THE MAGIC
BOX takes you on an exotic adventure,
following the life story of the world's
greatest illusionists.
Aurum Producciones S.A., Avda. de
Burgos, #12, Floor 10 / 28036 Madrid,
Spain. Tel: 34.91.768.48.07. Fax.
34.91.768.48.33. Website: www.aurum.es,
email: mochaaguilar@aurum.es
Company Type: Sales Agent, Producer,
Distributor
At Mifed: Mocha Aguilar (Dir.
International Sales), Alberto García
Cañizares (Director of Acquisitions),
Office: Pavilion 10, salon 3, stand E14,
Tel: (Cell) 34.625.15.95.05
SLAM
Teen Comedy (96 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Miguel Martí
Producer: Pedro Uriol
Cast: Iván Hermes, Tomás Fonzi, Andreu
Castro
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Production: Spain
They scheme, deceive, use espionage,
greed, just about any tactic in hopes of
getting an interview with the legendary
rock-n- roller SLAM.
NUDOS (WHO'S WATCHING?)
Romantic Story (107 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Lluis Maria Güell
Producer: Ovideo
Cast: Charo López, Goya Toledo, Carlos
Álvarez-Novoa
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Production: Spain
A Barcelonan fishermen's simple world,
and unscrupulous big town lawyers
insurance company, collide in the story
of seaman's mysterious death.
Sophisticated lawyer Silvia probes into
his world while changing her outlook on
life.
WHO IS WATCHING (MIL
CÁMARAS)
Teen Thriller (104 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: David Alonso
Producer: Lotus Films
Cast: Antonio Hortelano, Eva Marciel,
Fernando Andina
Prod. Status: completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Production: Spain
A series of apparently ordinary events
involve a group of university students in
a disturbing story of suspense.
EL REY DE LA GRANJA (THE
KING OF THE FARM)
Children Comedy (95 min)
Language: Spanish
Directors: Gregorio Muro, Carlos Zabala
Producer: Bainet Zinema
Cast: Karlos Arguiñano, Javi Martín, Mar
Saura
Prod. Status: completed.
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Production: Spain
After defeating RAMAKOR, asteroid
SONDAK's tyrant, who had been using a
spherical artifact called NEURONIA to
hold his people under his mental control,
KIRIK flees the planet carrying
NEURONIA with him and seeks refuge
in our planet.
L.A. Office
TEL: 323-935-8228
FAX: 323-935-8229
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Senator International
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PEOR IMPOSIBLE (IT COULD
NEVER GET WORSE)
Teen Comedy (100 min)
Language: Spanish
Directors: José Semprún and David Blanco
Producer: Morena Films
Cast: Victor Clavijo, Guillermo Toledo,
Elsa Pataki
Prod. Status: completed.
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Production: Spain
Miguel is looking forward to a passionate,
intimate birthday with his visiting
girlfriend Fátima. When dubious brother
Alex bursts into the house carrying a dead
body, though, things get out of control.
B
B & S FILMS
DISTRIBUTION CO.,
LTD.
B & S Films Distribution Co., Ltd., 7/F.,
Cheong Tai Factory Bldg., 16 Tai Yau
St., Sanpokong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Tel: 852.2397 0731. Fax: 852.2397.0013.
Website: www.bs-818.com.hk,
email: bsc@bs-films.com.hk
Company Type: Producer, Distributor
At Mifed: Ms. Kotty Chong (Senior
Distribution Manager), Mr. Peter Seung
(Consultant), Ms. Priscilla Au
(Distribution Officer)
Office: Hong Kong Pavilion, Pad. 10/2,
Stand C38
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
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of 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)
Language: Cantonese and Mandarin
Director: Bosco Lam
Producer: Dickson Tang, Ken Wu
Cast: Eric Kot, Sam Lee, Tiffany Lee
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Yau Hei dreams to express his enthusiasm
in dance on the stage. He and his friends
enroll the dancing contest. Their friend
Jesus dies before the contest.
THE TROUBLE-MAKERS
Black comedy (84.42 min)
Language: Cantonese and Mandarin
Director: Aman Cheung
Producer: Bennie Chan, Dickson Tang
Cast: Maggie Q, Wan Chi Wai, Lee Chan
Sum
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Shito was irritated by his housemate
Yee's behaviour. He even sees ghost in
the house.
A TRAGIC ROOM
Suspicion (88.73 min)
Language: Cantonese and Mandarin
Director: Bosco Lam
Producer: Ng Kin Hung
Cast: Irene Wan, Sunny Chan, Leila Tong
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Lok Ping was sentenced to jail after she
killed her husband. She witnessed her
husband rape her sister Lok Yau Nam.
THE TWO INDIVIDUAL PACKAGE
WOMEN
Romance (87.88 min)
Language: Cantonese and Mandarin
Director: Roger Lau
Producer: Ng Kin Hung
Cast: Cheung Man, Alfred Cheung,
Sammy Cheung
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Two individual stories that describe two
women's love value.
I WANT TO GET MARRIED
Romance (95.36 min)
Language: Cantonese and Mandarin
Director: Yip Wai Ying
Producer: Nam Yin
Cast: Kristy Yang, Sam Lee, Fanny Yuen
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
She is eager to fall in love but she is too
busy in the fish market.
45 DAYS LOVER
Romance (85.70min)
Language: Cantonese and Mandarin
Director: Wing Chow
Producer: Wing Chow, Debbie Cheung
Cast: Lui Fong, Teresa Mak, Felix Lok
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Rose loses memory after she was in
coma.
MEMENTO
Suspicion (85.25 min)
Language: Cantonese and Mandarin
Director: Roger Lau
Producer: Ng Kin Hung
Cast: Kathy Chow, Tse Kwan Ho, Wong
He
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
A cop, a blind psychologist and a
mysterious murderer embroil into a
mental game copying thriller movies.
PRISON ON FIRE - PREACHER
Drama (89.93min)
Language: Cantonese and Mandarin
Director: Yip Wai Ying
Producer: Nam Yin
Cast: Tao Tai Yu, Michael Tong, Tang
Lai Ming
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Gangster leader Fung is sentenced to life
imprisonment and is very down as he
fails in his appeal.
LOVE IN GARDEN STREET
Romance (83.70 min)
Language: Cantonese and Mandarin
Director: Lor Wai Tak
Producer: Ng Kin Hung
Cast: Rachel Lee, Sunny Chan, Wong He
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Rachel, Sharon and Sherming are good
friends. Sharon went to New York since
she broke up with her boyfriend, Roy.
Three of them promise to meets again in
three years later.
BAVARIA FILM
INTERNATIONAL
Bavaria Film International, Dept. of
Bavaria Media GmbH, Bavariafilmplatz
8, 82031 Geiselgasteig, Germany. Tel:
49.89.6499.2686. Fax: 49.89.6499.3720.
www.bavaria-film-international.de,
email: Mifed03@bavaria-media.org
At Mifed: Michael Weber (Managing
Director), Thorsten Schaumann (Head of
Sales), Stefanie Zeitler (Sales Manager),
Guiseppe Proietti (Representative,
Bavaria Media Italia), Guiseppe Gallo
(Representative, Bavaria Media Italia)
Office: Pavilion: 10, Hall: II, Stand: C13,
Tel: 39.02.4342 3157. Fax: 39.02.4342
3158
Hotel: Grand Hotel Fieramilano, Tel:
39.02.336.221. Fax: 39.02.314.119
ADAM AND EVE (ADAM UND EVA)
Comedy (99 min)
Language: German, Subtitled in English
Director: Paul Harather
Production Company: box! Film- und
Fernsehproduktion
Producer: Andreas Eicher, Philipp Homberg
Cast: Marie Bäumer, Simon Schwarz,
Pierre Besson, Theresa Berlage
Delivery Status: Completed
Production Year: 2002,
Country: Germany
Is there life after a Happy End? This is
the question eating away at Adam, who
saved a beautiful young woman named
Eve from a fire four years ago and
married her - a fairy tale come true.
BREAKING LOOSE (GANZ UND
GAR)
Drama (94 min)
Language: German, Subtitled in English
Producer: Viola Jäger, Molly von
Fürstenberg, Harald Kügler
Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner
Cast: David Rott, Mira Bartuschek,
Hanno Koffler, Maggie Peren, Oliver
Boysen, Diana Amft
Delivery Status: Completed
Production Year: 2003,
Country: Germany
Torge is every girl's heartthrob and every
guy's pal, a good-looking, self-assured
go-getter. In his tight-knit circle of
friends, he's the one who calls the shots,
he's the magnet that attracts the others.
DISTANT LIGHTS (LICHTER)
Drama (105 min)
Language: German, Polish, Russian,
Subtitled in English
Director: Hans Christian Schmid
Production Company: Claussen + Wöbke
Filmproduktion
Producer: Jakob Claussen, Thomas Wöbke
Cast: August Diehl, Devid Striesow,
Maria Simon, Zbigniew Zamachowski,
Sebastian Urzendowski
Delivery Status: Completed
Production Year: 2003,
Country: Germany
To some it's the end of the world. To
others, the gateway to a new life: the
river Oder between Poland and Germany.
EXTRANO
Drama (87 min)
Language: Spanish, Subtitled in English
Director: Santiago Loza
Production Company: Viada
Producciones and Aeternam Films with
support from Hubert Bals Found
Producer: Francesca Feder
Cast: Julio Chávez, Valeria Berucelli,
Chuchuna Villafane, Raquel Albéniz, Eva
Bianco, Jorge Prado
Delivery Status: Completed
Production Year: 2002,
Country: Argentina
Axel, aged about 40, is a doctor, but has
given up practicing his profession.
Instead, he lives with his sister and her
children, leading a life without enthusiasm.
Being Julia - Myriad Pictures
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IN THE CITY (EN LA CIUDAD)
Drama (110 min)
Language: Spanish Subtitled in English
Director: Cesc Gay
Production Company: Messidor Films
Producer: Marta Esteban, Gerardo Herrero
Cast: Mónica López, Eduard Fernández,
María Pujalte, Alex Brandemühl
Delivery Status: Completed
Production Year: 2003, Country: Spain
IN THE CITY started out in exactly the
same way as the film ends: a meal with a
group of friends.
JAGGED HARMONIES (MEIN
NAME IST BACH)
History Drama (97 min)
Language: German, Subtitled in English,
French
Production Company: Twenty Twenty Vision
Producer: Thanassis Karathanos
Director: Dominique de Rivaz
Cast: Vadim Glowna, Jürgen Vogel, Anatole
Taubman, Paul Herwig, Karoline Herfurth
Production Status: Completed
Production Year: 2003,
Country: Germany
The King of Music and the King of
Prussia - two men who come together
one week in May 1747.
SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER
.AND SPRING (BOM, YEOREUM,
GAEUL, GYEOWOOL, GEURIGO,
BOM)
Drama (103 min)
Language: Korean, Subtitled in English
Director: Kim Ki-duk
Production Year: 2003,
Country: Korea/ Germany
Production Company: LJ Film Co. Ltd.
Producer: Lee Seung-jae, Karl Baumgartner
Cast: Oh Young-soo, Kim Jong-ho, Seo
Jae-kyung, Kim Young-min
Production Status: Completed
No one is immune to the power of the
seasons and their yearly cycle of birth,
growth and decay.
THE FLYING CLASSROOM (DAS
FLIEGENDE KLASSENZIMMER)
Drama (114 min)
Language: German, Subtitled in English
Director: Tomy Wigand
Production Company: Bavaria
Filmverleih und Produktions GmbH,
Lunaris GmbH & Co KG
Producer: Uschi Reich, Peter Zank
Cast: Ulrich Noethen, Sebastian Koch,
Piet Klocke, Anja Kling
Delivery Status: Completed
Production Year: 2002, Country: Germany
Jonathan is only twelve, but he's already
gone through six boarding schools. His
last chance is Leipzig's St. Thomas School,
home of the world-famous boys' choir.
THE HOURS OF THE DAY (LAS
HORAS DEL DIA)
Drama (103 min)
Language: Spanish/ Catalán, Subtitled in
English
Production Company: Fresdeval Films, S.L
Producer: Jaime Rosales, Ricard
Figueras, José María de Orbe
Director: Jaime Rosales
Cast: Alex Brendemühl, Àgata Roca,
María Antonia Martínez, Pape Monsoriu,
Vicente Romero
Production Status: Completed
Production Year: 2003, Country: Spain
Abel lives with his mother in a small
town in the outskirts of Barcelona. His
whole life revolves around their small
family business, his mother's house, his
girlfriend's bed, the corner newsstand,
and the neighborhood bars and cafés.
THE MAGIC GLOVES (LOS
GUANTES MÁGICOS)
Drama (90 min)
Language: Spanish, Subtitled in English
Production Company: Rizoma Films
Producer: Hernán Musaluppi, Martín
Rejtman
Director: Martín Rejtman
Cast: Gabriel Vicentino, Fernández
Capello, Valeria Bertuccelli, Fabián
Arenillas, Susana Pampi
Production Status: Completed
Production Year: 2003, Country: Argentina
A comedy about a car service driver,
Alejandro.
BETA CINEMA
Beta Cinema, Dept. of Beta Film GmbH,
Robert-Bürkle-Str. 3, 85737
Ismaning/Munich, Germany. Tel:
49.89.9956.2719. Fax: 49.89.9956.2703.
Website: www.betacinema.com,
email: beta@betacinema.com
Company Type: World Sales Agent
At Mifed: Andreas Rothbauer (Theatrical
Sales/Acquisitions), Robert Czajkowski
(Co-Prod./Acquisitions), Isabelle
Palluaud (Festival Coordinator), Dr.
Kathrin Steinbrenner (Press & PR)
Office: Pavilion 10, Hall 3, Stand E 18,
Andreas Rothbauer Cell Phone:
49.160.90664357. Robert Czajkowski
Cell Phone: 49.170.6384689
Singles - Cinema Service
LIEGEN LERNEN (LEARNING TO
LIE)
www.liegenlernen.de
Romantic comedy
Language: German, subtitled in English
Director: Hendrik Handloegten
Producer: Maria Koepf
Produced by: X Film Creative Pool GmbH
Cast: Fabian Busch, Susanne Bormann,
Fritzi Haberlandt, Sophie Rois, Birgit
Minichmayr, Florian Lukas
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of origin: Germany
A disarmingly honest, humorous story
about a young man who cannot forget his
first great love.
HERR LEHMANN (BERLIN BLUES)
www.herr-lehmann.de
Comedy (90 min)
Language: German
Director: Leander Haussmann
Producer: Claus Boje
Produced by: Boje Buck, Co-production
partner: Pandora Film
Cast: Christian Ulmen, Katja Danowski,
Detlev Buck, Tim Fischer, Uwe-Dag
Berlin Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of origin: Germany
Using cunning elusive measures and
heroic inactivity, the good-natured,
thoroughly ambitionless bartender Herr
Lehmann has successfully ignored the
demands of parents, landlord, neighbors
and women for years.
DEVOT
www.devot-film.de
Psycho Thriller (92 min)
Language: German, subtitled in English
Director: Igor Zaritzky
Producer: Patrick Knippel, Steffen
Reuter, Igor Zaritzky
Produced by: Reflex Film, Co-production
partner: Filmkollektiv Film & Medien
Cast: Annett Renneberg, Simon Boeer
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of origin: Germany
One rainy night, Harry takes home a
young woman named Anja, who claims
to be a prostitute.
GHETTO
Historical drama (110 min)
Language: English (German dubbing)
Director: Audrius Juzenas
Executive Producer: Thees Klahn
Produced by: New Transit Entertainment
/ Seansas, Co-production partner: Dragon
Ciné Venture Images Entertainment
Cast: Erika Marozsan, Heino Ferch,
Sebastian Hülk
Production status: in post production
Delivery Status: 31.01.2004
Year of Production: 2003/2004, Country
of origin: Germany/Lithuania
Based on real events, this drama about
the Jewish Ghetto of Vilnius (Lithuania)
is adapted from the well-known theater
play by the Israeli author Joshua Sobol.
DIE LIEBE IN GEDANKEN
(WORKING TITLE: LOVE IN
THOUGHTS)
Drama (88 min)
Language: German, subtitled in English
Director: Achim von Borrries
Producer: Stefan Arndt, Christophe Mazodier
Produced by: X Film Creative Pool
GmbH, Co-production partner: arte, ZDF
Cast: Daniel Bruehl, August Diehl, Anna
Maria Muehe, Jana Pallaske, Thure Lindhardt
Delivery Status: in post production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of origin: Germany
A suicide club in Berlin in the 1920s.
Four high school students who are out to
get the most happiness, the greatest love,
reach the pinnacle of life.
KLEINRUPPIN FOREVER
(WORKING TITLE)
Comedy
Language: German, subtitled in English
Director: Carsten Fiebeler
Producer: Dirk Beinhold
Produced by: Akkord Film,
Co-production partner: ProSieben,
SevenPictures Film
Cast: Michael Gwisdek, Rolf Hoppe
Delivery Status: in post production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of origin: Germany
Tim, a West-German snob, is well on his way
to becoming a professional tennis player.
LAUTLOS (WORKING TITLE:
SOUNDLESS)
Thriller
Language: German, subtitled in English
Director: Mennan Yapo
Producer: Stefan Arndt, Tom Tykwer;
Produced by: X Film Creative Pool GmbH
Cast: Joachim Król, Nadja Uhl, Christian
Berkel, Rudolf Martin, Lisa Martinek
Delivery Status: in post production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of origin: Germany
A love story about the professional hit
man Viktor and the prim, reserved Nina
who, although complete opposites, begin
to fall for each other.
BEYOND FILMS
Beyond Films, 22 Newman Street,
London W1T 1PH UK.
Tel: 44(0)20.7636.9613.
Fax: 44(0)20.7636.9614
At Mifed: Hilary Davis (Head Of Sales
& Acquisitions), Stephen Kelliher
(Senior Sales & Acquisitions Executive)
Office: Pavilion 8, stand no. B32, Tel:
3902.4342.3135. Hilary Davis Mobile:
44(0)7711.782.278, Stephen Kelliher
Mobile: 44(0)7957.605.915
A GOOD WOMAN
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Mike Barker
Production companies: Meltemi
Entertainment (UK), International Arts
Entertainment (US), Lighthouse
Entertainment (US), Buskin (IT),
Kanzaman (SP)
Executive Producers: John Evangelides,
Mikael Borglund, Hilary Davis, Jimmy
Debrabant, Michael Dounaev, Liam
Badger, Duncan Hopper, Rupert Preston
Producers: Alan Greenspan, Jonathan
English, Steven Siebert, Howard
Himelstein.
Cast: Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson,
Tom Wilkinson
Status: Pre-Production
Adapted from the Oscar Wilde play
'Lady Windermere's Fan'.
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COLD & DARK
Horror
Director: Andrew Goth
Production Company: Cold Films Ltd
Producers: Joanne Reay
Executive Producer: Michael Gebauer
Cast: Luke Goss
"The loyalties of a young vice detective
are challenged when he discovers that his
much-respected partner is taking out the
city's criminals by supernatural means".
THE OYSTER FARMER
Contemporary romantic western set in
frontier Australia
Director/Writer: Anna Reeves
Production Company: Anthony Buckley
Films Pty Ltd & Oyster Farmer Films
(UK) Ltd
Producers: Anthony Buckley & Piers Tempest
Cast: Jack Thompson, David Field, Kerry
Armstrong
Shooting from 10/11/03, for six weeks,
location Australia - Hawkesbury River
Valley
GUNS, MONEY & HOMECOOKING
Heist / Comedy
Director: Nadia Tass
Production Company: Guns Money Films Ltd
Producers: Phillip Emanuel
Cast: Vinnie Jones
BLUE STAR MOVIES
Blue Star Movies, 58 Baldry Gardens,
London, SW16 3 DJ UK. Tel:
44.(0).20.8765.0333. Fax:
44.(0).20.8765.0555. Website:
www.bluestarmovies.com,
email: info@bluestarmovies.com.
Rome office: Piazza Gentile da
Fabriano, 15- 00196 Rome. Tel:
39.075.898.7746. Fax. 39.075.898.7480.
At Mifed: Pete Maggi (President and
CEO), Massimo Saidel (Head of
International Sales), Pietro Dioni (UK
office manager), Dario Furiani (Italy
office manager), Federico Demontis
(Germany office manager)
Office: Pav. 25, A15, Tel and Fax:
02.4342.3139, Cell: 39.3477062594
MOTHER TERESA
Drama Biography (110 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Fabrizio Costa
Producer Matilde Bernabei, Pete Maggi,
Luca Bernabei
Co-Production Partners: Rai Fiction,
Lux Vide, MTP in association with Blue
Star Movies, Euro Ficcion
Key Cast: Olivia Hussey, Sebastiano
Somma, Michael Mendl, Laura Morante
and Neil Stuke
Delivery Status: Post Production
Budget: 15 million dollars
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Italy
The story of the life of Mother Teresa.
EVILENKO
Thriller (110')
Language: English
Director: David Grieco
Producer: Mario Cotone, Pete Maggi
Co-Production Partners: Pacific Pictures
and EFP in association with Blue Star
Movies
Key Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Marton
Csokas, Ronald Pickup
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2003, Country of
Origin: Italy, UK , Russia co-production
Budget: 8 million euro
The European Hannibal.
FORTEZZA BASTIANI
Drama (94')
Language: Italian with English Subs
Director: Michelle Mellara, Alessandro
Rossi
Producer: Tomasso Dazzi
Co-Production Partners: Nauta Srl
Key Cast: Duccio Giordano, Giuseppe
Gandini, Francesca Magrefi
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget 1.5 million euro
Year of Production: 2001,
Country of Origin: Italy
University students make difficult
choices deciding their own futures
MY LIFE IS A SCRIPT
Comedy (92')
Language: Italian with English Subs
Director: Laura Belli
Producer: Bros Srl
Key Cast: Laura Morante, Monica
Scattini , Maddalena Crippa, Naike
Rivelli , Gigio Alberti
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 2 million euro
Year of Production: 2000,
Country of Origin: Italy
Laura makes a risky decision to write a
screenplay about the private lives of her
friends.
HERMANO
Thriller drama (95')
Language: English
Director: Giovanni Robbiano
Producer Gherardo Pagliei , Pete Maggi
Co-Production Partners: Gam, Lux Factory
Key Cast: Rade Serbedzija, Paolo Villaggio,
Ignazio Oliva with the extraordinary
participation of Emir Kusturica
Delivery Status: post production
Budget: 4 million euro
Year of Production: 2000,
Country of Origin: Italy
Antonio, working for the mafia, learns
the meaning of friendship - the hard way
MIDEM • MIPTV • CANNES • MIPCOM
OPEN ALL YEAR ROUND
(Tented & Heated)
Lunch on the beach
Whatever the weather
BUSKIN FILM
Buskin Film, Via P. Leonardi Cattolica,
3 - Rome 00195, Italy. Tel:
39.06.3903.0435. Fax: 39.06.3903.8231.
Website: www.buskinfilm.com,
email: info@buskinfilm.com
Company Type: Sales agent, producer,
distributor
At Mifed: Roberto Bessi (President),
Antonio Guadalupi (CEO), Vanessa
Capurso (International Sales)
Office: G 06 - E 23
JUST DO IT (FATE COME NOI)
Comedy (90 min)
Language: Italian
Director: Francesco Apolloni
Producer: Massimo Chiesa
Cast: Pupella Maggio, Agnese Nano,
Mauro Meconi, Francesco Venditti
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Italy
Mid-August and Christmas eve. Two Boys
from the suburbs of Rome. A young
comedy mixed with laughter and tears.
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
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HIJOS (FIGLI)
Drama (95 min)
Language: Italian
Director: Marco Bechis
Producer: Amedeo Pagani
Cast: Carlos Echevarria, Julia Sarano,
Stefania Sandrelli
Delivery Status: completed
Country of Origin: Italy
The touching story of Javier and Rosa,
children of desaparecidos.
3 WOMEN (L'ACQUA.IL FUOCO)
Drama (94 min)
Language: Italian
Director: Luciano Emmer
Producer: Antonio Guadalupi and
Roberto Bessi
Cast: Sabrina Ferilli, Giancarlo Giannini,
Olivier Pages
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Italy
3 women, 3 different countries, the same
courage of living: Stefania, Elena and Stella.
MEMORY LANE (LE
INTERMITTENZE DEL CUORE)
Drama (110 min)
Language: Italian
Director: Fabio Carpi
Producer: Antonio Guadalupi and
Roberto Bessi
Cast: Hector Alterio, Assumpta Serna,
Clement Sibony
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Italy
A film about Proust. A great description
of involuntary memory in a series of free
associations of mind.
C
CAPITOL FILMS
Capitol Films, 23 Queensdale Place,
London W11 4SQ UK. Tel:
44.20.7471.6000. Fax: 44.20.7471.6012.
website: www.capitolfilms.com,
email: films@capitolfilms.com
At Mifed: Jane Barclay (Managing
Director), Sharon Harel (Managing
Director), Nicole Mackey (Head of
International Sales), Eve Schoukroun
(International Sales), Maya Amsellem
(Legal & Business Affairs)
Office: Pavillion 8 B42, Tel:
39.02.4342.3118. Fax: 39.02.4342.3119
ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
Language: English
Status: post production (promo reel screening)
Production Country: US
Producer: Tova Laiter
Director: Joel Zwick
Leading Cast: Kim Basinger, John
Corbett, Denise Richards, Sean Astin, Angie
Dickinson, Billy Ray Cyrus, Anie Potts
This outrageous but heart warming
romantic-comedy tells the tale of
cosmetics saleswoman, Harmony Jones,
(Basinger) whose life seems to be
interwoven with Elvis Presley.
FIVE CHILDREN AND IT
Language: English
Director: John Stephenson
Producers: Nick Hirschkorn & Lisa Henson
Leading Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Zoe
Wanamaker, Eddie Izzard, Tara
Fitzgerald, Freddie Highmore
Status: Post Production (Promo Reel
Screening)
Production Country: UK
What they thought was going to be a dull
summer in the country is about to become
the most exciting adventure of their lives.
SYLVIA
Love Story (110 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Christine Jeffs
Producer: Alison Owen
Leading Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel
Craig, Michael Gambon, Blythe Danner,
Jared Harris
Status: premiere screening
Production Country: UK
A passionate love story between two
brilliant minds, the American poet Sylvia
Plath and Ted Hughes, Britain's Poet
Laureate.
DON'T MOVE (NON TI MUOVERE)
Drama
Language: Italian
Director: Sergio Castellitto
Leading Cast: Penelope Cruz, Sergio
Castellitto
Status: in production (promo reel
screening)
Production Country: Italy
A successful surgeon's daughter is in a
life threatening accident, which presents
him with an opportunity to reconsider the
choices he has made about a passionate
love affair with a poor southern girl
(Cruz) fifteen years earlier.
CREEP
Language: English
Status: In Production
Production Country: UK
Producer: Julie Baines
Director: Christopher Smith
Leading Cast: Franke Potente
A night out on the town turns into a
nightmare when a girl (Potente) falls
asleep on the London Underground.
THE COMPANY
Drama (112 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Robert Altman
Status: premiere screening
Production Country: USA
Leading Cast: Neve Campbell, James
Franco, Malcolm McDowell
Robert Altman follows up the success of
the Academy Award winning GOSFORD
PARK with THE COMPANY, a look
behind the scenes at the world of a ballet
company as only Altman could envision it.
THE RISING
Language: English/Hindi
Producer: Bobby Bedi
Director: Ketan Mehta
Leading Cast: Aamir Khan, Aiswarya
Rai, Toby Stephens, Rani Mukherjee
Status: in production
Production Country: UK/India
After years of torment and abuse the
Indian population takes a stand against
the imperial British, inspired by a true
leader Mangal.
ANYTHING ELSE
Comedy (108 minutes)
Language: English
Producer: Letty Aronson
Director: Woody Allen
Leading Cast: Jason Biggs, Christina
Ricci, Danny Devito, Stockard Channing,
Woody Allen
Status: premiere screening
Production Country: USA
A serious comedy that takes place in
New York City. It's a love story between
two extremely neurotic people.
I'M NOT SCARED (IO NON HO
PAURA)
Thriller (108 minutes)
Language: Italian
Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Leading Cast: Aitana Sanchez-Gijon,
Diego Abatantuono
Status: completed
Production Country: Italy
During the hottest summer of the century,
a nine year-old boy discovers a terrible
secret: his village's "grown-ups" have
kidnapped a child and are keeping him in
a hole beneath an abandoned house.
CELESTIAL
PICTURES LIMITED
Celestial Pictures Limited, Shaw
Administration Building, Lot 220, Clear
Water Bay Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Tel: 852.2927.1111. Fax: 852.2243.0099.
Website: www.celestialpictures.com, email:
distributionenquiry@celestialpictures.com
Company Type: Distributor
At Mifed: William Pfeiffer (CEO),
Gordon Cheung (Executive VP, Distribution)
Office: Pavilion 10 Hall 3 Stand F12
CALA, MY DOG!
Drama (99 mins)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Lu Xuechang
Producer: Feng Xiaogang, Wang Zhonglei
Cast: Ge You, Ding Jiali, Xia Yu, Li Bin,
Li Min
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: China
A story of a family's emotional struggle
to pay a fine, which they cannot afford,
for keeping their pet dog without a "Dog
Raising Permit".
THE CHINESE BOXER
Martial Arts (94 mins)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Wang Yu
Producer: Runme Shaw
Cast: Wang Yu, Lo Lieh, Wang Ping,
Chao Hsiung, Cheng Lei
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1970,
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Kung-fung movies' first superstar Jimmy
Wang writes, directs and stars in one of
his favorite roles, as a noble young martial
arts student who just will not give in.
Trauma - Myriad Pictures
DRUNKEN MONKEY
Martial Arts (98 mins)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Liu Chia-liang
Producer: Mona Fong
Cast: Jason Wu Jing, Lau Wing Kin,
Shannon Yao Yao
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
The next generation of martial arts hero
Wu Jing stars in "Drunken Monkey', a
story of friendship, family feuds, treachery,
heroism and real Chinese kung fu!
GOLDEN SWALLOW
Martial Arts (108 mins)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Chang Cheh
Producer: Runme Shaw
Cast: Wang Yu, Cheng Pei-pei, Lo Lieh,
Chao Hsin-yen
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1968,
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
The indomitable martial arts team of
director Chang Cheh and stunt
choreographer Lau Kar Leung continues
the compelling saga of Golden Swallow,
in this sequel to King Hu's Come Drink
With Me.
LUST FOR LOVE OF A CHINESE
COURTESAN
Erotic (92 mins)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Chu Yuan
Producer: Mona Fong
Cast: Yu An-an, Hu Kuan-chen, Chang
Kuo-chu, Tsao Ta-hua, Alex Man
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1984,
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Sexpot Nancy Hu Kuan plays a starving
lost girl forced into prostitution under the
lesbian control of a devious erotica actress.
ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN
Martial Arts (117 mins)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Chang Cheh
Producer: Runme Shaw
Cast: Wang Yu, Pan Yin-tse, Chiao
Chiao, Chang Pei-shan
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1967,
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Star Jimmy Wang Yu and director Chang
Cheh revolutionized Hong Kong kung-fu
cinema and broke box office records across
Asia, with this brilliant action epic about
an alienated single-armed swordmaster.
SIGH
Drama (111 mins)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Feng Xiao-gang
Producer: Wang Zhonglei
Cast: Cheung Gwok Laap, Xu Fan
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2000,
Country of Origin: China
This multi-award winning film at the
Cairo International Film Festival, was at
the time, a controversial story of a
complex love-triangle dealing with the
emotional struggles of being torn
between lovers.
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CELLULOID
DREAMS
Celluloid Dreams, 2 Rue Turgot, 75009
Paris, France. Tel: 33.1.4970.0370. Fax:
33.1.4970.0371. Website:
http://www.celluloid-dreams.com.
email: info@celluloid-dreams.com
At Mifed: Hengameh Panahi
(336.11.96.57.20), Pierre Menahem
(336.62.08.81.79), Tanja Meissner
(336.22.92.48.31)
Office: Unifrance booth B24, Pavillon
10, Hall 2
SEA OF SILENCE
(105 min)
Language: Dutch
Director: Stijn Coninx
Producers: Els Vandevorst, Ineke van Wierst
Production Company: Isabella Films
Cast: Huub Stapel, Johanna Ter Steege,
Neeltje de Vree
Year of Production: 2003, Production
Countries: Netherlands/Belgium
1969, Nine-year old Caro lives on a pig
farm in Holland. Her Catholic father
can't explain the modern world and her
mother is too busy for philosophy so she
converses with God.
KOKTEBEL
(105 min)
Language: Russian
Directors: Boris Khlebnikov and Alexei
Popogrebsky
Producer: RomanBorisevich
Production Companies: PBOUL
Borisevich R.U.
Cast: Gleb Puskepalis, Igor Chernevich,
Agrippina Steklova
Year of Production: 2003,
Production Country: Russia
After his wife's death, a Father sets off
with his son for his sister's house by the
Black Sea.
GOOD MORNING, NIGHT
(105 min)
Language: Italian
Director: Marco Bellocchio
Producers: Marco Bellocchio, Sergio Pelone
Production Companies: Filmalbatros, Rai
Cinema
Cast: Maya Sansa, Luigi Lo Cascio, Pier
Giorgio Bellocchio
Year of Production: 2003,
Production Country: Italy
Chiara, a young woman moves into a
new apartment with her boyfriend.
THE STORY OF MARIE AND
JULIEN
(150 min)
Language: French
Director: Jacques Rivette
Producer: Martine Marignac
Production Companies: Pierre Grise
Productions, Mikado Films
Cast: Emmanuelle Beart, Jerzy
Radziwilowicz, Anne Brochet, Nicole
Garcia
Year of Production: 2003,
Production Countries: France, Italy
Julien discovers the strange secret which
links Marie to the mysterious Madame X
It will take them to a place where
questions of life and death do not exist, a
place ruled by love without limits.
RED LIGHTS (FEUX ROUGES)
Director: Cédric Kahn
Producer: Patrick Godeau
Production company: Alicéléo
Cast: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Carole
Bouquet, Vincent Deniard
Delivery: February 2004
Production country: France
Based on the novel by Georges Simenon.
Antoine, an insurance clerk waits for his
wife Hélène, a successful lawyer in a bar.
THE WEEPING MEADOW
(TRILOGY # 1)
Director: Theo Angelopoulos
Productions companies: Theo
angelopoulos Productions, Intermedias,
Bac Films, Storie
Production countries: Greece, Italy, France
Delivery Date February 2004
Two people who first met as children in
1919 during the flight of the Greeks from
Odessa lose and find each other again in
different times and places throughout the
20th century.
BLACK MAGIC (L'ÉCLAIREUR)
by Djibril Glissant
Delivery Date: February 2004
Cast: Romane Bohringer, Grégoire Colin
Production country: France
The spirit of a panther has begun its long
voyage from the Amazon to Paris. It has
found its prey.
WAITING FOR THE CLOUDS
Director: Yesim Ustaoglu
Producers: Behrooz Hashemain, Setareh
Farsi
Production companies: Silkroad
Production, Flying Moon, Idee Fixe
Delivery Date: Cannes 2004
Production countries: France, Germany,
Greece
8 Year old Mehmet uncovers elderly
Aysheh 's dark secrets veiled for more
than fifty years and, in doing so, he also
learns the hidden history of his homeland.
5X2
Director: François Ozon
Producers: Marc Missonnier, Olivier Delbosc
Production companies: Fidelité
Productions
Cast: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Stéphane
Freiss, Françoise Fabian.
Delivery Date: Venice 2004
Production country: France
A young couple, Gilles and Marion in
their 30s, filmed in five crucial parts of
their married life: their divorce, a dinner
with friends, the birth of their child, their
marriage and their encounter.
HEADING SOUTH
Director: Laurent Cantet
Produced by: Caroline Benjo, Carole Scotta
Delivery Status: In production,
Delivery Date: 2005
Brenda, Ellen and Sue, three North
American women, converge on the island
of Haiti looking for sexual thrills.
CINE-CENTURY
COMPANY
Cine-Century Company, Unit F, 20/F,
Infotech Centre, 21 Hung To Road, Kwun
Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Tel: 852.23452983. Fax: 852.23450740.
email: cinecentury@on-nets.com or
cinecentury@hotmail.com
Company Type: Video Distribution,
Television Broadcaster, Advertising and
Marketing
At Mifed: Wong Ka Kui Ricky (General
Manager), Cindy Xie (Manager), Kong
Hoi Yee Vivian (Administrative Assistant)
Office: Pad. 10/2 Stand C38
CINE EXCEL
ENTERTAINMENT,
INC.
Cine Excel Entertainment, Inc. 1102 N.
Screenland Dr., Burbank, 91505-2503,
California, USA. Tel: 818.848.4478.
Fax: 818.848.1590.
Website: www.cineexcel.com,
email: cineexcel@msn.com
Company Type: Sales Agent/Producer
At Mifed: David Huey (President &
CEO), Ed Tillman (V.P. of Production),
Dom Magwili (V.P. of Distribution &
Marketing); Acquisition Executive: Dom
Magwili
Office: Hall 10, Level 2, Stand B25
666: THE DEMON CHILD
Horror (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Cary Howe
Producer: David Huey
Cast: Jennifer Jackson, Jose Rosete,
Jennie Epstein
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
In a small desert town, six archeologists
uncover a demon child.
MAGMA: EARTH'S MOLTEN
CORE
Action/Adventure (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Carribou Seto
Producer: David Huey
Cast: J. Scott Johnson, Tina-Desiree Berg
and Mel Novak
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
Nuclear weapons are used to seal the
deadliest volcano.
VAMPIRE ASSASSIN
Horror/Action (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Ron Hall
Producer: David Huey
Cast: Ron Hall and Mel Novak
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
In the tradition of Blade, to kill an army
of vampires, a man must become one.
GI-ANTS
Sci-Fi (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Carribou Seto
Producer: David Huey
Cast: Mel Novak
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
Giant killer ants invade earth.
POWER ELITE
Action/Adventure (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Carribou Seto
Producer: David Huey & Milan
Mrdjenovich
Cast: Olivier Gruner, Rebecca Ferratti,
Mel Novak
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: USA
Mercenaries kidnap the President of the
United States days before an
International Peace Treaty.
S.W.A.T. WARHEAD ONE
Action/Adventure (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Carribou Seto
Producer: David Huey
Cast: Olivier Gruner, Rebecca Ferratti,
Gerald Okamura
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: USA
Los Angles' elite police team must stop
terrorists that have a nuclear warhead.
London Head Office Phone
44 207 372 9992
London Office FAX
44 207 372 9993
Sylvia - Capitol Films
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CINECLICK ASIA
Cineclick Asia, 3F Incline Bldg., 891-37
Daechi-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135280 Korea. Tel: 822.538.0211.
Fax: 822.538.0479.
Website:www.cineclickasia.com,
email: cineinfo@cineclickasia.com
Company Type: Sales agent
At Mifed: Youngjoo SUH (Managing
Director), Sangeun CHI (Manager),
Yunjeong KIM(Assistant Manager),
Rachel Y. KIM (Assistant Manager);
Acquisition Executive: Youngjoo SUH
(Managing Director)
Office: Pavilion 10 / Hall 3 E26, Tel:
39.2.4342.3028, Fax: 39.2.4800.8494
ACACIA
Horror (104 min)
Language: Korean
Director: PARK Ki-hyung
Exec. Producer: KIM Dong-joo
Producer: KANG Sung-kyu, YU Youngshik, PARK Ki-hyung
Cast: SHIM Hye-jin, KIM Jin-geun,
MOON Woo-bin
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003, Country of
Origin: Korea (South)
Budget: US$ 2.1 million
Mi-sook and Do-il who desperately want
to have a baby but fail for ten years of
their married life decided to adopt a boy
whose picture fascinates Mi-sook.
A TALE OF TWO SISTERS
Horror (110 min)
Language: Korean
Director: KIM Jee-woon
Producer: OH Ki-min, OH Jung-wan,
Co-production partners: KIM Young
Cast: YEOM Jeong-a, IM Soo-jung,
MOON Geun-young, KIM Kab-su
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003, Country of
Origin: Korea (South)
Budget: US$ 3.7 million
A hatred of two sisters against their step
mother gets even bitter when they return
to the house after recovering their health
from unknown disease.
MUTT BOY
Drama (101 min)
Language: Korean
Director: K.T. Kwak
Exec. Producer: KIM Dong-joo
Producer: YANG Joong-kyoung
Cast: JUNG Woo-sung, KIM Kab-su
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003, Country of
Origin: KOREA (South)
Budget: US$ 3.0 million
A coming-of-age story of a small time
gangster and his father who is a cop.
OGU: A HILARIOUS MOURNING
Drama (90 min)
Language: KOREAN
Director: LEE Yoon-taek
Exec. Producer: KIMChung-soo
Producer: CHOI Du-young
Cast: KANG Boo-ja, LEE Jae-eun, KIM
Kyoung-ik
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: KOREA (South)
Budget: US$ 1.7 million
Angels of death come to the earth to
escort an old lady's soul to the heaven
and old lady ask a village shaman to do
ritual service to wash away her sins.
OLD BOY
Thriller
Language: Korean
Director: PARK Chan-wook
Exec. Producer: KIM Dong-joo
Producer: IM Seung-yong
Cast: CHOI Min-shik, YOO Ji-tae
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: KOREA (South)
Budget: US$ 3.8 million (approx.)
OH Dae-soo, an ordinary civilian is
kidnapped right in front of his house and
put in to the private cell without knowing
why for 15 years.
SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER
. AND SPRING
Drama (101 min)
Language: Korean
Director: KIM Ki-duk
Exec. Producer: CHUNG Hun-zo
Producer: LEE Seung-jae Co-production
partners: Karl BAUMGARTNER
Cast: OH Young-soo, KIM Jong-ho, SEO
Jae-kyung, KIM Young-min
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: KOREA (South)
Budget: US$ 2.0 million
An Encounter of KIM Ki-duk and the
Eastern World of Zen.
DANCE WITH SOLITUDE
(WORKING TITLE)
Drama
Language: KOREAN
Director: LEE Soo-in
The Legend of the Evil Lake - Cinema Service
Producer: OH Ki-min
Cast: JU Hyun, SONG Jae-ho
Delivery Status: post production
Year of Production: 2004,
Country of Origin: Korea (South)
The most pleasant love triangle by the
most adorable romance guys.
THE WOLF RETURNS
Drama
Language: Korean
Director: KOO Ja-hong
Producer: JUNG Tae-sung
Cast: YANG Dong-geun, HWANG Jung-min
Delivery Status: in production
Year of Production: 2004,
Country of Origin: Korea( South)
A cop weary of a city and the other cop
eager for a city. Their first co-working
project to save a police station in a
peaceful countryside.
MY MOTHER, MERMAID
Fantasy, Drama
Language: Korean
Director: PARK Heung-shik
Producer: LEE Joon-dong
Cast: JEON Do-yeon, PARK Hae-il
Delivery Status: in production
Year of Production: 2004,
Country of Origin: Korea (South)
A girl who's in bed terms with her parents
travels back in time to find a pure love..
SAMARIA
Drama
Language: Korean
Director: KIM Ki-duk
Producer: KIM Ki-duk
Delivery Status: pre production
Year of Production: 2004,
Country of Origin: Korea (South)
KIM Ki-duk's new project about teenage
prostitute and her father.
CINEMA ARTS
ENTERTAINMENT
Cinema Arts Entertainment, 6310 San
Vicente Blvd., Ste 540, Los Angeles, CA
90048 USA. Tel: 323.937.1085.
Fax: 323.937.1186.
email: CinemaArts@aol.com
At Mifed: Pierre-Richard Muller
(Director), Chantal Lam (Director);
Acquisition Executives: Pierre-Richard
Muller & Chantal Lam
Office: Hall 26-2 D12 (Lola Films), Tel:
39(0)333.522.9027
LOOKING THROUGH LILLIAN
Drama
Director: Jake Torem
Cast: Jade Henham, Sam Bottoms,
Robert Glen Keith
Delivery Status: completed
Country of Origin: USA
An alluring but mixed-up L.A. girl flipflops between facing life's uncertainty
under her own direction or "the good
life" provided by a wealthy, disturbing
middle-aged benefactor.
HERA PURPLE (DEVIL GODDESS)
Erotic drama
Director/writer: Chung Gil-Chae
Cast: Kim Chung, Lee Se-Chang, Lee
Ho-Sung
Delivery Status: completed
Country of Origin: Korea
It is a race against time as a group of
detectives must unlock the secret behind
a series of bizarre murders.
LULU
Drama
Director: Jean Henri Roger
Cast: Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Elli Medeiros,
Gerard Meylan, Bruno Putzulu
Delivery Status: completed
Country of Origin: France
Proprietress of "Chez Lulu", the most
popular bar in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer,
Lulu is radiant. But at the age of seventeen,
when her name was still "Lucien", she
ran away to live out her difference elsewhere.
STORY OF O (UNTOLD PLEASURES)
Erotic/drama
Director: Philip Leirness
Producer: Pierre-Richard Muller
Cast: Danielle Ciardi, Neil Dickson, Max
Parrish, Michelle Ruben
Delivery Status: completed
Country of Origin: USA
Based on the international huge success
novel by Pauline Reage, a 2003 new
adaptation set in the USA.
DREAMERS
Drama
Director/writer: Ann Lu
Cast: Jeremy Jordon(Never Been
Kissed), Mark Ballou (In and Out)
Courtney Gains, Portia Dawson, Paul Bartel
Delivery Status: completed
Country of Origin: USA
Two childhood friends growing up in smalltown America dream about escaping to Los
Angeles to pursue their fame and fortune.
CINEMA SERVICE
Cinema Service; a Unit of Plenus
Entertainment, 18fl., Posteel Tower, 7353, Yeoksam-Dong, Kangnam-Gu, 135080, Seoul, Korea. Tel:
82.2.2192.8731~2. Fax: 82.2.2192.8790.
Website: www.cinemaservice.com/eng
Company Type: Financing, Production,
Distribution, and International Sales &
Marketing
At Mifed: Michael Kim (CEO/President),
Josh Lee (Deputy General Manager),
Jenny Chung (Sales Manager)
Office: G09, Tel: 39.02.4342.3083
REVERSAL OF FORTUNE
Fantasy Comedy (110 min)
Language: Korean
Director: PARK Yong-un
Producer: LEE Gun-sun
Cast: HA Ji-won, KIM Seung-woo
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Korea
Budget: $ 3.2 M
While going through a tunnel, the loser
broker Seung-wan drives past a man who
looks exactly like him.
SINGLES
Romantic Comedy (111 min)
Language: Korean
Director: KWON Chil-in
Producer: TCHA Seung-jai, ROH Jong-yoon
Cast: JANG Jin-young, UM Jung-hwa
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Korea
Budget: $ 3 M
The lives of the four 29-year-old singles
mingled with love, sex and friendship.
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CRAZY FIRST LOVE
Romantic Comedy (108 min)
Language: Korean
Director: OH Jong-rok
Producer: HAN Seong-gu
Cast: CHA Tae-hyun, SON Ye-jin
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Korea
Budget: $ 3.5 M
Young-dal jokingly promises that he'd
give his daughter Il-mae to Tae-il when
he grows up.
WISHING STAIRS
Horror (100 min)
Language: Korean
Director: YOON Jae-yeon
Producer: LEE Choon-yeon, KIM Jaehong, AHN Eun-mi
Cast: PARK Han-byul, SONG Ji-hyo
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Korea
Budget: $ 2 M
So-hee and Jin-sung are high school
mates, but also rivals in the ballet class.
As So-hee gets selected as the
representative for the National Ballet
competition, enraged Jin-sung decides to
make a secret wish at the Wishing Stairs.
INTO THE MIRROR
Horror (114 min )
Language: Korean
Director: KIM Sung-ho
Producer: KIM Eun-young
Cast: YOO Gi-tae, KIM Myung-min
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Korea
Budget: $ 3 M
Upon the opening of department store,
the employees get killed and mysterious
things happen. The only clue is that the
murder happen in front of a mirror.
SPRING BREEZE
Romantic Comedy (113 min)
Language: Korean
Director: JANG Hang-joon
Producer: LEE Kwan-soo
Cast: KIM Seung-woo, KIM Jung-eun
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Korea
Budget: $ 2.5 M
Seon-Guk, the cheapest and the stingiest
writer alive, gets kicked out of his own
room when super peppy coffee shop
hostess, Hwa-jung moves in.
PLEASE, TEACH ME ENGLISH
Romantic Comedy
Language: Korean
Director: KIM Sung-soo
Producer: JO Min-hwan
Cast: LEE Na-young, JANG Hyuk
Delivery Status: in production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Korea
Budget: $ 3 M
Young-Joo, the not so special girl, she
was chosen to take FREE English
Lessons.
THE LEGEND OF THE EVIL LAKE
Martial Arts
Language: Korean
Director: LEE Kwang-hoon
Producer: Jonathan Kim
Cast: JUNG Jun-ho, KIM Hyo-jin
Delivery Status: in post-production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Korea
Budget: $ 7 M
In the era of ancient Shilla, Queen Jinsung loves General Bi-ha-rang, but Biha-rang falls in love with a low-class
girl, Ja-woon-bi. When Queen's jealousy
brings death to Ja-woon-bi, she takes a
revenge possessed by evil sprit of the lake.
SILMIDO
Action Drama
Language: Korean
Director: KANG Woo-suk
Producer: LEE Min-ho
Cast: SOL Kyung-gu, AHN Sung-ki,
HUH Joon-ho, KANG Sin-il, JUNG Jaeyoung, LIM Won-hee Delivery Status: in
production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Korea
Budget: $ 10 M
In 1968, North Korean Special soldiers
infiltrated South Korea to assassinate
South Korea President PARK Jeong-hee.
FACE
Horror/Thriller
Language: Korean
Director: YOO Sang-gon
Producer: JUNG Tae-won
Cast: SHIN Hyun-june, SONG Yoon-ah
Delivery Status: in production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Korea
There is a bizarre serial killer on the
loose who kills the victims and leaves
only the skeleton.
CINEMAVAULT
Cinemavault Releasing Inc., 434 Queen
St East, Toronto ON, Canada, M5A 1T5.
Tel: 416.363.6060. Fax: 416.363.2305.
Website: www.cinemavault.com,
email: admin@cinemavault.com.
Company Type: Sales agent
At Mifed: Nick Stiliadis (CEO), Steve
Arroyave (VP Production), Natalie
Kampelmacher (Director of International
Sales), Paco Alvarez (Production
Executive), Irene Loewy (Senior VP
Acquisitions and Marketing)
Office: Pavillion 8, Booth B19, Tel:
39.33.51.44.34.38 (cell),
39.02.43.42.30.84 (booth)
THE GOSPEL OF JOHN
Drama (180 mins)
Language: English
Director: Philip Saville
Producer: Garth H. Drabinsky, Chris
Chrisafis
Cast: Henry Ian Cusick, Scott Handy,
Tristan Gemmill
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003.
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Country of Origin: UK / Canada
A word-for-word film adaptation of the
Fourth Gospel, likely the best known and
most widely read of the Gospels within
churches.
THE LIMIT
Thriller (90 mins)
Language: English
Director: Lewin Webb
Producer: Gary Howsam, Jamie Brown
Cast: Lauren Bacall, Claire Forlani, Pete
Postlethwaite, Henry Czerny
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of 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
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
A rookie detective embarks on a
disturbing journey through the underworlds
of Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
SEXUAL DEPENDENCY
Drama (104 mins)
Language: English / Spanish
Director: Rodrigo Bellott
Producer: Ara Katz
Cast: Alexandra Aponte, Roberto Urbina,
Ronica V. Reddick, Matt Cavenaugh
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Bolivia / USA
Five teenagers experience the subtle and
violent complexities of sexuality.
LOST THINGS
Horror (90 mins)
Language: English
Director: Martin Murphy
Producer: Ian Iveson
Cast: Leon Ford, Lenka Kripac, Steve Le
Marquand
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Australia
A group of teens are terrorized during
spring break.
RUB & TUG
Comedy (90 mins)
Language: English
Director: Soo Lyu
Producer: Edward Stanulis
Cast: Don McKellar, Kira Clavell, Tara
Spencer-Nairn, Lindy Booth
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: Canada
Massage parlor employees turn the tables
on their snooping new manager.
SISTER BLUE
Thriller (90 mins)
Language: English
Director: Doug Greenall
Producer: Matthew Robert Kelly, Doug
Greenall
Cast: Stacy Fair, Clare Lapinksie, Bruce
Dawson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Canada
As lies and secrets are threatened, a
dangerous game between sisters escalates.
TEKNOLUST
Comedy (85 mins)
Language: English
Director: Lynn Hershman Leeson
Producer: Youssef Vahabzadeh, John
Bradford King and Oscar Gubernati
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Davies
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: USA
A lonely woman clones herself three times
giving a whole new meaning to cyber sex!
INSIDE
Thriller (112 mins)
Language: French
Director: Michel Jette
Producer: Louise Sabourin and Michel Jette
Cast: Emmanuel Anger, Karyne
Lemieux, Paul Dion
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: Canada
Sentenced to ten years in prison, Claude
realizes that inside only the strong survive.
DANGEROUS PEOPLE
Comedy (107 mins)
Language: French
Director: Louis Saia
Producer: Richard Goudreau
Cast: Stephane Rousseau, Veronique
Cloutier, Marc Messier
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: Canada
A kidnapping and ransom plot get out of
control.
CJ ENTERTAINMENT
CJ Entertainment, 11Fl. CJ Bldg. 500, 5ga, Namdaemoon-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul
100-802 Korea. Tel: 822.726.8563.
Fax: 822.726.8291.
Website: www.cjent.co.kr,
email: kini@cj.net
At Mifed: Kang-bok LEE (CEO &
President), Edison JEON (Senor Vice
President), Kini KIM (Director), June
LEE (Director) Karen MOON (Manager)
Office: Pav. 10/3, D02
UNTOLD SCANDAL
www.thescandal.co.kr
Period Drama (122 min)
Language: Korean
Director: E J-Yong
Producer: Kang-bok LEE(Exec.), Jungwan OH
Key Cast: BAE Yong-jun, LEE Mi-sook,
JEON DO-yeon
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: USD 5.3mil.
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Korea
A sexy new twist on the infamous French
classic "Les Liasions Dangereuses":
Love, in a time of desire and ambition
THE GREATEST EXPECTATION
www.nosenose.co.kr
Comedy (110 min)
Language: Korean
Director: OH Sang-hoon
Producer: Kang-bok LEE
Key Cast: YIM Chang-jung, KIM Sun-ah
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: USD 2.8mil.
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Korea
A Comedic tale of family secrets, love and
misadvanture.
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MEMORIES OF MURDER
www.memoriesofmurder.co.kr
Crime Drama (127 min)
Director: Korean
Language: BONG Joon-ho
Producer: LEE Kang-bok(Exec.), TCHA
Sung-jai
Key Cast: SONG Kang-ho, KIM Sangkyung
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: USD 3.9mil.
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Korea
Two detectives set out to catch a serial
killer who has preyed on a local
community for six years.
MY WIFE IS A GANGSTER 2
www.wifeisgang2.co.kr
Action Comedy (110 min)
Language: Korean
Director: JUNG Heung-soon
Producer: LEE Soon-yeol
Key Cast: SHIN Eun-kyung, PARK Junkyu
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: USD 3.7mil.
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Korea
The woman whom other gangsters call
"Big Boss" loses her memory.
THE UNINVITED
www.4table.com
Thriller (125 min)
Language: Korean
Director: LEE Soo-yeon
Producer: LEE Kang-bok(Exec.), OH
Jung-wan
Key Cast: PARK Shin-yang, Jun Ji-hyun
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: USD 3.2mil.
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Korea
The table is full, not tith the family he
was planning.A chilling tale about family
and trust.
CONTENT
INTERNATIONAL
Content International, 14/15 D'Arblay
Street, London, W1F 8DZ, U.K. Tel:
44.20.7851.9170. Fax: 44.20.7851.9171.
Company Type: International Sales,
distribution, production, finance
At Mifed: Jamie Carmichael (Managing
Director), Harry White (Sales Executive),
Judith Baugin (Marketing Manager),
John Schmidt (President of ContentFilm)
Office 25/2 - A09
WICKED PRAYER
Action Horror
Language: English
Director: Lance Mungia
Producer: Edward R. Pressman, Jeff
Most
Cast: Edward Furlong, Tara Reid, David
Boreanaz, Dennis Hopper, Emmanuelle
Chriqui, Marcus Chong, Tito Ortiz, Rena
Owen, Danny Trejo, Macy Gray
Delivery Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: U.S.A.
When Jimmy and his girlfriend are
murdered by a ramping satanic cult, he is
reincarnated as "The Crow", an immortal
vigilante who must quickly learn of his
powers and seek revenge.
SPIVS
Gangster crime caper (98 min)
Language: English
Director: Colin Teague
Producer: Hamish Skeggs
Cast: Ken Stott, Nick Moran, Kate
Ashfield, Dominic Monaghan, Linda
Basset, Jack Dee, Paul Kaye
Delivery Status: Completed - Screening
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: England
In this cool yet heartfelt and emotionally
involving gangster caper, four con artists
find themselves in serious danger from
the Russian Mafia.
RICK
Suspense/Black Comedy (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Curtiss Clayton
Producer: Ruth Charny, Jim Czarnecki,
Sofia Sondervan
Cast: Bill Pullman, Aaron Stanford,
Agnes Bruckner, Dylan Baker, Sandra Oh
Delivery Status: Completed - Screening
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: U.S.A.
Cursed by a humiliated interviewee, a
bitter corporate vice-chairman bizarrely
accepts an offer to have his obnoxious
young boss murdered and finds himself
unable to stop the contract when he
develops a conscience.
THE KING
Drama/Suspense Thriller
Language: English
Director: James Marsh
Producer: Jim Wilson, Milo Addica
Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Country of Origin: U.S.A.
A gifted young marine cruelly abandoned
as a child by his Pastor father, returns to
his hometown hoping for reconciliation.
THE UNDERTOW
Dramatic Thriller
Language: English
Director: David Gordon Green
Producer: Lisa Muskat, Edward
R.Pressman
Cast: Josh Lucas, Jamie Bell, Dermot
Mulroney, Shiri Appleby, Michael Bacall
Delivery Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: U.S.A.
Two young brothers witness the murder
of their father at the hands of their evil
uncle, who then chases them trying to
steal their inheritance and prevent them
from telling the truth.
FAKERS
Comedy (86 min)
Language: English
Director: Richard Janes
Producer: Claire Bee, Richard Janes,
Todd Kleparski
Cast: Matthew Rhys, Kate Ashfield, Tom
Chambers, Tony Haygarth, Art Malik,
Rula Lenska, Larry Lamb, Edward Hibbert
Delivery Status: Completed - Screening
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: U.K.
With four days to find £50,000 to pay off
a crime lord, a young con artist
constructs a race-against-time scam that
involves selling 5 forgeries of an
infamous 'lost sketch' before the London
art dealers uncover the truth.
BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY
Epic Drama
Language: English
Director: Hans Petter Moland
Producer: Edward R.Pressman, Terrence
Malik, Tomas Backström, Petter J. Borgli
Cast: Nick Nolte, Tim Roth, Temuera
Morrison, Bai Ling, Damien Nguyen
Delivery Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: U.S.A.
Binh, a young Vietnamese man makes an
extraordinary six-month journey from his
village south of Saigon to Texas in search
of his long last GI father.
NEVER DIE ALONE
Action Thriller
Language: English
Director: Ernest Dickerson
Producer: Earl Simmons, Alessandro Camon
Cast: DMX, David Arquette, Michael Ealy,
Clifton Powell, Reagan Gomez-Preston
Delivery Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: U.S.A.
A young reporter witnesses the murder of
a drug lord and is left with the victim's
car and diary.
INTERVIEW WITH THE ASSASSIN
Fake Documentary (88 mins)
Language: English
Director: Neil Burger
Producer: Brian Koppelman, David Levien
Cast: Raymond J. Barry, Dylan Haggerty,
Renee Faia
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: U.S.A.
Almost forty years after the John F.
Kennedy assassination, an ex-Marine
reveals a startling claim.
THE COOLER
Romantic Drama (101 min)
Language: English
Director: Wayne Kramer
Producer: Sean Furst, Michael J.Pierce
Cast: William H.Macy, Maria Bello, Alec
Baldwin, Paul Sorvino, Estella Warren
Delivery Status: Completed - Screening
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: U.S.A.
In this romantic gangster film noir, a
casino "cooler", who turns winners into
losers, falls in love, destroying his
contagious losing streak and enraging his
mafia casino boss.
CONTROLLED
CHAOS MOVIE
Controlled Chaos Movie, 10620
Eastborne Ave. #201, Los Angeles, CA
90024, USA. Tel: 310.475.3773.
Fax: 310.475.4043.
website: www.controlledchaosmovie.com
Company Type: Production Company,
Sales Company
At Mifed: Azita Zendel (President);
Acquisition Executive: Azita Zendel
Office: Excelsior Hotel Gallia, Tel:
39.026.7851, Fax: 39.02667.13239
CONTROLLED CHAOS
Drama/Comedy (93 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Azita Zendel (Oliver Stone's
Former Assistant)
Producer: Azita Zendel
Cast: Don Hughes (Battlestar Gallactica,
Iron Thunder), Amy Blomquist (Into
Thin Air), Charley King (Chicago), Erik
Engstrom (The Last Days of Disco)
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
Budget: $1 million
A roman a clef independent feature based
on Azita Zendel's Four Years as Oliver
Stone's Assistant, about the harried Assistant
to a world famous Film Director.
CREATIVE LIGHT
WORLDWIDE
Creative Light Worldwide, 8383 Wilshire
Blvd. Suite #212, Beverly Hills CA 90211
USA. Tel: 323.658.9166. Fax:
323.866.3417. website:
www.creativelightworldwide.com,
email: CLW@crlight.com
At Mifed: Ted Chalmers (Head of
Worldwide Distribution), Ray Haboush
(Head of International Sales)
Office: Hall 10 Level 2 Booth B20, Tel:
39.340.777.3123
CREATURE UNKNOWN
Sci-fi (1 X 90')
Language: English
Cast: Chase Masterson (Deep Space 9)
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
Special Effects master Michael Burnett
makes his directorial debut in this film
about a weekend reunion that becomes a
confrontation with an incredible,
inhuman creature.
SECRET SINS
Erotic Thriller (1 X 90')
Language: English
Cast: Nicole Eggert (Baywatch),
Rosemary Forsythe (Ghosts of Mars),
Tony Sirico (Sopranos)
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
A young girl comes to New York to
dance on Broadway and ends up
stripping at a local gentlemen's club and
is stalked by an ex-boyfriend.
CAMPFIRE STORIES
Horror (1 X 90')
Language: English
Cast: Jamie Lynn Sigler (Sopranos),
David Johansen (Buster Poindexter),
John Hensley (Nip/Tuck)
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
Two teens on their way to a backwoods
party come across a beautiful young
woman having car trouble.
DARK HEAVEN
Science-Fiction (1 X 90 min)
Language: English
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
Police Officer Gabriel finds himself
nearly alone as millions have disappeared
from around the world, while he is being
stalked by mysterious creatures that
could be angels from Heaven or demons
from Hell.
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FRAZETTA: PAINTING WITH FIRE
Documentary (1 X '90)
Language: English
Cast: Frank Frazetta, Bo Derek, John
Milius, Ralph Bakshi
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
Animation is used to illustrate the life
and works of legendary fantasy artist,
Frank Frazetta, with comments from
other artists, filmmakers and critics.
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
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
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.
SUPERGUY
Dark Comedy (1 X 90')
Language: English
Cast: Mark Teague, Charles Dierkop
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
In this dark comedy, SUPERGUY comes
from another planet to protect the Earth
and ends up in scandal and lawsuits.
UNINVITED GUEST
Thriller
Language: English
Cast: Mekhi Phifer ("8 Mile"), Kim
Fields (The Facts of Life - TV show);
Marinda Williams (Soul Food)
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1999,
Country of Origin: USA
A newlywed couple is visited by
mysterious intruder who turns their
wedding night into a nightmare.
MADE UP
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Cast: Tony Shalhoub (Galaxy Quest),
Gary Sinise (Forest Gump), Brooke
Adams (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: USA
An older woman undergoes an elaborate
makeover fooling her boyfriend into
thinking she is two different women!
THE HUNGRY BACHELORS CLUB
Family Drama (1 X 93')
Language: English
Cast: Jorja Fox (CSI, ER, Memento), Bill
Nunn (Do The Right Thing), Michael
Des Barres (Mulholland Dr.)
Delivery Status: Completed
(PG-13) A woman dreams of leaving her
law practice to open a restaurant and
seizes an opportunity to fulfill it by
having the baby of a wealthy
businessman and his wife.
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CRYSTAL SKY
WORLDWIDE SALES,
LLC
Crystal Sky Worldwide Sales, LLC, 1901
Avenue of the Stars, Suite 605, Los
Angeles, CA 90067 USA.
Tel: 310.843.0223. Fax: 310.553.9895.
email: Sales@Crystal-Sky.com
At Mifed: Steven Paul (President &
CEO), Joseph Inga (Vice President,
Finance), Jason Price, Esq. (Executive
Director, Business & Legal Affairs),
Melanie O'Patry (Director, Worl dwide
Sales & Marketing)
Office: Pavilion 25, Hall II, A36 - A38
TEKKEN
Action/Adventure
Language: English
Executive Producer: Steven Paul
Status: In Development,
Delivery date: 2004
Budget: $70m
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: UK
Based on the #1 selling video game,
"Tekken" is a high-octane action movie
about a young man who discovers he
holds a great power and must battle a
team of elite fighters who will stop at
nothing in order to get it from him.
WEREWOLF BY NIGHT
Action/Thriller
Language: English
Executive Producers: Avi Arad, Steven
Paul
Status: In Development
Budget: $50m
Year of Production: 2004
About a young man, cursed with the
blood of a werewolf, struggling to find a
way to control his animalistic nature only
to fall in love with a beautiful but deadly
werewolf hunter.
SUPERBABIES: BABY GENIUSES II
Action-Adventure (90 minutes)
Language: English
Cast: Jon Voight, Scott Baio, Vanessa
Angel, introducing Skyler Shaye
Director: Bob Clark ("Porky's", "A
Christmas Story")
Producers: Steven Paul, Frank Huebner,
David Marlow
Status: Complete, Delivery date: 2003
Budget: $23m
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: UK - Germany
Chronicles the return of the Kahuna, a
legendary baby "super-spy" who must
stop an evil business tycoon from
controlling the hearts and minds of every
child in the world!
THE KARATE DOG
Action/Adventure (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Bob Clark ("Porky's", "A
Christmas Story")
Producers: Steven Paul, Frank Huebner,
David Marlow
Cast: Jon Voight, Simon Rex, Jaime
Pressly, Thomas Kretchmann, Pat
Morita, Bonnie Paul, Ron Lester
Delivery date: 2003
Budget: $22m
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: UK - Germany
An exciting action-adventure about ChoCho the dog, the world's only fast-talkin',
car drivin', toga-partyin', karate-fightin'
canine hero!
SOLO
Supernatural Thriller
Language: English
Director: Josef Rusnak
Executive Producers: Steven Paul,
Patrick Ewald
Producer: David Marlow, Jan Fantl
Status: In development, Delivery date: 2004
Budget: $11m
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: UK
When their young daughter goes missing,
a couple become the prime suspects in a
state-wide manhunt for their child. But
when a mysterious psychic enters their
lives, the couple must embark on a
supernatural adventure that holds the
answer to their daughter's disappearance.
THE BATTLE FOR TREASURE
ISLAND
Action/Adventure
Language: English
Director: Gavin Scott
Executive Producer: Steven Paul
Producers: Grant Bradley, Dale Bradley
Status: In Development, Delivery date: 2004
Budget: $6m
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: UK/New Zealand
The Battle For Treasure Island is a
swashbuckling, high-seas adventure set
on a magical island somewhere in the
Pacific. There, an incredible summer
camp exists beyond any child's
imagination where anything can happen,
and usually does.
DEADLY COURSE
Psychological Thriller
Language: English
Director: Stuart Paul
Producer: Jan Fantl
Status: In development, Delivery date: 2004
Budget: $8.5m
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: UK
College professor, Simon Conjuerer uses
wizardry talents to enlighten his selfimprovement class of misfits made up of
compulsive gamblers, drug addicts and
alcoholics.
MAN VS. WOMAN
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Samantha Shaw
Executive Producer: Steven Paul
Producers: Grant Bradley, David Marlow,
Dale Bradley
Status: In development
Budget: $5m
A crazy mad-cap romantic comedy that
explores the in's and out's of love and
war.
CURB
ENTERTAINMENT
INTERNATIONAL
CORP.
Curb Entertainment International Corp.,
3907 West Alameda Ave., Burbank, CA
91505 USA. Tel: 818.843.8580.
Fax: 818.566.1719. website:
www.curbentertainment.com,
email: info@curbentertainment.com
At Mifed: Carole Curb Nemoy
(President), Wendy Reeds (Executive
Director, Head of Sales)
Office: Pavilion 8/B62, Tel:
39.02.4342.3002. Fax: 39.02.4342.3004
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
Country of Origin: USA
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 the best - his best friend
who idolizes his talent, and the woman
who comes to love him. 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
Country of Origin: USA
Golden Swallow - Celestial Pictures
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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
Country of Origin: USA
"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.
A PROMISE KEPT
Thriller
Director: Daniel Millican
Producer: Daniel Millican
Cast: Sean Patrick Flanery, Joey Lauren
Adams, Mimi Rogers
Country of Origin: USA
Detective Ben Simm's life spins out of
control when his wife is killed by a serial
killer. With his beautiful new partner, he
is assigned to capture the vigilante whose
very goal is to avenge his wife's murder.
PREMIERE!
MERCI DOCTEUR REY
Comedy
Producer: Rahila Bootwala, Paul Bradley,
Natalie Gastaldo, Ismail Merchant
Director: Andrew Litvack
Cast: Dianne Wiest, Jane Birkin, Jerry
Hall, Simon Callow, Vanessa Redgrave,
and Stanislas Merhar
Country of Origin: France
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
Country of Origin: USA
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.
INHERITANCE
Horror
Director: Kris Kristensen
Producer: Kris Kristensen, Brian
McDonald, Scott Schill, Lisa Halpern
Cast: Jen Taylor, Marjorie Nelson, Carter
Roy, Emma Jones
Country of Origin: USA
In this chilling tale of a dying woman's
obsession for eternal youth, a beautiful
young caretaker must battle for her life
against a vicious ghost. As the ghost
possesses her body, the young woman
fights to kill the already dead.
D
DARCLIGHT
Darclight, 1201/39 McLaren Street,
North Sydney, 2060, Australia.
Tel: 61.2.99558825. Fax: 61.2.99558828.
Company Type: Sales agent, distributor
At Mifed: Gary Hamilton (Managing
Director), Nicolas Chartier (VP World
Wide Sales), Ian Gibbins (General
Manager), Michael Cowan (Co-Head
Production & Acquisition), Jason Piette
(Co-Head Production & Acquisition);
Acquisition Executive: John Kim
Office: Pavilion (Hall) 25, A 16 (Level
2), Tel: 02.4342.3063. Fax: 02.4342.3064
PERFECT CREATURE
Horror/Sci-fi
Language: English
Director: Glenn Standring (IRREFUTABLE
TRUTH ABOUT DEMONS)
Producer: Tim Sanders (Oscar Nominee
LORD OF THE RINGS, WHALE
RIDER), Russel Fischer, Haneet Vaswani
(BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM)
Cast: Dougray Scott, Jonathan RhysMeyers, Saffron Burrows
Delivery Status: pre production
Country of Origin: UK
In a world where humans and vampires
co-exist "separately but equally," a
human cop and vampire cop team up to
stop a rogue vampire intent on starting a
war between the two races.
LOST
Horror
Language: English
Director: Roderick Taylor
Producer: Billy Dietrich, Michael
Cowan, Jason Piette
One-Armed Swordsman - Celestial Pictures
Cast: To be announced at Mifed.
Delivery Status: pre production
When a group of college students get lost
in a bizarre and terrifying backwoods,
their road trip to a rave becomes a
nightmarish journey to the gates of hell.
SILVER HAWK
Futuristic Action Thriller
Language: English/Chinese
Director: Jingle Ma (RUMBLE IN THE
BRONX)
Producer: Michelle Yeoh, Thomas Chung
Cast: Michelle Yeoh (CROUCHING
TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON,
TOMORROW NEVER DIES)
Delivery Status: production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Armed with ancient Shaolin monastery
fighting techniques and high tech
hardware, a beautiful masked millionaire
crimefighter battles an evil entrepreneur
intent on enslaving the world.
THE LAST SIGN
Supernatural Thriller
Language: English
Director: Douglas Law
Co-production partners: Transfilm, The
Spice Factory
Cast: Andie McDowell, Tim Roth
Delivery Status: production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
Tormented by the ghost of her abusive
husband, a widow must face the very
thing she’s trying to forget if she is to
find peace and put the ghost to rest.
BAILEY
Family/Comedy
Language: English
Director: David Devine
Co-production partners: Devine
Entertainment, Spice Factory.
Cast: Dean Cain, Laurie Holden, Tim
Curry, Jennifer Tilly and features
Kenneth Welsh and Sheila McCarthy. Jon
Lovitz is the voice of Bailey.
Delivery Status: Production
Year of Production: 2003
Bailey's no ordinary pooch. He's just
been left a fortune by his billionaire
owner and he can talk, at least to his best
friend, an animal behaviour expert.
FAT PIZZA
Comedy (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Paul Fenech
Producer: Paul Fenech in association
with Village Roadshow
Cast: Paul Fenech
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: Australia
Hot cars and hot chicks may be on their
minds, but a psychotic boss, drug crazed
co-workers and unscrupulous fast food
chain rivals make twenty-four hours in
these pizza delivery boy?s lives a day in
the hot seat.
HEROIC DUO
Police Thriller (100 min)
Language: Cantonese & Mandarin
Director: Benny Chan (GEN-X COPS)
Producer: Benny Chan, Daniel Lam
(SHAOLIN SOCCER)
Cast: Ekin Cheng, Leon Lai
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
A theft by an unlikely suspect at the
opening of International Diamond Expo
sees the most elite member of the Hong
Kong Police Force teamed up with an expolice hypnotherapist.
THE TWINS EFFECT
Martial arts/Horror
Language: Cantonese
Director: Dante Lam, Donnie Yen
Producer: EMG
Cast: Charlene Choi, Gillian Chung, Ekin
Chen, JACKIE CHAN
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
With the help of a famous high-kicking
Hong Kong bus driver, two girls who just
want to have fun confront the grave
responsibility of safekeeping the world
from vampire domination.
DIMENSION FILMS
Dimension Films, 99 Hudson Street, 5th
Floor, New York, NY 10013 USA.
Tel: 212.219.4100. Fax: 212.941.3836
At Mifed: Rick Sands (COO, Miramax
Films), Jere Hausfater (Executive Vice
President, Miramax International), Stuart
Ford (Executive Vice President, Miramax
International), Mark Lindsay (Sr. Vice
President, Sales and Distribution,
Miramax International), Michael
Rothstein (Vice President, Sales and
Distribution, Miramax International),
Colleen Seldin (Vice President,
International Finance and Operations)
Office: Fiera Milano, Pavilion 25/2,
Office A03-A07, Milan, Italy. Tel:
39.02.4342.3088. Fax: 39.02.4342.3090
CURSED
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Wes Craven
Producers: Wes Craven, Marianne
Maddelena
Cast: Christina Ricci, Skeet Ulrich, Jesse
Eisenberg, John McGinley, Scott Baio,
Robert Forster, and Omar Epps
Status: In Post-Production
County of Origin: USA
Horror master Wes Craven and writer
Kevin Williamson polish up their silver
bullets for this frightening new take on a
classic horror legend.
BAD SANTA
Dramatic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Producers: John Cameron, Sara Aubrey,
Bob Weinstein
Executive Producers: Joel and Ethan
Coen
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Lauren Graham,
with John Ritter, and Bernie Mac
Status: In Post-Production
County of Origin: USA
Willie T. Stoke (Oscar winner Thornton)
is not your average shopping center
Santa Claus. And this year, like every
other, he is hitting the road as Father
Christmas to knock over another
unsuspecting mall in middle America.
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DISTANT HORIZON
Distant Horizon, 8282 Sunset Boulevard,
Suite A, Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA.
Tel: 323.848.4140. Fax: 323.848.4144.
email: la@distant-horizon.com. London:
61 Villiers Avenue, Surbiton, Surrey KT5
8BE London, UK. Tel: 44.20.8399.5126.
Fax: 44.20.8390.5341.
email: london@distant-horizon.com
At Mifed: Sanjeev Singh (Acquisitions
Director), Brian Cox (Producer).
Office: Four Seasons, Tel: 39.02.77088.
LONG WALK TO FREEDOM
Director: Shekhar Kapur (Four Feathers,
Elizabeth, Bandit Queen)
Producer: Anant Singh
Principal Cast: Morgan Freeman
Status: In Development
The autobiography of Nelson Mandela,
South Africa's first democratically
elected president.
I CAPTURE THE CASTLE
Director: Tim Flywell (Madame Bovary,
The Woman In White)
Producers: Anant Singh, David M. Thompson,
David Parfitt (Shakespeare In Love)
Principal Cast: Romola Garai, Rose Byrne
(Star Wars: Episode II), Henry Thomas
(Gangs of New York), Marc Blucas
(Sunshine State, View From The Top, We
Were Soldiers), Bill Nighy (Lucky
Break), Tara Fitzgerald (Brassed Off)
Status: Complete
Based on the book by Dodi Smith (101
Dalmations) a classically romantic tale of
a young girl's emotional journey into
adulthood.
MAQBOOL
Director: Vishal Bhardwaj
Producer: Bobby Bedi (Bandit Queen)
Principal Cast: Irrfan Khan (The
Warrior), Om Puri (East Is East),
Naseeruddin Shah (Monsoon Wedding),
Tabu (Chandni Bar)
Status: Complete
Maqbool is a modern day adaptation of
Shakespeare's Macbeth and is set against
the backdrop of Bombay's underworld.
THE LEGEND OF THE SKY
KINGDOM
Director: Roger Hawkins
Producers: Philip Cunningham, Jacqui
Cunningham
Principal Cast: Animation
Status: Complete
The story of three children who make a
daring escape from the underground city
in which they are slaves of the Evil
Emperor.
VOLCANO HIGH
Director: Kim Tae-Gyun
Producers: Seoung-Jae Cha, Woo-Suk Kang
Principal Cast: Hyuk Jang, Min-A Shin,
Su-Ro Kim, Sang-Woo Kwon
Status: Complete
Volcano High tells the story of a young
man with incredible fighting powers that
he is forbidden to use.
MR BONES
Director: Gray Hofmeyr
Producers: Anant Singh, Helena Spring
Principal Cast: Leon Schuster (Panic
Mechanic, Yankee Zulu), David Ramsey
(Pay It Forward, Three To Tango), Faizon
Love (The Parenthood, Blue Crush)
Status: Complete
Mr Bones is the highest grossing South
African film of all time. The king of the
Kavuki tribe is ageing and does not have
a male heir.
DORO
FILMPRODUKTIONS
GMBH
DoRo Filmproduktions GmbH, Freyung
3 / 2 / 16, A-1010 Wien, Austria. Tel:
0043.1.876.88.88 Fax: 0043.1.876.55.00.
Website: www.doro.net,
e-mail doro@doro.net
Company Type: Film- & TV Production
At Mifed: Acquisition Executive:
Katharina Amport
DREAM
ENTERTAINMENT
Dream Entertainment, 8489 W. Third
Street, Suite 1038, Los Angeles, CA
90048 USA.
Tel: 323.655.5501. Fax: 323.655.5603.
email: dream@dreamentertainment.net
Company Type: Producer, Sales Agent
At Mifed: Ehud Bleiberg (Chairman &
CEO), Yitzhak Ginsberg (President),
Nadine de Barros (Vice President, Sales
& Acquisitions), Shannon Wilson
(Coordinator)
Office: Pav. 8, A22
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
Country of Origin: USA
A hilarious spoof of big-budget action
films, "Disaster!" is the ultimate disaster
movie.
MONSTER MAN
Horror/Thriller
Language: English
Director: Michael Davis
Producers: Yitzhak Ginsberg, Ehud
Bleiberg, Larry Rattner
Cast: Eric Jungmann, Justin Urich,
Aimee Brooks
Delivery Status: In Pre-Production
Country of Origin: USA
A monster man driving a monster truck
terrorize a couple of college kids
traveling cross-country.
THE MANSON FAMILY
Thriller/Horror
Language: English
Director: Jim Van Bebber
Producers: Carl Daft, David Gregory, Jim
Van Bebber, Mike King
Cast: Marcelo Games, Mark Pitman,
Leslie Orr
Delivery Status: In Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
The true story of the Charles Manson
Family Cult, the most horrific and
notorious murderers of the century.
HER MAJESTY
Family
Language: English
Director: Mark J. Gordon
Producers: Walter Coblenz
Cast: Sally Andrews, Vicky Haughton,
Liddy Holloway, Mark Clare
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of 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
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
From the same team that brought you
"Dahmer", a shocking story about the
infamous American serial killer - John
Wayne Gacy.
NINE LIVES
Thriller/Horror
Language: English
Director: Andrew Green
Producers: Andrew Green, Giles
Hattersley, Nikolas Korda
Cast: Amelia Warner, Lex Shrapnel, Paris
Hilton
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: UK
Nine friends are stranded in an isolated
Scottish manor when a centuries-old
spirit is unleashed. Only one will
survive.
THE PAVILION
Period Drama
Language: English
Director: Grant Mitchell
Producers: Jack C. Merrick
Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Craig
Sheffer, Patsy Kensit
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1999,
Country of Origin: USA
A story of adventure and suspense that
unfolds just after the American Civil War.
DAHMER
Horror
Language: English
Director: David Jacobson
Producer: Larry Rattner
Cast: Jeremy Renner, Bruce Davidson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: USA
The true story of the most controversial
serial killer in America.
ACCORDING TO SPENCER
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Shane Edelman
Producers: Ehud Bleiberg, Terence
Michael, Yitzhak Ginsberg, Richard Finney
Cast: Jesse Bradford, Mia Kirshner,
Adam Goldberg, Marissa Ribisi, David
Krumholtz, Giovanni Ribisi
Year of Production: 2001,
Country of Origin: USA
A young man, re-united with his
childhood crush, is determined to make
her fall in love with him.
GIRL FEVER (100 WOMEN)
Sexy Teen Comedy
Language: English
Director: Michael Davis
Producers: Ehud Bleiberg, Terence Michael,
Yitzhak Ginsberg, Richard Finney
Cast: Chad Donella, Jennifer Morrison,
Erinn Bartlett
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2001,
Country of Origin: USA
The follow-up to the hit "100 Girls". Art
student Sam can make 99 of the girls in
the women's residence laugh, but he can't
make the girl he loves smile.
E
ECHELON
ENTERTAINMENT
Echelon Entertainment, 400 South
Victory Blvd., Suite 203, Burbank, CA
91502 USA.
Tel: 818.558.1820. Fax: 818.558.1877.
Website: www.echelonent.com,
email: info@echelonent.com
Company Type: Sales agent, producer,
and distributor
At Mifed: Eric Louzil (President and
CEO), Geoff Jarvis (VP OF International
Sales), John Howard (VP Of Press
Relations), Stacey Parks (VP of
International Sales), Ellen Roongcharoen
(Sales Assistant), Jeffrey Cooper (VP Of
Domestic Sales); Acquisition Executive:
Gloria Morrison (President of
Development/Acquisitions)
Office: Milan Hilton Hotel, Tel:
39.02.69831, Fax: 39.02.66710810,
Pavillion 8 (Level I), Booth Number B42
CHECKING THE GATE
Action (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Jess Thomas
Cast: Marc Cemron, Athena Demos, Ilva
& Boris Gorovatsky
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of 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
Political Thriller (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Rod Slane
Cast: Robert Knott, Alex Meneses,
Hunter von Leer, Wilford Brimley
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: USA
"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.
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CONFEDERATE SABER, AKA
WICKED PURSUITS
Thriller (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Timothy Taylor
Cast: Mary McCullum, Rob Wilds,
Rodney Pickel
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
Richard Richmond lives in a ménage a
trios with two beautiful women, one
black and one white, but their happy
arrangement gets cut violently short by
the locals who passionately discriminate
against this lifestyle.
DEMON UNDER GLASS
Horror (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Jon Cunningham
Cast: Jason Carter, Garett Maggart, Jack
Donner
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of 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.
DEPRAVED
Erotic Thriller
Language: English
Director: Rogelio A. Lobato
Cast: Seidy Lopez, Antonio Guzman,
Mario Lopez
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
Somewhere between love and fantasy
lies a sacred boundary no man or woman
should ever cross.
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
Horror (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Mark Redfield
Cast: Mark Redfield, Elena Torrez,
Kosha Engler
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002
Country of Origin: USA
The classic tale retold in a way that's
faithful to the original.
NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING
Comedy (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: William Tannen
Cast: Janeane Garofalo, Wayne Rogers,
Mike Meyers
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2001,
Country of Origin: USA
A sexy aspiring filmmaker embarks on a
wild journey into the world of Hollywood
where she meets a gangster who agrees
to finance her film (for a price).
PEAK EXPERIENCE
Mystical Adventure (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Anthony Leigh Adams
Cast: Angel Boris, Mark Collie, Neil
Dickson
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
An exotically beautiful poet and adventure
junkie takes a job at a rustic mountain lodge
and becomes haunted by enigmatic visions.
RAIL KINGS
Drama (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Bobb Hopkins
Cast: Robert Spediacci, Bobb Hopkins,
Ernest Borgnine
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
An irresponsible preppie, Preston West,
is presumed to have murdered his parents
for a sizable inheritance, so he flees to
find the real killer, Phantom 13, a crazed,
freight train hobo.
SEIZING ME
Psycho-Erotic Thriller (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Halfdan Hussey
Cast: Howard Antony, Lisa Keller, Kathy
Garver
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
Rose kidnaps and imprisons three unique
people, wanting to seize the pieces
necessary to complete her.
ENTERTAINMENT 7
Entertainment 7, 15030 Ventura Blvd,
Suite # 762, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
USA. Tel: 818.709.9595. Fax:
818.709.9597. Website: www.ent7.com,
email: sales-ent@ent7.com
Company Type: Sales Agent, Producer,
Distributor
At Mifed: Emilio Ferrari (Consultant),
Bill Wilder (International Sales)
Office: B06 Pavilion 8
INSIDE TAKE
Drama (300 x 30 min)
Language: English
Producer: Entertainment 7
Host: Darla Artura
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Entertaining and exciting coverage of
Hollywood's biggest movies including
interviews with the stars, the director,
behind the scenes, premiers and much more.
MISS MANAGEMENT
Comedy (13 x 30 min)
Language: English
Director: TBA
Producer: Emilio Ferrari
Cast: Caprice, Udo Kier
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Country of Origin: USA
Super Model, Blanche is forced to take
over the family business of running one
of the top modeling agencies in the world.
HOUSE OF HORROR
Horror
Language: English
Director: Emilio Ferrari
Producer: Emilio Ferrari
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Country of Origin: USA
Fictitious modern day story based on the
famous Tales of Terror by Edgar Alan Poe.
WHITE - OUT
Action Thriller (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director/Producer: Emilio Ferrari
Country of Origin: USA
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 loose. Completed
MADE IN L.A.
Action Adventure
Language: English
Director/Producer: Emilio Ferrari
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Country of Origin: USA
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.
ROOMMATE WANTED
Erotic Drama (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director/Producer: Emilio Ferrari
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
In the tradition of "Sex in the City" and
"Beverly Hills 90210", comes an
intriguing story about six young women
sharing a house in Beverly Hills. Their
lives intertwine and connect through a
series of sexual encounters.
EQUATOR FILMS
Equator Films, 6 Heddon Street, London
W1B 4BT UK. Tel: 44(0)20.7025.7400.
Fax: 44.(0)20.7025.7401. Mob:
44(0)7713.642.653
At Mifed: Steve Turney (Sales Director)
Office: C31 Hall: 10-2; Fiera Milano
International spa, Largo Domodossola 1,
Palazzina Fmi, 20145 Milano, Italy. Tel:
39.0248550.1. Fax: 39.0248550420
CHARLIE
Gangster/Drama
Cast: Luke Goss, Steven Berkoff
Written, Directed & Produced by:
Malcolm Needs
Producer: Tim Ireland; Co-Producer: Tim
Lewiston; Line Producers: Tricia
Cooklin, Grieg Buckle
Status: Completed
Based on a true story, 'Charlie' follows the
life of gang leader Charlie Richardson.
EQUATOR FILMS LIBRARY
Handmade Films: Time Bandits (John
Cleese & Sean Connery)
Long Good Friday (Bob Hoskins &
Helen Mirren)
Withnail & I (Richard E. Grant)
In total 23 films are in the collection.
Action Movies: 44 high end action films
with star names ranging from Tony
Curtis to Pamela Anderson.
Classic Films: 20 films including family
ghost film 'The Amazing Mr. Blunden',
Robert Altman's award winning 'Images'
and 'The Blockhouse' (Peter Sellers).
EUROCINE
Eurocine, 33 avenue des Champs
Elysées, Paris, 75008 France. Tel:
331.42.25.64.92. Fax: 331.42.25.73.38.
Website: www.eurocine.net,
email: sales@eurocine.net
At Mifed: Daniel LESOEUR (Chairman),
Ilona KUNESOVA (Head of
Acquisition/Development), Michèle
MAGNAN (Sales)
Office: B21 Pavillon 10 Hall 2, Tel:
39.02.43.42.30.06
EL REY THE MAN WHO
CHANGED THE FATE OF A CITY
www.peliculaelrey.com
Action/thriller (95 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Antonio DORADO
Producer: Daniel LESOEUR, CoProduction Partners:
EUROCINE/CTC/U.del Valle
Key Cast: Fernando SOLORZANO as El
Rey, Cristina UMANA as Blanca,
Vanessa SIMON as Laura, Olivier
PAGES as Harry
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: COLOMBIA
Rise and fall of a man, first narco-dealer
before Pablo Escobar,which traffic made
him believe he was the KING.
SADE'S EUGENIA
Horror/erotic (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Jess FRANCO
Producer: G GIBERT, Co-Production
Partners: EUROCINE/JK S
Key Cast: Soledad MIRANDA as
Eugenie Radeck, Paul MULLER as
Albert Radeck, Andre Montcall as Paul
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1970,
Country of Origin: FRANCE
From the novel Eugenie de Franval
written by the Marquis de Sade. Eugenia
and her father plan to commit the perfect
crime.
JUSTINE DE SADE
Erotic (90 min)
Language: English / German
Director: Claude PIERSON
Producer: Claude PIERSON, CoProduction Partners: PIERSON
Production /ICAR / CITEL
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1972
A young orphan, Justine, is maltreated
along all the meetings in her life,
opposite to her sister Juliette.
Herr Lehmann (Berlin Blues) - Beta Cinema
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F FOR FILM
f for film, 16 rue de l'ancienne forge,
Fontaine sous Jouy, 27120 France. Tel:
33.2.32.26.25.39. Fax: 33.2.32.36.86.49.
email: seguy@f-for-film.com
At Mifed: Seguy Margarita (Acquisitions
& Sales Manager)
Office: Tel: 33.6.08.43.89.43
VODKA LEMON
Tragi-Comedy (86')
Language: Kurdish/Armenian/Russian
Director: HINER SALEEM
Producer: FABRICE GUEZ (Dulciné s)
Co-Production Partners: Rosanna
SEREGNI (Sintra), Tiziana Soudani
(Amka s), Martun Adoyan (Paradise),
Arte France Cinema, Cinefacto
Key Cast: Romik Avinian,Lala
Sarkissian, Ivan Franek,Rouzanne
Mesropian,Zahal Karielachvili
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: FRANCE
We are in the Kurdish villages of
Caucasus. Every day Hamo, a sixtysomething retired red army officer, goes
to the cemetery and brushes off the snow
the portrait on his wife's tomb.
MARION BRIDGE
Drama (90')
Language: English
Director: WIEBKE VON CAROLSFELD
Producer: Jennifer Kawaja, Bill Niven,
Julia Sereny (Sienna s Inc / Idlewilds Ltd)
Co-Production Partners: Tele Canada
Key Cast: Molly Parker, Rebecca
Jenkins, Stacy Smith
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: CANADA
The story of three sisters in postindustrial Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The
youngest sister, Agnes (Molly parker),
comes home from Toronto to be with her
ailing mother. Once there her actions
threaten to set chain of events that will
open a long-avoided past.
WE ARE NOT BOTTOM SHELF
Documentary (90')
Director: French
Language: Jean-Pierre Thorn
Co-Production Partners: Arte France
Producer: MAT
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: FRANCE
An intimate portrait of 30 years old Bouda,
a Hip-Hop dancer who, at three months
of age, settled in France with his family
THE BUSINESS
OF FILM
London Head Office
41-42 Berners St.
London WIT 3NB
Los Angeles Office
5150 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90036
FILM BRIDGE
INTERNATIONAL
FILMAX
INTERNATIONAL
Film Bridge International, 1316 Third
Street Promenade, Suite 105, Santa
Monica, CA 90401 USA. Tel:
310.656.8680. Fax: 310.656.8683.
Website: filmbridgeinternational.com,
email:
contact@filmbridgeinternational.com
At Mifed: Ellen Wander, Incoronata
"Inc" Pagliuca, Lori Mathison
Office: Pavilion 8/Hall 1, Stand #B27,
Ellen Wander cell: 310.526.3456
DOLAN'S CADILLAC
Producer: 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
Starring Donald Sutherland and Famke
Janssen
Written and directed by Jean-Pierre
Isbouts (Disney feature, "Walt: The Man
Behind the Myth")
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 Grant, "Paradise Road"
starring Glenn Close & Cate Blanchett)
will produce
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: 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.
Filmax International, Miguel Hernández
81-87, District Economic de L'Hospitalet
08908 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat,
Barcelona, Spain. Tel: 34.93.336.85.55.
Fax: 34.93.263.08.24.
website: www.filmaxinternational.com,
email: filmaxint@filmax.com
At Mifed: Julio Fernández (Chairman),
Carlos Fernández (CEO), Antonia Nava
(Sr VP of Sales & Co-productions),
Vicente Canales (Sales Manager), Rafael
Cabrera (International Marketing
Manager), Ivan Diaz (Servicing and
International Traffic Manager)
Office: Pavillion 25, Hall 2º, Stand A06
EL CID THE LEGEND
Animated Feature Film (80')
Language: English / Spanish
Director: Josep Pozo
Producer: Julio Fernandez
Status: Completed
A film set in the court of King Fernando I,
of Castilla, in XI century in Spain. It's the
story of the historic legend based on
RODRIGO DE VIVAR, better known as
EL CID.
THE MACHINIST
Suspense Thriller (95´)
Language: English
Director: Brad Anderson
Producer: Julio Fernández
Cast: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason
Leigh, John Sharian, Michael Ironside,
Aitana Sánchez Gijón
Production Status: Post-Production.
Trevor Reznik, a machinist, has lost the
ability to sleep. But this is no ordinary
insomnia. Trevor has not slept in a year.
ROMASANTA
Horror (95´)
Language: English
Director: Paco Plaza
Producer: Julio Fernández & Brian Yuzna
Cast: Julian Sands, John Sharian, Elsa Pataki
Production Status: Post-Production
There is only one man who dares travel
through the woods. Who is he and What
tenebrous secrets does he hide?
ROTTWEILER
Horror
Language: English
Director: Brian Yuzna
Producer: Julio Fernandez & Brian
Yuzna
Status: In Pre - Production
It is a duel. A man escaping from his past
- pursued by the Beast that will haunt
him and destroy those around him until
he finally honors a lovers' vow and
confronts his destiny.
NOCTURNA
Animated Feature Film
Language: English / Spanish
Director: Adrian García y Victor
Maldonado
Producer: Julio Fernandez
Status: In Production
What is it that turns the night into night,
and fills it with such unexplainable
mystery?
FRAGILE
Horror
Language: English
Director: Jaume Balagueró
Producer: Julio Fernández
Production Status: In Pre-Production
Something terrifying from the past has
come back to haunt. Something that
shouldn't be here.
THE NUN
Horror
Language: English
Producer: Julio Fernández & Brian
Yuzna
Production Status: In Pre-Production
Six schoolgirls in their early teens are
confined to a sinister boarding school
where they are intimidated and often
abused by the nuns in charge of running
the institution.
BENEATH STILL WATERS
Horror
Language: English
Producer: Julio Fernández & Brian
Yuzna
Production Status: In Development
A cursed town has been buried under a
man-made lake, buried, forgotten – to put
an end to a hidden horror. But now fifty
years later, the sunken town is coming alive.
FILMART - HONG
KONG TRADE
DEVELOPMENT
COUNCIL
Filmart - Hong Kong Trade Development
Council, 38/F Office Tower, Convention
Plaza, 1 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong
Kong. Tel: 852. 2584 4333.
Fax: 852. 2824 0249.
Website: www.hkfilmart.com,
email: hktdc@tdc.org.hk
Company Type: Trade Promotion
Organization, Film Market, Film Festival
At Mifed: Natalie Chan (Assistant
Manager, Services Promotion), Byron
Lee (Marketing Manager, TDC Milan
Office)
Office: Pad. 10/2 Stand C38
Liegen Lernen (Learning to Lie) - Beta Cinema
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FILMEXPORT
GROUP
FilmExport Group, Via Del Pianeta
Urano, 60 - 00144 Rome, Italy. Tel:
39.06.52207432. Fax: 39.06.52278416.
Website: www.filmexport.com,
email: info@filmexport.com
At Mifed: Roberto Di Girolamo
(President & CEO), Laura Maurano
(Sales Manager), Andrea Di Girolamo
(Senior Manager Acquisition &
Productions)
Office: Booth #D-15, Hall 26/2, Tel:
02.4342.185, Mobile: 39.335.7025.654
LAND OF DEATH (LA TERRA
DELLA MORTE)
Action-Horror
Language: English
Director: Martin Miller
Producer: Gianni Paolucci By La Perla
Nera
Cast: Claudio Morales, Cindy J. Matic,
Lou Randall, Ydalia Suarez, Silvio
Jimenez, Santi Larrauri, Kenny Krall
Delivery Status: completed
Country of Origin: Italy
Story of a group of researchers
describing the horror life of cannibal
tribes in Amazonia.
THE DOOR OF THE SEVEN STARS
(LA PORTA DELLE SETTE
STELLE)
Drama
Language: Italian With English Subtitles
Director: Pasquale Pozzessere
Producer: Italgest Video
Cast: Stefano Dionisi, Sabrina Colle,
Stefano Pesce, Cosimo Fusco, Barbara
Lerici, Abelia Pilar
Delivery Status: completed
Country Of Origin: Italy
The life of David, his success, his
adventures, his loves and his big
economic power; he fights against a huge
cheat made by a famous financier and
damaging third world people, trying to
find justice and obtaining it at the end,
after many adventures.
DO IT! (FALLO!)
Erotic
Language: Italian / English
Director: Tinto Brass
Producer: Letizia Cinematografica By
Giovanni Bertolucci
Cast: Maruska Albertazzi, Virginia
Barrett, Sarah Cosmi, Lyudmyla
Derkack, Angela Ferlaino
Delivery Status: completed
Country Of Origin: Italy
DO IT! Relates six episodes, chosen
around the joyous and jocose concept of
sexuality and eroticism characteristic of
the film's director, for whom these are in
fact sources of pleasure and joie de vivre.
EL POLAQUITO
Drama
Language: Spanish With English Subtitles
Director: Juan Carlos Desanzo
Producer: José Maria Calleja De La
Fuente / Juan Carlos Desanzo
Cast: Abel Ayala, Marina Glezer, Fernando
Roa, Roly Serrano, Laura Spinola, Lucas
Lasarich, Fabián Arenillas
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Argentina / Spain
"El Polaquito", a thirteen-year-old street
singer makes a living singing in the
trains at Buenos Aires (his nickname
comes from imitating the famous tango
singer "Polish" Goyeneche).
EDEN
Comedy
Language: Italian
Director: Fabio Bonzi
Producer: Viva Cin.Ca Srl
Cast: Sonia Aquino, Marco Bonini, Guja Jelo
Delivery Status: completed
Country Of Origin: Italy
Takes place in Sicily in 1958, the year of
the law that closed the prostitutes houses
forever, the year of the economic miracle,
between the end of the "legal" prostitution
and the start of the turbulent welfare race.
MICAELA
Movie-Cartoon
Language: Spanish / English
Director: Rosanna Manfredi
Producer: Encuadre S.A.
Cast: Micaela Casotto, Arialdo Giménez,
Chunchuna Villafañe
Delivery Status: completed
Country Of Origin: Argentina
A beautiful story for children and
“older”: actors, cartoons and 3D
characters all together in a film of
international animation level, which will
bring all the family in a magic world of
fantasy.
YO-DARH AND THE
ASTROMAVERICKS
Presented by Carlo Rambaldi, the creator
of E.T
Animation
Language: English
Director: Camillo Teti - Victor Rambaldi
Producer: Effeci Srl
Country Of Origin: Italy
A fascinating story about friendship and
solidarity. It also deals with some of the
most crucial themes of our time: man's
place in the universe.
CANNIBAL WORLD (MONDO
CANNIBALE)
Horror
Language: English
Director: Vincent Dawn
Producer: Gianni Paolucci By La Perla
Nera
Cast: Helena Wagner, Claudio Morales,
Antoine Reboul, Cindy Jelica Matic,
Brad Santana
Delivery Status: in production
Country of Origin: Italy
Famous anchorwoman Grace Forsyte is
collapsing and she would do everything
to regain the favour of the audience,
therefore she convinces her professional
team to go to the Amazon jungle for a
sensational scoop about the cannibals.
FASHION SHOOT
Erotic
Language: English
Director: Pierre Le Blanc
Producer: La Perla Nera S.R.L.
Cast: Veronica Hengfeld, Nora Chang,
Claudio Morales, Jimenez Hernandez,
C.J. Matic
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: Italy
Three beautiful models, Roxanne, Agoon
and Catherine, have been chosen by the
fashion magazine "Play with me" to pose
for a famous photographer.
VENETIAN CAPRICE (CAPRICCIO
VENEZIANO)
Erotic
Language: English
Director: Vincent Dawn
Producer: La Perla Nera
Cast: Emily Crawford, Gualberto
Parmeggiani, Juliana Jerrugan
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Italy
The perverse and transgressing amourous
encounters between a man and a woman,
both having the same wish: to carry their
relationship beyond the bonds of
convention.
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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.
Website: www.filmsfilmsdistribution.com,
email: info@filmsdistribution.com.
Company Type: sales agent
At Mifed: Nicolas Brigaud-Robert,
François Yon, Didar Domehri
Office: N° B 24, Pavillon 10, Hall II
A BOIRE!
Director: Amarion Vernoux
Producer: ADR Productions
Delivery Status: In Production
A bridge, a dry riverbed in a desolate
landscape, the sentry house guard who's
in a foul mood.
EARTH AND ASHES
Director: Atiq Rahimi
Producer: Les films du lendemain
Delivery Status: In Production
FEATHERS IN MY HEAD
(105 min)
Director: Thomas de Thier
Producer: Jba Production
Cast: Sophie Museur, Fancis Renaud
Delivery Status: Screening at MIFED
2003
The small Belgian town of Genappe
revolves around its sugar factory. Rotting
beets in the town's surrounding drainage
system attract migratory birds.
LOVE ME IF YOU DARE
(93 min)
Director: Yann Samuell
Producer: Nord-Ouest
Cast: Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard
Delivery Status: Screening at MIFED 2003
Sophie & Julien made up the rules of the
game and they will be for the rest of their
life its referee… and often its victims.
MATRUBHOOMI - A NATION
WITHOUT WOMEN
(94 min)
Director: Manish Jha
Producer: Ex Nihilo
Cast: Tulip Joshi, Sudhir Pandey
Delivery Status: Screening at MIFED
2003
The story is set in Rural India, in a
village called Matrubhoomi where there
are no women left.
MUD
(98 min)
Director: Dervis Zaim
Producer: Downtown Pictures
Cast: Mustafa Ugurlu, Yelda Reynaud
Delivery Status: Screening at MIFED
2003
Four 40-something friends are haunted
by the violent past of a divided Cyprus.
MY FATHER IS AN ENGINEER
Director: Robert Guédiguian
Producer: Agat Films
Cast: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Ariane
Ascaride
Delivery Status: In Production
As a voice over tells us the story of The
Pastoral, this vision of the birth of JesusChrist in Provence, Natacha sees herself
as the Virgin Mary holding Jesus in her
womb.
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NO A LA GUERRA
(90 min)
Director: Joaquin Oristrell
Producer: Garbo Producciones
Cast: Javier Camara, Elvira Minguez,
Juan Diego Botto
Delivery Status: Screening at MIFED
2003
PORNOGRAFIA
(113 min)
Director: Jan Jakub KOLSKI
Producer: Heritage Films / MACT
Cast: Krzysztof Majchrzak, Adam
FERENCY, Krzysztof GLOBISZ
Delivery Status: Production Screening at
MIFED 2003
Leaving occupied Varsovia in 1943, two
intellectuals, Frederic and Witold, take
refuge in the country mansion of an old
friend, Hippolyte.
STORMY WEATHER
(90 min)
Director: Solveig Anspach
Producer: Agat Films
Cast: Elodie Bouchez, Didda Jonsdottir
Delivery Status: Screening at MIFED
2003
The psychiatry department of young
doctor Cora has just admitted a young
lady who refuses to speak and whose
identity remains unknown.
FIRST LOOK MEDIA/
OVERSEAS
FILMGROUP
First Look Media/ Overseas Filmgroup,
8000 Sunset Blvd., East Penthouse, Los
Angeles, CA 90046 USA.
Tel: 323.337.1000. Fax: 323.337.1037.
Website: www.firstlookmedia.com,
email: info@firstlookmedia.com
Company Type: Distributor/ Sales Agent
At Mifed: Liz Mackiewicz (Senior VP,
Worldwide Sales and Distribution), Gina
Nahum (VP, Worldwide Sales and
Distribution), Ildi Toth Davy (Director,
International Home Entertainment), JD
Beaufils (Director, Worldwide Sales and
Library Licensing), Amy Beecroft
(Director, International Distribution);
Acquisition Executive: Peter Lawson
(Director, Acquisitions)
Office: Hall 8; A09-B12, Tel:
02.4342.3274, Fax: 02.4342.3275.
BLIZZARD
Family (90 min)
Language: English
Director: LeVar Burton
Cast: Christopher Plummer, Brenda
Blethyn and Whoopi Goldberg as the
voice of Blizzard
Delivery Status: Completed
A magical story highlighting the most
unlikely of friendships between the funloving, flying, talking reindeer, Blizzard,
a young girl, and their exhilarating
adventure to the North Pole.
BOYS FROM COUNTY CLARE
Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: John Irvin
Cast: Andrea Corr, Bernard Hill, Colm
Meaney
Delivery Status: Completed
Two feuding brothers meet at the All
Ireland traditional music finals as leaders
of rival Irish dance bands, and to make
matters worse, two of the rival band
members fall in love during the
competition - heads and fiddles will roll!
THE EMPEROR'S WIFE
Drama (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Julien Vrebos
Cast: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Max
Beesley, Rosanna Pastor
Delivery Status: Completed
The Emperor searches for a new bride
after his current Empress fails to bear
him an heir and he chooses a girl he's not
allowed to meet, leading the Emperor
into a steamy love triangle.
DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS 2
Action-Adventure
Language: English
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
KART RACER
Action-Adventure (93 min)
Language: English
Dir: Stuart Gillard
Cast: Randy Quaid, David Gallagher,
Will Rothhaar
Delivery Status: Completed
Determined to overcome all obstacles, a
troubled young boy realizes his dreams
when he finally achieves victory in the
Kart Racing Championships.
LETHAL DOSE
Horror (99 min)
Language: English
Dir: Simon de Selva
Cast: Katharine Towne, Melanie Brown,
Tom Hardy
Delivery Status: Completed
A group of young activists get more than
they bargained for when they break into
an animal research lab, only to find that
they have become the subjects of a
blood-soaked, grisly, mind-bending
experiment.
LUTHER
Drama (121 min)
Language: English
Dir: Eric Till
Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Alfred Molina,
Jonathan Firth
Delivery Status: Completed
Terrorized by his own inner demons,
Martin Luther, a German monk,
challenges the political and religious
authorities of his time.
OCTANE
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Dir: Marcus Adams
Cast: Madeleine Stowe, Bijou Phillips,
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
Delivery Status: Completed
Senga (Madeleine Stowe), a woman
plunged into a dark, deranged world
when her teenage daughter is lured away
by a young, blood-obsessed cult.
THE SNOW WALKER
Drama
Language: English
Dir: Charles Martin Smith
Cast: Barry Pepper, Annabella Piugattuk
Delivery Status: Completed
Stranded by a plane crash a thousand
miles from civilization, pilot Charlie
Lavery sets out across the endless tundra
for the nearest outpost, and instead meets
a beautiful and frail Eskimo woman.
THE TESSERACT
Thriller (95 min)
Language: English
Dir: Oxide Pang
Cast: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Saskia
Reeves
Delivery Status: Completed
In Bangkok's underworld, the destinies of
a desperate drug dealer, young runaway,
beautiful assassin and an English
psychiatrist collide, changing their lives
forever.
FOCUS FEATURES
Focus Features, 417 Canal Street, 7th
Floor, New York, NY 10013 USA.
Tel: 212.343.9230. Fax: 212.343.7412
At Mifed: David Linde (Co-President),
Glen Basner (Senior Vice President,
International Sales and Distribution),
Heta Paarte (Vice President, International
Marketing and Publicity), Lee Magiday,
(Vice President, Acquisitions), Jason
Resnick (Vice President, Acquisitions),
Tim Spencer (Vice President
International Sales)
Office: Fiera Milano, Pavilion 8, A19B20, Milan, Italy. Tel: 39.02.4342.3107.
Fax: 39.02.4342.3108
BAD EDUCATION
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Producers: Agustín Almodóvar (El Deseo
D.A., S.L.U.)
Cast: Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez,
Javier Cámara, Daniel Giménez Cacho
Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2003
The new film from Academy Award
winner Pedro Almodóvar, BAD
EDUCATION narrates the reunion of
two young men, at the cusp of Eighties
Madrid, when the city started breathing
the new air of freedom.
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE
SPOTLESS MIND
Director: Michel Gondry
Producer: Steve Golin, Anthony
Bregman
Cast: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten
Dunst, Elijah Wood
Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2003
A machine has been invented which
allows individuals to erase selective
portions of their memory, and two lovers
elect to rid themselves of their memories
of one another to secure a clean
separation.
VANITY FAIR
Director: Mira Nair
Producer: Janette Day, Donna Gigliotti,
Lydia Pilcher
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, James Purefoy,
Romola Garai, Rhys Ifans, Jonathan
Rhys Meyers, Eileen Atkins, and Jim
Broadbent
Status: In Post Production
Year of Production: 2003
One of America's most popular stars
unites with one of the world's most
acclaimed directors to bring to the screen
one of the greatest female characters ever
created.
FORTISSIMO FILMS
Fortissimo Films, Head Office: Veemarkt
77 – 79, 1019 DA Amsterdam, The
Netherlands. Tel: 31.20.627.3215.
Fax: 31.20.626.1155. email:
info@fortissimo.nl. Asia Office: 14/F, 10
Knutsford Terrace, Tsimshatsui,
Kowloon, Hong Kong, S.A.R. Tel:
852.2311.8081. Fax: 852.2311.8023.
Website: www.fortissimofilms.com,
email: ffsasia@netvigator.com
At Mifed: Wouter Barendrecht (CoChairman), Michael J. Werner (CoChairman), Esther Bannenberg (Director
International Sales, Servicing and
Acquisitions), Winnie Lau (Director
International Sales and Distribution),
Marnix van Wijk (Director Marketing &
Festivals)
Office: Fiera di Milano, Stand B08,
Pavilion 8, Hall 1; After Hours: Fiera
Hotel, Via Spinola 9, 20149 Milano,
Italy. Tel: 39.02.4800.5472. Fax:
39.02.4800.8494. info@hotelfiera.it
SCREENING:
16 YEARS OF ALCOHOL
by Richard Jobson
CAMP
by Todd Graff
CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS
by Andrew Jarecki
COFFEE AND CIGARETTES
by Jim Jarmusch
GRIMM
by Alex van Warmerdam
THE IRON LADIES II
by Yongyooth Tongkonthun
JAPANESE STORY
by Sue Brooks
LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE
by Pen-ek Ratanaruang
THE TULSE LUPER SUITCASES,
PART I. THE MOAB STORY
by Peter Greenaway
SPELLBOUND
by Jeff Blitz
Control - Nu Image
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FRANCE
TÉLÉVISIONS
DISTRIBUTION
France Télévisions Distribution, " Le
Barjac " 1, boulevard Victor 75015
Paris. France. Tel: 331.56.22.90.70 –
331.56.22.90.00. Fax: 331.56.22.90.84.
Website: www.francetv.com
Company Type: World Sales agent
At Mifed: Michel Liberman (CEO /
Acquisitions), Jean-Paul Commin (COO
/ Acquisitions), Sebastien Chesneau
(International Sales Manager)
Office: under Unifrance umbrella N° 24
Pavillon 10 - Hall II. Sébastien
Chesneau's mobile: 336.21.71.39.11. Fax:
331.56.22.90.84
LE TANGO DES RASHEVSKI (THE
RASHEVSKI'S TANGO)
Comedy (97 mins)
Language: French / English subtitles
Director: Sam Garbarski
Producer: Entre Chien et Loup, Archipel 35
Cast: Hippolyte Girardot, Ludmila
Mikael, Michel Jonasz, Daniel Mesguich,
Nathan Cogan, Jonathan Zaccai, Tania
Garbarski, Rudi Rosenberg, Selma
Kouchy, Moscou Alcalay
Delivery Status: completed/screening
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: France
The story starts with the death of Rosa,
the grandmother. She hated religion and
rabbis. Yet, she had bought a burial site
in the Jewish square of the cemetery.
AUNQUE ESTES LEJOS (SO FAR
AWAY)
Dramatic Comedy (99 mins)
Language: Spanish / English subtitles
Director: Juan Carlos Tabio
Producer: Tornasol Films, ICAIC
Cast: Antonio Valero, Mirta Ibarra, Laura
Ramos, Barbaro Marin, Susana Perez,
Mijail Mulkay, Roberto Enriquez
Delivery Status: completed/screening
Year of Production: 2003,
Countries of Origin: Spain, Cuba
Mercedes -a Cuban producer- and Pedro
-a Cuban scriptwriter- attempt, together
with Alberto -a Spanish actor-producerto agree how to approach a film about
the Cubans who leave their country.
L'AUTRE (THE MISSING HALF)
Drama (71 mins)
Language: French / English subtitles
Director: Benoît Mariage
Producer: K-Star
Cast: Dominique Baeyens, Philippe
Grand'Henry, Laurent Kuenhen
Delivery Status: completed/screening
Year of Production: 2003,
Countries of Origin: France, Belgium
Human beings have a flaw, a missing
part, that they can happen to find
unexpectedly within someone else.
CLANDESTIN (LE VOYAGE)
Drama
Language: French / English subtitles
Director: François Dupeyron
Producer: Les Films en Hiver
Cast: Eric Caravaca, Marie Payen
Delivery Status: Post-Production,
Delivery date: Berlin 2004
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: France
A woman, an accident, an illegal
immigrant in the booth of her car, who
doesn't speak her language. They are
alone in a house.
RENCONTRE AVEC LE DRAGON
(THE RED KNIGHT)
Action/Adventure (109 mins)
Language: French / English subtitles
Director: Hélène Angel
Producer: Diaphana
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Nicolas Nollet,
Sergi Lopez, Emmanuelle Devos, Titoff,
Gilbert Melki
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: France
The 11th century. Felix is fifteen and still
a child, not fully a man yet. We find him
drowsing under a tree, fighting to stay
awake. If he falls asleep, the cold will
kill him.
LE CŒUR DES HOMMES (FRENCH
MEN)
Comedy (100 mins)
Language: French / English subtitles
Director: Marc Esposito
Producer: PJP Productions
Cast: Gérard Darmon, Marc Lavoine,
Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Bernard Campan
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2002, Country of
Origin: France
Four modern guys, both stable and immature,
at a turning point in their adult lives.
LE PAPILLON (THE BUTTERFLY)
Family (85 mins)
Language: French / english subtitles
Director: Philippe Muyl
Producer: Alicéléo
Cast: Michel Serrault, Claire Bouanich
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: France
Julien is an old, rather grumpy man who
lives alone in his vast apartment of the
11th district in Paris.
CORPS À CORPS (BODY SNATCH)
Thriller (102 mins)
Language: French / English subtitles
Director: François Hanss & ArthurEmmanuel Pierre
Producer: Cinemane
Cast: Emmanuelle Seigner, Philippe
Torreton
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: France
Marseille. They are in love.
L'ENFANT QUI VOULAIT ÊTRE UN
OURS (THE BOY WHO WANTED
TO BE A BEAR)
Family Animation (75 mins)
Language: French / english subtitles
Director: Jannik Hastrup
Producer: Dansk Tegnefilm Productions
& Les Armateurs
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: France
A little boy is raised by a she-bear. This
is the beginning of a beautiful fairytale,
where the spirit of the fells helps the one
who really wants to be someone.
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FRANCHISE
PICTURES
FRIES FILM GROUP,
INC.
Franchise Pictures, 8228 Sunset Blvd.
L.A., CA 90046 USA.
Tel: 323.848.3444. Fax: 323.822.2165.
At Mifed: Elie Samaha (Chairman,
C.E.O.), Mimi Steinbauer President
(International Distribution), Nolan Pielak
(Director, International Distribution),
Helen Lee Kim (Director, International
Distribution)
Office: Pavilion 26 Hall 2, Stand D-02
SCHEHERAZADE
Director: Michael Apted
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Gary Sinise,
Laurence Fishburne
Status: Pre-Production
In the aftermath of a deadly shootout,
events play out to reveal a woman held
captive by hit men, buying herself time
by stalling them with stories involving
their boss, culminating in a startling
revelation.
THE WENDELL BAKER STORY
Director: Andrew Wilson, Luke Wilson
Starring: Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson,
Eva Mendes, Will Ferrell, Eddie Griffin,
Kris Kristofferson, Harry Dean Stanton
Status: In Production
An ex-con with a heart of gold finds
work at a retirement home, where he
befriends several of the colorful residents
and helps them rebel against the crooked
owners.
DEAD FISH
Director: Charley Stadler
Starring: Gary Oldman, Robert Carlyle,
Andrew Potts, Elena Anaya
Status: Pre-Production
An average everyday Joe's life takes an
unexpected turn when he accidentally
switches cell phones with a charismatic
hit man.
TRISTAN AND ISOLDE
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Producer: Ridley Scott
Starring: James Franco, Sophia Myles,
Rufus Sewell
Status: In Production
The famous tale of a young English
knight who engages in a secret and
scandalous love affair with the daughter
of the Irish King, which ultimately
threatens the existing truce between their
two countries.
SPARTAN
Director: David Mamet
Starring: Val Kilmer, William H. Macy,
Derek Luke, Tia Texada
Status: Post-Production
A secret service man is assigned the task
of rescuing the President's abducted
daughter, only to find a larger conspiracy
plot within the White House.
HOLLYWOOD NORTH
Director: Peter O'brian
Producer: John Gillespie
Starring: Matthew Modine, Jennifer Tilly,
Alan Bates, Alan Thicke
Status: Post-Production
Situated on a fictional film set, this
clever spoof takes a satirical look at the
characters behind the scenes of a low
budget film production in Canada.
CREDITS NOT CONTRACTUAL
Fries Film Group, Inc., 22817 Ventura
Blvd. #909, Woodland Hills, CA 91364
USA. Tel: 818.888.3052.
Fax: 818.888.3042.
email: Friesfilms@aol.com
Company Type: Distributor
At Mifed: Charles M. Fries (President),
Jon Fries (VP Sales)
Office: Booth D-09 (Pavillion 26 - Hall 2)
MIDNIGHT BOOGIE
Action Thriller
Language: English
Production Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin/Co-Production: USA
Five young parachutists go on a
competition jump over the Ivory Coast.
Their dare devil escapade lands them in
the middle of a bloody African civil war.
ROAD
Thriller
Language: English
Production Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin/Co-Production: USA
While driving cross-country a young
professional woman accidentally runs
over and kills an innocent girl.
Unfortunately for the young woman, the
girl is related to a psychopathic killer
who vows revenge.
ALIEN AGENT
Sci-fi
Language: English
Director: Sidney Furie
Principle Cast:
Production Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin/Co-Production:
UK/Canada
A lawman from another Galaxy must
stop an invading force from building a
gateway between the two worlds.
HUNT FOR THE DEVIL
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Allan Goldstein
Principle Cast: Michael Madsen
Production Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin/Co-Production:
UK/Canada
A New York City detective tracks
Europe's bloodiest serial killer after his
fiancé becomes the latest victim.
CANES
Supernatural Thriller
Language: English
Director: T.B.A.
Principle Cast: T.B.A.
Production Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin/Co-Production:
Canada
A New York Investment executive makes
a pact with a mysterious man to gain
power and riches. He is given a rare
wooden cane that possess evil powers.
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Office FAX
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FUSION
INTERNATIONAL
SALES CORP.
GAUMONT
Fusion International Sales Corp., 3685
Motor Avenue Suite 240, Los Angeles,
CA 90034 USA. Tel: 310.287.0072.
Fax: 310.287.0073.
email: info@fusionsales.com
Company Type: Sales Agent
At Mifed: John Fremes, Brad Maeder
Office: Pavillion 26, Booth D 07
CAUGHT IN THE HEADLIGHTS
Action
Director: Gavin Wilding
Producers: John Fremes, David Doerksen
Cast: Erika Eleniak, Kim Coates, Stacy
Keach
Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2003
An FBI Agent must overcome hit men
and rogue agents when trying to
transport a murder suspect back for trial.
THE MAID
Thriller
Producers: John Fremes, David Doerksen
Status: Pre-production
Year of Production: 2003
A woman poses as a maid for a wealthy
family with the intent of killing them in
order to avenge the death of her child.
ADRENALINE
Action
Director: Roel Reiné
Producers: Roel Reiné
Cast: Louis Rivas, Georgina Verbaan,
Jason Fijal
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003
Under suspicion for his erratic
girlfriend's sudden disappearance, Jason
is thrust into the super-charged and
dangerous world of professional thrillseekers in his attempt to locate the girl
and clear his name.
FEAR OF THE DARK
Horror
Director: K. C. Bascombe
Producers: Lee Faulkner
Cast: Kevin Zeggers, Jesse James, Linda
Purl
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003
A boys paralyzing fear of the dark comes
to a horrific reality one stormy night
after his parents leave for the evening.
STRIKE FORCE
Action
Director: Mike Kirton
Producers: Mike Kirton, William
Forsythe, Jon Hanish
Cast: William Forsythe, Erika Eleniak,
Amaury Nolasco, Daniel Bernhardt,
Andrew Divoff.
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002
An ex-CIA Agent leads a renegade Strike
Force, that will stop at nothing to
accomplish their highly sensitive
missions.
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.
Website: www.gaumont.fr
At Mifed: Franck CHOROT (President,
Worldwide Marketing and Distribution),
Philippe de CHAISEMARTIN (Senior
Vice-President International Sales Feature
Films), Loïc TROCME (Director, International
Sales Feature Films), Ariane TOSCAN
DU PLANTIER (International Marketing)
Office: Booth N° E08
L'EMPIRE DES LOUPS (AKA
EMPIRE OF THE WOLVES)
Thriller
Director: TBC
Casting: Jean Reno
Production: GAUMONT
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
Status: French Release December 10th 2003
Casting: Philippe Noiret, Thierry
Lhermitte, Lorant Deutsch
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
Casting: Michel Serrault, Christian
Clavier, Arielle Dombasle
Production: GAUMONT
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.
QUI PERD GAGNE (AKA LOSER
TAKES ALL)
Comedy
Director: Laurent Bénégui
Production: GAUMONT / MAGOURIC
Casting: Thierry Lhermitte, Elsa
Zylberstein
Status: Post-production
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
Status: Post-production
A hip Parisian private-eye has a mission:
to find a Corsican who has inherited a
tidy sum, but who has vanished into thin
air; but what looked like a sinecure turns
into a nightmarish obstacle course.
G
LOVELY RITA
Dark Comedy / Thriller
Director: Stephane Clavier
Production: Completed
Casting: Christian Clavier, Julie Gayet,
Eddy Mitchell, Arielle Dombasle
Edgar wanted to see sexy Rita, met on
the web, but the night of delights will
turn into a nightmare.
PERE ET FILS (AKA FATHER AND
SONS)
Comedy
Director: Michel Boujenah
Production: GAUMONT / AJOZ /
LITTLE BEAR / MAX FILMS
Casting: Philippe Noiret, Charles
Berling, Bruno Putzulu, Pascal Elbé
Status: Completed
Leo fakes illness and organizes one "last"
trip to Canada to recapture his three adult
sons before he "dies".
MAIS QUI A TUE PAMELA ROSE?
(AKA BULLIT & RIPPER)
Spoof Comedy
Director: Eric Lartigau
Production: GAUMONT / KL
Casting: Kad, Olivier, Jean-Paul Rouve,
Gerard Darmon, Benedicte Loyen
Status: Completed
Who killed Pamela Rose? Bullit and
Riper, two clumsy FBI agents,
investigate. ZAZ and the Farelly
Brothers french-style.
FUREUR (AKA RAGE) /
BERLINALE 2003
Drama
Director: Karim Dridi
Production: GAUMONT / ADR
Casting: Samuel Le Bihan - Yu Nan
Status: Completed
Set in the Paris chinatown. Can love
overcome rage?
GMG SRL
GMG SRL, Via Ripa di Porta Ticinese,
33–20143, Milano, Italy. Tel:
39.02.894.037.21. Fax: 39.02.894.037.21
Website: www.giannamariagarbelli.com,
email: garbelli@hotmail.com
Company Type: Producer
At Mifed: Gianna Maria Garbelli
Producer & filmmaker
Office: Mediadesk Programme
IL COMBATTENTE ALIAS AN
ITALIAN FIGHTER
Delivery Status: In pre-production
TENTAZIONI METROPOLITANE
(JAILBIRDS)
Drama (111 min)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Gianna Maria Garbelli
Producer: Gianna Maria Garbelli
Cast: Gianna Maria Garbelli, Annie
Girardot, Stephane Ferrara, Maurizio
Donadoni
Delivery status: completed
Budget: 1.000.000USD
Garbelli turns in a remarkable
performance in her debut film as
director/star - an urban fairytale with
more than a hint of Pretty Woman as she
strives to re-build her life.
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 Mifed: John Quested (Chairman),
Stephen Johnston (President, Goldcrest
Inc), Peter McRae (SVP of Co-Productions),
Abigail Walsh (Sales Executive)
Office: Hall 8 - B05
GOLDEN NETWORK
ASIA LIMITED
Golden Network Asia Limited, Unit 2205,
Futura Plaza, 111-113 How Ming Street,
Kwun Tong, Hong Kong.
Tel: 852.2751.1886. Fax: 852.2750.4862.
email: goldnet@netvigator.com
Company Type: Sales Agent / Producer/
Distributor
At Mifed: Carrie WONG (Managing
Director), Clarence TANG (Head of
Sales and Acquisitions), Joanne CHAN
(Sales and Distribution Executive),
Lammy LI (Marketing Assistant);
Acquisition Executive: Clarence TANG
(Head of Sales & Acquisitions)
Office: E20/ E22
ONG BAK
Action (105 min)
Language: Thai with English subtitles
Director: Prachya Pinkaew
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert
Production Partners: Sahamongkolfilm
International Co., Ltd
Cast: Tony Jaa, Mun Jokmok, Pumwaree
Yodkamol
The Gospel of John - Cinemavault
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Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Thailand
The first ever Thai film showing real Muay
Thai martial arts! An action comedy starring
Tony Jaa, the new action star from Asia.
MAHA-UT
Action (92 min)
Language: Thai with English Subtitles
Director: Krisorn Buranasing
Producer: Oxide Pang (Director of "Bangkok
Dangerous", "The Eye", "The Eye 2")
Production Partners: Sahamongkolfilm
International Co., Ltd
Cast: Nirute Ngansan, Nirute Sirijanya,
Pisek Intharakanchid
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Thailand
Everyone who has a tattoo of the MahaAut
symbol can feel its strange power - although
it's not clear whether the force is positive
or negative.
MCDULL - THE PINEAPPLE BUN
PRINCE
Animation
Language: Chinese with English subtitles
Director: Toe Yuen "My Life As McDull"
Producer: Brain TSE Lap-man "My Life
As McDull"
Production Partners: Lunchtime
Production Ltd.
Cast: McDull
Delivery Status: In production
Year of Production: 2004,
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
In the race to the future, familiar housing
estates are being demolished faster than
the speed of sound.
MCDULL AND MCMUG
ANIMATION TV SERIES
Animation (Running Time: 13 Epi x 30 min)
Language: Chinese
Director: Alfred Li, Tim Leung, Cheng
Kwong Chuen, Toe Yuen, Bonnie Leung,
Khaki Lee
Producer: Brain TSE Lap-man, Alice Mak
Production Partners: Lunchtime
Production Ltd.
Cast: McDull , McMug
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
McMug and McDull, the two little pigs
created by Alice Mak and Brian Tse, depict
how children see the world and perceive
day-to-day issues in a light-hearted manner.
THE UNBORN
Horror (108 min)
Language: Thai with English Subtitles
Director: Bundit Thongdee
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert
Production Partners: Sahamongkolfilm
International Co., Ltd
Cast: Inthira Charoenpura, Prangthong
Changthom, Karunpon Thieansuwan
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Thailand
Based on a true story, under a shadow of
silence, she will never know peace again.
CHEERLEADER QUEENS
Comedy (120 min)
Language: Thai with English Subtitles
Director: Poj Arnon
Producer: Chareon Iamphungporn
Production Partners: Five Star Production
The Story of the Weeping Camel - Menemsha Films, Inc.
Cast: Montonn Pariwat, Wongteap
Kunarattanawat, Sumet Saelee
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Thailand
A hilarious romp about a group of socalled Thai ladyboys who try their best to
be accepted through their love of
cheerleading.
FAKE
Drama, Romance (111 min)
Language: Thai with English subtitles
Director: Thanakorn Pongsuwan
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert
Production Partners: Sahamongkolfilm
International Limited
Cast: Tar Barbie, Patcharapa Chaichua,
Ray Macdonald
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Thailand
Three good friends in love with the same
girl. Who will win?
SAYEW
Drama (Running Time: 110 min)
Language: Thai with English subtitles
Director: Kiat Songsanan, Khongdej
Jaturanarasami
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert
Production Partners: Sahamongkolfilm
International Co., Ltd / Baa-Ram-Ewe
Production
Cast: Pimpaporn Sainutthapong,
Nantawat Asirapojanakul, Arnon
Saisaengchan
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: Thailand
A sex-and-politics-laced film set in 1992
- a year of political turmoil in Thailand.
Portrays the final days of a golden era in
pornographic magazines in Thailand.
NOTHING TO LOSE
Action / Drama (93 min)
Language: Thai with English subtitles
Director: Danny PANG "Bangkok:
Dangerous", "The Eye"
Producer: Somsak
SONGTHAMMAKUL, Daniel YUN
Production Partners: Pang Brothers
Production
Cast: Pierre PNG "Chicken Rice War"
"Forever Fever", Fresh, Yvonne LIM
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: Singapore/ Thailand
A game plan with death.
ANGULIMALA
Action (93 min)
Language: Thai
Director: Suthep Tannitratana (Script
Advisor of "Bangkok: Dangerous",
"Bang Rajan")
Producer: Adirek Uncle Watleela
Production Partners: Film Bangkok
Cast: Stella Malucchi "Tears of the Black
Tiger", Noppachai Chaiyanam, John
Rattanaveroj
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Thailand
Angulimala is a cruel mass murderer in
the time of Buddha. His mission is to
destroy a thousand human lives.
However, he casts aside his sword, after
he realized the Buddha's words of
wisdom.
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.
email: goldensu@netvigator.com
Company Type: Sales agent, producer,
distributor
At Mifed: Lan Tien Hong (President),
Lan Ketsarinh (Vice President),
Catherine Lin (Distribution Executive),
Phouang Phet Labourel (istribution
Executive); Acquisition Executive:
Wahju Wasita (Acquisition Manager),
Agus Wasita (Acquisition Manager)
Office: Hong Kong Pavilion
SHANGHAI LOVE STORY
Romantic Drama (23 x 48 min)
Language: Chinese
Director: Yeh Hung-Wei, Siu Pik Chun,
Yiu Tin Hung
Producer: Yeung Bo Ting, Li Pok Lun,
Wong Chung Shang, Allan Lan Hai Han
Cast: Jacklyn Ng, David Ng, Marcellino
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of 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, Lily Lee
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1994, Country of
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
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 1996,
Country of Origin: Hong Kong (China)
The story is set in the period during the
Japanese in invasion of China in the 1930s.
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
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1994,
Country of Origin: Hong Kong (China)
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.
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DEATH CAGE
(92 min)
Language: Chinese
Director: Robert Tai
Producer: Lan Tien Hong
Cast: Joe Lewis, Robin Chou, Kim Hee
Ching
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 1990,
Country of Origin: Hong Kong (China)
Kent's kick-boxing gym in Bangkok is
working as a front for the mob.
THE EXECUTIONER
(92 min)
Language: Chinese
Director: Ting Shan Si
Producer: Jimmy Wong
Cast: Joey Wong, Chin Siu Hoa, Monica
Chan
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1990,
Country of Origin: Hong Kong (China)
A royal executioner famed for beheading
hundreds of convicts with a solid gold ax
is stalked by the lone survivor of the
notorious "Eight Devilish Immortals".
THE MIGHTY SWORDSMAN SUMA HAN
(26 x 30 min)
Language: Indonesia
Director: Lisawati Thahir
Producer: Agus Wasita
Cast: (Key Animation) Syafrudin,
Gogoek, Cendra
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Indonesia
HanHan (Sie Han or Suma Han) was an
orphan and LuLu was a Manchu girl.
Accidentally, the two swore to be bound
in a sworn-brotherhood.
GREENESTREET
FILMS
Greenestreet Films, GreeneStreet Films
International, 9 Desbrosses Street, New
York, NY 10013 USA.
Tel: 212.609.9000. Fax: 212.609.9099
Company Description: film and
television production and finance
company
At Mifed: Cedric Jeanson (Partner),
Michelle Jonas (Assistant)
Office: Fiera Milano, Pavilion 25/2,
Office A08, Milan, Italy. Tel:
39.02.4342.3106
SLOW BURN
Psychological Thriller
Language: English
Director: Wayne Beach
Producers: John Penotti, Sidney Kimmel,
Bonnie Timmermann and Tim Williams
Cast: Ray Liotta, James Todd Smith aka
LL Cool J, Mekhi Phifer, Taye Diggs,
Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Jolene Blalock
Status: In Post-Production
County of Origin: U.S.A
Shortly before midnight, a man is killed
in the bed of Nora Timmer (Jolene
Blalock), an Assistant D.A. Ostensibly a
rape stopped by a bullet in self-defense.
YES
Language: English
Romantic Drama
Director: Sally Potter
Producers: Christopher Sheppard and
Andrew Fierberg
Cast: Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Sam
Neill, Samantha Bond and Shirley
Henderson
Status: In Post-Production
County of Origin: United Kingdom
Suffocating in a failed marriage with
Anthony (Sam Neill), SHE (Joan Allen),
an Irish-American scientist, sparks an
affair with HE (Simon Abkarian), a
Lebanese surgeon exiled in London
where he now works as a cook.
2001 MANIACS
Horror
Language: English
Director: Tim Sullivan
Producers: Christopher Tuffin, Brett
Nemeroff, Scott Spiegel
Executive Producers: Eli Roth, Boaz
Yakin
Cast: Robert Englund, Lin Shaye
Status: In Production
Country of Origin: U.S.A
The first film from the Raw Nerve horror
film label, "2001 Maniacs" is a remake of
Herschell Gordon Lewis' cult horror classic.
AWAKE
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Joby Harold
Producers: Jason Kliot, Joana Vicente
Cast: TBA
Status: In Pre-Production
Country of Origin: U.S.A
The son of an overly controlling Upper
East Side socialite and heir to a massive
fortune undergoes a heart transplant and
is forced to learn that every truth his
heart has ever treasured has been a lie.
LAW OFFICES OF
GREG S. BERNSTEIN
Law Offices of Greg S. Bernstein, 9601
Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 300A, Beverly
Hills, CA 90212 USA.
Tel: 310.247.2790. Fax: 310.247.2791.
email: greg@thefilmlaw.com
Company Type: Law Firm; Producer
Representative
Acquisition Executive: Greg S. Bernstein
London Head
Office Phone
44 207 372 9992
London Head
Office FAX
44 207 372 9993
GRUPO NOVO DE
CINEMA E TV BRAZILIAN CINEMA
PROMOTION
Grupo Novo De Cinema e TV - Brazilian
Cinema Promotion, Rua Capitão
Salomão, 42 Humaitá - Rio de Janeiro,
Cep:22271-040, Brazil. Tel:
5521.2539.1538. Fax: 5521.2266.3637
At Mifed: Alfredo Calvino (Sales Manager),
Alessandra Durso (Sales Executive)
Office: Stand B34 - Pav. 10 II
A LOVE MOVIE (FILME DE
AMOR)
Romance (90 min)
by Julio Bressane
Year of Production: 2003
Three friends, Hilda, Matilda and Gaspar,
ordinary folk from the suburbs, meet up
on a weekend in a tiny, not exactly chic,
apartment downtown to gossip, drink and
have a general good time.
THE MAN OF THE YEAR (O
HOMEM DO ANO)
Thriller (115 minutes)
by José Henrique Fonseca
Year of Production: 2003
An innocent bet among buddies turns
Michael, a common guy, into a murderer
and the hero of a whole town.
MANGO YELLOW (AMARELO
MANGA)
Drama (100 minutes)
by Cláudio Assis
Year of Production: 2002
A story of love encounters and
mismatchings, held in a 24-hour gap.
THE STORYTELLERS
(NARRADORES DE JAVÉ)
Comedy (100 minutes)
by Eliane Caffé
Year of Production: 2003
Javé’s daily monotomy would never
change except for the fact of its
imminent extinction.
BREAKING UP (SEPARAÇÕES)
Comedy (116 minutes)
by Domingos de Oliveira
Year of Production: 2002
After his 97 domestic hit “Amores”, de
Oliveira films another romantic comedy,
now dealing with what he calls the four
stages of a separation: DENIAL,
NEGOTIATION, REVOLT AND
ACCEPTANCE.
LOST ZWEIG
Drama (115 minutes)
by Sylvio Back
Language: English
Year of Production: 2002
A week after the 1942 Rio de Janeiro’s
Carnival, the famous Jewish Austrian
writer Stefan Zweig and his young wife
Lotte commited suicide, in an episode
not yet fully disclosed.
CAT’S CRADDLE (CAMA DE
GATO)
Drama (92 minutes)
by Alexandre Stockler
Year of Production: 2002
Special Mention for First Feature in
Montreal 2002
A satire on middle class teenage life in
Sao Paulo, Cat’s Cradle takes place during
two days in the lives of three high school
buddies.
QUE SERA, SERA. (SEJA O QUE
DEUS QUISER!)
Drama (90 minutes)
by Murilo Salles
Year of Production: 2002
Cacá, a VJ from São Paulo, goes to Rio
to make a report on a new band, put
together by residents of the Morro do
Alemão slum.
DURVAL RECORDS (DURVAL
DISCOS)
Comedy (97 minutes)
by Anna Muylaert
Year of Production: 2002
The quirky film is inauspiciously set in a
São Paulo record shop, where the owner
Durval wiles away his days waiting for
customers.
TWO LOST SOULS IN A DIRTY
NIGHT (DOIS PERDIDOS NUMA
NOITE SUJA)
Drama (100 minutes)
by José Joffily
Year of Production: 2002
Explores the relationship which develops
between two Brazilian immigrants to the
US as they struggle to realize their
private versions of the American dream.
6TH STREET NO NUMBER (RUA 6
S/Nº)
Drama (103 minutes)
João Batista de Andrade
Year of Production: 2002
Opens with the unemployed Solano
receiving a package from a dying man.
THE PRINCE (O PRÍNCIPE)
Drama (95 minutes)
by Ugo Giorgetti
Year of Production: 2002
Returning to Brazil after 20 years living
in France, Gustavo, a Brazilian
intellectual, comes face to face with the
city of São Paulo and is shocked by the
chaos and violence which prevails in the
once quiet streets of his youth.
MARGARETTE’S FEAST (A FESTA
DE MARGARETTE)
Drama (80 minutes)
by Renato Falcão
Year of Production: 2002
Peter has a dream of giving his wife,
Margarette, a great birthday party. He
ignores the distance from their house to
the city, the fact that he has just been laid
off, the difficulty in receiving his
unemployment money.
JACOBINA (PAIXÃO DE
JACOBINA)
Drama (100 minutes)
by Fábio Barreto
Year of Production: 2002
From acclaimed producers Lucy & Luiz
Carlos Barreto
Brazil, 1874. In a colony of German
immigrants, Jacobina is the leader of a
sect dissenting from Protestantism, the
Muckers.
DARLING STRANGER (QUERIDO
ESTRANHO)
Drama (95 minutes)
by Ricardo Pinto e Silva
Year of Production: 2002
A dramatic comedy based on the play
“Intensa Magia” by Maria Adelaide
Amaral, a sensitive examination of
family relationships.
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WINDOW OF THE SOUL (JANELA
DA ALMA)
Documentary (73 minutes)
by João Jardim and Walter Carvalho
Year of Production: 2002
19 different people from different parts
of the world with different degrees of
visual impairment, speak of how they see
themselves, how they see others and how
they perceive the world.
MASTER, A BUILDING IN
COPACABANA (EDIFICIO
MÁSTER)
Documentary (110 minutes)
by Eduardo Coutinho
Year of Production: 2002
For seven days, a cinema crew filmed the
daily life of the residents of the Master, a
building located in Copacabana, Rio de
Janeiro, a block away from the beach.
MEN CAN FLY (HOMEM PODE
VOAR, A SAGA DE SANTOS
DUMONT)
(52 min)
by Nelson Hoineff
Year of Production: 2003
The story of Alberto Santos-Dumont, the
Brazilian inventor who was one of the
men responsible for the invention of the
airplanes.
THE ARTUROS (OS ARTUROS)
(60 min)
by Thereza Jessouroum
Year of Production: 2003
Three times a year they incarnate kings,
queens and viceroys for the “Congado”.
The rest of the time they are farmhands,
workers, chauffeurs, housemaids, night
watchmen.
RIO DE JANO (RIO DE JANO)
(73 min)
by Anna Azevedo, Eduardo Souza Lima
and Renata Baldi Beta
Year of Production: 2003
Jano is a pop French visual artist. In
2000 who visited Rio de Janeiro and
immersed himself completely in the
carioca (how Rio de Janeiro residents are
known) lifestyle.
IN THE EYE OF THE HURRICANE
(NO OLHO DO FURACÃO)
(55 min)
by Toni Venturi e Renato Tapajós
Year of Production: 2003
A documentary about the inside stories of
the militants of Brazil’s armed resistance.
A penetrating look at the daily lives of
the young people who fought and
sacrificed themselves in the war against
the military dictatorship.
RECIFE / SEVILHA - JOÃO
CABRAL DE MELO NETO
(52 min)
by Bebeto Abrantes
Year of Production: 2003
João Cabral is considered one of the
most prominent poets of the Portuguese
language in the XX century.
RAMIRO MUSOTTO
(52 min)
by Jodele Lasher
Year of Production: 2003
Ramiro Musotto is a musician, producer
and composer. An Argentinean settled in
Brazil, he lived for 12 years in Salvador
and is presently living in Rio.
LULA, A WINNER’S JOURNEY
(LULA, A TRAJETÓRIA DE UM
VENCEDOR)
(52 min)
by Cosme Coelho
Year of Production: 2003
From the factory floor to the Presidency.
The startling story of Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva, the son of a poverty-ridden family
in the North-east of Brazil, one of the
poorest regions in Latin America, who
was elected to the highest office in a
country.
VIVA ST. JONH (VIVA SÃO JOÃO)
Documentary (77 minutes)
by Andrucha Waddington
Year of Production: 2002
The film follows a 15 day musical tour
Gilberto Gil undertook in June 2001.
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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.
website: www.grupopi.tv,
email: info@grupopi.tv
At Mifed: José Huertas (General Manager),
Geraldine Gonard (Sales Director), Laura
Miñarro (Sales Executive)
Office: Pavillion 10 Salone 2 Stand C37
ILLEGAL (ILEGAL)
Thriller (107 min)
Language: Spanish, Subtitles English
Director: Ignacio Vilar
Production Company: Via Lactea Filmes,
Faro Lerez
Key Cast: Chisco Amado, Lucía Jiménez,
Chete Lera
Country of Origin: Spain
Illegal is the story of two reporters who
wants to make the job of their lives: to
uncover the mafia which carries
immigrants illegally from Africa to
Europe.
DANUBIO HOTEL (HOTEL
DANUBIO)
Drama (93 min)
Language: Spanish Subtitles English
Director: Antonio Giménez Rico
Production Company: Enrique Cerezo
P.C., Nickel Odeon Dos, Pc 29
Key Cast: Santiago Ramos, Carmen
Morales, Iñaki Miramón
Country of Origin: Spain
Hugo, a failed writer in Madrid during
the ‘50s, has an affair with a young and
attractive chorus girl. Hugo has a child,
Carlos who ends up falling in love with
the beautiful girl.
LOS NOVIOS BÚLGAROS
(BULGARIAN LOVERS)
Drama (90 min)
Language: Spanish Subtitles English
Director: Eloy De La Iglesia
Production Companies: Cartel
Producciones, Altube Filmeak, Cuervo
Films And Conexion Sur
Key Cast: Fernando Guillén Cuervo,
Pepón Nieto And Ditrán Biba
Country of Origin: Spain
Daniel, madly in love with a Bulgarian
immigrant, will risk his dignity and
social position to make his lover happy.
YOU´LL BE BACK (VOLVERÁS)
Drama (100 min)
Language: Spanish Subtitles English
Director: Antonio Chavarrías
Production Companies: Oberón
Cinematográfica, Altavista Films, Moro
Films
Key Cast: Tristán Ulloa, Unax Ugalde,
Elizabeth Fernández
Country of Origin: España
Two antagonistic brothers, a gambler and
an architect, run into each other after years.
MY MOTHER LIKES WOMEN (A
MI MADRE LE GUSTAN LAS
MUJERES)
Comedy (96 min)
Language: Spanish Subtitles English
Director: Inés París And Daniela
Fejerman
Production Company: Fernando Colomo
P.C.
Key Cast: Leonor Watling, Rosa María
Sardá, Álex Angulo
Country of Origin: España
Sofia, a famous pianist, announces her
daughters that she is in love again. but
this time with a woman.
THE 3 WISE MEN (LOS TRES
REYES MAGOS) - TRAILER
Animated Feature Film (96 min)
Language: English Subtitles
Director: Antonio Navarro
Production Companies: Animagic, Cartel,
Carrere Group
Country of Origin: España
The story of three magi who, after an epic
journey, full of adventures and proofs to
overcome, find the path to become "The
three wise men" whom so many children
dream about during the night of January 5th.
H
H30 FILMED
ENTERTAINMENT
H30 Filmed Entertainment, 1415 West
Georgia Street, Suite 1804, Vancouver,
BC Canada V6G-3C8.
Tel: 604.662.3245. Fax: 604.662.7720.
Website: www.h3ofilm.com,
email: production@h3ofilm.com
Company Type: Distribution and
Production
At Mifed: John Curtis (President / CEO),
Rod Akizuki (Senior Manager),
Samantha Esteves (Sales Associate);
Acquisition Executive: Rod Akizuki
Office: Pavilion: 8 Booth: A10
Tel: 0039.02.4342.3161
RIPPER II: LETTER FROM WITHIN
Horror
Language: English
Director: Jonas Quastel
Producer: John Curtis, Evan Tylor
Cast: Erin Karpulk, Nicholas Irons
Delivery Status: post
Year of Production: 2003, Country of
Origin: Canada / UK / Czech
Budget: $ 3.2 million
Sequel to the hugely successful Ripper:
Letter from Hell.
DISTANT SHADOW
Thriller (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Howard J. Ford
Producer: Mark Andrews
Cast: Rosie Fellner, Stephen Tiller
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 1999,
Country of Origin: UK
Budget: $4.0 million
A woman haunted by her own tragic past
is dragged into a world of violence,
conspiracy and revenge where nothing is
as it seems and no one can be trusted.
PALE BLUE MOON
Sci-Fi/Adventure (86 min)
Language: English
Director: Mark Hosack
Producer: Mark Hosack, Ray Hosack
Cast: Johnny Sneed, Ice Mrozek
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: US
Budget: $ 1.5 million
A police detective struggles with whether
or not to believe a mental patient's alien
conspiracy stories in this quirky and
exciting sci-fi adventure.
LIBRARY TITLES:
THE BARBER
Thriller (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Michael Bafaro
Producer: Evan Tylor
Cast: Malcolm McDowell
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2001,
Country of Origin: UK
Budget: $3 million
Through the eyes of a serial killer, we
discover a chilling layer in a weary town
whose only concern is surviving another
long, dark winter.
RIPPER: LETTER FROM HELL
Horror (113 min)
Language: English
Director: John Eyres
Producer: John Curtis, Evan Tylor
Cast: A.J. Cook, Bruce Payne, Jurgen Prochnow
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2001,
Country of Origin: Canada/UK
Budget: $ 4.2 million
A massacre survivor studies serial killers
under a famous expert, and terrifyingly,
the studies come to life as her classmates
start dying at the hands of a Jack the
Ripper copycat.
THE OPERATIVE
Action (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Robert Lee
Producer: Evan Tylor, John Curtis
Cast: Brian Bosworth
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2000,
Country of Origin: Canada
Budget: $ 2.8 million
Master of disguise and undercover CIA
iceman during the Cold War, Alex Carville
is finally being freed from a KGB prison
by an enemy intent on using him to
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THE SILENCER
Action (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Robert Lee
Producer: John Curtis, Evan Tylor
Cast: Michael Dudikoff, Brennan Elliott
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 1999,
Country of Origin: Canada
Budget: $ 2.8 million
FBI special agent Jason Wells receives
an unsettling assignment; he's about to
"die a tragic death" and gain a new
identity in order to infiltrate a long
sought-after terrorist group.
TWIST OF FAITH
Thriller (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Chris Angel
Producer: Evan Tylor, John Curtis
Cast: Andrew McCarthy, Michael
Ironside
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 1999,
Country of Origin: Canada
Budget: $ 2.5 million
An atheist cop losing faith in his own life
hunts for a serial killer who looks to a
higher power for his evil masterwork the sacrifice of highly respected people.
LASERHAWK
Sci-Fi (104 min)
Language: English
Producer: John Curtis
Cast: Mark Hamill, Jason James Richter,
Gordon Currie
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 1997,
Country of Origin: Canada
Budget: $ 4 million
A Group of misfits band together to fend
off the invasion of carnivorous aliens.
HANNIBAL
PICTURES
Hannibal Pictures, 8265 Sunset
Boulevard, Suite 107, West Hollywood,
CA 90046 USA. Tel: 323.848.2945.
Fax: 323.848.2946.
Website: www.hannibalpictures.com,
email: contactus@hannibalpictures.com
Company Type: Producer, Distributor
and Sales agent
At Mifed: Richard Rionda Del Castro
(Chairman & CEO), Patricia Rionda Del
Castro (President), Mathilde Aupetit
(Sales & Marketing Executive), Efren
Muro (Project Manager)
Office: Pav 25 2, office A 14, Tel:
33.6.8770.9467
MASKED AND ANONYMOUS
Drama (107 mins)
Language: English
Director: Larry Charles
Producer: Nigel Sinclair, Jeff Rosen
Co-production partners: Nikolai
Makarov, David Gaines
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Penelope Cruz, Bob Dylan
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
Budget: $10 million
The voyage of a folk singer, Jack Fate
(Bob Dylan), trying to make a difference
in a revolutionary country.
CRIME SPREE
Action (100 mins)
Language: English
Director: Brad Mirman
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro,
Gary Howsam, Jamie Brown
Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Harvey Keitel,
Johnny Hallyday
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: UK/CANADA
Budget: $10 million
A routine heist becomes a nightmare for
a crew of wacky French burglars when
they accidentally rob the head of the
Chicago mafia.
ABSOLON
Action (94 mins)
Language: English
Director: David Barto
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro,
Gary Howsam, Jamie Brown
Cast: Christopher Lambert, Lou
Diamond Phillips, Ron Perlman
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: UK/CANADA
Budget: $9 million
In a world ravaged by disease, the only
man who can save the human race is the
only one they are after to kill.
PARTNERS IN ACTION
Action (95 mins)
Language: English
Director: Sidney Furie
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro,
Gary Howsam, Jamie Brown
Cast: Armand Assante, Doug Smith
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: UK/CANADA
Budget: $3.5 million
An action-adventure story about two
unlikely partners: Jack, a security guard
and Teddy, a rebellious teenager.
TWELVE TWISTED TRICKS
Action
Language: English
Director: Balaji K. Kumar
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro
Cast: TBA
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: USA
Budget: $10 million
Fast Dollars, Trouble Boys, Flying
Bullets, Busted Balls.
ESCOBAR
Action
Language: English
Director: Andrzej Sekula
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro
Cast: TBA
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: $20 million
The corruption, scandals, billions, and
political career of infamous drug lord,
Pablo Escobar.
TOP TEN
Action
Language: English
Director: TBA
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro
Cast: TBA
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin:
GERMANY/UK/CANADA
Budget: $20 million
A wrongly accused cop killer holds a live
television show audience hostage in
order to prove his innocence.
KATANA AKA YAKUZA
Action
Language: English
Director: TBA
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro
Cast: TBA
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin:
CHINA/UK/CANADA
Budget: $20 million
Two powerful defenders of opposing
crime families hopelessly fall in love as
they fight against each other in a
malicious mafia war.
BALLAD TO THE END OF THE
WORLD
Action
Language: English
Director: TBA
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro
Cast: TBA
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin:
SPAIN/UK/GERMANY
Budget: $40 million
In a lost enchanted world, a professional
football player fights his way through a
magical kingdom of the Conquistadors in
search of his missing wife.
THE WARRIOR
Action
Language: English
Director: TBA
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro
Cast: TBA
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: $15 million
A genetically engineered super-soldier
evades his destruction by his creators and
goes on a mission to find the computer
chip that will allow him to re-generate
and continue living.
HANWAY
Hanway, 24 Hanway Street, London,
W1T 1UH UK. Tel: 44.207.290.0750.
Fax: 44.207.290.0751.
Website: www.hanwayfilms.com,
email: info@hanwayfilms.com
Company Type: Sales Agent
At Mifed: Thierry Wase Bailey
(Managing Director/ Head of Sales), Ana
Ayesta (Manager, International Sales),
Jonathan Lynch Staunton (Manager,
Marketing & Publicity)
Office: La Fiera de Milano - Hall 10, 2nd
Floor - Stand B02 A01, Tel:
39.02.43.423077. Fax: 39.02.43.42.3079
BACK TO GAYA
Animation
Director: Lenard Krawinkel
Producer: Holger Tappe
Production Status: Production
BACK TO GAYA is a CGI animated
picture. It's the story of 6 characters from
a kids TV series that are sucked out into
the real world by a crazy professor.
DONT COME KNOCKING
Drama
Director: Wim Wenders
Producer: Peter Schwartzkopff
Cast Members: Sam Shepard, Jean Reno,
Jessica Lange, Sarah Polley, Ryan
Gosling, Olivia de Havilland
Production Status: Pre Production
Once great film star Howard Spence
(Sam Shepard) is a man on the verge of a
nervous breakdown.
THE DREAMERS
Drama
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Producer: Jeremy Thomas
Cast Members: Michael Pitt, Eva Green,
Louis Garrel
Production Status: Screening
Paris, 1968 - students are out on the streets,
and revolution is in the air. Teenage siblings
Danielle and Guillaume befriend
Matthew, an American student living in
Paris.
American Splendor - HBO Films London
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FESTIVAL EXPRESS
Musical Drama
Director: Bob Smeaton
Producer: Gavin Poolman/ John Trapman
Cast Members: Janis Joplin, The Grateful
Dead, Jerry Garcia
Production Status: screening
The story of the biggest rolling rock
party in history.
TRAVELLERS & MAGICIANS
Drama
Director: Khyentse Norbu
Producer: Mal Watson
Cast Members: Tshewang Dendup,
Sonam Lhamo
Production Status: screening
Two journey's involving two men and
two women are woven into an intricate
tapestry of desires as this story takes us
on an adventurous emotional tour
through the heartland of Bhutan.
YOUNG ADAM
Drama
Director: David Mackenzie
Producer: Jeremy Thomas
Cast Members: Ewan McGregor, Tilda
Swinton, Emily Mortimor, Peter Mullan
Production Status: Screening
Joe (Ewan McGregor), a rootless young
drifter, finds work on a barge traveling
between Glasgow and Edinburgh, owned
by Leslie (Peter Mullan) and his wife
Ella (Tilda Swinton).
THE BUSINESS
OF FILM
London Head Office
41-42 Berners St.
London WIT 3NB
Los Angeles Office
5150 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles
California 90036
HBO FILMS LONDON
HBO Films London, HBO Films London,
Warner House, 98 Theobald's Road,
London, WC1X 8WB, United Kingdom.
Tel: 44.207.984.5051.
Fax: 44.207.984.5052
Company Type: Theatrical Distributor
At Mifed: Penny Wolf (Managing
Director), Lissa Lebel (Sales Executive)
Office: Pavilion 25/2 Stand #A01, Tel:
39.02.4342.3190. Fax: 39.02.4342.3191
ELEPHANT
Drama (84 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Gus Van Sant
Executive Producers: Diane Keaton, Bill
Robinson
Producer: Dany Wolf
Cast: Alex Frost, John Robinson, Elias
McConnell
Delivery Status: Completed (screening)
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
One beautiful fall day at an American
high school, filled with football, gossip,
schoolwork: an ordinary day until it is
unexpectedly shattered.
AMERICAN SPLENDOR
Drama (100 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer
Berman
Producer: Ted Hope
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis, James
Urbaniak
Delivery Status: Completed (screening)
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
For everyman Harvey Pekar, ordinary
life is pretty complex stuff. 2003 Cannes
Film Festival FIPRESCI Award Winner.
2003 Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner.
AND STARRING PANCHO VILLA
AS HIMSELF
Drama (111 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Bruce Beresford
Producer: Joshua D. Maurer, Mark
Gordon, Larry Gelbart
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Eion Bailey,
The Rain Children (Les Enfants de La Pluie) - MK2 S A
Alan Arkin, Jim Broadbent, Colm Feore,
Michael McKean.
Delivery Status: Completed (screening)
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
The extraordinary true story of how
pioneering movie giants D.W. Griffith
and Harry Aitken bought the exclusive
rights to film Pancho Villa's Mexican
revolution, creating Hollywood's first
action movie.
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PETER
SELLERS
Drama
Language: English
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Producer: Freddy DeMann, George Faber
and Simon Bosanquet
Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron,
John Lithgow, Miriam Margolyes, Stephen
Fry, Stanley Tucci, Emily Watson
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA/UK
This film takes an intimate look into the
professional triumphs and personal
defeats of one of Britain's most prolific
and gifted comedic actors.
EMPIRE FALLS
Drama
Language: English
Director: Fred Schepisi
Producer: Paul Newman, Scott
Steindorff, Marc Platt
Cast: Ed Harris, Philip Seymour
Hoffman, Helen Hunt, Paul Newman,
Robin Wright Penn, Aidan Quinn, Joanne
Woodward.
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2003/2004,
Country of Origin: USA
The humorous and insightful story of a
New England town and its inhabitants,
whose lives are influenced by the river
that dominates the landscape, their class
differences, and ghosts of the past.
HERE! FILMS
here! Films, A division of Regent
Entertainment, 1401 Ocean Avenue, Suite
300, Santa Monica, California 90401
USA. Tel: 310.260.3333.
Fax: 310.260.3343.
Website: www.regententertainment.com
Company type: Producer and Distributor
At Mifed: Gene George (President,
Regent Entertainment), Mark Reinhart
(President, here! Films)
Office: #A-24 Hall 2, Gene George
Mobile: USA 310.804.9360, Mark
Reinhart Mobile: USA 323.791.8094
FRIENDS & FAMILY
Comedy (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Kristen Coury
Producers: Linda Moran, Kristen Coury,
Joseph Triebwasser
Cast: Tony Lo Bianco, Anna Maria
Alberghetti, Greg Lauren, Christopher
Gartin
Delivery Status: Completed
A gay couple in Manhattan who have it
all, until a surprise visit from Stephen's
parents threatens to blow the boys' big
secret – that their son and his boyfriend
are hit men for the mafia!
THE TRIP
Comedy/Drama (95 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Miles Swain
Producers: Thomas Blount , Miles Swain
Cast: Larry Sullivan, Steve Braun, Alexis
Arquette
Delivery Status: Completed
Alan and Tommy meet for the first time
in 1973, a time when they couldn't be
further apart: one a closeted, diehard
Republican, and the other a radical
homosexual activist.
URBANIA
Drama (105 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Jon Shear
Producers: Stephanie Golden, Jon Shear,
J. Todd Harris
Cast: Dan Futterman, Alan Cummings,
Lothaire Blueteau, Josh Hamilton, and
Barbara Sukowa
Delivery Status: Completed
A traumatized young man chances upon a
mysterious stranger, and comes to believe
he's found the key to his recovery.
BIG EDEN
Comedy (118 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Thomas Bezucha
Producers: Jennifer Chaiken
Cast: Arye Gross, Eric Schweig, Tim
DeKay, and Louise Fletcher
Delivery Status: Completed
Henry Hart, a successful but lonely New
York artist runs back to his small home
town, where he re-discovers an
unrequited love for his High School
buddy, former jock, Dean.
SORDID LIVES
Comedy (111 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Del Shores
Producers: Victoria Alonso, Max Civon,
Sharyn Lane, J. Todd Harris
Cast: Olivia Newton-John, Beau Bridges,
Delta Burke, Bonnie Bedelia
Delivery Status: Completed
An outrageous comedic twist on a story
of unconditional love, acceptance and
'coming out' in a Texas family, as they all
converge for the matriarch's funeral.
SPEEDWAY JUNKY
Drama (101 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Nickolas Perry
Exec. Producer: Gus Van Sant
Cast: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Jesse
Bradford, Daryl Hannah, Tiffani-Amber
Thiessen
Delivery Status: Completed
A gritty drama about a high school
dropout, who dreams of becoming a
NASCAR racing driver, but his
misadventures leave him stranded and
strapped for cash in Las Vegas.
GODS & MONSTERS
Drama (126 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Bill Condon
Producers: Paul Colichman, Gregg
Feinberg & Mark R. Harris
Cast: Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser,
Lynn Redgrave, Lolita Davidovitch
Delivery Status: Completed
Academy Award-winning story about the
life and mysterious death of James
Whale, the brilliant director of the early
Frankenstein movies.
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HIGH POINT FILMS
High Point Films, London Office: 25
Elizabeth Mews, London NW3 4UH, UK.
Tel: 44.20.7586.3686.
Fax: 44.20.7586.3117.
Website: www.highpointfilms.co.uk,
email: sales@highpointfilms.co.uk
Company Type: independent feature film
and TV movie sales company
At Mifed: Carey Fitzgerald (Managing
Director), Ronald de Neef (CEO), Julie
Murphy-Delaney (Director), Isabel
Pascual (Sales Executive)
Office: Pavilion 8, Hall 1 A24
GODFORSAKEN (VAN GOD LOS)
Action thriller (83 minutes)
Dutch language (English Subtitles)
Director: Pieter Kuijpers
Producers: Anton Smit, Hanneke Niens,
Reinier Selen
Production companies: IdtV Film BV &
Rinkel Film Productions BV
Starring: Angela Schijf, Tygo Gernhandt,
Egbert Jan Weeber
Delivery Status: Complete
Country of Origin: The Netherlands
The unconditional friendship between
two young criminals is put to the test
when petty theft degenerates into a
ruthless killing spree - based on a real
life case.
TWIN SISTERS (DE TWEELING)
Epic drama (129 mins)
Dutch/German Language (English
Subtitles)
Director Ben Sombogaart
Producers: Anton Smit, Hanneke Niens
Production companies: IdtV Film
Starring: Thekla Reuten, Nadja Uhl,
Jeroen Spitzenberger, Roman Knizka
Delivery Status: Complete
Country of Origin: The Netherlands
Two sisters long to reunite after being
cruelly separated before the war. But
when one marries an SS soldier and the
other a Jew, can their worlds ever be
reconciled?
BELLA BETTIEN
Thriller (102 mins)
Language: 60% English, 40% Dutch
(English Subtitles)
Director: Hans Pos
Producer: Hans Pos
Production Companies: Shooting Star
Film Company BV
Starring: Thekla Reuten, Kim Van
Kooten, Vincent Riota
Delivery Status: Complete
Country of Origin: The Netherlands
Based on the incredible true story of
Bettien Martins, an ordinary woman who
rose to become a ruthless drug baron and
eventually one of the biggest informers
in crime history.
CARLA
Psychological Thriller (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
Delivery Status: Complete
Country of Origin: UK
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.
PETER BELL
Family (110 mins)
Dutch Language (English Subtitles)
Director: Maria Peters
Producers: Dave Schram, Hans Pos
Production Companies: Shooting Star
Film Company BV, Filmpool GmBH
Delivery Status: Complete
Country of Origin: The Netherlands
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 (119 min)
Dutch Language (English Subtitles)
Director: Maria Peters
Producers: Dave Schram, Hans Pos
Production Companies: Shooting Star
Film Company
Delivery Status: Complete
Country of Origin: The Netherlands
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
HOLLYWOOD
CLASSICS
Hollywood Classics, 8 Cleveland
Gardens, London W2 6HA UK.
Tel: 44.20.7262.4646.
Fax: 44.20.7262.3242.
Website: www.hollywoodclassics.com,
email: info@hollywoodclassics.com
At Mifed: Joe Dreier (Director), Melanie
Tebb (Sales Administrator), David
Llewellyn-Jones (Sales Executive)
Office: A04, Tel: 44.774.774.3615
BRIDE OF THE WIND
Drama (99 min)
Language: English
Director: Bruce Beresford
Producer Lawrence Levy, Evzen Kolar
Key Cast: Sarah Wynter, Jonathan Pryce,
Vincent Perez
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: UK/Germany/Austria
Bio-pic of Alma Mahler, wife of Gustav
Mahler who had affairs with many artists.
STEALING TIME
Drama (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Marc Fusco
Producer Mike Gabrawy, Michael Garrity
Key Cast: Charlotte Ayanna, Ethan
Embry, Peter Facinelli
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: USA
Four friends attempt to pull of one of the
largest bank robberies in LA history.
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
Comedy (85 min)
Director: English
Language: Ian MacNaughton
Producer Patricia Casey
Key Cast: the Monty Python team
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1971,
Country of Origin: UK
A compilation of Monty Python's earliest
and funniest TV sketches.
HORIZON
ENTERTAINMENT
Horizon Entertainment, Suite 205, 1040
Hamilton Street, Vancouver, British
Columbia, V6B 2R9 Canada.
Tel: 604.632.1707. Fax: 604.632.1607.
Website: www.filmhorizon.com,
email: film@filmhorizon.com
Company Type: Distributor and Production
At Mifed: Rob Straight (President),
Michael Taverna (Sales and Acquisitions
Executive / Head of Production), Caroline
Stern (Director of Distribution and Marketing)
Office: Booth B29, Hall 8
SHADOWS OF THE DEAD
Horror (92 min) Premiere
Language: English (USA)
Director & Producer: Carl Lindbergh
Executive Producers: Rob Straight,
Michael Taverna
Starring: Jonathan Flanigan, Beverly Hynds
Delivery Status: Completed 2003
Budget: $US 750,000
A couple is infected with a mysterious
and deadly disease after their car breaks
down in the woods.
A LITTLE MONK
Drama/Family (102 min) Premiere
Directed by Kyung-jung Joo
Produced by Kyung-jung Joo
Starring: Tae-Jin Kim, Tae-Jin Kim, YeRyung Kim, Moo-Song Chon, Young-Soo
Oh
Delivery Status: Completed 2002
Country of Origin: South Korea
Budget: $US 3 million
A charming family tale about a little monk
who dreams of life outside the temple.
JAPANESE HORROR ANTHOLOGY
Horror (45-60 min episodes)
Japanese
Directors: various
Produced by Kadokawa Shoten
Publishing Co. Ltd
Delivery Status: Completed 2002
9 unusual and chilling horror episodes
based on books by Kadokawa Shoten.
HALLOW'S END
Horror
English (USA)
Directed by Jon Keeyes
Produced by Brandon Baker, Richard T.
Carey, Jon Keeyes, and Faras Rabadi
Executive Producers: Robert Straight and
Michael Taverna
Starring: Stephen Cloud, Brandy Little,
Amy Morris, Amy Jo Hearron, Matt Moore
Delivery Status: Post-production
Budget: $US 1.2 million
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
Directed by Kazuki Omori
Starring: Yuji Oda, Ken Watanabe,
Hitomi Kuroki, Shao Bin, Peter Ho,
Yang Rue Xi, Sohn Chang-Min
Delivery Status: Completed 2002
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.
JU-ON: THE GRUDGE 2
Horror (92 min)
Language: Japanese
Directed by Takashi Shimizu
Produced by Taka Ichise
Starring: Noriko Sakai, Chiharu Niyama,
Kei Horie, Yui Ichikawa, Shingo
Katsurayama
Delivery Status: Completed 2003
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.
RED SHADOW
Action (108 min)
Language: Japanese
Directed by Hiroyuki Nakano
Produced by Shigeyuki Endo, Toshio
Zushi, Yutaka Okawa, Nobuyuki Tohya
Starring: Masanobu Ando, Kumiko Aso,
Jun Murakami, Naoto Takenaka
Delivery Status: Completed 2001
A young Ninja destined to lead the Kage
family during the years of the Warring
States Period (1477 - 1573) is caught
between his duty to maintain peace and
an order to assassinate the princess.
THE BLUE LIGHT
Drama (116 minutes)
Language: Japanese
Directed by Yukio Ninagawa
Produced by Yoshikazu Tsubaki, Ken
Saido
Executive Producer Tsuguhiko
Kadokawa
Starring: Kazuya Ninomiya, Aya
Matsuura, Kanako Higuchi
Delivery Status: Completed 2002
Budget: $US 3 million
A 17-year old devises a plan to murder
his abusive stepfather in order to protect
his mother and sister.
EUROPA
Drama
Language: English (Czech/UK/Italy)
Directed by Michele Taverna
Produced by Kathryn Arnold and
Michele Taverna
Executive Producers: Robert Straight and
Juliusz Kossakowski
Starring: Angus MacFedyan, Claire
Forlani, and Angela Featherstone
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Budget: $US 5 million
In 2043, a nuclear scientist travels to
Jupiter's moon, Europa, to seek the soul
of his beloved wife.
Suzie Gold - Pathé International-UK
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ICON
ENTERTAINMENT
INTERNATIONAL
Icon Entertainment International, The
Quadrangle, 180 Wardour Street, London
W1F 8FX UK. Tel: 020 7494 8100.
Fax: 020 7494 8101.
Website: www.iconmovies.net
At Mifed: Nick Hill (Chief Executive
Officer UK Icon Group), Simon Crowe
(Head of Sales), James Norrie (Sales
Manager), Caroline Johnson (Head of
International Marketing)
Office: Stand No: Pavilion 8, Stand B28
HUCKABEES
Comedy
Director: David O. Russell
Producers: Scott Rudin, Gregory
Goodman, David O. Russell
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Huppert,
Jude Law, Jason Schwartzman, Lily
Tomlin, Mark Wahlberg, and Naomi Watts
Status: In Post Production,
Delivery Summer 2004
An existential tale of love, philosophy
and Shania Twain that will leave you
pondering. what is the meaning of life,
the universe and everything?
COMPLEAT FEMALE STAGE
BEAUTY
Comedy
Director: Richard Eyre
Producers: Robert de Niro, Jane
Rosenthal, Hardy Justice
Cast: Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Rupert
Everett, Tom Wilkinson, Ben Chaplin,
Hugh Bonneville, Richard Griffiths and
Edward Fox
Status: In Post Production,
Delivery Summer 2004
It is 1661, and Edward Kynaston (Billy
Crudup) is theatre land's most famous
"leading lady".
PAPARAZZI
Thriller
Director: Paul Abascal
Producers: Mel Gibson, Bruce Davey,
Stephen McEveety
Cast: Cole Hauser, Dennis Farina, Robin
Tunney, Tom Sizemore, Tom Hollander,
Kevin Michaelson, Daniel Baldwin
Status: In Post Production
PAPARAZZI is a fast paced revenge
thriller. When action movie star Bo
Laramie (Cole Hauser) and his family
fall prey to the PAPARAZZI, his instinct
is to fight back. How far would you go?
ROMANCE AND CIGARETTES
Musical/Black Comedy
Director: John Turturro
Producers: John Penotti
Exec Producers: The Coen Brothers, Jana
Edelbaum
Cast: James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon,
Kate Winslet
Status: Starts shooting Spring 2004
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,
as Nick Murder has just discovered. His
wife has uncovered his steamy affair
with the sultry seductress Tula, and the
ferocity of her anger is an eye popping
surprise.
JINDABYNE
Thriller/drama
Director: Ray Lawrence
Producers: RGM, Bruce Davey
Status: Starts Shooting Spring 2004
UK & Australian Distributors: Icon Film
Distribution
Part thriller, part multi-layered character
study, JINDABYNE is a powerfully
detailed story of friendship, human frailty
and the profound complexities of modern
relationships.
THE SINGING DETECTIVE
Musical Drama
Director: Keith Gordon
Producers: Mel Gibson, Steven Haft,
Bruce Davey
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Robin Wright
Penn, Jeremy Northam, Katie Holmes,
Adrien Brody and Mel Gibson
Status: Completed
Based on the award winning television
series, Robert Downey Jr. stars as Dan
Dark, a writer of pulp detective novels.
BLACKBALL
Comedy
Director: Mel Smith
Producer: James Gay-Rees
Cast: Paul Kaye, James Cromwell, Johnny
Vegas, Alice Evans, Bernard Cribbins,
Imelda Staunton, James Fleet and Vince
Vaughan
Status: Completed
A classic tale of triumph over adversity
that will quite literally bowl you over.
Control - Nu Image
GLADIATRESS
Comedy
Director: Brian Grant
Producers: Damian Jones, Graham
Broadbent, Bruce Davey
Cast: Fiona Allen, Doon Mackichan,
Sally Phillips ("Smack The Pony")
Status: Completed
In this hilarious new British comedy the
Romans are beating a bloody swathe
across the European Continent. Three
sisters - Smirgut, Dwyfuc and
Worthaboutapig are all that stands between
Britain and the mighty Roman Empire.
AMERICAN COUSINS
Romantic Comedy
Director: Donald Coutts
Producer: Margaret Matheson
Cast: Danny Nucci, Shirley Henderson,
Gerald Lepkowski with Vincent Pastore
and Dan Hedaya
Status: Completed
A feel good comedy about life, love, fish
and chips, guns and gangsters. The Cosa
Nostra have just moved to Scotland!
THE INTERVENTION
Comedy
Director: Glen Freyer
Producer: Farzin Toussi
Cast: Jamie Harris, Alison Eastwood
Status: Completed
In this dark and hilarious comedy, a
struggling writer contemplates life, love
and suicide. Can a return to his past
rekindle his desire to live again?
CREDITS NOT CONTRACTUAL
IFD FILMS AND ARTS
LTD
IFD Films And Arts Ltd, Flat 4, 3/F.,
Block B, Vigor Ind'l Bldg, 14-20 Cheung
Tat Road, Tsing Yi, NT, Hong Kong.
Tel: 852.27300048. Fax: 852.27308756.
Website: www.ifd.com.hk,
email: sales@ifd.com.hk
Company Type: Distributor, Production
At Mifed: Joseph Lai (CEO), Betty Chan
(Executive Officer), Terry Lai (General
Manager)
Office: Pad. 10/2 Stand C38
IFDC, INC.
IFDC Inc., 1901 Avenue of the Stars,
Suite 930, Los Angeles, CA 90067 USA.
Tel: 310.788.2803. Fax: 310.788.2823.
At Mifed: Jerome Bliah (President)
Office: c/o Hotel Excelsior Gallia,
Tel: 39.02.6787. Fax: 39.02.66.71.3239
YES VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA
CLAUS
Family Drama (90:00)
Director: Charles Jarrot
Producer: Duke Fenady
Cast: Charles Bronson
Production Status: Completed, Screening
on Cassette
Virginia is a little girl who lives in New
York City at the turn of the century,
whose faith in Christmas rekindles the
faith and hope of those around her.
VOYAGE
Action/Adventure (90:00)
Director: John Mackenzie
Producer: John Davis, Tarak Ben Ammar,
Peby Guisez, Merril Karpf
Cast: Rutger Hauer, Eric Roberts, Karen
Allen, Connie Nielsen
Production Status: Completed, Screening
on Cassette
A couple embarks on a high seas
adventure across the Mediterranean to
save their troubled marriage.
IFM WORLD
RELEASING INC.
IFM World Releasing Inc., 1328 East
Palmer Avenue, Glendale, California
91205,USA. Tel: 818.243.4976.
Fax: 818.550.9728.
email: ifmfilm@aol.com. Australia: IFM
World Releasing Inc., 2/25 Second Street,
Clayton, Victoria 3169, Australia. Tel:
61.3.9515.9249. Fax: 61.3.9515.9248.
Website: www.ifmfilm.com,
email: ifmfilm@optusnet.com.au
At Mifed: Antony I. Ginnane (President),
Anthony J. Lyons (VP International), David
Makhlout (Director International Sales)
Office: Fierra Milano, Pavillion # 8 –
Booth # A 12, Fax: 818.550.9728
GRIM WEEKEND
Thriller (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Bob Willems
Producer: Bob Willems / Ken Hebert
Cast: Ken Hebert, Amanda Watson
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Brandon and his friends pick up a young
female hitchhiker who scares them with
urban myth tales of a killer clown in the
surrounding woodlands.
IN THE RED
Action (87 minutes)
Director: Glenn Ruehland
Producers: Glenn Ruehland, Rina Reiss
Cast: Steve Bisley, Damien Bradford,
Terry Serrio, Allison Cratchley
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Australia
It’s a turbo charged action drama about a
modern day gang with a passion for fast
women and even faster cars. Their highoctane passion is supported through
wheeling and dealing in a big city’s
brutal, opportunist underworld.
SEAMLESS: KIDZ RULE (2000)
Thriller (91 minutes)
Cast: Shannon Elizabeth (American Pie,
Scary Movie)
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Successful US DVD release through
Artisan. Street kids gravitate to a fashion /
music guru running a hip boutique in LA.
REIGN IN DARKNESS
Action / Horror (90 minutes)
Director: Kel Dolen & David Allen
Producers: Kel Dolen & David Allen
Cast: Kel Dolen, Chris Kerrison, David No
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Australia
Scientists create a virus in order to rid
the world of AIDS. Unfortunately it has
some bad side effects, turning anyone
infected into a vampire.
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LONE TIGER/BEHIND THE MASK
Cast: Timothy Bottoms
Country of Origin: 1998
Martial arts kick boxer on a quest to
avenge his father’s murder.
BAJA RUN
Cast: Sam Jones, Bentley Mitchum
Country of Origin: 1996
Ex-gangster helps naïve young guy and a
dance club hostess to escape a crime
scene gone bad.
DOLL IN THE DARK
Cast: Billy Drago
Country of Origin: 1997
LAPD detective investigates the
kidnapping of a woman who resembles
his ex-girlfriend.
DREAMING (THE)
Country of Origin: 1988
Ghosts of long dead pirates haunt a
fishing village.
DRIFTING SCHOOL/LOST IN TIME
Science Fiction
Cast: Billy Drago, Henry Silva
Country of Origin: 1995
A US high school is blasted into the
future by a nuclear explosion.
CARNIVAL OF WOLVES
Cast: Mike Norris
Country of Origin: 1996
A casino heist turns into a nightmare.
IMAGEWORKS
ENTERTAINMENT
INTERNATIONAL,
INC.
Imageworks Entertainment International,
Inc., Warner Center, 6140 Variel Avenue,
Woodland Hills, CA 91367 USA.
Tel: 818.716.1670. Fax: 818.716.8004.
Website:
www.ImageworksEntertainment.com,
email: ImageworksEntInt@aol.com
Company Type: International
Distribution, International Production
At Mifed: David Shoshan(President,
Sales); Acquisition Executive: David
Shoshan
Office: Pavilion 8, Stand B 01, Tel:
39.02.4342.3082. Fax: 818.716.8004
LATIN DRAGON
Action (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Scott Thomas
Producer: Scott Thomas
Cast: Gary Busey, Lorenzo Lamas,
Fabian Carrillo
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
Latin Dragon is a pulse pounding,
adrenaline filled, and spectacular display
of rhythmic martial arts action.
THE OTHER SIDE OF HEAVEN
Adventure/Drama (113 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Mitch Davis
Producer: Gerald R. Molen
Cast: Christopher Gorham, Anne
Hathaway, Joe Folau
Delivery Status: Completed
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
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: USA
As kids, the streets of Boston made them
lifelong friends; As men, it made them
gangsters.
THE DROP
Thriller (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Kevin Lewis
Producer: Steven Nash
Cast: John Savage, Sean Young, Michael
Bondies
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
Carter accepts a suspiciously large fee
just to drive a luxury car to Los Angeles the first step on a road trip to hell.
THE 4TH TENOR
Comedy (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Harry Basil
Producer: Joseph Merhi
Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, Robert Davi,
Charles Fleischer
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of 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
Thriller (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Richard Pepin
Producer: David Shoshan, Richard Pepin
Cast: James Russo, Theresa Russell,
Brad Dourif, Steve Railsback, Jon Polito,
Michael Rooker
Delivery Status: Complete
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of 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 that takes them on a dangerous
journey through the streets of the city.
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.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: USA
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Three radically different sisters return
home for the wedding of their traditional
sister, to find themselves in constant
struggle for love and validation.
MINDSTORM
Action/Sci-Fi (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Richard Pepin
Producer: Richard Pepin, Michael Derbas
Cast: Eric Roberts, Antonio Sabato, Jr.,
Michael Ironside, Michael Moriarty,
Emmanuelle Vaugier, Ed O'Ross,
William B. Davis, Clarence Williams III
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2001,
Country of Origin: USA
A psychic's investigation into the
disappearance of a Senator's daughter
leads her to a dangerous cult and the
truth about her mysterious past.
THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR
Thriller (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Joey Travolta
Producer: David Shoshan, Richard Pepin
Cast: James Russo, Theresa Russell,
Sean Young, Frederic Forrest, AJ Cook
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2001,
County of Origin: USA
As a young couple moves into their
dream home, the wife is still haunted by
a brutal rape that happened years earlier,
and begins to suspect that her perfect
neighbors are not what they appear to be.
THE LAST WILL
Action/Comedy (90 minutes)
Language: Croatian, English
Director: Zoran Sudar
Producer: Jadran Lazic, David Shoshan,
Richard Pepin
Co-Production Partners: Vicenco Blagaic,
Jim Henderson, Zvonimir Munivrana,
Goran Scuric, Tin Stroliga, Goran Visnjic
Cast: Goran Visnjic, Angelica Bridges,
Stefan Lysenko, Alison HeruthWaterbury
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2001,
County of Origin: USA
After the death of a wealthy Croatian
immigrant, it is discovered that he left his
fortune to an unknown, illegitimate
relative (Goran Visnjic) back in Croatia.
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IMAGINATION
WORLDWIDE, LLC
Imagination Worldwide, LLC, 9107
Wilshire Blvd, Suite 625, Beverly Hills,
CA 90210 USA. Tel: 310.888.3494.
Fax: 310.859.7173.
email: lgoebel@imagination-llc.com
Company Type: Producer / Distributor
At Mifed: Pierre David (Chairman), Tom
Berry (Co-Chairman), Lawrence Goebel
(President), Helene Raynaud (Distribution
Coordinator), Kendall Nowlin (Distribution
Associate); Acquisition Executive:
Helene Raynaud
Office: Hall 25/2, Suite A28, Tel: 43.42.31.74
A WOMAN HUNTED
Thriller (94 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Morrie Ruvinsky
Producers: Pierre David, Tom Berry,
Stefan Wodoslawsky
Cast: Alexandra Paul, Linden Ashby,
Michele Greene
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Canada
The night her car broke down, Lainie's
life turned upside down. From being the
victim, she has just become the accused.
THE PERFECT HUSBAND
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Douglas Jackson
Producer: Pierre David, Tom Berry,
Stefan Wodoslawsky
Cast: Tracy Nelson, Michael Riley,
Thomas Calabro, Andrea Roth
Delivery Status: In Post-Production
Country of Origin: Canada
Lisa has just married "the perfect husband".
Until she uncovers the terrifying meaning
of "til death do us part."
STRANGER AT THE DOOR
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Douglas Jackson
Producer: Pierre David, Tom Berry,
Stefan Wodoslawsky
Cast: TBD
Delivery Status: In Production
Country of Origin: Canada
When her long lost son showed up at the
door, Katherine never imagined the terror
that would be brought upon her family.
DECOYS
Action/Horror
Language: English
Director: Matt Hastings
Producer: Tom Berry, Franco Battista,
Neil Bregman
Cast: Corey Sevier, Stefanie Von Pfetten,
Nicole Eggert, Richard Burgi
Delivery Status: In Post-Production
Country of Origin: Canada
A typical campus in a typical American
town, until the day they arrived: dream
creatures capturing every man's fantasy.
Just prey they don't seduce you.
OUT FOR BLOOD
Action/Horror
Language: ENGLISH
Director: Richard Brandes
Producer: Richard Brandes, Anita Sgarro
Cast: Kevin Dillon, Lance Henriksen,
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Vanessa Angel
Delivery Status: In Post-Production
Country of Origin: USA
The clock is ticking for Detective Holten,
as his investigation takes him into a dark
and secret underworld. Suddenly the
hunter becomes the hunted, fighting for
his own life.
INITIAL
ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP
Initial Entertainment Group, 3000 W.
Olympic Blvd., Ste 1550, Santa Monica,
CA 90404 USA. Tel: 310.315.1722.
Fax: 310.315.1723
At Mifed: Graham King (President), Stephanie
Denton (President, Sales & Distribution)
Office: Hall 26, Office D04
THE AVIATOR
Director: Martin Scorsese
Producer: Michael Mann, Sandy Climan,
Graham King, Charlie Evans Jr.
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett,
Kate Beckinsale, Alec Baldwin, John C.
Reilly, Jude Law, Gwen Stefani
Status: In Production
Buoyed by vision, driven by imagination,
one man became an icon of the 20th
century: Howard Hughes. Visionary.
Daredevil. Mogul. Madman.
LAWS OF ATTRACTION
Director: Peter Howitt
Producer: David T. Friendly, Marc
Turtletaub, Beau St. Clair, Julie Durk
Cast: Julianne Moore, Pierce Brosnan,
Frances Fisher, Parker Posey, Michael
Sheen, Nora Dunn
Status: Post-Production
Audrey Wells is a high-strung, highpowered Beverly Hills divorce lawyer
who has never lost a case - until Daniel
Rafferty moves to town.
AN UNFINISHED LIFE
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Producer: Leslie Holleran, Alan Ladd Jr.,
Kelliann Ladd
Executive Producer: Su Armstrong,
Matthew A. Rhodes, Joe Roth, Mark
Rydell, Harvey Weinstein, Graham King
Cast: Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez,
Morgan Freeman, Josh Lucas, Camryn
Manheim
Status: Post- Production
A woman, desperate to care for her
daughter, reconnects with her estranged
and emotionally wounded father-in-law,
and together, all three forge a renewed
lease on life.
ROSE AND THE SNAKE
Written and Director: Rebecca Miller
Producer: Lemore Syvan
Executive Producer: Caroline Kaplan,
Graham King, Jonathan Sehring
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Catherine
Keener, Beau Bridges, Camilla Belle,
Paul Franklin Dano
Status: Post-Production
A father and his teenage daughter, Rose,
live in an abandoned commune on an
island off the coast of Canada.
THE ACCIDENTAL HUSBAND
Director: Hugh Wilson
Producer: Jason Blum
Cast: Uma Thurman, Brendan Fraser
Status: Pre-Production
Self-help Guru Dr. Emma Lloyd is busily
planning her wedding when she runs into
a problem: she learns she's already married.
INTERMEDIA
FILM/I.S. FILM
DISTRIBUTION
Intermedia Film/I.S. Film Distribution,
9350 Civic Center Drive, Suite 100,
Beverly Hills, CA 90210 USA.
Tel: 310. 777.0007. Fax: 310. 777.0008
At Mifed: Mary Beth Bambridge (Sr.
Vice President, Distribution and Finance)
Office: Stand 26-2-D03,
Tel: 39.02.4342.3041. Fax:
39.02.4342.3042
OLIVER STONE'S UNTITLED
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
PROJECT
Drama
Director: Oliver Stone
Producers: Thomas Schuehly, Moritz
Borman, Jon Kilik, Iain Smith
Cast: Colin Farrell, Anthony Hopkins,
Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, Jared Leto,
Rosario Dawson
Delivery Status: In Production
A sweeping historical saga that charts the
life and the legend of one of the greatest
figures of antiquity, ALEXANDER is an
epic that is every bit as daring, bold and
ambitious as its title character.
IF ONLY
Romance
Director: Gil Junger
Producers: Bobby Newmyer, Jeffrey
Silver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jill Gilbert
Cast: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Paul
Nicholls, Tom Wilkinson
Delivery Status: Post-production
After he fights with his girlfriend and she
dies in an accident, a man gets a second
chance to make her last day her best, not
realizing he cheated fate and it's now
returned for him.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
PRESENTS: THE LEGEND OF
SURIYOTHAI
Action-Adventure
Language: Thai
Director: Chatrichalerm Yukol
Producers: Francis Ford Coppola, Kim
Aubry, Kamla Yukol
Cast: M.L. Piyapas Bhirombhakdi,
Sarunyoo Wongkrchang
Delivery Status: Completed
A story of intrigue, romance and war
based on actual events in 16th century
Siam, this Cecil B. DeMille sized epic is
the most expensive and highest grossing
Thai production in history.
MINDHUNTERS
Thriller
Director: Renny Harlin
Producers: Bobby Newmyer, Jeffrey
Silver, Cary Brokaw, Renny Harlin
Cast: LL Cool J, Val Kilmer, Christian
Slater
Delivery Status: Completed
An elite unit of FBI cadets, trained as
profilers and serial killer hunters, is sent
to a remote island facility for a final
tactical exercise. The situation soon turns
real.
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RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE
Horror
Director: Alexander Witt
Producers: Jeremy Bolt, Paul W.S.
Anderson, Don Carmody
Exec. Producers: Bernd Eichinger,
Samuel Hadida, Robert Kulzer
Cast: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory,
Oded Fehr, Thomas Kretschmann with
Jared Harris and Mike Epps
Delivery Status: In Production
A viral outbreak causes the quiet middle
American town of Raccoon City to be
overrun by an army of Undead.
CREDITS NOT CONTRACTUAL
INTRAMOVIES
Intramovies, Via E. Manfredi 15 - 00197
Rome, Italy. Tel: 39.06.8076157 –
06.8077252. Fax: 39.06.8076156.
Website: www.intramovies.com,
email: mail@intramovies.com
At Mifed: Paola Corvino (President), Jef
Nuyts (Dir. of Int. Sales)
Office: Room B27 Hall 10 / 2, Tel: Paola
Corvino 39.348.5401397, Jef Nuyts
39.335.8410149
THE UNDESIRABLES (GLI
INDESIDERABILI)
Drama (117 min)
Language: Italian & English with
English subtitles
Director: Pasquale Scimeca
Producer: Galliano Juso, Marco
Poccioni, Marco Valsania
Cast: Vincent Gallo, Antonio Catania,
Marcello Mazzarella
New York 1951. Due to lack of evidence,
120 Italian Americans accused of Mafia
associations cannot be sentenced. They
are sent back to Italy, labeled as
"UNDESIRABLES".
NOW OR NEVER (ORA O MAI PIU')
Comedy (96 min)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Lucio Pellegrini
Producer: Domenico Procacci for
FANDANGO & RAI Cinema
Cast: Jacopo Bonvicini, Violante Placido,
Edoardo Gabbriellini
David's life will never be the same, his
convictions will be shaky, his certainties
will turn into black holes.
BREAK FREE (LIBERI)
Comedy (113 min)
Language: Italian/ with English subtitles
Director: Gianluca Maria Tavarelli
Producer: Domenico Procacci for
FANDANGO
Cast: Luigi Maria Burruano, Elio
Germano, Nicole Grimaudo
Vince is only twenty. He dreams of
leaving his small home town, and raise
the money that will put him through
university.
EL ALAMEIN
War / adventure (117 min)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Enzo Monteleone
Producer: Riccardo Tozzi, Giovanni
Stabilini, Marco Chimenz for Cattleya
Cast: Paolo Briguglia, Pierfrancesco
Favino, Silvio Orlando
At El Alamein the Italo-German army is
blocked and forced to retreat.
RED RIDING HOOD
Thriller / Horror (90 min)
Language: English
Director: James K Cimini
Producer: Ovidio Assonitis for KOA
Cast: Kathleen Archebald, Robert Purvis,
Marc Fiorrini, Justine Powell
God forgives those who transgress. 12
year-old Jenny and her friend Georgethe-wolf, don't!
SECRET FILE (SEGRETI DI
STATO)
Drama / Documentary (85 min)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Paolo Benvenuti
Producer: Domenico Procacci for
Fandango
Cast: Antonio Catania, David Coco, Aldo
Pugliesi
The First of May 1947, in Portella della
Ginestra in Sicily, someone fired on the
crowd: 11 dead and 27 wounded.
UNCUT
Comedy (70 min)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Gionata Zarantonello
Producer: Paola Ermini
Cast: Franco Trentalance, Luisa
Corleone, Morena Ciotoli
Ciccio is at home, stuck in bed with a
fractured pelvis. He has just one aim:
find a woman who will get into bed with
him.
K
KANGJEGYU FILMS
KangJeGyu Films, 3F Engedi Bldg 363
Yangje-dong Seocho-gu Seoul 137-898
Korea. Tel: 822.2193.2002.
Fax: 822.2193.2199.
Website:www.kjgfilm.com,
email: markyoon@kjgfilm.com
Company Type: International Sales
At Mifed: Mark Yoon (Head of
International Business), Cody Kim
Office: KOFFIC
TAEGUKGI
Drama (120 Minutes)
Language: Korean (English Subtitled)
Director: Kang Je-gyu
Producer: Kang Je-gyu, Choi Jin-wha
Cast: Jang Dong-gun, Won Bin
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Korea
Two brothers, Jin-tae and Jin-seok , have
survive through the harsh tragedy of
Korean War . Jin-tae will do anything to
send his younger brother back home
alive.
KATHY MORGAN
INTERNATIONAL
Kathy Morgan International, 12250 Sky
Lane, Los Angeles, CA 90049 USA.
Tel: 310.472.6300. Fax: 310.472.6304.
email: kfox@kathymorganintl.com
At Mifed: Kathy Morgan (President),
Kimberly Fox (Director of International
Sales), Lori Nicholas (Director of
Business Affairs)
Office: Pavilion 26, Hall 2, Office D13,
Tel: 3902.43.42.31.80, Fax:
3902.43.42.31.82
INSTANT KARMA
Language: English
Producer Scott Ross, Ted Elliot and Terry
Rossio
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2004,
Country of Origin: USA
INSTANT KARMA follows a wellmeaning safecracker from the swamps of
the New Orleans bayou through a series
of mystical “life lessons”.
A LOVE SONG FOR BOBBY LONG
Language: English
Director: Shainee Gabel
Producer Bob Yari, David Lawley and
Paul Miller
Key Cast: John Travolta, Scarlett
Johansson, Gabriel Macht
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
A beautiful and poignant story about the
lies families tell to each other and the
truth that lies in every family.
KEYSTONE
ENTERTAINMENT
INC.
Keystone Entertainment Inc., 23410
Civic Center Way, Suite E-9, Malibu,
California 90265 USA.
Tel: 310.317.4883. Fax: 310.317.4903.
email: films@keypics.com
At Mifed: Michael Strange (President –
cell: 310.980.2019), Tim Brown (VP
Distribution – cell: 310.980.2027)
Office: C16/B25 Hall 10-2
SPYMATE
Family (87 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Robert Vince
Producer: Robert Vince, Anna
McRoberts
Cast: Chris Potter, Emma Roberts,
Richard Kind, Pat Morita
Delivery status: Completed
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
Director: Robert Vince
Producer: Robert Vince, Anna McRoberts
Cast: TBA
Delivery Status: Principal Photography
starts October 14, 2003
Country of Origin: Canada,
Year of 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!
ANNIE THE NANNIE
Family
Language: English
Producer: Robert Vince & Anna McRoberts
Delivery Status: Development
Country of Origin: Canada,
Year of Production: 2004
The Goodwins expect their new English
Nanny to be everything they've ever
dreamed of and more. But when a big
mix-up leads them to bring home Annie,
the Orangutan, the Goodwins find their
world turned ape-side down!
HAIRY PUTTER
Family
Language: English
Producer: Robert Vince & Anna McRoberts
Delivery Status: Development
Country of Origin: Canada,
Year of Production: 2004
There's a new guy on the PGA Tour. It's
Hairy, the loveable, huggable Orangutan.
Some may say he's a born swinger, but
can Hairy putt his way into everyone's
hearts?
Los Angeles Office
TEL
323-935-8228
FAX
323-935-8229
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AIR BUD 6
Family
Language: English
Director: Robert Vince
Producers: Robert Vince & Anna McRoberts
Delivery Status: Development
Country of Origin: Canada,
Year of Production: 2003
Buddy's eager to try his paw at Rugby.
MXP: MOST EXTREME PRIMATE
Family (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Robert Vince
Producers: Robert Vince & Anna McRoberts
Cast: Devin Drewitz, Gwynth Walsh,
Rob Tinkler, Ian Bagg
Delivery Status: International Release
Date - Late Fall 2003
Country of Origin: Canada,
Year of 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: SPIKES BACK!
Family (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Robert Vince
Producers: Robert Vince & Anna McRoberts
Cast: Katija Pevec, Jake Smith, Tyler
Boissonnault, Cynthia Stevenson, Edie
McClurg
Delivery status: Completed International Release July 24, 2003
Country of Origin: Canada,
Year of Production: 2002
The fifth in this highly successful
franchise! Buddy and Andrea hit the
beach for some volleyball!
KM CULTURE CO.,
LTD.
KM Culture Co., Ltd., 3rd Flr., Bojun
Bldg. 70-13 Nonhyun-dong, Kangnam-ku
Seoul 135-010 Korea.
Tel: 82.2.3438.3842/5.
Fax: 82.2.3438.3848.
Website: www.kmculture.com,
email: sonyakim@kmculture.com
At Mifed: Moo Seung, Park (President),
Judy Ahn (head of int'l business dept.),
Sonya Kim (assistant manager of int'l
business dept.)
Office: G13 (Hall 10, Salon 3)
ADDICTED (JOONG DOK)
Mystery Drama (114 min)
Language: Korean
Director: Park Young-hoon
Producer: Lee Chun-yeon, Park Mooseung
Co-Production Partners: Cine 2000
Key Cast: Lee Byung-hun, Lee Mi-yeon,
Lee Eul
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$ 2M
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: Korea
A perilous love story of a man who
thinks he's his deceased brother.
CONDUCT ZERO (PUM HAENG
ZERO)
Comedy (98 min)
Language: Korean
Director: Cho Keun-sik
Producer: Park Moo-seung
Key Cast: Ryu Seung-bum, Lim Eunkyung, Kong Hyo-jin
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$ 2.3M
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: Korea
The life of high school best fighter
becomes twisted as he falls in love with a
nerdy girl.
DOUBLE AGENT (YI JOONG GAN
CHEOP)
Action Drama (120 min)
Director: Korean, English, Russian
Language: Kim Hyun-jeong
Producer: Koo Bon-han, Park Moo-seung
Key Cast: Han Suk-kyu, Koh So-young,
Cheon Ho-jin
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$ 4.2M
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: Korea
A North Korean spy who defected to
South in Camouflage becomes a double
agent by working for both sides.
ICE RAIN (BING WOO)
Adventure Drama
Language: Korean, Japanese
Director: Kim Eun-sook
Producer: Koo Bon-han, Park Moo-seung
Key Cast: Lee Sung-jae, Song Seunghun, Kim Ha-neul
Delivery Status: Post Production
Budget: US$ 4.3M
Opopomoz - MK2 S A
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Korea
Two men set out climbing MT. Asiaq of Alaska,
chasing for scattered memories of love.
OH! BROTHERS
Comedy Drama (110 min)
Language: Korean
Director: Kim Yong-hwa
Producer: Park Moo-seung
Key Cast: Lee Jung-jae, Lee Bum-soo
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$ 2.5M
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Korea
Sang-woo searches for his half brother,
Bong-ku to pay back his deceased
father's debt, and realizes that 12-year
old Bong-ku has a face of late thirties
man due to the progeria syndrome.
COLLEGE KNOCK OUTS (NAM JA
TAE UH NA DA)
Comedy Drama (109 min)
Language: Korean
Director: Park Hee-joon
Co-Production Partners: Mega Pictures /
Twin Entertainment
Key Cast: Jung-june, Hong Kyung-in,
Yeo Hyun-soo
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$ 1.8 M
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: Korea
Three islands rubes clench their fists to
knock the college walls out.
LITTLE MONK (DONG SEUNG)
Drama (99 min)
Language: Korean
Director: Joo Kyung-joong
Co-Production Partners: Spectrum Korea
Key Cast: Kim Tae-jin, Kim Min-gyo,
Kim Ye-ryung
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$ 1.5M
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Korea
In a secluded mountain temple, three monks
of three different generations discipline
themselves, away from their own desires.
KWA
KWA, C/ Galeón, 32, Madrid, 28042
Spain. Tel: 34.91.747.3100.
Fax: 34.91.747.7000.
Website: www.kevinwa.com,
email: kwa@kevinwa.com
At Mifed: Kevin Williams
Office: C17, Tel: 34.667.540.547,
Fax: 39.02.314.119
LA VIDA MANCHA (A STAINED
LIFE)
Drama
Language: Spanish with English subs
Director: Enrique Urbizu
Producer: Tornasol
Key Cast: José Coronado
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Spain
A loser truck driver and his card shark
streetwise brother are both delivered
from a life more ugly by the inspiration
of a beautiful woman.
CIUDADES OSCURAS (DARK
CITIES)
Drama
Language: Spanish with English subs
Director: Fernando Sariñana
Producer: IMCINE
Key Cast: Jesús Ochoa, Zaide Silvia
Gutiérrez.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: México
Carousel of cavorting low-lives from
bent coppers to prostitutes, wife beaters
to the drug addict father who kills his
own child in a fit of pique while baby
sitting.
NOVIEMBRE
Drama (104 min)
Language: Spanish with English subs
Director: Achero Mañas
Producer: Tesela
Key Cast: Oscar Jaenada, Ingrid Rubio,
Hector Alterio
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Spain
Students set up radical street theatre
group. But soon their lofty idealism is
brought crashing to ground.
COMANDANTE
Feature Documentary Special (90 min)
Language: Spanish with English subs
Director: Oliver Stone
Producer: Media Pro
Key Cast: Fidel Castro, Oliver Stone
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Spain
The awesome epic interview. The first
major interview in 40 years. The man,
the myth, the machinations!
CARMEN
Period Erotic Drama (120 min)
Director: Spanish with English subs
Language: Vicente Aranda
Producer: Starling
Key Cast: Paz Vega, Leonardo Sbraglia
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Spain, UK, Italy
The classic tale stripped to the bone.
Naked sex, naked obsession. Big budget
erotic extravaganza.
VIVA SAPATO! (SEX CHANGES
EVERYTHING!)
Comedy (90 min)
Language: Spanish with English subs
Director: Luis Carlos Lacerda
Key Cast: Jorge Sanz, Laura Ramos,
María Galiana.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Brazil, Spain
Vibrant Latin comedy set in Cuba, shot
in Brazil or pair of dance shoes that go
missing from the Tropicana club with
$5,000 hidden in the heels.
EL FINAL DE LA NOCHE
Dramatic Thriller
Language: Spanish with English subs
Director: Patxi Barco
Key Cast: Asier Hormanza, Itziar Ituño
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Spain
A woman journalist is checking over the
evidence of a murder committed five
years before.
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LAKESHORE
INTERNATIONAL
Lakeshore International, 5555 Melrose
Avenue, Gloria Swanson Bldg. 4th Floor
Hollywood, CA 90038, USA.
Tel: 323.956.4222. Fax: 323.862.1456
At Mifed: Peter Rogers (President
International), Eric Reid (COO), Virginia
Longmuir (Sr. VP, International Business
& Legal Affairs & Operations), Julie
McLaughlin (Vice President International
Sales), Robert Burke (Vice President
Worldwide Marketing), Elisabeth Costa
de Beauregard (Director, International
Sales), Bonnie X. Brocatto (Coordinator,
International Sales)
Office: Pavillion 25-2, A.04
WICKER PARK
Psychological Drama
Director: Paul McGuigan
Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Gary
Lucchesi, Andre Lamal
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Matthew Lillard,
Rose Byrne, Diane Kruger
Status: Availability: 2003
Country of Origin: U.S.A.
An intense psychological drama about a
man (Josh Hartnett) caught in an
obsessive search for a woman he fell
deeply in love with - a woman who then
vanished without a trace.
MADHOUSE
Horror
Director: William Butler
Cast: Joshua Leonard, Jordan Ladd,
Lance Henriksen,
Status: Post Production, Availability:
2004
Welcome to the Madhouse, a hellhole
basement prison beneath a decrepit
mental hospital. When the staff start
dying at the hands of a ghostly killer, a
young intern must keep his sanity before
he become the next victim.
THE MAYOR OF THE SUNSET STRIP
Documentary
Producers: Chris Carter, Greg Little,
Tommy Penna
Writer & Director: George Hickenlooper
Country of Origin: USA
Cast: Rodney Bingenheimer, Cher, David
Bowie, Paul McCartney
Status: Screening, Availability: Now
From nobody to somebody, Mayor of the
Sunset Strip explores the remarkable life
of Rodney Bingenheimer, an LA radio
host with an obsession for celebrities, music
and how he has influenced popular culture.
Teknolust - Cinemavault
LIGHTNING
ENTERTAINMENT
Lightning Entertainment, 301 Arizona
Ave, Suite 400, Santa Monica, CA 90401,
USA. Tel: 310.255.7999. Fax: 310.255.7998.
Website: www.lightning-ent.com
Company Type: Sales Agent
At Mifed: Richard S. Guardian, Tannaz
Anisi, Marc Greenberg
Office: Hall 8, B23
AMERICAN CRIME
Drama/Thriller
Language: English
Director: Dan Mintz
Producer: Jeff Ritchie, Wu Bing
Cast: Rachael Leigh-Cook, Cary Elwes,
Kip Pardue, Anabella Sciorra
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: US
When Jesse is assigned to cover the story
of a local drowning, she discovers a
video of the drowned woman. On the
tape the victim is followed.
THE DUST FACTORY
Drama (102 min)
Language: English
Director: Eric Small
Producer: Tani Cohen, Eric Small, Erika
Lockridge
Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Hayden
Panettiere, Ryan Kelley, Kim Myers,
Michael Angarano, Peter Horton
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: US
A life affirming and human story that
captures the fading art of the young
being nourished by the old.
THE EVENT
Drama (112 min)
Language: English
Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Producer: Thom Fitzgerald, Bryan Hofbauer
Cast: Parker Posey, Olympia Dukakis,
Sarah Polley, Don McKellar, Jane Leeves
and Brent Carver
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Canada/US
Set in Manhattan's fashionable Chelsea
district, among the neighborhood's large
and varied gay population, the film is an
intricately structured inquiry into one
man's death that becomes a celebration
of his life.
THE HOLLOW
Horror
Director: Kyle Newman
Cast: Kaley Cuoco, Nick Carter, Kevin
Zegers, Nick Turturro, Joseph Mazzello,
Judge Reinhold and Stacy Keach
Delivery Status: Post Production
As tragic occurrences begin to mimic
events from centuries past, what was
once thought to be nothing more than
myth now becomes terrifyingly real.
MANHOOD
Drama
Director: Bobby Roth
Producer: Bobby Roth, Jeffrey White,
Jack Baran
Cast: Nestor Carbonell, John Ritter,
Janeane Garofalo, Barry Newman, and
Bonnie Bedelia
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: US
Follows a reformed womanizer, (now
living divorced and alone in order to
keep custody of his adolescent son), who
becomes embroiled in the life of his
newly-separated sister, her punk son, and
her incredible cad of a husband.
TOM DOWD AND THE LANGUAGE
OF MUSIC
www.tomdowd.com
Documentary (90 mins)
Language: English
Director: Mark Moormann
Producer: Mark Moormann, Scott L.
Gordon, Mark Hunt
Appearances: Tom Dowd, Ray Charles,
Eric Clapton, The Allman Brothers Band,
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Les Paul, Aretha
Franklin
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: US
A feature-length documentary profiling
the life and work of a man whose
personal history reflects the evolution of
modern music and recording technology:
legendary producer/ recording engineer
Tom Dowd.
BREW
Horror
Language: English
Director: Tobe Hooper
Cast: Brad Dourif, Amanda Plummer,
Nick Carter. Other Cast TBA
Delivery Status: Pre Production (starts
shooting November 2003)
Ian Brauer is thrilled to learn that he is
the heir to the estate of his long-lost aunt.
But then he finds out that what he's
inherited -- the decrepit Thebes Brewery.
ASHES & SAND
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Drama (08 min)
Language: English
Director: Bob Blagden
Producer: Andrew Holmes, Peter WatsonWood, Liam Badger, Nigel Thomas
Cast: Nick Moran, Lara Belmont,
Victoria Scarborough
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: UK
An ambitious and handsome detective
sergeant (Nick Moran) takes on the tough
contemporary world of teenage girl
gangs in Brighton.
LUGARES COMUNES
Drama (110 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Adolfo Aristarain
Producers: Gerardo Herrero, Adolfo
Aristarain, Javier Lopez Blanco, Mariela
Besuievsky Cast: Federico Luppi,
Mercedes Sampietro, Arturo Puig
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: Spain
A university professor and his wife have
been together most of their lives, life
without each other is inconceivable, but when
Fernando is unexpectedly forced into
early retirement, this life changing event
shakes his calm and thoughtful world.
THE SQUARE CIRCLE
Action Drama
Director: Olivier Megaton
Cast: Hector Echavarria (other cast TBA)
Delivery Status: Production
Danny Viccaro was once the most feared
fighter in the world, but years after
turning his back on the ring, after the
accidental death of his final opponent, he
is forced out of retirement by a ruthless
Triad leader.
LIONS GATE FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
Lions Gate Films International, 4553
Glencoe Ave., Suite 200, Marina del Rey,
CA 90292 USA. Tel: 310.314.2000.
Fax: 310.452.2670.
Website: www.lionsgatefilms.com,
email: Ekim@lgecorp.com
At Mifed: Nicolas Meyer (Co-President,
Lions Gate International), Sergei Yershov
(Co-President, Lions Gate International),
Peter Block (President, Home
Entertainment, Acquisitions and New
Media), Tom Ortenberg (President,
Releasing), Ron Schwartz (Executive
Vice President, Home Video), Adam
Bialow (Vice President, International
Business and Legal Affairs)
Office: Pavilion 8, A29/B22
THE FINAL CUT
Thriller
Language: English
Written and Directed by: Omar Naim
Executive Producers: Marco Mehlitz,
Michael Ohoven, Guyman Cassady,
Nancy Paloian-Breznikar Marc Butan,
Michael Paseornek, Michael Burns
Producer: Nick Wechsler
Cast: Robin Williams, Mira Sorvino and
Jim Caviezel
Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: US
In the near future, microchips record a
person's life and are removed and edited
by a "cutter" postmortem to create a reel
depicting the life of the departed for a
commemorative ceremony, called a
Rememory.
THE PRINCE AND ME
(FORMERLY PRINCE AND THE
FRESHMAN)
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Directed by: Martha Coolidge
Executive Producers: Cami Winikoff &
Robin Schorr
Producer: Mark Amin
Cast: Julia Stiles, Luke Mably, Ben
Miller, Miranda Richardson & James Fox
Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: US
The story of what happens when an
ambitious young woman falls head over
heels for a true Prince Charming.
GODSEND
Thriller
Language: English
Directed by: Nick Hamm
Executive Producers: Todd Wagner,
Mark Cuban, Jon Feltheimer, Mark Canton,
Michael Paseornek, Michael Burns, Eric
Kopeloff.
Producers: Sean O'Keefe, Cathy
Schulman, Marc Butan
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Rebecca RomijnStamos and Robert De Niro
Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: US
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A taut and gripping thriller about devoted
parents who turn to human cloning to
resurrect their son. A doctor on the forefront
of genetic research leads the couple into
in a dangerous and deadly experiment.
WONDERLAND
Drama (107 minutes)
Language: English
Director: James Cox
Executive Producers: Julie Yorn, Peter
Kleidman, Randall Emmett, George
Furla, Tom Ortenberg, Peter Block Marc
Butan, Michael Burns
Producers: Holly Wiersma, Michael Paseornek
Cast: Val Kilmer, Kate Bosworth, Lisa
Kudrow, Josh Lucas, Tim Blake Nelson,
Dylan McDermott, Christina Applegate,
Jeneane Garofalo, Carrie Fisher
Status: Screening
Country of Origin: US
The story of the drug related, 1981
Wonderland Avenue murders and the
primary suspect, porn king John Holmes.
SHATTERED GLASS
Drama (99 minutes)
Language: English
Written and Directed by: Billy Ray
Executive Producers: Tom Cruise, Paula
Wagner, Michael Paseornek, Tom Ortenberg
Producers: Craig Baumgarten, Adam
Merims, Gaye Hirsch, Tove Christensen
Cast: Hayden Christensen, Peter
Sarsgaard, Chloë Sevigny, Hank Azaria
with Steve Zahn.
Status: Screening
Country of Origin: US
Based on an article in Vanity Fair,
Shattered Glass is the story of the rise
and fall of controversial political
journalist Steven Glass.
THE COOKOUT
Comedy
Language: English
Directed by: Lance Rivera
Executive Producers: Shakim Compere,
Queen Latifah, Mike Elliott, Michael
Paseornek
Producer: Daryl "Latee" French
Cast: Queen Latifah, Ja Rule, Eve, Danny
Glover, Jonathan Silverman, Farah
Fawcett
Status: Production
Country of Origin: US
A basketball star lands a lucrative
contract and to celebrate, organizes a
cookout in his new mansion.
CABIN FEVER
Horror (94 minutes)
Language: English
Directed by: Eli Roth
Executive Producer: Susan Jackson
Producers: Lauren Moews, Sam Froelich,
Evan Astrowsky, Eli Roth
Cast: Rider Strong, Jordan Ladd, James
DeBello, Cerina Vincent and Joey Kern
Status: Screening
Country of Origin: US
A group of kids are trapped in the woods
and methodically killed off by a
horrifying flesh eating disease.
HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES
Horror (105 Minutes)
Language: English
Written and Directed by: Rob Zombie
Executive Producers: Andrew D. Given,
Guy Oseary
Producer: Andy Gould
Cast: Sid Haig, Karen Black, Bill Moseley
Status: Screening
Country of Origin: US
Two lost couples find themselves stranded
for the night in an old dark house where
they are set upon by the family in
residence that dabbles in murder.
CUBE ZERO
Science Fiction Thriller
Language: English
Written and Directed by: Ernie Barbarash
Executive Producers: Michael Paseornek,
Peter Block
Producers: Suzanne Colvin-Goulding,
Jon Goulding
Cast: Zachary Bennett, David Huband,
Stephanie Moore
Status: Production
Country of Origin: Canada
Cube Zero, the prequel to the smash hit
Cube, exposes the genesis of this fateful
game.
GINGER SNAPS II: UNLEASHED
Horror
Language: English
Directed by: Brett Sullivan
Executive Producers: John Fawcett, Noah
Segal, Peter Block, Jason Constantine
Producers: Steve Hoban, Paula
Devonshire & Grant Harvey
Cast: Emily Perkins, Katherine Isabelle,
Eric Johnson
Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: Canada
The beast is back in this horrifying
sequel to Ginger Snaps. Ginger's sister is
infected with the blood of a werewolf but
tries to fight her transformation even as
the he-wolf hunts her down to mate.
LOLAFILMS S.A.
Lolafilms S.A., Velázquez 12, 7th floor,
28001 Madrid, Spain.
Tel: 34.91.436.7400. Fax: 34.91.
435.5994. Website: www.lolafilms.com
Company Type: Production & Sales
Company
At Mifed: Eva Sklar (Head of
International Sales – Cell:
34.646.98.39.37), Miriam López (Head
of Business Affair)
Office: Hall 26, Level 2, Stand # D14
AC/DC (ISI/DISI)
Comedy
Language: Spanish
Director: Chema de la Peña
Producer: Andrés Vicente Gómez
Cast: Santiago Segura, Jaydy Mitchell
(rest of cast to be confirmed)
Film Status: Pre-production
ISI and DISI are two friends crazy about
AC/DC. They are over 30 years old, live
at their parent's house and have never
worked.
THE SEVENTH DAY (EL SÉPTIMO
DÍA)
Drama
Language: Spanish
Director: Carlos Saura
Producer: Andrés Vicente Gómez
Cast: Victoria Abril, José García, Juan
Diego
Film Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2003
Sometimes the worst things happen on
Sunday.While God rests.
GOOD BYE, GENERALISSIMO!
(BUEN VIAJE, EXCELENCIA!)
Comedy (98 minutes)
Language: Spanish
Director: Albert Boadella
Producer: Andrés Vicente Gómez
Cast: Ramón Fontserè, Minnie Marx,
Pilar Sáenz
Film Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003
A satiric comedy that portrays Dictator
Franco's last days of live at his palace of
El Pardo surrounded by his family,
doctors and military service.
SALAMINA SOLDIERS (SOLDADOS
DE SALAMINA)
Drama (120 minutes)
Language: Spanish
Director: David Trueba
Producer: Andrés Vicente Gómez,
Cristina Huete
Cast: Ariadna Gil, Diego Luna, María
Botto
Film Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002
An unmotivated young writer finds her
inspiration whilst investigating the story
of an uncommon war hero.
STORMY WHEATHER (TIEMPO
DE TORMENTA)
Drama (87 minutes)
Language: Spanish
Director: Pedro Olea
Producer: Andrés Vicente Gómez
Cast: Maribel Verdú, Jorge Sanz, Dario
Grandinetti, María Barranco
Film Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002
Two couples with one destiny. Misplaced
hope leads to passion and betrayal in this
story of self-destruction.
THE GREATEST ROBBERY EVER
TOLD (EL ROBO MÁS GRANDE
JAMÁS CONTADO)
Comedy (113 minutes)
Language: Spanish
Director: Daniel Monzón
Producer: Andrés Vicente Gómez
Cast: Antonio Resines, Neus Asensi,
Manuel Manquiña, Jaime Barnatán
Film Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002
Five of the world's "finest" criminal
minds team up to plan the greatest, most
daring and most ridiculous robbery of all
time.
LUX STAR
Lux Star Ltd. (Sales), 58, Baldry
Gardens, London SW163DJ United
Kingdom. Tel: 44.2087650333.
Fax: 44.2087650555.
At Mifed: Mr. Vincenzo Mosca (Director
of Sales), Mr. Pete Maggi (Sales
Executive), Mr. Massimo Saidel (Sales
Executive)
Office: A15 - Padiglione 25
MOTHER TERESA
Director: Fabrizio Costa
Production: Lux Vide S.P.A, MTP Ltd. in
association with Blue Star Movies,
Euroficción S.L. and Boca Boca
Producciones
Cast: Olivia Hussey, Sebastiano Somma,
Ingrid Rubio, Michael Mendl, Guillermo
Ayesa, Emily Hamilton, Neil Stuke,
Laura Morante
This film tells the story of Mother Teresa
who is considered one of the most
significant personalities of the 20th
century.
LUX STAR WILL ALSO BE
CONSIDERING OTHER PROJECTS
IN DEVELOPMENT, FOR
INTERNATIONAL COPRODUCTION AND
DISTRIBUTION.
M
M6 - DROITS
AUDIOVISUELS
M6 - Droits Audiovisuels, 89 avenue
Charles-de-Gaulle, 92575 Neuilly-surSeine Cedex, France. Tel:
33.1.41.92.68.66. Fax: 33.1.41.92.68.69.
www.m6da.com
At Mifed: Isabelle Drouart (Head of
feature films sales), Caroline Mougey
(Head of TV sales)
Office: F02 Pavillon 10, Hall 3
ASTERIX AND THE VIKINGS
Animated feature film (75’)
based on the work of René Goscinny and
Albert Uderzo, adapted from “Asterix
and the Normans”
Language: French and English
Director: Stefan Fjeldmark
Producer: M6 Studio with A Film in
Denmark
Delivery Status: In production
Budget: Euros 22 million
Asterix and Obelix’s mission is to free
Goudurix before it is too late.
ANIMAL DOCUMENTARY (TITLE
TO BE DEFINED)
Director: Laurent Charbonnier
Producer: MC4
Casting: Animals
Delivery Status: In development
Budget: Euros 7 million
Love life of animals.
NOT FOR OR AGAINST QUITE
THE CONTRARY / NI POUR NI
CONTRE BIEN AU CONTRAIRE
Thriller (110’)
Language: French
Director: Cédric Klapisch
Producer: Vertigo Productions
Casting: Marie Gillain, Vincent Elbaz
Budget: USD 10 million
A gang of young hoodlums have an easy
life pulling small time armed robberies.
One day, for the needs of a customer,
they enlist the services of a camera
operator, Caty, to film their
achievements.
MON IDOLE - ANYTHING YOU
SAY
(100’)
Language: French
Director: Guillaume Canet
Producer: Les Productions du Trésor
Casting: Guillaume Canet, François
Berléand, Diane Kruger (Tro with Bradd
Pitt; Wicker park
A TV show entitled “It is tissue time”
created by Jean-Louis Broustal and
hosted by Philippe Metzger has a big
success.
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MAINLINE
RELEASING
Mainline Releasing, 301 Arizona Ave,
Penthouse Santa Monica, CA 90402
USA.
Tel: 310.255.1200. Fax: 310.255.1201.
Website: www.mainlinereleasing.com,
email: info@mainlinereleasing.com
At Mifed: Marc Greenberg (President),
Tannaz Anisi (Vice President,
International Sales), Jennifer Thomas
(Director, International Sales)
Office: Pavilion 8, Booth # B 23, Tel:
02.4342.3033
SIMPLE REVENGE
Thriller (90 min)
Director: Brian Averill
Producer: Josh Eggleston
Cast: Frank Avoleita, Mellissa Picarello,
Holly Perkins, Anne Hawthorne, Andrew
Garman
Year of Production: 2003
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
Year of Production: 2002
A romantic comedy 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.
CLIPPING ADAM
Family (90 min) New & Completed
Director: Michael Picchiottino
Producer: Mike Gabrawy and Michael
Picchiottino
Cast: Louise Fletcher, Kevin Sorbo,
Chris Eigeman, Robert Pine, Bryan
Burke, and introducing Evan Peters as
Adam
Year of Production: 2003
After a tragic auto accident and the loss
of his beloved mother and younger sister,
Adam must face the reality of a new high
school and an emotionally empty father.
THE CACTUS KID
Family (90 min) NEW & Completed
Cast: William R. Moses, Thomas Curtis,
Christine Elise, Mike Starr, Randy Travis
Director: Don Ashley
Producer: Don Ashley, Kevin Candido,
Daniel Wulkan
Year of Production: 2003
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.
LITTLE TREASURE HUNTERS
Family (90 min) New & Completed
Director: Dan T. Hall
Producer: Dan T. Hall
Cast: Molly Hall, Abbey McAllsiter,
Caleb Ely, Alex Ruppert
Year of Production: 2003
Molly's young life is thrown into turmoil
when she is faced with moving away
from her best friends after her mother
dies.
THE KIDS WHO SAVED SUMMER
Family (90 min) New & Completed
Director: Robert Sperra
Producer: Michael Feifer
Cast: Daniel Massey, Danni Goldman,
Robert Pierce, Erica Shaffer
Year of Production: 2003
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.
CHOOSING MATTHIAS
Family/Drama (90 min)
Director: Caia Coley
Producer: Michael Feifer, Tamara
Seymour
Cast: Jeff Fahey, Caia Coley, Dylan
Kasch, Bo Hopkins
Year of Production: 2002
A young couple struggle to keep their
lives intact after tragically losing their
son.
THE SEX SPA
Soft Erotic Thriller (87 min) New &
Completed
Year of Production: 2003
PRIVATE SEX CLUB
Soft Erotic Thriller (89 min) New &
Completed
Year of Production: 2003
DEVIANT PASSIONS
Soft Erotic Thriller (90 min) New &
Completed
Year of Production: 2003
MEDIA 8
ENTERTAINMENT
Media 8 Entertainment, 1875 Century
Park East, Suite 2000, Los Angeles CA
90067 USA. Tel: 310.226.8300.
Fax: 310.226.8350
Company Description: Media 8
Entertainment (formerly MDP
Worldwide) is a leading independent film
entertainment company engaged in
producing, financing and licensing
feature films worldwide. Business during
MIFED 2003: Worldwide licensing of
feature films
At Mifed: Mark Damon (Chairman and
CEO), Brian O'Shea (Sr. Vice President
Worldwide Distribution), David Gaynes
(Sr. Vice President Marketing &
Publicity)
Office: Fiera Milano, Hall 1 Pavilion 8
Office A13 - B14
THE UPSIDE OF ANGER
Drama
Director: Mike Binder
Producer: Alex Gartner, Jack Binder,
Sammy Lee, Mark Damon
Cast: Joan Allen, Kevin Costner, Erika
Christensen, Evan Rachel Wood, Keri
Russell, Alicia Witt
Status: Post Production
When her husband suddenly vanishes
one day, deserting her and her four
daughters without so much as a goodbye,
TERRY (Joan Allen) is sure he fled the
country with his Swedish secretary.
HAVOC
Youth Drama
Director: Barbara Kopple
Producers: John Morrissey, Stewart Hall,
Jack F. Murphy
Co-Producer: Lars Bjorck
Exec. Producer: Mark Damon, Sammy
Lee, Andreas Schmid, Andreas Grosch
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Bijou Phillips,
Mike Vogel
Status: Currently shooting
HAVOC is Academy Award-winning
writer Stephen Gaghan's searing vision
of teen culture as it clashes with the real
world of urban Latino gangstas.
MONSTER
Drama
Director: Patty Jenkins
Producers: Charlize Theron, Mark
Damon, Clark Peterson
Exec. Producer: Meagan Riley-Grant,
Sammy Lee, Stewart Hall, Andreas
Grosch, Andreas Schmid, Brad Wyman,
Donald Kushner
Cast: Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci,
Bruce Dern, Pruitt Taylor Vince
Status: Completed. Official selection:
2003 AFI Film Festival (Closing Night
Film)
MONSTER explores the darkly
intriguing psyche of notorious serial
killer Aileen Wournos.
11:14
Dark Comedy
Director: Greg Marcks
Producers: Beau Flynn, John Morrissey
Exec. Producer: Mark Damon, Sammy
Lee, Stewart Hall, Raju Patel, Tripp
Vinson, Hilary Swank, Jeff Kwatinetz,
David Scott Rubin
Cast: Hilary Swank, Rachael Leigh
Cook, Patrick Swayze, Barbara Hershey,
Colin Hanks, Henry Thomas, Ben Foster
Status: Official selection: 2003 Fantasy
Film Fest, 2003 Toronto Film Festival,
2003
Tells the seemingly random yet vitally
connected story of a set of incidents that
all converge one evening at 11:14 pm.
GEORGE AND THE DRAGON
Drama
Director: Tom Reeve
Producers: Romain Schroeder, Todd
Moyer
Exec. Producer: Michael Burks, Frank
Huebner, Jeremy Saunders; Co-Producer:
Jan Fantl
Cast: James Purefoy, Piper Perabo,
Patrick Swayze, Michael Clarke Duncan
Status: Completed
George, a handsome English knight
desires to hang up his sword and settle
down to a quiet, peaceful life. On
returning to England, George finds King
Edgaar in a terrible state.
THE UNITED STATES OF LELAND
Drama
Director: Matthew Ryan Hoge
Producers: Kevin Spacey, Bernie Morris,
Palmer West, Jonah Smith
Exec. Producer: Mark Damon, Sammy
Lee, Stewart Hall
Cast: Don Cheadle, Ryan Gosling, Chris
Klein, Jena Malone, Lena Olin, Kevin
Spacey, Michelle Williams, Martin
Donovan
Status: Official selection: 2003 Sundance
Film Festival, 2003 Deauville Film
Festival, 2003 Hamburg Film Festival
Begins with an act of violence and then
dissects it in order to examine all of the
people affected.
THE I INSIDE
Thriller
Director: Roland Suso Richter
Producers: Rudy Cohen, Mark Damon
Exec. Producer: Sammy Lee, Stewart
Hall, Andreas Schmid, Andreas Grosch
Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Polley, Piper
Perabo, Stephen Rea, Stephen Lang and
Robert Sean Leonard
Status: Completed
When Simon awakens in the hospital
with amnesia, after a near death
experience, he discovers that he can
travel back in time to change his future
and solve the mystery of his brother's
murder.
The Snow Walker - First Look Media/Overseas Film Group
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MEDIA LUNA
ENTERTAINMENT
GMBH & CO.KG.
Media Luna Entertainment GmbH &
Co.KG., Hochstadenstrasse 1-3, Cologne
50674 Germany. Tel: 49.221.139.2222.
Fax: 49.221.139.2224.
Website: www.medialunaentertainment.de,
email: info@medialuna-entertainment.de
At Mifed: Ida Martins (Managing
Director), Andrew Chang (Sales
Manager), Francesca Breccia (Festival &
Sales)
Office: Booth No. B 22 Pavilion 10/2,
Tel & Fax: 39.02.434.230.31. Cell:
49.172.261.74.61
MARIA
Drama (97 min)
Language: Romanian (English subs)
Director: Peter Calin Netzer
Co-Production Partners: Pandora
/Cinemanufacture
Producer: Artis
Key Cast: Diana Dumbrava, Horatiu
Malaele, Serban Ionescu
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Romania
Maria presents a destiny; in a desperate
situation, a woman chooses prostitution as
last-ditch solution to fend for her children.
BONJOUR MONSIEUR SHLOMI
Comedy (94 min)
Language: Hebrew (English subs)
Director: Shemi Zarhin
Producer: Evanstone Films
Key Cast: Oshri Cohen, Arie Elias, Esti
Zakhem
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Israel
A heartening family comedy, a surprising
love story that focuses on the captivating
character of one boy.
COWBOYS & ANGELS
Drama (90 min)
Director: English
Language: David Gleeson
Producer: Wide Eye
Co-Production Partners: Peter Stockhaus
production
Key Cast: Michael Legge, Allen Leech,
Amy Shiels
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Ireland
A hapless civil servant who gets more
than he bargained for when he moves
into an apartment with a gay fashion
student and finds himself on the catwalk.
THE TENTH SUMMER
Children (97 min)
Language: German (English subs)
Director: Jörg Grünler
Producer: Ziegler, Cologne
Key Cast: Katharina Böhm, Kai
Wiesinger, Martin Stührk
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Germany
An entertaining family about love, moral
and friendship seen trough the eyes of
the 9-year old boy Kalli.
KILL ME TENDER
Black comedy (89 min)
Language: Spanish (English subs)
Director: Ramon de Espana
Producer: StarLine Production, Madrid
Key Cast: Ingrid Rubio, Alberto San
Juan, Emilio Gutierrez Caba
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Spain
An elderly man smitten with a girl who
is no good for him. A shady young lady
with a murky past.
JAGODA IN THE SUPERMARKET
Comedy (82 min)
Language: Serbian (English subs)
Director: Dusan Milic
Producer: Rasta
Co-Production Partners: Pegasos, Fandango
Key Cast: Branka Katic, Srdjan
Todorovic, Dubravka Mijatovic.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: Serbia
Jagoda ("Strawberry") a checkout girl at
the brand-new "Yugo-American"
supermarket in some und Serbian town.
COLD LIGHT
Drama
Director: Hilmar Oddsson
Producer: Icelandic corporation
First Look Media/Overseas Filmgroup
Key Cast: Ingvar E. Sigurdsson, Ruth
Olafs, Aslakur Ingvarsson.
Delivery Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: Iceland
It is a warm story about the power of
friendship and love to conquer death. A
story of hope and belief.
PLATINUM
Adventure
Language: German (English subs)
Director: Martin Enlen
Delivery Status: In Production
Country of Origin: Germany
A classical tale of friendship and
determination, that, in the end, created
the wealth of a whole nation.
LOVE IN CONCRETE
Drama (102 min)
Language: Spanish (English subs)
Director: Franco De Pena
Producer: Cameo
Key Cast: Carlos Miranda, Carmen
Landeta, Alejandro Chaban.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Venezuela
A night in Caracas, in one of its main
streets, the Liberation Avenue, six
desperate characters decided to change
their lifes, all of them are in search of
LOVE in this hated city of CONCRETE.
TALK STRAIGHT
Documentary (106 min)
Language: German (English subs)
Director: Jochen Hick
Producer: Galeria Alaska Productions
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Germany
Jochen Hick's provides an insight into a
largely unknown world. The audience
follows the lives of the protagonists via
the comments of their heterosexual
environment.
MEI AH
ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP
Mei Ah Entertainment Group, Mei Ah
Centre, 28 Chung Choi Street, Tseung
Kwan O Industrial Estate, Kowloon,
Hong Kong. Tel: 852.2751.3388.
Fax: 852.2623.9880.
Website: http://www.meiah.com,
email: meiah@meiah.com
Company Type: Sales, producer, distributor
At Mifed: Ms Sara Law (Assistant
Manager, Distribution)
PTU
Character Drama (87 minutes)
Language: Cantonese
Director: Johnnie To
Producer: Johnnie To
Cast: Simon Yam, Lam Suet, Maggie
Shiu, Ruby Wong
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Budget: US$ 1.5 million
The elite PTU ( Police Tactical Unit )
patrols a derelict harbor area, as
gangsters and punks roam the night.
They team up with seasoned cops and
white-collar investigators -all put to the
ultimate test-to make their way home
through a world turned upside down by
the desperate forces of revenge and
betrayal.
MEN SUDDENLY IN BLACK
Black Comedy (98 minutes)
Language: Cantonese
Director: Pang Ho Cheung
Producer: Eric Tsang Chi Wai
Cast: Eric Tsang, Jordan Chan, Chapman To
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Budget: US$ 1.2 million
As his wife is going to Thailand with her
friends, Tin and his friends Cheung, Chao
and Paul decide to seize the opportunity
and taste 14 hours of freedom by putting
their work aside and betraying their spouse.
MENEMSHA FILMS,
INC.
Menemsha Films, Inc., 1157 South
Beverly Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90035,
USA. Tel: 310.712.3720. Fax:
310.277.6602. email:
neilf@menemshafilms.com
Company Type: Sales agent
At Mifed: Neil Friedman (President),
Beatrix Wesle (Head of European Sales);
Acquisition Executive: Neil Friedman
Office: Pavillion 10/2, Office C15, Tel:
310.505.9487
THE STORY OF THE WEEPING
CAMEL
Drama
Language: Mongolian with English subtites
Director: Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi
Falorini
Producer: Tobias Siebert
Cast: Janichiv Ayurzana, Chimed Ohin,
Country: Mongolia / Germany 2003
It is springtime and a family of nomadic
shepherds in the Gobi Desert, South
Mongolia, assists in the birth of their
camel herd.
ABJAD - THE FIRST LETTER
Drama
Language: Farsi with English Subtitles
Director: Abolfazi Jalili ("Dance of
Dust", "Daan", "Tales of Kish",
"Delbaran")
Producer: Novem Abolfazi Jalili
Cast: Mehdi Morady, Mina Molania,
Abdolzreza Akbary
Country: France / Iran
Emkan and Maassoum attend the same
school and are in the same class. While
Emkan is fascinated by all forms of art
and wants to be a musician, poet, painter,
photographer, Maassoum focuses hard on
her school studies.
OJOS QUE NO VEN / WHAT THE
EYE DOESN´T SEE
Thriller / Drama
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Director: Fancisco J. Lombardi
Producer: Gustavo Sanchez
Cast: Gianfranco Brero, Gustavo Bueno,
Patricia Pereyra, Paul Vega, Melania
Urbina, Tatiana Astengo, Miguel Iza
Country: Peru
What the Eye Doesn't See explores
corruption in modern day Peru, as seen
and as reflected through the eyes of
everyday people.
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PUPENDO
Satire / Comedy
Language: Czech with English Subtitles
Director: Jan Hrebejk ("Divided We
Fall," "Cosy Dens")
Producer: Ondrej Trojan ("Pupendo,"
"Zelary," "Cosy Dens")
Cast: Bolek Polívka ("Divided We Fall,"
"Pupendo," "Cosy Dens")
Jaroslav Dusek ("Divided We Fall,"
"Pupendo," "Cosy Dens")
Jirí Pecha ("Divided We Fall")
Country: Czech Republic, 2003
Two families that are close friends with
each other, deal with society in opposite
ways; one playing by the system and the
other "playing" the system.
KAMCHATKA
Drama (103 min)
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Director: Marcelo Pineyro (Burnt Money,
Ashes from Paradise)
Producer: Oscar Kramer, Pablo Bossi,
Francisco Ramos
Cast: Cecilia Roth (All About My
Mother), Ricardo Darin (Son of the
Bride, Nine Queens), Hector Alterio (Son
of the Bride)
Country: Argentina / Spain
Ten-year old Harry's ordinary life of
school, board games and playing with
friends is abruptly disrupted when his
father (Ricardo Darin), and mother
(Cecilia Roth) must flee to the
countryside.
AVELLANEDA´S MOON
Romantic Comedy
Language: Spanish
Director: Juan Jose Campanella (Son of
the Bride, Same Love Same Rain)
Cast: Ricardo Darin (Son of the Bride,
Nine Queens, Kamchatka), Eduardo
Blanco (Son of the Bride), Mercedes
Moran
Roman, played by Ricardo Darin, was
literally given birth to on the dance floor
of the leading tango club in the
province. Years later, Roman is the Head
of the dance club.
ZELARY
Love Drama (150 min)
Language: Czech with English Subtitles
Director: Ondrej Trojan (Fireside Stories;
Let´s all Sing)
Producer: Ondrej Trojan (Divided We
Fall, Pupendo, Cosy Dens), Danny
Krausz (Blind Spot Hitler´s Secretary,
Comedian Harmonist)
Cast: Ana Geislerova (Supertex,
England!, Primetime Murder, Prague
Stories), Gyorgy Cserhalmi
(Smouldering Cigarettes), Jaroslav Dusek
(Divided We Fall, Wild Bees, Pupendo),
Gabriele Schmoll (Der Unfisch)
Country: Czech / Austrian / Slovak
Production, 2003
The Czech lands have been occupied by
the Nazis and young medical student
Eliska (Ana Geislerova) has to take work
in a city hospital. With her friend
Richard, Eliska is involved in resistance
activities.
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MORO NO BRASIL - THE SOUND
OF BRASIL
Music Road Movie (105 min)
Language: Portugese / voice-over English
Director: Mika Kaurismäki ("L.A. Without
a Map", "Helsinki Napoli All Night")
Producers: Phoebe Clarke, Hans Robert
Eisenhauer,
Cast: Margareth Menezes, Mika Kaurismäki,
Velha Guarda da Mangueira, Seu Jorge
Status: Completed
In this Music Road Movie the Finnish
director Mika Kaurismäke takes the
audience to a musical pilgrimage
throughout Brasil and introduces more
than just the roots-of-Samba.
AUTUMN SPRING (BABI LETO)
Comedy (97 min)
Language: Czech with English subtitles
Director: Vladimir Michalek (Angel Exit,
Sekal Has To Die, Prague Stories, America)
Producers: Jaroslav Kucera, Jiri
Bartoska, Jaroslav Boucek
Cast: Vlastimil Brodsky (Jacob The Liar
(German version), Closely Watched
Trains, Pan Tau, The Visitors, Stela
Zazvorkova (Koyla)
Status: Completed
Fanda, an old man, refuses to grow up.
MAROONED IN IRAQ (THE SONGS
OF MY HOMELAND)
Comedy/Drama (96 min)
Language: Kurdish with English
Subtitles
Director: Bahman Ghobadi (Time Of
Drunken Horses)
Producer: Bahman Ghobadi
Cast: Shahab Ebrahimi, Allah-morad
Rashtian, Faegh Mohammadi, Iran
Ghobadi
A road movie with a playful sense of
humour and political depth set in the
Iranian and Iraqi part of Kurdistan.
MIFF-FILM
FESTIVAL
INTERNAZIONALE
DI MILANO
MIFF-Film Festival Internazionale di
Milano, V.le Famagosta, 19, Milano,
20142 Italy. Tel: 39.02.89.18.1179.
Fax: 39.02.8912.5683.
Website: www.miff.it,
email: info@miffmilanofestival.com
Office: Brera Hotel, Tel: 02.6571174
MINERVA PICTURES
GROUP
Minerva Pictures Group, via Domenico
Cimarosa, 18 -00198 Rome Italy.
Tel. 39(0)6.854.3841/
06.8535.8648/06.842.42430.
Fax. 39.06.855.8105.
Website: www.minervapictures.com,
www.rarovideo.com,
email: minerva@minervapictures.com
Company Type: Distributor, Producer
At Mifed: Gianluca Curti (President),
Cristina Cassano (Vice President
International Dpt), Sara Polese
(International Dpt. Executive);
Acquisition Executive: Gianluca Curti
Office: Hall 8 Booth A40
BAD INCLINATIONS
Pulp Thriller
Language: Italian with English Subtitles
Director: Pierfrancesco Campanella
Cast: Franco Nero, Florinda Bolkan,
Elisabetta Cavallotti, Eva Robbins.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin:Italy
Prepare yourself for an exciting,
mesmerising and psichological pulp thriller!
MIRACOLO A PALERMO
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Beppe Cino
Cast: Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Luigi
Burruano, Valentina Graziano, Sandro
Dieli e Giuseppe Moschella
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Italy
A new Poetic Italian Tale.
THE LETTER
Drama
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Luciano Cannito
Cast: Vittoria Belvedere, Dino Abbrescia,
Timothy Dalton, Raffaella Appià
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production:2003,
Country of Origin: Italy
Thanks to the letter written by a
charming teacher and posted by chance
by her pupils, a dead man walking will
be rescued and woman's life will change.
LYCONTROPUS
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Robert Fani
Cast: Edel Weiss, Aureliu Surulescu,
Denis Gruia
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production:2003, Country of
Origin: Italy
You'll wish it were only a nightmare!
LADY
Romantic Comedy
Director: Francesco Laudadio
Cast: Sonia Aquino, Paolo Seganti,
Angela Finocchiaro, Yorgo Voyagis
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production:2003,
Country of Origin: Italy
Mystery, adventure and Illusions in the
turbulent and passionate love affair
between a bourgeois lady and a young
leader of an Anti-Fascist group.
END OF THE NIGHT
Drama
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Salvatore Piscicelli
Cast: Ida Di Benedetto, Ricky Tognazzi,
Elena Sofia Ricci, Ennio Fantastichini
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production:2003,
Country of Origin: Italy
A trip through the obscure ghosts of the
past will help an artist to find himself.
THE AMERICAN COMRADE
Comedy
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Barbara Barni
Cast: Nancy Brilli, Hugh O' Connor,
Tosca D'Aquino, Giulio Base
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production:2003,
Country of Origin: Italy
A Revolutionary Communist by chance
runs into the set of a "Fascist Regime" film.
NIGHT'S VAMPIRES
Horror
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Giovanni Pianigiani, Lorenzo
Onorati
Cast: Juliana Ierugan, Linda Di Pietro,
Paul Lahmiesc, Andrea Bruschi
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Italy
Oksana, a vampire woman, takes her
awful revenge.
DOLL'S GAME
Erotic drama
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Lawrence Webber
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production:2003,
Country of Origin: Italy
A New Intriguing Erotic Drama from the
same director of "Lady Chatterley's Story".
3 WOMEN FOR 3 BABIES
Sentimental Comedy
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Federica Pontremoli
Cast: Michela Noonan, Carla Signoris,
Mariella Valentini, Gigio Alberti
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: Italy
Three different stories crisscrossing.
MIRAMAX
INTERNATIONAL
Miramax International, 99 Hudson Street,
5th Floor, New York, NY 10013 USA.
Tel: 212.219.4100. Fax: 212.941.3836.
At Mifed: Rick Sands (COO, Miramax
Films), Jere Hausfater (Executive Vice
President, Miramax International), Stuart
Ford (Executive Vice President, Miramax
International), Mark Lindsay (Sr. Vice
President, Sales and Distribution,
Miramax International), Michael
Rothstein (Vice President, Sales and
Distribution, Miramax International),
Colleen Seldin (Vice President,
International Finance and Operations)
Office: Fiera Milano, Pavilion 25/2,
Office A03-A07, Milan, Italy. Tel:
39.02.4342.3088. Fax: 39.02.4342.3090
KILL BILL VOLUME 2 STATUS: IN
POST-PRODUCTION
Action/Crime
Language: English
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Producer: Lawrence Bender
Exec Producers: Richard Gladstein, E.
Bennett Walsh
Cast: Uma Thurman, David Carradine,
Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Michael
Madsen, Daryl Hannah
Country of Origin: USA
Volume 2 of the genre-defying action
thriller from Academy Award-winning
writer/director Quentin Tarantino, producer
Lawrence Bender and Miramax Films.
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PROOF
Drama
Language: English
Director: John Madden
Producers: John Hart, Jeff Sharp, Alison
Owen and Robert Kessel
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony
Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal, Hope Davis
Status: In Pre-Production
Country of Origin: USA
Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow
stars as Catherine, a beautiful mathematics
prodigy who has put her own life on hold
to tend to her brilliant mathematician
father (Oscar-winner, Hopkins).
TULIP FEVER
Drama
Language: English
Director: John Madden
Producer: Allison Owen
Cast: Jude Law, Kiera Knightly, Jim
Broadbent
Status: In Pre-Production
Country of Origin: USA
A sensuous new period drama from Tom
Stoppard, the Oscar winning writer of
"Shakespeare in Love."
UNDERCLASSMAN
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Marcos Siega
Producers: Peter Abrams, Robert L.
Levy, Andrew Panay
Cast: Nick Cannon, Cheech Marin,
Roselyn Sanchez, Shawn Ashmore,
Johnny Lewis
Status: In Pre-Production
Country of Origin: USA
In this sharp new comedy from the
writers of "National Lampoon's Van
Wilder," baby-faced Nick Cannon
("Drumline") plays Ty, a hip, fast-talking
street cop whose young looks and
fearless crime-fighting tactics get him
little respect with his peers.
MK2 S.A.
MK2 s.a., 55, rue Traversière, Paris,
75012 France. Tel: 331.44.67.30.55.
Fax: 331.43.07.29.63. Website:
www.mk2-catalogue.com, email:
sales@mk2.com
At Mifed: Olivier-René Veillon (VP
International), Florence Stern (Head of
International Sales)
Office: Unifrance Booth, N° B24 Pavillon 10 - Hall II
WOMAN IS THE FUTURE OF MAN
Director: HONG Sangsoo
Production companies: Miracin Korea
Film, Unikorea and MK2
Production status: in production
Country of origin: South Korea
L'APRES-MIDI DE MONSIEUR
ANDESMAS
Director: Michelle Porte
Cast: Michel Bouquet, Miou-Miou,
Paloma Veinstein
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Production company: MK2 (Marin Karmitz)
Production status: in production
Country of origin: France
THE RAIN CHILDREN (LES
ENFANTS DE LA PLUIE)
Animation (82 min)
Director: Philippe LECLERC
Production companies: BELOKAN
PRODUCTIONS, MK2 s.a., France 2
CINEMA, STUDIO HAHN SHIN CORP.
Production status: completed
Country of origin: France
It's a world in which two peoples are
hereditary enemies: the Pyross, who worship
the sun, and the Hydross, people of the Rain.
OPOPOMOZ
Animated feature (90 min)
Director: Enzo d'Alo
Production companies: Albachiara,
Grunjer & MK2
Production status: completed
Country of origin: Italy
THE FLOWER OF EVIL (LA FLEUR
DU MAL)
Director: Claude Chabrol
Producer: Marin Karmitz
Cast: Nathalie Baye, Benoît Magimel,
Suzanne Flon, Bernard Le Coq, Mélanie
Doutey
Production companies: MK2 sa, France 3
Cinema
Production status: completed
Country of origin: France
Set in the South West of France, this film
is about the guilt and its transmission
through the generations of a same upper
class family.
MODERN
ENTERTAINMENT,
LTD.
Modern Entertainment, LTD., 16255
Ventura Blvd., Suite 1100, Encino,
California 91436, USA.
Tel: 818.386.0444. Fax: 818.728.8294.
Company Type: Distributor
At Mifed: Ken DuBow (SR. VP,
Worldwide Sales), Allyson Hall (VP,
International Sales), Leah Durston
(Marks) (Director, International Sales);
Acquisition Executive: Ken DuBow (SR.
VP, Worldwide Sales)
Office: Stand A34 - Pavilion 25, Tel:
818.943.1595
EDITH PIAF, HER STORY – HER
SONGS, STARRING RAQUEL
BITTON
Documentary (97 min)
Language: English
Director: George Elder
Producer: George Elder/Gerald Prolman
Cast: Raquel Bitton
Delivery Status: Completed
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
Delivery Status: In Production
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
Delivery Status: Completed
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 (80 min)
Language: English
Director: Harry Shearer
Producer: Marc Ambrose
Cast: Michael McKean, Fred Willard,
Morgan Fairchild
Delivery Status: Completed
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
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $3 million
A young man attempting to become a
professional surfer faces drug-smuggling
and his own fears.
THE PACT
Thriller (100 min.)
Language: English
Director: Strath Hamilton
Producer: Phil Avalon
Cast: Robert Mammone, Sigrid
Thornton, Peter O'Brien
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $3 million
Fifteen years ago they made a
promise.that now may kill them all.
FEAR OF SPEED
Thriller (96 min)
Language: English
Director: Jeff Centauri
Producer: Jeff Centauri
Cast: Dale Rutter, Ada Mae Johnson,
Alex Torre
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $750,000
Fast Girls, Furious Fights, Explosive
Action and Hot Girls!
The Unborn - Golden Sun Film Co., LTD
MOONSTONE
ENTERTAINMENT
Moonstone Entertainment, Los Angeles
Office, P.O. Box 7400, Studio City, CA
91614 USA.
Tel: 818.985.3003. Fax: 818.985.3009.
At Mifed: Mr. Ernst "Etchie" Stroh
(CEO), Yael Stroh (President)
Office: Pav. 8 B46, Tel: 02.43.42.30.86
and 02.43.42.30.87
THE PROMISE
Director: Chen Kaige
Producers: Chen Hong, Chen Kaige, Han
San Ping, Etchie Stroh
Status: In Production
Country of Origin: China
What is Destiny? Is it war, love or a
dream? A General, a princess and a slave
entangled in a story about War, Love, and
Dream.
TOGETHER
Drama
Director: Chen Kaige
Producers: Ton Gang, Chen Hong
Principal Cast: Tang Yun, Liu Peiqi,
Chen Hong, Wang Zhiwen, Chen Kaige,
Cheng Qian, Zhang Qing, Kim Hairi, Liu
Bing
Status: completed
Country of Origin: China
Thirteen-year-old Xiaochun goes with his
father to Beijing to study the violin.
There he meets Lili his first love, first
source of heartbreak and first true friend.
TOOL BOX MURDERS
Thriller
Director: Tobe Hooper
Producers: Tony DiDio
Principal Cast: Angela Bettis, Juliet
Landau, Rance Howard, Brent Roam,
Lucky McKee
Status: screening
Country of Origin: U.S.
Evil lurks inside the Lusman Building: a
ruthless madman who uses drills, saws
and claw hammers to murder his victims.
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
Country of Origin: U.S.A.
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.
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
Country 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.
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MOTION PICTURE
CORPORATION OF
AMERICA
Motion Picture Corporation of America,
1401 Ocean Ave., Suite 301,
Santa Monica, CA 90401, U.S.A.
Tel: 310.319.9500. Fax: 310.319.9501.
Website: www.mpcafilm.com,
email: info@mpcafilm.com
At Mifed: Brad Krevoy (Chairman and
CEO), Sigrid Ann Davison (President,
International), Francisco Gonzalez
(Manager, International Sales and
Marketing)
Office: Pavilion 8, Stand B11
BLAST
Action
Language: English
Director: Anthony Hickox
Producer: Brad Krevoy, David Lancaster,
Klaus Rettig, Gerhard Schmidt
Cast: Eddie Griffin, Breckin Meyer,
Vinnie Jones, Vivica A. Fox
Production Status: Post-Production
Country of Origin: USA, UK, South
Africa
A terrorist posing as environmentalist
hijacks an oilrig off the coast of
California with the intent of detonating
an electromagnetic bomb over the US.
BOOKIES
Dramatic Thriller
Language: English
Director: Mark Illsley
Producer: Alan Greenspan, Sabine
Mueller, Paul Greenstone, Gerhard
Schmidt
Cast: Nick Stahl, Rachael Leigh Cook,
Lukas Haas
Delivery Status: Completed
Country: USA, Germany
When three college friends start a
fledgling bookmaking operation out of
their dorm room, they become
immensely successful, almost overnight.
BARELY LEGAL
Comedy
Language: English
Director: David Mickey Evans
Producer: Brad Krevoy, Klaus Rettig,
David Kirkpatrick
Cast: Erik Von Detten, Tom Arnold, Amy
Smart
Delivery Status: Completed
Country: USA
A raucous teen comedy about a group of
teen-agers who cook up a misguided
scheme to meet girls and make moneyproduce an adult film.
DRACULA 3000
Sci-fi/ Horror
Language- English
Director/ Writer: arrell James Roodt
Producer: Brad Krevoy, David Lancaster,
David Wicht
Cast: Casper Van Dien, Erika Eleniak,
Coolio, Alexandra Kamp
Delivery Status- Post-production
Country: USA
Dracula returns in the year 3000 to
terrorize the crew of an intergalactic
spaceship in this new twist on the classic
horror legend.
BOAT TRIP
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Mort Nathan
Producer: Brad Krevoy, Gerhard
Schmidt, Frank Huebner, Sabine Mueller
Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr., Horatio Sanz,
Vivica A. Fox, Roselyn Sanchez
Delivery Status: Completed
Country: USA, Germany.
Hilarious comedy about two guys who
find fun, romance and adventure on a
Mediterranean vacation boat cruise.
MOVIEHOUSE
ENTERTAINMENT
Moviehouse Entertainment, 9 Grafton
Mews, London W1T 5HZ, UK. Tel:
44.20.7380.3999. Fax: 44.20.7380.3998.
Website: www.moviehouseent.com,
email: info@moviehouseent.com
Company Type: Sales Agent
At Mifed: Gary Phillips (Managing
Director/ Sales), Mark Vennis (Managing
Director/ Acquisitions), Claire Battersby
(Director of Marketing & Publicity),
D'Arcy Conrique (Consultant);
Acquisition Executive: Mark Vennis
Office: Pavilion 10, Hall 2, Stand B33,
Tel: 02.43.42.30.56
THE ILLUSTRATED FAMILY
DOCTOR
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Kriv Stenders
Producer: Catherine Kerr
Cast: Samuel Johnson
Delivery Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Australia
Bodies and their parts, strange behaviour,
corruption, sex and transplants - has
Gary Kelp lost the plot? Something is
seriously wrong.
BLIND FLIGHT
Drama (92 mins)
Language: English
Director: John Furse
Producer: Sally Hibbin
Cast: Ian Hart, Linus Roache
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: UK
From darkness to light, from despair to
hope, from solitude to the greatest
friendship of their lives.
THE RAGE IN PLACID LAKE
Comedy (90 mins)
Language: English
Director: Tony McNamara
Producer: Marian Macgowan
Cast: Ben Lee, Rose Byrne, Miranda
Richardson, Garry McDonald
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Australia
For anyone who ever felt different. your
hero has arrived.
LIVE FOREVER
Documentary (84 mins)
Language: English
Director: John Dower
Producer: John Battsek
Cast: Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher,
Damon Albarn, Jarvis Cocker
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: UK
A life-affirming celebration of the
Britpop scene.
FEAR X
Drama (91 mins)
Language: English
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Producer: Henrik Danstrup
Cast: John Turturro, Deborah Kara
Unger, James Remar
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: Denmark/Canada/UK
Murder, obsession, search, truth
MULTIMEDIA
CORPORATION
INTERNATIONAL,
INC.
Multimedia Corporation International,
Inc., 19360 Rinaldi St., #342, Porter
Ranch, CA 91326 USA.
Tel: 818.368.0817. Fax: 818.368.1817.
Website: multimedia.de,
email: multimedia@socal.rr.com
At Mifed: Karin Thome (President),
Joseph G. Geissler (Director), Ricardo
Gaona (Vice President Acquisitions)
Office: Principe Hotel Milan, Tel:
0049.171.273.9070.
TWIN SOUL
Thriller (100 min.)
Language: English
Director: Karin Thome
Producer: Karin Thome
Production Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2002-2003
Budget: $5,000,000.00
Country of origin: U.S.A. / Germany Coproduction
A woman's dead son warns her of a
voodoo curse that is threatening her life.
EMPIRE OF ASHES
Romantic Drama (100 min.)
Language: English
Director: Ricky Gaona
Producer: Karin Thome
Production Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2003
Budget: $3,000,000.00
Country of origin: U.S.A. / Germany Coproduction
A Punk Rock love story for those trapped
burning inside the margins.
JAGUAR
Action-Adventure (90 min)
Language: English
Producer: Karin Thome
Production Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2002-2003
Budget: $3,000,000.00
Country of origin: U.S.A. / Germany Coproduction
A beautiful treasure hunter and a drug
lord fight for their lives when they
encounter the mystical Jaguar people
deep inside the heart of the Amazon.
MYRIAD PICTURES
Myriad Pictures, Head Office: 405 S.
Beverly Drive, 5th Floor, Beverly Hills,
CA 90212 USA. Tel: 310.279.4000.
Fax: 310.279.4001. UK Office:
Cavendish House, 51-55 Mortimer
Street, London W1W 8HJ UK. Tel:
44.20.7580.9200. Fax: 44.20.7290.0844.
At Mifed: Kirk D'Amico (President),
Eric Christenson (Executive Vice
President, Sales & Distribution),
Samantha Horley (Senior Vice President,
International Distribution), Alice Weston
(Sales Executive), Maxine Leonard
(Executive Vice President, Marketing &
Publicity), Christine Howard (Head of
International Business Affairs)
Office: Hall 8, A17; B18, Fiera Milano,
Foro Buonaparte 65, 20121 Milano, Tel:
39.02.43.42.31.16. Fax:
39.02.43.42.31.17
IMAGINING ARGENTINA
Suspense
Director: Christopher Hampton
Executive Producers: Kirk D'Amico,
Philip von Alvensleben
Producers: Geoffrey C. Lands, Michael
Peyser, Diane Sillan Isaacs, Santiago
Pozo
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Emma
Thompson
Status: Screening
When his wife is kidnapped by
government forces in Argentina, Carlos
discovers that he can foresee the destiny
of others who have disappeared and he
struggles to use this powerful gift to find
his wife.
EULOGY
Comedy
Director: Michael Clancy
Executive Producers: Rory Rosegarten,
Jonas McCord, Shelly Glasser, Lucas
Foster, Kendall Morgan, Bo Hyde
Producers: Steven Haft, Richard B.
Lewis, Kirk D'Amico
Lost Things - Cinemavault
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Cast: Hank Azaria, Jesse Bradford,
Zooey Deschanel, Famke Janssen, Kelly
Preston, Ray Romano, Debra Winger
Status: Screening
A young girl finds herself amidst a
comical frenzy when three generations of
a dysfunctional family reunite for her
grandfather's funeral.
TRAUMA
Supernatural Thriller
Director: Marc Evans
Executive Producers: Kirk D'Amico,
Marion Pilowsky, David M. Thompson,
Don A. Starr, Dan J.B. Taylor, Steve
Christian, James Mitchell, Lizzie Francke
Producers: Jonathan Cavendish, Nicky
Kentish Barnes
Cast: Colin Firth, Mena Suvari, Brenda
Fricker
Status: Post-production
A man visits a spiritualist after his wife's
tragic death, only to be given the chilling
news that she might still be alive.
KINSEY
Comedy/Drama
Director: Bill Condon
Executive Producers: Francis Ford
Coppola, Kirk D'Amico, Michael Kuhn,
Bobby Rock
Producer: Gail Mutrux
Cast: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney,Chris
O'Donnell, Tim Curry, Timothy Hutton,
John Lithgow, Oliver Platt, Peter
Sarsgaard
Status: Post-production
A colourful portrait of the author of the
infamous report on human sexual
behaviour. Alfred Kinsey: the scientist,
the man, and how his obsession with sex
turned ordinary research into a media
frenzy.
BEING JULIA
Comedy/Drama
Director: Istvan Szabo
Executive Producers: Mark Milln,
Marion Pilowsky
Producer: Robert Lantos
Cast: Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons,
Michael Gambon, Bruce Greenwood,
Juliet Stevenson
Status: Post-production
A celebrated actress embarks on a secret
and passionate affair with a man half her
age, until she realizes he has an ulterior
motive.
LITTLE FISH
Thriller
Director: Rowan Woods
Executive Producers: Kirk D'Amico,
Marion Pilowsky
Producers: Vincent Sheehan, Liz Watts
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Martin Henderson
Status: Pre-production
Tracy Heart clings to the hope of a new
life but her brother and ex boyfriend
threaten to destroy her chance of
happiness when they embark on one last
criminal venture.
UNDER THE RADAR
Comedy Thriller
Director: Evan Clarry
Producers: Chris Brown, Chris Fitchett
Cast: Nathan Phillips, Clayton Watson,
Steady Eddy, Chloe Maxwell
Status: Screening
Four unlikely heroes - three guys and a
girl - hit the road and unwittingly find
themselves caught up in the midst of a
deadly crossfire between two rival gangs.
ONE LAST CHANCE
Comedy
Director: Stewart Svaasand
Executive Producers: Steve Robbins, Jim
Reeve, Dougray Scott
Producer: Anne Batz
Cast: Kevin McKidd, Iain Robertson,
Jamie Sives, Dougray Scott
Status: Screening
When three friends accidentally discover
gold in a sleepy Scottish village, the local
gangster plots to take a piece of the action.
A FOREIGN AFFAIR
Romantic Comedy
Director: Helmut Schleppi
Executive Producers: Dirk-Jan Bijker,
Tonneke Bijker, David J. Bijker, Esli
Bijker, David Arquette, Tim Blake
Nelson, Geert Heetebrij, Ruth SchleppiVerboom
Producers: David J. Bijker, Esli Bijker,
Geert Heetebrij, Helmut Schleppi
Cast: David Arquette, Tim Blake Nelson,
Emily Mortimer
Status: Screening
When their doting mother passes away,
two small-town American farmers join a
"romance tour" to Russia in search of a
wife to take care of them both.
Touching the Void - Pathé International-UK
YOU CAN'T STOP THE MURDERS
Comedy
Director: Anthony Mir
Producer: Anastasia Sideris
Cast: Anthony Mir, Gary Eck, Akmal Saleh
Status: Screening
In a tiny town in nowheresville Australia,
a serial killer is on the loose, and he's
obsessed with The Village People, the
iconic ‘70s pop group.
N
NEW LINE CINEMA
New Line Cinema, 116 N. Robertson
Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048 USA. Tel:
310.854.5811. Fax: 310.659.4712. New
York Office: 888 7th Avenue, 20th Floor,
New York, NY 10106. Tel: 212.649.4900.
Fax: 212.659.4966. www.newline.com
Corporate Profile: Founded in 1967, New
Line Cinema is the entertainment industry's
leading independent producer and
distributor of theatrical motion pictures.
At Mifed: Rolf Mittweg (President and
Chief Operating Officer of Worldwide
Distribution and Marketing), Camela
Galano (President, New Line
International), Nestor Nieves (Executive
Vice President - New Line International),
Robert Remley (Senior Vice President,
International Marketing), Elena Cahalan
(Vice President, International Contracts)
Office: Fiera Milano International Spa,
Largo Domodossola 1, 20145 Milano,
Pavilion 26/2 booth E07/D12, Tel:
39.02.4342.3234. Fax: 39.02.4342.3269
CELLULAR
Action-Thriller
Director: David Ellis
Producers: Dean Devlin, Lauren Lloyd
Principal Cast: Kim Basinger, William H.
Macy, Chris Evans
Production Status: In-Production
Country of Origin: USA
A man is thrust into a world or murder
and deception when he receives a
random, desperate call from a woman
who has been kidnapped.
AFTER THE SUNSET
Action-Comedy
Director: Brett Ratner
Producers: Beau Flynn and Trip Vinson
Principal Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Salma
Hayek, Woody Harrelson
Production Status: In-production
Country of Origin: USA;
US Release Date - Fall 2004
Picking up where most heists movies
end, a retired master thief finds himself
in a game of suspicion, robbery and
friendship with his life-long nemesis.
BLADE TRINITY
Effects Action
Director: David Goyer
Principal Cast: Wesley Snipes, Jessica
Biel, Rayn Reynolds
Production Status: In-Production; US
Release Date Summer 2004
Country of Origin: USA
The third installment of New Line Cinema's
hugely successful BLADE franchise.
This time Blade is a fugitive, caught
between the vampire and human worlds.
QUEST FOR THE MASK
Effects/Action Comedy
Director: Lawrence Gutterman
Principal Cast: Jamie Kennedy, Alan
Cumming, Traylor Howard
Production Status: In-Production, US
Release Date Fall 2004
Country of Origin: USA
The long-awaited sequel to the
blockbuster hit, THE MASK really does
it this time, fathering a son who spins
like a Tasmanian devil, bounces like a
super ball and behaves like a real-life
cartoon.
NEW ZEALAND FILM
New Zealand Film, PO Box 11-546,
Wellington, New Zealand.
Tel: 64.4.382.7680. Fax: 64.4.384.9719.
marketing@nzfilm.co.nz
At Mifed: Ruth Harley (Chief
Executive), Kathleen Drumm (Marketing
& Sales), Paul Swadel (Sales Assistant),
Sandra Bordigoni (Sales Assistant)
Office: Pavilion 8 A07, Tel:
02.4342.3001
PERFECT STRANGERS
Chilling Romance
Director: Gaylene Preston
Producer: Robin Laing, Gaylene Preston
Starring: Sam Neill, Rachael Blake
Delivery Status: screening
A woman finds herself the subject of a
man's obsession on a deserted island.
THE LOCALS
Horror
Director Greg Page
Producer: Steve Sachs
Delivery Status: screening
Two boys take a detour into the heartland
of evil and meet the living dead.
FOR GOOD
Psychological Thriller
Director Stuart McKenzie
Producer: Neil Pardington
Delivery Status: screening
A young journalist's obsession with the
abduction of her childhood companion
sparks a devastating chain of events.
KOMBI NATION
Comedy
Director: Grant Lahood
Producer: Ainsley Gardiner
Delivery Status: screening
The trip of a lifetime…what could
possibly go wrong?
CHRISTMAS
Black Comedy
Director: Gregory King
Producer: Leanne Saunders
Delivery Status: screening
Pre-Christmas tensions mount as three
generations of the Cook family find
themselves living under the same roof.
FRACTURE
Psychological drama
Director: Larry Parr
Producer: Charlie McClellan
Delivery Status: In Post Production
A bungled burglary causes the lives of
two families to spiral out of control.
IN MY FATHER'S DEN
Psychological mystery
Director: Brad McGann
Producer: Tevor Haysom, Dixie Linder
Starring: Matthew MacFadyen, Miranda
Otto
Delivery Status: In Production
A disillusioned war journalist is
implicated in the mysterious
disappearance of a teenage girl.
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SPOOKED
Conspiracy thriller
Director: Geoff Murphy
Producer: Geoff Dixon, Don Reynolds
Delivery Status: In Production
A reporter investigates a conspiracy
surrounding the mysterious death of a
man. Starring Cliff Curtis.
PERFECT CREATURE
Vampire thriller
Director: Glenn Standing
Producer: Tim Sanders, Russel Fischer,
Haneet Vaswani
Delivery Status: In Pre-Production
A highly original retelling of the vampire
myth set in an alternative version of the
1960s. From the producer of The Lord of
the Rings: The Fellowship of the
Ringsand Whale Rider.
50 WAYS OF SAYING FABULOUS
Whimsical coming of age
Director: Stewart Main
Producer: Michele Fantl
Delivery Status: In Pre-Productin
The tale of Billy, who finds out that
growing up is mystifying, but all he has
to be is himself.
NIKKATSU
CORPORATION
Nikkatsu Corporation, 3-28-12, Hongo,
Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033 Japan.
Tel: 81.3.5689.1026. Fax:
81.3.5689.1044. Website :
www.nikkatsu.com,
email: nobu@nikkatsu.co.jp
(International Sales)
Company Type: producer, distributor
At Mifed: Yasue Nobusawa (Manager);
Acquisition Executive: Kiyohiko Shoji
(General Manager)
Office: 10/2 C-27
GINJI THE SLASHER
Action Drama (121 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Takeshi MIYASAKA
Producer: Kazutaka KATASHIMA
Cast: Riki TAKEUCHI, Isao
NATSUYAGI
Delivery Status: completed
A guy goes against the darkness in the
Japanese society after the World War II.
BLUES HARP
Drama (106 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Takashi MIIKE
Producer: Naoya NARITA
Cast: Riki TAKEUCHI, Isao
NATSUYAGI
Delivery Status: completed
An encounter and friendship between a
Blues-harp player and a Yakuza.
HEAT AFTER DARK
Drama (50 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Ryukei KITAMURA
Producer: Atsuro WATABE
Cast: Atsuro WATABE, Kazum SUZUKI
Delivery Status: completed
My friend killed a Yakuza guy by
accident. No, he comes back to life in the
trunk of the car and disappears. We are
caught up in the Yakuza war.
AIKI
Martial Arts Drama (119 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Daisuke TENGAN
Producer: Hisa IINO, Yasushi
MATSUDA, Shunsuke KOGA
Cast: Haruhiko KATO, Rie
TOMOSAKA, Ryo ISHIBASHI
Delivery Status: completed
AIKI-DO helps a young man starts his
new live in a wheel chair.
HARMFUL INSECT
Drama (92 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Akihiko SHIOTA
Producer: Hiroyuki NEGISHI, Takashi
HIRANO
Cast: Aoi MIYAZAKI, Seiichi TANABE,
RYO
Delivery Status: completed
Sachiko, a 13 years old girl, struggles
looking for love in a complicated society
and makes herself spin out of control.
FREEZE ME
Psycho-thriller (101 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Takashi ISHII
Producer: Nobuaki NAGAE, Taketo
NIITSU, Takashi ISHII
Cast: Harumi INOUE, Naoto
TAKENAKA, Kazuki KITAMURA
Delivery Status: completed
Chihiro was raped by three guys five
years ago. When she is about to start new
life with her finance, they again show up
and try to destroy her happiness.
SADISTIC & MASOCHISTIC
Documentary (91 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Hideo NAKATA
Producer: Tomoyuki AKAISHI
Cast: Masaru KONUMA, Naomi TANI
Delivery Status: completed
Documentary about film director Masaru
Konuma who directed more 40 titles of
Roman Porno.
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.
Website: www.nonstopsales.net,
email: info@nonstopsales.net
Company Type: International sales agent,
seller
At Mifed: 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: 10, 2nd floor, C15, Tel: Michael
Werner mobile 46.70.733.28.55), Karin
Thun mobile 46.704.16.99.89)
MIFFO
Love/ drama Comedy (100 min)
Language: Swedish, Subtitles: Yes
Director: Daniel lind-lagerlöf
Producer: Daniel Lind-Lagerlöf
Prod. Co: Sonet Film / Hägring
Cast: Jonas Karlsson, Livia Millhagen,
Ingvar Hirdwall
Status: Completed/screening
Country: Sweden, Year: 2003
A newly graduated minister who
unexpectedly encounters love at work. A
romantic comedy about taking the risk of
falling in love in what ever shape it
comes in.
EMMA & DANIEL - THE MEETING
Young teenage Drama (80 min)
Language: Swedish, Subtitles: Yes
Director: Ingela Magner
Producer: Lennart Dunér, Peter
Kropenin, Ilkka Matila
Prod. Co: Sonet Films/ Omega Film
Cast: Maria Gidlöf, Stasse Soulis, Örjan
Landström and Marie Richardson
Status: Completed/screeing
Country: Sweden, Year: 2003
A story about two youngsters that
thought they could manage alone but
when they faced fear the only thing they
had was each other.
MAKE BELIEVE (KOMMER DU
MED MIG DÅ?)
Drama (105 min)
Language: Swedish, Subtitles: Yes
Director: Kjell Grede
Producer: Katinka Faragó
Prod. Co: Sandrew Metronome
Cast: Tuva Novotny, Shanti Roney, Örjan
Ramberg
Status: Completed/screening
Country: Sweden, Year: 2003
The film tells the intense story of
Theodor and Paula, two youngsters who
grew up together but now live totally
different lives.
BUDDY
Romantic Comedy (100 min)
Language: Norwegian, Subtitles: Yes
Director: Morten Tyldum
Producer: Knut Jensen, Gudny
Hummelvoll
Prod. Co: Happy Endings AS
Cast: NICOLAI CLEVE BROCH,
AKSEL HENNIE, ANDERS BAASMO
CHRISTENSEN
Status: Completed/screening
Country: Norway, Year: 2002
Kristoffer is a billboard hanger, 24 years
old and carefree. When his girlfriend
Elisabeth dumps him for her boss, his
life falls to pieces.
THE GOLDFISH MEMORY
Romantic Comedy (85 min)
Language: English
Director: Liz Gill
Producer: Breda Walsh
Prod. Co: Goldfish Film
Cast: Sean Campion, Flora Montgomery,
Stuart Graham, Jean Butler, Keith
McErlean, Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Justine
Mitchell, Aisling O'Neill, Peter Gaynor,
Demian McAdam and Lisa Hearns
Status: Completed/screening
Country: Ireland, Year: 2002
Goldfish Memory is a light-hearted look
at the dangers and delights of dating in
contemporary Dublin.
FALLING SKY (HIMMELFALL)
Drama (83 min)
Language: Norwegian, Subtitles: yes
Director: Gunnar Vikene
Producer: Sigve Endresen
Prod. Co: Motlys, Alligator
Cast: Kim Bodnia, Maria Bonnevie and
Kristoffer Joner
Status: Completed/screening
Country: Norway, Year: 2002
Falling Sky is sharp, touching and
thoroughly entertaining black comedy,
centred on various patients of a
psychiatric hospital just prior to
Christmas.
DARK WOODS (VILLMARK)
Thriller (80 min)
Language: Norwegian, Subtitles: Yes
Director: Pål Oie
Producer: Jan Aksel Angeltvedt
Prod. Comp: Spleis AS
Cast: Kristoffer Joner, Bjorn Floberg,
Marko Kanic, Eva Röse
Status: Completed/screening
Country: Norway, Year: 2002
Dark Woods is a psychological thriller in
the same spirit as "Blair Witch Project".
A nightmare in the woods.
NORDISK FILM
INTERNATIONAL
SALES
Nordisk Film International Sales,
Halmtorvet 29 - DK 1700 Copenhagen V.
Tel: 45.3326.6880. Fax: 45.3326.6889.
Website www.sales.nordiskfilm.com,
email: contact@nordiskfilm.com
At Mifed: Sanne Arlø (ales Executive),
Susan Wendt (Sales Executive), Klaus
Rasmussen (Sales Executive)
Office: Hall 10 booth B23
THE GREEN BUTCHERS
Drama comedy
Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Producer: Tivi Magnusson & Kim
Magnusson
Cast: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mads Mikkelsen,
Line Kruse
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003
A comedy that combines the trite, the
morbid and the amusing.
RECONSTRUCTION
Drama
Director: Christoffer Boe
Producer: Tine Grew Pfeiffer
Cast: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Maria Bonnevie,
Nicolas Bro
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003
Reconstruction turns romantic drama
inside out, laying bare the emotions in an
explosion of images.
EVIL
Drama
Director: Mikael Häfström
Producer: Hans Lönnerheden & Ingemar
Leijonberg
Cast: Andreas Wilson, Linda Zilliacus,
Henrik Lundström
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003
When expelled from school, Erik is sent
to a boarding school as a last chance to
break free from his old life and continue
his studies but the boarding school
proves to be the same.
THE BOUNCER
Comedy Drama
Director: Jesper W Nielsen
Producer: Peter Bech
Cast: Iben Hjejle, Nikolaj Coster Waldau
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003
The Bouncer tells the story of a perfectly
ordinary man and his desperate attempts
to shrug off the mantle with which his
family has burdened him.
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STEALING REMBRANDT
Drama Comedy
Director: Jannik Johansen
Producer: Thomas Gammeltoft
Cast: Lars Brygman, Nikolaj Coster
Waldau, Sonja Richter, Paprika Steen
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003
Mick and Tom are an unlikely father-son
team of petty scrap-metal-thieves.
They've been hired to steal a painting
from a museum and by accident they
steal the wrong one.
NU IMAGE /
MILLENNIUM FILMS
Nu Image / Millennium Films, 6423
Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles,
California 90048 USA.
Tel: 310.388.6900. Fax: 310.388.6901.
email: nimage@msn.com
At Mifed: Danny Dimbort (Co-Chairman
& CEO), Avi Lerner (Co-Chairman &
CEO), Carole Delossantos (V.P.
International Sales), Christian Mercuri
(Sales Associate)
Office: Hall 8 B 13
CONTROL
Director: Tim Hunter
Starring: Ray Liotta, Willem Dafoe,
Michelle Rodriguez, Stephen Rea
Status: Post - Production
A pharmaceutical researcher and his
company test a drug to make violent
offenders tame, but things do not go
according to plan with the death row
murderer they try to rehabilitate.
SHADOW OF FEAR
Director: Rich Cowan
Starring: James Spader, Aidan Quinn,
Matt Davis, Robin Tunney, Peter Coyote,
and Alice Krige
Status: Post- Production
After covering up a drunk driving
accident, a man is forced to commit
murder to save his marriage and his life.
NINE LIVES
Directed By: David Carson
Starring: Wesley Snipes
Status: Post-Production
Mistaken for a government agent, Dean
Klein is injected with a hallucinogenic
truth serum that gives his captors the
ability to alter his reality with simple
suggestions.
DIRECT ACTION
Directed By: Sidney J. Furie
Starring: Dolph Lundgren
Status: Post-Production
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
Directed By: Tim Cox
Starring: John Savage, Nathan Perez,
David Kallaway, James Marshall, Michelle
Goh, Mel Stewart, and Martin Kove
Status: Post - Production
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
Directed By: Danny Lerner
Starring: Dean Cochran and Todd Jensen
Status: Post - Production
An ex-CIA operative breaks his best
friend, a suspected arms dealer, out of
prison. Together they stop the detonation
of a nuclear "dirty bomb."
SKELETONMAN
Writer / Director: Jesse Johnson
Starring: Michael Rooker, Casper Van Dien
Status: Post - Production
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.
SNAKEMAN
Status: Pre-Production
The Huston brothers are on the verge of a
stunning medical breakthrough.
SHARKMAN
Status: Pre-Production
On a popular island vacation spot, Dr.
Marcus Press's secret experiments have
created a highly evolved and mutated
human-creature capable of living on land
and in water.
MOSQUITOMAN
Status: Pre-Production
In a desperate attempt to find a cure for a
deadly new type of West Nile Virus,
SGT. ROBERT BOWMAN volunteers
for a risky vaccination trial on a
quarantined medical base in Eastern
Europe.
O
OASIS
INTERNATIONAL
Oasis International, 6 Pardee Ave, Suite
103, Toronto, Canada M6K 3H5.
Tel: 416.588.6821. Fax: 416.588.7276.
Website: www.oasisinternational.com,
email: info@oasisinternational.com
Company Type: Distribution
At Mifed: Peter Emerson (President),
Valerie Cabrera (Executive VP), Steve
Murphy (VP, Sales and Acquisitions),
Prentiss Holman (Sales Executive)
SAMHAIN
Horror (90 min)
Language: English
Producer: Warehouse Films
Cast: Richard Grieco (Wounded,
Manhattan Midnight), Jenna Jameson
(Porn n' Chicken, Playboy's Sizzling Sex
Stars), Chasey Lain (Playboy Sizzling
Sex Stars), Ginger Lynn Allen (Sunset
Stripped, The A-List) and Bobbie Phillips
(Weed Man, Showgirls, "Murder One")
Delivery Status: In Post Production
A disfigured mutant who comes from a long
line of incestuous cannibals hunts a group
of University students on a class trip.
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)
Delivery Status: Completed
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 (90 min)
Language: English
Producer: Film Arts
Cast: Lee Broker (FX/2), Domenic Cina
(Sex & Mrs. X)
Delivery Status: Completed
As the family slowly drifts apart, the
three men are consumed by their
circumstances until tragedy unites them
for an underground boxing match.
BURN: THE ROBERT WRAIGHT
STORY
Language: English
Producer: Tapestry Pictures Ltd.
Cast: Jonathan Scarfe (Slap Shot 2:
Breaking the Ice), Alan Scarfe (AKA
Albert Walker) and Kristin Booth (Two
Against Time)
Delivery Status: Completed
When justice fails a family whose land
has been contaminated they turn to a
local environmentalist with a reputation
of taking the law into his own hands.
ODYSSEY
ENTERTAINMENT
LIMITED
Odyssey Entertainment Limited, 12 St
James's Square, London SW1Y 4RB UK.
Tel: 44(0)207.153.3596. Fax:
44(0)207.153.3597. email:
sales@odyssey-entertainment.co.uk
Company Type: Sales agent, distributor
At Mifed: Ralph Kamp, Chairman &
CEO, Pascal Degove, Sales Executive,
Tamzin Denny, Assistant
Office: A17, Hall 2, Pavillion 25,
Tel: 0039.02.4342.3071.
Fax: 0039.02.4342.3073
RENAISSANCE
Animation/ Action Adventure
Language: English
Director: Christian Volckman
Producer: Aton Soumache
Delivery Status: In Production
Country of Origin: UK/ France
In this futuristic, visionary feature, a
parisian detective uncovers the secrets of
a hidden laboratory.
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Musical
Language: English
Director: Joel Schumacher
Producer: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Cast: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum,
Patrick Wilson
Delivery Status: In Production
Country of Origin: UK
A disfigured musical genius hides away
in the Paris opera house, longing for the
love of a beautiful, young singer.
VALIANT
Animation
Language: English
Director: Gary Chapman
Producer: John H. Williams
Cast: Ewan Mcgregor, Ben Kingsley, Jim
Broadbent
Delivery Status: In Production
Country of Origin: UK
A new animated hero from the Oscar
winning producer of box office hit 'Shrek.'
THE LIBERTINE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Laurence Dunmore
Producer: John Malkovich, Russell
Smith, Lianne Halfon
Cast: Johnny Depp, John Malkovich,
Samantha Morton
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: UK
The true story of the Earl of Rochester,
friend and confidant of King Charles II.
SEEING OTHER PEOPLE
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Wallace Wolodarsky
Producer: Gavin Polone
Cast: Jay Mohr, Julianne Nicholson
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Ed and Alice were perfectly happy until
Alice decided she hadn't slept with
enough men.
MOBY DICK: THE LEGEND
RETURNS
Animation
Language: English
Director: Michael Coldeway
Producer: Gerry Shirren/ Michael Coldeway
Delivery Status: In Production
Country of Origin: Germany/ Ireland/
Scandanavia/ Korea
Set in 1937, two remarkable young
people set off on the trail of the
legendary great white whale.
DEATHWATCH
Horror
Language: English
Director: Michael J. Bassett
Producer: Mike Downey
Cast: Jamie Bell, Hugo Speers, Matthew Rhys
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: UK
In WWI, British soldiers caught behind
enemy lines seek refuge in a complex
network of German trenches.
OPEN SESAME CO.,
LTD.
Open Sesame Co., Ltd., 1-14-6 Ginza,
Chuo-ku To 104-0061 Japan. Tel:
81.3.5159.0871. Fax: 81.3.3561.6262.
At Mifed: Ritsuko Abe (President),
Kaho Nakane (Executive Vice President)
ANTENNA
Drama (117 minutes)
Language: Japanese w/English Subs
Director: Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
Co-Production Partners: Office
Shirous/Ken Groove
Producer: Hiroko Matsuda, Atsushi
Watanabe, Takumi Ogawa
Key Cast: Ryo Kase, Akemi Kobayashi,
Megumi Asaoka
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: Japan
The story of rebirth of a devasted family
after the youngest daughter went missing.
Competition in Venice Film Festival 2003.
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HOTEL HIBISCUS
Heart Warming Drama (92 minutes)
Language: Japanese w/English subs
Director: Yuji Nakae
Producer: Shiro Sasaki
Key Cast: Honami Kurashita, Kimiko Yo
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: Japan
Growing up story of a 9-year old curious
tomboy in the southern islands, the place
that has full of folklore and spirituality.
DRIVE
Action Comedy (102 minutes)
Language: SABU
Director: Japanese w/English subs
Producer: Osamu Kubota/Takashi Hirano
Key Cast: Shinichi Tutsumi, Kou
Shibasaki, Ren Osugi, Masanobu Ando,
Toshio Kakei, Susumu Terajima
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2001, Country of
Origin: Japan
A story of an incredible day for an
honest, simple jitterbag salesman who is
abducted by four bank robbers.
P
PARK
ENTERTAINMENT
LTD
Park Entertainment Ltd, 4th Floor, 50-51
Conduit Street, London W1S 2YT United
Kingdom. Tel: 44(0)20.7434.4176.
Fax: 44(0)20.7434.4179.
Website: www.parkentertainment.com,
email. sales@parkentertainment.com
At Mifed: Jim Howell (CEO), Simon
Barnes (Head of Film Sales), Linda
Vezzoli (Marketing & Sales Executive)
Office: A05-B06 (10/2), Tel:
39.02.4342.3136. Fax: 39.02.804.924
THE GREAT GOOSE CAPER
Family Comedy (85 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Nicholas Kendall
Producer: Wendy Hill-Tout, Alex Brown
Cast: Chevy Chase, Joan Plowright, James
Purefoy, Kari Matchett, Max Morrow
Delivery Status: post-production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Canada/UK
Budget: $6.5 million
A talking Goose brings the sparkle back
to a little boy's life but it's a race against
time to save the bird from the Christmas
cooking pot.
THE PURIFIERS
Martial Arts (87 mins)
Language: English
Director: Richard Jobson
Producer: Richard Jobson, Chris Atkins
Cast: Kevin McKidd, Dominic
Monaghan, Rachel Grant, Amber
Sainsbury, Gordon Alexander
Delivery Status: post-production
Country of Origin: UK,
Budget: $1.8 million
A modern day gang movie set against a
martial arts backdrop in a Britain of the
near future.
NINE DEAD GAY GUYS
Comedy (83 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Lab Ky Mo
Producer: Lamia Nayeb-St.Hilaire
Cast: Steve Berkoff, Michael Praed, Vas
Blackwood.
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: UK
Two Irish lads stumble through London's
underground gay scene in search of
gainful employment to subsidise their
giros.
CRUST
Comedy (86 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Mark Locke
Producer: Nick O'Hagan
Cast: Kevin McNally, Madvah Sharma,
Perry Fitzpatrick, Louise Mardenborough
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: UK
Three ordinary people going for gold
with a seven-foot boxing shrimp.
TABLOID
Thriller (101 minutes)
Language: English
Director: David Blair
Producer: Mark Shorrock
Cast: Matthew Rhys, Mary Elizabeth
Mastrantonio, John Hurt, and David
Soul. Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: UK
A savage, satirical thriller challenging the
modern cult of celebrity.
Cast: Sophie Marceau, Vincent Perez,
Charles Berling
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of origin: France
Marie-Do has been giving in to her
husband's tiring demands for several
years now, but her encounter with
Antoine is opening up new horizons.
MAUVAIS ESPRIT
Comedy (90 min)
Language: French
Director: Patrick Alessandrin
Producer: Aïssa Djabri, Farid Lahouassa,
Manuel Munz (VERTIGO
PRODUCTIONS), Co-Production
partners: M6 FILMS, MATE
PRODUCTION
Cast: Thierry Lhermitte, Ophelie Winter,
Maria Pacome, Leonor Watling
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of origin: France
Just guess what might happen if the
beloved newborn first son of a superstar
entrepreneur is actually the reincarnation
of his worst enemy!
PAS SUR LA BOUCHE
Musical Comedy (110 min)
Language: French
Director: Alain Resnais
Producer: Bruno Pesery (ARENA
FILMS), Co-Production partners:
ARCADE, FRANCE 2 CINEMA,
FRANCE 3 CINEMA, VEGA FILM,
R&C PRODUZIONI
Cast: Sabine Azema, Pierre Arditi, Isabelle
Nanty, Lambert Wilson, Audrey Tautou
Delivery Status: Post production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of origin: France
Starring Audrey Tautou, the new piece
by Alain Resnais is the interpretation of a
1925 successful operetta.
SAN ANTONIO
Action comedy
Language: French
Director: Frederic Auburtin
Producer: Claude Berri, Co-Production
partners: PATHE RENN PRODUCTION,
HIRSCH, CORE FILMS LTD
Cast: Gerard Lanvin, Gerard Depardieu,
Barbara Schulz
Delivery Status: In production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of origin: France
Based on the famous books by SAN
ANTONIO, this is the long-awaited
movie of the adventures of the
eponymous detective. His mission: to
save the world, save face, save the
whales and whatever else he can.
LES CHORISTES
Drama
Language: French
Director: Christophe Barratier
Producer: Jacques Perrin (Galatée Film),
Co-Production partners: PATHE RENN
PRODUCTION, FRANCE 2 CINEMA,
VEGA FILM, DAN VALLEY
Cast: Gerard Jugnot, François Berleand,
Jacques Perrin
Delivery Status: In production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: France
1948. Clement is proctor in a
correctional boarding school for minors.
PATHÉ
INTERNATIONAL
Pathé International, 10 rue Lincoln,
Paris, 75008, France. Tel:
33.140.769.438. Fax: 33.140.769.123.
Website: www.patheinternational.fr,
email: sales@patheinternational.fr
Company Type: Sales agent
At Mifed: Annouchka Lesoeur (VP
international sales)
Office: Stand D08 / E05,
Tel: 39.4342.3264. Fax: 39.4342.3265
LE COUT DE LA VIE
Comedy of manners (100 min)
Language: French
Director: Philippe Le Guay
Producer: Anne-Dominique Toussaint
(LES FILMS DES TOURNELLES), CoProduction partners: PATHE RENN
PRODUCTION, M6 FILMS, GIMAGES
FILMS
Cast: Vincent Lindon, Fabrice Luchini,
Lorant Deutsch, Geraldine Pailhas
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of origin: France
A funny and moving comedy about our
intimate relationship with money.
JE RESTE
Romantic comedy (105 min)
Language: French
Director: Diane Kurys
Producer: Alain Terzian (ALTER
FILMS), Co-Production partners:
FRANCE 2 CINEMA, FRANCE 3
CINEMA
Girl with a Pearl Earring - Pathé International-UK
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BEAUCOUP D'ENFANTS.
Comedy
Language: French
Director: Yvan Attal
Producer: Claude Berri, Co-Production
partners: PATHE RENN PRODUCTION,
HIRSCH, TF1 FILMS PRODUCTION
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal,
Emmanuelle Seigner, Alain Chabat
Delivery Status: In production
Year of Production: 2004,
Country of origin: France
A bittersweet comedy telling the story of
forty-niners, the universal worries and
doubts which rise when you're married as
well as when you're single.
MALEFIQUE
Horror fantastic (90 min)
Language: French
Director: Eric Valette
Producer: Bee Movies, Co-Production
partners: FIDELITE PRODUCTIONS,
STUDIOCANAL, HACHETTE
FILIPACCHI FILMS
Cast: Gerald Laroche, Philippe
Laudenbach, Clovis Cornillac, Dimitri
Rataud
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of origin: France
A prison cell. Four prisoners. They
discover a book: the diary of a prisoner
containing magic formulas that
supposedly enable prisonners to escape.
Suddenly, strange and troubling
phenomena multiply in the prison cell.
PAS SI GRAVE
Road movie (98 min)
Language: French
Director: Bernard Rapp
Producer: Didier Creste
(EXTRAVAGANZA), Co-Production
partners: EVERYBODY ON DECK,
SAGA FILM, MATE PRODUCTION,
FRANCE 3 CINEMA, PATHE
DISTRIBUTION
Cast: Sami Bouajila, Romain Duris, Jean
Michel Portal, Leonor Varela
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of origin: France
On the trail of their adoptive father's
past life in Spain, three brothers are led
from one startling encounter to the next.
LE BISON
Human tale (96 min)
Language: French
Director: Isabelle Nanty
Producer: Claude Berri, Co-Production
partners: PATHE RENN PRODUCTION,
HIRSCH, TF1 FILMS PRODUCTION
Cast: Isabelle Nanty, Edouard Baer,
Pierre-François Martin Laval
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of origin: France
There once was a lady named Dorine,
Who kept her whole building clean
While she is in labor
Her well-to-do neighbor
Le Bison will burst on the scene.
PATHÉ
INTERNATIONAL-UK
Pathé International-UK, Kent House,
Market Place, London W1W 8AR UK.
Tel: 44.207.462.4427.
Fax: 44.20.7436.7891
At Mifed: Alison Thompson (Head of
Pathé International-UK), Moyra Lock
(Marketing Manager), Mike Runagall
(International Sales Co-ordinator)
Office: Fiera Milano, Pavillion 26, Hall
2, Stand D08-E05, Tel: 39.4342.3264.
Fax: 39.4342.3265, Cell (Alison
Thompson): 44.7977.197.439. Cell
(Moyra Lock): 44.7977.197.429. Cell
(Mike Runagall): 44.7949.074.552. Web:
http://www.pathe.co.uk/, email:
international.sales@pathe-uk.com
SUZIE GOLD
Romantic Comedy (93 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Ric Cantor
Producer: Rebecca Green
Cast: Summer Phoenix (Dinner Rush;
The Believer; The Faculty)
Status: Completed/Screening - Market
Premiere
Production Country: UK,
Year produced: 2003
Production Company: Green Wolf Films
As Suzie Gold's sister prepares to get
married, it seems only natural that
Suzie's thoughts should turn to the state
of her own love-life.
Pathé International
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING
Romantic Drama (100 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Peter Webber
Crew Director: of Photography Eduardo
Serra (Unbreakable; The Widow
of Saint-Pierre; The Wings of the Dove)
Producers: Andy Paterson and Anand
Tucker (Hilary and Jackie)
Production Company: Archer Street
Cast: Colin Firth (Bridget Jones's Diary;
The Importance of Being Earnest),
Scarlett Johansson (Ghost World; Lost in
Translation), Tom Wilkinson (In The
Bedroom; The Importance of Being
Earnest; The Full Monty)
Status: Completed/Screening
Production Country: UK-Luxembourg,
Year produced: 2003
Set in 17th century Holland, tells the
imagined and highly seductive story
behind one of Vermeer's greatest and
most enigmatic paintings.
TOUCHING THE VOID
Feature Documentary (106 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Kevin MacDonald (Oscar®winner One Day In September)
Producer: John Smithson
Production Company: Darlow Smithson
Productions
Status: Completed/Screening
Production Country: UK,
Year produced: 2003
Based on the international best seller by
renowned climber Joe Simpson, which
describes one of the most extraordinary
true stories of survival and adventure of
our time.
WONDROUS OBLIVION
Drama (104 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Paul Morrison (Oscar
nominated for Solomon and Gaenor)
Crew Director: of Photography Nina
Kellgren (Solomon and Gaenor)
Producer: Jonny Persey, Co-Producer:
Lesley Stewart (The Full Monty; Trainspotting)
Executive Producers: Michael Kuhn,
Kevin Loader (Captain Corelli's Mandolin)
Production Company: APT Films
Cast: Delroy Lindo (Malcolm X; Get
Shorty; The Cider House Rules), Emily
Woof (Pandemonium; The Full Monty;
This Year's Love), Stanley Townsend (In
the Name of the Father; The Snapper;
The Miracle), Sam Smith (Oliver Twist TV Mini Series)
Status: Completed/Screening
Production Country: UK,
Year produced: 2003
Eleven-year old David Wiseman is mad
about cricket but no good at it. He has all
the kit but none of the skill, and he's a
laughing stock at school.
BRIDE AND PREJUDICE - THE
BOLLYWOOD MUSICAL
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like
Beckham; What's Cooking)
Producers: Gurinder Chadha (Bend It
Like Beckham; Bhaji on the Beach),
Deepak Nayar (Buena Vista Social Club)
Production Company: Bride Productions
Cast: Aishwarya Rai (Devdas), Martin
Henderson (The Ring, Torque), Daniel
Gillies (The Amazing Spiderman),
Naveen Andrews (The English Patient)
Status: In Production/Promo Reel
screening
Production Country: UK/US,
Year produced: 2003
When a wedding comes to a small town
in the Indian countryside, it's a good
opportunity for Mrs Bakshi to find
eligible mates for her four daughters, but
the smart and headstrong Lalita is
determined to marry for love.
CHURCHILL, THE HOLLYWOOD
YEARS
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Peter Richardson (Stella Street;
The Comic Strip Presents.)
Producers: Jonathan Cavendish (Bridget
Jones's Diary), Ben Swaffer
Production Company: Little Bird
Cast: Christian Slater (The Contender;
Broken Arrow; True Romance), Neve
Campbell (The Company; Scream), Vic
Reeves (Once Upon a Time in the
Midlands), Bob Mortimer (Once Upon a
Time in the Midlands), Leslie Phillips
(Harry Potter and the Chamber of
Secrets; Lara Croft - Tomb Raider;
Saving Grace), Miranda Richardson (The
Hours; Spider; Chicken Run), Harry
Enfield (Kevin and Perry Go Large),
Anthony Sher (Shakespeare in Love; Mrs
Brown)
Status: In Production/Promo Reel screening
Production Country: UK,
Year produced: 2003
Britain's finest hour becomes Hollywood's
greatest story in this comic retelling of
one of Britain's most historic moments as seen through the eyes of Hollywood.
DEAR FRANKIE (FORMERLY
NATURAL HISTORY)
Drama
Language: English
Director: Shona Auerbach (multi awardwinner for short film Seven)
Producer: Caroline Wood
Production Company: Scorpio Films
Cast: Emily Mortimer (Bright Young
Things; Lovely & Amazing; Love's
Labours Lost; The 51st State), GERARD
BUTLER (Reign of Fire; Tomb Raider 2;
Timeline), jack McElhone (Young Adam)
Status: In Production/Promo Reel screening
Production Country: UK,
Year produced: 2003
Nine-year old Frankie and his single
mum Lizzie have been on the move ever
since Frankie can remember, most
recently arriving in a seaside Scottish
town.
MILLIONS
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Danny Boyle (The Beach; 28
Days Later; Trainspotting)
Producer: Graham Broadent (Welcome to
Sarajevo; Thunderpants)
Production Company: Mission Pictures
Cast: James Nesbitt (Bloody Sunday,
Waking Ned), Daisy Donovan, Alexander
Nathan Etel, Lewis Owen McGibbon,
Enzo Cilenti (Wonderland, 24 Hour Party
People)
Status: In Production/Promo Reel
screening
Year produced: 2003
The countdown is on: in 7 days' time Britain
converts to the Euro. It's the biggest opportunity
the criminal world has ever had.
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ENDURING LOVE
Psychological Drama
Language: English
Director: Roger Michell (Changing
Lanes, The Mother, Notting Hill)
Crew Director: of Photography Haris
Zambarloukos
Producer: Kevin Loader (Captain
Corelli's Mandolin, To Kill a King, The
Mother)
Production Company: Ridgeway
Productions
Cast: Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill, The
Shipping News, Vanity Fair), Daniel
Craig (Elizabeth, Lara Croft: Tomb
Raider, Road to Perdition; Ted and
Silvia; The Mother), Samantha Morton
(Morvern Callar, In America, Minority
Report)
Status: In Production/Promo Reel
screening
Year produced: 2003
On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple
celebrate their reunion with a picnic.
THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT
CGI Animation
Language: English
Director: Dave Borthwick and Frank
Passingham
Producer: Laurent Rodon, Andy Leighton
Production Company: Films Action /
bolexbrothers
With the voices of: Jim Broadbent
(Moulin Rouge; Iris - Oscar(r) Winner,
Bridget Jones's Diary; Topsy Turvy;
Little Voice; The Borrowers), Joanna
Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous (TV)),
Kylie Minogue (Moulin Rouge), Robbie
Williams, Ray Winstone (Ripley's Game;
Last Orders; Sexy Beast)
Status: In Production
Year produced: 2004
Based on the captivating and well-loved
children's TV series, which was created
in the late ‘60s and ran for over two
decades.
PFG
ENTERTAINMENT
PFG Entertainment,429 Santa Monica
Boulevard, Suite 600, Santa Monica,
California 90401 USA.
Tel: 310.393.5788. Fax: 310.393.0882.
Website: www.pfgentertainment.com,
email: mail@pfgentertainment.com
At Mifed: Ted Rosenblatt, Daniel Gerst
and Tamar Chafets
Office: Pavilion 10, Hall II, Stand C05
DEL RIO
Crime / Thriller
Director: Dror Soref
Producer: Yoram Barzilai
Principle Cast: TBA
Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: USA
A sultry tale of intrigue in which
mythology blends with modern day
reality when a kidnapping triggers events
that uncover a series of deep rooted lies
within a Texas border town.
CRAZY AS HELL
Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Eriq La Salle
Producer: Butch Robinson
Principle Cast: Eriq La Salle (One Hour
Photo, ER), Ronny Cox ( Losing Grace,
The Agency), Michael Beach (Third
Watch), John C. McGinley (Scrubs, Get
Carter), Sinbad (Houseguest)
Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
While undergoing experimental
treatment, a mentally disturbed patient
begins to threaten the sanity of a
renowned psychiatrist.
A SLIPPING-DOWN LIFE
Romantic Drama
Director: Toni Kalem
Producer: Richard Raddon
Principle Cast: Guy Pearce (Memento,
The Count of Monte Cristo, Time
Machine)
Lili Taylor (Casa De Los Babys, High
Fidelity, The Haunting)
Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Guy Pearce gives another amazing
performance, here as a seductive
musician whose newfound success
becomes dependent on the obsessive
infatuation of a devoted fan (Lili Taylor).
WOOLY BOYS
Adventure Comedy
Director: Leszek Burzynski
Producers: Robert Schwartz (Iron Will,
Kart Racer, Blizzard)
Principle Cast: Peter Fonda (The
Laramie Project, Ulee's Gold) , Kris
Kristofferson (Blade II & III, Planet Of
The Apes), Keith Carradine (Wild Bill),
Joseph Mazzello (Jurassic Park I & II)
Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
It's family friendly fun when a city-bred
teenager gets caught up in a series of
misadventures after being "kidnapped"
by his sheep rancher grandfather.
PORTMAN FILM
Portman Film, 21-25 St. Anne's Court,
London W1F 0BJ UK.
Tel: 44(0)20.7494.8024.
Fax: 44(0)20.7494.8046.
Website: www.portmanfilm.com,
email: sales@portmanfilm.com
At Mifed: Tristan Whalley (mobile:
44.7771.966.190), Jane Baker (mobile:
44.7887.504.450)
Office: Stand no. B50, Hall 8, Tel:
39.02.4342.3032
INTERMISSION
Director: John Crowley (On an Average Day)
Producers: Stephen Woolley , Neil
Jordan and Alan Moloney
Cast: Colin Farrell (Minority Report,
Phone Booth, The Recruit), Kelly
MacDonald (Gosford Park, Some Voices,
Trainspotting), Shirley Henderson (Once
Upon a Time in the Midlands, Bridget
Jones's Diary), Cillian Murphy (Girl with
a Pearl Earring, Disco Pigs, The Way We
Live Now, 28 Days Later) and Colm
Meaney (Star Trek: The Next
Generation, Con Air, The Snapper)
A couple break up briefly (the
intermission of the title), sending ripples
through the lives of everyone around them.
THE ACTORS
Director: Conor McPherson (Saltwater)
Producers: Stephen Woolley, Neil Jordan
and Redmond Morris
Cast: Michael Caine (The Quiet
American, Last Orders, Little Voice),
Dylan Moran (Notting Hill), Lena
Headey (Waterland, Jungle Book,
Onegin), Michael Gambon (Path to War,
Gosford Park, Sleepy Hollow), Miranda
Richardson (The Lost Prince, Damage,
The Crying Game)
Two struggling, eccentric actors Tom
(Dylan Moran) and O'Malley (Michael
Caine) prove the little known adage that
bad actors make great crooks.
AKA
Director: Duncan Roy
Producer: Richard West
Cast: Matthew Leitch (Below), Lindsey
Coulson, Diana Quick (Saving Grace),
George Asprey (Dead in the Water),
Blake Ritson (Me Without You, Titus),
Peter Youngblood Hills (The Beach,
Hideous Kinky), Bill Nighy
Audaciously split into three simultaneous
frames, AKA tells the story of Dean,
young, disaffected and trapped.
A WAY OF LIFE
Director: Amma Asante
Producers: Patrick Cassavetti (Intimacy,
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), Peter
Edwards (Nuts & Bolts Head of Drama
HTV) and BAFTA award-winning
Charlie Hanson (The Big Impression, Chef')
Cast: Stephanie James, Brenda Blethyn,
Oliver Haden, Nathan Jones, Gary
Sheppeard, Dean Wong and Sara Gregory
Delivery Status: In Production
A powerful story bringing together a
young, talented cast in a tale of passion,
beauty, and hatred.
BULLET BOY
Director: Saul Dibb (Tottenham
Ayatollah, Electric Avenue)
Producer: Ruth Caleb (The Other Boleyn
Girl, Tomorrow La Scala, Last Resort, Care)
Cast: Asher D, Luke Frazer, Claire
Perkins, Leon Black.
Delivery Status: In Production
An uncompromising, intelligent,
narrative driven deconstruction of British
youth gun crime, Follows 16 year old
Ricky and his young brother Curtis
through a heady, thrilling and emotional
weekend as a gun changes hands and
leaves in its wake a trail of destruction.
BLURRED
Director: Evan Clarry
Producers: Chris Brown and Chris
Fitchett
Cast: Matthew Newton (Looking for
Alibrandi, Changi), Jess Gower (The
Secret Life of Us), Kristian Schmid
(Scooby Doo, Neighbours), Mark
Priestly (The Graduate) and Nathalie
Roy (Heartbreak High).
Delivery Status: completed
Blurred is a comedy - not about being
there - but about a bunch of kids trying
to get there. A celebration of the diverse
routes from adolescence to adulthood.
ANITA & ME
Director: Metin Huseyin (It Was An
Accident, The History of Tom Jones, A
Foundling, Common As Muck)
Producer: Paul Raphael
Cast: Chandeep Uppal, Anna Brewster,
Max Beesley (All That Glitters, Tom
Jones), Sanjeev Bhasker (Goodness
Gracious Me), Kathy Burke (Kevin and
Perry Go Large, Elizabeth), Ayesha
Dharker (The Terrorist), Lynn Redgrave
(Shine, Gods and Monsters), Zohra Segal
(Bhaji on the Beach) Meera Syal
(Goodness Gracious Me) and Mark
Williams (The Fast Show, Shakespeare
In Love)
Delivery Status: completed
Meena (Chandeep Uppal) is 12 years old
and lives in the village of Tollington, the
jewel of the Black Country - in 1972.
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.
e-mail sales@promarkgroup.com
At Mifed: Jonathan Kramer (President),
Eric Bernstein (Vice President of
International Sales)
Office: Hall 8, Stand A06, Tel:
39.02.4342.3078
GHOST MONKEY
Action
Director: Paul Andresen
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: USA
Fear sweeps the back streets of a teeming
third world city: the "ghost monkey"
killer has struck again. A simian-like
serial killer moves in the shadows and
strikes with vicious force, ripping out the
hearts of its victims.
I WITNESS
Action (90 min)
Director: Rowdy Herrington
Producer: Jon Kramer, Paul De Souza,
David Bixler
Cast: Jeff Daniels, James Spader, Portia
de Rossi, Clifton Collins Jr.
Delivery Status: Completed 2002
Country of Origin: USA
When 27 bodies are discovered in a
collapsed tunnel in Tijuana, James
Rhodes (Jeff Daniels) decides to
investigate for himself.
3 KIDS FILMS:
SCAVENGER HUNT, IN SEARCH
OF A LOST PRINCESS, BIG
TROUBLE
Children's Films (90 min)
Director: Eric Hendershot
Producer: Jon Kramer, Steve Beswick,
Karri O'Reilly
Cast: Jonathan Cronin, Brittany Armstrong,
Michael Glauser, Cameron Manwaring.
Delivery Status: Completed 2002
Country of 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!
DOG GONE
Family (90 Min)
Director: Worth Keeter
Producer: Steve Beswick, Mike Elliot,
Karri O'Reilly
Cast: Jack Wagner, Daphne Zuniga, Zack
Ward
Delivery Status: Completed 2002
Country of Origin: USA
When a faithful police dog comes back
to life inhabiting the body of a harmless
petty criminal, the dog-in-a-man's-body
teams up with his old partner to track down
the felon that sent him to the bone yard.
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RAI TRADE (SALES)
Rai Trade (Sales), Via Umberto Novaro
18, 00195 Rome, Italy. Tel:
39.06.374.98469. Fax: 39.06.37516222.
Website: www.raitrade.it,
email: info@raitrade.it
At Mifed: Roberto Di Russo (President
and CEO), Sesto Cifola (Head of Cinema
and Fiction International Sales), Catia
Rossi (Cinema and Fiction International
Sales Executive)
Office: Padiglione 10 Salone 3 Stand E 04
IL CUORE ALTROVE (INCANTATO
- ENCHANTED)
(106')
Language: Original version with English
subtitles
Director: Pupi Avati
Production: Rai Cinema, Antonio Avati
for Duea Film
Cast: Neri Marcorè, Giancarlo Giannini,
Vanessa Incontrada, Sandra Milo, Guilio
Bosetti, Nino D'Angelo.
The film is set in the 1920s. Nello, a shy
academic type, lives with his family in
Rome where his father is tailor to the
Pope.
THE MIRACLE (IL MIRACOLO)
(93')
Language: Original version with English
subtitles
Director: Edoardo Winspeare
Production: Rai Cinema, SideCar
Cast: Claudio D'Agostino, Carlo Bruni,
Anna Ferruzzo
The movie tells the story of Tonio, a 12
year boy who is hit by a car and ends up
in hospital in coma.
BALLO A TRE PASSI
(106')
Language: Original Version with English
subtitles
Director: Salvatore Mereu
Production: Gianluca Arcopinto and
Andrea Occhipinti for Eyescreen
Cast: Caroline Ducey, Yael Abecassis,
Massimo Sarchielli, Michele Carboni
Four stories, linked by the archaic
universe of Sardinian culture, set in the
four seasons of the year which mirror the
seasons of life.
MY BROTHER-IN-LAW (MIO
COGNATO)
(90')
Language: Original version with English
subtitles
Director: Alessandro Piva
Production: Rai Cinema, Dada Film,
Seminal Film
Cast: Sergio Rubini, Luigi Lo Cascio
A comedy which follows Piva's earlier
domestic hit "The Head is spinning".
CATERINA IN THE CITY
(CATERINA VA IN CITTÀ)
(90')
Language: Original version with English
subtitles
Director: Paolo Virzi
Production: Rai Cinema, Cattleya
Cast: Margherita Buy, Sergio Castellitto,
Claudio Amendola, Alice Teghil, Flavio
Bucci, Galatea Ranzi
Catherine is a young girl who leaves her
small home town for the capital of Rome.
THE CRUELEST DAY (ILARIA ALPI)
(96')
Language: Original version with English
subtitles
Director: Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani
Production: Gam Film, Emme
Cast: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Rade
Serbedzija, Erica Blanc, Andrea Renzi
Based on the true story of the courageous
television journalist Ilaria Alpi who was
killed with her cameraman Miran
Hrovatin in 1994 when they were
covering a story in Somalia.
THE RETURN OF CAGLIOSTRO
(IL RITORNO DI CAGLIOSTRO)
(100')
Language: Original version with English
subtitles
Directors: Daniele Ciprì and Franco Maresco
Production: Rai Cinema, Cinico Cinema,
Istitute Luce
Cast: Robert Englund
A highly original film about two brothers
who try to set up a Sicilian "Hollywood"
to make a major movie. Unfortunately
they are totally disorganized.
THE BEST OF YOUTH -LA
MEGLIO GIOVENTÙ
Drama - Miniseries and also theatrical (4 x
100' or 383')
Language: Original version with English
sub-titles
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana
Production: BiBi Film Tv production for
Rai Fiction
Cast: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni,
Adriana Asti, Sonia Bergamasco, Maya
Sansa, Andrea Tidona, Fabrizio Gifuni
A strong and emotive epic covering more
than 40 years of human drama and social
history in Italy .
REGENT
ENTERTAINMENT
Regent Entertainment, 1401 Ocean
Avenue, Suite 300, Santa Monica,
California 90401 USA.
Tel: 310.260.3333. Fax: 310.260.3343.
Website: www.regententertainment.com
Company type: Producer and Distributor
At Mifed: Gene George (President),
Mark Reinhart (President, here! Films)
Office: #A-24 Hall 2, Tel: Gene George
mobile: USA 310.804.9360, Mark
Reinhart mobile: USA 323.791.8094
RING OF DARKNESS
Horror
Language: English
Director: David DeCoteau
Producers: Stephen P. Jarchow, Paul
Colichman, Jeffrey Schenck
Cast: Adrienne Barbeau, Jeremy Jackson,
Ryan Starr
Delivery Status: Post Production
A rock n' roll band makes a deal with the
Devil for success and immortality, however,
they must now find more souls to enslave.
CAVE IN
Action Disaster (93 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Rex Piano
Producers: Stephen P. Jarchow, Paul
Colichman, Jeffrey Schenck
Cast: Mimi Rogers, Ted Shackleford
Delivery Status: Completed
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
Action Disaster (93 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith
Producers: Stephen P. Jarchow, Paul
Colichman, Jeffrey Schenck, Brian
Trenchard-Smith
Cast: Lorenzo Lamas, Ralf Moeller,
Melody Thomas-Scott
Delivery Status: Completed
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
Delivery Status: Completed
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
Director: Kristen Coury
Producers: Linda Moran, Kristen Coury,
Joseph Triebwasser
Cast: Tony Lo Bianco, Anna Maria
Alberghetti, Greg Lauren, Christopher Gartin
Delivery Status: Completed
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 –
that they are hit men for the mafia!
TERROR PEAK
Action Disaster (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Dale G. Bradley
Executive Producers: Stephen P. Jarchow,
Paul Colichman, Jeffrey Schenck
Producers: Grant Bradley, Jozsef Fityus
Cast: Parker Stevenson, Lynda Carter,
Antony Starr
Delivery Status: Completed
While on tour in New Zealand, a thrillseeking family confronts the forces of
nature when the volcano they are
exploring becomes active.
KILLER BEES
Action Disaster (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Penelope Buitenhuis
Producers: Kirk Shaw, James Shavick
Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Tracy Nelson,
Fiona Loewi, Noel Fisher
Delivery Status: Completed
A local sheriff is faced with saving a
small town and his family from
devastation when a swarm of killer bees
takes over the town.
TORNADO WARNING
Action Disaster (5 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Tibor Takacs
Producers: Jeffrey Schenck, Stephen P.
Jarchow, Paul Colichman
Cast: Gerald McRaney, Thea Gill, Joan
Van Ark, David Millbern, Steve Braun
Delivery Status: Completed
A renowned scientist invents a system
that predicts the deadliest of twisters.
WILDFIRE 7
Action Disaster (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Jason Bourque
Producers: Kirk Shaw, James Shavick,
George Zaloom
Cast: Tracey Gold, Alexander Walters
and Joanna Cassidy
Delivery Status: Completed
A wrongly imprisoned mother is assigned
to an inmate firefighting program and is
forced to battle a deadly wild fire that
threatens not only herself but her young
daughter, whom she has not seen in years.
CUPID'S PREY
Thriller (95 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Dale Bradley
Executive Producers: Stephen P. Jarchow,
Paul Colichman, Jeffrey Schenck
Producers: Grant Bradley
Cast: Jack Wagner, Joanna Pacula,
Katrina Browne
Delivery Status: Completed
A brainy and beautiful young woman tutors
her wealthy boyfriend at his lavish home
and is immediately attracted to his father.
RENAISSANCE
FILMS
Renaissance Films, 34-35 Berwick Street,
London W1F 8RP, UK. Tel:
44.20.7287.5190. Fax: 44.20.7478.5100.
Website: www.renaissance-films.com,
email: info@renaissance-films.com
Company Type: Sales Agent
At Mifed: Angus Finney (Managing
Director), Claire Taylor (Head of
International Sales), Georgina Jackson
(Marketing & Publicity Executive), Fiona
Cheyne (Sales & Marketing Assistant)
Office: A07/B07, Hall 2, Pavillion 10
Tel: 39.02.4342.33.26, 39.02.4342.33.27.
Fax 39.02.4342.33.30
THE MOTHER
Drama (111 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Roger Michell
Producer: Kevin Loader
Cast: Anne Reid, Daniel Craig
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: UK
From the acid pen of Hanif Kureishi
comes another brilliant and shocking
slice of modern metropolitan life.
WE DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
Drama
Language: English
Director: John Curran
Producer: Harvey Kahn, Naomi Watts,
Jonas Goodman
Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Peter Kraus, Laura
Dern and Naomi Watts
Delivery Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: US
A season of infidelity.
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VAPOR
Romantic Drama
Language: English
Director: Neil LaBute
Producer: Gail Mutrux, Philip Steuer
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Ralph Fiennes
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Country of Origin: US
CANDY
Drama
Language: English
Director: Neil Armfield
Producer: Margaret Fink, Emile Sherman
Key cast: Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush
Prod Status: Development
Love is a high you can never come down
from.
BIG PLANS
Romantic Comedy
Language: Danish
Director: Jesper W Nielsen
Producer: Peter Bech, Helle Loevgreen
Exec Prod: Poul Erik Lindeborg, Mogens
Glad
Key cast: Thomas Bo Larsen, Lene M.
Christensen
Prod Status: Shooting
Big hearts. Big Dreams. Big Plans
REXMEDIA
Rexmedia, 17351 Sunset Blvd., Suite 304,
Pacific Palisades, CA, 90272, USA.
Tel: 310.230.8420. Fax: 310.230.8520.
Website: www.rexfilms.com,
email: info@rexfilms.com
Company Type: Sales agent, producer,
distributor
At Mifed: George Lascu (CEO), Cyndy
Kuipers (President), Liana Vilceanov
(Acquisition Executive)
Office: A 11, Tel: 310.435.7383.
Fax: 310.230.8520
RED SERPENT
Action/Adventure (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Eugen Tanasescu
Producer: Oleg Kapanets, George Lascu
Cast: Roy Scheider, Michael Paré, Oleg
Taktarov
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
Budget: 5 million $
An American businessman caught in the
middle of a drug deal gone bad, must
race against time to survive a powerful
Russian Mafia Drug Lord.
ANTIKILLER
Action Adventure (111 min)
Language: Russian
Director: Yegor Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky
Producer: Vladimir Kilburg, Yusup Bakshhiev
Cast: Gosa Kytenko, Mikhail Ulyanov
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2002
Country of Origin: Russia
Budget: 4 million $
#1 Box Office in Russia 2002. Criminal
investigator, Fox is released from prison
only to find that hit men are after him in
a tale of violence and redemption.
DARKNESS FALLING
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Dominic Shiach
Producer: Peter Simpson
Cast: Jason Priestley, Patsy Kensit, Paul
Johansson
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: Canada
Budget: $2 million
A lawyer investigating the suicide of her
sister uncovers a sinister plot.
WAR LIVE
Drama (93 min)
Language: Serbian
Director: Darko Bajic
Producer: Darko, Bajic, Dragan Bjelogrlic
Cast: Dragan Bjelogrlic, Daryl Haney
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: Yugoslavia
Budget:$ 2 million
In the vein of "Wag the Dog" comes this
story of a film crew attempting to finish
their movie as the bombs start falling.
LOVE 101
Romantic/Comedy
Language: English
Director: Adrian Fulle
Producer: Rick Fulle
Cast: Michael Muhney, Mary Kay Cook,
Jeff Anderson
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2001, Country of
Origin: USA
Budget: $1 million
Three college students discover that
there's more to life than sex, drugs and
rock 'n' roll when a womanizing college
student is caught after a one-night stand
with his best friend's girlfriend.
CRY OF REDEMPTION
Action Adventure (93 min)
Language: English/ Romanian
Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Producer: Tony Markes; Co-production
partners: Kiper/Lascu
Cast: Darby Hinton Kathleen Kinmont
Brian McNamara
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 1997,
Country of Origin: Romania
Budget: $2 million
An American CIA agent whose retirement
is delayed by the chaos breaking out in
Romania, is asked to retrieve a list of KGB
sponsored terrorists operating in the U.S.A.
RIKI SHELACH
PRODUCTIONS, LTD.
Riki Shelach Productions, Ltd., 14 Beit
Zuri St. Tel Aviv 69122 Israel.
Tel: 972.3.6429783/7329954 Fax:
972.3.6412648/5739808.
email: shel@inter.net.il
Company Type: Production company
At Mifed: Acquisition Executive: Riki
Shelach
A TRUMPET IN THE WADI
Drama (97min)
Language: Hebrew & Arabic
Director: Lina & Slava Chaplin
Producer: Riki Shelach
Cast: Alexander Senderovich, Khawlah
Hag-Debsy, Raeda Adon, Salwa
Nakkara-Hadad, Itzhak Neeman, Imad
Gabarin
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2001,
Country of Origion: Israel
Budget: $ 450,000
An impossible love story between an
Arab-Israeli young woman and a new
immigrant Russian trumpet player in
Israel today.
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.
email: roadsalesusa@promarkgroup.com
At Mifed: Jonathan Kramer (President),
Eric Bernstein (Vice President of
International Sales)
Office: Hall 8, Stand A06, Tel:
323.878.0404. Fax: 323.878.0486
THE BLUES
Documentary Drama (7 x 90 min)
Director: Charles Burnett, Clint Eastwood,
Mike Figgis, Marc Levin, Richard
Pearce, Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders
Producer: Martin Scorsese, Uli Felsberg,
Jody Patton
Delivery Status: Completed 2003
Country of Origin: USA
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)
Directors: 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
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of 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.
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MALUNDE
Drama (97 min)
Director: Stefanie Sycholt
Producer: Jurgen Biefang, Dieter Horr
Cast: Ian Roberts, Kagiso Mtetwa
Delivery Status: Completed
A street kid in South Africa saves the life
of a former Apartheid army soldier, and
their amazing journey of reconciliation
and hope delivers both from a troubled
past into a very unexpected future.
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.
Website: www.screenmedia.net
At Mifed: Joseph Kovacs (President),
Steve Nurkin (Executive VP), Almira
Malyshev (VP, International Sales),
Michael Dwyer (Director of International
Sales), Robert Baruc (President - Screen
Media Films), Suzanne Blech (VP Sales
& Marketing - Screen Media Films)
Office: Stand Location: Pavilion 8, Stand
A20, Tel: 39.02.4342.3029
AUSTIN POWERS:
INTERNATIONAL MAN OF
MYSTERY
Comedy (90 min)
Directed by Jay Roach
Starring: Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley
Year of Production: 1997
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
Year of Production: 2001
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
Year of Production: 1993
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
Year of Production: 1993
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
Year of Production: 1995
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.
NOBODY'S FOOL
(110 minutes)
Directed by Robert Benton
Starring: Paul Newman, Bruce Willis,
Melanie Griffith, Jessica Tandy
Year of Production: 1992
Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well
approaching retirement age.
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SENATOR
INTERNATIONAL
Senator International, 8666 Wilshire
Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90211 USA.
Tel: 310.360.1441. Fax: 310.360.1447
At Mifed: Hanno Huth (CEO), Joe Drake
(President), Brian Goldsmith (CFO and
EVP of Operations), Pierre Weisbein
(EVP, Sales & Distribution), Brent Jack
(VP International Marketing), Mali
Kinberg (Manager, International Sales),
Delphine Perrier (Manager, Business and
Legal Affairs, Contract Administration)
Office: Pavilion 8, B34, Tel:
39.02.4342.3301. Fax: 39.02.4342.3302
THE ASSASSINATION OF
RICHARD NIXON
Drama
Director: Niels Mueller
Producers: Alfonso Cuaron, Jorge Vergara
Exec Producers: Arnaud Duteil, Alexander
Payne, Kevin Kennedy, Avram Butch
Kaplan, Leonardo DiCaprio
Cast: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Don Cheadle
Status: Post Production
Based on a real story, this film traces one
man's struggle to claim his stake in the
American dream.
THE GRUDGE
Horror
Language: English
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Producers: Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, Taka
Ichise
Exec Producers: Roy Lee, Doug Davison
Cast: TBD
Status: Pre-Production
Centers on a murderous supernatural
curse, born when someone dies in the
grip of powerful anger. The curse is
passed, like a virus, from victim to victim
in an endless, growing chain of horror.
SOMETHING BORROWED
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Clare Kilner
Producers: Nathalie Marciano, Michelle
Chydzik, Jessica Bendinger, Paul Brooks
Cast: Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney,
Amy Adams, Jack Davenport
Status: Post-Production
Country of Origin: UK
When Kat Ellis must return home for her
little sister's wedding, she finds the best
man is none other than her ex-fiancé who
dumped her two years before.
WHITE NOISE
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Producers: Paul Brooks, Stephen Hegyes,
Shawn Williamson
Exec. Producers: Simon Brooks, Scott
Niemeyer
Cast: Michael Keaton, Deborah Kara Unger
Status: In Production
Country of Origin: Canada/UK
A grieving husband is contacted by his
murdered wife who sends him messages
of foreboding danger though white noise the static, hissing sound lingering over
dead air time on TV and radio stations.
HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO
WHITE CASTLE
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Danny Leiner
Producer: Greg Shapiro, Nathan Kahane
Cast: John Cho, Kal Penn, Neil Patrick
Harris, Fred Willard, Paula Garces
Status: Post-Production
Country of Origin: USA
The ultimate comedy for the
disenfranchised. One night, two very
likeable underdogs embark on the
wildest Friday night of their life that
changes them forever.
LAZARUS CHILD
Dramatic Thriller
Language: English
Director: Graham Theakston
Producers: Ciro Dammicco, Bruce
Harvey
Cast: Andy Garcia, Frances O'Connor,
Angela Bassett, Harry Eden
Status: In Production
Country of Origin:
Canada/Italy/UK/Germany
Based on the novel by: Robert Mawson.
Just one moment can change a family's
life forever. So begins one family's
desperate search for the unlikely miracle
that will save their shattered lives.
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY
Drama
Language: English
Writer/Director: Mary McGuckian
Producers: Michael L. Cowan, Samuel
Hadida, Garrett McGuckian, Mary
McGuckian, Denise O'Dell
Exec. Producers: Jeff Abberley, Craig
Darian, Victor Hadida, Peter James,
Howard Kazanjian, James Simpson
Cast: F. Murray Abraham, Kathy Bates,
Gabriel Byrne, Geraldine Chaplin,
Robert De Niro, Emilie Dequenne,
Harvey Keitel, Pilar Lopez De Ayala
Status: Post-Production
Country of Origin: Spain/UK/French
Based on the Pulitzer Prize© winning
novel by Thornton Wilder, this epic
drama is about a quest for the reason
behind the deaths of five people caused
by "the finest bridge in all of Peru"
mysteriously collapsing.
NOTHING
SciFi Adventure
Language: English
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Producers: Steven Hoban
Cast: David Hewlett, Andrew Miller
Status: Completed - SCREENING
Country of Origin: Canada
As the whole world bears down on best
friends Dave and Andrew, they manage
an escape from reality by unleashing an
extraordinary power they never knew
they possessed!
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SHOCHIKU CO., LTD.
Shochiku Co., Ltd., 4-1-1 Tukiji, Togeki
Blg. 12th floor, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8422
Japan. Tel: 81.3.5550.1623. Fax:
81.3.5550.1654. Website:
http://www.shochiku.com/film (English),
http://www.shochiku.co.jp (Japanese),
email: ibd@shochiku.co.jp
Company Type: sales, acquisition,
producer, distributor, exhibitor
At Mifed: Takeo HISAMATSU
(Managing Director of Production and
Theatrical Distribution), Akira ABE
(General Manager of Video Department),
Masaki KOGA (Head of International
Business Division)
Office: 10-II B37
CASSHERN (TENTATIVE TITLE)
Sci-Fi, Action
Language: Japanese
Director: Kazuaki KIRIYA
Producer: Hideshi MIYAJIMA,
Toshiharu OZAWA, Toshiaki
WAKABAYASHI
Cast: Yusuke ISEYA, Kumiko ASO,
Toshiaki KARASAWA
Delivery Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Japan
Budget: US$8,000,000
Live action feature based on a ‘70s
animation. This will be the next step of
"Japanese Animation" which continues to
grow fans all over the world.
HOU HSIAO-HSIEN PROJECT
(TENTATIVE TITLE)
Drama
Language: Japanese
Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
Producer: Hideshi MIYAJIMA, LiaoChing-sung, Fumiko OSAKA
Cast: Tadanobu ASANO, Yo HITOTO,
Masato HAGIWARA
Delivery Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Japan
Budget: US$2,000,000
Inspired by Japanese master Yasujiro
Ozu's films, Hou Hsiao-hsien shoots in
Japan for the very first time.
OUT OF THIS WORLD
(TENTATIVE TITLE)
Drama (123 min.)
Language: Japanese, English
Director: Junji SAKAMOTO
Producer: Yukiko SHIII
Cast: Masato HAGIWARA, Joe
ODAGIRI, Peter Mullan
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Japan
Budget: US$3,000,000
The dream of young musician who loved
Jazz music was to be employed to play at
the clubs for the American GIs after WWII.
HEAVEN'S BOOKSTORE AND
LOVING FIREWORKS
(TENTATIVE TITLE)
Romantic Drama
Language: Japanese
Director: Tetsuo SHINOHARA
Producer: Hideshi MIYAJIMA, Nozomu
ENOKI, Nobuyuki TOYA
Cast: Yuko TAKEUCHI, Tetsuji
TAMAYAMA, Teruyuki KAGAWA
Delivery Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2003,
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Country of Origin: Japan
Budget: US$3,000,000
A laid off pianist wakes up one day to
find himself in "Heaven".
QUILL (TENTATIVE TITLE)
Drama
Language: Japanese
Director: Yoichi SAI
Producer: TBD
Cast: Kaoru KOBAYASHI, Kippei
SHIINA, Teruyuki KAGAWA
Delivery Status: In production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Japan
Budget: US$3,000,000
Quill, a Labrador retriever settles in with
his partner and begins his life as a
seeing-eye dog.
LOVE COLLAGE
Romantic drama (115 min.)
Language: Japanese
Director: Yukihiko TSUTSUMI
Producer: Hiroki UEDA
Cast: Ryoko HIROSUE, Ryuhei
MATSUDA
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Japan
Budget: US$2,000,000
A letter arrives from ex-girlfriend who
ought to be dead. It is an invitation for
her exhibition held in New York, where
she left to become a photographer.
MOON CHILD
Action, Drama, Sci-Fi (119 min.)
Language: Japanese, Chinese, English
Director: Takahisa ZEZE
Producer: Takashi HIRANO
Cast: HYDE, Gackt, Lee-Hom Wang,
Zeny Kwok
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Japan
Budget: US$3,000,000
Friends struggle to live facing trust, love
and betrayal, but what they do not know
is that one has hidden powers.
WHEN THE LAST SWORD IS
DRAWN
Drama, Samurai (137 min.)
Language: Japanese
Director: Yojiro TAKITA
Producer: Hideshi MIAYAJIMA
Cast: Kiichi NAKAI, Koichi SATO, Miki
NAKATANI
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Japan
Budget: $4,000,000
Closing film at Tokyo International Film
Festival 2002. Inside "Shinsen-gumi,"
group of patriotic samurai, was Yoshimura,
the best swordsman among its members, but
also, anything but a usual image of a samurai.
THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI
Drama, Samurai (129 min.)
Language: Japanese
Director: Yoji YAMADA
Producer: Shigehiro NAKAGAWA,
Hiroshi FUKAZAWA, Ichiro
YAMAMOTO
Cast: Hiroyuki SANADA, Rie
MIYAZAWA, Min TANAKA
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: Japan
Budget: $5,000,000
Competition film at Berlin 2003.
Seibei is a reserved low-ranking samurai,
but he gets involved in a dispute within
the clan and must take order of his lord
to kill a retainer.
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Century Park East, Suite 600,
Los Angeles, 90067 California, USA.
Tel: 310.551.2060. Fax: 310.201.0729.
www.shorelineentertainment.com
Market Activities: Selling
At Mifed: Morris Ruskin (CEO), Sam
Eigen (Director World-Wide
Distribution), Monique R. White
(International Distribution)
Office: A08 Pavilion 8, Tel:
702.524.3114. Fax: 707.667.0138
IRISH EYES
Thriller (112 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Daniel McCarthy
Production Company: Shooting Spree
Films
Producers: Daniel McCarthy, Julian
Valdes
Key Cast: Daniel Baldwin, John Novak
Status: RFD, Delivery Date: 2003
Country: USA
An action-packed crime drama about two
Irish-American brothers who rise to
power on opposite sides of the law.
REAL TIME
Thriller (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
Status: RFD, Delivery Date: 2002
Country: Mexico
Five thieves who know only greed turn on
each other after a heist - one engaging take!
MOVING ALAN
Comedy (93 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Christopher Shelton
Production Company: Roadkill
Productions
Producer: Ray Donahue, Andrew
Berman, Milton I. Berman
Key Cast: Marley Shelton, Samantha
Shelton, Leslie Jordan
Status: RFD, Delivery Date: 2003
Country: USA
Convinced she killed her husband, a
young widow and her sister try to hide
the body.
BUTTERFLY MAN
Action/Adventure (94 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Kaprice Kea
Production Company: De Warrenne
Pictures, Ltd.
Producer: Tom Waller
Key Cast: Stuart Laing, Gavin
O’Herlihy, Kristy Mitchell
Status: RFD, Delivery Date: 2002
Country: UK
The story of an English backpacker who
rescues a Thai masseuse from a ring of
human traffickers.
PARASITE
Horror (94 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Andy Prendergast
Production Company: Fear Not and
Shoreline Entertainment
Producer: Jason and Chris Kingsley
Key Cast: Saskia Gould, Conrad Whitaker
Status: RFD, Delivery Date: 2003
Country: USA
A mutated Parasite feeds on the crew of
an oil rig.
CENTIPEDE!
Horror (94 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Greg Gieras
Production Company: San Diego Films,
Ushakiron, and Shoreline Entertainment
Producer: Eileen Craft
Key Cast: Larry Casey, Margaret Cash
Status: RFD, Delivery Date: 2003
Country: USA
Giant centipedes attack a group of
adventure enthusiasts as they explore a
deep cave.
A KIND OF AMERIKA
Comedy (115 minutes)
Language: Hungarian (w/ English
subtitles)
Director: Gabor Herendi
Production Company: Skyfilm Studio
Producer: Gabor Herendi
Key Cast: Tibor Szervet, Csaba
Pindroch, Gyozo Szabo
Status: RFD, Delivery Date: 2002
Country: Hungary
Three Hungarian Brothers will do
anything get an American film producer
to buy their script.
DECEIVED
Thriller (100 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Andre van Heerden
Production Company: Cloud Ten
Productions
Producer: Nicholas Tabarrok
Key Cast: Judd Nelson, Louis Gossett, Jr.
Status: RFD
Country: USA
A top-secret Pentagon project and
extraterrestrial signals from a Sierra
Nevada observatory coincide and
threaten all mankind.
DARK ASYLUM
Horror (93 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Gregory Gieras
Production Company: Shoreline
Entertainment
Producer: Morris Ruskin, Patrick Ewald,
Vicky Pike
Key Cast: Judd Nelson, Larry Drake,
Paulina Porizkova
Status: RFD, Delivery Date: 2001
Country: USA
A female psychologist is sent to an
abandoned asylum to evaluate a killer,
who escapes and hunts her down.
THE KING’S GUARD
Action-Adventure (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Jonathan Tyler
Production Company:
Castro/Markopoulos/Craft/Tydor
Productions
Producer: Eileen Craft, Mike
Markopoulos, Jonathan Tydor, Darren
Demetre
Key Cast: Ron Perlman, Eric Roberts,
Jason Lewis
Status: RFD, Delivery Date: 2000
Country: USA
Bandits prepare to attack Princess
Gwendolyn’s entourage - Captain
Reynolds must find a way to beat them
while his love for her grows.
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MOVING AUGUST
Romantic Comedy (96 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Christopher Fink
Production Company: Canvas
Entertainment
Producer: Tim Goldberg, Christopher
Fink, Joseph Craig
Key Cast: Sarah Wynter, Eddie
McClintock, Alexandra Adi
Status: RFD, Delivery Date: 2001
Country: USA
On the day August moves to start a new
life with his fiancé, he meets the new
tenant, and falls instantly in love.
BUG BUSTER
Horror (93 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Lorenzo Doumani
Production Company: Majestic
Entertainment
Producer: Lorenzo Doumani, Steven
Stevens
Key Cast: Randy Quaid, Kathryn Heigl
Status: RFD, Delivery Date: 1998
Country: USA
The idyllic town of Mountview becomes
home to mutant insects - can General
George (Randy Quaid) save the day?
CLUBLAND
Teen Thriller (93 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Mary Lambert
Production Company: Shoreline
Entertainment, Intrepid Entertainment
LLC, Legacy Releasing, Gitlin
Productions
Producer: Glen Ballard, Mimi Polk Gitlin
Key Cast: Lori Petty, Brad Hunt, Jimmy
Tuckett
Status: RFD, Delivery Date: 1999
Country: USA
Talented rock-star Kennedy struggles
with issues of love, loyalty and jealously
as he climbs the ladder of superstar
success.
A CRACK IN THE FLOOR
Horror (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Sean Stanek, Corbin Timbrook
Production Company: Norris Johnson
Productions, Co.
Producer: S. Norris Johnson, Michael
Feifer
Key Cast: Gary Busey, Mario Lopez, Bo
Hopkins
Status: RFD, Delivery Date: 2000
Country: USA
A loner’s life of solitude ends when
outsiders enter his world - and their
vacation becomes a fight for survival.
DETOUR
Thriller (97 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Joey Travolta
Production Company: Eternity Films and
Two Sticks Productions
Producer: David Ornston, Richard
Salvatore, Julia Verdin
Key Cast: Gary Busey, Michael Madsen,
Jeff Fahey
Status: RFD, Delivery Date: 1998
Country: USA
A small time criminal wants to break
away from his gang but they want to rob
one more place first in his hometown.
FLIGHT OF FANCY
Family (96 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Noel Quinones
Production Company: Shoreline
Entertainment
Producer: Morris Ruskin, Tom Musca
Key Cast: Dean Cain, Talisa Soto,
Miguel Sandoval
Status: RFD, Delivery Date: 2000
Country: USA
A handsome pilot crashes in Mercedes’
hometown a week before her wedding, she
nurses him back to health and falls in love.
THE GODSON
Comedy (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Robert Hoge
Production Company: Three Spear
Productions
Producer: Jeff Ritchie, Kevin Flint
Key Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, Dom
Deluise
Status: RFD, Delivery Date: 1998
Country: USA
The Calzone family has only one son left
to take control of their empire, but he must
first harden up at the Mafia University.
THE MARKSMEN
Drama (92 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Steve Kanaly
Production Company: One Body
Productions, Ltd.
Producer: Peter B. Mulroy, Christopher
Newton, Jay Schillinger
Key Cast: Martin Kove, Steve Kanaly,
Jay Schillinger
Status: RFD, Delivery Date: 1997
Country: USA
Tommy returns to Wisconsin after his
mother’s death and must face his former
sweetheart, an unscrupulous coach and
grieving father.
THE VISIT
Drama (107 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Jordan Walker Pearlman
Production Company: Dawa Movies
Producer: Morris Ruskin, Vicky Pike,
Kodmond Russell
Key Cast: Billy Dee Williams, Rae Dawn
Chong, Phylicia Rashad
Status: RFD, Delivery Date: 2001
Country: USA
In a heart-wrenching drama, a prison
inmate reevaluates his life and tries to
reconcile with his heart-broken family.
REFLEX ACTION
Action (95 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Kevin Rapp
Producer: Kevin Rapp
Key Cast: Michael Baldoz, Richard
Lynch
Status: RFD, Delivery Date: 2001
Country: USA
A special forces soldier returns home to
recuperate but finds himself caught up in
a battle when a drug lord makes a bid to
buy his family’s ranch.
TAIL STING
Horror (97 min)
Language: English
Production Company: Stinger Ltd.
Production
Producer: Morris Ruskin, Paul Wynne,
Vicky Pike
Director: Paul Wynne
Key Cast: Laura Putney, Christian Scott,
Gulshan Grover
Status: RFD, Delivery Date: 2001
Country: USA
Genetically created scorpions escape
from cargo on an airplane - forcing the
flight crew from the cockpit over the icy
Atlantic.
CONVERSATION WITH A
MONSTER
Thriller
Language: English
Production Company: Shoreline
Entertainment
Producer: Morris Ruskin
Cast: In Negotiation
Status: Pre-production
Country: USA
A young journalist interviews a famous,
aging actor only to find himself
immersed in a terrifying world where he
doubts his sanity and safety.
JUDGE DREDD, POSSESSION
Action-Adventure
Language: English
Production Company: Shoreline
Entertainment
Producers: Morris Ruskin
Key Cast: TBA
Status: Pre-production
Country: USA
To save Mega-City One, Dredd must
enter the Dead World and battle Judge
Death in his element.
TAIL STING 2
Horror
Language: English
Production Company: Shoreline
Entertainment
Producer: Morris Ruskin
Cast: TBA
Status: Pre-production
Country: USA
Bio-engineered scorpions escape from
their crate on a submarine isolated in the
icy waters off Antartica.
TERROR X
Thriller
Language: English
Status: Pre-production
Production Company: Shoreline
Entertainment
Producer: Morris Ruskin
Cast: TBA
Country: USA
A mining crew stumbles across a 500year old vessel drifting through space.
Some things are better left in the past.
SILVERLINE
PICTURES
Silverline Pictures, 22837 Ventura
Boulevard, Suite 205, Woodland Hills,
CA 91364 USA. Tel: 818.225.9032. Fax:
818.225.9053.
Website: www.silverlinepictures.com,
email: silverline@earthlink.net
At Mifed: Leman Cetiner (CEO), Axel
Munch (President), Robert Yap (Vice
President), Gunter Heinlein (Head of
German Office), Amila Giducos (VP
Finance)
Office: B41, Hall 8, Tel: 39347.4933.735
LETHAL
Action (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Dustin Rikert
Producer Leman Cetiner, Axel Munch,
Robert Yap
Key Cast: Lorenzo Lamas, Frank
Zagarino, Heather Marie Marsden
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: USA
A sexy and lethal female bounty hunter
takes down an international weapons
smuggling operation run by the Russian
Mafia.
GHOST ROCK
Action (97 min)
Language: English
Director: Dustin Rikert
Producer Renee Roland, Dustin Rikert
Key Cast: Gary Busey, Jeff Fahey,
Michael Worth
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: USA
Three bold gunfighters unite to
overthrow a gang of ruthless outlaws.
FINDER'S FEE
Thriller (95 min)
Director: English
Language: Jeff Probst
Producer Katy Wallin-Sandalis, Brad Van
Arragon, Shawn Williamson
Key Cast: Matthew Lillard, Robert
Forster, James Earl Jones, Ryan
Reynolds, Erik Palladino
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2001,
Country of Origin: Canada
Six men attempt to betray and deceive
each other for $6.0 million.
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MIFED PRODUCT GUIDE
SPICE FACTORY (UK)
LTD
Spice Factory (UK) Ltd, 81 The
Promenade, Peacehaven, Brighton,
BN10 8LS, UK. Tel: 01273.585.275.
Fax: 01273.585.304
email: info@spicefactory.co.uk
Company Type: Film Production
At Mifed: Michael Cowan (Joint
Managing Director)
Office: c/o Arclight Films
BOLLYWOOD QUEEN
Romantic Comedy (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Jeremy Wooding
Production companies: Spice Factory
(UK) Ltd, Stretch Limo Productions,
Great British Films / Enterprise Films
Producer: Michael Cowan, Jason Piette,
Jeremy Wooding
Cast: Preeya Kalidas, James McEvoy, Ian
McShane
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: UK
West Side Story set in East London with
bindis.
AIME TON PERE
Drama
Language: French
Director: Jacob Berger
Producers: Jason Piette, Michael Cowan,
Gerard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Guerin
Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Guillaume
Depardieu
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002. Country of
Origin: France/Canada/UK/Switzerland
Powerful story of family relations
EMPEROR'S WIFE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Julien Vrebos
Producers: Emjay Rechsteiner (Staccato
Films), San Fu Maltha (Fu Works),
Jimmy De Brabant (Delux Productions),
Michael Cowan, Jason Piette (Spice
Factory(UK) Ltd)
Cast: Rosana Pastor, Jonathan Rhys
Meyers, Max Beesley, Leticia Dolera
Delivery status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002, Country of
Origin: UK/Netherlands/Luxembourg
In the land of 1001 nights the law
dictates that the Emperor must take a
new wife if his current Empress does not
bear a son within seven years of
marriage.
JERICHO MANSIONS
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Alberto Sciamma
Production companies: Spice Factory
(UK) Ltd, Milagro Films, Transfilm Inc.
Producer: Jason Piette, Michael Cowan,
Jean-Marc Félio, Claude Léger
Cast: James Caan, Jennifer Tilly,
Genevieve Bujold, Maribel Verdú
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: UK/Canada
A murder in a NYC apartment building
leads its agoraphobic superintendent to
suspect himself of the killing.
PIAZZA OF THE FIVE MOONS
Political Drama
Language: Italian
Director: Renzo Martinelli
Production companies: Spice Factory
(UK) Ltd, Blue Star Movies, Martinelli
Film Company, Boxfilm
Producer: Michael Cowan, Jason Piette,
Renzo Martinelli, Pietro Maggi
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Stefania Rocco,
Giacarlo Giannini
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002
European JFK about the assassination of
Aldo Moro, the President of the Italian
Christian Democratic party.
HEAD IN THE CLOUDS
Love Story
Language: English
Director: John Duigan
Production companies: Spice Factory
(UK) Ltd, Remstar, Tusk Productions,
Dakota Films
Producer: Michael Cowan, Jason Piette,
Maxime Remillard, Julia Palau, Jonathan
Olsberg
Cast: Penelope Cruz, Charlize Theron,
Stuart Townsend
Delivery Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: UK/Canada
Guy Malyon's world is forever changed
following a passionate affair with the
stunning but hedonistic Gilda which takes
him across Europe before a dangerous
secret threatens to tear them apart.
A DIFFERENT LOYALTY
Political Thriller
Language: English
Director: Marek Kanievska
Production companies: Spice Factory (UK)
Ltd, Forum Films, Franchise Pictures
Producer: Michael Cowan, Jason Piette,
Dimitri Samaha, Jan Vocke, Richard
Lalonde
Cast: Sharon Stone, Rupert Everett
Delivery Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Canada/UK
Romantic Drama set against the
backdrop of Cold War espionage
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY
Historic Drama
Language: English
Director/Writer: Mary McGuckian
Producers: Samuel Hadida, Denise O'
Dell, Michael Cowan, Mary McGuckian,
Garrett McGuckian
Cast: Robert De Niro, Kathy Bates, F.
Murray Abraham, Harvey Keitel, Gabriel
Bryne
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year Of Production: 2003,
Country Of Origin: UK/French/Spanish
18th century during the height of the
Spanish Inquisition
THE STATEMENT
Political thriller based on the Brian
Moore Novel
Language: English
Director: Norman Jewison
Production companies: Spice Factory
(UK) Ltd., Serendipity, Point Films
Producer: Robert Lantos
Cast: Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton,
Jeremy Northam
Delivery Status: Post production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: UK/Canada
THE STATEMENT shines a light on
some of the darkest corners of the
religious and political establishment.
STRAYED (LES ÉGARÉS)
Historical Drama
Language: French
Director: André Téchiné
Production companyies: Spice Factory
(UK) Ltd., FIT Productions, & Transfilm
Cast: Emmanuelle Béart, G. LepriceRingu, G. Ulliel
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: France/UK
June 1940. As the German army invades
France whole families flee through the
country.
SPLENDID PICTURES
Splendid Pictures, 2980 Beverly Glen
Circle, Suite 300 Bel Air, California
90077 USA. Tel: 310.475.5900.
Fax: 310.475.5901
At Mifed: David Glasser, Lisa Wilson,
Ruzanna Kegeyan
Office: Hall 8, B28
HOSTAGE
Director: Florent Siri (Nid De Guepes)
Producers: Mark Gordon, Arnold Rifkin,
Bob Yari, Bruce Willis
Cast: Bruce Willis
Status: Pre-production, principal
photography-Jan 2004
Burned out LAPD negotiator JEFF
TALLEY (Bruce Willis) leaves Los
Angeles for a lower profile job as chief
of a two man police department in a
country town.
PURSUED
Director: Kristoffer Tabori
Producer: Andrew Stevens
Executive Producers: Dan Grodnick,
Peter Lenkov
Starring: Christian Slater, Estella Warren
Delivery Status: In Pre-Production
When Ben Keats refused to take the job
offered to him, Vincent Palmer stops at
absolutely nothing to get him to change
his mind.
HOUSE OF D
Director: David Duchovny
Producers: Richard Lewis, Bob Yari,
Jane Rosenthal
Executive Producers: Zanne Devine, Jeff
Skoll
Starring: David Duchovny, Tea Leoni, Robin
Williams, Frank Langella, Anton Yelchin,
(HEARTS IN ATLANTIS), Erykah Badu
Delivery Status: In Production
A contemporary fable set in a colorful
New York City neighborhood, House of
D is a poignant, heartfelt celebration of
friendship that explores the joys of
childhood with rare insight.
THUMBSUCKER
Director: Mike Mills
Producers: Anthony Bregman, Bob
Stevenson
Executive Producers: Ted Hope, Anne
Carey, Bob Yari, Cathy Schulman
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Vincent
D'Onofrio, Vince Vaughn, Benjamin
Bratt, Keanu Reeves, Lou Taylor Pucci,
Kelli Garner
Afterlife - The Works
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Delivery Status: In post- production promo at MIFED
A contemporary coming of age story
about Justin , a teen with an "oral"
fixation, his highly dysfunctional family,
his "new-age" dentist (Keanu) and a soap
star with a few nasty habits of his own
(Bratt).
EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH
Director: Mitch Rouse
Producers: Cathy Schulman, Bob Yari,
Tom Nunan
Starring: Matt Dillon, Steve Zahn,
Christina Applegate
Status: post production - promo at
MIFED
Looks like David has hit rock bottom –
but things are not always what they
seem.
METHOD
Director: Duncan Roy
Producers: Brad Wyman, Guy Louthan,
Pierre Spengler, Andrew Stevens, Donald
Kushner
Executive Producers: Elizabeth Hurley,
Bruno Hoefler, Vlad Paunescu
Starring: Elizabeth Hurley, Jeremey Sisto
Delivery Status: Post Production, promo
in office
Actress Rebecca Fairbanks portrays a
serial killer who in real-life, murdered
over a dozen victims. During filming of
her movie, new victims are found, killed
in the same manner, as Rebecca
immerses herself into the role.
U-BOAT
Director: Tony Giglio
Starring: William H. Macy, Til
Schweiger, Scott Caan, Thomas
Kretchmann, Lauren Holly
Status: completed premiere screening at
MIFED
In the midst of WWII, the crew of a
sunken American submarine is taken on
board a German U-Boat as hostages.
THE DEVIL & DANIEL WEBSTER
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jennifer
Love Hewitt, Alec Baldwin
Status: completed - screener available
upon request
Set in contemporary New York's literary
world, a man who sells his soul to the
devil for fame and fortune and ultimately
decides that he wants to get it back.
HEAVEN'S POND
Director: Joel Viertel
Starring: Kip Pardue, Tara Reid
Status: completed screener available
upon request
Desperate to escape her controlling, upper
class family, a young girl marries an
exciting stranger after a whirlwind romance,
only to discover that he's a psychopath.
THE PAINTED VEIL
Producers: Edward Norton, Bob Yari,
Sara Colleton, Jean -Francois Fonlupt
Executive Producers: Mark Gordon
Starring: Edward Norton, Naomi Watts
Delivery Status: In Development
Follows a doctor and his adulterous wife,
Kitty, as they move to a remote Asian
village to fight a cholera outbreak.
STORM
ENTERTAINMENT
Storm Entertainment, 127 Broadway,
Suite 200, Santa Monica, CA. 90401
USA. Tel: 310.656.2500. Fax:
310.656.2510. email:
Storment95@aol.com
Company Description: independent film
finance, production and Worldwide
distribution; Business at Mifed: Selling,
Buying, Production
At Mifed: H. Michael Heuser (President
& CEO), Asadeh Khanedani (Manager,
International Distribution)
Offices: Pav. 8, # A 16 Hotel at MIFED:
Grand Hotel Fieramilano, Direct Tel:
39.02.4342.3034. Hotel: Tel:
3902.336.221, 3902.4342.3035. Fax:
3902.314.119
CRUSADE IN JEANS
Action/Adventure (based on the
Worldwide best selling novel)
Director: Ben Sombogaart
Producer: Kees Kasander
Executive Producer: H. Michael Heuser
Cast: To be announced
Delivery Status: In Pre-Production
Brilliant scientists Jan and Joanne
Hefting have invented the Displacement
Chamber: a time machine.
PREACHER
Action
Director: Rachel Talalay
Producer: Rupert Harvey
Executive Producers: H. Michael Heuser,
Tom Astor
Cast: To be announced
Status: In Pre-Production
When a rupture in Heaven unleashes the
full power of God on a hapless
congregation, a small town minister with
a troubled past and an epic destiny finds
himself facing Demons, Angels, rednecks
and the Saint of Killers himself. Credits
not contractual
EMMA THOMPSON PRESENTS –
JOHNNY HIT AND RUN PAULINE
Drama
Writer/Director: Fay Lellios Efrosini
Producers: H. Michael Heuser, Kees
Kasander
Executive Producer: Emma Thompson
Cast: To be announced
Status: In Pre-Production
Young and beautiful Pauline meets the
handsome and suave Johnny at the
beach; her life is changed. Credits not
contractual
OUTLANDERS
Action/Thriller
Director: Dominic Lees
Producers Producers: Michael Riley,
Angus Lamont
Executive Producer: H. Michael Heuser
Cast: To be announced
Status: In Pre-Production
A series of murders are being committed
in Berlin amid the migrant worker
community. Credits not contractual
SHINER
Action
Director: John Irvin
Producers: Geoffrey Reeve, Jim Reeve
Executive Producers: Laura Townsley,
Barry Townsley
Cast: Michael Caine, Martin Landau,
Frances Barber, Frank Harper, Andy
Serkis, Matthew Marsden, Claire
Rushbrook
Status: Completed. Cassettes available
Michael Caine stars as Billy SHINER
Simpson, a small time boxing promoter
with big ideas.
LAVA
Action
Writer/Director: Joe Tucker
Producers: Michael Riley, Gregor Truter
Executive Producer: Andreas Lehmann
Cast: Joe Tucker, James Holmes, Nicola
Stapleton, Grahame Fox, Mark
Leadbetter, Tameka Empson, Leslie
Grantham, Tom Bell
Status: Completed. Cassettes available
Smiggy - one of life's also-rans - and
Philip - who's not even in the race - set
out on a simple mission: to avenge
Philip's brother, Stevie who, after a fight
with Darrel, is left dazed and confused.
FAST SOFA
Action
Director: Salome Breziner
Producers: Steven J. Wolfe, Christopher
Figg
Executive Producer: H. Michael Heuser
Cast: Jennifer Tilly , Jake Busey, Eric
Roberts, Natasha Lyonne, Crispin
Clover, Adam Goldberg, Bijou Phillips
Status: Completed. Cassettes available
Based on the best selling fiction novel
published in over 30 countries. Rick, our
relentless urban cowboy hero, takes his
hedonistic lifestyle on the road after his
apartment is looted. Storm Entertainment
will also be licensing the following titles,
in selected territories, during MIFED 2003:
AMORE (RE-ISSUE)
BEING CONSIDERED
CHILD 2 MAN
STUDIOCANAL
Studiocanal, Espace Lumiere, 5-13 BD
de La Republique, 92514 Boulogne,
France. Tel: 33.1.44.25.10.00.
Fax: 33.1.71.75.89.86.
At Mifed: International Sales Team:
Michel Schmidt, Muriel Sauzay, John
Kochman, Saya Huddleston, Marie
Boudier, Mylene Cayol-Cythere, Jaana
Ainali; International Press: Christine
Yordamian, Anne-Cecile Genre;
Marketing: Frederick Gautier
Office: Stand N° E13, Pav 10 III, Tel:
39.02.43.42.30.17. Fax:
39.02.43.42.30.18; Le Meridien
Excelsior Gallia, Piazza Duca D'Aosta 9,
Milan 20124 Italy. Tel: 39.02.67.851.
Fax: 39.02.66.71.32.39
L'EQUIPIER (THE MATE)
New At Mifed
Language: French
Director: Philippe Lioret
Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Philippe
Torreton, Gregori Derangere
Production: Nord-Ouest Production
Camille arrives on the beautiful,
unspoiled island of Ouessant to conclude
the sale of her family home and, instead,
stumbles across a terrible secret.
PEOPLE
New At Mifed
Language: French
Director: Fabien Onteniente
Cast: Rupert Everett, Jose Garcia,
Ornella Muti, Elie Semoun, Rossy De
Palma
Production: Mandarin Film
William de Poulignac is the Parisien Jet
Set's party go-to guy. You want fizz,
pizzazz, glitter, glamour and maybe a
little Shakira? Call William!
JE SUIS UN ASSASSIN
New At Mifed
Language: French
Director: Thomas Vincent
Cast: Karine Viard, Bernard Giraudeau,
Francois Cluzet
Production: Fidelite Production
Brice Kantor and Ben Castelano are both
crime writers, but that's where the
resemblance ends.
RIVIERES POURPRES 2 - LES
ANGES DE L'APOCALYPSE
(CRIMSON RIVERS 2 - ANGELS OF
THE APOCALYPSE)
New At Mifed
Language: French
Director: Olivier Dahan
Cast: Jean Reno, Benoit Magimel
Production: Legende
Police Captain Niemans (Jean Reno)
teams up with an old acquaintance,
Lieutenant Reda Kerkerian (Benoît
Magimel). He also receives help from
Marie (Camille Nata), a young cop
whose specialty is religious iconography.
UNTITLED 03
New At Mifed
Director: Mike Leigh
Kill Bill Volume 2 - Miramax International
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COMME UNE IMAGE (LOOK AT
ME)
New At Mifed
Language: French
Director: Agnès Jaoui
Cast: Agnes Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri
Production: Les Films A4
Lolita Cassard is unhappy and
overweight, and all she wants is her
father's approval. Etienne Cassard is so
egocentric he can't look at anyone else.
CONFIDENCES TROP INTIMES
(TOO MUCH INFORMATION)
New At Mifed
Language: French
Director: Patrice Leconte
Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Fabrice Luchini
Production: Les Films Alain Sarde,
Studiocanal
She goes to see a therapist and tells him
her problems in intimate detail. He
listens and she trusts him. But he's not a
shrink, he's a tax adviser.
RIDING GIANTS
New At Mifed
Language: English
Director: Stacy Peralta
Cast: Laird Hamilton
Production: Forever Films, Studiocanal
Five legendary surfers enter the record
books as they confront the biggest waves
ever captured on film.
RRRRRRR !!!
New At Mifed
Language: French
Director: Alain Chabat
Cast: Maurice Barthélemy, Marina Foïs,
Pierre-François Martin-Laval, Jean-Paul
Rouve, Alain Chabat
Production: Chez Wam
35,000 years ago, humanity's first crime
perturbed the life of two rival tribes.
GENESIS
Language: French
Director: Claude Nuridsany And Marie
Perennou
Production: Les Films Alain Sarde
Cast: Sotigui Kouyate
An African storyteller recounts the world's
creation. A tall story like every tale. But
this is a real story since it relates our past.
SUMMIT
ENTERTAINMENT/I.S
. FILM
DISTRIBUTION
Summit Entertainment/I.S. Film
Distribution, 1630 Stewart Street, Suite
120, Santa Monica, CA 90404 USA.
Tel: 310.309.8400. Fax: 310.828.4132
At Mifed: Patrick Wachsberger
(President & CEO), Bob Hayward
(COO), David Garrett (Executive Vice
President), Harold Van Lier (Vice
President, International Sales)
Office: Stand 26-2-D03, Tel:
39.02.4342.3041. Fax: 39.02.4342.3042
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Action-Adventure
Director: Frank Coraci
Producers: Hal Lieberman, Bill Badalato
Cast: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Cecile
de France, Jim Broadbent, Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Owen Wilson, Luke
Wilson, Kathy Bates, John Cleese, Rob
Schneider
Delivery Status: Post-Production
An epic retelling of this extravagant adventure
tale, based on the Jules Verne classic.
INSIDE DEEP THROAT
Documentary
Directors: Fenton Bailey and Randy
Barbato
Producers: Brian Grazer, Fenton Bailey
and Randy Barbato
Delivery Status: In Production
A feature-length documentary that follows
the making of DEEP THROAT, explores the
mysteries of its phenomenal success, and
charts the sexual education of a nation.
THE JACKET
Thriller
Director: John Maybury
Producers: George Clooney, Steven
Soderbergh, Peter Guber
Cast: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Imprisoned and tortured for a crime he
has no memory of committing, William
Starks (Adrien Brody) must prove his own
innocence and free himself from the past.
LADDER 49
Drama
Director: Jay W. Russell
Producers: Armyan Bernstein, Marty P.
Ewing, Casey Silver
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, John Travolta,
Jacinda Barrett, Brooke Hamlin, Robert
Patrick
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Trapped alone in a burning warehouse,
veteran East Coast firefighter Jack
Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix) reflects on his
life, while his fellow firefighters struggle
to contain the blaze and rescue him.
RAISING HELEN
Romantic Comedy
Director: Garry Marshall
Producers: Mario Iscovich, Ashok Armitraj,
David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman,
Karen Stirgwolt
Cast: Kate Hudson
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Helen's life is turned upside down when
her sister dies in a car accident and she
becomes the sole guardian of her sister's
three orphaned children.
SAHARA
Action-Adventure
Director: Breck Eisner
Exec. Producers: Clive Cussler, Matthew
McConaughey, Gus Gustawes, William J.
Immerman Producers: Howard Baldwin,
Karen Baldwin, Mace Neufeld
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Based on the best selling novel by Clive
Cussler, this epic tale of adventure,
featuring hero Dirk Pitt, heralds the
beginning of an exciting new franchise.
THE STATEMENT
Drama
Director: Norman Jewison
Producer: Robert Lantos, Norman Jewison
Cast: Michael Caine, Jeremy Northam,
Tilda Swinton, Charlotte Rampling
Delivery Status: Post-Production
An assassin hunts down a former Nazi
executioner who has been under the
protection of the Catholic church.
Written by Academy Award winner
Ronald Harwood (THE PIANIST)
TWISTED
Thriller
Director: Philip Kaufman
Producers: Arnold Kopelson, Anne
Kopelson, Barry Baeres
Cast: Ashley Judd, Andy Garcia, Samuel L.
Jackson
Delivery Status: Completed
A San Francisco homicide detective's dark
personal life comes back to haunt her as
she investigates a string of grisly murders.
CREDITS NOT CONTRACTUAL
SURF FILM S.R.L.
Surf Film s.r.l., Via Padre G.A. Filippini,
130 - 00144 Rome, Italy. Tel:
39.06.52.62.101. Fax: 39.06.52.93.816.
email: surf@surfFilm.com
At Mifed: Mr. Massimo Vigliar
(President); Mrs. Stefania Carnevale
(Foreign Sales Manager); Mrs. Agnès
Trincal (Foreign Sales Executive); Mrs.
Elena Francot (Italian Sales Manager)
Office: Pavilion 10 Hall III Stand N° E
12, Tel: 39(0)2.43.42.30.85
THE MARK
Horror (90')
Language: English
Director: Mariano Equizzi
Producer: Surf Film s.r.l. - Jinko
Communications; Co-Producer: Filmax
S.A. - Duque Film S.A.
Key Cast: Robert Purvis, Milena
Mancini, Clive Riche, Raquel Meroño
Status: completed
A terrible curse kills everyone who meets
the flesh, bones and miniskirt ghost of
Serena Cursi, an innocent teenager murdered
twenty years ago in a chilling night.
TRAVELING WITH CHE GUEVARA
Docufilm following "The motorcycle
diary" directed by Walter Salles (95')
Language: Spanish; Subtitles: English
Director: Gianni Minà
Producer: Surf Film S.r.l. - g.m.e.
produzioni srl
Status: Completed
Young Ernesto Guevara's journey
through Latin America with Alberto
Granado in 1952, before becoming the
CHE and when he discovered his
vocation as a revolutionary.
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.
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."
CORAZON VERDE
Documentary (36'/46')
Language: Spanish, subtitles: English
Director: Luis Sepúlveda, Diego Meza
Producer: Yaganes Producciones S.A. Duque Film S.A. - Parox S.A.
Status: Completed
In a faraway part of the globe (in Chile),
a Canadian company plans to establish
an aluminium factory, a port and waterpurification plants.
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.
T
TELEPOOL GMBH
Telepool GmbH, Sonnenstr. 21, Munich
80331 Germany. Tel: 49.89.558.760.
Fax: 49.89.55876188.
Website: www.telepool.de,
email: cinepool@telepool.de
At Mifed: Dr. Thomas Weymar (CEO),
Dr. Cathy Rohnke (Dep. Managing
Director, Cinepool), Marc Gabizon (Dep.
Managing Director), Philippe van
Doornick (Dep. Managing Director,
Telepool CH), Wolfram Skowronnek
(Sales Manager Cinepool)
Office: Pav. 10/2 B22, Tel: 39.02.43423122
PLAY IT LOUD! (VERSCHWENDE
DEINE JUGEND)
Comedy (95 min)
Language: German with English subs
Director: Benjamin Quabeck
Producer: Jacob Claussen, Thomas Woebke
Key Cast: Tom Schilling, Robert
Stadlober, Jessica Schwarz
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Germany
McDull - The Pineapple Bun Prince
Golden Network Asia Limited
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It's the 1980s and everything is cool: the
neon-coloured dresses, the cheeky looks
and most of all - the music!
HIERANKL
Drama (93 min)
Language: German with English subs
Director: Hans Steinbichler
Producer: Alena + Herbert Rimbach
Co-Production Partners: ARRI,
Brainpool, HFF, BR, ARTE, SWR
Key Cast: Johanna Wokalek, Barbara
Sukowa, Josef Bierbichler
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Germany
After five years, Lene returns to her
family's farm Hierankl on her father's
60th birthday and uncovers a dark secret.
SUPERTEX
Drama (95 min)
Director: English
Language: Jan Schuette
Producer: Haig Balian, Wiebke Toppel
Key Cast: Stephen Mangan, Jan Declair,
Elliot Levey, Maureen Lipman
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Germany/The
Netherlands
When Max refuses to step into his
father's shoes as future heir of their
textile empire Supertex an emotional
drama develops.
READY, STEADY, CHARLIE!
(ACHTUNG, FERTIG, CHARLIE!)
Comedy (93 min)
Language: Swiss-German with English
subs
Director: Mike Eschmann
Producer: Lukas Hobi
Key Cast: Michael Koch, Melanie
Winiger, Marco Rima, Mia Aegerter,
Martin Rapold
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Switzerland
The original Swiss army comedy.
SEPTEMBER
Drama (115 min)
Language: German with English subs
Director: Max Faerberboeck
Producer: Martin Hagemann, Max
Faerberboeck
Key Cast: Justus von Dohnànyi, Nina
Proll, Joerg Schuettauf
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Germany
After September 11th, 2001 in Germany:
A spotlight on eight individual lives.
THOMPSON STARR
ORG
Thompson/Starr Organization, 270 N.
Canon Drive, Ste l705, Beverly Hills, CA
902l0 USA. Tel: 8l8.998.8l26.
Fax: 8l8.773.8962.
email: tsorg@webtv.net
Company Type: Distributors - Sales
Agents
At Mifed: Joey Thompson (President),
Jen Starr (Sales), George Thompson
(Acquisition), Chaya Finton (Marketing)
Office: Hotel Berlino, Tel: 39.2.324.l4l.
Fax: 39.2.324.l06.ll
INVASION OF BEE GIRLS
Horror (85 min)
Cast: The Bee Girls
Secret institute gleefully creates race of
super girls.
NORTH OF THE SUN
Documentary (85 min)
Cast: Gdon Eastman
The last great hunters in Artic world that
can't be filmed ever again.
THE PROWLER
Drama (85 min)
Producers: Dalton Trumbo, Sam Spiegel
Cast: Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes
A classic Film Noire of adultery and
murder.
THE SUNDOWNERS
Action Adventure (83 min)
Cast: John Barrymore, Jr., Robert Preston
Classic Western showdowns, thunderous
chases and evil villains.
CAVALRY CHARGE
Action Adventure (82 min)
Cast: Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming
The first Western starring, "The Gipper
in Civil War, opposite sides, brother
confrontations
TOHO
INTERNATIONAL
CO., LTD.
Toho International Co., Ltd. 1-7-1
Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0006,
Japan. Tel: 81.3.3213.6821.
Fax: 81.3.3213.6825.
Website: www.toho.co.jp.
email: y_kotaki@toho.co.jp
Company Type: Japanese Film Producer
& Distributor, International License
At Mifed: Mr. Haruo Sai (Head of
Acquisition), Mr. Satoshi Yuta (Head of
Acquisition), Mr. Tetsuya Kurosaki
(Managing Director), Mr. Yukio Kotaki
(Sales Manager); Acquisition Executive:
Haruo Sai, Satoshi Yuta
Office: B-05, Hall 10, Tel: 02.4342.3055
GODZILLA: TOKYO S.O.S.
Sci-Fi Action (91 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Masaaki Tezuka
Producer: Shogo Tomiyama
Cast: Noboru Kaneko, Miho Yoshioka,
Mitsuki Koga
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Japan
The ultimate battle with three gigantic
monsters, Godzilla, Mothra and
Mechagodzilla begins!!
LIKE ASURA
Comedy (135 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Yoshimitsu Morita
Producer: Hideyuki Honma Coproduction partners: Toho, Hakuhodo,
The Mainichi Newspapers, Nippon
Shuppan Hanbai
Cast: Shinobu Otake, Hitomi Kuroki,
Tatsuya Nakadai
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Japan
New film by Yoshimitsu Morita is
unforgettable human comedy which
rivals the plays by Chekhov.
TOMORROW FILMS
Tomorrow Films, 16250 Ventura Blvd.,
Suite 400 Encino, CA 91436 USA.
Tel: 818.788.8776. Fax: 818.788.8782.
Website: www.tomorrowfilms.com,
email: admin@tomorrowfilms.com
Company Type: Sales Agent/Producer
At Mifed: Yoram Pelman
(President/Producer), Brad Shelton (Sales
Coordinator/CE)
Office: Pavilion 8, B 04
ASH TUESDAY
Drama (84 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Jim Hershleder
Producer: Tony Spiridakis, Shannon
Goldman
Cast: Giancarlo Esposito, Janeane
Garofalo, Tony Goldwyn, Tony
Spiridakis
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002
Interlacing stories of several lowerManhattanites who are struggling with
the day-to-day weight of living in postSeptember 11th New York City.
TIL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US
Drama (101 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Michael Petroni
Producer: Thomas Augsberger, Nigel
Odell, David Redman
Cast: Guy Pearce, Helena Bonham Carter
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002
A man returns to his boyhood home and
encounters the ghost of a woman he once
loved.
FOCUS
Drama (106 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Neal Slavin
Producer: Robert A. Miller, Neal Slavin
Cast: William H. Macy, Laura Dern,
David Paymer
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2001
A man and his wife are mistakenly
identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic
neighbors.
AMERICAN GIRL
Drama (84 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Jordan Brady
Producer: Yoram Pelman, Stavros
Merjos, Adam Rosenfelt
Cast: Jena Malone, Brad Renfro
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2001
A young girl and her family visit her
father in prison for the annual "Lifer's
Picnic."
GLORY DAZE
Comedy (100 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Rich Wilkes
Producer: Chris Moore, Aaron M.
Weinberg, William Woodward
Cast: Ben Affleck, Sam Rockwell,
Megan Ward
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1996
It's two days before graduation, and Jack
is having serious doubts about the future.
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UNIFIED FILM
ORGANIZATION
Unified Film Organization, 3400 West
Alameda Avenue, Suite 200, Burbank, CA
91505 USA. Tel: 818.846.0465.
Fax: 818.846.0256.
At Mifed: Phillip Roth (C.E.O), Jeffery
Beach (President)
Office: Pavilion 8, Room B03
PHANTOM FORCE
Action Adventure
Cast: Richard Grieco, Jenna Gering,
Tangi Miller
Delivery Status: post production
A portal to the underworld is opened and
a special team of operatives must save
the world from supernatural forces.
DRAGON STORM
Action Adventure
Cast: Maxwell Caulfield, John Rhys-Davies
Delivery Status: completed
A brood of dragons attack a kingdom and
a group of mismatched but talented
villagers is formed to destroy them.
TORUS
Action Adventure
Cast: David Keith, Billy Dee Williams
Delivery Status: completed
Is it God? A machine? Weapon?
Questions fly after a rocky, towering
structure known as a 'torus' bursts up
from the ground in Russia.
V
VINE
INTERNATIONAL
PICTURES
Vine International Pictures, VIP House,
Greenacres, New Road Hill, Downe,
Orpington, Kent BR6 7JA UK.
Tel: 44(0)1689.854123.
Fax: +44 (0)1689 850990.
Website: www.vine-international.co.uk,
email: info@vine-international.co.uk
At Mifed: Marie Vine (CEO), Barry Gill
(Managing Director), Sarah Goodwin
(Sales & Marketing Executive)
Office: Hall 10/2 Booth 16
JERICHO MANSIONS
Psychological Suspense (99 min)
Language: English
Director: Alberto Sciamma
Producer Jason Piette, Michael Lionello
Cowan, Jean-Marc Felio, Claude Leger
Key Cast: James Caan, Genevieve
Bujold, Maribel Verdu, Jennifer Tilly
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: UK / Canada
A murder in a New York City apartment
building leads the agoraphobic
superintendent to suspect himself of the
killing.
DANGER ZONE
Suspense Thriller
Language: English
Director: Leszek Burzynski
Producer Suzanne Lyons, Kate Robbins,
Michael Frislev, Chad J Oakes
MIFED NOVEMBER 2003
Co-Production Partners: Snowfall Films
& Nomadic Pictures
Key Cast: Daryl Hannah, Leslie Hope
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2003/2004,
Country of Origin: UK / Canada
A young woman witnesses a bombing
and for her own safety is placed in
protection, only to find she is still in the
hands of the terrorists.
THE SUSPECT
Suspense Drama
Director: English
Language: Anne Wheeler
Producer Nick Orchard
Key Cast: Donald Sutherland, Max Von
Sydow
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2004,
Country of Origin: UK / Canada
80 year old George commits the near
perfect murder, but living with it
torments his mind and plunges him deep
into the past.
CHATLINE
Suspense Drama
Language: English
Director: Romano Scavolini
Producer Francesco Papa, Marie Vine,
Nadia Leonelli
Key Cast: Greta Scacchi, Danny Quinn,
Laura Breckenridge
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2003/2004,
Country of Origin: UK / Italy / USA
A young schoolgirl connects to a chatline
and intrigues a man who quickly
develops an obsession with her.
STORY OF AN AFRICAN FARM
Drama
Language: English
Director: David Lister
Producer Bonnie Rodini
Key Cast: Richard E Grant, Armin
Mueller Stahl, Kasha Kropinski
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: South Africa
A stranger changes the lives of three
children, but underestimates the
intelligence of Lyndall, who comes to her
friends' rescue.
VISION FILMS
Vision Films, 4626 Lemona Avenue,
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 USA.
Tel: 818.784.1702. Fax: 818.788.3715.
email: visionfilms@earthlink.net
At Mifed: Lise Romanoff (Managing
Director Worldwide Sales), Andre Relis
(Vice President of International Sales),
Lauren Proctor (Distribution
Coordinator), Amy Kerr (Contract
Administrator)
Office: Hall A - B25 (shared with
Quantum)
SPANISH JUDGES
Action Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Oz Scott
Producer: Prosperity Pictures
Cast: Mathew Lillard, Vincent
D?Onofrio, Valeria Golina
Delivery Status: completed
Mayhem breaks loose when a young
ruthless con man talks his way into a
scam involving stolen antique guns. Only
one person will walk out alive.
CRIME & PUNISHMENT
Drama/ Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Menahem Golan
Producer: Evgeny Afineevsky &
Menahem Golan
Cast: Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Vanessa
Redgrave, Margo Kidder
Delivery Status: completed
In this modern day adaptation of the
Dostoyevsky novel, a struggling law
student confesses a gruesome crime in an
attempt to free his tormented soul.
BABERELLAS
Sexy Sci-fi Spoof (87 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Chuck Cirino
Producer: Alexia Cirino
Cast: Shauna O'Brian, Julie K. Smith,
Sasha Peralta, Julie Strain
Delivery Status: Completed
Four beautiful over-sexed girls save
Earth from the axis of evil.
NIGHTMASTER
Action Adventure (87 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Mark Joffee
Producer: Robert Sanders, Peter Ramster,
Grahame Jennings
Cast: Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge),
Tom Jennings, Vince Martin
Delivery Status: Complete
Six select students from the leading
karate school play private night games,
sharpening their defense skills, until their
games turn deadly.
D DAY AND WWII SPECIALS
Documentary (13 x 1 hr)
Language: English
Producer: EDI/Dastar
Delivery Status: Completed
The 60th year anniversary is coming up
on June 6th, 2004 of this most
extraordinary day in history, D DAY.
Other specials include: THE
LIBERATION OF EUROPE, GREAT
BATTLES OF WWII, MARINE & AIR
STRIKES.
NO HOLDS BARRED &
WRESTLING SPECIALS
Documentary (2 hours each)
Language: English
Producer: Various
Delivery Status: Completed
RITES OF PASSAGE: Follow modern
day Gladiators on fight night from Brazil
to Japan to Hawaii. RODMAN DOWN
UNDER - See 16 of the world's wildest,
craziest, baddest stars of WWF and
WCW including Dennis Rodman,
basketball bad boy create havoc in the
ring.
MUSIC: PUNK RAWK, HIPHOP,
AND CLASSIC CONCERTS
Special Interest
Language: English
Producers: Various
Delivery Status: Completed
Featuring music, lifestyles and behind
the scenes with Blink 182, Pennywise,
AFI, the Deftones, and Hip-Hop artists
such as 50 Cent, Nelly, Coolio, Snoop
Dog and MasterP, plus the Concerts of
Buffalo Springfield, Spirit, and Eric
Burdon.
W
WEG INDIA
WEG India, Valecha Chambers, 4th
Floor, New Link Road, Andheri West,
Mumbai 400-053, India. Tel:
9122.56796000. Fax: 9122.56796060.
Mobile: 91.9820286888
At Mifed: Ranchor Jumani (International
Sales & Acquisitions), Kavi Kumani
(International Sales & Acquisitions),
Avinaash Jumani (International Sales &
Acquisitions), Amit Jumani (International
Sales & Acquisitions)
Office: Pavilion 8 - Stand # A 30
XCUSE ME!
Comedy (150 min)
Producer & Director: N. Chandra
Key Cast: Sahil Khan, Sharman Joshi,
Jaya Seal, Sunali Joshi & Saurabh Shukla.
Delivery Status: completed
Country of Origin: India,
Year of Production: 2003
A laugh riot where best friends Chantu
and Bantu arrive at the tropical Goa in
search of a job at one of the Hotel resorts.
KYON?
Thriller / Drama (150 min)
Director: Kalpana Lajmi
Producers: Excel Visions & Concepts
Key Cast: Rahul Dev, Sanober Kabir,
Amit Jain
Delivery Status: completed
Country of Origin: India,
Year of Production: 2003
A true story of five college friends. We see
how dysfunctional these youth of today
are in spending huge amounts of money
in being self-indulgent in alcohol, drugs,
sex or various forms of entertainment.
JISM
www.jismthefilm.com
Thriller / Romance (135 min)
Director: Amit Saxena
Producer: Pooja Bhatt
Key Cast: John Abraham, Bipasha Basu &
Gulshan Grover.
Status: completed
Country of Origin: India,
Year of Production: 2003
Kabir Lal, a restless, reckless alcoholic
lawyer has a chance encounter with
Soniya Khanna a young, sexy and
dangerously ambitious wife of middleaged industrialist Rohit Khanna.
LEELA
www.leela-themovie.com
Drama (97 min)
Language: English
Director: Somnath Sen
Producer: Kavita Munjal
Key Cast: Dimple Kapadia, Amol Mhatre
Vinod Khanna, Deepti Naval & Gulshan
Grover
Delivery Status: completed
Country of Origin: India,
Year of Production: 2003
Leela is a heartwarming story of two
strangers whose paths in life cross and
they walk together for a while. Leela
travels to America as a visiting professor,
leaving her 'perfect' life behind.
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YEH LAMHE JUDAAI KE
Romance / Drama
Directpr: B. Tiwari
Producer: Vishva Light & Sound Ltd.
Key Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Raveena
Tandon, Amit Kumar, Divya, Mohnish
Behl, Kiran Kumar & Anupam Kher
Delivery Status: completed
Country of Origin: India,
Year of Production: 2003
Love, romance and memories have always
played a special role in one’s life. A love
story of an upcoming singer and his
promoter. Success and confusion gets in
between their romantic future as a couple.
SUPARI
www.whatissupari.com
Action Adventure (115 min)
Director & Producer: Padam Kumar
Key Cast: Uday Chopra, Nandita Das,
Rahul Dev, Nauheed, Purab Kohli, Akash
Saigal and Irfan Khan.
Country of Origin: India,
Year of Production: 2003
Delivery Status: completed
Easy money was what best friends Aryan,
Papad, Chicken and Mushy wanted.
CHURA LIYAA HAI TUMNE
www.clht.com
Thriller / Romance (144 min)
Director: Sangeeth Sivan
Producer: PFH RAVE
Key Cast: Zayed Khan, Esha Deol, Sahil
Ankola, Rakhi Sawant, Vijay Raaz &
Gulshan Grover
Delivery Status: completed
Country of Origin: India,
Year of Production: 2003
Tina is urgently summoned to Bangkok,
where she is told that her uncle has died
in an accident. She is shocked to learn
that her uncle was wanted in India for a
massive gold heist.
WILD BUNCH
Wild Bunch, 99 rue de la Verrerie, 75004
Paris, France. Tel: 33.1.53.01.50.24,
33.1.53.01.50.49.
email: ssimonutti@exception-wb.com
At Mifed: World Sales: Vincent Maraval,
Carole Baraton, Gaël Nouaille; CoProduction Financing: Juliette Renaud
Office: Pavillion 10/3 G17, Tel:
39.02.43.42.30.65. Fax:
39.02.43.42.30.66
MAN TO MAN
Director: Régis Warnier
Production: Vertigo Productions
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
1870. A mission from civilised Europe
into the depths of Equatorial Africa. A
confrontation with a people unchanged
since the dawn of time. Men of science
torn between head and heart. What
makes a man a man?
FAHRENHEIT 9-11
Director: Michael Moore
Delivery Status: shooting
A typically uncompromising, tragically
funny exposé of the cynical deceit and
manufactured fear from which Bush and
his cronies launched their criminal war
and by which they continue to impose
their rule of Terror.
THE LION BOY
Animated feature
Directors: Bruno Desraisses, Jimmy
Murakami
Production: Les Films de la Perrine Acacia Films
The beautifully animated tale of spiritual
twins: a young boy and a lioness.
PODIUM
A comedy by Yann Moix
Cast: Benoît Poelvoorde , Jean-paul
Rouve, Julie Depardieu, Marie Guillard
Production: Fidelité
Delivery Status: post production
A cinematic trip into the crazy world of
professional look-alikes.
LIFE IS A MIRACLE
A love story by Emir Kusturica (Time Of
The Gipsies, White Cat, Black Cat)
Cast: Savko STIMAC, Natasa SOLAK,
Vesna TRIVALIC
Production: Les Films Alain Sarde
(Straight Story, Mullholland Drive, The
Pianist, All Or Nothing), Cabiria Films
Country: France-Yugoslavia
In remote, war-torn Bosnia, Luka struggles
to realise a crazy and beautiful dream.
TRIPLE AGENT
Director: Eric Rohmer
Production: Rezo Production
1936, and Europe is shaken by growing
unrest. Fiodor, a young Russian General
has taken refuge in Paris with his artist
wife Arsinoé.
MASAI
By Pascal PLISSON
Production: Eskwad, Wild Bunch,
Mordicus Productions
A group of adolescent Masai warriors
confront terrible dangers in their heroic
quest for the legendary lion they must
slay to appease the Red God and save
their tribe from the drought that threatens
its very survival.
AFTER YOU
Director: Pierre Salvadori
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, José Garcia,
Sandrine Kiberlain
Production: Les Films Pelleas
Antoine stops Louis from killing himself.
But Louis is furious.
A SIGHT FOR SORE EYES
(INQUIETUDES)
Director: Gilles Bourdos
Cast: Grégoire Colin, Julie Ordon,
Etienne Chicot, Brigitte Catillon, Laurent
Greville, Frédéric Pierrot
Production: Nord-Ouest Production
Bruno longs to lose himself in a world of
beauty.
JOY OF MADNESS
A documentary by Hana Makhmalbaf
Production: Makhmalbaf Film House
The first feature-length film from 14year-old Hana Makhmalbaf, shot in warscarred Kabul.
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
HBO Films London
WINCHESTER
COBALT FILMS
Winchester Cobalt Films, 19 Heddon St.,
W1B 4BG, London, United Kingdom.
Tel: 0207.851.6500. Fax: 0207.851.6505.
Website: www.winchesterent.com,
email: mail@winchesterent.co.uk
Company Type: Sales Agent, Producer,
Distributor
At Mifed: Gary Smith (CEO), Rodney
Payne (Director of Film Finance), Billy
Hurman (snr VP Sales and Marketing),
Andrew Brown (snr VP Sales and
Marketing), Cosmo Spens (VP
Marketing)
Office: Pavilion 8, Stand number B48,
FMI - Fiera Milano International, Porta
Spinola, Via Spinola, Milano. Tel:
02.4342.3069 (line 1), Tel:
02.4342.3070 (line 2)
THE NIGHT WE CALLED IT A DAY
Drama (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Paul Goldman
Producer: Nik Powell, Emile Sherman,
Peter Clifton
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Melanie Griffith,
David Hemmings
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002-3,
Country of Origin: Australia/UK
Budget: $8 million.
The true story of Frank Sinatra's 1974
Australian tour during which he managed
to alienate a whole nation.
HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG
Drama (126 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Vadim Perelman
Producer: Michael London
Cast: Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley,
Ron Eldard
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: US
Budget: $ 19.5 million
When a house is improperly seized and
sold at auction, the lives of three fragile
but determined people become
dangerously entangled.
DANNY DECKCHAIR
Romantic Comedy (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Jeff Balsmeyer
Producer: Andrew Mason
Cast: Rhys Ifans, Miranda Otto, Justine
Clarke, Rhys Muldoon
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Australia
Budget: $ 7 million
A hapless working class Aussie becomes
a national sensation when he takes off
into the big beyond after tying balloons
to his deckchair.
VACUUMS
Comedy (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Luke Cresswell, Steve McNicholas
Producer: Verna Harrah, Joel Simon
Cast: Kip Purdue, Lee Evans, Rose McGowan
and the cast of Stomp
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: Romania
Budget: $ 7 million
A corporate spy becomes embroiled in
competitive shenanigans between two
warring vacuum factories.
SHADE
Thriller (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Damian Nieman
Producer: Ted Hartley, Merv Griffin,
David Schnepp, Christopher B Hammond
Cast: Stuart Townsend, Gabriel Byrne,
Thandie Newton
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002,
Country of Origin: US
Three grifters risk everything in a high stakes
poker game against a legendary card shark.
OPEN RANGE
Western (135 min)
Language: English
Director: Kevin Costner
Producer: David Valdes, Kevin Costner,
Jake Eberts
Cast: Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner,
Annette Bening
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: US
Budget: $ 41.5 million
A one-time gunslinger is forced to
confront his past when he and his freegrazing cattle crew come under attack
from a powerful rancher.
SONG FOR A RAGGY BOY
Drama (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Aisling Walsh
Producer: Dominic Wright, Peter Robertson
Cast: Aiden Quinn, Iain Glen, Dudley
Sutton
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003,
Country of Origin: UK
The harrowing tale of young delinquent boys
who live in an Irish reformatory school.
RED DWARF
Comedy (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Doug Naylor
Producer: Charles Armitage
Cast: Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny
John-Jules
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Year of Production: 2003
Country of Origin: UK
Budget: $ 19 million
A comedy based on the globally successful
sci-fi comedy TV adventure series.
THE WAY THE DEAD LOVE
Animation (85 min)
Language: English
Director: Gabor Csupo
Producer: Terry Thoren
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Year of Production: 2004,
Country of Origin: US
Budget: $8 million
The bizarre life of Charles Bukowski as
he dabbles in sex, life, sex and death.
GOOBY
Family
Language: English
Director: Wilson Coneybear
Producer: Gary Smith, Gareth Jones
Cast: Robbie Coltrane
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Year of Production: TBC
Country of Origin: US
Budget: $ 6 million
Every imaginative 10 year old needs a
friend, especially if it's a 6 foot monster.
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THE WORKS
The Works, 4 Great Portland Street,
London W1W 8QJ UK.
Tel: 44(0)20.7612.1080.
Fax: 44(0)20.7612.1081.
At Mifed: Aline Perry (CEO), Joy Wong
(Head of International Sales), Clare
Crean (Senior Sales Executive)
Office: Pavilion 10, B19, C10 (Hall II)
DEADLINES
Thriller
Directors: Ludi Boeken & Michael Alan
Lerner
Producers: Ludi Boeken & Eric Dussart
Cast: Stephen Moyer, Anne Parillaud,
Omid Djalili & Georges Siatidis
Drawn from real life experiences,
Deadlines is a gritty, fast paced tale of
the danger, emotional entanglements and
moral dilemmas encountered by war
correspondents.
AFTERLIFE
Drama
Director: Alison Peebles
Producer: Catherine Aitken
Cast: Kevin Mckidd, Paula Sage, Shirley
Henderson, Lindsay Duncan
An ambitious young journalist is forced
to reassess his life when he inherits the
care of his Down's Syndrome sister.
BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS
Comedy-Drama
Director / Writer: Stephen Fry
Producers: Gina Carter & Miranda Davis
Cast: Stephen Campbell Moore, Emily
Mortimer, Michael Sheen, Dan Aykroyd,
Jim Broadbent, Stockard Channing, Peter
O'toole, Simon Callow, Jim Carter,
Richard E. Grant & David Tennant
Adapted from the Evelyn Waugh novel
'Vile Bodies'. Bright Young Things
revolves around a set of friends whose
wild and shocking antics cause them to
crash and burn in their search for newer
and faster sensations.
CODE 46
Drama
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Producer: Andrew Eaton
Cast: Tim Robbins & Samantha Morton
Set in the near future, Code 46 is a
compelling tale of forbidden love.
THE REPUBLIC OF LOVE
Romantic Comedy
Director: Deepa Mehta
Producers: Anna Stratton & Julie Baines
Cast: Bruce Greenwood, Emilia Fox,
Claire Bloom & Edward Fox
An enchanting contemporary story about
losing and finding love based on the novel
by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol
Shields.
REMEMBER ME
Comedy Drama
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Producer: Domenico Procacci
Cast: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Laura
Morante, Monica Bellucci, Nicoletta
Romanoff & Silvio Muccino
Delivery Status: In Post Production
A no. 1 box office hit in Italy,
'Remember Me' is a darkly comic study
of a middle-class family in crisis.
COUNTRY OF MY SKULL
(WORKING TITLE)
Drama
Director: John Boorman
Producers: Robert Chartoff, Mike Medavoy,
Lynn Hendee & Kieran Corrigan
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Juliette
Binoche, Brendan Gleeson & Menzi
'Ngubs' Ngubane
Delivery Status: In Post Production
Country Of My Skull charts the
unfathomable depths of human cruelty
and the redeeming power of forgiveness
and love.
AE FOND KISS
Drama
Director: Ken Loach
Producer: Rebecca O'Brien
Cast: Atta Yaqub, Eva Birthistle, Ahmad
Riaz, Shabana Bakhsh, Shamshad
Akhtar, Ghizala Avan, Gary Lewis &
David McKay
Delivery Status: In Post Production
A romantic drama set in Glasgow's south
side.
MY SUMMER OF LOVE
Drama
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Producers: Christopher Collins & Tanya
Seghatchian
Cast: Nathalie Press, Emily Blunt &
Paddy Considine
Set in contemporary Yorkshire, My
Summer Of Love is a vibrant tale of two
sixteen-year olds spending one long hot
English summer together.
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.
Website:
http://home.comcast.net/~worldwidentert
ainment/index.html, e-mail:
info@worldwidentertainment.com
Company Type: Distributor
At Mifed: Barbara Mudge, Richard De
Long, Natasha Shurdom, Krissy Sullivan
Office: Pavilion 8 B53
MEGALODON
Sci Fi Thriller
Language: English
Director: Pat Corbitt
Producer: Pay Corbitt and Stanley Isaacs
Cast: Robin Sachs, Al Sapienza,
LeighanneLittrell, Mark Sheppard
Delivery Status: Complete
A deep-sea drilling operation goes horribly
wrong releasing the deadliest ocean
predator that has ever roamed the seas.
FOR THE CHILDREN
Drama
Language: Mandarin
Director Yang Yazhou
Cast: Ni Ping, Yuan Quan, Sun Haiyang,
Xu Yujan
Two teachers, one a local and one from
the big city, clash and then become
united in their drive to help the children
of a poor Chinese village.
BELLS OF INNOCENCE
Supernatural Thriller
Language: English
Director: Alin Bijan
Producer: Chris Bessey
Cast: Mike Norris, Marshall Teague and
Chuck Norris
Delivery Status: Complete
Three men crash land in a remote Texas
village and become embroiled in a
supernatural fight between 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
Delivery Status: Complete
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
Delivery Status: Complete
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.
Escape from Cuba - York Entertainment
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YORK
ENTERTAINMENT
York Entertainment, 4565 Sherman Oaks,
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 USA.
Tel: 818.788.4050. Fax: 818.788.4011.
Website: www.yorkentertainment.com,
email:
internationalsales@yorkentertainment.com
Company type: Sales Agent, distributor,
producer; Also Buying - United States,
Territory – US, Rights Video/DVD/Television
At Mifed: Tanya York (CEO), Gregg
Ratinoff (Director of International Sales),
Jennifer Dillon (Director of International
Sales); Acquisition Executives: Tanya
York/Vicky Judah
Office: Hall 25/2 Office A29
13 DEAD MEN
Action/ Adventure (85 min)
Director: Art Camacho
Producer: Tanya York, Scott Pfeiffer
Principal Cast: Lorenzo Lamas, Mystikal
Production Status: Completed 2003
Country of Origin: USA
A diamond thief on death row is sprung
from prison before the secret of the
jewels’ location dies with him.
SCARECROW-SLAYER
Horror/Action (90 min)
Director: Emanuel Itier
Producer: Tanya York, Scott Pfeiffer,
Emanuel Itier
Principal Cast: Tony Todd (Candy Man,
Boogeymen)
Production Status: Completed 2003
Country of Origin: USA
A college freshman is killed by a
paranoid farmer during a fraternity prank
and comes back to life as a killer
scarecrow
EL CHUPACABRA
Horror/Action (90 min)
Director: Paul Wynne
Producer: Tanya York, Scott Pfeiffer,
Paul Wynne
Principal Cast: Anthony Criss
(TREACH)
Production Status: Completed 2003
Country of Origin: USA
A local dog catcher and an attractive
scientist team up to stop the legendary El
Chupacabra monster from terrorizing LA.
American Splendor
HBO Films London
ESCAPE FROM CUBA
Action (90 min)
Director: Tom Logan
Producer: Robert Adamski
Principal Cast: Geraldine Fernadez,
Kerry Corcoran, Juan Carlos Diaz and
A.J. Summers
Production Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Cuban refugee Hector Santos reluctantly
leaves behind the oppression of his country
and his young wife and daughter to build
a better future for his family in the US.
FINAL DECISION
Action (97 min)
Director: Geno Hart
Producer: Geno Hart Jonathan Gorman
Principal Cast: Jonathon Gorman, Darryl
Drake
Production Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Growing up like brothers in a small
California town, Brion and Kyle ended
up on different sides of the law.
SCREAM BLOODY MURDER
Horror (88 min)
Director: Jon Horrman
Producer: Jon Hoffman
Principal Cast: Brittany Montgomery,
Tara Thompson, Anna Garcia Williams
Production Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
A serial killer terrorizes a group of sexy
high school girls on a trip only to find
they are the real killers.
DOM
Erotic Thriller (90 min)
Director: Neil Coombs
Producer: Caged Angel Films
Principal Cast: Grace Kosaga, Emily
Houghton, Sam Owen
Production Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
A dominatrix who controls others loses
control of her own life as circumstances
around her collapse.
HOOD ANGELS
Urban (87 min)
Director: Paul Wynne
Producer: Tanya York, Scott Pfeiffer,
Paul Wynne
Principal Cast: Multi-platinum rapper
"Juvenile"
Production Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Three women who meet in jail are hired
to investigate the murder of one of the
girl's cousins who is a famous rap star.
OUT KOLD
Urban (87 min)
Director: Detdrich McClure
Producer: Tanya York, Doug Schwab &
Larry Rattner
Principal Cast: Ice T, "Tiny" Lister, Jr,
Kool Mo Dee
Production Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Down and out boxer Slim finds himself
falling for his boss' number one girl.
SCARECROW GONE WILD
Horror
Director: Brian Katkin
Producer: Tanya York, Scott Pfeiffer
Principal Cast: Ken Shamrock (WWF)
Production Status: In production Oct. 20
Country of Origin: USA
College mischief spirals out of control
unleashing a horrifying Scarecrow who
terrorizes a resort town during Spring
Break. He's the death of the party!
Z
ZENPIX, INC.
Zenpix, Inc., 506 Santa Monica
Boulevard, Suite 210, Santa Monica CA
90401 USA. Tel: 310.395.3500. Fax:
310.395.3322. email: info@zenpix.net
At Mifed: Susan Jackson, Co-President
Todd Olsson, Vice President Acquisitions
& Distribution, Eric Bernstein, Vice
President of International Sales, Jonathan
Kramer, Co-President
Office: Hall 8 Stand AO6, Tel:
39.02.4342.3078
REESEVILLE
Dark Thriller (98 min)
Director: Christian J. Otjen
Producer: Holly Mosher
Cast: Majandra Delfino, Brad Hunt,
Missy Crider, Mark Hamill
Delivery Status: Completed
David returns to his hometown, when he
learns that his father's suicide might not
have been suicide at all, he becomes the
prime suspect and is closely watched by
the town sheriff, Jason.
THE CHEATING GAME
Suspense Thriller (100 min)
Director: Dan McCormack
Producer: Ruth Charny, Shelly Strong
Cast: Campbell Scott, Peter Gallagher,
Stockard Channing, Rob Morrow, Mary
McCormack, David Aaron Baker
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Phil and Anna, a gorgeous young married
couple whose belief in their commitment
to each other is on extremely tenuous
ground.
KILLING EDGAR
Dark Thriller (96 min)
Director: Zev Berman
Producer: Lauren Moews, Sam Froelich
Cast: Dominique Swain, Henry Thomas,
Arie Verveen, James Urbaniak, Debra
Monk, Karen Allen
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
The beautiful young Inez Macbeth plots
and schemes to get away from her
abusive, petty thief husband and run off
with her wealthy lover.
PRETTY WHEN YOU CRY
Thriller (90 min)
Director: Jack Green
Producer: The Gebbia Brothers
Cast: Sam Elliott, Jamie Kennedy, Carlton
Elizabeth, Lori Heuring, Michael Cavalieri
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Young Albert Straka (Jamie Kennedy) is
the prime suspect in the murder case of
Frank Carreni. Detective Lucas Black
(Sam Elliot) questions him relentlessly
about the death of his friend Frank Carreni.
ANNE B. REAL
Drama (95 min)
Director: Lisa France
Producer: Luis A. Moro, Josselyne Herman
Cast: Janet "J-Nyce" Richardson, Julia
Mora, Omas Diaz, David Zayas
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of 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/ Film Noir (95 min)
Director: Joe Menendez
Producer: Roni Eguia Menendez, Susan
Jackson, Jon Kramer
Cast: Douglas Spain, JoJo Henrickson,
Ruben Garfias, Jill-Michele Melean,
Manolo Travieso
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production:
Country of Origin: USA
A young man has been taught every
special weapon and tactic of the most
elite Marine units and the LAPD by his
uncle since he was a boy.
VENUS AND MARS
Romantic Comedy (90 min)
Director: Harry Mastrogeorge
Producer: Bernd F. Lunkewitz, Emmo
Lempert, Uwe Schott
Cast: Daniela Amavia, Ryan Hurst, Lynn
Redgrave, Michael Weatherly, Julie Bowen
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Germany
Kay Vogel may be only 26 but she's
already given up on love, blaming it as
the cause of her worst mistakes.
NO TURNING BACK
Drama (103 min)
Director: Jesus Nebot
Producer: Eduardo Campoy, Jesus Nebot
Cast: Jesus Nebot, Chelsea Rendon,
Lindsay Price, Vernee Watson-Johnson,
Susan Haskell
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production:
Country of Origin: USA
An illegal immigrant in the United States
hoping to build a better future for his
five-year-old daughter. Tragedy strikes
when he accidentally hits a little girl with
his car while swerving to avoid a dog.
THE RISING PLACE
Family/Romantic Drama (93 min)
Director: Tom Rice
Producer: Tom Rice, Tracy A. Ford,
Marshall Peck
Cast: Laurel Holloman, Elise Neal, Mark
Webber, Frances Fisher, Tess Harper
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Set in the picturesque landscape of the
Mississippi Delta in the 1940's, "The
Rising Place" follows the close
friendship of two young women, one
white and the other black.
GABRIELA
Drama (103 Min)
Director: Vincent Jay Miller
Producer: Vincent Jay Miller, Vincent J.
Francillon
Cast: Jaime P. Gomez, Seidy Lopez,
Zach Galligan, Troy Winbush
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Mike dreams of finding his soul mate one day he meets Gabriela, a sensitive
and beautiful therapist who seems to be
his dream girl. The catch - she's engaged.
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A Professional Corporation
9601 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 300A
Beverly Hills, California 90210
Phone: (310) 247-2790
Fax: (310) 247-2791
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BAUER MARTINEZ
STUDIOS
Bauer Martinez Studios, 801 West Bay
Drive, Suite 800, Largo, FL 33770 USA.
Tel: 727.582.9939. Fax: 727.582.9709.
BMStudios1@aol.com
At Mifed: Philippe Martinez
(Chairman/Chief Executive Officer),
Karinne Martinez (Chief Operating
Officer/ CFO), Shirley Bester
(International Distribution)
Office: Pavillion 8 office number B 40,
Tel: 39.02.4342.3214
WAKE OF DEATH
Action
Director: Cess Silvera
Producer: Philippe Martinez
Co-producers: Alan Latham
Executive Producer: Juan Montilla
Eslava, Stephen Marsden, Paul Feetum,
Douglas W. Miller
Production Company: Lucky 7
Productions
Cast: Jean Claude VAN DAMME
Status: In production
Budget: $20 Million
After his wife is brutally murdered, an
ex-cop wages war against the Chinese
triad, and becomes the protector of a very
special little girl: the adopted daughter of
the triad kingpin.
MODIGLIANI
Drama
Director: Mick Davis
Producer: Philippe Martinez, Stephanie
Martinez, André Djaoui, Alan Latham
Executive Producer: Douglas Miller,
Stephen Marsden, Paul Feetum
Production Company: Lucky 7
Productions.
Cast: Andy Garcia, Elsa Zylberstein,
Status: Post-Production
Budget: $17million
A passionate account of the last days of
the great artist - and the untold story of
his bitter rivalry with Picasso.
OUT OF SEASON
Suspense Thriller
Director: Jevon O'Neill
Producers: Kim Legatt
Irish Eyes
Shoreline Entertainment, Inc.
Executive Producer: Philippe Martinez,
Douglas W. Miller, Alan Latham
Production Company: Lucky
UKFS/Electric Dog and Bear
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Gina Gershon
Status: Post-Production
Budget: $6million
In a run-down seaside town a would-be
thief, a religion-fixated handyman, a
scheming temptress and a former catburglar all become embroiled in one
woman's scheme to murder her husband.
DOT. KILL
Suspense
Director: John Irvin
Producer: Philippe Martinez, Alan
Latham
Executive Producer: Stephen Marsden,
Paul Feetum, Douglas W. Miller
Production Company: Lucky 7
Productions.
Cast: Armand Assante
Status: Post-production
Budget: $10million
A demented serial killer hijacks the
Internet to display his sick 'campaign'.
Facing a death sentence of his own, an
embittered cop races to stop him before it
is too late.
CITIZEN VERDICT
Political Thriller
Director: Philippe Martinez
Producer: Philippe Martinez, Helmut
Breuer
Co-Producer: Alan Latham, Stephanie
Martinez, Luc Campeau.
Executive Producer: Karinne Martinez,
Juan Montilla Eslava, Karen A.
Hamilton, Terrence S. Potter, Kim
Leggat, Douglas Miller, Ian Burlingham
Production Company: Aquarius Film
Company LLP in co-production with
Lucky 7 Productions/Exactlord
Productions, Lucky Select in association
with Curzon Motion Pictures
Cast: Armand Assante, Jerry Springer,
Roy Scheider
Status: completed/screening
Budget: $10million
Escalating crime has led the Governor of
Florida to allow a live trial & punishment
television show: "Citizen Verdict". But
will justice be served, or are ratings the
ultimate prize?
COVER PLAY
Action
Director: TBD
Producer: Philippe Martinez
Production Company: Lucky 7
Productions
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme
Status: in pre-production SPP: February
2004.
Budget: $20 Million
A one time Casino Thief now working
for the gambling board find himself as a
guest of the Seven Wonders Casino Hotel
SHOREDITCH
Suspense thriller
Director: Malcolm Needs
Co-Producers: Tim Lewinston and Alan
Latham
Executive Producer: Shane Richie
Terrence S. Potter
Production Company: Aquarius
Production, Mother Meighan Productions
LTD, Movie Track Pictures
Cast: Shane Ritchie, Joely Richardson
Status: Completed
Budget: $6million
The new owner of a disused office block
discovers an old jazz club bricked up in
the basement - along with the skeletal
remains of an unidentified man.
THE PIANO PLAYER
Action
Director: Jean-Pierre Roux
Producers: Philippe Martinez & Andreas
Klein
Co-Producers: Alan Latham, Juan
Montilla, & Helmut Breuer
Production Company: Lucky 7
Productions / Bladerealm
Cast: Christopher Lambert & Dennis
Hopper
Status: Completed
Budget: US $10 Million
Country of Origin: UK/Germany/Spain
Alex (Christopher Lambert) is a
successful gun-for-hire, but still
tormented by the childhood memory of
his parents' murder.
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Fax: 47.52.84.64.61. Website:
www.bvip.com, post@bvip.com
At Mifed: Bjorg Veland (President),
Andreas Thatcher (Sales Executive),
Solveig Langeland (Sales Executive)
Office: E10 - Hall 3, Tel: 02.4342.3313
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF
SANTA CLAUS
Family
Director: John Stephenson
Cast: John Goodman, Kristin Scott
Thomas, Andrea Corr, Alan Cumming
Status: In preproduction
Country of origin: USA/Germany/U.K.
The Wizard of Oz meets A Christmas
Miracle in this visually stunning tale of how
Santa Claus became the man he is today.
ONE LOVE
Romance (93 min)
Director: Rick Elgood, Don Letts
Cast: Ky-Mani Marley, Cherine
Anderson, Idris Elba
Status: Completed - Screening
Country of origin: Jamaica/U.K.
A powerful heart warming story of
forbidden love set in modern day
Jamaica. Feature tracks by Sean Paul,
Shaggy and Bob Marley.
ONE LAST RIDE
Thriller (88 min)
Director: Tony Vitale
Cast: Chazz Palminteri, Pat Cupo, Robert
Davi, Charles Durning
Status: Completed - Premiere screening
Country of origin: USA
An emotional gripping, yet humorous
story about a man fighting his personal
battle against ultimate self-destruction
through compulsive gambling - it catches
both the rush and the depths of addiction.
MISTER SILVESTER
Drama
Director: Simon Marshall
Cast: Christian Slater, Asia Argento,
Jennifer Tilley
Status: In preproduction
Country of origin: U.K./Canada
A quirky, off-beat tale of love, blackmail,
redemption and human spirit.
LOVING GLANCES
Love comedy (97 min)
Director: Srdjan Karanovic
Cast: Senad Alihodzic, Ivana Bolanca,
Jelena Djokic
Status: Completed - Premiere screening
Country of origin:
Serbia/Montenrgro/U.K.
A beautiful and bittersweet romantic
comedy set in besieged Belgrade.
EMILE
Drama (92 min)
Director: Carl Bessai
Cast: Ian McKellen, Beborah Kara Unger
Status: Completed - Mifed Premiere
Country of origin: Canada
In a story weaving the past and the
present together, Emile (Ian McKellen)
seeks redemption from the family he
abandoned.
MINOTAUR
Horror
Director: Jonathan English
Cast: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Derek
Jacobi, Tony Todd
Status: In preproduction
Country of origin: U.K./German/France
A classic tale of survival. Pitched as a
teenage horror movie, it has an original
and fresh angle, the story is set in a time
and a world where such a film has never
been seen.
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 Mifed: 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: Pavilion 25/2 - Stand A.02
KLEPTO
Critically Acclaimed Thriller
Stars Meredith Bishop (TV's
Nickelodeon show "The Secret World of
Alex Mack"), Jsu Garcia ("Traffic,"
"When We Were Soldiers," "Collateral
Damage"), Leigh Taylor-Young
("Slackers," TV's "Picket Fences,"
"Dallas"), Henry Czerny (TV's "The
Boys of St. Vincent," "Clear and Present
Danger," "Mission Impossible," "The Ice
Storm"), Michael Nouri ("Flashdance,",
"Finding Forrester")
When a kleptomaniac consumed with her
compulsion to steal becomes the
obsession of a department store detective,
sizzling impulses and crimes ensue,
entangling the two and their cons.
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AUNT AGATHA'S APARTMENT
Comedy
Written and Directed by David Eric
Brenner
Produced by Holly Wiersma, Joseph
Genier, Mike Elliott
Stars Melissa Joan Hart (TV's "Sabrina,
The Teenage Witch," "Clarissa Explains
It All,"), Carmen Electra ("Scary Movie,"
TV's "Baywatch"), Ryan Browning
("Extreme Days"), Andrew Kavovit ("Rat
Race") and Don Novello ("Atlantis,"
TV's "Saturday Night Live")
When Holly and Calvin discover Aunt
Agatha's dead body on the kitchen floor,
they come up with a scheme to keep her
rent-controlled apartment and remain in
New York.
YOUNG SHERLOCK
Mystery/Thriller
Directed by Graham Theakston
Produced by Tim Bradley
Stars James D'Arcy (TV's "Come
Together," "The Adventures of Nicholas
Nickleby," and "Revelation"), Gabrielle
Anwar ("Scent of a Woman"), Vincent
D'Onofrio (TV's "The Red Sneakers,"
"The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys,"
"Law and Order: Criminal Intent")
The dashing young crime fighter,
Sherlock Holmes, pursues his archnemesis, Professor Moriarty, through the
chilling underground and gothic towers
of turn-of-the century London.
HARVARD MAN
Thriller/Drama
Written and Directed by James Toback
Produced by Daniel Bigel, Michael Mailer
Stars Sarah Michelle Gellar (TV's "Buffy
the Vampire Slayer," "Scooby Doo,"
"Cruel Intentions"), Adrian Grenier
("Hart's War," "Love in the Time of
Money," "Hurricane"), Joey Lauren
Adams ("Big Daddy," "Chasing Amy"),
Rebecca Gayhart ("Scream 2," "Urban
Legend"), Eric Stoltz ("Some Kind of
Wonderful," "Say Anything")
When a sexy cheerleader and daughter of
the local crime boss, seduces the captain
of the Harvard basketball team to join her
in a dangerous and illegal gambling scheme,
he gets more than he bargained for.
QUIGLEY
Family/Comedy
Written and Directed by William Byron
Hillman ("The Adventures of Ragtime")
Stars Gary Busey (TV's "A Force of
One," "Frost: Portrait of a Vampire,"
"Predator 2," "Lethal Weapon"), Oz
Perkins ("Not Another Teen Movie,"
"Legally Blonde," "Wolf"), Curtis
Armstrong ("Van Wilder," "Revenge of
the Nerds," "Risky Business")
When he is suddenly killed in a car
accident, Archie quickly discovers that
instead of entering heaven's gates, he is
sent back to earth AS A DOG to clean up
the mess he's created!
DEAD CANARIES
Thriller
Directed and 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
Comedy
Directed by John Putch
Produced by Karen Bailey, Rodney Lee
Conover, Helen Woo
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"), Also stars 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
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").
Delivery Status: completed
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.
Unfair Competition
Adriana Chiesa Enterprises
Killing Edgar
Zenpix Inc.
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