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2007
PRODUCT
GUIDE
AFM
+ENTERTAINMENT
+Entertainment, 468 N. Camden Drive,
Suite 250, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 USA.
Tel: 310.860.5604. Fax: 310.860.5194.
www.plusent.com, email:
mail@plusent.com
Sales agent/distributor
At AFM: Pejman Partiyeli (President)
Acquisition Executive: Pejman Partiyeli
Office: Suite 858, Tel: 1.310.458.6700
x858
MEXICAN BLOODBATH
Action/Adventure (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Robert Arevalo
Producer: Pejman Partiyeli, Gonzalo
Gonzalez
Cast: Robert Arevalo, Gerardo Albarran,
Claudia Godinez
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Mexico, Bishop avenges his parents’
deaths by the drug lord “El Chilango,”
risking losing his new love, Lucia, “El
Chilango’s” wife. A modern-day pulp
action!
THE LAST RESORT
Horror (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Brandon Nutt
Producer: Chase Hudson, Ryan Reels,
Forest Robin
Cast: Nathaniel Bozen, Nathan Oliver
and Martina Papinchak
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Five college girlfriends celebrating a
wild bachelorette party in the Mexican
Riviera find themselves at an abandoned
resort whose haunted past possesses and
overcomes each of them.
ARSENAL
Action-thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Ryan Brookhart
Producer: Joseph Panwitz, April Wade,
Amanda Youngman
Cast: Jack Carlisle, April Wade, Julian
Wust
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A young couple encounter a stranger in
the desert, but things aren’t as they
appear, and all Hell breaks loose.
CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE
Horror/Reality (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Booth Brothers
Producer: Christopher Saint Booth
Cast: Keith Age, John Zaffis, Rosemary
Ellen Guiley
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
From acclaimed documentary
filmmakers, the Booth Brothers, explore
abandoned orphanages and cemeteries
unearthing the shocking existence of
ghost children. Once forgotten, they now
walk the earth.
111 PICTURES
111 Pictures, 1st Floor 111, Wardour
Street, London W1F0UH United
Kingdom. Tel: 44.207.758.0690. Fax:
44.207.734.2819.
At AFM: Alki David (Chairman), Tony
Lytle (Director of Sales), Gary Shoefield
(Director of Acquisitions – FilmOn.com)
Office: Room 328 at the Merigot Beach
Hotel, Tel: 1.310.395.9700 x328
FISHTALES
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Alki David
Producer: Alki David
Writer: Melissa Painter
Cast: Billy Zane, Kelly Brook, Alki
David
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
Widowed Oxford University Greek
History professor, Thomas (Billy Zane),
is about to lose his research grant
studying ancient love spells. He knows
he is close to a major academic
breakthrough, and desperately wants to
continue his research.
SUCKER PUNCH
Action
Delivery Status: Screening at AFM
2929
INTERNATIONAL
2929 International, 9100 Wilshire Blvd.,
5th Floor, West Tower, Beverly Hills, CA
90212 USA. Tel: 310.309.5200. Fax:
310.309.5716.
http://www.2929entertainment.com
At AFM: Shebnem Askin (President of
2929 International)
Cell: 310.774.7654, Michelle McDonald
(Director, International Sales &
Marketing) Cell: 323.828.3049, Jodie
Adair (VP, International Sales
Administration) Cell: 310.463.1935,
Marc Wuertemburg (VP, Post Production
& Worldwide Services) Cell:
310.804.6725, Linda Joe (Assistant to
President) Cell: 805.404.8049, Trevor
Byrne (Assistant to VP Post Production)
Cell: 413.320.1935
Office: Loews #748, Tel: 310.899.4500,
Fax: 310.899.4502
IN BLOOM
Director: Vadim Perelman (“House of
Sand and Fog”)
Cast: Uma Thurman, Evan Rachel Wood,
Eva Amurri
Producer: Vadim Perelman, Aimee
Peyronnet and Anthony Katagas
Delivery Status: screening
Years after a tragic school shooting, a
housewife’s idyllic life is not what it
appears as the events of her teen years
with her best friend
lead up to what really happened that day.
FEEL THE NOISE
Director: Alejandro Chomski
(“Hoy Y Mañana” Official Competition,
Cannes Film Festival)
Cast: Omarion Grandberry (“You Got
Served,” “Fat Albert”), Zulay Henao,
Victor Rasuk (“Raising Victor Vargas,”
“Lords of Dogtown”), Giancarlo
Esposito (“The Usual Suspects,”
“Derailed”)
Producer: Jennifer Lopez, Simon Fields,
Sofia Sondervan
Delivery Status: screening
Rob, a young hip-hop artist from NY
becomes immersed in the local
ROSSO MALPELO ( LITTLE BOY RED) – ADRIANA CHIESA ENTERPRISES
Reggaeton scene (hip hop meets reggae)
and falls in love with beautiful dancer CC.
WHAT JUST HAPPENED?
Director: Barry Levinson (“Wag the
Dog,” “Rain Man”)
Cast: Robert DeNiro, Bruce Willis, John
Turturro, Sean Penn, Robin Wright Penn,
Stanley Tucci, Kristen Stewart
Delivery Status: Post-Production
The tale of a fading movie producer
(DeNiro) trying to revitalize his career
while dealing with a teenage daughter
who’s growing up too fast.
TWO LOVERS
Writer/Director: James Gray (“We Own
the Night,” “The Yards”)
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
A wayward 30-something’s life is turned
upside down when he must choose
between a gorgeous but wild neighbor
and the safe girl next door.
A
ADRIANA CHIESA
ENTERPRISES
Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, Via
Barnaba Oriani 24a, 00197 Rome, Italy.
Tel: 39.06.808.6052.
Fax: 39.06.806.87.855.
www.adrianachiesaenterprises.com,
email:
info@adrianachiesaenterprises.com
Sales Agent
At AFM: Adriana Chiesa Di Palma
(President), Acquisition Executive:
Rossella Gori (Head of International
Sales)
Office: 701C, Tel: 1.310.899.4503,
Fax: 1.310.899.4504
IL DOLCE E L’AMARO (THE
SWEET AND THE BITTER)
Drama Action Love (90 min)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Andrea Porporati
Writer: Andrea Porporati, Annio
Giocchino Stasi
Producer: Francesco Tornatore
Key Cast: Luigi Lo Cascio, Donatella
Finocchiaro, Fabrizio Gifuni
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Italy
From the “Bitter of the Mafia” to the
“Sweet of Love”. “The best mafia film to
come along in years.” Marco Muller,
Venice Film Festival.
GIORNI E NUVOLE (DAYS AND
CLOUDS)
Sentimental Love Story (116 min)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Silvio Soldini
Writer: Doriana Leondeff, Francesco
Piccolo, Federica Pontremoli, Silvio
Soldini
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Producer: Lionello Cerri
Co-production partners: Lumière & Co,
Amka Films, RTSI-Televisione Svizzera
Key Cast: Margherita Buy, Antonio
Albanese, Giuseppe Battiston
Delivery Status Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Italy, Switzerland
A film that revolves around the strongest
of all subjects: the power of love.…other
scenes from a marriage, other scenes
from their love.
PIANO SOLO
Drama (111 min)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Riccardo Milani
Writer: Ivan Controneo, Claudio
Piersanti, Riccardo Milani
Producer: Carlo Degli Esposti
Co-production partners: Rai Cinema,
Palomar, Hugo Film
Key Cast: Kim Rossi Stuart, Jamine
Trinca, Michele Placido
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Italy
The fragile life of a pianist of genius.
The true story from his childhood in
Africa to his European success as a
gifted jazz musician unable to love
himself.
THE STORY OF LEO
Animation Feature Film (81 min)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Mario Cambi
Writer: Pierstefano Marangoni, Mario
Cambi
Producer: Veronica Salvi, Marco
Ambrosino of Dujass Film
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Italy
An animated feature film. A romantic,
adventurous, tender and amusing story.
MOTHERS
Documentary
Language: English and Arab, with
English subtitles
Director: Barbara Cupisti
Writer: Barbara Cupisti
Producer: Alex Ponti
Co-production partners: Rai Cinema,
Digital Studio
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Italy
The testimonies of mothers living in a
land plagued by war which seems
indefinite, who live with the fear of
never seeing their children return home,
help us understand the terrible reality.
NERO BIFAMILIARE
Black Comedy
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Federico Zampaglione
Writer: Federico Zampaglione, Rudolph
Gentile
Producer: Rudolph Gentile, Riccardo
Neri
Co-production partners: Moviemax,
Lupin Film, Mirakhan Entertainment
Key Cast: Claudia Gerini, Luca Lionello,
Emiliano de Marchi
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Italian
An irreverent and grotesque black
comedy to the rhythm of “pulp”.
MARADONA LA MANO DE DIOS
(MARADONA THE HAND OF GOD)
Drama (113 min)
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Director: Marco Risi
Writer: Manuel Valdivia, Cesar Vidal,
Manuel Rios
Producer: Elide Melli
Co-production partners: Elide Melli for
Comedy Film and Ombú Producciones
in collaboration with RAI Cinema
Key Cast: Marco Leonardi, Juan
Leyrado, Julieta Diaz
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Italy, Spain
The story based on the life of Diego
Maradona brings new understanding of
the Argentinian idol. The man, the myth,
the film.
LA CENA PER FARLI CONOSCERE
(A DINNER TO KNOW THEM ALL)
Comedy (99 min)
Language: Italian with English Subtitles
Director: Pupi Avati
Writer: Pupi Avati
Producer: Antonio Avati
Production Company: Duea Film
Key Cast: Diego Abatantuono, Francesca
Neri, Vanessa Incontrada
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Italy
A man, four women and a dinner to
discover love and rediscover the family.
ROSSO MALPELO (LITTLE BOY
RED)
Drama (90 minute)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Pasquale Scimeca
Writer: Pasquale Scimeca, Nennella
Buonaiuto
Producer: Pasquale Scimeca
Production Company: Arbash
Key Cast: Antonio Ciurca, Omar Noto,
Marcello Mazzarella
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Italy
What is described here could have
happened today, anywhere in the world
where there are childred abandoned,
exploited, mistreated.
LAST MINUTE MOROCCO
Sentimental comedy (88 min)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Francesco Falaschi
Writer: Carla Giulia Casalini, Francesco
Falaschi
Producer: Giulio Violati, Rosanna Thau,
Silvia Natili, Giovanna Emidi for Italian
Dreams Factory
Key Cast: Valerio Mastandrea, Kesia
Elwin, Maria Grazia Cucinotto
L.A. OFFICE
TEL: 323-935-8228 FAX: 323-935-8229
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Italy
There is no place nor age for the
discovery of tenderness, first kisses and
failing in love.
ALLIED
ENTERTAINMENT,
INC.
Allied Entertainment, Inc., 8899 Beverly
Blvd. Suite 911, West Hollywood, CA
90048, USA. Tel: 310.271.0703. Fax:
310.271.0706. email:
info@alliedentertainment.com
Distributor
At AFM: James Moder (Chairman),
Janet Liu (VP of Sales, Asia)
Acquisition Executive: James Moder
Office: 604C, Tel: 310.271.0703 / 310.
458.6700, ext. 604, Fax: 310.271.0706
SAW BLADE
www.alliedentertainment.com
Action /Comedy (87 min)
Language: English
Director: Dennis Devine
Writer: David Sterling
Producer: David Sterling
Key Cast: Reggie Bannister, Justine Pea,
Monty Hunter, Jed Rowen
Delivery Status: Post Production,
screening
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A vengeful and evil butcher slices up
members of a Heavy Metal Band who
for a publicity stunt have agreed to be
locked in the
slaughterhouse for the night.
SHUT UP AND SHOOT
Action /Comedy (87 min)
Language: English
Director: Silvio Pollio
Writer: Silvio Pollio
Producer: Bob Debrino
Key Cast: Silvio Pollio, Joseph Cortese,
James Russo, Kimberly Estrada
Delivery Status: Completed, screening
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Three film-makers terrorize Tinseltown
in a clandestine murderous rampage.
However, a stunning twist of events
leads to a cunning
tale of morals. As they say in
Hollywood, “Shut Up And Shoot!
THE BARON AGAINST THE
DEMONS
Action / Sci-Fi fantasy (97 min)
Language: English
Director: Ricardo Ribelles
Writer: Ricardo Ribelles
Producer: Ana Sanchez-Gijon
Key Cast: Juan Carlos Romeu, Helena
Le Cumberri, Xavier Bertran
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Spain
In the final days of the 21st Century, the
Earth is engaged in a devastating war
with the forces of evil. An enigmatic
SUPER HERO begins
a bloody war of vengeance in an attempt
to save the Earth.
ALPINE PICTURES
INC
Alpine Pictures Inc, 3500 W. Magnolia
Blvd., Burbank, CA 91505 USA. Tel:
818.333.2600. www.alpinepix.com
At AFM: David Carson (Head of
Distribution), Svetlana Carroll (Mgr.
Distribution), Ned Hallinan (Mgr.
Distribution), Scott Vandiver (Head of
Production)
Office: Loews #750, Tel: 1.310.458.6700
x750
DOROTHY OF OZ
Family (90 min)
English
Writer: Randi Barnes
Producer: Bonnie Radfor
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: 25 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: usa
The Adventures in Oz continue with this
animated musical.
DARK HONEYMOON
Thriller (90 min)
English
Director: David O’Malley
Writer: David O’ Malley
Key Cast: Roy Scheider, Tia Carrera,
Daryl Hannah, Eric Roberts
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $4 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: usa
When a man marries an enchanting
woman, after only a brief courtship,
things go terribly awry, as he soon
discovers he has married a serial killer.
THREE DAYS TO VEGAS
Comedy (90 min)
English
Director: Charles Picerni
Writer: Michael Pietrzak
Producer: Michael Pietrzak
Key Cast: Peter Faulk, Rip Torn, George
Segal, Bill Cobbs.
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $12 million
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Four old friends take a road trip from
their retired, unexciting life in Ft.
Lauderdale, to the bright lights of Las
Vegas to prevent a beloved daughter
from marrying the wrong guy, and
everything that can go wrong, does.
ALTADENA FILMS
Altadena Films, London:
Linton House, 39/51 Highgate Road,
London NW5 1RS, England.
Tel: 44.207.424.7280.
Fax: 44.207.428.8936.
Los Angeles: 2817 St. James Place,
Altadena, CA 91001 Te: 626.296.9977.
www.Altadenafilms.com
info@Altadenafilms.com
At AFM: Ildi Toth Davy
(Sales and Acquisitions, mobile:
626.390.6882), Steven Mackler
(Acquisitions, mobile: 646.244.2880)
Office: Le Merigot Hotel, Room 156,
Tel: 310.395.9700
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BIGGA THAN BEN:
A RUSSIAN’S GUIDE TO RIPPING
OFF LONDON
Comedy
Director: Suzie Halewood
Written by: Suzie Halewood
Producers: Richard Conway, Liz
Holford, Melissa Simmonds
Cast: Ben Barnes, Andrei Chadov,
Andrew Byron
Country: United Kingdom, Year Of
Production: 2007
The adventures of two Russian lowlifeskinheads in London.
THE GIRL NEXT DOOR
Thriller
Director: Gregory Wilson
Based on the Novel By: Jack Ketchum
Screenplay by: Daniel Farrands & Philip
Nutman
Producers: William M. Miller, Andrew
van den Houten, Robert Tonino
Cast: Blythe Auffarth, Daniel Manche,
Blanche Baker, William Atherton,
Catherine Mary Stewart
Country: USA, Year Of Production: 2007
Based on the critically acclaimed novel
by Jack Ketchum, “THE GIRL NEXT
DOOR” unfolds in the summer of 1958
in New Jersey. 12-year old David Moran
learns that his next-door neighbors, the
Chandlers, have taken in two girls;
whose parents have recently died in a car
accident.
THE RIDDLE
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Brendan Foley
Written by: Brendan Foley
Producers: Brendan Foley, Lars
Hermann, Peter Burrell and Mark
Moriarty
Cast: Vinnie Jones, Derek Jacobi,
Vanessa Redgrave, Julie Cox, Mel
Smith, Jason Flemyng, PH Moriarty,
Vera Day, Mark Asante
An ambitious London journalist must
unravel the mystery of a long-lost
Charles Dickens manuscript in order to
solve a modern murder.
AMADEUS PICTURES
Amadeus Pictures, 578 Washington
Blvd., #578, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
USA. Tel: 310.733.8748. Fax0:
310.733.8748.
http://www.amadeuspictures.com,
emailinfo@amadeuspictures.com
At AFM: Damian Chapa (CEO), Elena
Zykova (Vice President), Jimmy
Gonzales (Sales Manager), Pierre
Chemaly (Sales Manager), Jorge
Ramirez
(Sales manager)
Office: Loews 312, Tel: 310.733.8748,
Fax: 310.733.8748
FUEGO (LATIN JAMES BOND)
http://www.fuegothemovie.com
Action/adventure/thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Damian Chapa
Writer: Damian Chapa, Carlton Holder
Key Cast: Damian Chapa, David
Carradine, Elena Talan, Enrique Castillo
Status: completed
Budget: 3 mln
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A Mexican prisoner crosses paths with a
secret agent Lobo (David Carradine)
who has a crisis in his hands. Fuego has
to rescue the Ambassador’s daughter
who has been taken by the terrorist
group.
V2 - THE DARK HOUR (NAZI)
http://www.amadeuspictures.com
Drama, historical (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Damian CHapa
Writer: Damian CHapa, Carlton Holder
Key Cast: Damian Chapa, Joanna
Pacula, AK von Malmborg, Julia
Sandberg Hansson
Status: completed
Budget: 1 mln
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A story of a group of German scientists
and their quest to take the rocket
knowledge of traveling to the Moon to
America.
THE BAD GAME
http://www.amadeuspictures.com
Action, thriller (82 min)
Language: English
Director: Damian Chapa
Writer: Damian Chapa
Key Cast: Damian Chapa, Sracey Keach,
Seven McQueen
Status: completed
Budget: under 1 mln
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Two friends who decide to take a trip to
Europe. The younger one gets kidnapped
and the older friend faces some villains
of the most evil kind.
AMERICA VIDEO
FILMS
America Video Films, Virrey Loreto
2426, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1426.
Tel: 5411.47879098. Fax: 5411.47879094.
www.americavideofilms.net, email:
America@americavideofilms.com
Distributor
At AFM: Enrique Maya (President),
Nicholas Bingham (Adviser), Claudio
Braslavsky (VP Acquisitions and
Marketing), Bob Sigman (Sales
Executive), Utako Niimi (Japanese
Consultant)
Office: 656, Tel: 310.899.4505, Fax:
1.310.899.4508
STORIES USA
Drama (90min)
Language: English
Director: Various
Key Cast: Steve Carell, Patrick
Dempsey, Paris Hilton
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
In the land of plenty no excess is too
much.
SWEENEY TODD
Horror (90min)
Language: English
Director: Dave Moore
Key Cast: Ray Winstone
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: UK
The line between friendly barber and
sheer horror is razor thin.
LUCID
Supernatural Thriller (90min)
Language: English
Director: Sean Garrity
Key Cast: Jonas Chernick, Lindy Booth,
Callum Keith Rennie
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Canada
When a young psychologist starts to
learn about his patient’s dark secrets he
begins to uncover the mystery of his own
existence.
AMERICAN CINEMA
INTERNATIONAL
American Cinema International, 15363
Victory Blvd., Van Nuys, CA 91406
United States. Tel: 818.907.8700. Fax:
818.907.8700. http://www.aciamericancinema.com
At AFM: Chevonne O’Shaughnessy
(President), George Shamieh (CEO), Jeff
Girard (CFO), Laura Voros (VP Foreign
Sales), Martin E. Devis (VP Sales &
Acquisition)
Office: 521, Tel: 1.310.899.4509, Fax:
818.907.8700
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
http://www.aci-americancinema.com
Animation (89 min)
Language: English
Director: John Stronach, Bill Boyce
Writer: Ed Naha
Producer: Cindy Bond
Key Cast: Christian Slater, Ben Kingsley,
Alfred Molina, Elliott Gould
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 15M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: United States
With the voices of Christian Slater,
Alfred Molina, and Ben Kingsley, The
Ten Commandments is the perfect
entertainment for the whole family.
EMPTY ARMS (LOVE NOTES)
http://www.aci-americancinema.com
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: David Weaver
Writer: Rachel Feldman
Producer: Joseph Lawlor, Kirk Shaw
Key Cast: Antonio Cupo, Laura Leighton
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 3M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: United States
Brilliant and vibrating when country
music mega star Jaime Derringer agrees
to an interview by classical
music maven Nora Flannery, he doesn’t
expect to spend the night with her and
neither expects her to
become pregnant.
80 MINUTES
http://www.aci-americancinema.com
Action/Adventure (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Thomas Jahn
Writer: Thomas Jahn
Producer: Rolant Hergert, Ica
Souvignier, Michael Souvignier
Key Cast: Gabriel Mann, Natalia Avelon
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 4M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: United States
80 Minutes to live or die. Alex got
injected with a high tech poison by his
creditor and put on a time clock to
pay his debt back in 1 hour and 20
minutes.
AMERICAN WORLD
PICTURES
American World Pictures, 16027 Ventura
Blvd, Suite 320, Encino, CA 91436 USA.
Tel: 818.380.9100. Fax: 818.380.0050.
http://www.americanworldpictures.com
At AFM: Mark L. Lester (President),
Dana Dubovsky (President, Production),
Martin J. Barab (President, International
Production), Terese Linden Kohn (EVP,
Distribution & Sales), Adam Singer (VP,
Acquisitions and Co-productions)
Office: Loews Hotel Suites 820 and 818.
Tel: 310.458.6700 or cell: 323.363.9872
THE POET
Drama (90 min)
Director: Damien Lee
Producer: Lowell Conn
Country of Origin: Canada
Cast: Jonathan Scrafe, Nina Dobrev, Roy
Scheider, Daryl Hannah, Kim Coates
MONGOL – BETA CINEMA
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At the dawn of World War 2, a Rabbi’s
daughter and a disenchanted German
soldier fall in love and are separated by
the war. They struggle on a perilous
journey to find one another.
JUMP
True Story (102 min)
Director: Joshua Sinclair
Producer: Lilly Berger, Joshua Sinclair
Country of Origin: Austria
Cast: Patrick Swayze, Ben Silverstone,
Martine McCutcheon
JUMP reveals the extraordinary
circumstances behind the unjust murder
trial of the young Jew, Philippe Halsman,
who would later become the most sought
after celebrity portrait photographer of
his generation.
CRAZY EIGHTS
Supernatural Thriller (90 min)
Director: James Koya Jones
Producer: James Koya Jones, Dan
DeLuca, Rick Whealan
Country of Origin: USA
Cast: Dina Meyer, Frank Whaley, Traci
Lords, Gabrielle Anwar
After 20 years, six friends reunite at a
funeral. A search through the deceased
friend’s house reveals a map to a time
capsule they buried.
I TRIED
Drama (90 min)
Director: Rick Newey
Producer: Jeff Clanagan, Randy Sosin
Cast: Layzie Bone, Krayzie Bone, Wish
Bone
Country of Origin: USA
What if Bone Thugs N harmony never
got to audition for Eazy E. What would
their outcome have been?
GRIZZLY PARK
Horror (90 min)
Director: Tom Skull
Producer: Belle Avery, Jeanne Stack
Cast: Glenn Morshower
Country of Origin: USA
Eight troubled teens are sent to serve a
week of community service in a remote
California state forest range called
Grizzly Park.
…AND ACTION!
DISTRIBUTION
…and action! Distribution, 1141 Embury
St., Pacific Palisades, CA 90272 USA.
Tel: 310.454.0686. Fax: 310.454.0686.
www.andactiondistribution.com
Distributor
At AFM: Hermann Joha (CEO), Gavin
Reardon (President), Wolfgang Wilke
(Director of Sales – Asia), Alexander
Schust (International Sales Manager), Su
Jing (International Sales Assistant)
Office: Loews Santa Monica, Suite 726,
Tel: 310.458.6700, Fax: 310.458.6761
FAST TRACK: NO LIMITS
Action film (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Axel Sand
Writer: Lee Goldberg
Producer: Action Image And Prosieben
Co-production partners: Action Image
GmbH & Co.KG
Key Cast: Erin Cahill, Joseph Beattie
and Andrew Walker
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Germany
It’s money, sex, exhilaration, freedom
and risk, set in the sexy, exciting, actionpacked world of urban street racing.
DEKKER THE TRUKER
Action Film (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Sebastian Vigg
Writer: Arne Nolting, Jan Scharf, Don
Schubert
Producer: Herman Joha & Uwe
Reppegather
Co-production partners: Roadrunner
Truxx GmbH & Co. KG
Key Cast: Mark Keller, Kaya Yanar,
Nadeshda Brennicke
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Germany
Set up and narrowly escaping the police,
Dekker will stop at nothing to get back
his son and his truck.
CRASH KIDS: TRUST NO ONE
Action Film (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Roul W. Heimrich
Writer: Dieter Tamowski
Producer: Matthias Barsch
Co-production partners: Top Speed
Movies GbR
Key Cast: Daniel Buder, Milena Karas,
Kieron Freigang
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Germany
Falsely accused and convicted, betrayed
by his closest friends, Mike fights to
prove his innocence in a corrupt prison.
ARCLIGHT FILMS
Arclight Films, Building 103, Unit 1
(FSA #40), Fox Studios, Driver Avenue,
Moore Park, NSW 2021 Australia. Tel:
612.8353.2440. Fax: 612.8353.2437.
www.arclightfilms.com, email:
info@arclightfilms.com
At AFM: Gary Hamilton (Managing
Director), Liz Mackiewicz (EVP,
Worldwide Distribution), Lina Marrone
(VP, International Sales), Ian Gibbins
(General Manager), Ying Ye (Director,
Easternlight Films)
Office: Loews Hotel, Rm. 737, Tel:
310.458.6700 x737
THE BANK JOB
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Roger Donaldson
Writer: Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais
Co-Production Partners: Mosaic Media
Group, Omnilab, Relativity
Producer: Charles Roven, Steve
Chasman
Key Cast: Jason Statham, Saffron
Burrows
Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
The true story of how one of the biggest
robberies in British history took place
with no arrests ever made nor money
ever recovered.
BROOKLYN RULES
Drama
Language: English
Director: Michael Corrente
Writer: Terence Winter
Producer: Marisa Polvino, Michael
Corrente, RIchard Lewis
Key Cast: Alec Baldwin, Freddie Prinze
Jr., Jerry Ferrara
Status: completed
Country of Origin: USA
Brooklyn, 1985. With the mob world as
a backdrop, thee life-long friends
struggle with questions of love, loss and
loyalty.
THE COURIER
Action
Language: English
Writer: Michael Brandt, Derek Haas
Producer: Tucker Tooley, Vincent
Newman
Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: USA
Whatever it is. Wherever it’s going. If
absolutely, positively has to get there,
only one man absolutely, positively
guarantees it.
DARE TO LOVE ME
Drama
Language: English
Director: Alfonso Arau
Writer: Jeremy Leven
Co-Production Partners: Tango Dreams,
Bowline Entertainment, Media Films
Producer: Alfonso Arau, Lucas Jarach,
Nicolas Veinberg
Key Cast: Jordi Malla, Lindsay Lohan,
Rodrigo Santoro
Delivery Status: In Production
Amidst a backdrop of free-spirited
decadence and corruption, a mysterious
woman enters the life of tango legend
Carlos Gardel and changes him forever.
Status: Ready for delivery/screening
A young couple camping in the
mountains is hunted down and
kidnapped by a deranged cult in need of
a newborn child.
TOXIC
Supernatural Thriller
Cast: Dominique Swain (Face/Off,
Lolita), Tom Sizemore (Black Hawk
Down, Saving Private Ryan), Ling Bai
(Sky Captain and the World of
Tomorrow), Master P, C. Thomas
Howell, Susan Ward
Status: Ready for delivery
Bounty hunters tracking a fugitive
through her seedy underworld uncover a
supernatural curse and a trail of dead
bodies.
3 NEEDLES
Drama
Cast: Lucy Liu (Kill Bill, Charlie’s
Angels), Chloe Sevigny (Boys Don’t
Cry, American Psycho), Shawn Ashmore
(X-Men), Stockard Channing (Must
Love Dogs, “The West Wing”), Olympia
Dukakis (Away from Her), Sandra Oh
(Sideways, “Grey’s Anatomy”)
A three-paneled look at the worldwide
AIDS crisis.
GHOST ADVENTURES
Documentary
Status: Ready for Delivery
Award-winning documentary in which
two young filmmakers set out to prove
the existence of ghosts in one of the
most haunted places on earth. The only
documentary capturing the supernatural
on film.
Arsenal Pictures Distribution, 6363
Wilshire Blvd. Suite 550, Los Angeles,
CA, 90048, USA. Tel: 323.852.0011.
Fax: 323.852.0013. www.arsenalpictures.com, email: info@arsenalpictures.com
Distributor, Sales Agent
At AFM: Yarek Danielak (Managing
Director), Phil Botana (Consultant),
Thomas Speller (Distribution)
Office: Le Merigot – Office #206, Tel:
310.395.9700
NIGHT TRAIN
Thriller
Cast: Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon,
Saw), Leelee Sobieski (Eyes Wide Shut,
Deep Impact), Steve Zahn (Sahara,
Rescue Dawn), Matthias Schweighöfer
(The Red Baron)
Producers: Arnold Rifkin (Die Hard 4.0,
Tears of the Sun), Christopher Eberts
(Lord of War, Lucky Number Slevin)
Status: Post-production
As a nearly empty passenger train
plunges into the heart of a blizzard on
Christmas Eve the lives of three
characters—a conductor, a med student,
and a salesman—are changed forever.
TIMBER FALLS
Thriller
Producers: Arnold Rifkin (Die Hard 4.0,
Tears of the Sun), Christopher Eberts
(Lord of War, Lucky Number Slevin)
Cast: Josh Randall, Brianna Brown, Nick
Searcy, Beth Broderick
Artist View Entertainment, 4425 Irvine
Avenue, Studio City, CA 91602 USA. Tel:
818.752.2480. Fax: 818.752.9339.
www.artistviewent.com
At AFM: Scott Jones (President), Jay
Joyce (Vice President), Jennifer Dillon
(Director, Distribution Services)
Office: Loews Santa Monica Hotel Suite
707, Tel: 1.310.899.4511
HIDE
Thriller (90 min)
Cast: Rachel Miner, Christian Kane,
Polly Shannon, Beth Grant
Year of Production: 2007
A modern day Bonnie and Clyde with a
twist that follows two lovers down a path
of destruction, mayhem, and murder.
DOUBTING THOMAS: LIES &
SPIES
Family (90 min)
Cast: Forrest Landis, Annasophia Robb,
Rider Strong, Roger Bart, Lea
Thompson, D.L.Hughley
Year of Production: 2007
Thomas Miller, a twelve year old boy
known for telling tall tales, overhears a
plot to kidnap the President’s daughter.
GHOST IMAGE
Thriller (90 min)
Cast: Elisabeth Rohm, Stacey Dash,
Waylon Payne, Roma Maffia
Year of Production: 2007
When a young woman loses her
boyfriend in a car crash, she finds solace
in watching video of him taken the night
ARSENAL PICTURES
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ARTIST VIEW
ENTERTAINMENT
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before he died. Then he begins to
communicate with her through video.
GRAYSON ARMS
Thriller (90 min)
Cast: Judd Nelson, Stacey Dash, Jennifer
Carpenter Michael Bowen, Michael
Learned
Year of Production: 2007
It’s a tenant’s nightmare where your
eviction could mean death…
DARK SECRETS
Thriller (90 min)
Cast: Gary Daniels, Steven Elliot, Kate
Thurlwell, Ben Shockley
Year of Production: 2007
When the daughter of a celebrity couple
is kidnapped it appears to be the work of
a serial killer who has struck twice
before.
THE ASYLUM
The Asylum, 1012 N. Sycamore Avenue,
Los Angeles, CA 90038 USA. Tel:
323.850.1214. Fax: 323.850.1218.
http://www.theasylum.cc, email:
theasylum@theasylum.cc
At AFM: David Rimawi (CEO), Paul
Bales (Chief Operating Officer)
Office: 716, Tel: 323.497.1245
30,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
http://www.theasylum.cc/cgibin/showMovie.cgi?id=134
Science Fiction (85 min)
Language English
Director Gabriel Bologna
Writer Erik Forseberg
Producer David Rimawi, David Michael
Latt, Paul Bales
KeyCast Lorenzo Lamas, Sean Lawlor
Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
In this modern retelling of the classic
science-fiction tale, the charismatic
sociopath Captain Nemo uses his hightech submarine to wreak vengeance on
the surface world.
I AM OMEGA
http://www.theasylum.cc/cgibin/showMovie.cgi?id=136
Action/Adventure (90 min)
Language English
Director Griff Furst
Writer Geoff Meed
Producer David Rimawi, David Michael
Latt, Paul Bales
KeyCast Mark Dacascos, Geoff Meed,
Jennifer Lee Wiggins
Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
The lone survivor of a deadly plague is
doomed to an eternal battle with the
mutant creatures that now control the
Earth.
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AVH: ALIEN VS HUNTER
Sci-Fi (85 min)
Language English
Director Scott Harper
Writer: David Michael Latt
Producer David Rimawi, David Michael
Latt, Paul Bales
Key Cast: William Katt, Dedee Pfeiffer,
Randy Mulkey
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A galactic hunter chases the most
dangerous alien creature in the universe
to planet Earth, where humanity is
caught between predator and prey.
TOKYO
Creature Feature (85 min)
Language English, Japanese
Director Justin Jones
Writer: Leigh Scott
Producer David Rimawi, David Michael
Latt, Paul Bales
Key Cast: Sarah Lieving, Erin Sullivan
Completed Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
While on assignment in Tokyo, two
American sisters videotape the
destruction of the city by a giant
underground creature.
ATLAS
INTERNATIONAL /
EVA DISTRIBUTION
Atlas International, EVA Distribution,
Atlas International Film GmbH, 81543
Munich, Candidplatz 11, Germany. Tel:
4989.21.09.750. Fax: 4989.22.43.32.
www.atlasfilm.com, email:
mail@atlasfilm.com. EVA Distribution:
85579 Neubiberg, ProfessorMesserschmitt-Strasse 3, Germany. Tel:
4989.461.33.65.18. Fax:
4989.461.33.65.25. www.evadistribution.de, email: sales@evadistribution.de
At AFM: Mr. Stefan Menz (President),
Mr. Philipp Menz (President, Sales and
Acquisition), Mr. Dieter Menz (Vice
Sales President), Mr. Kai Grünecke
(President), Mr. Michel Vandewalle
(Head Of Distribution – EVA
Distribution), Mrs. Sylvia Jahn (Sales
Executive – EVA Distribution)
Office: Loews Santa Monica Beach
Hotel #828/829, Tel: 310.899.4513. Fax:
310.899.4514, Hotel Double Tree Guest
Suites Santa Monica, Dieter Menz,
Stefan Menz, Philipp Menz, Kai-Roger
Grüneke, 1707 Fourth Street, Santa
Monica CA 904013310. Tel:
310.395.3332. Fax: 310.452.7399
VIVALDI (UN PRINCE A VENISE)
Historic Drama
Language: French Original, English
subtitled,
Director: Jean-Louis Guillermou
Cast: Stefano Dionisi, Annette Schreiber,
Michel Galabru, Michel Serrault,
Delphine Depardieu, Christian Vadim
Status: completed feature film, screening
on DVD
Country: France
The life of Antonio Vivaldi, the great
Italian composer and musician of the
17th century.
THE VEXXER
Comedy
Language: English dubbed
Director: Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert
Cast: Oliver Kalkofe, Bastian Pastewka,
Joachim Fuchsberger, Christoph Maria
Herbst,
Status: completed feature film, screening
on DVD
Country: Germany
He’s back. meaner and more dangerous
than ever. THE VEXXER . Scottland
Yard’s funniest nightmare!
Three years ago, Chief Inspector Evan
Longer and his partner, Very Long,
fought the evil gangster for the first time
but ever since he’s returned, Scotland
Yard is in shock.
THE PAUL NASHY COLLECTION
Horror (Feature Film Package)
Language: Spanish Original, English
subtitled, English dubbed
Director: Leon Klimovsky Carlos Aured
and others
Cast: Paul Nashy and others
Status: 18 feature films, screening on
DVD
Country: Spain
A prestigious package of 18 Timeless
Horror classics starring Spain’s genre
icon Paul Nashy, available for the first
time remastered on state of the art High
Definition.
EROTIC TALES
Erotic Series (33x30’)
Language: various
Country: various
Screening: on DVD
Status: completed
With over 1500 screenings and 10
awards at over 400 festivals in 51
countries around the world, EROTIC
TALES is without doubt one of the most
prestigious erotic series available.
Visit us on the Internet:
http://www.atlasfilm.com
ATLAS WORLDWIDE
SYNDICATIONS AND
DISTRIBUTIONS
Atlas Worldwide Syndications and
Distributions, 3025 Ashley Phosphate
Road, Suite C1, North Charleston, SC
29418 United States. Tel: 843.853.2232.
Fax: 843.853.2291.
http://www.atlaswordwide.net, email:
info@atlasworldwide.net
At AFM: Akim Anastopoulo (President),
Scott Kirkpatick (VP International Sales
and Film Acquisitions), Matt Slechter
(VP Domestic Sales and Television
Acquisitions), Becky Steiner (Marketing
Assistant)
Office: Loews 311, Tel: 1.310.458.6700
x311; Tel: 843.557.6686. Fax:
843.853.2291
CROOKED FOREST
http://www.www.moviehousepictures.co
m/Crookedforest/CrookedForest1.html
Horror (92 min)
English
Director: Neil A. Wentworth
Delivery Status: Completed
Jace returns to a secluded forest where
he left a friend for dead. Now he’s in the
middle of a cat and mouse game with an
unseen evil.
THE DARKEST HOUR
http://www.http://www.moviehousepictur
es.com/slasherflick.htm
Horror (96 min)
English
Director: Dan Zachary
Delivery Status: Completed
The sleepy town of North Bend has a
terrifying reputation of a killer with a
thirst for blood who terrorized the town...
only the killer was never caught.
THE DEATH OF MICHAEL SMITH
http://www.www.deathofmichaelsmith.co
m/
Thriller (88 min)
English
Director: Daniel Casey
CANVAS – CINEMAVAULT
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Delivery Status: Completed
Told in a non-linear fashion, “The Death
of Michael Smith” follows three men
with the same name, inextricably linked
to a mysterious murder.
HOLLYWOOD
http://www.hollywood-themovie.com/
Drama (82 min)
English
Director: Rick Rose
Delivery Status: Completed
A look into the lives of three actors
whose paths cross in an acting class.
Each actor is in a different stage of their
career, trying for the next level.
AURORA
ENTERTAINMENT
CORPORATION
Aurora Entertainment Corporation, 9454
Wilshire Blvd., Suite M-11, Beverly Hills,
CA 90212, USA. Tel: 310.858.1005. Fax:
310.858.1050.
www.returnofthelivingdead4and5.com
Producer/Financier
At AFM: Anatoly Fradis (President),
Mikhail Gugin (Vice President), John
Vulich (Creative Consultant)
Acquisition Executive: Gia Noor (Sales
Executive)
Office: 747, Tel: 310.458.6700, room
747, Fax: 310.858.1050
BABI YAR
Drama
Language: English
Writer: Greg Mellott, Robert Collins
Producer: Anatoly Fradis
Co-production partners: Polish Film
Institute, The Government of Ukraine
Delivery Status: Preproduction
Budget: $20
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A vivid and disturbing story of the
childhood experiences of a young
Christian boy living in the Ukraine at the
time of Nazi invasion.
CHRONIC
Horror
Language: English
Director: John Vulich
Writer: Aaron Strongoni, William Butler
Producer: James Rosenthal, Anatoly
Fradis
Delivery Status: Development
Budget: $5
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: USA
A busload of troubled teens headed to a
rehabilitation camp find themselves
slowly transforming into ultra-violent
murderers after they encounter a burning
plane wreck full of chemically tainted
marijuana.
GADFLY
Drama
Language: English
Producer: Anatoly Fradis
Delivery Status: Development
Budget: $25
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: USA
A fast moving, romantic and
controversial story taking place during
the 19th Century. It follows a tragic hero
and his doomed relationships with both
his life long love and his illegitimate
father – the Cardinal of Rome.
B
BANKSIDE FILMS
Bankside Films, 3 Richmond Buildings,
4th Floor, London W1D 3HE, United
Kingdom. Tel: 44(0)20.7734.3566. Fax:
44(0)20.3230.1059. www.banksidefilms.com, email: films@banksidefilms.com
At AFM: Hilary Davis (Co-Managing
Director) mobile: 44(0)7711.782.278,
Stephen Kelliher (Director of Sales &
Marketing) mobile: 44(0)7957.605.915,
Antonio Salas (Sales Assistant) mobile:
44(0)7946.381.610
Office: Room 343, Le Merigot Hotel,
Tel: 1.310.899.4515
NORMAL
Drama
Director: Carl Bessai (Emile; Severed;
Unnatural & Accidental)
Producer: Andrew Boutilier (Severed)
Cast: Carrie Anne-Moss (Matrix Trilogy;
Snow Cake), Kevin Zegers
(Transamerica; It’s A Boy Girl Thing)
Delivery Status: screening
Catherine, Dale and their twelve-year-old
son, Brady, are a family on the brink of
collapse.
SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL
Political thriller
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
(Tomorrow Never Dies; Ripley Under
Ground)
Producer: Michael Donovan (Bowling
For Columbine)
Cast: Roy Dupuis (Les Invasions
Barbares), James Gallanders (Bride Of
Chucky), Deborah Kara Unger (A Love
Song For Bobby Long; Thirteen)
Delivery Status: screening
When Lieutenant General Roméo
Dallaire received the call to serve as
force commander of the UN intervention
in Rwanda in 1993, he thought he was
heading off on a modest and
straightforward peacekeeping mission.
ACCIDENTS HAPPEN
Black comedy
Producer: Anthony Anderson
(Somersault)
Cast: Geena Davis (The Long Kiss
Goodnight; Thelma & Louise)
Director: Andrew Lancaster (Short films
including the multi-award winning
PALACE CAFÉ; IN SEARCH OF
MIKE - Sundance Film Festival in 2002)
Delivery Status: In Pre-Production
15-year-old Billy Conway believes that
the world is a dangerous place and that
accidents can happen at any time. His
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story is the surprising tale of how a good
boy’s bad behaviour might just manage
to save his very dysfunctional family.
BURDEN OF DESIRE
Epic Romance
Director: Bille August (Smilla’s Sense
Of Snow; Goodbye Bafana)
Producer: Kwesi Dickson (Goodbye
Bafana)
Cast: To be confirmed
Delivery Status: In Pre-Production
Set against the backdrop of World War I,
the disastrous explosion of a munitions
ship in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia,
forms the backdrop to this rich and
abundantly humane love story.
BAVARIA FILM
INTERNATIONAL
Bavaria Film International,
Bavariafilmplatz 8, 82031 Geiselgasteig,
Germany. Tel: 49.89.6499.2686. Fax:
49.89.6499.3720. www.bavaria-filminternational.com, email:
international@bavaria-film.de
World Sales
At AFM: Thorsten Schaumann (Head of
Bavaria Film International, Sales &
Acquisitions), Klaus Rasmussen (Sales
Manager)
Acquisition Executive: Olaf Aichinger
(Acquisitions Manager)
Office: Loews 866, Tel: 1.310.899.4571
SHADOWS
Drama (130 min)
Language: Macedonian
Director: Milcho Manchevski
Writer: Milcho Manchevski
Producer: Milcho Manchevski , Amedeo
Pagani, Corinna Mehner, Nermin
Gladers, Martin Husmann, Dimitar
Gochev, Gerardo Herrero, Mariela
Besuievsky
Co-production partners: Senka Dooel,
Classic SRL, blue eyes Fiction GmbH &
Co. KG, Camera Ltd, Tornasol Films SA
Key Cast: Borce Nacev, Vesna
Stanojevska, Sabina Ajrula-Tozija
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Macedonia, Germany, Italy,
Bulgaria, Spain
Growing up is more than growing older,
getting a car, a job, a spouse, a child, a
house. Lazar Perkov discovers this when
his privileged life overlaps into the realm
of the shadows.
SILENT RESIDENT
Drama (96 min)
Language: German
Director: Christian Frosch
Writer: Christian Frosch
Producer: Gabriele Kranzelbinder,
Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
Co-production partners: Kranzelbinder
Gabriele Production GmbH, AMOUR
FOU Filmproduktion GmbH,
Mediopolis, Minotaurus Film, Eurofilm,
Neue Visionen, Weltfilm
Key Cast: Brigitte Hobmeier, Johanna
Wokalek, Xaver Hutter
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Austria, Luxemburg, Germany
Never were apartment blocks more
menacing, more inhabited by mystery,
fear and control than the bright, white
towers of “Neustadt, New Town, a selfsufficient “living machine” on the
outskirts of place and time.
ENCARNACIÓN
Drama (90 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Anahí Berneri
Writer: Sergio Wolf, Gustavo
Malajovich, Anahí Berneri, Mariana
Dolores Espeja
Producer: Diego Dubcovsky, Daniel
Burman
Co-production partners: Juan Ramón
Novoa, Rolando Hernández, José María
Morales
Key Cast: Silvia Perez, Martina
Juncadella, Luciano Caceres
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Argentina
A melancholy tale about growing up,
growing old and growing into the role
you choose for yourself in life.
BECKER
INTERNATIONAL
Becker International, Level 1, 11
Waltham Street, Artarmon, NSW 2064
Australia. Tel: 61.2.9438.3377. Fax:
61.2.9439.1827.
www.beckerinternational.com.au, email:
info@beckerinternational.com.au
Sales agent
At AFM: Jonathan Page (Head of
Finance & Operations), Joyce Layton
(Sales Executive & Operations Manager)
Acquisition Executive: Iain Canning
Office: Loews Suite 635, Tel:
310.458.6700 ext. 635, Fax:
310.458.6761
CONTROL
Drama (122 min)
Language: English
Director: Anton Corbijn
Producer: Orian Williams, Anton
Corbijn, Todd Eckert
Cast: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton,
Alexandra Maria Lara
Delivery Status: Completed/Screening
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
Real life drama about Ian Curtis, Joy
Division and his very personal and
troubled events that lead to his tragic
suicide.
NIGHT
Documentary (80 min)
Language: English
Director: Lawrence Johnston
Producer: Lizzette Atkins, Lawrence
Johnston
Delivery Status: Completed/Screening
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Australia
NIGHT is a stunning and cinematic big
screen event documentary which
explores the universal nature of night
and how we experience it.
FORBIDDEN LIE$
Documentary (109 min)
Language: English
Director: Anna Broinowski
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Producer: Sally Regan, Anna Broinowski
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Australia
Investigative documentary feature about
Norma Khouri (author of the
controversial novel FORBIDDEN
LOVE) about her alleged friend’s honour
killing.
NEWCASTLE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Dan Castle
Producer: Naomi Wenck
Cast: Shane Jacobson, Reshad Strik
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Australia
Twin brothers Jesse and Fergus couldn’t
be more different and as they head off on
a surf weekend with their friends they
confront each other, themselves and the
future.
BETA CINEMA
Beta Cinema, Gruenwalder Weg 28 d,
82041 Oberhaching / Munich, Germany.
Tel: 49.89.67.34.69.80. Fax:
49.89.67.34.69.888.
www.betacinema.com, email:
beta@betacinema.com
At AFM: Dirk Schuerhoff (Managing
Director), Andreas Rothbauer (Head of
Theatrical Sales & International
Theatrical Acquisitions)
Office: Loews 763, Tel (mobile): Dirk
Schuerhoff 49.170.638.48.06, Andreas
Rothbauer 49.151.54.45.89.21
MONGOL
Drama (120 min)
Language: Mongolian, Tartar, Kazakh,
Chinese with English subtitles
Director: Sergei Bodrov (“Prisoner of the
Mountains”)
Cast: Tadanobu Asano, Khulan Chuluun,
Amadu Mamadakov, Odnyam Odsuren,
Honglei Sun, AmarboldTuvshinbayar
Delivery Status: Market Premiere
2007- Kazakhstan/Russia/Germany
The epic story of a young Genghis Khan
and how events in his early life lead him
to become the legendary conquer and
father of Mongolia.
THE THREE INVESTIGATORS
IN THE SECRET OF SKELETON
ISLAND
Director: Florian Baxmeyer
Adventure (90 min)
Language: English
Cast: Chancellor Miller, Nick Price,
Cameron Monaghan James Faulkner
2006 - Germany
Based on the international bestseller,
published in more than 30 countries…
NOTHING BUT GHOSTS
Drama (100 min)
Language: German with English subtitles
Director: Martin Gypkens
Cast: August Diehl, Maria Simon,
Jessica Schwarz
2007 - Germany
Judith Herrmann sends her characters out
into the world in five episodes dealing
with her favorite themes: star-crossed
love and the general rootlessness of the
Generation X.
BIGFOOT
ENTERTAINMENT
Bigfoot Entertainment, 2/F Chuk On
Building, 23 Mercer Street #203-4,
Sheung Wan, Hong Kong. Tel:
1.866.300.7207.
www.bigfootentertainment.com, email:
info@bf-e.com
At AFM: Yarek Danielak (Sales Agent,
Arsenal), Kacy Andrews (CEO of
Bigfoot)
Office: Le Merigot Hotel office #206,
Tel: 310.395.9700
3 NEEDLES
Drama
Writer/Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Producer: Bryan Hofbauer
Cast: Lucy Liu, Sandra Oh, Olympia
Dukakis, Stockard Channging, Shawn
Ashmore, Chloe Sevigny
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006
This remarkable story covers three
continents and interweaves chapters
which reveal that during the harshest
tragedies, hope and redemption can be
found in the unlikeliest places.
THE CURIOSITY OF CHANCE
Comedy
Writer/Director: Russell P Marleau
Producer: Lisa Schahet
Cast: Tad Hilgenbrinck, Brett Chuleman,
Chris Mulkey
Status: Completed, Screening at AFM
Year of Production: 2006
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MIDNIGHT MOVIE
Horror
Writer/Director: Jack Messitt
Producers: Kacy Andrews, Liam Finn,
Jacques Thelemaque
Cast: Rebekah Brandes, Daniel Bonjour,
Stan Ellsworth
Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007
A nightmare becomes reality at a
midnight movie screening when the
killer on screen comes out to stalk and
kill each person one by one.
WITHIN
Supernatural Thriller
Writer/Director: Hanelle Culpepper
Producers: Liam Finn, Jacques
Thelemaque
Cast: Mia Ford, Sammi Hanratty, Lori
Heuring, Sam Jaeger
Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008
Rachel Weiss is a sweet girl with a
troubled soul caused by a unique gift she can see evil spirits within others.
BIRCH TREE
ENTERTAINMENT
Birch Tree Entertainment, 10620
Southern Highlands Pkwy., #110-418,
Las Vegas, NV 89141 USA. Tel:
310.383.2782. Fax: 323.843.9650.
http://www.birchtreefilms.com, email:
info@birchtreefilms.com
At AFM: Art Birzneck (President &
CEO), Lorraine Birzneck (Director of
Operations)
Office: Loews Hotel Suite #451, Tel:
310.458.6700
BRAVE
http://www.bravethemovie.com
Martial Arts (94min)
Language: Thai
Director: Thanapon Maliwan, Afdlin
Shauki
Writer: Nut Nuapang, Thanapon
Maliwan
Co-Production Partners: Film Frame
Productions, Vision Works
Producer: Jason Lau, Chatchalai
Anunarsapong, Afdlin Shauki
Key Cast: Mike B, Afdlin Shauki,
Sahatchai Chumrun, Supaksorn
Chaimongkol
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $3.8 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Thailand
A young man is forced by the mafia to
steal a bank’s client data in exchange for
his brother’s life and discovers he and
his brother have been set up.
CONTRACT KILLERS
Action/Adventure
Language: English
Director: Justin Rhodes
Writer: Justin Rhodes
Co-Production Partners: Tritan-Northstar,
Galt Alliance Films, Dirty Martini
Productions, Addventure Capital Fund
Producer: G. Anthony Joseph
Key Cast: Nick Mancuso, Frida Farrell,
Wolff Muser, Rhett Giles, Christian
Willis, G. Anthony Joseph
Delivery Status: Post Production
Budget: $2.5 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA, Trinidad & Tobago
A CIA assassin must uncover the truth
behind a government conspiracy to
destroy the U.S. economy before she’s
killed for what she knows.
HANDS OF THE DRAGON
Martial Arts / Action
Language: English, Cantonese
Director: Mtano Loewi
Writer: Mtano Loewi, Patrick Horton,
Shane Boroomand
Co-Production Partners: Birch Tree
Entertainment, Action Slate Films
Producer: Art Birzneck
Key Cast: Philip Ng
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: $5.0 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: USA, Hong Kong
After a young member of an elite police
force in Hong Kong is left for dead in a
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secretive sting operation, Jack Lee
reappears in the US with a masked
identity and a mission to uncover the
path to his killers and the secrets they
thought he had found.
THE PORTAL
http://www.portalthemovie.com
Horror
Language: English
Director: Serge Rodnunsky
Writer: Serge Rodnunsky
Co-Production Partners: Big Bad Wolff,
Rojak Films, Birch Tree Entertainment
Producer: Gerald I. Wolff, Serge
Rodnunsky
Key Cast: Michael Madsen, Michael
Muhney, Stacy Keach, Jenna Zablocki,
Nicholas Brendon, Mary Margaret
Humes, Roddy Piper
Delivery Status: Post Production
Budget: $3.5 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Investigators pursuing a bizarre
hemorrhagic illness are lead to a strange
black painting that they discover is a
portal to another dimension.
BLEIBERG
ENTERTAINMENT
Bleiberg Entertainment, 9454 Wilshire
Blvd., Suite 200, Beverly Hills, CA
90212 USA. Tel: 310.273.0003. Fax:
310.273.0007.
http://www.bleibergent.com, email:
info@bleibergent.com
At AFM: Ehud Bleiberg (President &
CEO), Roman Kopelevich (VP,
Worldwide Sales), Shannon Banal
(Senior VP, Operations), Nick
Donnermeyer (Acquisitions &
Development)
Office: Loews, Suites 522 & 524, Tel:
1.310.458.6700 x524
NOODLE
http://www.noodlefilm.com/english/homeENG.html
Drama/Comedy (90’)
Language: Hebrew
Director: Ayelet Menahemi
Writer: Shemi Zarhin, Ayelet Menahemi
Producer: Norma Productions
Key Cast: Mili Avital, Anat Waxman,
BaoQi Chen Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Israel
A flight attendant’s life gains meaning
once she finds an abandoned 6-year-old
Chinese boy whom she journeys to
reunite with his mother.
ADAM RESURRECTED
Drama (110’)
Language: English
Director: Paul Schrader
Writer: Noah Stollman
Co-Production Partners: Werner Wirsing
Producer: Ehud Bleiberg
Key Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe,
Derek Jacobi, Ayelet Zurer
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Israel/Germany
A charismatic patient acts as ringleader
at a mental institution for Holocaust
survivors in Israel, 1961.
HE WAS A QUIET MAN
http://www.hewasaquietman.com
Thriller (97’)
Language: English
Director: Frank Cappello
Writer: Frank Cappello
Co-Production Partners: Jason Hallock
Producer: Michael Leahy
Key Cast: Christian Slater, Elisha
Cuthbert, William H. Macy
Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
An office worker inadvertently becomes
a hero after he saves a woman’s life.
BLUE STAR MOVIES
LTD
Blue Star Movies Ltd, 175 - 185 Gray’s
Inn Road, London, WC1X 8UE UK.
www.bluestarmovies.com, email:
info@bluestarmovies.com
At AFM: Pete Maggi (CEO & Head of
Intl Sales)
Office: The Malibu Room, 7th Floor,
Loews Hotel, Tel: 1.310.455.7472. Fax:
1.310.234.5501
SEIZING ME
Sexy Psychological Thriller (94 min)
Language: English
Production Company: San Jose Motion
Pictures
Producers: Kathleen J. Powell & Halfdan
Hussey
Director: Halfdan Hussey
Scriptwriters: Jeffrey Vargas & Halfdan
Hussey
Key Cast: Howard Antony (previous star
of Eastenders, hit British show), Kathy
Garver (previous star of Family Affair,
hit US show), Lisa Keller
Status: Finished feature film
Budget: $2M
Country of Origin: USA, Year of
Production: 2006
A sexy and provocative psychological
thriller about a troubled yet gifted
woman, Rose, who captures three unique
people, wanting to seize the pieces
necessary to complete herself.
AWFUL NORMAL
Documentary (75 min)
Language: English
Director: Celesta Davis
Production Company: BGG Productions
Producer: Tim Skousen
Status: Finished feature documentary
Country of Origin: USA, Year of
Production: 2005-06
What would you say to the man who
molested you?
EVILENKO
Thriller (115 min)
Language: English, Subtitles: dubbing:
Italian
Director: David Grieco
Writer: David Grieco
Producer: Mario Cotone, Pacific Pictures
Key Cast: Malcom McDowell, Marton
Csokas
Budget: 9,7 Million US$
Year of Production: 2004, Country: Italy
Based on the true story of A. R. Cikatilo,
also known as the monster of Rostov.
LUMINAL
www.luminalthemovie.com
Sci-Fi (89 min)
Language: English
Director: Andrea Vecchiato
Writers: Isabella Santacroce, Andrea
Vecchiato
Producer: Alex Tate
Key Cast: Denis Lavant, Jameela
Mustchin, Maria Mann Papas
Budget: 3 Million US$
Year of Production: 2003, Country: UK France
This is the story of Demon and Davi.
They sleep through the day and wake up
at night, and they do drugs. A lot of
drugs. Although they love luminal best.
The story of a unique friendship.
C
CAPITOL FILMS
Capitol Films, Bridge House, 2nd Floor,
63-65 North Wharf Road, London W2
1LA UK. Tel: 44.207.298.6200. Fax:
44.207.298.6201. www.capitolfilms.com,
email: films@capitolfilms.com
At AFM: Nick Hill (Managing Director),
Peter Naish (Managing Director), James
Norrie (Head of Sales), Sofia Neves
(Sales Director), Jessica Malik (Sales
Executive)
Office: Suite 802, Loews Hotel, Tel:
1.310.899.4517. Fax: 1.310.899.4520
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
Epic Drama
Language: English
Director: John Curran
Writers: Jimmy McGovern
Producers: Alexandra Milchan, Melanie
Johansson
Leading Cast: Scarlett Johansson
Status: Pre-Production
Production Country: UK
A powerful and sweeping epic, the
beautiful Queen battles political enemies,
scheming allies, and affairs of the heart
in her quest to reunite the warring tribes
of her native Scotland.
BLACK WATER TRANSIT
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Tony Kaye
Writer: Matthew Chapman
Leading Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Karl
Urban, Brittany Snow
Status: Post-Production
Production Country: US
Set in post Katrina New Orleans, Black
Water Transit is a heart-stopping, pulsepounding, nerve-rattling action thriller
about violence, betrayal, love and the
desire to do good when everything
conspires against you.
THE EDGE OF LOVE
Romance/Drama
Language: English
Director: John Maybury
Writer: Sharman Macdonald
Producers: Rebekah Gilbertson, Sarah
Radclyffe
Leading Cast: Keira Knightley, Sienna
Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys
Status: Post-Production
Production Country: UK
Two feisty, free-spirited women are
connected by the brilliant, charismatic
poet who loves them both. A passionate,
sexy true story about a remarkable,
turbulent friendship.
CDI-CHRIS DAVIS
INTERNATIONAL
CDI-Chris Davis International, 4612
Cartwright Ave., Toluca Lake, 91602
USA. Tel: 818.753.8950. Fax0:
818.753.8960. emailchris@cjdavis.org
At AFM: Chris Davis, Bill Graham,
Richard Norton
Office: Tel: 1.323.899.5465
TEN INCH HERO
http://www.teninchhero.com
Romantic comedy (94 min)
Language: English
Director: David Mckay
Writer: Betsy Morrison
Producer: Mark Witsken
Key Cast: Jensen Ackles Sean Patrick
Flanery Cles DuVal
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
5 Friends find love and sex in a funky
sandwich shop in Santa Cruz.
LEFT FOR DEAD
http://www.sofiafilm group
Action (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Albert Pyun
Producer: Michael Najjar Gary
Schoemer
Key Cast: Victoria Maurette
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA/Argentina
Saw meets the Spaghetti Western.
BULLETFACE
http://www.sofiafilmgroup
Action (96 min)
Language: English
Director: Albert Pyun
Producer: Michael Najjar, Nelson
Carpentier, Gary Schmoeller
Key Cast: Victoria Maurette, Steve
Bauer Morgan Weisser
ScottPaulin
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: USA
Horror and revenge drive this thriller in
human trafficking —Sin City meets
Blade 2.
COMMANDO KIDS
Family
Language: English
Director: Paul Lynch
Producer: Martin Guinness
Key Cast: to be announced
Delivery Status: In Development
Budget: US$3.6m
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Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
The Commando kids go on a mission
to rescue three cheetah cubs from a
local Zoo.
CELLULOID
DREAMS
Celluloid Dreams, 2 rue Turgot, Paris
75009 France. Tel: 33.1.49.70.03.70.
Fax: 33.1.49.70.03.71.
http://www.celluloid-dreams.com, email:
info@celluloid-dreams.com
At AFM: Hengameh Panahi (President),
Philippe Aigle (CEO), Bobby Allen (VP
Sales, Acquisitions & Productions),
Pierre Menahem (Director of
International Sales), Delphyne Besse
(Manager International Sales)
Office: Le Merigot 1 Director Suite, Tel:
1.310.899.4521. Fax: 1.310.899.4522
SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO
Western (121 min)
Language: English
Director: Tshi Miike
Co-Production Partners: Dentsu
Productions / Geneon Entertainment /
Sedic International
Producer: Hirotsugu Yoshida, Toshinori
Yamaguchi
Key Cast: Hideaki Ito, Koichi Sato,
Yusuke Iseya, Masanobu Ando, Quentin
Tarantino
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Japan
Renowned filmmaker Miike’s
unprecedented Japanese western
masterpiece. A stylish action movie in
which a fierce battle unfolds between a
skilled mysterious gunman and two
opposing gangs.
MAD DETECTIVE
Thriller (89 min)
Language: Cantonese
Director: Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai
Co-Production Partners: Milkyway
Image (HK) Ltd, Track In Company
Producer: Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai
Key Cast: Lau Ching Wan, Andy On,
Lam Ka Tung, Kelly Lin
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Hong Kong
1 corrupt, killer cop with 7 alternate
personalities, who will be able to stop
him.
EMOTIONAL ARITHMETIC
Drama (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Paolo Barzman
Writer: Jefferson Lewis
Co-Production Partners: Triptych Media
Producer: Suzanne Girard, Anna Stratton
Key Cast: Susan Sarandon, Christopher
Plummer, Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis,
Max Von Sydow
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
The story of redemption, healing and
reconciliation ignited by the re-union of
three survivors of the WWII camp
Drancy, outside Paris.
CELSIUS
ENTERTAINMENT
LTD.
Celsius Entertainment Ltd., 32 Maple
Street, London W1T 6HB United
Kingdom. Tel: 44.207.193.1801.
http://www.celsiusentertainment.com,
email: info@celsiusentertainment.com
At AFM: Thierry Wase-Bailey (CEO &
Head of Sales), Henriette Wollmann
(Legal Consultant)
Office: Le Merigot 3rd Floor, Suite
354, Telephone number: 1 310 395
9700
VIVALDI
Historical Drama
Language: English
Director: Boris Damast
Writer: Jeffrey Freedman, Boris Damast
Producer: Boris Damast, Andrea Kikot,
Michel Shane
Key Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Carice Van
Houten, Elle Fanning, Jacqueline Bisset
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: ?11m
Country of Origin: UK, USA
Based on a true account in the life of
Antonio Vivaldi, a young idealistic
priest, who defies overwhelming odds to
transform a school of orphaned girls into
an orchestra that plays Europe’s greatest
concert halls and, ultimately, for the
pope.
MANDA BALA (SEND A BULLET)
http://www.mandabala.com
Documentary (85 min)
Language: English, Portuguese
Director: Jason Kohn
Producer: Jason Kohn, Jared Ian
Goldman, Joey Frank
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA, Brazil
MANDA BALA explores the cycles of
violence that plague Brazil’s upper and
lower economic classes in fits of
rampant corruption and violent
kidnappings.
CRUSADE: MARCH THROUGH
TIME
Adventure (97 min) (US release version)
Language: English
Director: Ben Sombogaart
Writer: Bill Haney
Co-Production Partners: Kasander Film
Company, Uncommon Productions
Producer: Bill Haney, Kees Kasander
Key Cast: Emily Watson, Joe Flynn,
Michael Culkin, Stephanie Leonidas
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: ?11m
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Netherlands, Belgium,
Luxembourg, Germany, U.K.
A mixed-up 21st century teenager is
stranded in the Great Children’s Crusade
of the 13th century. He must draw on all
his strength, cunning and bravery, to
save 8000 children from a sinister plot to
enslave them.
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CENTRE FILMS
MEDIA SALES LTD
Centre Films Media Sales Ltd, 2 Langley
Lane, Vauxhall, London SW8 1TJ United
Kingdom. Tel: 44.207.566.2388. Fax:
44.207.566.2388.
http://www.centremediasales.com
At AFM: Eddie Leahy (Director of
Marketing)
Office: Malibu Room, Tel:
1.310.455.7472. Fax: 310.234.5501
3 MINUTE MOMENTS
http://www.threeminutemoments.com
Black comedy (74 min)
Language: English
Director: Don Allen
Writer: Hari Patience
Producer: Don Allen
Key Cast: Katherine Heath, Naomi
Martin, Philip Hayden, Belinda Lang
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1.5m
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
It only takes three minutes to fall in
love! The world of speed dating where
urban Juliets search for their Romeos. Or
are they playing the field!
INTERGALACTIC COMBAT
http://www.movies.gb.com
Martial Arts/ Sci Fi (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Ray Brady
Writer: Ray Brady
Producer: Barry Heath
Key Cast: George Alexander, Elizabeth
Tan, Adrian Rayment, Neil Rayment,
Silvio Simac, Tommy Wu, Michael
Chomiak
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1m
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
When Aliens invite Earth to the
Intergalactic Games each country must
field an elimination team of it’s best
unarmed combat experts regardless of
sex, colour or creed.
WHAT MEANS MOTLEY?
http://www.whatmeansmotley.com
Thriller (95 min)
Language: English
Director: John Riley
Writer: John Ketchum
Co-Production Partners: Mell Wade
Films/Swipe Studios
Producer: John Ketchum, John Riley
Key Cast: Barry Mulligan, Irina Dinescu,
Emil Hostina, Eamon Rohan, Adrian
Cigleman, Yann Leblay
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1.5m
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Ireland/Romania/UK
A Dubliner escaping trouble at home
tries to make cash people smuggling in
Romania ignorant of the criminal intent
of the people he deals with. Based on
real events.
CINECLICK ASIA
(FANTOM CO., LTD.)
Cineclick Asia (Fantom Co., Ltd.), 3F
Incline Bldg., 891-37 Daechi-dong,
Gangnam-gu, Seoul, 135-280 Korea. Tel:
822.538.0211. Fax: 822.538.0479,
http://www.cineclickasia.com
At AFM: Youngjoo, SUH (Managing
Director), Sang-eun, CHI (Head of Int’l
Sales), Yunjeong, KIM (Senior Manager
- Sales & Marketing)
Office: 455C, 457C, Tel: 310.458.6700
EXODUS
Thriller (94 min)
Language: Cantonese
Director: PANG Ho-cheung
Writer: PANG Ho-cheung, Cheuk Wan
CHI, Jimmy WAN
Co-Production Partners: Making Film
Productions
Producer: Stanley TONG, PANG Hocheung
Key Cast: Simon YAM, Annie LIU, Nick
CHEUNG, Irene WAN
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: HKD15M
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Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Hong Kong
Sergeant TSIM interrogates KWAN,
caught peeping in the ladies’ room.
KWAN claims he was collecting
evidence on a women’s syndicate
conspiring to exterminate men. Unlike
other negligent colleagues, TSIM starts
investigating.
BREATH
Drama (84 min)
Language: Korean
Director: KIM Ki-duk
Writer: KIM Ki-duk
Co-Production Partners: KIM Ki-duk
Film in association with Cineclick Asia
and SPONGE
Producer: KIM Ki-duk(EP), KIM Dohun(EP), KIM Ki-duk(P), SUH Youngjoo(Co-P), SONG Myung-chul(Co-P)
Key Cast: CHANG Chen, ZIA, HA
Jung-woo
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$ 0.5 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Korea
Yeon, who just found out her husband’s
infidelity and Jin, a condemned criminal,
fall for each other but the time is ticking
away and Yeon can’t let him go that
easily.
OFF ROAD
Drama (90 min)
Language: Korean
Director: HAN Seung-ryong
Writer: KIM Kwang-Sik
Co-Production Partners: Hwaldong
Pictures
Producer: HAN Seung-ryong(EP), CHO
Sung-kyu(EP), HAN Ki-jung(P), KIM
Mi-young(P)
Key Cast: CHO Han-chul, PAIK Soujang, SUNWOO Sun
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$ 0.4 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Korea
Allured into theft by a bank clerk
girlfriend, a poor taxi driver waits
outside the bank to withdraw money in
time but another bank robber takes him
hostage.
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CINEMA ARTS
ENTERTAINMENT –
ARTEDIS S.A.
Cinema Arts Entertainment – Artedis
S.A., 6310 San Vicente Blvd., Suite 540,
Los Angeles, California, 90048 USA.
Tel: 323.937.1085. Fax: 323.937.1186.
www.cinemaartsent.com,
www.artedisfilms.com, email:
cinemaarts@aol.com, artedisf@aol.com
Sales Agent, Distributor, Producer
At AFM: Pierre-Richard Muller
(Chairman), Phil Leirness (Managing
Direcor)
Acquisition Executive: Phil Leirness
Office: 832, Tel: 310.458.6700 x832
SHOOTING SILVIO
www.shootingsilvio.com
Drama (96 min)
Language: Italian
Director: Berardo Carboni
Writer: Berardo Carboni, Carlo Durante,
Daniele Malvolta
Producer: Umberto Massa
Co-production partners: Mork & Berry,
Kubla Khan
Key Cast: Federico Rosati, Sofia Vigliar,
Alessandro Haber
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Italy
A satirical drama about a young, rich,
outlandish orphan who plots to kill
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in an
attempt to make himself seem more
interesting.
CHARITON’S CHOIR
Comedy (100 min)
Language: Greek
Director: Grigoris Karantinakas
Writer: Grigoris Karantinakis, Yorgos
Makris, Dimitris Vakis
Producer: Elena Hatzialexandrou
Co-production partners: CL Productions,
Nova
Key Cast: Georges Corraface, Akilas
Karazisis, Maria Nafpliotou
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Greece
Chariton is schoolmaster in a tiny town
on Corfu. His greatest passion is the
school choir. His greatest love affair is
life!
MUJERES INFIELES
(UNFAITHFUL WOMEN)
www.mujeresinfieles.cl
Erotic/Comedy-Drama (107 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Rodrigo Ortuzar
Writer: Juan Jose Hurtado, Rodrigo
Ortuzar, Marcelo Slavich, Walter Slavich
Producer: Jaime Solis
Co-production partners: Jazz Films,
Chile Films
Key Cast: Maria Jose Prieto, Daniel
Alcaino, Maria Izquierdo
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of
Origin: Chile
The comedic and dramatic mishaps of
several women and their respective
partners, confronting adultery and the
sexual liberation of contemporary
Chilean society.
CINEMA FROM
SPAIN
(COMMERCIAL
OFFICE OF SPAIN)
Cinema from Spain (Commercial Office
of Spain), 1900 Avenue of the Stars,
Suite 2430, Los Angeles, CA 90067 USA.
Tel: 1: 310.277.5125. Fax:
310.277.5126.
http://www.spainbusiness.com, email1:
losangeles@mcx.es
At AFM: Jaime Lorenzo (Economic &
Commercial Consul), Greg Simons
(Strategic Investment Markets Manager)
Office: 446, Tel: 310.458.6700, Fax:
310.277.5126
CINEMA
MANAGEMENT
GROUP
Cinema Management Group, 9056 Santa
Monica Blvd., Suite 204, West
Hollywood, CA 90069 United States.
Tel: 310.300.9959. Fax: 310.300.9960.
www.cinemamanagementgroup.com,
email
cmg@cinemamanagementgroup.com
At AFM: Edward Noeltner (President),
Jacqui Barcos (Vice President of
Acquisitions & Development),
Stephaine Boltjes (Operations Manager),
Evelina Silverman (Operations Assistant)
Office: 530,
Tel: 310.402.7110
CHEMICAL WEDDING
Horror (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Julian Doyle
Writer Bruce Dickinson
Co-Production Partners: Focus Films
Limited & Bill and Ben Productions
Producer: Justin Peyton, Benjamin
Timlett and Malcom Kohll
Key Cast: Simon Callow, Lucy Cudden,
Kal Weber
Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
Aleister Crowley, the most evil figure of
Edwardian England, is reanimated by a
superconductor mainframe and now back
to wreak havoc on the faculty and
students of Cambridge University. Score
provided by IRON MAIDEN.
OWL AND THE SPARROW
http://www.owlandthesparrow.com/
Drama (98 min)
Language: Vietnamese/English Subtitles
Director: Stephane Gauger
Writer Stephane Gauger
Co-Production Partners: Annam Pictures
Producer: Nguyen Van Quan, Doan Nhat
Nam and Stephane Gauger
Key Cast: Cat Ly, Le The Lu, Pham Thi
Han
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Vietnam
A 10 year old orphan girl braves the
streets of Saigon as a flower girl to flee
her oppressive Uncle, only to find her
natural talent as a matchmaker of lonely
souls.
NO MAN’S LAND: REEKER 2
Horror (90 min)
Language: English
Director: David Payne
Writer David Payne
Co-Production Partners: The Institution
Producer: Tina Illman and David Payne
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: United States
A Sheriff and his son try to apprehend
bank robbers on their way to Mexico
only to find that they are both being
stalked by a far more deadly enemy, the
fire-wielding Reeker.
CINEMAVAULT
RELEASING
INTERNATIONAL
INC.
Cinemavault Releasing International
Inc., 175 Bloor Street East, South Tower,
Suite 1011, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3R8,
Canada. Tel: 416.363.6060. Fax:
416.363.2305. www.cinemavault.com,
email: sales@cinemavault.com
Sales Agent
At AFM: Nick Stiliadis (CEO), Steve
Arroyave (VP, General Manager),
Natalie Kampelmacher (VP, International
Distribution), Eve Hoffman
(International Sales Associate), Racquel
Mesina (International Sales Associate),
Michael Paszt (VP, Acquisitions)
Acquisition Executive: Michael Paszt
Office: Loews Hotel- Suite 856 & 857,
Tel: 1.310.899.4525
BLIND DATE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Stanley Tucci
Writer: David Schechter, Stanley Tucci
Producer: Bruce Weiss, Gijs van de
Westelaken
Key Cast: Patricia Clarkson, Stanley
Tucci
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA/The Netherlands
A couple desperately trying to reconcile
after the tragic loss of their young
daughter.
1-900
Drama
Language: English
Director: John Turturro
Writer: David Schechter
Producer: Bruce Weiss, Gijs van de
Westelaken
Key Cast: John Turturro
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA/The Netherlands
Two people meet on a phone sex line
and go through an entire relationship
without ever meeting in person.
THE GOLDEN BOYS
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Daniel Adams
Writer: Daniel Adams
Producer: Daniel Adams, Michael Mailer
Key Cast: David Carradine, Rip Torn,
Bruce Dern, Mariel Hemingway
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening
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Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Three retired sea captains, a beautiful
woman and a tossed coin. It all comes
together in The Golden Boys.
BLUE BLOOD
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Benjamin Cummings, Orson
Cummings
Writer: Benjamin Cummings, Orson
Cummings
Producer: Benjamin Cummings, Orson
Cummings
Key Cast: Bill Sage, Roy Scheider, Susie
Misner, Noelle Beck
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A trophy husband conspires to kill his wife.
ROCKAWAY
Action
Language: English
Director: Joshua & Jeffrey Crook
Writer: Joshua & Jeffrey Crook
Producer: Mark L. Pederson, Aldey
Sanchez
Key Cast: Nicholas Gonzalez, Mario
Cimarro, Manny Perez, Ricardo Chavira
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A returning Iraq war hero seeks
retribution for the brutal murder of his
wife & child.
HOPE & A LITTLE SUGAR
Drama
Language: English
Director: Tanuja Chandra
Writer: Tanuja Chandra, Glenn Russow
Producer: Scott Pardo, Glenn Russow
Key Cast: Anupam Kher, Mahima
Chaudhry. Amit Sial, Suhasini Mulay
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A tale of love set against the forces of
hate.
SCAR 3D
Horror
Language: English
Director: Jed Weintrob
Writer: Zack Ford
Producer: Jamie Gordon, Courtney Potts,
Norman Twain
Key Cast: Angela Bettis, Kirby Bliss
Blanton, Devon Graye, Ben Cotton,
Christopher Titus
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Brace yourself for an entirely new
dimension in larger-than-life horror shot
entirely in 3D.
SPINNING INTO BUTTER
Drama
Language: English
Director: Mark Brokaw
Writer: Rebecca Gilman, Doug Atchison
Producer: Norman Twain, Lou Pitt
Key Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Mykelti
Williamson, Beau Bridges, Miranda
Richardson, James Rebhorn, Victor
Rasuk
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Sarah Jessica Parker plays a college
Dean whose attitude is under fire after a
racial crime is committed on campus.
CJ ENTERTAINMENT
CJ Entertainment, 602 2nd Floor
Shinsa-dong, Kangnam-gu, Seoul 135893 Korea. Tel: 82.2.2017.1193. Fax:
82.2.2017.1193. www.cjent.co.kr/english
At AFM: David Shin (Executive VP),
Tom Oh (Head of International Sales),
Kini Kim (VP, Sales), Josh Lee (VP,
Sales), Kwan Lee (Director, Sales),
Michelle Chae (Director, Sales)
Office: Loews 450, 448, 449, Tel:
1.310.458.6700 x450
BLACK HOUSE (GUM-EUN JEEP)
www.psychopath.co.kr
Horror/Thriller (115 Min)
Language: Korean
Director: Terra SHIN
Writer: Young Jong LEE
Producer: Joo Sung KIM
Key Cast: Jung Min HWANG, Sun YU
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $3M ~ $4M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: South Korea
An insurance agent receives a mysterious
phone call about whether claims are paid
out on suicides.
MAY 18 (HWA RYUH HAN HUE GA)
www.rememberu518.co.kr
Action/Drama (122 Min)
Language: Korean
Director: Ji Hoon KIM
Writer: Hyun NA
Producer: In Taek YOO
Key Cast: Sang Kyung KIM, Yo Won
LEE
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $9M ~ $10M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: South Korea
Based on a true story of the 1980
massacre in Gwang-ju, Korea. Min-woo
leads a relatively peaceful life until one
day the Korean Army starts to attack
innocent civilians.
SHADOWS IN THE PALACE
(GOONG NYEO)
www.lady2007.com
Mystery/Drama (112 Min)
Language: Korean
Director: Mi Jung KIM
Writer: Mi Jung KIM
Producer: Seung Hye JUNG
Key Cast: Se Ah YOON, Jin Hee PARK
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $8M ~ $9M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: South Korea
A maid hangs herself within the palace
walls but after an autopsy by the
imperial medic, she suspects a murder
has taken place.
CLASSIC MEDIA
Classic Media, 860 Broadway, 6th Floor,
New York, NY 10003 USA. Tel:
212.659.3011. Fax: 212.659.1958.
www.classicmedia.tv, email:
ds@classicmedia.tv
At AFM: Doug Schwalbe (Head of
Worldwide Distribution)
Office: Loews Suite 204A, Tel:
1.310.458.6700 x204
TUROK
Animation
Status: Screening at AFM
Year of Production: 2007
After twenty years in exile, Turok returns
to find his village in ruins, his people
annihilated by their ruthless enemy,
Chichak, and his brother, Nashoba dying.
BORDERLINE – MAX FILMS INTERNATIONAL
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COACH14
Coach14, 21 Rue Jean Pierre Timbaud,
Paris, France. Tel: 33.147.00.10.08.
Fax: 33.147.00.10.02.
http://www.coach14.com, email:
info@coach14.com
At AFM: Pape Boye (Managing
Director), Jaume Doménech (Managing
Director)
Office: Loews Hotel Suite 759, Tel:
1.310.458.6700 x759
EL REY DE LA MONTAÑA (KING
OF THE HILL)
http://www.coach14.com
Thriller (90 min)
Language: Spanish
Co-Production Partners: Goodfellas,
Decontrabando, Telecinco Cinema
Producer: Juanma Arance, Juan Pita,
Miguel Bardem, Elena Manrique
Key Cast: Leonardo Sbaraglia, MarÃa
Valverde
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Spain
Quim drives around an isolated rural
area through a maze of lanes. When he
drives into the woods, he gets lost.
HÉROS
http://www.heros-lefilm.com
Thriller (116 min)
Language: French
Director: Bruno Merle
Writer: Bruno Merle, Emmanuelle
Destremau
Co-Production Partners: Les Films du
Requin in coproduction with Arte France
Cinema and Artistic Images
With the exceptional participation of
Elodie Bouchez
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: France
Pierre Foret is funny and that is his
tragedy. That is also his job.
THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY
http://www.warondemocracy.net
Documental (95 min)
Language: English / Spanish
Director: John Pilger
Co-Production Partners: Youngheart
Entertainment, Granada Productions
Producer: Michael Watt, David Blake
(Co-Executive Producer), Scott Young
(Co-Executive Producer)
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
ONE HUNDRED NAILS
INTRAMOVIES
Demonstrates the brutal reality of the
Bush notion of `spreading democracy`;
that in fact Bush`s America is conducting
a war on democracy
SHOTGUN STORIES
http://www.shotgunstories.com
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Jeff Nichols
Writer: Jeff Nichols
Co-Production Partners: Lucky Old Sun,
in association with Muskat Film
Producer: Todd Williams, Nick Thurlow,
John Portnoy
Key Cast: Michael Shannon, Douglas
Ligon, Barlow Jacobs, Natalie Canerday,
Glenda Pannell, Lynnsee Provence,
Michael Abbott Jr
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: US
Tracks a feud that erupts between two
sets of half brothers following the death
of their father.
COMPOUND B
Compound B, 9454 Wilshire Blvd., Suite
200, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 . USA. Tel:
310.273.0003. Fax: 310.273.0007.
http://www.compoundb.com
At AFM: Roman Kopelevich
(Worldwide Sales), Nick Donnermeyer
(Acquisitions & Development), Shannon
Banal (Operations)
Office: Loews, Suite 524, Tel:
1.310.458.6700 x524
DANCE OF THE DEAD
Horror (95’)
English
Director: Gregg Bishop
Writer: Joe Ballarini
Co-Production Partners: Gregg Bishop
Producer: Ehud Bleiberg
Key Cast: Jared Kusnitz, Greyson
Chadwick, Chandler Darby
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
On the night of the big HighSchool
Prom, the dead rise to eat the living, and
the only people who can stop them are
the losers who couldn’t get dates to the
dance.
THE BOX
Thriller (87’)
English
Director: AJ Kparr
Writer: AJ Kparr
Co-Production Partners: Frank Vittolo
Producer: Brett Donowho
Key Cast: Gabrielle Union, Giancarlo
Esposito, Yul Vazquez, Mia Maestro
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A disgraced former LAPD detective
leads a home invasion in search of
millions in stolen money. The plan goes
awry and homicide detectives seeking
answers interrogate the survivors.
JUNE CABIN
Horror (90’)
English
Director: Ross Otterman
Writer: Ross Otterman, Liz Federowicz
Co-Production Partners: Bob Gill
Producer: Liz Federowicz
Key Cast: Nicolas Pavlos, Nina
Kaczorowski, Sonia Segal, Darren
Robertson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Seven friends reunite at an isolated
summer cabin for a fun weekend, but
one of them has an axe to grind.
CONQUISTADOR
ENTERTAINMENT
Conquistador Entertainment, 606 North
Larchmont Blvd Ste 112, Los Angeles,
CA 90004 USA.
Tel: 1.323.464.8464.
Fax: 1.323.464.8084.
www.conquistador-ent.com
At AFM: Pascal Borno (President),
Walter Josten, Jeff Geoffray
Office: 810, Tel: 1.310.350.8715
BROKEN THREAD
Thriller (80 min)
Language: English
Director: Mahesh Mathai
Writer: Harris W. Freedman, Randall
Fontana
Co-Production Partners: Kintop Pictures
and Alive Entertainment
Producer: Deepak Nayar, Philip
VonAlvensleben
Key Cast: Linus Roache, Saffron
Burrows, Andrea Corr
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $4 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
A psychological thriller about a 1/2
English 1/2 Indian Londoner who is
tormented by a recent onslaught of
terrifying nightmares and a
woman from the past.
HOME OF THE GIANTS
Drama/sport (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Rusty Gorman
Writer: Rusty Gorman
Co-Production Partners: Sympics
International Inc.
Producer: William R. Greenblatt,
L.Charles Grimes, Daniel Schalk,
Eugene Osment
Key Cast: Haley Joel Osment, Ryan
Merriman, Danielle Panabaker
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $7.5 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
This classic tale of friendship and
basketball is seen through the eyes of
Robert “Gar” Garland, an aspiring
Journalist in his junior year of high
school.
NINE LIVES
Drama (115 min)
Language: English/American Sign
Director: Rodrigo Garcia
Writer: Rodrigo Garcia
Co-Production Partners: Mockingbird
Pictures
Producer: Julie Lynn
Key Cast: Elpidia Carillo, Aomawa
Baker, Miguel Sandoval
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $4 million
Year of Production: 2005,
Country of Origin: USA
The individual experiences of 9 women
as told through 9 single unbroken takes.
CONTENTFILM
INTERNATIONAL
ContentFilm International, 19 Heddon
Street, London, W1B 4BG, UK. Tel:
44.20.7851.6500. Fax: 44.20.7851.6506.
www.contentfilm.com - email:
London@contentfilm.com
Sales Agent
At AFM: Jamie Carmichael (President),
Graham Begg (Head of Film &
Television Finance), Harry White (Senior
Sales Manager), Kristian Brodie (Sales
Executive) Judith Baugin (Head of
International Marketing), Toby Melling
(Head of Film Library Sales)
Office: Loews #821, Tel: 310.899.4531.
Fax: 310.899.4534
HAMLET 2
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Andrew Fleming
Writer: Andrew Fleming, Pam Brady
Producer: Eric Eisner
Key Cast: Steve Coogan, Catherine
Keener
Delivery Status: In production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
The producers of ‘Little Miss Sunshine’
team up to let the laughing gas rip once
again, joining ‘Nancy Drew’ helmer
Andrew Fleming in the director’s chair.
THE KILLING ROOM aka
MANBREAK
Suspense Thriller
Language: English
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Writer: Gus Krieger, Ann Peacock
Producer: Ross M. Dinerstein, Bobby
Schwartz, Guymon Casady
Key Cast: Chloe Sevigny, Elias Koteas
Delivery Status: In production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Fast-paced, claustrophobic and full of
twists and turns, this unrelenting
psychological thriller will keep you
pinned to you seat.
NIGHTWATCHING
Drama (134 min)
Language: English
Director: Peter Greenaway
Writer: Peter Greenaway
Producer: Kees Kasander
Key Cast: Martin Freeman, Emily
Holmes, Jodhi May, Eva Birthistle, Toby
Jones, Natalie Press
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006/7, Country of
Origin: Canada/UK/Poland/Netherlands
An extravagant, exotic and moving look
at Rembrandt’s romantic and
professional life, and the controversy he
created by the identification of a
murderer in the painting The Night
Watch.
STEEP
Feature length documentary (91 min)
Language: English
Director: Mark Obenhaus
Writer: Mark Obenhaus
Producer: Jordan Kronick, Gabrielle
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Tenenbaum
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
An adrenaline-fuelled feature documentary
about danger, adventure, athleticism and
the pursuit of perfection. This is the story
of ‘big mountain skiing’, and the fearless
athletes who have made this extreme sport
their own.
CRITICAL MASS
CRiTiCAL MASS, 360 Dufferin St. Suite
103, Toronto, On M6K 1Z8 Canada. Tel:
416.538.2535. Fax: 416.538.3367.
http://www.cmass.ca, email:wa@cmass.ca
At AFM: William Alexander (President CRiTiCAL MASS Releasing. Inc),
Christian Viel (President - CRiTiCAL
MASS Productions. Inc)
Office: Le Merigot Suite 245, Tel:
310.395.9700. Fax: 310.395.9200
RECON 2022 :THE MEZZO
INCIDENT
http://www.recon2022-movie.com
Sci-Fi, Action (96 min)
Language: English
Director: Christian Viel
Key Cast: Anderson Bradshaw, Heidi
Hawkins, Deke Richards, Valerie
Wiseman
Delivery Status: Completed
The galactic marines head to the ice planet
of Mezzo. Giant man eating snow worms,
a city of cyborgs and many alien entities
await the fearless crew.
THE PACK
Thriller, Action
Language: English
Writer: Tim Cherry, Brad Abraham
Producer: Christian Viel
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
A Pack of vicious attack dogs, trained as
lethal bodyguards escape and terrorize a
sleepy resort town, leaving a bloody trail
of bodies in their wake.
RECON 2020: THE CAPRINI
MASSACRE
http://www.recon2020-movie.com
Sci-Fi, Action (89 min)
Language: English
Director: Christian Viel
Key Cast: Anderson Bradshaw, Patrick
Sabongui, Kevin Kelsall, Valerie Wiseman
Delivery Status: Completed
Galactic marines are sent to a remote
planet to recon the strange occurrences.
Once there they encounter bizarre
nightmares from Vampires to three headed
Hydras.
DEADEN
http://www.deadenmovie.com/
Action (80 min)
Language: English
Key Cast: John Fallon, Deke Richards,
Claudia Jurt
Delivery Status: Completed
Ex-undercover cop turned biker takes
vengeance into his own hands. In the of
unapologetic retribution, he kills all those
responsible for the rape and murder of his
pregnant wife.
CRYSTAL SKY
WORLDWIDE
Crystal Sky Worldwide, 10203 Santa
Monica Blvd, 5th Floor, Los Angeles, CA
90067 USA. Tel: 310.843.0223. Fax:
310.553.9895. http://www.crystalsky.com,
email reception@crystalsky.com
At AFM: Steven Paul (CEO & Chairman),
Daniel Diamond (President, Crystal Sky
Worldwide), Scott Karol (President of
Finance)
Office: 548, Tel: 1.310.899.4535
TEKKEN
Fantasy/Action
Language: English
Director: Dwight Little
Writer Alan McElroy
Producer: Steven Paul, Benedict Carver
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: USA
Tekken is the movie adaptation of the
legendary Namco fighting video game.
CASTLEVANIA
Fantasy/Action/Epic
Language: English
Director: Sylvain White
Writer Ian Jeffers
Producer: Paul WS Anderson, Jeremy
Bolt, Steven Paul, Benedict Carver
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: USA
Set in gothic Transylvania, Castlevania is
a Fantasy, Action Epic with a haunting
love story that surrounds the origins of the
young dark prince, Dracula.
ROBOSAPIEN
Family Adventure
Language: English
Director: Sean McNamara
Writer Max Botkin
Producer: Avi Arad, Steven Paul
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: USA
An inventor working for Kinetech Labs
has designed a robot for search and rescue
missions that has the ability to mimic
human actions and emotions.
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DARCLIGHT FILMS
Darclight Films, 9229 Sunset Blvd., Ste.
705, Los Angeles, CA 90069 USA. Tel:
310.777.8855. Fax: 310.777.8882.
http://www.darclightfilms.com
At AFM: Gary Hamilton (Managing
Director), Liz Mackiewicz (EVP,
Worldwide Distribution), Lina Marrone
(VP, International Sales), Ian Gibbins
(General Manager), Ying Ye (Director,
Easternlight Films)
Office: Loews Hotel, Rm. 737, Tel:
310.458.6700 x737
ACOLYTES
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Jon Hewitt
Writer: Shayne Armstrong, Shane
Krause, Jon Hewitt
Co-Production Partners: Stewart and
Wall Entertainment
Producer: Richard Stewart, Grant
Bradley, Penny Wall, Gary Hamilton
Key Cast: Joel Edgerton, Belinda
McClory, Michael Dorman
Delivery Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: Australia
Three teens blackmail a serial killer into
getting rid of someone.a chiller set in the
suburbs and forests of Queensland.
DESCENT
Thriller (110 min)
Language: English
Director: Talia Lugacy
Writer: Brian Priest, Talia Lugacy
Co-Production Partners: City Lights
Pictures
Producer: Rosario Dawson, Talia Lugacy
Key Cast: Rosario Dawson, Marcus
Patrick, Chad Faust
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
A pretty and outgoing college co-ed is
brutally date-raped and struggles alone to
rebuild her life.
DYING BREED
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Jody Dwyer
Writer: Michael Boughen, Rod Morris,
Jody Dwyer
Co-Production Partners: Ambiance
Entertainment
Producer: Michael Boughen, Rod Morris
Key Cast: Leigh Whannell, Nathan
Phillips, Mirrah Foulkes
Delivery Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: Australia
Four friends set out on a quest to prove
the existence of the long lost Tasmanian
Tiger, only to encounter the cannibalistic
descendents of a legendary escaped
convict.
DAVID HEAVENER
ENTERTAINMENT
David Heavener Entertainment, 11271
Ventura Blvd., #326, Studio City, CA
91604 USA. Tel: 661.823.7417. Fax:
661.8230214. www.davidheavener.com,
email: distribution@davidheavener.com
Distributor
At AFM: David Heavener (President)
Office: Loews #327, Tel: 818.679.4642
CONFESSIONS OF AN EXORCIST
www.confessionsofanexorcist.net
SciFi (4 x 22 min)
Language: English
Director: David Heavener
Writer: David Heavener
Producer: Barry Strudwick, David
Heavener
Co-production partners: Russell A.
Green
Key Cast: David Heavener, “Rowdy”
Roddy Piper, Lee Benton
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Budget: $1.5 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
An ex-priest reluctantly finds himself
battling for a young girls soul only to
discover that the demon is connected his
own past.
ANGEL BLADE
(90 min)
Language: English
Director: David Heavener
Writer: David Heavener
Producer: Michael Smith Hemenway,
David Huntington, David Heavener
Key Cast: David Heavener, Marc Singer,
Margot Kidder
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $2 million
Year of Production: 2002, Country of
Origin: USA
When teenage prostitutes are being
murdered, a detective must discover the
truth behind the murders before he falls
victim to its wicked wrath.
DAWN OF THE LIVING DEAD
(CURSE OF THE MAYA)
(90 min)
Language: English
Director: David Heavener
Writer: David Heavener
Producer: Barry Strudwick, Whit
Hauprich, David Heavener
Key Cast: David Heavener, Todd
Bridges, Joe Estevez, Libertie Heavener
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $750,000
Year of Production: 2004, Country of
Origin: USA
When a couple moves into a new home,
they find it is infected by an ancient
curse from a family’s murder. Now the
dead are walking…and they are hungry.
DISTANT HORIZON
Distant Horizon, 8282 Sunset Boulevard,
Suite A, Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA.
Tel: 323.848.4140. Fax: 323.848.4144.
http://www.distant-horizon.com, email:
la@distant-horizon.com
At AFM: Anant Singh (Producer), Brian
Cox (Producer), Sanjeev Singh
(Acquisitions Director)
Office: 8th Floor, Office 824, Loews
Santa Monica Beach Hotel, Tel:
310.458.6700 x 824, Fax: 310.458.6761
MORE THAN JUST A GAME
Docu-drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Junaid Ahmed
Writer: Tom Eaton
Co-Production Partners: Videovision
Entertainment, Distant Horizon, Filmex
(Pty) Ltd, Telkom Media
Producer: Anant Singh, Helena Spring
Key Cast: Presley Chweneyagae (Tsotsi),
Wright Ngubeni, Tshepo Maseko, Az
Abrahams, Merlin Balie
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: South Africa
The inspiring story of how prisoners on
Robben Island rose above their
incarceration by creating a football
league and find an outlet for their
passion and commitment to discipline
through soccer.
AMERICAN EAST
http://www.americaneastmovie.com
Drama (105 min)
Language: English
Director: Hesham Issawi
Writer: Hesham Issawi, Sayed Badreya,
Brian Cox
Co-Production Partners: Distant Horizon,
Zahra Pictures
Producer: Anant Singh, Brian Cox,
Ahmad Zahra
MAD MONEY – NU IMAGE
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Key Cast: Tony Shalhoub (Hit TV
Series, Monk), Sayed Badreya (Three
Kings, The West Wing), Kais Nashif
(Oscar Nominee, Paradise Now), Alfre
Woodard, Ray Wise
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: United States
AmericanEast is a timely, poignant
drama about Arab-Americans living in
post-9/11 Los Angeles.
DON’T LOOK UP
Horror
Language: English
Director: Fruit Chan
Writer: Shoko Sterling-Seiko
Co-Production Partners: Distant Horizon,
Action 5, Hakuhodo
Producer: Anant Singh, Brian Cox, Yoko
Asakura
Key Cast: To be announced
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: United States / South Africa
Set in the abandoned ruins of a medieval
village in Transylvania, Don’t Look Up
charts the unravelling sanity of a director
and his crew when spirits from another
era invade the film stock of the
production.
MEISIE
Drama
Language: Afrikaans
Director: Darrell James Roodt
Writer: Darrell James Roodt
Co-Production Partners: Welela Studios
Producer: Diony Kempen
Key Cast: Renate Stuurman, Abrina
Bosman, Raymond Basson, Desmond C.
Claasen
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: South Africa
MEISIE focuses on a young girl, Meisie
who has an astonishing talent for
mathematics, but is prevented by her
father from going to the local school.
DREAM
ENTERTAINMENT
Dream Entertainment, 8489 W. 3rd
Street, Los Angeles, CA 90048 USA. Tel:
323.655.5501. Fax: 323.655.5603.
http://www.dreamentertainment.net,
email: dream@dreamentertainment.net
At AFM: Yitzhak Ginsberg (President),
Silke Wolz (Director, Business Affairs &
Distribution)
Office: #709, Tel: 310.458.6700
WHO LOVE THE SUN
http://www.wholovesthesun.com
Drama (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Matt Bissonnette
Writer: Matt Bissonnette
Producer: Corey Marr
Key Cast: Lukas Haas, Molly Parker,
Adam Scott
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Canada
A young man’s sudden return after a
mysterious five-year disappearance
reunites him with his wife and best
friend.
DECEMBER ENDS
Drama (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Lee Toland Krieger
Co-Production Partners: Tim Harms, Lee
Toland Krieger
Key Cast: Josh Janowicz, Alex Thayer,
Justin Matthews, Jacob Reynolds
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Chris, a reluctant drug runner, falls in
love with his dealer’s girlfriend and
triggers a cascade of events that might
costs him everything.
CARVER
Serial Killer Horror
Language: Language: English
Director: Franklin Guerrero Jr.
Co-Production Partners: Richard Finney,
John Thompson,
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A group of friends try to survive a night
of terror when they are confronted by a
menacing killer who films his own
horror movies…except his actors aren’t
actors–and his kills are real.
E
EASTERNLIGHT
FILMS
Easternlight Films, 9229 Sunset Blvd.,
Ste. 705, Los Angeles, CA 90069 USA.
Tel: 310.777.8855. Fax: 310.777.8882.
www.easternlightfilms.com, email:
info@arclightfilms.com
At AFM: Gary Hamilton (Managing
Director), Liz Mackiewicz (EVP,
Worldwide Distribution), Lina Marrone
(VP, International Sales), Ian Gibbins
(General Manager), Ying Ye (Director,
Easternlight Films)
Office: Loews 737, Tel: 310.458.6700
x737
881
Musical Comedy
Languages: Chinese, English
Director: Royston Tan
Writer: Royston Tan
Co-Production Partners: Zhao Wei Films
Producer: Gary Goh
Key Cast: Choy, Ling Ling Liu, May
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Singapore
Two Girls, One Dream. Best friends,
Little Papaya and Big Papaya, join forces
to take the Singapore Getai live
performance scene by storm with their
passionate singing and dancing routines.
DANCE OF THE DRAGON
Action Drama
Language: English
Director: Max Mannix, John Radel
Writer: Max Mannix, John Radel
Co-Production Partners: Easternlight
Films
Producer: Ying Ye, Gary Hamilton,
Robin Leong
Key Cast: Jason Scott Lee, Fann Wong,
Hyuk Jang
Delivery Status: In Production
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In Singapore, a passionate love triangle
develops between Cheng, a former
martial arts champion, his lover Emi, a
ballroom dancing instructor, and her
student Tae. KARATE KID meets
STRICTLY BALLROOM.
FATAL MOVE
Action
Language: Cantonese
Director: Dennis Law
Co-Production Partners: Point of View
Movie Productions
Key Cast: Wu Jing, Sammo Hung
Delivery Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: Hong Kong (China)
SHAMO
Action
Language: Cantonese
Director: Soi Cheang
Writer: Izo Hashimoto, Szeto Kam Yuen
Co-Production Partners: Same Way
Production Limited
Producer: Junichi Matsushita, Shin
Yoneyama, Sam Leong
Key Cast: Shawn Yue, Dylan Kuo,
Masato
Delivery Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: Hong Kong (China)
A psychotic ex-con’s rise through the
brutal world of underground no rules
fighting competition.
EASTWEST
FILMDISTRIBUTION
GMBH
EastWest Filmdistribution GmbH,
Schottenfeldgasse 14, Vienna 1060,
Austria. Tel: 43.1.524.93.10.34. Fax:
43.1.524.93.10.20. www.eastwestdistribution.com, email:
office@eastwest-distribution.com
Sales agent
At AFM: Alan Rudoff (International
Sales Manager)
Office: The Malibu Room, 7th Floor,
Loews Hotel, Tel: 1.310.455.7472. Fax:
1.310.455.7473
THE BIRD CAN’T FLY
www.eastwest-distribution.com
Drama (89 min)
Language: English
Director: Threes Anna
Writer: Threes Anna
Producer: Anton Scholten
Co-production partners: 24fps Features,
IMG (Pty) Ltd, Borderline Productions
Key Cast: Barbara Hershey, Yusuf
Davids, Tony Kgoroge, John Kani
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Netherlands, South Africa,
Ireland
Melody returns to a town disappearing
beneath the desert. She discovers a 10year old son, surviving by breeding
ostriches. They uncover the past and the
future buried beneath the sands.
MIDSUMMER MADNESS
www.eastwest-distribution.com
Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Alexander Hahn
Writer: Alexander Hahn, Alexander
Mahler, Norman Hudis
Producer: Markus Fischer, Steve Walsh,
Guntis Trekteris
Co-production partners: Fischer Film,
Steve Walsh Productions, Kaupo Filma,
Project WE
Key Cast: Maria de Medeiros,
Dominique Pinon, Tobias Moretti,
Chulpan Khamatova, Roland Düringer,
Detlev Buck
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Austria, UK, Latvia
On midsummer’s eve in Latvia, the
whole country goes crazy. A host of
equally crazy characters from across the
world go on a search for love in the
night!
SNOW WHITE THE SEQUEL
www.eastwest-distribution.com
Animation (80 min)
Language: English
Director: Picha
Writer: Tony Hendra, Picha
Producer: Eric van Beuren, Steve Walsh,
Linda van Tulden
Co-production partners: YC Aligator,
Tchin Tchin, Steve Walsh,
DeFamilieJanssen, Orange Studio
Reklamy
Key Cast: Stephen Fry, Rik Mayall, Lia
Williams, Sally Ann Marsh
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Belgium, France, UK, Poland
Snow White has married her Prince
Charming – and it’s all downhill from
there! Definitely not for children – but
adults will love it!
EBS WORLD
ENTERTAINMENT
EBS World Entertainment, 3000 W.
Olympic Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90404
USA. Tel: 310.449.4065. Fax:
310.449.4061. www.ebsla.com, email:
acquisitions@ebsla.com
Sales agent, North American DVD
distributor, production company
At AFM: Richard Cooper (Co-Chair),
Wayne Wong (Co-Chair), Rick Jordan
(VP of Production), Josh Plaza
(Acquisitions Assistant Manager)
Acquisition Executive: Richard Cooper,
Josh Plaza
Office: Loews 659, Tel: 1.310.458.6700
x659
BALCANCAN
http://ebsla.com/balcancan/index.html
Black Comedy (89 min)
Language: Macedonian, Italian
Director: Darko Mitrevski
Writer: Darko Mitrevski
Producer: Darko Mitrevski
Key Cast: Vlado Jovanovski, Adolfo
Margiotta, Zvezda Angelovska
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Macedonia
Trendafil wants out of embattled
Macedonia. He calls upon Santino, a
shyster linked to his past. Can they cope
with civil war and a dead granny rolled
up in a carpet?
RUIDO
http://ebsla.com/ruido/index.html
Psychological Drama (100 min)
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Language: Spanish
Director: Cesar Rodriguez
Writer: Cesar Rodriguez
Producer: Ruben Chevres
Key Cast: Maria Coral Otero Soto,
Rafael Alvarez, Blanca Lissette Cruz
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: United States/ Puerto
Rico
Franchi, a teenager who suffers from a
rare hearing condition, is sexually
harassed by the man who suddenly
enters her mother’s life. She decides to
fight back.
NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
http://www.ebsla.com/neighborhoodwatc
h/index.html
Horror (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Graeme Whifler
Writer: Graeme Whifler
Producer: Jeff Kirshbaum
Key Cast: Pell James, Jack Huston, Nick
Searcy
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: United States
Nothing bad could ever happen on quiet,
tree lined Wormwood Drive. At least
that’s what Bob and Wendi Petersen
thought, before they met their new
neighbor.
ECHO BRIDGE
Echo Bridge, 8383 Wilshire Blvd. Suite
530, Beverly Hills, CA 90211 United
States. Tel: 1.323.658.7900. Fax:
1.323.658.7922.
At AFM: Dan March (Executive Vice
President), Patti Rose (Director of
International Sales), Amy McInerney
(International Sales)
Office: Suite 845 Loews Hotel, Tel:
1.310.458.6700 x845
MY LIFE IN RUINS
Romantic Comedy
Director: Donald Petrie
Writer: Mike Reiss
Producers: Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman,
Michelle Chydzik, Nathalie Marciano
Cast: Nia Vardalos, Richard Dreyfuss,
Rita Wilson, Harland Williams, Alistair
McGowan, Caroline Goodall
Year of Production: 2007
My Life In Ruins is a romantic comedy
set amongst the ruins of Ancient Greece.
THE BIG BAD SWIM
Comedy
Director: Ishai Setton
Writer: Daniel Schechter
Cast: Paget Brewster (Sublime), Jeff
Branson (Shaft), Jess Weixler, Ricky
Ullman
Year of Production: 2006
An adult swim class sets the stage for
this charming comedy about love, loss,
and second chances.
PROTECTING THE KING
Drama
Director: D. Edward Stanley
Writers: D. Edward Stanley and Marty
Poole
Cast: Matt Barr, Peter Dobson, Tom
Sizemore, Brian Krause
Year of Production: 2007
Prepare to be all shook up by the shocking
true story of David Stanley, stepbrother
and bodyguard of Elvis Presley.
ELEVEN ARTS, INC.
Eleven Arts, Inc., 2932 Wilshire Blvd.,
#204 Santa Monica, CA 90403 USA. Tel:
1.310.264.0818. Fax: 1.310.264.0868.
www.elevenarts.net, email:
contact@elevenarts.net
Sales agent
At AFM: Ko Mori (President), Kana
Aida (Executive Manager)
Office: 438, Tel: 1.310.455.7321
TWILIGHT PHANTOM (AKO
KURO)
Horror (90 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Tsukasa Kishimoto
Producer: Kenro Tsushima, Tsukasa
Ariyoshi
Key Cast: Maki Tamaru, Shugo Oshinari,
Erika, Shogen, Takahi Yuki, Nahana
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Japan
A couple find their paradise island
turning into a living hell when they
accidentally took a woman’s life. They
are constantly haunted by their guilt…
and the woman herself!
SISTERHOOD (CHIKYUU DE
TATTA FUTARI)
Drama (118 min)
Language: Japanese with English subtitle
Director: Eiji Uchida
Producer: Hirotaka Asano
Key Cast: Moeki Tsuruoka, Mizuki
Tsuruoka, Shugo Oshinari, Shun Sugata
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Japan
A moving tale of two step-sisters and a
scruffy mafia member finding warmth,
joy, and love in each other.
THE VANISHED
Horror (95 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Makoto Tanaka
Producer: Tsuyoshi Matsuura
Key Cast: Soko Wada
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Japan
35 years ago, mysterious disappearance
of children, a dead body with missing
organ, a secret kept by a small village.
THE GENIUS CLUB
Drama, Thriller (104 min)
Language: English
Director: Tim Chey
Producer: Arch Bobbema
Key Cast: Tom Sizemore, Stephan
Bladwin, Paula Jai Parker
Delivery Status: complete
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Seven geniuses, with IQ’s over 200, are
plucked from their lives on Christmas
Eve to try to solve the world’s problems
in one night.
DELUSION
Drama, Horror (80 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Shugo Fujii
Producer: Tomoko Hagio, Aya Sasaki
Key Cast: Shunsuke Kubozuka, Kimika
Yoshino
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Japan
When his delusion hits the limit, he
becomes a monster.
ENTERTAINMENT 7
Entertainment 7, 15030 Ventura Blvd.,
Suite 762, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
USA. Tel: 818.709.9595. Fax:
818.709.9597. http://www.ent7.com,
email: ent7-sales@ent7.com
At AFM: Emilio Ferrari (Consultant),
Laura Beckner (Acquisition Executive),
Bill Wilder (Sales Executive)
Office: Suite 660, Tel: 1.310.458.6700
x660
AN EXISTENTIAL AFFAIR
Erotic Drama (90 Min)
Language: English
Director: Peggy Bruen
Writer: Peggy Bruen
Producer: Sean Dlgado
Key Cast: Martin Landau, Gretchen
Becker, Alex Quinn
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 2 million USD
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: United States
An existential affair between a married
THE LUCKY ONES – QED INTERNATIONAL
woman and her young lover, becomes
both a sensual and philosophical
experience.
SLAYER
Horror (90 Min)
Language: English
Director: Ed Peduzzi
Writer: Ed Peduzzi
Producer: Nathaniel Adams
Key Cast: Tom Gibson, Kieran Haller,
Amanda Smook
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 2 million USD
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: United States
After witnessing a brutal slaying, a
young college student slowly discovers
the reality behind the vampire myth.
DIAMOND ZERO
Action (90 Min)
Language: English
Director: David Gaz
Writer: Kevin Poore
Producer: Roy Bodner
Key Cast: Bronson Pinchot, Tippi
Hedren, Leo Rossi
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 3 million USD
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: United States
One of history’s greatest inventions is
discovered when the authorities unravel
a scheme where the remains of worlds
greatest personalities are turned into
priceless diamonds and sold to the
highest bidders.
ESSENTIAL
ENTERTAINMENT
Essential Entertainment, 9000 Sunset
Boulevard, Suite 600, Los Angeles, CA
90069 USA. Tel: 310.550.9100.
Fax: 310.550.9101.
At AFM: Jere Hausfater (CEO), John
Fremes (President, International), Mark
Padilla (Director, Sales and Distribution),
Randy Hermann (CFO/COO), Neil
Kaplan (Chief Business Development
Officer) Office: Le Merigot, Suite 333,
Tel: 310.899.4547. Fax: 310.899.4552
DEFIANCE
Action/Drama
Director: Edward Zwick
Writer: Edward Zwick
Producers: Edward Zwick
Cast: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber,
Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos.
Status: In Production
Set during World War II, four brothers
take refuge in the Belarus forest of
Poland when their village is invaded by
the Nazis.
FIREFLIES IN THE GARDEN
Drama
Director: Dennis Lee
Writer: Dennis Lee
Producers: Marco Weber, Vanessa
Coifman, Sukee Chew
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe,
Emily Watson, Carrie-Anne Moss,
Hayden Panettiere, Ioan Gruffudd and
Julia Roberts.
Status: Post Production
An unexpected tragedy threatens to rip
an emotionally fragile family apart.
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THE INFORMERS
Drama
Director: Gregor Jordan
Writer: Bret Easton-Ellis & Nicholas
Jarecki
Producers: Marco Weber
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger,
Winona Ryder, Ashley Olsen, Mickey
Rourke
Status: In Production
Set in Los Angeles during the early
1980’s THE INFORMERS focuses on
young, wealthy Angeleno’s, consumed
by a decadent lifestyle, who remain
detached and isolated from the real
world.
E-TELEVISION. TELE
CLIP
E-Television. Tele Clip, Campus de
Elvina, s/n. Facultad de Comunicacion,
La Coruna. Galicia, Spain. email:
produccion@teleclip.tv
Office: Cinema from Spain, Tel:
34.1.3994411
TELE CLIP
http://www.teleclip.tv
Educational news (Short Clips and MiniPrograms)
Language: Spanish
Director: Loreto Corredoira and Antonio
Sanjuan
Writer: Leonor Garcia, Sandra Martinez,
Jose Videla
Co-Production Partners: Universidad
Complutense/Universidad de La Coruna
Producer: Proyecto E-Television
Key Cast: The editing team of Tele Clip
TV is composed of groups of children
from different nationalities who have
worked together for several
months in various writing and video
workshops. We rely on the children’s
enthusiasm and the support of their
parents and teachers in this adventure of
presenting information with a different
face and viewpoint.
Delivery Status: In Development
Budget: 60.000 Euros/ year (including
content and on demand video-channel
website) ; each report or mini-program:
300 euros
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Spain
News channel by and for children as part
of our communication research project.
Teleclip TV is on-demand television
available through the Internet for
children between the ages of 7 and 16,
especially focused on Spanish-speakers,
in this first stage.
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FABRICATION FILMS
Fabrication Films, 8701 W. Olympic
Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035 USA. Tel:
310.289.1232. Fax: 310.289.1292.
http://www.fabricationfilms.com
At AFM: Kjehl Rasmussen (CEO), Chris
Perry (Executive Vice President), Jodie
Skalla (Vice President), Miriam
Elchanan (Director)
Office: Le Merigot, Suite 154. Tel:
1.310.395.9700 x154
THE MORGUE
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Halder Gomes and Gerson
Sangitto
Writer: Najla Ann Al-Doori and Andrew
Pletcher
Producer: Gerson Sangitto and Carina
Sangitto
Key Cast: Heather Donahue, Lisa
Crilley, Christopher Devlin, Brandon
Quinn, Taylor Lipman
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Six strangers find themselves dealing
with the supernatural while stranded
overnight in a rural morgue.
ALMAZ BLACK BOX
Sci-Fi (90 min)
Languages: English / Russian
Director: Christian Johnston
Writer: Christian Johnston
Delivery Status: Completed
In 1998 a Russian Military Space Station
received a powerful signal of unknown
origin. Sixty-seven hours later the
Station broke up in the Earth’s
atmosphere.
WRISTCUTTERS - A LOVE STORY
http://www.wristcutters.com
Comedy / Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Goran Dukic
Writer: Goran Dukic
Producer: Chris Coen, Tatiana Kelly,
Mikal Lazarev
Key Cast: Patrick Fugit, Shannyn
Sossamon, Tom Waits
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
When Zia begins his search for his long
lost love after committing suicide, he
encounters a variety of memorable
individuals, a disillusioned suicide
bomber or an angel in disguise.
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FANTASTIC FILMS
INTERNATIONAL,
LLC
Fantastic Films International, LLC, 3854
Clayton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027
USA. Tel: 323.661.7088. Fax:
323.661.7188.
www.fantasticfilmsinternational.com
Producer & Sales Agent
At AFM: Roxane Barbat (President),
Fred deWysocki (Partner), Claudiu
Dobre (Sales & Marketing)
Acquisition Executive: Fred deWysocki
Office: Loews Hotel, dual suite 621 &
623, Tel: 310.560.9577, Fax:
323.661.7188
AGENT C.R.U.S.H.
Animation
Language: English
Director: Sean Robinson
Producer: Tony Ludwig, Fred
deWysocki, Sean Robinson
Cast: TBA
Delivery Status: Screening
Budget: $15M
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
From Oscar Winner Peter Lamont
(“Titanic”, 20 “James Bond” movies,
“Aliens”, etc.) and producer Tony
Ludwig (“Starsky and Hutch”,
“Tomcats”, “The Family Man”, etc.)
comes the future of law enforcement:
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SPIRIT OF THE FOREST
Animation
Language: English
Director: David Rubin, Juan C. Pena
Producer: Manolo Gomez
Delivery Status: Screening
Budget: $25M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Spain
A new and scary adventure from the
creators of “The Living Forest” and
“Midsummer Dream”.
TAKEN BY FORCE
Martial Arts
Language: English
Director: Ron Althoff
Producer: Ron Althoff
Co-production partners: Fred deWysocki
Cast: Jeff Osterhage, James Lew,
Branscombe Richmond, Frank Stallone,
James Russo
Delivery Status: screening
Budget: $2M
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
When a San Francisco detective goes
hunting for the cruel Asian crime figure
who killed his partner, he finds himself
thrown into the center of a violent plot to
steal a terrorist weapon.
THE SNOW PRINCE
Action / adventure, pre-production
Language: English
Director: John Henderson
Producer: Peter Watson-Wood
Co-production partners: Fred deWysocki
Cast: Adrian Paul, Sir Richard
Attenborough, Gabriel Byrne, Greta
Scacchi
Delivery Status: Spring 2007 delivery
Budget: $18M
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
An enchanted tale of sorcery, romance
and heroic swordplay, this is a beautiful
tale for the entire family – a timeless
“Evergreen” sure to be a Christmas
classic for years to come.
THY KINGDOM COME
Language: English
Director: Ilmar Taska
Writer: Mariano Baino, Loris Curci
Producer: Lorenzo Von Lorch, Fred
deWysocki
Key Cast: Julian Berlin, Tiya Sircar,
Marian Zapico, Gabriel Oliva
Delivery Status: Post-production/ rough
footage screening
Budget: $1M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Italy
Patients of an ultra rational psychiatrist
seem to be haunted by visions in which
Heaven and Hell mingle into one dark
landscape, inhabited by creatures hellbent on precipitating the end of the
world.
COWBOYS FOR CHRIST
Language: English
Director: Robin Hardy
Writer: Robin Hardy
Producer: Alastair Gourlay, Peter
Watson-Wood, Fred deWysocki
Key Cast: Christopher Lee, Dyan
Cannon, Paul Wesley
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Budget: $18M
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
Young Christians Beth and Steve, a
gospel singer and her cowboy boyfriend,
leave Texas to preach door-to-door in
Scotland.
THRU THE MOEBIUS STRIP
Animation (87 min)
Language: English
Director: Glenn Chaika
Producer: Raymond Neoh, Anthony
Neoh, David Kirschner, Frank Foster
Cast: Mark Hamill, Michael Dorn, Jean
Simmons
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $25M
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Hong Kong
In the not too distant future, a young boy
travels to an alien world to find his faster
and fulfill his destiny.
FIJI AUDIO VISUAL
COMMISSION
Fiji Audio Visual Commission, Ground
Floor, New Town Hall Road, Suva, Fiji.
Tel: 679.330.6662. Fax: 679.331.4662.
www.fijiaudiovisual.com
At AFM: Taniela (Dan) Bolea (Chief
Executive Officer), Florence Swamy
(Manager Marketing & Public Relations)
Office: Level 5, Atrium - Outside the
Buyers Lounge, Tel: 310.435.8209 or
310.337.4760, Fax: 310.645.0851
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DEPARTMENT
The Film Department, 8439 Sunset
Blvd., 2nd Floor, West Hollywood, CA
90069 USA. Tel: 323.785.3700. Fax:
323.785.3799.
At AFM: Mark Gill (CEO), Neil Sacker
(President and COO), Elizabeth Kim
(EVP, International), Kristen Figeroid
(VP, International Sales), Maritza Berta
(Asst. to EVP, International), Fred
Michaels (Asst to VP, International
Sales)
Office: Le Merigot Hotel, Suite 314, Tel:
310.899.4553. Fax: 310.899.4556
FILMEXPORT
GROUP
Filmexport Group, Via Del Pianeta
Urano, 60 – Rome, Italy. Tel:
06.52207432. Fax: 06.52278416.
www.filmexport.com, email:
info@filmexport.com
Sales agent
At AFM: Roberto Di Girolamo
(President), Elisa D’Amico (Sales
Manager)
Office: Loews #608, Tel: 310.458.6700
ext. 608
NOAH’S ARK (EL ARCA)
http://www.el-arca.com
Animation (87’)
Language: Spanish, Italian, English
Director: Juan Pablo Buscarini
Producer: Production Group, Patagonik
Film Group
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Argentina, Italy
A classic animated film that tackles an
absolutely universal subject, in a context
of adventures and humour, in which the
animals are the main characters.
ZOMBIES, THE BEGINNING
Horror (90’)
Language: English,
Director: Vincent Dawn
Producer: Diamonds International Film
Key Cast: Y. Yzon, A. Anson, P. Holme
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Italy
An expedition team sent to rescue a
scientific crew on an island will
encounter a new generation of zombies.
LIKE IT HOT? (¿LE GUSTA EL
CHILE?)
Comedy
Language: Spanish, Italian, English
Director: Dolores Payas
Producer: Zahori Media, Production
Group, J.L.A
Key Cast: Victoria Abril, Enrique Rocha,
Pep Ferrer, Gabriella Pession, Rocco
Papaleo, Anna Galiena
Delivery Status: postproduction
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Spain, Italy, France
Abandoned by her husband after years of
marriage, Isabel thought her sexual life
was over. but she had still a lot to learn.
FIVE STAR
PRODUCTION CO.,
LTD.
Five Star Production Co., Ltd., 61/1 Soi
Thaweemitr 2 Rama 9 Rd., Huaykwang,
Bangkok 10320 Thailand. Tel:
662.246.9025-9. Fax: 662.246.2105.
www.fivestarent.com, email:
info@fivestarent.com
Production & Distribution
At AFM: Ms. Aphiradee Iamphungphorn
(International Sale Executive), Mr. Tian
Ponvanit (Senior Executive Director),
Mrs. Somjai Lertsethtakarn (Senior
Executive Director), Mr. Kiattikul
Iamphungporn (Executive Director), Ms.
Arthita Lertsethtakarn (Sale Coordinator)
Acquisition Executive: Ms. Aphiradee
Iamphungphorn
Office: Loews Rm.301, Tel:
6681.934.8190. Fax: 310.458.6761
MUAY THAI CHAIYA
www.muaythaichaiyathemovie.com
Action (115 min)
Language: Thai
Director: Kongkiat Komesiri
Writer: Kongkiat Komesiri, Yossapong
Pholsup
Producer: Thanit Jitnukul
Key Cast: Akara Amarttayakul,
Thawatchai Penpakdee
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Thailand
Three men confront their destinies and
uphold the martial arts legacy of their
ancestors. From humble origins they
conquer Bangkok’s bloody boxing ring
and proclaim the might of ‘Muay Thai
Chaiya’.
THE SCREEN AT KAMCHANOD
www.thescreenthemovie.com
Thriller
Language: Thai
Director: Songsak Mongkolthong
Writer: Songsak Mongkolthong
Producer: Pran Padaveerawat
Key Cast: Achita Pramoj Na Ayudhya,
Pakkaramai Potranan
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Thailand
In 1987, four movie screeners stumbled
upon chilling event as they were hired to
screen a movie in the forest of
Kamchanod, Udon Thani Province.
ART OF THE DEVIL 3
Horror
Language: Thai
Director: Ronin Team
Writer: Roni Team
Producer: Five Star Production Co., Ltd.
Delivery Status: Preproduction
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Thailand
THE UNSEEABLE
Horror (97 min)
Language: Thai
Director: Wisit Sasanatieng
Producer: Five Star Production Co., Ltd.
Cast: Siraphun Wattanajinda, Supornthip
Choungrangsee
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Thailand
A tale of love and horror that brings
together two unsuspecting ladies.
FOCUS FEATURES
INTERNATIONAL
Focus Features International, New York
Office, 65 Bleecker Street, 3rd Floor,
New York, NY 10012. Tel:
1.212.539.4000. Fax: 1.212.539.4099.
UK Office: Fourth Floor, Oxford House,
76 Oxford Street, London W1D 1BS. Tel:
44.207.307.1300. Fax: 44.207.307.1301.
At AFM: Alison Thompson (President,
International Sales and Distribution),
Heta Paarte (SVP, International
Marketing and Distribution), Tim
Spencer (SVP, International Sales), Peter
Kujawski (VP, International Sales)
Office: Loews Suite 842, Tel:
310.455.7345, Fax: 310.455.7350
BLINDNESS
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Screenplay: Don McKellar adapted from
the novel by José Saramago
Producers: Niv Fichman, Sonoko Sakai,
Andrea Barata Ribeiro
Exec Prods: Simon Channing Williams,
Gail Egan
Co-Prod: Bel Berlinck, Sari Friedland
Cast: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo,
Gael Garcia Bernal, Danny Glover
Status: In Production
Year of Prod: 2007
Internationally renowned filmmaker and
Academy Award-nominee Fernando
Meirelles (The Constant Gardener, City
of God) brings to life Nobel Prizewinner Jose Saramago’s exhilarating tale
of humanity under siege by an uncanny
epidemic.
BLOOD, THE LAST VAMPIRE
Director: Chris Nahon; Action Director:
Cory Yuen
Screenplay: Chris Chow
Producers: Bill Kong, Abel Nahmias,
Ronny Yu
Cast: Gianna Jun, Allison Miller
Status: In Post Production
Year Of Prod: 2007
Renowned producer Bill Kong
(Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Hero)
teams with action director Chris Nahon
(Kiss of the Dragon) on this English
language vampire slaying adventure
where the hope of the world rests on a
beautiful young woman.
RUDO Y CURSI
Director: Carlos Cuaron
Screenplay: Carlos Cuaron
Producers: Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo
Del Toro, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu
And Frida Torresblanco
Cast: Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna
Status: In Post Production
Year of Prod: 2007
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FRIES FILM GROUP,
INC.
Fries Film Group, Inc., 22817 Ventura
Blvd. #909, Woodland Hills, CA 91364
USA. Tel: 818.888.3052. Fax:
818.888.3042.
Distributor
At AFM: Charles M. Fries (President),
Adam Welles (VP of Worldwide Sales)
Office: Topanga Suite – 7th Floor, Tel:
310.458.6700 ext. 2221
ALIEN AGENT
Action (2007)
Cast: Mark Dacascos, Billy Zane,
Amelia Cooke
Status: Post Production. Scheduled
Debut screening at AFM 2007
A lawman from another Galaxy must
stop an invading force from building a
gateway to our world.
NUMB
Romantic Comedy (2007)
Director: Harris Goldberg
Cast: Mathew Perry, Lynn Collins, Mary
Steenburgen
Status: Scheduled to screen at AFM 2007
When a writer falls in love with his soul
mate, her love cures him of his neurotic
personality.
WELCOME TO HOLLYWOOD 2
Comedy (2007)
Director: Adam Rifkin
Status: Scheduled Debut screening at
AFM 2007
A mockumentary that shows you the
REAL Hollywood. Filmmaker Alan
Rifkin takes an unknown, wannabe Actor
under his wing and aims to make him a
star.
FULL MOON
FEATURES
Full Moon Features, 1626 Wilcox
Avenue, Suite 474, Hollywood, CA 90028
USA. Tel: 323.822.2100.
http://www.fullmoonfeatures.com
At AFM: Chris Shaw (Director of
International Sales), Charles Band
(President, CEO), Eddie Edwards
(Director of Domestic Sales and
Marketing)
Office: Le Merigot 249, Tel:
323.632.4894
DANGEROUS WORRY DOLLS
Horror (86 min)
Language: English
Director: Charles Band
Writer: August White
Producer: Charles Band, Executive
Producer:
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: Under $500,000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Killer dolls come to life! Worry dolls are
placed under the pillow to take away all
your worries when you sleep – problem
is when the worry dolls are what you are
worried about!
DECADENT EVIL 2
Horror (82 min)
Language: English
Director: Charles Band
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Writer: August White
Producer: Dana K Harrloe, Jon Morrey,
James H. Snyder, Exec Producer: s
Key Cast: Jill Michelle, Daniel Lennox,
Ricardo Gil
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: Under $500,000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Sweet Vampire, Sugar (Jill Michelle)and
human boyfriend Dex (Daniel Lennox),
flee to Little Rock Arkansas in search of
a way to revive their vampire hunting
friend Ivan (Ricardo Gil).
DEAD MAN’S HAND; CASINO OF
THE DAMNED
Horror (80 min)
Language: English
Director: Charles Band
Writer: August White
Co-Production Partners: Joe Dain, Jason
Koren
Producer: Charels Band
Key Cast: Sid Haig, Michael
Berryman,Robin Sydney,Scott
Whyte,Kristyn Green,
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: Under $500,000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A group of friends take a trip to the
outskirts of Las Vegas and discover the
run down and haunted “Mysteria
Casino”.
G
GAUMONT
Gaumont, 30, Avenue Charles de Gaulle,
92200 Neuilly Sur Seine, France. Tel:
33.1.46.43.21.80. Fax: 33.1.46.43.20.33,
www.gaumont.net
At AFM: Loïc TROCMÉ (Head of Sales
and Acquisitions), Yves CHEVALIER
(Acquisitions Consultant), Cécile
GAGET (Sales & Acquisitions),
Dorothée GROSJEAN (Sales), Virginie
ROYER (Sales)
Office: 648, Tel: 310.899.4567. Fax:
310.234.3926
ROCK THE BOAT
CGI Animation
Director: Fabien Suarez & André Bessy
Production: GAUMONT
Status: Pre-production
When “Some Like it Hot” meets
“Titanic” on Noah’s Ark.
BIG CITY
Family Comedy
Director: Djamel Bensalah
Production: GAUMONT / MIROIR
MAGIQUE !
Cast: Eddy Mitchell, Atmen Kélif
Status: Completed / Screening
In the 1880’s, on the borders of the
American West, all the adults of Big City
have gone, forced to defend their fellow
men who have been trapped. The
children find themselves alone and must
organize common life.
TWO WORLDS (LES DEUX
MONDES)
Comedy
Director: Daniel Cohen
Production: GAUMONT / MNP
Entreprise
Cast: Benoît Poelvoorde, Daniel Cohen,
Michel Duchaussoy
Status: Post-production
Rémy Bassano, a quiet and humble
craftsman in Paris, becomes, despite
himself, the liberator of an oppressed
tribe in another world. The absolute,
blind veneration he receives from the
entire population will help him discover
unsuspected inner resources.
CHRYSALIS
Thriller / Science Fiction
Director: Julien Leclercq
Production: GAUMONT
Cast: Albert Dupontel, Marie Guillard,
Marthe Keller, Mélanie Thierry, Estelle
Lefébure
Status: Completed / Screening
When truth is lodged in the heart of
brain, memories become a precious and
highly coveted commodity.
STUCK TOGETHER (3 AMIS)
Comedy
Director: Michel Boujenah
Production: GAUMONT / AJOZ FILMS
Cast: Kad Merad, Mathilde Seigner,
Pascal Elbé
Status: Completed / Screening
What is a friend? Do I have any? Am I
one? What is this strange relationship we
call friendship? This eternally
unconsummated love affair.
GLOBAL CINEMA
GROUP LLC
Global Cinema Group LLC, 9229 Sunset
Blvd. Suite #400 Los Angeles CA 90069
USA. Tel: 310.443.7788. Fax:
310.443.7739. email:
info@globalcinemagroup.com
Distributor
At AFM: Peter Elson (President), Lars
Bjorck (Consultant), Nora Shields
(Executive Assistant)
Office: Loews Suites # 650 & 651, Tel:
310.458.6700
JUST BURIED (PUSHING UP
DAISIES)
Black Comedy (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Chaz Thorne
Writer: Chaz Thorne
Producer: John Watson, Pen Densham,
Bill Niven, Chaz Thorne
Cast: Rose Byrne, Jay Baruchel, Graham
Greene
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
Oliver just inherited a funeral home in a
town where nobody is dying ….yet.
COUNTERPOINT
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Michael Konyves
Writer: Michael Konyves
Producer: Joel B. Michaels, Garth H.
Drabinsky
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008 Country of
Origin: USA
A dramatic thriller of familial
complications involving secrets and lies
that when played out, result in emotional
healing and scarring.
TOTAL EXPOSURE
Action
Language: English
Writer: Nevin Densham
Producer: John Watson, Pen Densham
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: USA
A tough young Los Angeles police
detective is forced to protect a world
famous heiress-turned-actress from
Christian fundamentalists hell bent on
making her death an international
sensation.
FOODFIGHT!
Animation
Language: English
Director: Lawrence Kasanoff
Writer: Sean Derek
Producer: Lawrence Kasanoff, George
Johnsen, Joshua Wexler
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Eva Longoria,
Hilary Duff
Delivery Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
In the supermarket at night when the
lights go out, the grocery store
transforms into a city: bursting into this
world are virtually all the characters we
have known and loved for the last 40
years.
RESTRAINT (RAVENSWOOD)
Drama/Thriller/ Suspense (92 min)
Language: English
Director: David Denneen
Writer: Dave Warner
Producer: Anna Fawcett, Mark Lazarus,
Todd Fellman, Dan Halsted
Cast: Travis Fimmel, Stephen Moyer,
Teresa Palmer
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Australia
A young couple on the run hole up in a
country estate with a hostage in tow
who’s got a dark past of his own.
NEARING GRACE
Drama (105 min)
Language: English
Director: Rick Rosenthal
Writer: Jacob Aaron Estes
Producer: Rick Rosenthal, Susan
Johnson, Tracy Underwood
Cast: Gregory Smith, Jordana Brewster,
Ashley Johnson, David Morse
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
In New Jersey Suburbia circa 1979, one
high school senior loses and finds grace
in the dreamlike world of teenage
longing.
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GOALPOST FILM
LIMITED
Goalpost Film Limited, 258-260
Lavender Hill, London SW11 1LJ UK.
Tel: 44.207.585.3222. Fax:
44.207.585.3230.
At AFM: Tristan Whalley (Managing
Director), Nicki Parfitt (Co-managing
Director)
Office: 322, Le Merigot, Tel:
44.207.585.3222. Fax: 44.207.585.3230
CLUBLAND (INTRODUCING THE
DWIGHTS)
www.clublandthefilm.com
Drama (108min)
Language: English
Director: Cherie Nowlan
Writer: Keith Thompson
Producer: Rosemary Blight
Key Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Khan
Chittenden, Emma Booth
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Australia
Tim has a new girlfriend. It should be
the perfect romance but something is
holding him back. He has a dark secret
…. His parents are entertainers! There
are never just two people in a family
love story.
THE ESCAPIST
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Rupert Wyatt
Writer: Rupert Wyatt
Producer: Alan Moloney, Adrian Sturges
Key Cast: Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes,
Damian Lewis Seu Jorges
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Ireland/UK
A prison escape thriller with a twist set
in the subterranean tunnels beneath
London.
ELISE
Drama
Language: English
Director: James Bogle
Writer: James Bogle
Producer: Ben Grant
Key Cast: Natalie Imbruglia
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Australia
At the beach one summer day a little girl
goes missing. Twenty years on her sister
finds the courage to rearrange the pieces
of her broken life . and invent a new
beginning.
GOLDEN NETWORK
ASIA LIMITED
Golden Network Asia Limited, Unit
2003, Futura Plaza, 111-113 How Ming
Street, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong. Tel:
852.2751.1886. Fax: 852.2750.4862.
email: info@goldnetasia.com
Sales Agent
At AFM: Carrie Wong (Managing
Director), Clarence Tang (Head of Sales
and Acquisitions), Lammy Li (Sales and
Marketing Manager) and Elise Wong
(Senior Sales and Marketing Assistant)
Acquisition Executive: Clarence Tang
Office: Loews Room 459, Tel:
310.458.6700. Fax: 310.458.2813
THE HOUSE
Horror (110 min)
Language: Thai
Director: Monthon Arayangkoon
Writer: Monthon Arayangkoon and
Sompope Vejchapipat
Producer: Jantima Liawsirikun and
Monthon Arayangkoon
Key Cast: Inthira Chaloenpura,
Chamanun Wanwinwasara, Chatcha
Rujinanon
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: USD1M
STUCK TOGETHER – GAUMONT
Year of Production: 2007 , Country of
Origin: Thailand
Inspired by true stories, about three
murder cases and their connection with
one particular house. A female TV
reporter is sent to make a documentary
about a murder case.
MID ROAD GANG
Family (88 min)
Language: Thai
Director: Pantham Thongsang and
Somkiat Vithuranich
Writer: Somkiat Vithuranich, Watchara
Paniom, Sontaya Suchada, Karun
Khumanuwong
Producer: Pantham Thongsang
Key Cast: Dog actors : Makham, NamKhang, Keng, Kafe, Peak, Sexy, Pikul,
Tommy
Cast : Pitisak Yaowananont, Pavarisa
Phenjati
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: USD1.5M
Year of Production: 2007 , Country of
Origin: Thailand
Awarded Golden Gryphon Best Film,
KIDZ Section at Giffoni Film Festival
2007. An inspiring comedy about the
friendship, courage and loyalty between
a pack of stray mutts.
YONA YONA
Animation (95 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Rintaro
Writer: Tomoko Konparu
Producer: Iwao Yamaki and Hiroshi
Hirokawa
Co-production partners: Denis Friedman
Productions
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget: USD13M
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: Japan/France
A adventure fantasy of a girl who
believes penguins can fly, a fallen Angel,
and a Goblin, who grow up through their
friendship and courage.
DUCK FIGHT
3D Animation / Rotoscoping
Language: Thai
Director: Pornchai Hongrattanaporn
Producer: Pantham Thongsang
Delivery Status: In Development
Budget: USD4.5M
Year of Production: 2009, Country of
Origin: Thailand
Set against a backdrop of the cockfighting world, DUCK FIGHT shows us
the dangers to both poultry and human
beings of living without care and
compassion.
PECULIAR KIN
Animation
Language: Mandarin
Director: Wang Yunfei
Writer: Lao Mei
Producer: Hou Li
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget: USD1.5M
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: China
An exotic adventure story between a 10year-old girl and a little white “Tiger”.
H
HALCYON
INTERNATIONAL
PICTURES
Halcyon International Pictures, 2620 S.
Maryland Parkway, Suite 970, Las
Vegas, NV 89109 USA. Tel:
310.388.6087. Fax: 310.388.0481.
http://www.halcyonpix.com.
halcyon_afm@yahoo.com
At AFM: Ray Haboush (Managing
Partner), Brian Yuzna (Partner)
Office: Loew’s Hotel Suite 205,
Tel: 1.310.458.6700 x205
BROKEN IDYLL
(88 min)
Director: Victoria Hadden
Writer: Victoria Hadden
Producer: Victoria Hadden
Key Cast: Julia Saint Paul
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Germany
SOLAR VENGEANCE
Sci-Fi (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Andrew Bellware
Writer: Andrew Bellware
Producer: Laura Schlachtmeyer
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A criminal sentenced to life on a prison planet
reveals his true purpose: to extract revenge on
the killers who murdered his family.
OFFWORLD
Sci-Fi (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Neil Johnson
Writer: John Dalton
Producer: Maui Toca
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: US
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A battle across the galaxy to find and
save the last of the human race.
PRIMAL
Creature (81 min)
Language: English
Director: Steffen Schlachtenhaufen
Writer: Steffen Schlachtenhaufen
Producer: Patrick McManus
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: US
Environmentalists on a survey mission
are led astray into the uncharted regions
of a secluded wilderness preserve where
they fall victim to a vicious predator.
HANNIBAL
PICTURES
Hannibal Pictures, 8265 Sunset Blvd.
Suite 107, West Hollywood, CA 90046
United States. Tel: 323.848.2945. Fax:
323.848.2946.
http://www.hannibalpictures.com, email:
contactus@hannibalpictures.com
At AFM: Richard Rionda Del Castro
(Chairman and CEO), Patricia Rionda
(President), Cam Cannon (Director of
Development), Jonathan Collins
(Director of Production and Sales)
Office: 611, Tel: 310.458.6700 x 611
CHASING THE DRAGON
Action
Language: English
Director: Chris Nahon
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro, W.
Peter Iliff, Wallis Nicita
Key Cast: Wesley Snipes
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: 18 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: United States
A full blast action-adventure about a FBI
agent and his relentless pursuit of an
Asian drug lord.
THE LAST WARRIOR
Action
Language: English
Director: John Eyres
Writer: John Eyres
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro,
Gary Howsam, BJ Rack
Key Cast: Vincent Perez, Laurence
Fishburne
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: 18 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: USA
One man stands alone, the destiny of the
world locked within the depths of his
soul. Killer or savior? The Last Warrior.
THE QUARTERBACK
Action
Language: English
Director: James Fargo
Writer: Cam Cannon
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: 15 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: USA
A Chinese immigrant, stranded in
Moscow, finds himself in possession of
the “Football,” a leather briefcase
containing the U.S. Launch Codes.
CUBA AND THE NIGHT
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Joseph Ruben
Writer: Peter Barsocchini
Producer: Wallis Nicita, Richard Rionda
Del Castro
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: $28 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: USA
A burnt out Pulitzer Prize winning
journalist travels to Cuba to cover a story
about a baseball player who is
considering defecting to the United
States.
MARTIN GREGORY
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro,
Armand Speca
Key Cast: TBA
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: 28 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: USA
After committing a terrifying and brutal
act of violence, Martin Gregory realizes
that he is the reincarnated keeper of a
mysterious crystal that holds the key to
balancing good and evil.
MESSAGES
Thriller
Language: English
Director: David Fairman
Producer: David Fairman, Jon Morrey
Key Cast: Jeff Fahey, Martin Kove, JonPaul Gates
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: United States
A recently widowed forensic pathologist
(Jeff Fahey) believes the victims of a
brutal serial killer are sending him
messages that will lead to the killer. But
mounting evidence. leads to him.
ULTIMATE FORCE
Action
Director: Mark Burson
Producer: Rafael Primorac
Key Cast: Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: United States
A disgraced assassin finds himself
trapped on a mysterious island with other
government operatives. The only way off
the island is to fight.
HANWAY FILMS
Hanway Films, 24 Hanway Street,
London, W1T 1UH, UK. Tel:
44.207.290.0750. Fax:44.207.290.0751.
www.hanwayfilms.com, email:
info@hanwayfilms.com
Sales Agent
At AFM: Tim Haslam (CEO), Charlotte
Van Weede (Director, Sales &
Distribution), Thorsten Schumacher
(Director, Sales & Distribution),
Jonathan Lynch-Staunton (Director,
Marketing & Distribution), Leslie
Vuchot (Manager, Publicity &
Marketing)
Office: Le Merigot 150, Tel:
1.310.899.4591, Fax: 1.310.899.4592
BATTLE FOR HADITHA
Director: Nick Broomfield
Writer: Nick Broomfield, Anna Telford,
Marc Hoeferlin
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Producer: Nick Broomfield, Anna
Telford
Cast: Falah Abraheem Flayeh, Yasmine
Hanani, Elliot Ruiz
Delivery Status: In Production
Running Time: 93 minutes
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
November 19th 2005, Haditha, Iraq.
Iraqi insurgents bomb a convoy of US
Marines, resulting in the death of their
most popular officer. Enraged by this
loss, his young Marine buddies carry out
a brutal retaliation.
control.
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
Director: Julian Jarrold
Writer: Andrew Davies & Jeremy Brock
Producer: Douglas Rae, Robert
Bernstein, Kevin Loader
Cast: Emma Thompson, Michael
Gambon, Ben Whishaw, Matthew
Goode, Hayley Atwell
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
Adapted from one of the truly great
works of fiction of the 20th century,
Brideshead Revisited is a gorgeously
evocative romantic epic portraying a
story of forbidden love and the loss of
innocence.
FRANKLYN
Director: Gerald McMorrow
Writer: Gerald McMorrow
Producer: Jeremy Thomas
Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Eva Green, Sam
Riley
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
Set between the parallel worlds of
contemporary London and the futuristic
faith-dominated metropolis of
Meanwhile City, FRANKLYN weaves a
tale of four people, whose lives are
intertwined by fate, romance and
tragedy.
HBO ENTERPRISES
HBO Enterprises, 1100 Avenue of the
Americas, New York, NY 10036 USA Tel:
212.512.1000. Fax: 212.512.5698.
www.hbo.com
Theatrical Distributor
At AFM: Charles Schreger (President,
International Distribution), Amy
Beecroft (Director of International
Theatrical Distribution), Brian Roth
(Director of International Theatrical
Distribution), Heather McVicar (Vice
President, Marketing)
Office: Le Marigot Hotel, Suite #310,
Tel: 310.455.7300
THE KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL
OF QUARTERS
Documentary (78 min)
Language: English
Director: Seth Gordon
Producer: Ed Cunningham
Main Subjects: Steve Wiebe, Billy
Mitchell, Walter Day
THE POET – AMERICAN WORLD PICTURES
Delivery Status: Completed (Screening)
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
origin: US
A middle-school science teacher and a
hot sauce mogul vie for the Guinness
World Record on the arcade classic,
DONKEY KONG.
KIT KITTREDGE: AN AMERICAN
GIRL
Drama
Language: English
Director: Patricia Rozema
Executive Producer: Julia Roberts
Producers: Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas,
Ellen Brothers, Lisa Gillan, Terry Gould
Cast: Abigail Breslin, Julia Ormond,
Stanley Tucci, Joan Cusak, Chris
O’Donnell, Wallace Shawn, Glenne
Headly, Jane Krakowski
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
origin: US
The popular American Girl doll series
comes to the big screen with KIT
KITTREDGE: AN AMERICAN GIRL
starring Academy Award®-nominee
Abigail Breslin as Kit, a plucky ten-yearold who dreams of becoming a reporter
in Depression era Cincinnati.
HDNET FILMS
HDNet Films, 122 Hudson St., 5th Floor,
New York, NY 10013 USA. Tel:
1.212.255.0626. Fax: 1.212.255.0602.
http://www.hdnetfilms.com
At AFM: Laird Adamson (Head of
International Sales)
Office: Le Merigot 323, Tel:
1.917.601.4771
SURFWISE
Documentary (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Doug Pray
Co-Production Partners: HDNet Films,
Prospect Pictures
Producer: Graydon Carter, Jonathan
Paskowitz, Jason Kliot, Joana Vicente
Key Cast: Doc Paskowitz
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
SURFWISE delves into the life and
unconventional family of legendary
Malibu surfer Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz.
REDACTED
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Brian De Palma
Writer: Brian De Palma
Co-Production Partners: HDNet Films,
The Film Farm
Producer: Jennifer Weiss, Simone Urdl,
Jason Kliot, Joana Vicente
Key Cast: Patrick Carroll, Izzy Diaz,
Rob Devaney, Daniel
Stewart Sherman
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
REDACTED tells the horrific story of a
group of American soldiers deployed in
Iraq and forces us to question the filters
through which we see and accept events
in our world.
NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Mark Hartley
Writer: Mark Hartley
Producer: Craig Griffin, Michael Lynch
Key Cast: Quentin Tarantino
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Australia
A fast moving journey through Aussie
cinema of the 70s and 80s - a cinematic
era unashamedly packed full of boobs,
pubes, tubes.and even a little kung-fu.
HERE! FILMS
here! Films, 10990 Wilshire Blvd.,
Penthouse, Los Angeles, California
90024 USA. Tel: 310.806.4298. Fax:
310.806.4268.
www.regententertainment.com/herefilms.
html
Producer and Distributor
At AFM: Mark Reinhart (Executive VP,
Distribution & Acquisitions), Quinn Coleman
(Acquisitions Executive)
Office: Loews 834, Tel: 1.310.458.6700 x834
SHELTER
Drama (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Jonah Markowitz
Producer: Stephen P. Jarchow, Paul
Colichman, J.D. Disalvatore
Cast: Brad Rowe,Tina Holmes, Trevor
Wright
Delivery Status: Completed
Zach has always put the needs of others
above his own; but when he begins
falling for his best friend’s older brother,
he struggles to reconcile his own dreams
with the demands of his family.
FAT GIRLS
Comedy (83 min)
Language: English
Director: Ash Christian
Producer: Kim Fishman, Ash Christian,
Kelli Lerner
Cast: Ash Christian, Jonathan Caouette,
Ashley Fink
Delivery Status: Completed
Armed with biting humor and quirky
sensibility, Rodney and his Rubenesque
friend Sabrina are valiantly suffering
through the indignity known as high
school.
LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP
Romantic Comedy (97 min)
Language: English
Director: Rob Williams
Producer: Rob Williams
Cast: Matthew Montgomery, Windham
Beacham, Artie O’Daly
Delivery Status: Completed
Glenn gets tired of one night stands, and
answers an ad placed by Adam, who is
looking for an LTR. Glenn & Adam are
perfect for each other, except for one, or
two, or many things.
THE LAIR
Horror (6 x ? hour)
Language: English
Director: Fred Olen Ray
Producer: Stephen P. Jarchow, Paul
Colichman
Cast: Peter Stickles, David Moretti,
Colton Ford, Dylan Vox
Delivery Status: Completed
From the producers of the hit series
Dante’s Cove comes The Lair, America’s
first gay vampire series.
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DANTE’S COVE – THE SOLSTICE
– SEASON THREE
Supernatural Thriller (5 x 1 hour)
Language: English
Director: Sam Irvin
Producer: Stephen P. Jarchow, Paul
Colichman
Cast: Gregory Michael, Charlie David,
William Gregory Lee, Tracy Scoggins,
Thea Gill, Jon Fleming, Reichen
Lehmkuhl, Jill Bennett, Jenny Shimizu,
Jensen Atwood
Delivery Status: Completed
Dante’s Cove, lauded by leading gay
publication The Advocate as Best Soap
Opera in 2006, follows a cast of mostly
gay and lesbian characters who all live
together in the sleepy beachside
community of Dante’s Cove.
HIGH POINT
MEDIA GROUP
High Point Media Group, Suite 16
Deane House Studios, Greenwood Place,
London NW5 1LB United Kingdom. Tel:
44.20.7424.6870. Fax: 44.20.7485.3281.
www.highpointfilms.co.uk, email:
info@highpointfilms.co.uk
At AFM: Elisar Cabrera (Executive
Director, Sales), Ronald de Neef
(International Consultant)
Office: c/o UK Film Council US, Malibu
Suite, 7th Floor, Loews Hotel,
Tel: 1.310.455.7472.
Cell: 44.7904.540.994
EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION
Thriller (77 min)
Director: Jim Threapleton
Writer: Jim Threapleton
Producer: Andrew Noble
Production Company: Rendition Ltd.
Cast: Omar Berdouni, Andy Serkis, Ania
Sowinski
Delivery Status: completed
Country: UK
A man is abducted from the streets of
London and transported via secret flights
to an unknown country where he is
tortured and interrogated without trial for
a crime he didn’t commit.
KINGS
Drama (88 min)
Writer/Director: Tom Collins
Producer: Jackie Larkin
Production Company: Newgrange
Pictures
Cast: Colm Meaney, Donal O’Kelly,
Brendan Conroy, Donncha Crowley,
Barry Barnes and Sean O Tarpaigh
Delivery Status: completed
Country: Ireland/UK
Six men reunite for a friend’s funeral, 30
years after emigrating from Ireland to
London in search of a better life.
THE PLAGUE
Drama (104 min)
Director: Greg Hall
Writer: Greg Hall
Producer: Rebecca Finlay-Hall
Production Company: WYSIWYG
Cast: Samuel Anoyka, Brett Harris,
Sanjiv Jayre
Country: United Kingdom
Welcome to the 21st Century. A story of
England told from inner city London.
HOLLYWOOD
CLASSICS
Hollywood Classics, Linton House, 3951 Highgate Road, London NW5 1RS
UK. Tel: 44.20.7424.7289. Fax:
44.20.7428.8936.
info@hollywoodclassics.com
At AFM: Joe Dreier (Managing
Director), David Llewellyn-Jones (TV
Sales Director)
Office: Le Merigot, rm. 156, Tel:
310.395.9700
CLASSICS FILMS FOR DVD
HOLLYWOOD
WIZARD
Hollywood Wizard, 8918 Amestoy Ave.,
Northridge, CA 91325 USA. Tel: 818.
461. 9349. Fax: 818. 461. 9143.
http://www.hollywoodwizard.com, email:
sales@hollywoodwizard.com
At AFM: Tony Kandah (President and
CEO), Mirna Kandah (Vice President &
CFO)
Office: Loews Hotel Suite # 501, Tel:
310. 458. 6700, ext 501, Fax: 818. 461.
9143
DANTE’S INFERNO
http://www.hollywoodwizard.com
Comedy (78 min)
Language: English
Director: Sean Meredith
Writer: Sean Meredith
Producer: Paul Zaloom
Key Cast: Dermot Mulroney, James
Cromwell, Martha Plimpton
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A darkly comedic travelogue of the
underworld - set against an all-toofamiliar urban backdrop of used car lots,
gated communities, strip malls, and the
U.S. Capitol.
THE FAR SIDE OF JERICHO
Western (99 min)
Language: English
Director: Tim Hunter
Writer: James Crumley
Producer: Tom Shell
Key Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Patrick
Bergin, James Grommon, Vanessa Zima
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $2 million
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Three women find themselves running
for their lives from a posse of vigilantes,
mystical Indians and villains - all are
convinced that the women hold the key
to the whereabouts of their husbands’
missing bank loot.
THE THIRD EYE
Thriller (97 min)
Language: English
Director: Leah Walker
Writer: Jordan Walker
Producer: Deborah Marks
Key Cast: Tara Spencer-Nairn, Julian
Richings
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Photojournalist Nika Printz is struggling
to accept the mysterious death of her
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younger brother when she discovers his
obsession with trepanation; an ancient
procedure that involves drilling a hole in
one’s head.
HORIZON MOTION
PICTURES
Horizon Motion Pictures, Suite 111, 1271
Howe Street Vancouver BC Canada V6Z
1R3 Tel: 604.632.1707. Fax:
604.632.1711.
www.horizonmotionpictures.com
At AFM: Rob Straight (President),
Caroline Stern (Vice President)
Office: Loews 654, Tel: 1.310.458.6700
x654
SHARKWATER
Documentary (89min)
Language: English (Canada)
Directed by Rob Stewart
Produced by Rob Stewart
Starring Patrick Moore, Erich Ritter, Rob
Stewart, Paul Watson, Boris Worm
Delivery Status: Completed 2006
For filmmaker Rob Stewart, exploring
sharks began as an underwater
adventure. What it turned into was a
beautiful and dangerous life journey into
the balance of life on earth.
SUPER AMIGOS
Feature Documentary (82 min)
Languages: English/Spanish
(Canada/Mexico)
Directed by Arturo Perez Torres
Screenplay by Arturo Perez Torres
Produced by Heather Haynes and Arturo
Perez Torres
Starring Super Barrio, Fray Tormenta,
Super Gay, Super Animal, Ecologista
Universal
Delivery Status: Completed 2007
Five modern day super heroes, dressed
as “Lucha libre” wrestlers, fight for
social justice and human rights in
Mexico City.
BEHIND FORGOTTEN EYES
Feature Documentary (76 min)
Language: Korean/English (USA/Korea)
Directed by Anthony Gilmore
Screenplay by Anthony Gilmore
Produced by Anthony Gilmore and Alex
Ferrari
Starring narration by “LOST’s” Yun-Jin
Kim
Delivery Status: Completed 2006
Narrated by “LOST’s” Yunjin Kim, this
RAIL OTAKU AND RAIL QUEEN
TOHOKUSHINSHA FILM CORP.
feature doc examines the enduring
legacy of Korean sex slaves under WWII
Japanese colonial rule and honors a few
brave women who came forward to
break the silence.
HUAYI BROTHERS
PICTURES CO. LTD
Huayi Brothers Pictures Co. Ltd, Lou Tai
Duan Wen Yu River, Tianzhu Shunyi,
Beijing 101312 P.R. China. Tel:
8610.64579338. Fax: 8610.64570230.
http://www.hbpictures.com
At AFM: Felice Bee (Director Int’l Sales
& Distribution)
Office: Loews Hotel Room #202, Tel:
310.458.6700, ext 202
ASSEMBLY
War/Drama (122’)
Language: Chinese Mandarin
Director: Feng Xiaogang
Writer: Liu Heng
Producer: Wang Zhongjun, Wang
Zhonglei
Key Cast: Zhang Hanyu, Deng Chao,
Tang Yan, Yuan Wenkang
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 16M USD
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: P.R. China
The battle that changed the face of
modern Chinese history.
THE EQUATION OF LOVE AND
DEATH
Romance/Crime/Mystery
Language: Chinese
Director: Cao Baoping
Key Cast: Zhou Xun, Deng Chao, Zhang
Hanyu, Wang Baoqiang, Wang Ning
Delivery Status: Post Production
Budget: 1.5M USD
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: P.R. China
When a mysterious death occurs, the
lives of five unexpected strangers are
intertwined together, weaving together
three love stories.
D-PROJECT (WORKING)
Action/Epic/Suspense thriller
Language: Chinese
Director: Tsui Hark
Producer: Wang Zhongjun, Wang
Zhonglei
Delivery Status: In Development
Country of Origin: China
When a series of unexplainable deaths
take place in the Imperial Palace, causing
fear and chaos, Emperor Wu has no
choice but to call on the infamous Judge
D to solve the murders.
THE MATRIMONY
http://www.hbpictures.com
Thriller/Romance (94’)
Language: Chinese Mandarin
Director: Teng Huatao
Writer: Zhang Jialu, Yang Qianling
Producer: Wang Zhongjun,
Wangzhonglei
Key Cast: Leon lai, Rene Liu, Fan
Bingbing
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 2.5M USD
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: P.R.China
A woman finds the key to a room in the
attic that her husband forbids her from
entering. When she opens the door, she
is confronted with the haunting existence
of the woman her husband refuses to
forget.
HYDE PARK
INTERNATIONAL
Hyde Park International, 14958 Ventura
Blvd., Suite 100, Sherman Oaks, CA
91403 USA. Tel: 818.783.6060. Fax:
818.783.6319.
At AFM: Ashok Amritraj (CEO), Lisa
Wilson (President), Michael Stone (Sales
Consultant), David Hoag (Market
Coordinator)
Office: Loews Room 765, Tel:
818.516.4746
BATTLE IN SEATTLE
http://www.battleinseattlemovie.com/
Political Drama
Director: Stuart Townsend
Writer: Stuart Townsend
Producer: Kirk Shaw, Mary Aloe
Key Cast: Charlize Theron, Woody
Harrelson, Martin Henderson, Michelle
Rodriguez, Ray Liotta, Channing Tatum,
Connie Nielson, Andre Benjamin, Isaach
de Benkole
Delivery Status: Completed
Based on actual events which took place
during the World Trade Organization
summit in Seattle in November 1999.
THE CITY OF YOUR FINAL
DESTINATION
Drama
Director: James Ivory
Writer: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Producer: Richard Hawley, Ashok
Amritraj
Key Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Laura
Linney, Hiro Sanada, Charlotte
Gainsbourg, Omar Metwally, Norma
Aleandro, Kate Burton
Delivery Status: Completed
A graduate student examines his own life
as he writes a biography of a recently
deceased Latin American author.
THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI
Drama
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Writer: Jane Hawksley
Producer: Arthur Cohn, Wieland SchulzKeil
Key Cast: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Radha
Mitchell, Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh
Delivery Status: Completed
A young Englishman leads 60 orphaned
boys on an extraordinary journey
through 1930s war ravaged China.
STREET FIGHTER
Action
Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Writer: Justin Marks
Producer: Ashok Amritraj
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
The story of Chun-Li, based on
Capcom’s fabulously popular videogame
franchise.
THE OTHER END OF THE LINE
Romantic Comedy
Director: James Dodson
Writer: Tracey Jackson
Producer: Ashok Amritraj
Key Cast: Jesse Metcalfe
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
A beautiful young Indian woman and an
American businessman cross cultural
barriers in this uplifting romantic
comedy in the vein of Pretty Woman.
I
ICON
ENTERTAINMENT
INTERNATIONAL
Icon Entertainment International, Solar
House, 915 High Road, North Finchley,
London N12 8QJ United Kingdom. Tel:
44(0)20.8492.6300. Fax:
44(0)20.8492.6301. www.iconmovies.net
At AFM: Mark Gooder (President,
Acquisitions and Development, Icon
Productions, Inc, USA), Ariel Veneziano
(President of Icon Entertainment
International), Anthony Buckner (Senior
International Sales Manager), Abby
Kadell (International Sales Manager),
Toby Hill (Head of Acquisitions, Icon
Film Distribution Ltd, UK), Greg
Hughes (General Manager, Home
Entertainment, Icon Film Distribution
Pty Ltd, Australia), Ian Dawson (Head of
UK Home Entertainment)
Office: Room 754, 7th Floor, Loews,
Tel: 1.310.455.7311, Fax: 310.234.3989
PUSH
Director: Paul McGuigan
Producers: Bruce Davey, William Vince
Screenplay: David Bourla
Cast: Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning,
Camilla Belle, Djimon Hounsou
Delivery Status: In production
Country of Origin: USA
PUSH is a sci-fi thriller that takes us into
the secret world of psychic espionage.
INFESTATION
Horror
Language: English
Director: Kyle Rankin
Producer: Bruce Davey, Rhoades Rader,
Jeff Balis, TJ Sakasegawa
Cast: Christopher Marquette
Delivery Status: In post-production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Our hero, Cooper, awakes to find himself
nauseous, weak and covered in webbing,
hanging from the ceiling of an office
where, just minutes ago, he started his
new job.
GARY THE TENNIS COACH
(Formerly part of the Greenestreet Films
Slate)
Comedy
Director: Danny Leiner
Producers: Seann William Scott, John
Penotti, Michael Nathanson
Screenplay: Andy Stock, Rick Stempson
Cast: Seann William Scott, Randy Quaid,
Leonor Varela
Delivery Status: Post-Production
An overzealous high school janitor, who
has not recovered from his failed career
as a tennis pro, begins coaching his
beloved sport to a group of misfits and
leads them to the Nebraska State
Championship.
THE LAWS OF MOTION
(Formerly part of the Greenestreet Films
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Slate)
Comedy
Director: Craig Lucas
Producers: Daniela Taplin, Celine
Rattray, Jana Edelbaum, Hilary Swank,
Galt Niederhoffer
Screenplay: Elyse Friedman
Cast: Matthew Perry, Hilary Swank, Ben
Foster, Ginnifer Goodwin
Delivery Status: Post-Production
This heartfelt comedy, in the vein of
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE and
SIDEWAYS, follows three adult siblings:
a straight-edge professor, his sexually
promiscuous sister and hippie kid
brother.
THE STANFORD PRISON
EXPERIMENT
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Producers: Brent Emery, Christopher
McQuarrie, Mark Morgan, Guy Oseary
Screenplay: Christopher McQuarrie, Tim
Talbott with the active participation of
Dr Philip Zimbardo
Cast: Jamie Bell, Kieran Culkin, Paul
Dano, Jesse Eisenberg, Charlie Hunnam,
Ben McKenzie, Ryan Phillippe,
Giovanni Ribisi, Channing Tatum
Delivery Status: In pre-production
Based on the true events of Dr.Philip
Zimbardo’s notorious 1971
psychological study, ‘The Stanford
Prison Experiment’ is an unflinching
portrayal of the human response to
captivity.
ICON ARE PROUD TO REPRESENT
THE FOLLOWING TITLES
FORMERLY PART OF THE
GREENESTREET FILMS SLATE
BILL
Romantic Comedy
Director: Melisa Wallack, Bernie
Goldmann
Producers: John Penotti, Fisher Stevens,
Matthew Roland
Screenplay: Melisa Wallack
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Jessica Alba,
Elizabeth Banks, Timothy Olyphant
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Bill’s unremarkable life takes a turn for
the worse when he’s forced to adopt a
teenager-from-hell as part of a
mentorship program he reluctantly joins.
TENDERNESS
Thriller
Director: John Polson
Producers: John Penotti, Howard
Meltzer, Charles Randolph
Screenplay: Emil Stern, based on the
Novel by Robert Cormier
Cast: Russell Crowe, Laura Dern, Jon
Foster, Sophie Traub
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Lori, a sixteen-year old runaway,
becomes entranced with Eric, a young
man with a violent past, recently released
from prison.
THE NINES
Fantasy
Director: John August
Producers: Dan Jinks, Bruce Cohen, Dan
Etheridge
Screenplay: John August
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Hope Davis,
Melissa McCarthy, Elle Fanning
Delivery Status: Completed
THE NINES is comprised of three
different scenarios each featuring the
same actors in different - and sometimes
overlapping - roles.
EXPIRED
Romantic Satire
Director: Cecilia Miniucchi
Producers: Jeffrey Coulter, Fred Roos
Screenplay: Cecilia Miniucchi
Cast: Jason Patric, Samantha Morton
Delivery Status: Completed
The life of two parking enforcement
officers just became a lot more
exciting….Amidst the parking tickets
and angry citizens is a love story about
two dysfunctional, yet endearing
characters.
IDREAM
INDEPENDENT
PICTURES
iDream Independent Pictures, 309
Gainsborough House, 81 Oxford St.
London W1D2EU United Kingdom. Tel:
44.207.903.5116. Fax: 44.207.903.5333,
http://www.idreamindependent.com
At AFM: Rohit Sharma (President International Sales), Kanika Vasudeva
(Manager – Sales)
Office: 307, Loews Hotel, Tel:
1.310.458.6700 x307
AMERICANIZING SHELLEY
http://www.americanizingshelleythemovi
e.com
Comedy; Romance (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Lorraine Senna
Writer: Namrata Singh Gujral
Producer: Nayomi Cooper
Key Cast: Beau Bridges, Namrata Singh
Gujral, Shaheen Khan, Wil Wheaton ,
Morgan Brittany, Ronreaco Lee, Brad
Raider, Phillip Rhys
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 6.0 M US$
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Takes place in Los Angeles and tells the
story of a wannabe Hollywood Player,
who sets out to Americanize an Indian
girl straight from the Himalayas.
BOMBIL AND BEATRICE
http://www.bombilandbeatrice.com
Romance (97 min)
Language: English
Director: Kaizad Gustad
Writer: Kaizad Gustad
Producer: Ayesha Shroff
Key Cast: Katie McGuinness, Prroshant
Narayannan, Piyush Mishra
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 8.0 M US$
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
In the urban slums of today’s Mumbai,
Beatrice tracks down the reincarnation of
her lover from a century ago.
TELLING LIES
Thriller (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Antara Bharadwaj
Writer: Carl Austin, Mike Kramer
Producer: Sunanda Murali Manohar
Key Cast: Melanie Brown (ex Spice
Girls), Jason Flemyng, Jenna Harrison,
Kelly Stables
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 4.0 M US$
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
Telling Lies is the story of a young girl,
Faith Munro, who has just lost her
mother to suicide and resents her father,
Jack, for it.
IFM WORLD
RELEASING INC.
IFM World Releasing Inc., 1328 East
Palmer Avenue, Glendale, California
91205, USA. Tel: 1.818.243.4976. Fax:
1.818.550.9728. www.ifmfilm.com,
email: contact@ifmfilm.com
At AFM: Antony I. Ginnane (President),
Anthony J. Lyons (VP International)
Office: Loews Hotel, Suite #730, Tel:
61.412.982.770
10 DEAD MEN
http://www.tendeadmen.co.uk
Action (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Ross Boyask
Writer: Chris Regan
Producer: Phil Hobden
Principal Cast: Brendan Carr, Terry
Stone, John Rackham
Delivery Status: Trailer available to
view, delivery December 2007
Country of Origin: UK, Production Year:
2007
Ten Men destroyed his life. Now Ten
Men are going to pay
A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
Horror (91 min)
Language: English
Director: Marshall E. Uzzle
Writer: Matt Terzian & Marshall E.
Uzzle
Producer: Matt Terzian, Marshall E.
Uzzle & Philip Lalonde
Principal Cast: Matt Terzian, Troy Beyer,
Geoffrey Lewis & Karen Black
Country of Origin: United States of
America, Production Year: 2006
This is the harrowing story of Taylor’s
last few days on earth.
21 EYES
Mystery / Thriller (88 min)
Language: English
Director: Lee Bonner
Writer: Lee Bonner & Sean Paul Murphy
Producer: David H. Butler
Principal Cast: Fisher Stevens, Michael
Buscemi, Rebecca Mader, Nestor
Serrano
Country Of Origin: USA, Production
Year: 2006
The viewer becomes the eyes of two
detectives as they unravel a mystery on a
video screen, watching tapes from
twenty-one hidden cameras which have
captured a crime in progress.
IMAGEWORKS
ENTERTAINMENT
INT’L INC.
Imageworks Entertainment Int’l inc.,
21910 Plummer St. Chatsworth, CA,
91311. Tel: 818.349.5777. Fax:
818.349.6777.
www.imageworksentertainment.com,
email:
Info@imageworksentertainment.com
At AFM: David Shoshan (CEO), Kurtis
Estes (Director of Operations), Ingrid
Raines (Marketing and Promotions)
Acquisition Executive: Joanna Burish
Office: Suite 505, Tel: 1.310.458.6700,
Fax: 1.818.349.6777
LANGUAGE OF THE ENEMY
Action/Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Mitch Davis
Writer: Mitch Davis
Producer: Jim Abrams
Key Cast: Eion Bailey, Linda Hardy, F.
Murray Abraham
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Israel
An American Jewish businessman travels
to Israel for the funeral of his father.
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While there, he is persuaded to do a brief
reconnaissance for the Israeli Secret
Service inside the city of Ramallah.
ONE OF OUR OWN
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Abe Levy
Producer: Jack Robinson, Silver Tree,
Terry Chase Chenowith
Cast: Josh Randall, Claire Rankin,
Mathew Lillard, Kate Beahan
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: United States of America
Desperate to have a baby against all
odds, a thirty something couple engage a
young woman to bear their child.
FLIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
(PLANE DEAD)
Sci-Fi (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Scott Thomas
Producer: David Shoshan
Cast: Kevin J. O’connor, with Erick
Avari and Richard Tyson.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: United States of America
Ominous thunderstorms trigger the
release of an undead, flesh hungry
scientist who was secretly smuggled into
the cargo-hold of 747 Jetliner.
GUARDING EDDY
Family Drama (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Scott McKinsey
Writer: Paul Davidson
Producer: Brian Presley
Cast: Brian Presley, Kiko Ellsworth
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
An autistic young man gets kicked out of
his parents house and sent to Los
Angeles to survive. He is forced to find
shelter and covers his pain with dreams
of playing professional basketball.
MOTHER GHOST
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Rich Thorne
Writer: Mark Thompson
Producer: Fred Chandler, Rodney
Montague
Cast: James Franco, Charles Durning,
Dana Delany, Gary Marshall, Jere Burns,
Joe Mantegna, Kevin Pollak, Mark
Thompson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Keith Bennet’s mother passed away a
year ago, but one morning his mother’s
jewelry shows up on the bathroom sink,
the same jewelry she was buried in.
MIRACLE AT SAGE CREEK
Family/Western (90 min)
Language: English
Director: James Intveld
Writer: Thadd Turner
Producer: Thadd Turner
Cast: David Carradine, Irene Bedard,
Michael Parks, Wes Studi, Buck Taylor
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
When disaster strikes, two families will
be forced to confront their many
differences as lives hang in the balance.
IMAGINATION
WORLDWIDE, LLC
Imagination Worldwide, LLC, 9107
Wilshire Blvd., Suite 625, Beverly Hills,
CA 90210 United States. Tel:
310.888.3494. Fax: 310.859.7173.
http://www.imagination-llc.com
At AFM: Pierre David (CEO), Tom
Berry (Co-Chairman), Lawrence Goebel
(President), Travis Stevens (Director of
Acquisitions & Marketing), Mark
Scheinbaum (Manager, Technical
Operations)
Office: 811, Tel: 310.455.7315. Fax:
310.455.7317
THE ZOMBIE DIARIES
http://www.zombiediaries.com
Horror (81 min)
Language: English
Director: Kevin Gates and Michael
Bartlett
Writer: Kevin Gates and Michael Bartlett
Producer: Kevin Gates and Michael
Bartlett
Key Cast: Russell Jones, Craig Stovin,
Jonnie Hurn
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
Brace yourself…This time it’s for real.
KILL BULJO
http://www.killbuljo.com
Action / Comedy (92 min)
Language: Norwegian (English dubbed /
Sub d)
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Writer: Stig Frode Henricksen and
Tommy Wirkola
Producer: Magne Ek, Stig Frode
Henriksen, Terje Stroemstad and Tommy
Wirkola
Key Cast: Stig Frode Henriksen, Natasha
Angel Dahle, Tommy Wirkola
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Norway
He may not be very smart, but killing his
family was a stupid thing to do.
BREATHING ROOM
Sci-Fi/Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: John Suits
Writer: John Suits
Producer: Gabriel Cowan and Bryce
Gerlach
Key Cast: Ailsa Marshall, Michael
McLafferty and David Higlen
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: United States
Lying about your past will end your
future. By dawn you’ll probably be dead.
ZALMAN KING’S BODY (TV
SERIES)
Erotic Drama (13x30-min)
Language: English
Director: Zalman King
Writer: Beth Matenko
Producer: Max DeLouise and Neil
LA CENA PER FARLI CONOSCERE (A DINNER TO KNOW THEM ALL)
Bregman, Executive Producer: :Tom
Berry, David Saunders and Pierre David
Key Cast: Jessica Rimmer
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
Adventures in the world of exotic
dancing…a daring new series by the
master of the , Zalman King.
INDEPENDENT
Independent, 32 Tavistock Street,
London, WC2E 7PB United Kingdom.
Tel: 0044.207.257.8734. Fax:
0044.207.240.9029.
http://www.independentfilmcompany.com
, email:
mail@independentfilmcompany.com
At AFM: Abigail Walsh (Head of Sales),
Sarah Goodwin (Head of Marketing),
Andrew Orr (Managing Director)
Office: # 330, Le Merigot Hotel, Tel:
310.395.9700
IN THE HANDS OF THE GODS
http://www.independentfilmcompany.co
m/sales/index.cfm?go=film,23
Documentary (105 min)
Language: English
Director: Ben Turner, Gabe Turner
Producer: Rebecca Green, Leo Pearlman,
Ben Winston
Key Cast: Mike Fisher, Sami Hall
Bassam, Jeremy Lynch, Danny
Robinson, Paul Wood
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
In this coming of age road movie, five
young British freestyle footballers travel
across the Americas to Argentina in the
hope of meeting their hero, Diego
Maradona.
HALLAM FOE
http://www.independentfilmcompany.co
m/sales/index.cfm?go=film,15
Drama (95 min)
Language: English
Director: David Mackenzie
Writer: based on a novel by Peter Jinks
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Producer: Sigma Films
Key Cast: Jamie Bell, Sophia Myles,
Ciaran Hinds, Jamie Sives, Ewen
Bremner, Claire Forlani
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
Hallam searches the rooftops of the city
spying on people - thereby revealing his
darkest fears and his most peculiar
desires.
THE MARK OF CAIN
http://www.independentfilmcompany.co
m/sales/index.cfm?go=film,18
Drama (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Marc Munden
Writer: Tony Marchant
Producer: Red Productions
Key Cast: Matthew McNulty, Gerard
Kearns, Leo Gregory, Shaun Dooley
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
This powerful film uses the testimonies
of soldiers who have served in Iraq to
tell the fictional story of two young men
forced into actions beyond what they can
stand.
NIGHT TRAIN
http://www.independentfilmcompany.co
m/sales/index.cfm?go=film,4
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Writer: Based on the international best
selling novel by Martin Amis
Producer: Luc Roeg, Steven Soderbergh
Key Cast: confirmed cast: Elisabeth
Shue
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
The beautiful Jennifer Rockwell took her
life for seemingly no reason. Her close
friend, Detective Mike Hoolihan, can’t
stop her agonizing investigation until she
finds out why.
INDUSTRYWORKS
DISTRIBUTION INC.
IndustryWorks Distribution Inc., 325
West 7th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Y
1M2 Canada. Tel: 604.876.0547. Fax:
604.876.0541. http://www.industryworks.com. emailsales@industryworks.com
At AFM: Evan Tylor (President), Craig
Adlard (VP Sales), Jennifer Chow (Sales
& Acquisitions Director), John Curtis
(Production Executive)
Office: Loews 602, Tel: 778.995.2786
WALK ALL OVER ME
http://www.industryworks.com/film_waom.htm
Thriller (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Robert Cuffley
Writer: Robert Cuffley, Jason Long
Producer: Carolyn McMaster, Colin
Neale, Kyle Irving
Key Cast: Leelee Sobieski, Tricia Helfer,
Lothaire Bluteau
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
A girl on the run joins forces with a
Dominatrix, when they become a target
of the mob’s search for a missing million
dollars.
THE CYCLE
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Micheal Bafaro
Writer: Micheal Bafaro
Producer: Evan Tylor, John Curtis, Liza
Deyrmenjian
Key Cast: Darryl Hannah
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
A psychotic killer runs rampant
terrorizing a group of environmental
students who inadvertently uncover his
dark secret.
RISE OF THE DAMNED
http://www.industryworks.com/film_undead.htm
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Micheal Bafaro
Writer: Neil Every
Producer: Evan Tylor, Tim Harvey
Key Cast: Luiz Guzman, Liane Balaban
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Canada
A group of filmmakers breaks into an
abandoned mental institution and they
discover that a sinister doctor has taken
up residence in the building’s vast
underground.
PORTAL
http://www.industryworks.com/film_portal.htm
Thriller (88 min)
Language: English
Director: Geoff Schaaf
Writer: George Blumetti, Maurice Kelly
Producer: Suzanne Lyons, Kate Robbins
Key Cast: Chris Conrad, Alexander
Martin, Kevin Dobson
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Soon after finding their way into the
shelter of the mysterious, fog engulfed
town of Mercy, two friends plan to rest
up for the night, only to realize, as nights
turn into nights, that time doesn’t exist.
THE KEEPER: LEGEND OF OMAR
KHAYYAM
http://www.industryworks.com/film_keeper.htm
Family (110 min)
Language: English
Director: Kayvan Masheyekh
Writer: Kayvan Masheyekh
Producer: Kayvan Masheyekh
Key Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Rade
Sherbegdia, Bruno Lastra
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
An epic drama about the 11th century
Mathematician, Astronomer, and Poet of
Persia, Omar Khayyam. This family film
enjoyed a successful US theatrical
release in 2006.
AMBROSE BIERCE: CIVIL WAR
STORIES
http://www.industryworks.com/film_civil.htm
Action (78 min)
Language: English
Director: Don Maxwell
Writer: Don Maxwell and Kathrin
Gnorski
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Producer: Eric Parkinson, Don Maxwell
Key Cast: Campbell Scott, Vivian
Schilling, Nathan Darrow
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Starring Campbell Scott, the epic journey
takes you through the trenches, blood
and the many battles of the Civil War.
INFERNO
Inferno, 9595 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 900,
Beverly Hills, CA 90212 USA. Tel:
323.848.8973. Fax: 323.848.8963.
http://www.infernodistribution.com,
email:
At AFM: Jim Seibel (Partner), Bill
Johnson (Partner), James MacLean (VP
International Sales), Jana Toepfer
(International Sales & Acquisitions)
Office: Le Merigot Hotel, 318 and 320,
Tel: 310.395.9700, Fax: 310.395.9200
THE WOMEN
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Diane English
Writer: Diane English
Producer: Victoria Pearman, Diane
English, Bill Johnson, Mick Jagger
Key Cast: Meg Ryan, Eva Mendes,
Annette Bening
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget: 20 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Based on the iconic George Cukor 1939
Classic: A hip New York comedy about a
tight-knit group of female friends dealing
with friendship, divorce and betrayal.
HACHIKO: A DOG’S STORY
Family Drama
Language: English
Writer: Stephen Lindsey
Producer: Bill Johnson, Vicki Shigekuni
Wong, Paul Mason
Key Cast: Richard Gere
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: 20 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
This heartwarming true story is an
American adaptation of a Japanese tale
about a loyal dog named Hachiko.
SMOTHER
Comedy (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Vince Di Meglio
Writer: Vince Di Meglio, Tim
Rasmussen
Producer: Jay Roach, Bill Johnson, Matt
Berenson, Johnson Chan, Tim
Rasmussen
Key Cast: Diane Keaton, Liv Tyler and
Dax Shepard
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 13 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
What would you do if your mother
moved in with you and just wouldn’t
leave?
INFERNO FILM
PRODUCTIONS, LLC
Inferno Film Productions, LLC, P.O.
696, Littleton, CO 80160 USA. Tel:
303.587.9792. Fax: 303.470.1011.
http://www.infernofilm.com. email:
ifilm@infernofilm.com
At AFM: Darlene Cypser (President),
Trygve Lode (VP)
Office: Loews 525, Tel: 1.310.458.6700
x525
THE RECOVERED
Thriller (81 min)
Language: English
Director: Mike Stoklasa, Jay Bauman
Writer: Mike Stoklasa, Jay Bauman
Producer: Mike Stoklasa, Jay Bauman
Key Cast: Tina Krause, Douglas W. Rose
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A woman returns to her hometown after
fifteen years to make preparations for her
estranged mother’s funeral, only to be
haunted by long-repressed memories of a
childhood horror.
FLOGGING MARGARET
Comedy (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Oliver Assiran
Writer: Oliver Assiran, Brian Majeska
Producer: Oliver Assiran, Brian Majeska
Key Cast: Nicholas Wilder, Jeb Kraeger,
Brenda Logan, CJ Stacy
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
THIS FILTHY WORLD – CINEMAVAULT
Origin: USA
When Keith’s ex, Margaret, reappears to
interfere with his new relationship he
comes up with a plan to take care of
Margaret.
FROZEN STUPID
Comedy (102 min)
Language: English
Director: Rich Brauer
Writer: Rich Brauer
Producer: Rich Brauer
Key Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Joey
Albright, and Kimberly Norris Guerrero
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
The tale of a cantankerous father (Ernest
Borgnine) and his bumbling, but wellmeaning son who share a joyous
obsession for the age old art of ice
fishing.
Year of Production: 2002
Setting out to start a new life on the
prairie, a young couple is terrorized by
the evil in their new home.
INITIAL
ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP
Initial Entertainment Group, 3000 W.
Olympic Blvd., Suite 1550, Santa
Monica, CA 90404 USA. Tel:
310.315.1722. Fax: 310.315.1723.
At AFM: Eric Christenson (President of
Sales & Distribution), Jessie Andres
(Assistant to Eric Christenson), Maxine
Leonard (SVP Marketing and Publicity)
Office: Le Merigot Room 214, Tel:
310.395.9700, Room #214
THE YOUNG VICTORIA
Drama
Director: Jean Marc Vallee
Producers: Graham King, Martin
Scorsese, Tim Headington, Sarah
Ferguson
Principal Cast: Emily Blunt, Rupert
Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda
Richardson, Jim Broadbent
Production Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: UK
“The Young Victoria” chronicles
Victoria’s rise to power, focusing on the
early turbulent years of her reign and her
legendary romance and marriage to
Prince Albert.
BANGKOK DANGEROUS
Action-Adventure
Directors: Danny Pang, Oxide Pang
Producers: William Sherak, Jason
Shuman, Norm Golightly
Principal Cast: Nicolas Cage
Production Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
An anonymous assassin travels to
Bangkok to handle four kills for an
underworld crime boss, but his
conscience becomes his enemy in the
city that never sleeps.
GARDENER OF EDEN
Dark Comedy (88 min)
Director: Kevin Connolly
Producers: Leo DiCaprio, Brad Simpson,
Allen Bain
Principal Cast: Lukas Haas, Erika
Christensen, Giovanni Ribisi
Production Status: Screening
Country of Origin: USA
A 25 year old slacker discovers his
purpose in life after accidentally
apprehending a local rapist - to protect
the good people of his small town. by
any means necessary.
INTANDEM FILMS
Intandem Films, 22 Soho Square,
London, W1D 4NS, UK. Tel:
44.207.851.3800. Fax: 44 207.851.3830.
www.intandemfilms.com, email:
info@intandemfilms.com
Sales Agent
At AFM: Gary Smith (Chief Executive),
Andrew Brown (Director), Billy Hurman
(Director), Sasha Dein Fugazzola
(Production and Marketing Manager),
Justine Stanley (Executive Assistant to
CEO and Communications Manager)
Acquisition Executive: Sasha Dein
Fugazzola
Office: Suite 850 & 851 Loews Hotel,
Tel: 1.310.899.4597
HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND
ALIENATE PEOPLE
Comedy (25 min)
Language: English
Director: Bob Weide
Writer: Peter Straughan
Producer: Stephen Woolley and
Elizabeth Karlsen
Key Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Megan Fox,
Simon Pegg, Gillian Anderson, Jeff
Bridges
Delivery Status: Postproduction, Promo
Reel
Budget: $27m
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
An adaptation of Toby Young’s hilarious
memoir. Sidney Young, an oddball
celebrity-obsessed misfit who is
desperately trying to establish himself in
the glamorous world of a prestigious
magazine.
AND WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE
YOUR FATHER?
Drama (89 min)
Language: English
Director: Anand Tucker
Writer: David Nicholls
Producer: Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen
Woolley
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Key Cast: Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent,
Juliet Stevenson
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $10m
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
The adaptation of Blake Morrison’s best
selling and award winning memoir. An
incredibly moving and candid story of
love and loss in a father-son relationship.
INTRAMOVIES
Intramovies, Via E. Manfredi 15, Rome
00139 Italy. Tel: 39.06.8076157. Fax:
39.06.8076156.
http://www.intramovies.com, email:
mail@intramovies.com
At AFM: Jef Nuyts (Director of Int’l
Sales and Acquisitions)
Office: 504, Tel: 1.310.455.7319,
310.455.7320
BLISS (MUTLULUK)
http://www.mutlulukfilm.com
Drama (106 min)
Language: turkish with english s.t.
Director: Abdullah Oguz
Writer: Abdullah Oguz
Co-Production Partners: ANS
Producer: Abdullah Oguz
Key Cast: Talat Bulut, Ozgu Namal,
Murat Han
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Turkey
17-year-old Meryem is found
unconscious by a lake. Her family, who
lives in a village in eastern Turkey,
thinks that she has willingly had her
chastity corrupted and decides to kill her
by the necessity of custom.
NIGHT BUS (NOTTURNO BUS)
http://www.notturnobus.com/
Action comedy (104 min)
Language: italian with english s.t.
Director: Davide Marengo
Writer: FabioBonifacci e
GiampieroRigosi
Co-Production Partners: Emme and Rai
Cinema
Producer: Sandro Silvestri
Key Cast: Giovanna Mezzogiorno,
Valerio Mastandrea
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Italy
An absurd twist of fate makes a man and
a woman’s paths meet, and from then on
their lives will never be the same…
ONE HUNDRED NAILS (CENTO
CHIODI)
http://www.kinoweb.it/in_uscita/cento_c
hiodi/scheda.htm
Drama (92 min)
Language: italian with english s.t.
Director: Ermanno Olmi
Writer: Ermanno Olmi
Co-Production Partners: Cinema11 Rai
Producer: Roberto Cicutto, Luigi Musini
Key Cast: Raz Degan
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Italy
A young, well established university
professor, lecturer of philosophy,
vanishes into thin air, leaving people to
believe he has committed suicide after
having laid waste to ancient volumes
from the university historical library.
ON EVIL GROUNDS (AUF BOSEM
BODEN)
http://www.kop11.com/index_en.html
Funny horror (82 min)
Language: German with english s.t.
Director: Peter Koller
Writer: Peter Koller
Co-Production Partners: Novotny &
Novotny
Producer: Franz Novotny
Key Cast: Birgit Stauber, Aleksander
Petrovic, Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: low
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Austria
Romeo and Juliet, a couple that has a
very odd perception of their relationship.
ITN DISTRIBUTION
ITN Distribution, 505 E. Windmill Lane,
Suite 1B-102, Las Vegas, NV 89123 USA.
Tel: 702.361.1430. Fax: 702.361.6309.
http://www.itndistribution.com
At AFM: Stuart Alson (President),
Nicole Holland (Vice-President),
Annalisa San Juan (Vice-President),
Todd Konrad (Vice-President of
Acquisitions)
Office: Loews 825, Tel: 702.882.6926.
Fax: 702.361.6309
VALLEY OF ANGELS
Action (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Jon Rosten
Producer: Spencer Winslow
Key Cast: Danny Trejo, George Katt,
Caroline Macey, Renee George, Miguel
‘Angel’ Munguia, Heather Trzyna,
Jessica Martine
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A young drug dealer living the wild life
in upscale West LA searches for
enlightenment and a path out of his very
dangerous world.
ULTIMATE FORCE
Action (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Mark Burson
Writer: Mark Burson
Producer: Mirko Cro-Cop FILIPOVIC,
Rafael PRIMORAC, Zvonimir LUCIC
Key Cast: Mirko Cro-Cop FILIPOVIC,
Bodizar SMILIANIC, Igor
GALLO,Ruza MADAREVIC
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA & Croatia
A highly trained assassin is sent to an
island prison for failure to carry out a
mission.
JOHNNY 316
Arthouse (80 min)
Language: English
Director: Erick Ifergan
Key Cast: Vincent Gallo, Louise
Fletcher, Seymour Cassel, Nina Brosh
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
This love story explores the themes of
spirituality, intimacy and loss, set against
the backdrop of the harsh unforgiving
reality of the streets of Hollywood Blvd.
K
KATAPULT FILM
SALES
Katapult Film Sales, 8490 Santa Monica
Blvd. Suite 5, West Hollywood, CA 90069
US. Tel: 1.310.358-0303. Fax: +1310358-0333. www.katapultfilmsales.com
At AFM: Joni Sighvatsson (Partner),
David Jourdan (Sales Agent), Christine
D’Souza (Sales Assistant), Anna
Kvorning (Sales Consultant)
Office: Le Merigot, suite 221, Tel:
1.323.839.3837, Fax: 1.310.358.0333
THE LAST WINTER
Thriller (101 min)
Language: English
Director: Larry Fessenden
Co-Production Partners: Zik Zak Film
Works
Producer: Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, Larry
Fessenden
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
A chilling supernatural drama about a
malignant force that tests an arctic team
to the very end in this harrowing tale of
a world in collapse.
PHANTOM LOVE (DOS FILHOS DE
FRANCISCO)
Art (87 min)
Language: English
Director: Nina Menkes
Co-Production Partners: Breno Silveira
Producer: Kevin Ragsdale
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
SHERRYBABY
Drama (96’)
Director: English
Language: Laurie Collyer
Co-Production Partners: Elevation
Filmworks
Producer: Marc Turtletaub, Lemore
Syvan
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
KATHY MORGAN
INTL.
Kathy Morgan Intl., 12250 Sky Lane, Los
Angeles CA, 90049. Tel: 310.472.6300.
Fax: 310.472.6304. www.kmifilms.com
Sales Agent
At AFM: Kathy Morgan (President),
Veronica Hool (Sales)
Acquisition Executive: Zach Luna
Office: Loews, Room 518, Tel:
1.310.455.7325
SWING VOTE
Language: English
Director: Joshua Michael Stern
Writer: Joshua Michael Stern and Jason
Richman
Producer: Kevin Costner and Jim Wilson
Key Cast: Kevin Costner, Paula Patton,
Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper,
Nathan Lane, Stanley Tucci, George
Lopez, Judge Reinhold, Mare
Winningham, Richard Petty, Willie
Nelson and introducing Madeline Carroll
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A comical look at the journey of one
father and daughter who discover that
everyone has the power to change the
world.
CAMILLE
Language: English
Director: Gregory MacKenzie
Producer: Albert Ruddy
Key Cast: Sienna Miller, James Franco,
David Carradine and Scott Glenn
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A magical tale about two lost souls, a
wedding gone awry and a love that was
always meant to be.
KELLER
ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP
Keller Entertainment Group, 1093
Broxton Avenue, Suite 246, Los Angeles,
CA 90024 USA. Tel: 310.443.2226. Fax:
310.443.2226. email:
ajk329@kellerentertainment.com
At AFM: Max Keller (CEO), Micheline
Keller (President)
Office: Suite 601, Tel: 310.458.6700.
Fax: 310.443.2194
1362: THE KENSINGTON ENIGMA
Documentary (87 min)
Language: English
Director: Edwin Larson
Writer: Edwin Larson
Co-Production Partners: Nicholas Geist
Producer: Edwin Larson. Nicholas Geist
Delivery Status: complete
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Long before Columbus set
sail,Norsemen established settements in
North America.This controversial
documentary provides undisputable hard
evidence of these voyagers.
EYE FOR AN EYE
Reality Based, Comedy (157x30min)
Language: English
Director: Various
Producer: Atlas Worldwide Syndications
Delivery Status: complete
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Judge “Extreme” Akim never awards his
litigants money, instead he offers
payback of monumental proportions.
THE WOODPECKER WALTZ
Drama
Language: English
Writer: Dan Leonetti
Producer: Max Keller / Micheline Keller
Delivery Status: In Development
Country of Origin: USA
A true story set in 1936 in the state of
Colorado, of an idealistic lawyer fighting
to save a mentally challenged young man
wrongfully accused of a brutal murder.
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KEYSTONE STUDIOS
LLC
Keystone Studios LLC, 3400 Airport Ave
\ Marina del Rey, CA 90292 USA. Tel:
310.397.7150. Fax: 310.397.7155.
www.keystonefilmco.com, email:
sales@keystonefilmco.com
Producer, Distributor
At AFM: Rene Leda (Sr VP Sales),
Gianina Antola (Consultant), Carl
Colpaert (Producer)
Acquisition Executive: Larry Cohen
Office: Loews # 501, Tel: 310.382.0962
G.I. JESUS
www.gijesusthemovie.com
Drama (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Carl Colpaert
Writer: Carl Colpaert-Deon Wilks-Lee
Caplin
Producer: Fred Goodich
Co-Production Partners: Cinefrontera
Key Cast: Joe Arquette – Patricia Motta
– Telana Lynum
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $ 2,000,000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
The exploitation of immigrant soldiers in
the U.S. military and the personal and
psychological costs of the Iraq war.
HOOP REALITIES
http://cineville.com/hoops.htm
Documentary (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Lee Davis
Writer: Lee Davis
Producer: Michael Fischler
Co-production partners: Cineville
Key Cast: Arthur Agee
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $ 1,200,000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A decade after the success of the Oscarnominated basketball documentary Hoop
Dreams comes the follow-up story of
Arthur Agee.
MAN RAY
Drama (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Jimmy Brabant
Writer: Temi Lopez – Bob Bellion
Co-production partners: DLUX
Productions
Key Cast: TBD
Delivery Status: In Development
Budget: ? 5,000,000
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: France - Luxembourg
A cinematic experience that chronicles
the loves, his obsessions and psychosis,
which made him e a genius and leader in
the world of Surrealism, leaving his
mark on the world forever.
KIMMEL
INTERNATIONAL
Kimmel International, 250 Hudson
Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10013
USA. Tel: 212.431.5550. Fax:
212.431.5822.
At AFM: Mark Lindsay (President,
Kimmel International), Stefan Zorich
(Vice President, Marketing & Servicing),
Marcello Paolillo (Vice President, Sales
and Acquisitions, Kimmel International),
Joann Andres (Manager, Sales and
Administration, Kimmel International)
Office: Loews Suite 464, Tel:
310.455.7355. Fax: 310.455.7358
MANAGEMENT
Romantic Comedy
Director: Stephen Belber
Written by: Stephen Belber
Producers: Sidney Kimmel, Marty
Bowen, Wyck Godfrey
Executive Producers: William Horberg,
Bruce Toll, Jim Tauber, Nan Morales,
Jennifer Aniston
Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn
Status: Pre-Production
The sweet and funny story of an uptight,
overworked traveling saleswoman of
hotel art (Aniston), who ends up in a
roadside motel managed by Mike (Steve
Zahn), an underachieving, lonely man
who still lives with his parents.
CHARLIE II – SEVENONE INTERNATIONAL
SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK
Comedy
Director: Charlie Kaufman
Written by: Charlie Kaufman
Producers: Anthony Bregman, Charlie
Kaufman, Spike Jonze, Sidney Kimmel
Executive Producers: William Horberg,
Bruce Toll, Ray Angelic
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams,
Catherine Keener, Emily Watson, Dianne
Wiest, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hope Davis
Status: Production
About the intersecting loves and lives of
a New York theater director who
challenges his own mortality.
YE OLDE TIMES
Comedy
Director: R.A. White
Written by: R.A. White
Producers: Michael Mendelsohn, Ron
Singer, Scott Reed
Executive Producer: Michael
Mendelsohn
Cast: Justin Chatwin, Joss Stone, Cary
Elwes, Matthew Lillard, David Arquette,
Orlando Jones, and Jack Black
Status: Pre-Production
Set in the world of a Renaissance Faire,
YE OLDE TIMES is a light-hearted
romp, a romantic camp comedy, falling
somewhere between Shakespeare In
Love and Meatballs.
ALL GOD’S CHILDREN CAN
DANCE
Drama
Director: Robert Logevall
Screenplay by: Scott Coffey
Based on the short story by Haruki
Murakami
Producers: Steve Golin, Sidney Kimmel,
John Benet, Thoranna Sigurdardottir
Executive Producers: Paul Green, Bruce
Toll, Matt DeRoss
Cast: Joan Chen, Jason Lew, Sonja
Kinski, John Fleck, and Tzi Ma
Status: Completed
Based on the short story of the same title
by world-renowned Japanese author
Haruki Murakami.
KOAN, INC.
Koan, Inc., P.O. Box 982557, Park City,
UT 84098 USA. Tel: 435.645.7244. Fax:
435.645.8644. http://www.koaninc.com,
email: sales@koaninc.com
At AFM: Gil Aglaure (President), Devin
Carter (Director of Sales), Paul Madsen
(Acquisitions Manager)
Office: 249 Le Merigot, Tel:
310.395.9700
BILL’S GUN SHOP
Drama (98 min)
Language: English
Director: Dean Hyers
Writer: Dean Hyers, Rob Nilsson
Producer: J. Michael Tabor, Ann Luster
Key Cast: John Ashton, Scott Cooper,
Victor Rivers, Tom Bower, James Keane
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2001, Country of
Origin: USA
First the gun is a toy, then a fantasy, a
job, an obsession. then it kills. What’s
the price. of a permit to carry?
PASSAGE TO ZARAHEMLA
Adventure/Sci-Fi/Family (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Chris Heimerdinger
Writer: Chris Heimerdinger
Producer: Brian Brough
Key Cast: Summer Naomi Smart,
Moronai Kanekoa, Brian Kary, Alex
Petrovich, Bryce Chamberlain, Jan
Broberg
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
In a certain forest hollow of Southern
Utah there exists a place where the
centuries converge, time becomes a
watery, uncertain substance, and where
civilizations of two separate worlds
overlap in a vortex of time.
OUTLAW TRAIL
Adventure/Family (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Ryan Little
Writer: David Pliler
Producer: Adam Abel, Ryan Little
Key Cast: Ryan Kelley, Arielle Kebbel,
Dan Byrd, Brent Weber, James Gammon,
Bruce McGill
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
1951. Circleville, Utah. Indian grave
robbers unearth a leather pouch, and the
legend of Butch Cassidy’s vast cache of
stolen treasure whispers to be more fact
than fiction.
KWA
KWA, Galeon 32 Bajo A, Madrid 28042
Spain. Tel: 34.91.747.3100. Fax:
34.91.747.7000.
http://www.kevinwa.com, email:
kwa@kevinwa.com
At AFM: Kevin Williams (President CEO)
Office: 540, Tel: 1.310.458.6700 x540
LA SANGRE ILUMINADA
(ENLIGHTENED BLOOD)
http://www.lasangreiluminada.com
Psycho Drama (104 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Ivan Avila Dueñas
Writer: Jose Ignacio Valenzuela / Ivan
Avila
Producer: 13 Lunas / IMCINE
Key Cast: Gustavo Sanchez Parra,
Jostein Roustand,Enoc Leaño, Flor
Payan, Jorge Zarate, Joaquin Cosío,
Leticia Gutiérrez, Pilar Padilla.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Mexico
Psycho drama of six characters who
transmute into each other sharing similar
images, symptoms and iconography. A
highly daring and original work from the
new Mexican cinema. Selected San
Sebastian FF 2007.
EL PARAISO DE HAFNER
(HAFNER’S PARADISE)
http://www.hafnersparadise.com
Documentary (74 min)
Language: German / Spanish
Director: Günter Schwaiger
Writer: Günter Schwaiger
Co-Production Partners: Austria - Spain
Producer: Günter Schwaiger
Key Cast: Paul Maria Hafner
Delivery Status: Completed
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Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Austria - Spain
The result of much press consternation at
its World Premiere in Locarno FF. The
Story of an octagenerian ex-Gestapo
officer living his contented last days in
Madrid, proud of his past and in denial
of the Holocaust.
TUYA SIEMPRE (ALWAYS YOURS)
http://www.tuyasiempre.com
Drama (109 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Manuel Lombardero
Writer: Manuel Lombardero
Producer: Pastora Delgado
Key Cast: Flora Martínez, Rubén
Ochandiano, Nancho Novo, Jose
Coronado, Caroline Henderson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Spain
A Jazz club waitress is plotting a better
life with her low-life petty thief
boyfriend.
L
LAKESHORE
ENTERTAINMENT
Lakeshore Entertainment, 9268 West
Third Street, Beverly Hills, CA 90210
USA. www.lakeshoreentertainment.com,
sales@lakeshoreentertainment.com
At AFM: Eric Reid (COO, Lakeshore
Entertainment), David Dinerstein
(President, Worldwide Marketing and
Distribution), Virginia Longmuir
(Executive Vice President, International
Business & Legal Affairs & Operations),
Jonathan Deckter (Sr. Vice President,
International Sales), Elisabeth Costa de
Beauregard (Sr. Vice President,
International Sales), Robert Burke
(Executive Vice President, Worldwide
Marketing), Avi Hakhamanesh (Manager,
Worldwide Marketing), Jason Buckley
(Coordinator, International Sales),
Allison Copes (Marketing Assistant)
Office: Loews Suite 731, Tel:
1.310.455.7329. Fax: 1.310.455.7336
GAME
Action-Thriller
Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Written by: Mark Neveldine, Brian
Taylor
Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Gary
Lucchesi, Skip Williamson, Richard
Wright, Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Cast: Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall
Status: Production
In GAME, a non-stop action thriller set
in the near future, death row inmate
Kable (Gerard Butler) emerges as a cult
hero of an ultra-violent multi-player
online game, in which wealthy gamers
control the actions of bloodthirsty
convicts.
HENRY POOLE IS HERE
Dramatic Comedy
Director: Mark Pellington
Written by: Albert Torres
Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Gary
Lucchesi, Tom Lassally
Cast: Luke Wilson, Radha Mitchell,
Adriana Barraza, George Lopez
Status: Post-Production
After learning he has only a few weeks
to live, Henry Poole (Wilson) leaves his
fiancée and family business behind to
spend his remaining days in solitude.
ELEGY
Drama
Director: Isabel Coixet
Adapted by: Nicholas Meyer
Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Gary
Lucchesi, Andre Lamal
Cast: Penelope Cruz, Ben Kingsley,
Peter Sarsgaard, Patricia Clarkson, Debra
Harry and Dennis Hopper
Status: Post-Production
A sophisticated graduate student (Cruz)
gets tangled up in an erotic, allconsuming affair with her professor
(Kingsley), a cultural critic obsessed
with female beauty.
PATHOLOGY
Thriller
Director: Marc Schölermann
Written by: Brian Taylor, Mark
Neveldine
Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Gary
Lucchesi, Skip Williamson, Mark
Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Cast: Milo Ventimiglia, Michael Weston,
Lauren Lee Smith, Alyssa Milano,
Johnny Whitworth
Status: Completed
From the creators of “Crank” comes a
thriller about a group of young doctors
who devise a deadly game to see which
one of them can commit the perfect
murder.
THE FEAST OF LOVE
Dramatic Comedy
Director: Robert Benton
Written by: Allison Burnett
Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Gary
Lucchesi, Richard Wright
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear,
Radha Mitchell, Selma Blair, Alexa
Davalos, Toby Hemingway, Billy Burke
with Jane Alexander and Fred Ward
Status: Completed
A story about ordinary people and the
extraordinary transformations they
experience as they search for love.
LATIDO FILMS
Latido Films, c/ Veneras 9 6Â, Madrid,
28041 Spain. Tel: 0034.91.548.88.77.
Fax: 0034.91.548.88.78.
http://www.latidofilms.com. email:
latido@latidofilms.com
At AFM: David Castellanos
(International Sales Agent)
Office: Loews 446, Tel: 1.310.458.6700
x446
FADOS
http://www.fados-saura.com
Musical (80 min)
Language: Portuguese
Director: Carlos Saura
Writer: Carlos Saura, Ivan Dias
Co-Production Partners: Producer:
duvideo, Fado Filmes, Zebra
Producciones
Key Cast: mariza, Camane, Caetano
Veloso, Toni Garrido, Carlos Do Carmo,
Chico Buarque, Miguel Poveda, Lura,
Lila Downs
Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Portugal
The new masterpiece from awardwinning director Carlos Saura and the
latest installment in his musical cycle
initiated more than 15 years ago.
BARCELONA (UN MAPA)
http://www.latidofilms.com
Drama (90 min)
Language: spanish, catalan
Director: Ventura Pons
Writer: Ventura Pons
Producer: Ventura Pons
Key Cast: Jose Maria Pou, Nuria Espert
Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Spain
Six characters - contemporary archetypes
of urban solitude - meet in an old
apartment located in the city center of
Barcelona.
O PAI O
Musical (90 min)
Language: Portuguese
Director: Monique Gardenberg
Key Cast: Lazaro Ramos
Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Brazil
It’s the first day of Bahia’s Carnival and
the dwellers of a lively slum tenement, in
the Barroquinha neighborhood.
LIGHTNING
ENTERTAINMENT
Lightning Entertainment, 301 Arizona
Avenue, Suite 400, Santa Monica, CA
90401, USA. Tel: 310 255 7999, Fax:
310.255.7998. www.lightning-ent.com,
info@lightning-ent.com
At AFM: Richard Goldberg, mobile:
1.310.951.8330, Marc Greenberg,
mobile: 1.310.717.1010, Richard S.
Guardian, mobile: 1.310.770.7472,
Joseph Dickstein, mobile:
1.310.403.2711, Mathilde Aupetit,
mobile: 1.310.266.9987, Sonia
Mehandjiyska, mobile: 1.818.448.1451
Office: 8/Las Flores, Tel: 1.310.458.6700
x2230
ANAMORPH
Psychological Thriller/Drama (103 min)
Director: H.S. Miller
Cast: Willem Dafoe (Fireflies In The
Garden, Daybreakers, Spiderman), Scott
Speedman (The Strangers, Weirdsville,
Underworld), Clea Duvall (Passengers,
The Grudge, Identity), Peter Stormare
(The Horsemen, Premonition,
Constantine)
Year of Production: 2007
Detective Stan Aubray is brought back
into investigative work to solve a series
of murders similar in style to those of a
serial killer he thought he put away 5
years earlier.
BLACK IRISH
Drama (95 min)
Director: Brad Gann
Cast: Brendan Gleeson (Harry Potter
And The Goblet Of Fire, Harry Potter
And The Order Of The Phoenix, The
Kingdom, Cold Mountain), Michael
Anganaro (Sky High, Lords Of
Dogtown), Tom Guiry (Mystic River),
Melissa Leo (Mr. Woodcock), Emily
Vancamp (Everwood), Michael Rispoli,
Finn Curtin
Year of Production: 2007
Sixteen-year-old Cole McKay’s struggle
for independence is put to the test as his
South Boston Irish-Catholic family
implodes around him.
THE REBEL
Action (104 min)
Director: Charlie Nguyen
Cast: Johnny Tri Nguyen, Ngo Thanh
Van, Dustin Tri Nguyen, Nguyen Chanh
Tin, Nguyen Thang
Year of Production: 2007
In 1920’s Vietnam, the long-standing
French occupation of the occupation of
the country has inflamed anti-French
sentiments, triggering guerilla forces to
battle the foreign invaders.
HEY HEY IT’S ESTHER
BLUEBURGER
Comedy/Drama (115 min)
Writer/Director: Cathy Randall
Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes (The
Nativity Story, Whale Rider), Danielle
Catanzariti, Toni Collette (Little Miss
Sunshine, The Night Listener)
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Year of Production: 2007
An engagingly original coming of age
comedy that explores what it’s really like
to be an outsider in your own world.
BONNEVILLE
Drama (90 min)
Director: Christopher N. Rowley
Cast: Jessica Lange (Big Fish, Prozac
Nation, Blue Sky), Kathy Bates (Misery,
About Schmidt), Joan Allen (The Upside
Of Anger, The Bourne Ultimatum), Tom
Skerritt (Tears Of The Sun, Steel
Magnolias), Christine Baranski
(Chicago, How The Grinch Stole
Christmas)
Year of Production: 2006
When the life she knows turns upside
down, Arvilla Holden hijacks her two
best friends and sets off on a road of
personal discovery in a vintage ’66
Bonneville convertible.
.
THE BUSINESS
OF FILM
London Head Office
First Floor
64 Baker Street .
London WIU 7GB
Los Angeles Office
5150 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90036
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THE LITTLE FILM
COMPANY
The Little Film Company, 12930 Ventura
Blvd. #822 Studio City, CA 91604 USA.
Tel: 818.762.6999. Fax: 818.301.2186.
cell: 818.426.6359. Skype: slaboclay.
www.thelittlefilmcompany.com
At AFM: Robbie Little (Co-President),
Clay Epstein (VP Sales and Acquisitions)
Office: Loews Room 859, Tel:
1.310.458.6700 x859
HELEN
Drama
Original Language: English
Director: Sandra Nettelbeck
Cast: Ashley Judd, Goran Vijnic, Lauren
Lee Smith
Delivery Status: Production Starts
October 2007
Country: Germany
Helen Leonard is a beautiful and
intelligent woman who seems to have it
all. Yet there is a dark secret Helen has
managed to hide for many years.
I KNOW YOU KNOW
Thriller
Original Language: English
Director: Justin Kerrigan (Human
Traffic)
Cast: Robert Carlyle
Delivery Status: Production Starts
October 2007
Country: Wales
Jamie, a young teenager, is fascinated by
his father Charlie’s espionage work until
the world of spies becomes all too real.
SATANAS: PROFILE OF A KILLER
Thriller
Original Language: Spanish
Director: Andres Baiz
Cast: Damian Alcazar (Chronicals of
Narnia, Prince of Caspian), Marcela Mar,
Blas Jaramillo
Delivery Status: Completed/AFM
Screening
Country: Colombia
Three lives collide at an expensive
Bogotá restaurant on the evening of
December 4, 1986, the scene of one of
the most notorious mass murders in
history.
SECRETS, THE
Original Language: English
Director: Avi Nesher
Cast: Fanny Ardant, Ania Bukstein,
Michal Shtamler
Delivery Status: Completed/AFM
Screening
Country: USA
Two brilliant young women discover
their own voices in a repressive orthodox
culture where females are forbidden to
sing, let alone speak out.
SKIN
Original Language: English
Director: Anthony Fabian
Cast: Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda,
Dirty Pretty Things), Sam Neill, Alice
Krige (Silent Hill)
Delivery Status: In Production
Country: South Africa/UK/France
Sandra Laing entered the world a
beautiful baby but no one, not the
hospital staff, her mother, father or
neighbours would admit the obvious.
Abraham and Sannie Laing were white
yet their daughter was dark.
STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING
Original Language: English
Director: Andrew Wagner
Cast: Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon,
Superman Returns), Lili Talyor (The
Notorious Bettie Page, “Six Feet Under”,
High Fidelity), Lauren Ambrose (“Six
Feet Under”)
Delivery Status: Completed/AFM
Screening
Country: USA
Heather Wolf, a sharp and ambitious
graduate student idolizes the aging writer
Leonard Schiller. She convinces him that
she can bring him back into the spotlight
he so desperately misses.
STONE’S WAR
Action
Director: Marko Makilaakso
Delivery Status: In Post Production
Country: USA Original Language:
English
Forced to flee deeper into Russian
territory, an elite platoon of American
and Finnish soldiers discover one of
war’s most terrifying secrets and realize
they have woken up a far more deadlier
enemy.
M
MANDARIN FILMS
DISTRIBUTION CO.
LTD.
Mandarin Films Distribution Co. Ltd.,
Room 1801-2 Westlands Centre, 20
Westlands Road, Quarry Bay, Hong
Kong. Tel: 852.2579.1718. Fax:
852.2579.1712. www.mandarinfilms.com
Producer, distributor
At AFM: Nansun SHI (Producer),
Virginia LEUNG (Head of Distribution),
Christy CHOI (Senior Distribution Ex.)
Office: Loews Hotel, Room 328, Tel:
310.458.6700, ext. 328
FLASH POINT
www.flashpointthemovie.com
Martial Arts (88 min)
Language: Chinese
Director: YIP Wai-shun
Writer: SZETO Kam-Yuen, Nicholl
TANG
Producer: Nansun SHI, Donnie YEN
Key Cast: Donnie YEN, Louis KOO
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $10M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Hong Kong
Pre-1997, a hero’s story about a detective
sergeant who truly believes that the only
way to fight crime is “The Road of No
Return”.
WONDER WOMEN
Drama (108 min)
Language: Chinese
Director: Barbara WONG
Producer: Raymond WONG
Key Cast: Gigi LEUNG, Fiona SIT
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1.3M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Hong Kong
The survival handbook for career
women-from those who experienced the
ups and downs in past 10 years in HK
history.
MISSING
Language: Chinese
Director: Tsui Hark
Producer: Tsui Hark
Key Cast: LEE Sin-je, Isabella LEONG,
Chang CHEN
Delivery Status: In production
Budget: $8M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Hong Kong
A romantic engagement in an underwater
city leads to a series of mysterious
encounters.
MANDATE
INTERNATIONAL
Mandate International, 2700 Colorado
Blvd, 2nd Floor, Santa Monica, CA
90404 USA. Tel: 310.255.3700. Fax:
310.255.3770.
At AFM: Joe Drake (Lionsgate
President, Motion Picture Group and CoCOO), Helen Lee-Kim (President),
Anne-Marie Boysen (Vice President of
Sales), Crystal Bourbeau (Manager of
Sales)
Office: Loews Hotel Room 542, Tel:
310.455.7341, Fax: 310.455.7338
BROTHERS
Drama
Language: English
Directed by: Jim Sheridan
Written by: David Benioff
Produced by: Michael De Luca, Ryan
Kavanaugh, Joni Sighvatsson
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire,
Natalie Portman
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: US
Remake of Susanne Bier’s Danishlanguage war drama, centers on a man
(Maguire) who is sent to fight in
Afghanistan while his black-sheep
brother (Gyllenhaal) cares for his wife
and child.
CHILLED IN MIAMI
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Directed by: Jonas Elmer
Written by: Kenneth J. Rance
Produced by: Paul Brooks, Peter Safran,
Darryl Taja and Tracey Edmonds
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Harry Connick,
Jr.
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: US
What begins as a straightforward job
assignment becomes a life changing
experience as Monica (Zellweger)
discovers greater meaning in her life and
most unexpectedly, the man of her
dreams.
BACHELOR NO. 2
Comedy
Language: English
Directed by: Howard Deutch
Written by: Jordan Cahan
Produced by: Greg Lessans, Adam Herz,
Josh Shader, Guymon Casady, Doug
Johnson, Barry Katz, Brian Volk-Weiss
Cast: Kate Hudson, Dane Cook, Jason
Biggs and Alec Baldwin
Delivery Status: In Production
Country of Origin: US
A master at seducing – and offending –
women, Tank is a professional Bachelor
No. 2. When guys get dumped, they hire
Tank to take their ex-girlfriends out on
the worst date of their lives.
MARVISTA
ENTERTAINMENT
MarVista Entertainment, 12519 Venice
Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90066 USA. Tel:
310.737.0950. Fax: 310.737.9115.
www.marvista.net, email:
info@marvista.net
Producer and Distributor
At AFM: Fernando Szew (CEO),
Michael Jacobs (President), George Port
(Executive Vice President), Joseph Szew
(COO/CFO), Beatrice McMillan (Vice
President of International Sales), Vanessa
Goglio (Vice President of International
Sales), Nicole Hoag (Manager,
Marketing and Communications),
Michael Wilson (Manager of
Acquisitions)
Office: Rm. 766 & 767, Tel:
1.310.458.6700 x767
TAKING 5
Comedy/Family (1 x 90 min)
Language: English
Director: Andrew Waller
Producer: Kat Hantas, Chesley Seals
Principal Cast: Daniella Monet, Alona
Tal, Christy Carlson Romano, Kate
Albrecht
Delivery Status: Fall 2007
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Two girls, after suffering a serious blow
to their social status, conspire to kidnap
their favorite boy band, in order to get
them to play at their school and restore
their popularity.
INSPECTOR MOM
Mystery (1 x 90 min)
Language: English
Director: Brad Keller
Producer: Duncan Montgomery, Joey
Stewart
Principal Cast: Danica McKellar, Drew
Waters, Susana Gibb
Delivery Status: Fall 2007
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
After promising to give up her job as an
investigative journalist, Maddie Monroe
is pulled back into the world of crime
and mystery when she is forced to
investigate the death of her daughter’s
soccer coach.
INSPECTOR MOM: KIDNAPPED IN
10 EASY STEPS
Mystery (1 x 90 min)
Language: English
Director: Brad Keller
Producer: Joey Stewart
Principal Cast: Danica McKellar, Drew
Waters, Susana Gibb
Delivery Status: Fall 2007
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
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Maddie Monroe must discover the
identity of dangerous kidnappers and
bring them to justice before her best
friend becomes their next victim.
MAVERICK GLOBAL
Maverick Global, 1191 East Newport
Center Drive, Suite 210, Deerfield
Beach, FL, 33442, USA. Tel:
954.422.8811. Fax: 954.429.0565.
www.maverickentertainment.cc and
www.maverickglobal.com
Distributor
At AFM: Doug Schwab (President), Pam
White (Executive Vice President),
Melissa Mackenzie (Vice President
Marketing), Jack Campbell (Director,
International Sales), Al Perez de la Mesa
(Director, TV Sales/ Latin Acquisitions),
Yael Meisler (Executive Assistant,
Acquisitions)
Office: Loews Suite 702, Tel:
1.310.458.6700 ext 702
ARMY OF THE DEAD
Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi (89 min)
Language: English
Director: Joseph Contegiacomo
Writer: Tom Woosley
Producer: Joseph Conti, Fred Tepper,
Paul Conti
Key Cast: Ross Kelly, Stephanie
Marchese, Miguel Martinez, Mike
Hatfield, Audrey Anderson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
A professor and his students unleash a
long dormant curse and soon find
themselves in a battle with skeletal
warriors. The adventure of a lifetime just
might turn into the last adventure of their
lives.
STONE & ED
Comedy (84 min)
Language: English
Director: Adam Meyerowitz
Writer: Dave Hellman
Producer: David Tal, Dave Hellman,
Adam Meyerowitz
Key Cast: Ian Reed Kesler, Travis
Wester, Mircea Monroe, Ken Davitian
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
It’s just another hazy day for Stone & Ed
until they unwittingly stumble into a cat
and mouse game between a drug lord
and the C.I.A. Stone & Ed are in for the
trip of their lives.
MAD BAD
Action/Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Jon Keeyes
Writer: Jason Kabolati, Chip Joslin
Producer: Jason Kabolati, Sabine Stener
Key Cast: Denton Blane Everett, Landon
Dunning, Vincent Riverside, Terry
Gamble, Anna Zielinski, Richard Folmer
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
An ex-con turns to crime to support his
sister’s rockstar career. Just when he
seems to find vindication, his past comes
to confront him in a bloody show down.
MAX FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
INC.
AFM PRODUCT GUIDE
Max Films International Inc., 1751, rue
Richardson, Suite 2.102, Montréal,
Québec H3K 1G6 Canada. Tel:
514.282.8444. Fax: 514.282.9222.
www.maxfilms.ca, email:
info@maxfilms.ca /
international@maxfilms.ca
At AFM: Roger Frappier (President &
Producer), Alexandra Wermester
(Director, Int’l Sales & Marketing),
Félize Frappier (Coordinator, Int’l Sales
& Festivals)
Office: Le Merigot Hotel, Office #329,
Tel: 310.395.9700
BORDERLINE
Erotic Drama
Producers: Roger Frappier and Luc
Vandal
Director: Lyne Charlebois
Writer: Marie-Sissi Labrèche and Lyne
Charlebois
Cast: Isabelle Blais, Jean-Hugues
Anglade
Delivery Status: Completed/screening
Origin: Canada
An erotic drama about a woman facing
her 30th birthday who looks back at her
life growing-up with her grandmother,
crazy mother and her over-indulgence
with men, sex and alcohol.
THE LITTLE BOOK OF REVENGE
(GUIDE DE LA PETITE
VENGEANCE)
Dark Comedy (105 min)
Director: Jean-François Pouliot
Producers: Roger Frappier and Luc
Vandal
Writer: Ken Scott
Cast: Marc Béland, Michel Muller,
Pascale Bussières, Gabriel Gascon
Status: Completed
Origin: Canada
After years of cruel psychological
harassment by his boss, an accountant in
an upscale jewellery store will have the
surprise of his life when he tries to fight
back.
THE SECRET LIFE OF HAPPY
PEOPLE (LA VIE SECRÈTE DES
GENS HEUREUX)
Romantic Comedy (102 min)
Director: Stéphane Lapointe
Producers: Roger Frappier and Luc
Vandal
Writer: Stéphane Lapointe
Cast: Gilbert Sicotte, Marc Paquet,
Catherine de Léan, Marie Gignac
Status: Completed
Origin: Canada
Thomas, a 24 year-old man, falls in love
with Audrey but Audrey is on a
mission…
MAXIM MEDIA
INT’L & BRAIN
DAMAGE TV
Maxim Media Int’l & Brain Damage TV,
5025 S. Ash Ave., Bldg. B-2, Tempe,
Arizona 85282, USA.
Tel: 1.480.966.4070.
Fax: 1.480.966.4570.
www.eMaximMedia.com
Distribution, Sales and Production
At AFM: Darrin Ramage (President),
Charity Glick (VP of Business Affairs &
Int’l Sales)
Office: Loews Suite 863, Tel:
480.980.6069 & 480.734.9380
SERUM
http://www.emaximmedia.com/inat/bigpi
cture.php?id=7218
Horror/Sci-Fi/Thriller (1x89min)
Language: English
Director: Steve Franke
Writer: Steve Franke
Producer: Jason Kabolati
Key Cast: Derek Phillips, Dennis
O’Neill, Lizabeth Cardenas, Bill
Sebastian, David Hickey as “Dr. K”
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Serum is a cutting edge thriller filled
with twists and turns that will leave you
breathless as you watch the bloody chaos
unfold!
THE VAMPIRE CONSPIRACY
http://www.emaximmedia.com/inat/bigpi
cture.php?id=7217
Horror (1x90min)
Language: English
Director: Marc Morgenstern
Writer: Marc Morgenstern
Producer: Marc Morgenstern
Key Cast: Sarah Boes, Adrian M. Pryce,
Ron Mazor, Christiane Garcia
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
Five strangers are abducted by a vampire
and put into a deadly maze. Should they
make it through alive, they receive his
entire fortune. Should they fail, they fall
prey to his hunger.
DARK PLACES
http://www.emaximmedia.com/inat/bigpi
cture.php?id=7002
Horror/Thriller (1x90min)
Language: English
Director: Guy Crawford
Writer: Guy Crawford and David C.
Hayes
Producer: Guy Crawford and David C.
Hayes
Co-production partners: Darrin Ramage
Key Cast: Nessa Hawkins, David Hayes,
Syn Devil
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Keri Walker thinks she has hit rock
WHITE TUFT THE LILLE – TF1 INTERNATIONAL
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bottom. A drug addicted prostitute, Keri
has seen the darkest side of life. until her
life takes a turn for the worse.
MEDIA 8
ENTERTAINMENT
Media 8 Entertainment, 1875 Century
Park East, Suite 2000, Los Angeles CA
90067 USA. Tel: 1.310.226.8300. Fax:
1.310.226.8350.
At AFM: Stewart Hall (President), Jim
Harvey (VP, International Distribution),
Audrey Delaney (VP, Acquisitions),
Vicky Kopelevich (Independent
Consultant), Lucie Rouche (International
Distribution Assistant)
Office: Loews #711, Tel. 1.310.455.7360
THE RAMEN GIRL
Drama/ Comedy
Screenplay: Becca Topol
Director: Robert Allan Ackerman
Producer: Robert Allan Ackerman,
Stewart Hall, Yoko Narahashi, Brittany
Murphy
Cast: Brittany Murphy, Toshiyuki
Nishida, Tammy Blanchard, Kaori
Momoi
Status: Completed/screening
An American woman is stranded in
Tokyo after breaking up with her
boyfriend. Searching for direction in life,
she trains to be a ramen noodle chef
under a tyrannical Japanese master.
EICHMANN
Drama
Screenplay: Snoo Wilson
Director: Robert Young
Producer: Karl Richards
Cast: Thomas Kretcshmann, Troy Garity,
Franke Potente
Status: Completed/screening
EICHMANN is based on the final
confession of Adolf Eichmann (Thomas
Kretschmann), made before his
execution in Israel, as he accounts to
Captain Avner Less (Troy Garity), a
young Israeli police officer, of his past as
the architect of Hitler’s plan for the final
solution.
GOD GREW TIRED OF US
Documentary
Director: Christopher Quinn and Tommy
Walker
Producer: Molly Bradford Pace,
Christopher Dillon Quinn, Tommy
Walker
Status: Completed/screening
Explores the indomitable spirit of three
“Lost Boys” from the Sudan who leave
their homeland, triumph over seemingly
insurmountable adversities and move to
America.
MEDIA ASIA
DISTRIBUTION
Media Asia Distribution, 24/F Causeway
Bay Plaza II, 463-483 Lockhart Road,
Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Tel:
852.2314.4248. Fax: 852.2314.4248.
www.mediaasia.com, email:
wwdist@mediaasia.com
At AFM: Ricky Tse (Head of
Distribution/Sales), Frederick Tsui
(Senior Manager - Distribution &
Production; Sales representative of
America, Europe, Australia), Vanessa Lo
(Manager - Distribution/Sales; Sales
representative of Asia, the Asian
Subcontinent, Africa and Middle East)
Office: Loews 517 & 519, Tel:
1.310.455.7366; Ricky Tse Tel:
852.2302.3819. Mobile: 852.9018.6578.
Fax: 852.2314.4247, Frederick Tsui Tel:
852.2302.3810. Mobile: 852.9463.3446.
Fax: 852.2314.4248, Vanessa Lo Tel:
852.2302.3835. Mobile: 852.9488.1759.
Fax: 852.2314.4247
SNIPER
Action
Director: Dante LAM
Producer: Candy LEUNG
Scriptwriter: NG Wai Lun, Dante LAM
Main cast: Richie JEN, Edison CHEN
and HUANG Xiaoming
Delivery Status: Post Production
Country of origin: Hong Kong
JUMP – AMERICAN WORLD PICTURES
Expelled from the force in the wake of a
mission gone tragically wrong, a police
sniper determines to take revenge by
changing over to the other side of the
law.
THE WARLORDS
Drama
Director: Peter Ho-Sun CHAN
Producer: Peter Ho-Sun CHAN, Andre
MORGAN
Scriptwriter: TBC
Main cast: Jet LI, Andy LAU, TAKESHI
Kaneshiro and XU Jinglei
Delivery Status: Post Production
Country of origin: Hong Kong
The rise of three sworn brothers from
highwaymen to legit military luminaries
ultimately leads to dissension, treachery,
and assassination.
HOOKED ON YOU
Drama (96 min)
Director: LAW Wing Cheong
Producer: Johnnie TO
Scriptwriter: FUNG Chih Chiang
Main cast: Miriam YEUNG, Eason
CHAN
Delivery Status: Market Screening
Country of origin: Hong Kong
A decade of changes in Hong Kong since
the handover in 1997 is reflected through
the life of a fishmonger.
MEDIA LUNA
ENTERTAINMENT
Media Luna Entertainment, Aachenerstr.
26, D- 50674 Cologne, Germany. Tel:
0049.221.8014980. Fax:
0049.221.801498 21. www.medialunaentertainment.de, email:
info@medialuna-entertainment.de
Sales Agent, Distributor
At AFM: Ms. Ida Martins (Managing
Director), Ms. Manola Novelli (Sales &
Acquisitions Manager), Mr. Jan Kramer
(Sales & Acquisitions Manager)
Office: Loews 630, Tel: 1.310.458.6700
x630
THAT DAY
Drama (95min)
Language: French with Engl. ST
Director: Jacob Berger
Writer: Jacob Berger
Producer: Ruth Waldburger, Vega Film
Production
Co-production partners: Why Not
Productions
Key Cast: Bruno Todeschini, Natacha
Regnier, Noémie Kocher
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $ 3.000.000- 4.000.000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Switzerland / France
Having departed his marital bed, Serge
immediately stops at another. When he’s
leaving his affaire Mathilde, he hits
something with his car, something
human.
OUT OF BOUNDS
Drama (90min)
Language: Italian with Engl. ST
Director: Fulvio Bernasconi
Writer: Fulvio Bernasconi
Producer: Ventura Film, Meride
Co-production partners: ITC Movie,
Bologna
Key Cast: Michele Venitucci, Maya
Snsa, Juan Pablo Ogalde
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $ 3.000.000- 4.000.000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Switzerland / Italy
The story of MIKE, a young Italian
boxer from Trieste.
THE WORLD IN TWO
ROUNDTRIPS
Documentary (80min)
Language: Portuguese with Engl. ST
Director: David Schürmann
Writer: Luiz Bolognesi
Producer: Gullane Film Production
Co-production partners: Familia
Schürmann Productions
Key Cast: Vilfredo Schürmann, Heloisa
Schürmann , Kat Schürmann, David
Schürmann
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $ < 1.000.000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Brasil
A documentary about the adventures of
the legendary Schürmann family on a
round the world trip, in the wake of the
pioneering route used 500 years ago by
the Portuguese Admiral Fernão de
Magalhães.
MELROSE FILMS
Melrose Films, 714 N. La Brea Ave.,
Suite 250, Hollywood, CA 90038 USA.
Tel: 1.323.936.6500.
http://www.MelroseFilms.com, email:
info@melrosefilms.com
At AFM: Sam Chouia (President Acquisitions), Kevin Derek (VP Marketing and Sales)
Office: 219, Tel: 310.266.7301 or
310.694.3665
AMERICAN SOUTHERN
Drama (80 min)
Language: English
Director: John Joshua Clayton
Writer: John Joshua Clayton
Producer: John Joshua Clayton
Key Cast: Terry Moore, Patricia River,
John Malloy, Amy Hubbard, Billy
Worboys, Tedd St. James
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1-$2 Million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Southern Matriarch Peggin (Oscar
Nominee Terry Moore) heads the
Trubane Household. Her daughter
“Sister” traps the handsome Clay Amos
in her plot for revenge and profit.
TIED UP
Thriller (86 min)
Language: English
Director: Jeremy Rubin
Writer: Jeremy Rubin
Co-Production Partners: Sylvie Madore,
Inman Young
Producer: Jeremy Rubin
Key Cast: Dana Fares, Johnny Patisaul,
Shelli Boone, Julia M. Morizawa, Kevin
Michael Walsh, David Alan Graf
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: Under $1 M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A group of five friends band together in
an attempt to make their lives more
eventful. Deceit, betrayal, and murder
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THE TRAP
Thriller (87 min)
Language: English
Director: Sam Chouia
Writer: Sam Chouia
Producer: Kevin Derek
Key Cast: James C. Burns, Brooke
Lyons, Jason Rossow, Catherine Kresge,
Richard DeGuilio, Nancy Weyrauch, Lee
Perkins
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: Under $1 M
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
When four young hikers stumble on a
dead body and a bag full of cash they
realize that money DOES grow on trees!
They just have to LIVE to tell about it.
MISSISSIPPI FILMS
INC.
Mississippi Films Inc., 205 Marietta,
Burlington, IA 52601 USA. Tel:
563.380.4436. Fax: 319.754.5864.
http://www.btm-themovie.com, email:
WorldRightsAvailable@btmthemovie.com
At AFM: Tim Anderson (Producer),
Lonnie Schuyler (Director)
Office: Loews 212. Tel: 563.380.4436
BENEATH THE MISSISSIPPI
http://www.btm-themovie.com
Horror (118’)
Language: english
Director: Lonnie Schuyler
Writer: Lonnie Schuyler
Producer: Tim Anderson
Key Cast: Ariadne Shaffer,Christopher
Sweeney,Sonja Soriano,Nick
Murray,Michael Robert Nyman,Jon
Hazell
Delivery Status: complete
Budget: under 1ml
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A documentary filmmaker and her crew
fight the elements and try to cope with
their fears as they seek to understand the
strange mystery of a flooded island
where hundreds have died.
MONO FILM
CO., LTD.
Mono Film Co., Ltd., 200 Jasmine
International Tower, 31st fl., Moo4,
Chaengwattana Road, Pakkred,
Nonthaburi, 11120, Thailand. Tel:
66.2.502.0731. Fax: 66.2.584.5314.
www.mono-film.com
Film production company
At AFM: Rachel Jamawatr (Asst. to MD
& International Relations Supervisor),
Ornanong Athadthawaree - Meemi (Int’l
Relations Officer), Matavee Veerasumrit
- Vicky (Int’l Relations Officer)
Office: Loews 302, 303, Tel:
1.310.458.6700 x302
ME MYSELF (KOH HAI RUK JONG
JAREUN)
www.memyselfmovie.com
Romantic-drama (117 min)
Language: Thai
Director: Pongpat Wachirabunjong
Writer: Kongdej Jaturanrasmee
Producer: Thanya Wachirabunjong
Co-Producers: Piyaluck Mahatanasab &
Jirun Ratthanaviriyachai
Key Cast: Ananda Everingham,
Chayanan Manomaisantiphap, Monton
Arnupabmard
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1 million USD
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Thailand
Finding your true self is a positive thing.
But discovering who you really are can
disappoint & hurt the people you love
most. When a lost memory returns, will
the love survive?
PAHUYUT: FIGHTING BEAT
Martial Arts-Action
Language: Thai
Director: Piti Chaturaphat
Writer: Piti Chaturaphat
Producer: Jirun Ratthanaviriyachai
Key Cast: Thun Thanankorn, Sura
Thirakon, Nuttanan Juntarawet, Nahatai
Lekbumrung, Amornrid Seephung,
Perawatch Herabutya, Sura Sankum,
Kittanet Gestsalo
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1.5 million USD
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Thailand
“Victory does not mean a fight to the
death of your opponent, but true victory
is achieved when your opponent
willingly accepts defeat.” Inspired from a
true story emerges PAHUYUT: Fighting
Beat.
MONTECRISTO
INTERNATIONAL
LLC
MonteCristo International LLC, 459
Columbus Avenue, #334, NYC, NY 10024
USA. Tel: 1.917.647.7587. Fax:
420.224.934.712.
http://www.MonteCristoEntertainment.co
m, email:
Sales@MonteCristoEntertainment.com
At AFM: Michael Taverna
(President/CEO), Cindy Nelson-Mullen
(Sales & Acquisitions Executive), Irene
Masiello (EU Co-Production), Katherine
Arnold (Head of Production)
Office: Le Merigot #202, Tel:
1.917.647.7587
SOMEONE ELSE
Romantic Comedy (78 min)
Language: English
Director: Col Spector
Writer: Col Spector, Radha Chakraborty
Producer: Radha Chakraborty
Key Cast: Stephen Mangan, Susan
Lynch, Lara Belmont, Shaun Dingwall,
Chris Coghill
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: UK
Thirty-something David is torn between
his too agreeable girlfriend and the
exciting but tricky Nina.
SIMPLE THINGS
Drama/Comedy (108 min)
Language: Russian
Director: Aleksei Popogrebsky
Writer: Aleksei Popogrebsky
Producer: Roman Borisevich
Key Cast: Sergei Puskepalis, Leonid
Bronevoy, Svetlana Kamynina
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Russia
A down-and-out husband and father
accepts a side-job caring for a crusty old
actor in the last stages of his cancer
ailment
TRUTH BE TOLD
Thriller (84 min)
Language: Mandarin Chinese, English
Director: Eng Tiong TEO
Writer: Jen Nee LIM
Producer: Jen Nee LIM
Key Cast: Yvonne LIM, Tian LIANG,
Bernard TAN, Steven WOON, Louis
LIM
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Singapore
A tv producer finds herself in a
predicament over her real identity.
MOONSTONE
ENTERTAINMENT
Moonstone Entertainment, P.O. Box
7400, Studio City, CA 91614 USA. Tel:
818.985.3003. Fax: 818.985.3009.
At AFM: Mr. Ernst “Etchie” Stroh
(CEO), Mrs. Yael Stroh (President), Mr.
Michael Grant (Director Production &
Marketing)
Office: Loews Suite 546, Tel:
310.458.6700 ext. 546
FROM A BUICK 8
Sci-Fi / Horror
Director: Tobe Hooper
Writers: Richard Chizmar, John Schaech
Producers: Robert Katz, Etchie Stroh,
Mick Garris
Principal Cast: TBA
Status: Pre-Production
Cntry of Origin: USA
When a state trooper is killed on the side
of the road, the boy discovers his father’s
dark secret in the barracks’ back shed.
Based on the Stephen King novel.
RECALL
Thriller
Director: Harold Becker
Writer: Paul Schrader
Producers: Robert Katz, Etchie Stroh
Executive Prod.: Moshe Diamant
Principal Cast: TBA
Status: Pre-Production
Cntry of Origin: USA
A bizarre encounter makes a man
question his sanity.
THE THING ON THE DOORSTEP
Thriller/Horror
Director: Stuart Gordon
Writer: Dennis Paoli
Producers: Robert Katz, Etchie Stroh
Principal Cast: TBA
Status: Pre-Production
Cntry of Origin: USA
A psychiatrist is seduced by an other
worldly spirit in this film adaptation of
the H.P. Lovecraft story.
HOLY ROAD
Western
Director: Simon Wincer
Writer: Michael Blake
Producers: Robert Katz, Etchie Stroh
Principal Cast: TBA
Status: Development
Cntry of Origin: USA
Sequel to the Academy Award winning
Dances with Wolves.
MOVING PICTURES
FILM AND
TV/MAITLAND
PRIMROSE GROUP
Moving Pictures Film and TV/Maitland
Primrose Group, 7330 N 16th Street,
Suite A314, Phoenix, AZ 85020 USA.
Tel: 1.602.283.0099 ext. 213. Fax:
1.602.283.0098.
www.movingpicturesfilmandtv.com
Distributor/Sales Agent
At AFM: Ted Chalmers, Margaret Tritch,
Gennaro Buonocore
Acquisition Executive: Ted Chalmers
Office: 207, Tel: 310.458.6700 Ext. 207.
Fax: 323.375.1673
LITTLE BIG TOP
littlebigtopmovie.com
Comedy (90 Min)
Language: English
Director: Ward Roberts
Writer: Ward Roberts
Co-Production Partners: Fly High Films
Producer: Christina Mauro, Jessica
Petelle
Key Cast: Sid Haig, Richard Riehle,
Hollis Resnik, Mel England
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.2 Million
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
In the tradition of SHAKES THE
CLOWN and OFFICE SPACE, a clown
returns home to spend his days as a
drunk, until his passion is reawakened by
an amateur circus.
THE HAPPY CRICKET (EL
GRILLO FELIZ)
www.thehappycricketmovie.com
Animation (83 Min)
Language: English, Spanish, Portuguese
Director: Walbercy Ribas
Writer: Walbercy Ribas
Co-Production Partners: Clever Image
Producer: Cleber Redondo
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.2 million
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Christopher, the Cricket, lives happily in
the forest playing and singing for his
friends until Wartlord, the terrible lizard,
arrives and prohibits music and kidnaps
Linda, the Night Star.
THE MEMSAHIB
www.thememsahibmovie.com
Drama (101 Min)
Language: English
Director: Kruti Majmudar
Writer: Kruti Majmudar
Co-Production Partners: Red Letter
Pictures
Producer: Kruti Majmudar
Key Cast: Emily Hamilton, Parvin
Dabas, Glenn Fitzgerald, Sweta
Keswani, Aarti Majmudar
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 2.4 million
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
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British schoolteacher in 1850 finds love
with the king of Begampur, India, but
their love is cut short and their
reincarnated spirits are reunited in
Modern Day India.
MYRIAD PICTURES
Myriad Pictures, 3105 Main Street, Suite
400, Santa Monica, CA 90405 USA. Tel:
310.279.4000. Fax: 310.279.4001.
www.myriadpictures.com
At AFM: Kirk D’Amico (President &
CEO), Elias Axume (Vice President of
Distribution & Operations), Trevor
Wright (Vice President of Distribution),
Pamela Rodi (Executive Vice President
of Marketing & Publicity), Lisa
Gutberlet (Director, Sales
Administration)
Office: Loews Suite # 631, Tel:
1.310.455.7374. Fax: 310.455.7375
DEATH DEFYING ACTS
Romantic Thriller (96 Min)
Language: English
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Writer: Toni Grisoni & Brian Ward
Co-Production Partners: MacGowan
Films & Zephyr Films
Producer: Chris Curling & Marian
MacGowan
Key Cast: Guy Pearce, Catherine ZetaJones, Soairse Ronan, Timothy Spall
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom/Australia
A mysterious and beautiful psychic
attempts to outwit the famous Harry
Houdini but a passionate love affair
evolves instead.
THE MOTHER OF TEARS
Horror (97 Min)
Language: English
Director: Dario Argento
Writer: Dario Argento, Jace Anderson,
Adam Gierasch
Producer: Opera Films & Medusa
Key Cast: Asia Argento, Udo Kier
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Italy/USA
A young art student, Asia Argento who
unwittingly opens an ancient urn that
unleashes the demonic power of the
world’s most powerful witch, The
Mother of Tears.
ALL HAT
Drama/Neo-Western (91 Min)
Language: English
THE BUSINESS
OF FILM
London Head Office
First Floor
64 Baker Street .
London WIU 7GB
Los Angeles Office
5150 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90036
Director: Leonard Farlinger
Writer: Brad Smith
Producer: Jennifer Jonas
Key Cast: Luke Kirby, Keith Carradine,
Lisa Ray, Rachael Leigh Cook
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Canada
A young ex-con returns home to help a
old friend who runs a farm of aging
racehorses. But doing the right thing
could end him back in jail.
N
NEW FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
New Films International, 14320 Ventura
Blvd. #619 Sherman Oaks California,
Los Angeles, USA. Tel: 1.818.501.27.20.
Fax: 1.818.501.27.80.
www.newfilmsint.com
Film Distribution and Production
Company
At AFM: Nesim Hason (President), Bill
Marcus (President Worldwide Sales /
Partner), Aimee Shoof (Executive VP
Production & Development / Partner),
Isen Robbins (Executive VP Production
& Development / Partner), Vanessa
Garabedyan (Worldwide Head of
Acquisitions), Ugur Bayazit (PR &
Marketing Manager)
Acquisition Executive: Vanessa
Garabedyan
Office: Loews 727, 728/729, Tel:
310.458.67.00 (Ext. 727, 728)
A BEAUTIFUL LIFE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Alejandro Chomski
Writer: Wendy Hammond
Producer: Nesim Hason, Deborah Calla
Co-production partners: Robert Lansing
Parker
Key Cast: Debi Mazar, Bai Ling, Dana
Delany, Angela Sarafyan, Jesse Garcia
Delivery Status: In Post-Production
Country of Origin: US
Escaping her abusive past, Maggie finds
a shelter near Esther, a stripper with
singing aspirations. After staying the
night with Esther’s illegal immigrant
friend David, the two get closer and fall
in love.
THE ALPHABET KILLER
www.thealphabetkiller.com
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Rob Schmidt
Writer: Tom Malloy
Producer: Aimee Schoof
Key Cast: Eliza Dushku, Timothy
Hutton, Cary Elwes, Michael Ironside
Delivery Status: In Post-Production
Country of Origin: US
The Alphabet Killer is the true story of
the double initial killings in the
Rochester, NY.
DAY ZERO
www.dayzeromovie.com
Drama (92 Min)
Language: English
Director: Bryan Gunnar Cole
Writer: Robert Malkani
Producer: Anthony Moody
Key Cast: Elijah Wood, Chris Klein, Jon
Bernthal
Delivery Status: Complete
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: US
Day Zero, follows the lives of three best
friends in New York City who have
thirty days to come to terms with their
fate.
SEX AND BREAKFAST
Romantic-Comedy (82 min)
Language: English
Director: Miles Brandman
Writer: Miles Brandman
Producer: Michael Brandman
Key Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Eliza
Dushku, Alexis Dziena, Kuno Becker
Delivery Status: Complete
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: US
Sex and Breakfast explores the intimacy
in the lives of two couples, and uncovers
what it takes to achieve a long-term
union while maintaining a healthy and
satisfying sexual relationship.
NEW LINE CINEMA
New Line Cinema, 116 N. Robertson
Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048 USA. Tel:
310.854.5811. Fax: 310.659.4712.
www.newline.com
At AFM: 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
(Senior Vice President, International
Contracts), Tracy Lorie (Senior Vice
President, International Publicity),
Carolyn Blackwood (Senior Vice
President, Business & Legal Affairs)
Office: Loews Suite #:853, Tel:
310.234.5594/5595, Fax: 310.234.5597
Newest offerings: Sex and the City, He’s
Just Not That Into You, The Time
Traveler’s Wife, Appaloosa
SEX AND THE CITY
Comedy
Director: Michael Patrick King
Screenplay: Michael Patrick King
Producers: Eric M. Cyphers, John Melfi,
Sarah Jessica Parker, Darren Star
Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall,
Kristen Davis, Cynthia Nixon,
Christopher Noth, and Academy Award®
winner Jennifer Hudson.
Production Status: In Production
Country of Origin: USA
Continuing where the acclaimed and
Emmy® award-winning HBO series left
off, this highly anticipated film
adaptation opens with the girls all
entering new stages in their lives.
HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU
Comedy
Director: Ken Kwapis
Screenplay: Marc Silverstein and Abby
Kohn based on the book by Greg
Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo
Producers: Drew Barrymore, Michael
Beugg, Nancy Juvonen
Cast: Jennifer Aniston (The Break Up,
Office Space) Drew Barrymore (50 First
Dates, Charlie’s Angels), Scarlett
Johansson (The Island, Lost In
Translation, Match Point), Ewan
McGregor (Star Wars, Moulin Rouge),
Jennifer Connelly (Blood Diamond,
Little Children), Ginnifer Goodwin
(Walk The Line, Mona Lisa Smile),
Justin Long (Dodgeball, The Break Up);
Ben Affleck (Pearl Harbor,
Hollywoodland), Kevin Connolly
(HBO’s Entourage, The Notebook)
Production Status: In Production
Country of Origin: USA
It’s a classic scenario: You really like this
guy, but he’s sending mixed messages.
THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE
Romantic/Sci Fi
Director: Robert Schwentke
Screenplay: Bruce Joel Ruben (Ghost,
Deep Impact, The Last Mimzy)
Producers: Plan B Entertainment,
Richard Brenner, Justis Greene
Cast: Rachel McAdams (The Notebook,
Wedding Crashers) Eric Bana (Munich,
Troy), and Ron Livingston (Office
Space, HBO’s Band of Brothers)
Production Status: In Production
Country of Origin: USA
Clare first met Henry, her future
husband, at the age of six when he
appeared out of nowhere in a clearing
near her home. Henry, thirty-six at the
time, had just dropped in from the future.
APPALOOSA
Western
Director: Ed Harris
Screenplay: Ed Harris and Robert Knott
Producers: Ed Harris, Robert Knott,
Michael London, Ginger Sledge
Cast: Viggo Mortensen (LOTR Trilogy,
History of Violence), Ed Harris (History
of Violence), Academy Award® winner
Renee Zellwegger (Bridget Jones Series,
Chicago)
Production Status: In Production
Country of Origin: USA
Two Old West gunmen are hired to bring
law and order to a town under siege in
New Line Cinema’s powerful new
Western, APPALOOSA.
PRIDE & GLORY
Crime / Drama
Director: Gavin O’Conner
Screenplay: Joe Carnahan and Gavin
O’Conner
Producers: Marcus Viscidi, Gavin
O’Conner, Gregory O’Conner
Cast: Colin Farrell (Miami Vice, The
New World), Ed Norton (Kingdom of
Heaven, The Italian Job, Red Dragon),
Academy Award® winner Jon Voight
(National Treasure, The Manchurian
Candidate, Ali), Jennifer Ehle
(Sunshine), Noah Emmerich (Miracle,
Frequency)
Production Status: Post Production
Both a gritty crime actioner and a
poignant family saga, PRIDE AND
GLORY is a complex, probing and
deeply moving film.
SEMI PRO
Comedy
Director: Kent Alterman
Screenplay: Scot Armstrong
Producers: David B Householter, Joshua
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Church, Jimmy Miller
Cast: Will Ferrell (Elf, Anchorman)
Woody Harrelson (After The Sunset,
People vs. Larry Flynt) Andre Benjamin
(Be Cool, Idylwild) Maura Tierney
(TV’s ER, Liar Liar)
Production Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: USA
Will Ferrell top-lines a raucous, rowdy
comedy about a down-and-out basketball
team who give the National Basketball
Association a run for its money.
NIKKATSU
CORPORATION
Nikkatsu Corporation, 3-28-12, Hongo,
Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
Tel: 81.3.5689.1018. Fax:81.3.5689.1044.
Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor
At AFM: Mr. Nakoki Sato (President &
CEO), Mr. Keizo Yuri (Director), Mr.
Kiyoshi Banba (Director)
Office: Loews Hotel 308,
Tel: 310.458.6700 (ext.308)
NEGATIVE HAPPY, CHAINSAW
EDGE
Action (109min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Takuji Kitamura
Writer: Hirotoshi Kobayashi
Producer: Suguru Matsumura, Kuzuhiro
Hirose, Akira Yamamoto
Key Cast: Hayato Ichihara, Megumi Seki
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Japan
Yosuke, a school student, comes across
Eri, a beautiful girl in school uniform.
Every night, Eri is fighting an immortal
giant with a big chainsaw. Who is the
man?
THE MACHINE GIRL
Action (96min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Noboru Iguchi
Writer: Noboru Iguchi
Producer: Yoko Hayama, Yoshinori
Chiba, Satoshi Nakamura
Key Cast: Minase Yashiro, Asami
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Japan
Ami is a teenager. Pushed over the edge
by the death of her brother and the loss
of her own arm, Ami seeks revenge with
the machine gun.
MEGANE (GLASSES)
www.megane-movie.com
Drama (106min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Naoko Ogigami
Writer: Naoko Ogigami
Producer: Hanako Kasumizawa
Co-production partners: Nippon
Television Network Corporation, VAP
INC., chat chat corporation, Paradise
Café Inc., Nikkatsu Corporation
Key Cast: Satomi Kobayashi, Mikako
Ichikawa, Ryo Kase
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Japan
One spring day, a woman walks off a
small plane. When she arrives at the
nostalgic inn called Hamada, her
unforgettable vacation on an island in the
NONSTOP SALES AB
south begins.
NonStop Sales AB, Döbelnsgatan 24,
Stockholm 113 52 Sweden. Tel:
46.8.673.99.80. Fax: +46.8.673.99.33.
http://www.nonstopsales.com, email:
info@nonstopsales.net
At AFM: CG Anderson (CEO), Michael
Werner (Sales Manager), Judith Toth
(Sales Executive)
Office: Loews 540, Tel: 1.310.458.6700
x540
GHOSTWOOD
http://www.ghostwoodmovie.com
Thriller (85 min)
Language: English
Director: Justin O’Brien
Writer: Justin O’Brien
Producer: Maxim Pictures
Key Cast: Alan Devine, Patrick Bergin,
Louise Osbourne
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Ireland
Ed Hunter travels to a remote village in
Ireland to investigate the mysterious
disappearance of his father but finds a
community that has been living in fear
for centuries
SPEED DATING
Romantic Comedy (85 min)
Language: English
Director: Tony Herbert
Writer: Tony Herbert
Producer: System 48 Limited
Key Cast: Hugh O’Conor, Don
Wycherley, Flora Montgomery, David
Hayman
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Ireland
After a break–up with the love of his
life, James Van Der Bexton has taken up
speed dating without much success.
PISTOLEROS
Action Comedy (90 min)
Language: Danish
Director: Shaky González
Writer: Shaky González
Producer: Cut1Movie Productions
Key Cast: Erik Holmey, Zlatko Buric,
Sofie L. Kahlke, Robert Hansen, Thure
Lindhardt
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Denmark
All goes terribly wrong when Frank, an
infamous criminal and his gang of
thieves, commit their biggest and final
heist.
KLASS
(THE CLASS)
Drama (97 min)
Language: Estonian
Director: Ilmar Raag
Writer: Ilmar Raag
Producer: Amrion Productions
Key Cast: Lauri Pedaja. Vallo Kirs. Pärt
Uusberg, Paula Solvak
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Estonia
Joosep has been bullied his entire life but
when one of his classmates stands up for
him, an open war starts, with the class on
one side and the boys on the other.
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NORDISK FILM
INTERNATIONAL
SALES
Nordisk Film International Sales,
Mosedalvej 14, Valby 2500 Denmark.
Tel: 45.36.18.82.00. Fax: 45.36.18.95.50.
http://www.nordiskfilmsales.com
At AFM: Tine Klint (Head of
International Sales), Susan Wendt (Sales
Manager)
Office: 809, Tel: 1.310.458.6700 x809
WITH YOUR PERMISSION (TIL
DØDEN OS SKILLER)
Comedy (100’)
Language: Danish
Director: Paprika Steen
Writer: Anders Thomas Jensen
Producer: Leila Vestgaard
Key Cast: LArs Brygmann, Søren
Pilmark, Sidse Babett Knudsen
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Denmark
Mixing pathos, punches and Puccini, Jan
and Bente appear to have forgotten the
purpose of marriage as the passion for
their individual dreams is seemingly
greater than for each other.
JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY
(KÆRLIGHED PÅ FILM)
Thriller (90 min)
Danish
Director: Ole Bornedal
Writer: Ole Bornedal
Producer: Michael Obel
Key Cast: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Anders W
Berthelsen, Ewa Fröhling, Bent Mejding
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Denmark
Life in the suburbs as a father of two has
worn-down Jonas. When a victim of a
car crash mistakes him for her boyfriend
Sebastian things take a very dramatic
turn.
DARK FLOORS
Horror
Language: English
Director: Pete Riski
Writer: Veli-Pekka Hänninen
Producer: Markus Selin
Key Cast: Skye Bennett, William Hope,
Philip Bretherton, Ronald Pickup
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Finland
NORTH BY
NORTHWEST
ENTERTAINMENT
North By Northwest Entertainment, 903
W. Broadway Ave., Spokane, WA 99201
USA. Tel: 509.324.2949. Fax:
509.324.2959.
www.nxnwmoviesales.com, email:
moviesales@nxnw.net
At AFM: Bibi Channer (Managing
Director, Distribution), Dan Morris
(Operations Manager), Claudia Rösler
(Distribution Coordinator), Rich Cowan
(CEO)
Office: Loews Hotel Suite 712, Tel:
310.458.6700. Hotel Fax: 310.458.6761
HOUSE
Psychological Thriller
Language: English
Director: Robby Henson
Writer: Ted Dekker (novel), Frank E.
Peretti (novel), Rob Green (Screenplay)
Producer: Ralph Winter (“X-Men”,
“Planet of the Apes”,”Star Trek”), Joe
Goodman,
Bobby Neutz
Key Cast: Michael Madsen (“Sin City I
and II”, “Reservoir Dogs”), Juli Ann
Emery (“Hitch”, TV’s “Commander in
Chief”), Bill Mosley (“The Devil’s
Rejects”, ”Grindhouse”), Leslie
Easterbrook (“ The Heartbreak Kid”,
“Halloween”), Reynaldo Rosales ( TV’s
MARADONA LA MANO DE DIOS (MARADONA THE HAND OF GOD)
ADRIANA CHIESA ENTERPRISES
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“Medium”, “Law and Order”)
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: US
Two couples, who suffer the same car
accident, find themselves stranded in a
sinister house.
THE GOLDEN DOOR
Romantic comedy
Language: English
Director: David M. Rosenthal
Producer: Joseph M. Smith
Key Cast: Sarah Roemer (“Disturbia”,
The Grudge 2”), Joseph Cross (“Running
with Scissors”, “Desperate Measures”),
Rachael Lee Cook (“Nancy Drew”,
“Blonde Ambition”), Snoop Dogg (“Soul
Plane, “Training Day”), Mimi Rogers (“
Austin Power – International Man of
Mystery”, TV’s X-Files”), Joe
Pantoliano (TV’s “Sopranos”)
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: US
A high society girl and a doorman come
together under difficult circumstances
and are trying to have a normal
relationship.
GRADUATION
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Michael Mayer
Writer: Michael Mayer, D. Cory Turner
Producer: Robin Bradford, Scott Hanson,
Jane Sindell, Jason Blum
Key Cast: Shannon Lucio (“TV’s The
O.C”, Fear of Love”), Riley Smith (
TV’s “24”, “Joan of Arcadia”), Chris
Marquette (“Alpha Dog”, TV’s Strong
Medicine”), Chris Lowell (TV’s “Private
Practice”, “Grey’s Anatomy”), Adam
Arkin (“Hitch” TV’s “Boston Legal”),
Huey Lewis
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: US
In the vein of “The Breakfast Club” and
“Oceans 11”), four life-long friends, who
are about to graduate high school, plot to
rob a bank in order to pay for a relative’s
medical bills. Risking their future for one
of their own entails a lesson on life, love
and friendship.
NU IMAGE /
MILLENNIUM FILMS
Nu Image / Millennium Films, 6423
Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
90048 USA. Tel: 310.388.6900. Fax:
310.388.6901.
At AFM: Avi Lerner (Co-Chairman),
Danny Dimbort (Co-Chairman),
Christian Mercuri (Vice President),
Carole DeLosSantos (Executive VP,
International Sales & Distribution), Inc
Pagliuca (International Marketing &
Sales), Dimiter Nikolov (Director
International Business & Legal Affairs),
Isabel Gray (International Sales)
Office: Suite 537, Loews Hotel, Tel:
310.455.7383, Fax: 310.455.7386
THE CODE
Director: Mimi Leder
Cast: Morgan Freeman and Antonio
Banderas
Status: In Production
A veteran thief recruits a young crook to
help him pull off one final job in order to
repay his debt to the Russian mob.
RIGHTEOUS KILL
Director: Jon Avnet
Writer: Russell Gewirtz (Inside Man)
Cast: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, 50
Cent
Status: In Production
Two New York cops find themselves in
pursuit of a serial killer who leaves
poems about the crime he just
committed.
KILLING POINT
Director: Jeff King
Cast: Steven Seagal
Status: In Production
An FBI agent suspects that a decorated
homicide cop is framing a serial killer
for murders he committed.
UNDISPUTED 3
Director: Isaac Florentine
Cast: Scott Adkins
Status: Pre Production
The illegal prison fight circuit heats up
as the most lethal fighters battle in a tothe-death tournament from which the
winner will walk away a free man.
MAD MONEY
Director: Callie Khouri (Thelma and
Louise)
Writers: Glenn Gers
Starring: Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah &
Katie Holmes
Status: Post Production
In desperate need of money, a middle
aged woman enlists two colleagues to
help steal millions of dollars from the
Federal Reserve Bank.
MAJOR MOVIE STAR
Director: Steve Miner
Starring: Jessica Simpson, Vivica Fox,
Steve Guttenberg
Status: Post Production
A pampered movie-star joins the Army
in a moment of weakness, but soon
realizes she’s in over her head.
TRAIN!
Director: Gideon Raff
Starring: Thora Birch
Status: Post Production
Based on the original 70s cult horror
film. Members of A US wrestling team
find themselves living a nightmare on a
train in Eastern Europe.
SHARK IN VENICE
Director: Danny Lerner
Starring: Stephen Baldwin
Status: Post Production
A killer shark wreaks havoc in the canals
of Venice.
O
OASIS
INTERNATIONAL
STRAYS – FIRST LOOK STUDIO
Oasis International, 6 Pardee Ave., Suite
101 Toronto, ON M6K 3H5 Canada.
Tel: 416.588.6821. Fax: 416.588.7279.
www.oasisinternational.com, email:
info@oasisinternational.com
Distributor rights holder
At AFM: Valerie Cabrera (Executive VP
of Sales), Prentiss Holman (Director of
International Sales) and Ben Bishop
(Sales and Acquisitions Executive)
Acquisition Executive: Ben Bishop
Office: Loews 706, Tel: 1.310.458.6700
x706
CELINE
120 mins HD
Language: English
Director: Jeff Woolnough
Producer: Barna-Alper Productions
Cast: Jodelle Ferland (The Messengers,
Tideland, Silent Hill), Enrico Colantoni
(Veronica Mars, Stigmata)
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
Keeping her private life out of the public
eye for years, Celine Dion’s personal life
is finally revealed.
THE WEDDING WISH
http://www.oasisinternational.com/10_tra
ilers/nice_guys.htm
Romantic Comedy (88 min) HD
Language: English
Director: David Winkler
Producer: Blueprint Entertainment
Cast: Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar
Galactica, White Noise 2: The Light,)
Cavan Cunningham (Finn on the Fly,
Corner Gas)
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
Desperate for Brian’s attention, Sara
makes a wish on a solar eclipse and the
pair is magically sent to their wedding
day far in the future…
HIGH HOPES
http://www.oasisinternational.com/10_tra
ilers/nice_guys.htm
Film Comedy (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Joe Eckardt
Producer: The Film Emporium and Trejo
4.0
Cast: David Faustino (Tv’sMarried With
Children, Pucked), Jason Mewes (Jay
and Silent Bob Strike Back, Clerks )
Lacey Chabert (Mean Girls, Lost in
Space), Andy Dick (Zoolander, Dude,
Where’s My Car?)
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
In the spirit of ‘Dazed and Confused’
and ‘Up in Smoke’, this comedy takes us
on an adventure in pursuit of fame
fortune and high times!
OCULE FILMS
Ocule Films, 822 Valita St., Venice, CA
90291 United States. Tel: 310.399.7937.
Fax: 310.399.7639.
http://www.ocule.com/ - email:
kirt@ocule.com
At AFM: Kirt Eftekhar (Managing
Director)
Office: Loews Hotel, Room 662,
Tel: 310.710.4378
BIG RIG
http://www.bigrigmovie.com/
Documentary (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Doug Pray
Writer
Producer: Kirt Eftekhar, Randy Wooten,
Brad Blondheim
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007
A powerful and entertaining film about
truck drivers and America’s amazing
truck driving culture. Filmed in gorgeous
high-definition with footage taken from
every corner of the United States.
DEEP WINTER
http://www.deepwintermovie.com/
Action-adventure/sports (96 min)
Language: English
Director: Mikey Hilb
WriterJohn Protass, Micah Abrams
Producer: Gigantic Pictures
Key Cast: Eric Lively, Kellan Lutz, Luke
Goss, Michael Madsen
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Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007
A ski/snowboarding action adventure
about childhood best friends, one a U.S.
ski team downhill racer, the other a
professional snowboarder.
WILD IN THE STREETS
http://www.wildinthestreetsmovie.com/
Documentary, sports
Language: English
Director: Peter Baxter
Producer: Kirt Eftekhar, Jonny Fink,
William Scott Henry, James Zalcman
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007
Shrovetide is one of the oldest
continuously running competitions on
earth, an ancient form of rugby that
consumes an entire town for days and
takes place across rivers, fields,
downtown streets and backyards.
BODOG MUSIC BATTLE OF THE
BANDS
http://www.newbodogmusic.com/bodogb
attle
Music/reality (10 episodes x 60 min)
Language: English
Producer: Bodog Entertainment
Year of Production: 2007 - present
Calvin Ayre has launched the largest
battle of the bands ever in the history of
music, with 7,500 bands signing up,
2,700 bands performing live, over 350
live events, and a ten episode reality
television show.
ODD LOT
INTERNATIONAL
Odd Lot International, 9601 Jefferson
Blvd., Suite A, Culver City, CA 90232
USA. Tel: 310 652 0999, 310 652 0718.
www.oddlotentertainment.com, email:
info@oddlotent.com
At AFM: Brian O’Shea (VP Worldwide
Distribution), Delphine Perrier (VP
Worldwide Distribution), Bill Lischak
(COO), Andrew Boyd (Director,
Marketing & Publicity), Shirley Kim
(Manager, International Business Affairs)
Office: Loews Santa Monica Beach
Hotel
Suite 461, Tel: 310.455.7389. Fax:
310.455.7390
THE SPIRIT
Action/Adventure
Language: English
Director: Frank Miller
Writers: Frank Miller
Producers: Deborah Del Prete, Gigi
Pritzker, Michael Uslan
Co-Producers: Linda McDonough, F.J.
DeSanto
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett
Johansson, Eva Mendes, Gabriel Macht,
Sarah Paulson
Status: In production (Start Date: Oct 8,
2007)
Country of Origin: USA
Based on Will Eisner’s The Spirit, the
action-adventure-romance tells the tale
of a rookie cop who returns from the
dead to fight crime from the shadows of
Central City.
GOOD
Drama
Language: English
Director: Vicente Amorim
Writers: John Wrathall
Producers: Miriam Segal, Sarah Boote,
Dan Lupovitz, Kevin Loader
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs,
Jodie
Whittaker
Status: Post-Production
Country of Origin: UK
A literary professor and decent family
man, John Halder (Mortensen) explores
his personal circumstances in a novel
advocating compassionate euthanasia.
ARMAGEDDAGAIN: THE DAY
BEFORE TOMORROW
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Rob Moniot
Writers: Rob Moniot and Travis Oates
Producers: Noah Emmerich, Rob
Moniot, Phil Goldfine
Cast: TBD
Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: USA
A hilarious comedy that spoofs several
of the biggest box office hits of all time
including Armageddon, Independence
Day and The Day After Tomorrow.
SUBURBAN GIRL
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Marc Klein
Writers: Marc Klein
Producers: Deborah Del Prete, Gigi
Pritzker, Darryl Taja
Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alec
Baldwin
Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Suburban Girl is Marc Klein’s feature
adaptation of stories from Melissa
Bank’s best selling short story collection,
The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing.
LIVING HELL
Thriller/Sci-Fi
Language: English
Director: Richard Jefferies
Writers: Richard Jefferies
Producers: David Greathouse, Deborah
Del Prete, Gigi Pritzker, Richard
Jefferies
Cast: Johnathon Schaech, Erika Leerhsen
Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
All his life schoolteacher Frank Sears
(Schaech) has carried with him a strange
scar given to him by his mother before
she committed suicide. The markings
THE BUSINESS
OF FILM
London Head Office
First Floor
64 Baker Street .
London WIU 7GB
Los Angeles Office
5150 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90036
lead Frank to a top secret Cold War
military project where an unstoppable,
malignant organism is unleashed.
ODYSSEY
ENTERTAINMENT
LIMITED
Odyssey Entertainment Limited, 10A
James Street, London, WC2E 8BT UK.
Tel: 44.207.520.5610.
Fax: 44.207.520.5610.
sales@odyssey-entertainment.co.uk
Sales Agent
At AFM: Ralph Kamp (Chairman &
CEO), Louise Goodsill (President &
COO), Pascal Degove (Head of Sales),
James Scott (Sales & Contracts
Executive), Libby D’Arcy (Contracts
Manager), Matthew Hampton
(Marketing Consultant)
Acquisition Executive: Sarah Arnott
(SVP Production), Chris Bird (SVP
Production)
Office: Loews, Room 860, Tel:
1.310.455.7391
NUTRACKER: THE TRUE STORY
Family
Language: English
Director: Andrei Konchalovksy
Writer: Andrei Konchalovsky, Chris
Solimine
Producer: Paul Lowin
Key Cast: John Turturro, Nathan Lane,
Richard E. Grant, Frances de la Tour,
Elle Fanning, Yuliya Vysotskaya
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007
Set in 1920’s Vienna, Mary’s magical
Nutcracker doll comes to life on
Christmas night, taking her on a
whirlwind adventure she’ll never forget.
SPACE CHIMPS
Animation
Language: English
Director: Kirk DeMicco
Writer: Kirk DeMicco, Rob Moreland
Producer: John H. Williams, Barry
Sonnenfeld
Key Cast: Andy Samberg, Jeff Daniels,
Kenan Thompson, Cheryl Hines,
Stanley Tucci, Patrick Warburton
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Comedy, adventure and romance ensue
when three chimps are sent into the
furthest reaches of the galaxy.
RIBBIT
Animation
Language: English
Producer: John H. Williams
Delivery Status: In Production
Country of Origin: USA
A frog named Ben is a fan of the movies
and dreams of being a superhero. When
his best friend (and secretly the love of
his life), Louise, is taken by the
Frogcatchers, Ben gets his chance to
make those dreams a reality.
POWER OF THE DARK CRYSTAL
Animation
Language: English
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Writer: Annette Duffy, David Odell
Producer: Lisa Henson, Scott Stewart
Delivery Status: Pre Production
The Gelflings Jen and Kira are now King
and Queen, residing in a beautiful castle
which protects the Crystal, maintaining
the balance of power in the kingdom – a
balance that is soon to be shattered!
ONOMA
Onoma, 4 rue de Miromesnil, 75008
Paris, France. Tel: 33.158.183.490. Fax:
33.145.259.970.
www.onomainternational.com, email
contact@onomainternational.com
Production and World Sales
At AFM: Fabien Westerhoff
(International Sales Executive)
Acquisition Executive: Fabien
Westerhoff
Office: Unifrance, Loews 760, Tel:
1.310.458.6700 x760, Fabien Westerhoff
33.619.045.958
3 LITTLE GIRLS (3 PETITES
FILLES)
Drama (105’)
Language: French
Director: Jean-Loup HUBERT
Writer: Jean-Loup HUBERT
Producer: Noé Productions
Co-production partners: Alexis Films
Key Cast: Adriana Karembeu, Gérard
Jugnot
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of
Origin: France
Three teenagers, running away from
home to look for adventure, meet an
unexpected couple composed of a gogo
girl and her manager.
DEDALES
Thriller (100’)
Language: French
Director: René MANZOR
Producer: Alexis Films
Key Cast: Lambert Wilson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003, Country of
Origin: France
To uncover the terrible secret of a serial
killer who suffers from “multiple
personality disorder”, two men immerse
themselves in the labyrinth of his inside
world.
PURE FICTION
Drama (95’)
Language: French
Director: Marian HANWEKER
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1998, Country of
Origin: France
Psychologically broken by a rape, Cecile
recognizes a few years later her mugger,
Johnny. She decides to conduct her own
investigation and her lonely fight against
these atrocious activities.
PECCATO
Animation (52’)
Language: French
Director: Manuel GOMEZ
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1997, Country of
Origin: France/ Belgium
A mystical road-movie of Angelo
Peccato who undertakes a long trip to the
world of Seven Major Sins of the
Christendom in order to fulfil his dream:
building a cathedral.
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ORACLE PICTURES
Oracle Pictures, 1099 E. Champlain
Drive, A-226, Fresno, CA 93720 U.S.
Tel: 559.304.9828. Fax: 559.322.8604.
http://www.oracleds.com, email:
oracle@oracleds.com
At AFM: Jeffrey Jackson (Producer),
Raven Rozier (Producer)
Office: Le Merigot #305, Tel:
1.310.395.9700 x305
LAST DOOR
http://www.lastdoormovie.com
Psychological, Supernatural Thriller (95
min)
English
Writer: K. Raven Rozier
Producer: Oracle Pictures
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: Low-Budget
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: U.S.
Imagine a secret so evil that exposing it
could destroy you or set you free.
P
PARAMOUNT
VANTAGE
INTERNATIONAL
Paramount Vantage International, 5555
Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038
USA. Tel: 323.956.2584. Fax:
323.862.2055.
http://www.paramountvantage.com
At AFM: Nick Meyer (Co-President),
Alex Walton (VP International Sales),
Dee Poku (VP International Marketing)
Office: Room 341, Le Merigot Hotel,
Tel: 310.455.7399, Fax: 310.455.7400
TRAITOR
Thriller
Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Writer: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Co-Production Partners: Mandeville
Films, Hyde Park Entertainment and
Crescendo Productions
Producer: David Hoberman, Todd
Lieberman, Don Cheadle, Jeffrey Silver
Key Cast: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce,
Said Taghmouri
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: United States
A taut international thriller set in the
covert world of counter-terrorism
operations, Traitor tells the gripping
story of a renegade US special forces
operative who’s helping radical Islamists
carry out acts against the West.
LAST CHANCE HARVEY
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Joel Hopkins
Writer: Joel Hopkins
Co-Production Partners: Process
Producer: Tim Perell, Nicola Usborne
Key Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Emma
Thompson
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: United States
A charming romantic comedy about a
jaded New York jingle Writer: and a
prickly British government bureaucrat
who meet by chance in London and
unexpectedly transform one another’s
lives.
THE MARC PEASE EXPERIENCE
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Todd Louiso
Writer: Jacob Koskoff, Todd Louiso
Co-Production Partners: Paramount
Vantage and Groundswell Productions
Producer: David Rubin, Michael
London, Bruna Papandrea
Key Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Ben
Stiller
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: United States
The hilarious and poignant story of a
young man’s attempt to overcome
adversity as he steps consciously,
triumphantly, though belatedly into
adulthood.
PARK
ENTERTAINMENT
LTD
Park Entertainment Ltd, 3rd floor, 54
Broadwick Street, London W1F 7AH,
United Kingdom. Tel:
44(0)20.7434.4176. Fax:
44(0)207.434.4179.
www.parkentertainment.com, Email:
sales@parkentertainment.com
At AFM: Jim Howell (CEO) (Cell
310.869.1225), Simon Barnes (Head Of
Film Sales) (Cell 310.804.2233), Cody
Allen (Sales Executive)
Office: Loews Hotel Suite no. 541, Tel:
310.458.6700 #541
BODYGUARD A NEW BEGINNING
Martial arts
Language: English
Director: Chee Keong Cheung
Producer: Mark Strange, Chee Keong
Cheung, Mike Leeder, Oliver Moran
Cast: Carl Ng, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa,
Richard Ng, Sing Fu On
Delivery Status: Promo
Country of Origin: UK/Hong Kong
Leung, the bodyguard of a Hong Kong
Triad boss, Wong, is sent to the UK to
protect a woman whose identity is
known only by his boss.
UNDERGROUND
Martial arts
Language: English
Director: Chee Keong Cheung
Writers: Chee Keong Cheung
Producer: Mark Strange, Chee Keong
Cheung
Cast: Joey Ansah, Nathan Lewis, Beau
Fowler, Mark strange, Zara Phythian,
Danny John-Jules, Fidel Nanton
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: UK
In the UK suburbs, an underground
tournament is set to challenge twelve
fighters from different backgrounds to
compete for the prize of $1m.
C’EST PAS MOI
Comedy
Language: French with English subtitles
Director: Alain Zaloum
Producers: Chuck Smiley, Lynda Cope,
Paul Painter
Cast: Roy Dupuis, Lucy Laurier,
Anemone
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Canada
An inept burglar becomes the victim of
mistaken identity- he looks just like a
police detective who’s away. Mafia
money, romance and laughs.
PASSPORT
INTERNATIONAL
ENTERTAINMENT,
LLC
Passport International Entertainment,
LLC, 10520 Magnolia Blvd., North
Hollywood, CA 91601USA. Tel:
818.7600.1500. Fax: 818.760.1532.
http://www.passportentertainment.com
At AFM: Dante Pugliese (Consultant),
Andrea Miller (VP Worldwide Sales),
Herb Dorfman (President Passport
Video)
Office: Loews, Suite 458, Tel:
310.458.6700
HOLLYWOOD SINGING AND
DANCING
http://www.greatmusicaltreasures.com/fe
ature/index.html
Feature Documentary (114 Min)
Language: English
Director: Mark McLaughlin
Writer: Ensemble
Producer: Great Musical Treasures
Key Cast: Shirley Jones, Liza Minnelli,
Shirley Maclaine, Mickey Rooney, Rita
Moreno, Debbie Reynolds, Leslie Caron,
bill Condon, Rob Marshall
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 5M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
The most entertaining and
comprehensive documentary feature
about the Hollywood Musical ever
produced. Hosted by Academy Award
winning stage, screen and television
icon, Shirley Jones.
PATHÉ
INTERNATIONAL
Pathé International, Paris Office: 2 rue
Lamennais, 75008 Paris, France. Tel:
33.1.71.72.33.05. Fax: 33.1.71.72.33.10.
E-mail: sales@patheinternational.com.
London Office: Kent House, 14-17
Market Place, London, W1W 8AR. Tel:
44.207.462.4427. Fax: 44.207.436.7891.
E-mail: international.sales@patheuk.com
At AFM: Muriel Sauzay (Deputy
Managing Director Pathe Distribution,
cell 33.6.16.59.83.13), Mike Runagall
(Head of Pathé International, cell
44.7949.074.552), Claire Taylor
(Consultant, cell 44.7880.790.069),
Mayalen de Croisoeuil (Sales Executive,
cell 33.6.60.53.10.09), Sarah Lucas
(Marketing and Publicity Manager, cell
44.7917.528.741), Gursharn Khaira
(Business Affairs Executive, cell
44.7917.347.840)
Office: Loews 744, Tel: 1.310.455.7407.
Fax: 1.310.455.7412
IT’S A FREE WORLD…
Drama
Language: English
Director: Ken Loach
Screenplay: Paul Laverty
Producer: Rebecca O’Brien
Cast: Kierston Wareing, Juliet Ellis,
Leslaw Zurek
Status: Completed/screening
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: A
UK/German/Italian/Spanish/Polish CoProduction
After getting sacked from a recruitment
agency, Angie and her flat mate, Rose,
set up a similar business from their
kitchen. With an abundance of immigrant
workers, it’s the road to the future, isn’t
it?
THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN (LA
GRAINE ET LE MULET)
Drama
Language: French
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Writer Abdellatif Kechiche
Producer: Claude Berri
Cast: Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi,
Faridah Benkhetache
Status: Completed/screening
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: France
THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN is an
inspiring story of a sixty-year-old man’s
struggle to overcome life’s hardships and
realize his life-long dream.
YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH
Drama
Language: English
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Screenplay: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara,
Bruno Ganz
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: A Romanian/French/Italian CoProduction
Marking Francis Ford Coppola’s longawaited return to filmmaking, YOUTH
WITHOUT YOUTH stars Tim Roth as
Dominic Mattei, an aging professor of
linguistics who survives a cataclysmic
event to find his youth miraculously
restored.
PEACE ARCH
ENTERTAINMENT
Peace Arch Entertainment, 4640
Admiralty Way, Suite 710, Marina Del
Rey, CA 90292, USA. Tel: 310.776.7208.
Fax: 310.823.7147. www.peacearch.com
At AFM: John Flock (President and
Chief Operating Officer), Julie Sultan
(EVP, Int’l Theatrical Film Sales), Mary
Herne (EVP, Int’l TV & Home
Entertainment), Suzanne Barron (SVP,
Int’l TV & Home Entertainment), Kevin
Byles (President, Int’l Distribution),
Victor Rodriguez (EVP, Int’l
Distribution), Bateman Davis-Miller
(SVP, Acquisitions & Domestic
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Office: Loews Hotel, Suite 721, Tel:
310.455.7413, Fax: 310.455.7414
THE BOATHOUSE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Jamie Brown
Writer: Beth Stewart
Producer: Alex Brown and Bill
Talmadge
Key Cast: Emmy Rossum and Adrien
Brody
Delivery Status: Preproduction
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: USA
A woman’s quest to unravel the mystery
of a disappeared pianist leads to clues
about her own mental blackouts — and
to herself as the possible murderer.
WINGED CREATURES
Drama
Language: English
Director: Rowan Woods
Writer: Roy Freirich
Producer: Robert Salerno
Key Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Forest
Whitaker, Dakota Fanning
Delivery Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: USA
Linked together by a life-changing
tragedy, the survivors of a multiple
murder are each left to comprehend their
mortality and redefine their place in
society.
THE DEAL
Romantic comedy
Language: English
Director: Steven Schachter
Writer: William H. Macy, Steven
Schachter
Producer: Irene Litinsky, Michael Prupas
Key Cast: William H. Macy, Meg Ryan,
LL Cool J
Delivery Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
When a struggling producer’s lead actor
is kidnapped from the set, he hatches a
scheme with an executive to save the star
and the movie.
PFG
ENTERTAINMENT
PFG Entertainment, 429 Santa Monica
Blvd., Suite 600, Santa Monica, CA
90401
USA. Tel: 310.393.5788. Fax:
310.393.0882.
http://www.pfgentertainment.com, email:
mail@pfgentertainment.com
At AFM: Ted Rosenblatt (Principal),
Deborah Setele (Executive Assistant)
Office: Loews Suite 430, Tel:
310.458.6700 x430, Fax: 310.393.0882
DEEPAK CHOPRA’S HOW TO
KNOW GOD
Drama (67 min)
English
Director: Ron Frank
Producer: Mallika Chopra, Gotham
Chopra, Ron Frank
Key Cast: Deepak Chopra
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Based on his best-selling book, author
Deepak Chopra embarks on an exciting,
insightful journey towards a better
understanding of one of life’s great
mysteries.
DEEPAK CHOPRA’S THE SEVEN
SPRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS
Drama (64 min)
English
Director: Ron Frank
Producer: Mallika Chopra, Gotham
Chopra, Ron Frank
Key Cast: Deepak Chopra, Olivia
Newton-John, Bill Duke
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Based on his best-selling book, author
Deepak Chopra offers a life-altering
perspective on the attainment of success
through seven simple, yet profound
principles.
TOOLBOX MURDERS. THE
RETURN
Horror
English
Director: Dean Jones
Writer: Jeffrey Reddick
Producer: Tony DiDio
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
It seems that the Toolbox Murders are
beginning… again…
PORCHLIGHT
ENTERTAINMENT
Porchlight Entertainment, 11050 Santa
Monica Blvd., 3rd Floor, Los Angeles,
CA 90025. Tel: 1.310.477.8400. Fax:
1.310.477.5555. www.porchlight.com,
email: info@porchlight.com
Distributor
At AFM: Bruce Johnson (CEO &
President), Ken DuBow (President
Worldwide Distribution), Karen Roberts
(SVP Acquisitions), JD Beaufils (VP,
Worldwide Sales), Katherine Kaufman
(VP, Worldwide Sales), Jeffrey Engelen
(VP, Worldwide Sales)
Acquisition Executive: Ken DuBow
Offices: Loews Hotel - 614 & 616
TOWARDS DARKNESS
www.tdmovie.com
Drama (97 min)
Language: English/Spanish
Director: Antonio Negret
Writer: Antonio Negret
Producer: Luiza Ricupero, Craig
Anderson
Co-production partners: Take Fountain
Productions, Negret Films Production
Key Cast: America Ferrera, David
Sutcliffe, Robert Urbina
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: US/Panama
As the minutes of a kidnapped hostage’s
life slip away, frustration mounts as his
family and a special ops team rush to
save his life.
AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE
COLON MOVIE
Film Website:
Animation/Comedy (83 min)
Language: English
Director: Matt Maiellaro, Dave Willis
Writer: Matt Maiellaro, Dave Willis
Producer: Dave Willis, Maiellaro, Jay
Edwards
Co-production partners: First Look
Studios, Cartoon Network
Key Cast: Dana Snyder, Dave Willis,
Matt Maiellaro
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: US
An action epic that explores the origins
of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force (better
known as Master Shake, Frylock and
Meatwad).
THE ULTIMATE GIFT
Film Website:
Family (120 min)
Language: English
Director: Michael O. Sajbel
Writer: Cheryl McKay
Producer: Rick Eldridge, John Shepherd,
Cleve Landsberg
Co-production partners: Life (N)
Productions, Dean Rivers Productions
Key Cast: Abigail Breslin, Brian
Dennehy, James Garner
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Canada
After Jason’s wealthy grandfather dies,
to obtain his inheritance he must
accomplish 12 tasks “gifts” devised by
his grandfather, which change Jason
forever.
PUSH WORLDWIDE
Push Worldwide, 17941 Ventura Blvd,
Suite 208, Encino, CA 91316 USA. Tel:
818.343.8980. Fax: 818.343.8962.
www.pushworldwide.com,
info@pushworldwide.com
At AFM: Rob Kerchner, Wes Burrell,
Joe Genier
Office: Loews Suite 738,
Tel: 310.458.6700 ext 738
RAZORTOOTH
Horror (95 min)
Director: Pat Harrington
Producer: Joe Genier
Cast: Kathleen Legue, Doug Swander,
Simon Page, Kate Gersten, Josh Gad
Delivery Status: Completed
Origin: USA
A small town in the Florida Everglades
is overcome by a deadly, hideous, and
virtually unstoppable creature that dwells
in the swampy depths.
LAST EXIT
Thriller (81 min)
Director: Richard Halpern
Producer: Richard Halpern, Philip
Halpern (EP), Art D’Alessandro (Co-P)
Cast: Kenny Johnson (The Shield),
Robyn Cohen (The Life Aquatic),
Ryan Fox
Delivery Status: Completed feature
Origin: USA
Three travelers find themselves lost in a
desert of greed, deception and murder.
PROTECTING THE KING – ECHO BRIDGE
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EATING RAOUL
Dark comedy/satire (90 min)
Director: Paul Bartel
Producer: Anne Kimmel
Cast: Paul Bartel, Mary Woronov, Robert
Beltran Delivery Status: Complete
Origin: USA
This is the cult classic satire from the
late, great Paul Bartel. If you don’t know
about it already - you should!
Q
QED
QED, 9595 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 800,
Beverly Hills, CA 90212 United States.
Tel: 310.273.3004. Fax: 310.273.3006.
http://www.qedintl.com
At AFM: Bill Block (CEO), Paul Hanson
(COO), Kimberly Fox (SVP Worldwide
Distribution), Tatyana Joffe (VP
International Distribution), Elliot
Ferwerda (VP of Production), Heather
Montgomery (Worldwide Sales
Coordinator)
Office: Le Merigot, Suite 218 , Tel:
310.455.7415
THE LUCKY ONES (2007)
(THE RETURN)
Drama
Director: Neil Burger
Producers: Brian Koppelman, David
Levien, Neil Burger, Rick Schwartz
Executive Producers: Bill Block, Paul
Hanson, Elliot Ferwerda, Adam Merims
Cast: Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins,
Michael Pena
Status: In post production, footage at
AFM Three soldiers take an unexpected
cross-country road trip to Las Vegas.
THE ECHO (2008)
Thriller
Director: Yam Laranas
Producers: Roy Lee, Doug Davison,
Shintaro Shimosawa, Tyler Mitchell,
Will Wright
Executive Producers: Robert Hoff, Eric
Bernt, Kimberly Fox, Elliot Ferwerda
Cast: Jesse Bradford, Amelia Warner
Status: In Production in Toronto, footage
at AFM
Recently paroled Bobby Reynolds
attempts to make a new life for himself
by getting a job, reconnecting with a
former girlfriend and moving into his
mother’s apartment, vacant since her
untimely death.
POWDER BLUE (2008)
Drama
Producers: Forest Whitaker, Timothy
Linh Bui, Tracee Stanley-Newell, Bobby
Schwartz, Ross M. Dinerstein
Executive Producers: Shaun Redick, Joff
Golenberg, Bill Block, Kimberly Fox
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Jessica Biel, Ray
Liotta, Patrick Swayze, Kris
Kristofferson
Director/Writer: Timothy Linh Bui
Status: In post production, footage at
AFM
A mosaic of people desperately search
for redemption, human connection and
restored faith within the underbelly of
LA
R
REGENT
ENTERTAINMENT
Regent Entertainment, 10990 Wilshire
Blvd., Penthouse Los Angeles, California
90024 USA. Tel: 310.806.4288. Fax:
310.806.4271.
www.regententertainment.com
Producer and Distributor
At AFM: Gene George (President),
Meggan Kimberley (SVP Sales)
Office: #834-836, Tel: 310.458.6700 Ext.
834, Gene George Mobile:
310.804.9360, Meggan Kimberley
Mobile: 818.451.8298
THE DELPHI EFFECT
Action/ Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Ron Oliver
Cast: Shannen Doherty, Robert Gant,
John Rhys-Davies
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Ex-spy Jacob Keane is drawn back into
the shadowy world of international
espionage when his former partner Marta
reappears after 17 years, her memory
erased, on the run from a pair of ruthless
assassins.
CHRISTMAS CAPER
Family / Holiday (90 min)
Language: English
Director: David Winkler
Cast: Shannen Doherty, Ty Olsson,
Conrad Coates
Delivery Status: Post-Production
When professional thief Dove (Shannen
Doherty) ends up caring for her niece
and nephew over the Christmas holidays,
she begins to rethink her priorities and
realizes that a crime-free Christmas
might be just what she needs this year.
AN ACCIDENTAL CHRISTMAS
Family / Holiday (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Fred Olen Ray
Cast: Cynthia Gibb, David Millbern
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Separated after 15 years of marriage,
Vicki and Jason are set up by their two
teenage children to spend a Christmas
vacation together on the beach.
NUCLEAR HURRICANE
Disaster (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Fred Olen Ray
Cast: Jamie Luner, Jack Scalia, David
Millbern, Meredith McGeachie
Delivery Status: Completed
At a nuclear power plant, the cooling
system becomes a problem when the
“mother of all storms” is headed straight
towards it.
STOLEN LIFE: CAUGHT ON TAPE
Thriller (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Donald Wrye
Cast: Antonio Sabato Jr., Odette Yustman
Delivery Status: Completed
US Broadcaster: Lifetime
A young school teacher engaged to a
handsome firefighter has the seemingly
perfect life until she accompanies some
girlfriends on a spring break trip.
KISS THE BRIDE
Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: C. Jay Cox
Cast: Tori Spelling, James O’Shea,
Philipp Karner, Amber Benson, Joanna
Cassidy
Delivery Status: Completed
In high school, Matt and Ryan were best
friends. But in the ensuing ten years,
they’ve lost contact. So when Matt
receives an invitation to Ryan’s wedding
he’s surprised!
HOME BY CHRISTMAS
Family (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Gail Harvey
Cast: Linda Hamilton, Rob Stewart
Delivery Status: Completed
US Broadcaster: Lifetime
Julie lives a comfortable life with two
children and her husband of 21 years.
But when her husband leaves her for a
younger woman, she reluctantly
accustoms herself to a more modest
lifestyle.
SHOW BUSINESS: THE ROAD TO
BROADWAY
Documentary (102 min)
Language: English
Director: Dori Borinstein
Cast: Harrison Chad, Kristin Chenoweth,
Alan Cumming, Boy George, Jeff Marx,
Idina Menzel, Rosie O’Donnell
Delivery Status: Completed
“ShowBusiness” follows the four highprofile productions that would eventually
become Tony nominees for Best
Musical: the big-noise musical
“Wicked.”
LONG LOST SON
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith
Cast: Gabrielle Anwar, Craig Sheffer
Delivery Status: Completed
US Broadcaster: Lifetime
Many years ago, Kristen lost her son
when her estranged husband took him
sailing in a dangerous storm. But, while
watching a friend’s vacation video, she
sees a glimpse of two familiar faces.
THE WIVES HE FORGOT
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Mario Azzopardi
Cast: Molly Ringwald, Mark Humphrey,
Shannon Sturges
Delivery Status: Completed
US Broadcaster: Lifetime
When a man stumbles into Charlotte’s
law office, she discovers that he has
contracted amnesia.
CHRISTMAS DO OVER
Family/Holiday (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Catherine Cyran
Cast: Jay Mohr, Daphne Zuniga, Ruta
Lee, Adrienne Barbeau
Delivery Status: Completed
US Broadcaster: ABC Family
Feeling obligated to spend Christmas
visiting his ex-wife, young son, and
former in- laws, a shallow jingle writer
finds himself living Christmas day over
and over again.
ROISSY FILMS
Roissy Films, 58, rue Pierre Charron
75008 Paris, France. Tel:
33.1.53.53.50.50. Fax: 33.1.42.89.26.93.
www.roissyfilms.com, email:
contact@roissyfilms.com
Sales Agent
At AFM: Yohann COMTE (Head of
International Sales – New Feature Films)
Tel: 33.1.53.53.50.50. Mob:
33.6.29.95.51.44
Office: Unifrance Umbrella, Loews
Hotel, 7th Floor office N° 757, Tel:
1.310.458.6700 x757, in Los Angeles:
California Hotel, 1670 Ocean Avenue,
Santa Monica, CA 90401. Tel:
1.310.576.7777. Fax: 1.310.458.7912
THE RED INN (L’AUBERGE
ROUGE)
Dark Comedy (1h30)
Language: French
Directed by Gérard KRAWCZYK (Taxi
2, 3, 4)
Cast: Josiane BALASKO (The Ex-Wife
Of My Life, Gazon Maudit), Christian
CLAVIER (Astérix, The Corsican File),
Gérard JUGNOT (The Chorus, Mr
Batignole), Jean-BAPTISTE MAUNIER
(The Chorus)
Delivery Status: completed
Budget: 22M?
Country of origin: France
CROSSED TRACKS – ROMAN DE
GARE
Thriller (1h 43)
Language: French
Directed by Claude LELOUCH
Cast: Dominique PION, Fanny
ARDANT, Audrey DANA, Zinedine
SOUALEM, Michele BERNIER,
Myriam BOYER
Producer: Claude Lelouch for LES
FILMS 13
Delivery Status: completed
Country of origin: France
Judith Ralitzer, femme fatale and popular
writer, is seeking characters for her next
best-seller.
TOWARDS ZERO (L’HEURE ZERO)
Detective story
Directed by Pascal THOMAS (By The
Pricking Of My Thumbs)
Based on AGATHA CHRISTIE’s novel
Cast: Melvil POUPAUD (Time To
Leave), Laura SMET (Eager Bodies, The
Bridesmaid, Gilles’ Wife), Chiara
MASTROIANNI (Carnage, Time
Regained), François MOREL (An
Amazing Couple), Danièle DARRIEUX
(8 women), Alessandra MARTINES (Les
Misérables)
Delivery Status: completed
Country of origin: France / Language:
French / 1h40
What an odd idea Guillaume Neuville
has for summer’s end – bringing together
his former wife Aude and his present
wife Caroline at his rich Aunt Camilla
Tressilian’s country house in Gull’s
Point.
CARAMEL
Comedy-Drama
Directed by Nadine LABAKI
Cast: Nadine LABAKI, Yasmine AL
MASRI, Joanna MOUKARZEL
Producer: Anne-Dominique Toussaint for
LES FILMS DES TOURNELLES
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Delivery Status: completed
Country of origin: France & Lebanon /
Language: Arabic / 1h35
In Beirut, five women often meet up at a
beauty salon, a highly colourful
microcosm where several generations
cross each other, talk and confide.
STEAK
Quirky comedy
Directed by Quentin DUPIEUX A.K.A
Mr OIZO
Cast: Eric JUDOR (Double Zero, Tour
Montparnasse Infernale), Ramzy BEDIA
(Double Zero, Tour Montparnasse
Infernale)
Producer: LA PETITE REINE (Double
Zero, Asterix
at the Olympics) & REMSTAR
Delivery Status: completed
Country of origin: France / Language:
French / 1h30
Quentin Dupieux, aka Mr.Oizo of the
Levi’s commercials, is reuniting Eric and
Ramzy in an edgy and wacky comedy.
BY THE WAY – FRAGILE(S)
Comedy-Drama (1h50)
Language: French
Directed by Martin VALENTE
Cast: François BERLEAND
(Transporter, Tell no one, Choristes),
Jean-Pierre DARROUSSIN (How much
do you love me), Marie GILLAIN
(L’enfer, Have mercy on us all), Jacques
GAMBLIN (Tiger Brigades, Holy Lola),
Caroline CELLIER
Delivery Status: completed
Country of origin: France
There are days when the smallest little
turns of fate can intertwine destinies.
Individuals’ lives can be transformed by
chance meetings.
WAITING FOR SOMEONE
(J’ATTENDS QUELQU’UN)
Comedy-Drama (1h37)
Language: French
Directed by Jérôme BONNELL: Les
Yeux Clairs (Berlin 2005 – Forum)
Olga’s chignon
Cast: Emmanuelle DEVOS (Kings &
Queens, Read My Lips), Jean-Pierre
DARROUSSIN (How Much Do You
Love Me), Eric CARAVACA (The
Passenger, His Brother, Officer’s ward),
Florence LOIRET-CAILLE
Producer: Anne-Dominique Toussaint,
for LES FILMS DES TOURNELLES
(Respiro)
Country of origin: France
A small town… Divorced father and café
manager Louis is more than fond of
Sabine.
THE BUSINESS OF FILM
London Head Office
First Floor
64 Baker Street .
London WIU 7GB
Los Angeles Office
5150 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90036
S
SAHAMONKOLFILM
INTERNATIONAL
CO., LTD.
Sahamonkolfilm International Co., Ltd.,
388 S.P. Building 9th Floor Zone B
Phaholyothin Road Samsen nai
Phayathai Bangkok 10400 Thailand. Tel:
662.273.0930. Fax: 662.271.0620.
www.sahamongkolfilm.com
Film Production and Distribution
At AFM: Mr. Gilbert Lim (Executive
Vice President), Mr. Pitaya Sithi –
Amnuai (Director of International Sales),
Ms. Maya Petchladda Sinarpa (Sales
Executive), Mr. Gerald Lim (Director of
Acquisitions), Mr. Panu Aree (Director
of Acquisitions)
Office: Loews 429, Tel: 1.310.455.7421;
6681.822.6652
ONG BAK2
Martial Art Action
Language: Thai with English Sub.
Director: Tony Jaa, Panna Rittikrai
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert
Cast: Tony Jaa
Delivery Status: In production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Thailand.
Ong Bak2, the long awaited next project
of action-super star, Tony Jaa with his
master Panna Rittkrai. Ong Bak2
promises to push the boundaries of
martial arts with fast paced action and
superb fight sequences.
CHOCOLATE
Action
Language: Thai with English Sub.
Director: Prachya Pinkraew.
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert
Cast: Yanin Vismitananda, Amara
Siripong, and Sakda Patthasima.
Delivery Status: Post production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Thailand.
Zen is a teenage girl with phenomenal
fighting skills which are hidden beneath
a vale of autism.
THE BODYGUARD2
Action-Comedy (100 min)
Language: Thai with English Sub.
Director: Petchtai Wongkamlao.
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert
Cast: Petchtai Wongkamlao, Jenet
Kheaw and Special appearance by Tony
Jaa.
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Thailand.
The Bodyguard is back to create havoc
in his new undercover adventure to
uncloak an arm-smuggling ring hidden
behind a large music recording company.
QUEENS OF PATTANI
Action-Adventure
Language: Thai with English Sub.
Director: Nonzee Nimibutr.
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert.
Cast: Dan Chupong, Ananda
Everingham, Sorapong Chatree, Anna
Sesumun, Caroline Jarunee Desneiges,
Sano Hirokazu, Jarunee Suksawas
Delivery Status: In production.
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Thailand.
The Queens of Pattani is Thailand’s
biggest ever cinematographic adventure.
An epic tale based on a true story of
passion, subterfuge, sorcery and
conspiracy.
SCREEN MEDIA
VENTURES
Screen Media Ventures, 757 Third
Avenue, 3rd Floor New York City, New
York 10017 USA. Tel: 212.308.1790.
Fax: 212.308.1791.
www.screenmedia.net
Feature Film Distribution Company
At AFM: Joseph Kovacs (President),
David Fannon (Vice President) Almira
Malyshev (Senior Vice President;
International Sales), Michael Dwyer
(Vice President; International Sales and
Acquisitions)
Acquisition Executive: Robert Baruc
(President, Screen Media Films) Suzanne
Blech (Senior Vice President; Sales and
Acquisitions, Screen Media Films)
Office: Suite 817, Tel: 310.455.7427
RAGE, THE
http://www.theragefilm.com/
Horror
Language: English
Director: Robert Kurtzman
Writer: Robert Kurtzman
Producer: Robert Kurtzman and John
Bisson
Key Cast: Andrew Divoff, Erin Brown,
Reggie Bannister
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $ 2M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
When human test subjects injected with
the ‘rage’ mutagen escape from a
deranged scientist’s laboratory and
spread across the countryside, a group of
young adults traveling to a rock concert
unwittingly stumble upon the secret lab,
embarking on a night of unimaginable
horror.
TRIGGER MAN
http://www.triggermanmovie.com/
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Ti West
Writer: Ti West
Producer: Peter Phok
Key Cast: Reggie Cunningham, Ray
Sullivan, Sean Reid
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Inspired by true events. The story of
three hunters who mysteriously became
the hunted.
MURDER PARTY
http://www.murderpartymovie.com/
Horror/ Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Jeremy Saulnier
Writer: Jeremy Saulnier
Producer: Skei Saulnier and Chris Sharp
Key Cast: Chris Sharp, Alex Barnett,
NOAH'S ARK – FILMEXPORT
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William Lacey and Paul Goldblatt
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A random invitation to a Halloween
party leads a man into the hands of a
rogue collective intent on murdering him
for the sake of their art, sparking a
bloodbath of mishap, mayhem and
hilarity.
DISAPPEARANCES
http://www.disappearancesmovie.com/
Adventure (118 min)
Language: English
Director: Jay Craven
Writer: Jay Craven
Producer: Jay Craven and Mark Donadio
Key Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Gary
Farmer, Genevieve Bujold, Luis Guzman
and William Sanderson
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $ 1.5M
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Forced to smuggle whiskey in an attempt
to save his family, Quebec Bill (Kris
Kristofferson) and his son embark on an
unforgettable treacherous journey
through the wilderness.
WALKER PAYNE
http://www.walkerpayne.com/
Drama (117 min)
Language: English
Director: Matt Williams
Writer: Matt Williams
Producer: Judd Payne
Key Cast: Jason Patric, Drea de Matteo,
Sam Shepard, Bruce Dern
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
A period drama where a small-town
father is forced to make difficult,
heartbreaking decisions in order to save
his two daughters.
THE BUSINESS
OF FILM
London Head Office
First Floor
64 Baker Street .
London WIU 7GB
Los Angeles Office
5150 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90036
SEVEN ARTS
INTERNATIONAL
Seven Arts International, 6310 San
Vicente Blvd. Suite 510, Los Angeles, CA
90048 USA. Tel: 323.634.0990. Fax:
323.634.1061.
http://www.7artspictures.com, email:
info@7artspictures.com
At AFM: Peter Hoffman (Chairman),
Kate Hoffman (Executive Vice
President), Chris Bialek (Head of Sales),
Justin Kelly (VP, Business Affairs)
Office: Le Merigot Hotel Suite 153, Tel:
310.395.9700, Fax: 310.395.9200
NEUROMANCER
Sci-Fi Thriller
Language: English
Director: Joseph Kahn
Writer: William Gibson
Producer: Julia Verdin
Key Cast: Hayden Christensen
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: USA
William Gibson’s classic science fiction
novel that coined the terms “cyberspace”
and “virtual reality” is the harrowing tale of
a world in which technology has gone out
of control.
AMERICAN SUMMER
Comedy
Language: English
Director: J.B. Rogers
Writer: Julie O’Hora & Justin Ware
Producer: Warren Zide
Key Cast: Matthew Lillard, Efren Ramirez,
Brett Daver, Rachelle Lefevre, Tom Arnold,
George Takei
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Harvard-bound valedictorian, Alex Sperling,
loses his summer internship and heads to
Los Angeles to work for his charming and
seemingly successful cousin, Roger.
AUTOPSY
Thriller
English
Director: Adam Gierasch
Writer: Jace Anderson, Adam Gierasch &
Evan Katz
Producer: Warren Zide
Key Cast: Robert Patrick, Jessica Lowndes,
Ashley Schneider, Michael Bowen, Ross
Kohn, Ross McCall, Jenette Goldstein,
Robert Lasardo
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007,
Country of Origin: USA
A young woman tries to find her injured
boyfriend in a bizarre and dangerous
hospital.
NINE MILES DOWN
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Anthony Waller
Writer: Everett De Roche & Anthony
Waller
Producer: Thomas Hedman, Ray
Markovich
Key Cast: Melissa George, Adrian Paul
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007
A security expert is sent to a remote
scientific camp to investigate strange
things that are happening.
SEVENONE
INTERNATIONAL
SevenOne International, Medienallee 7,
85744 Unterfoehring, Germany.
Tel: 0049.89.95072320.
Fax: 0049.89.95072321.
www.sevenoneinternational.com, email:
sales@sevenoneinternational.com
At AFM: Jens Richter (Managing
Director), Axel Boehm (Sales Manager)
Office: Le Merigot, Room 238, Tel:
0049.175.1815386
TREASURE ISLAND
Adventure (2 x90 min)
Language: German
Director: Hansjörg Thurn
Producer: Janus Film
Cast: François Goeske, Diane Willems,
Tobias Moretti, Christian Tramitz, Silke
Bodenbender
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $12.000.000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Germany
Shot in the breath-taking scenery of
Cornwall and Thailand, Robert L.
Stevenson’s classic adventure story gets
a new modern look and feel in this highbudget TV adaptation.
12 SIGNS
Thriller (4 x90 min)
Language: German
Director: Andreas Prochaska
Producer: MR-Film Kurt Mrkwicka
Cast: Alexandra Neldel, Fritz Karl, Misel
Maticevic, Friedrich von Thun
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $12.000.000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Germany
When the illegitimate Esther meets her
wealthy father for the first time, her
return sets in motion the deadly plan of a
serial killer, whose murders are based on
ancient astrological principals.
THE SECRET OF LOCH NESS
Family Entertainment (1 x90 min)
Language: German
Director: Michael Rowitz
Producer: Rat Pack Filmproduktion
Cast: Lukas Schust, Hans Werner Meyer,
Lisa Martinek, Karl Merkatz, Thomas
Fritsch, Dorkas Kiefer
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $4.000.000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Germany
Family entertainment at its best is
guaranteed with “The Secret of Loch
Ness” and its animated little character
OKI Ness.
DEADLY HARVEST
Thriller (1 x90 min)
Language: German
Director: Oliver Schmitz
Producer: Lionheart Entertainment
Cast: Theresa Scholze, Sebastian Ströbel,
Tony Kgoroge, Susan Danford
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $3.000.000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Germany
The idyllic Safari Lodge in South Africa
is in fact a trap run by an international
crime syndicate operating in the “organ
harvest” trade…
COMET IMPACT
Catastrophe (1 x90 min)
Language: German
Director: Keith Boak
Producer: Darlow Smithson Productions
Cast: James Wilby, Christian Solimeno,
Kirsty Mitchell, Rowena King
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $6.000.000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
There is only one natural disaster that
has the potential to destroy all life on
earth – a direct hit by a comet.
Screenplay by Edward Canfor-Dumas,
the author of “Sulpervolcano”.
SHOCHIKU CO., LTD.
Shochiku Co., Ltd., Togeki Bldg. 13F, 41-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-Ku, Tokyo 104-8422
Japan. Tel: 81.3.5550.1623. Fax:
81.3.5550.1654.
http://www.shochikufilms.com, email:
ibd@shochiku.co.jp
At AFM: Kiwamu Sato (Manager),
Satoko Ishida (Sales Executive), Shion
Komatsu (Sales Executive), Chiyo Mori
(Sales Executive), Takeya Ito (Sales
Executive)
Office: 717, 719, Tel: 1.310.455.7431
MIDNIGHT EAGLE
http://www.shochikufilms.com/film/detai
l.php?product_code=684
Action / Thriller (131min)
Japanese with English sub
Director: Izuru Narushima
Writer: Yasuo Hasegawa, Kenzaburo Iida
Co-Production Partners: MIDNIGHT
EAGLE PARTNERS
Producer: Shohei Kotaki, Kanjiro Sakura
Key Cast: To Osawa, Yuko Takeuchi,
Hiroshi Tamaki, Eisaku Yoshida,
Yoshihiko Hmada, Nao Omori, Ken
Ishiguro, Tatsuya Fuji
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Japan
During a heavy blizzard in treacherous,
snow clad mountains, a battle begins that
will decide the fate of 127 million
people!
THE SUICIDE SONG
Densen-Uta
http://www.shochikufilms.com/film/detai
l.php?product_code=683
Horror / Thriller (128min)
Japanese with English subs
Director: Masato Harada
Writer: Daisuke Habara, Msato Harada
Co-Production Partners: THE SUICIDE
SONG FILM PARTNERS
Producer: Shigeaki Yoshida, Yoshihiro
Kato
Key Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda, Yusuke
Iseya, Yuko Oshima, Say Akimoto,
Haruna Kojima, Atusko Maeda, Yoshino
Kimura, Hiroshi Abe
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Japan
From the creator of “One Missed Call”
comes the terrifying story of a suicide
song based on a true story!
HAPPILY EVER AFTER (JIGYAKU
NO UTA)
http://www.shochikufilms.com/film/detai
l.php?product_code=680
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Drama / Romantic Comedy (117min)
Japanese with English sub
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Writer: Erica Seki
Co-Production Partners: HAPPILY
EVER AFTER Film Partners
Producer: Hiroyuki Ueda, Yuji Ishida,
Susumu Nzawa
Key Cast: Miki Ntani, Hiroshi Abe,
Toshiyuki Nishida
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Japan
Being unhappy or happy doesn’t matter
to me anymore. Both have the same
value. Life’s only meaning is to keep
struggling to move forward.
THE SIGNS OF LOVE (MIRAI
YOSOZU)
http://www.shochikufilms.com/film/detai
l.php?product_code=685
Romance / Drama (115min)
Japanese
Director: Hiroshi Chono
Writer: Kyoko Inukai
Co-Production Partners: THE SIGNS OF
LOVE Film Partners
Producer: Tyoshi Kobayashi, Mariko
Mizukawa
Key Cast: Nao Matsushita, Terunosuke
Takezai, Keiko Matsuz
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Japan
A love story based on hit songs from
DREAMS COME TRUE. A heartwrenching love story set in Tokyo and
Bercelona.
SHORELINE
ENTERTAINMENT,
INC.
Shoreline Entertainment, Inc., 1875
Century Park East, Ste. 600,
Los Angeles, CA 90067 USA.
Tel: 1.310.551.2060. Fax
1.702.974.0707.
www.slefilms.com,
email: sales@slefilms.com
At AFM: Morris Ruskin (CEO /
Producer), Sam Eigen (Director of
World-Wide Distribution), Brian Sweet
(Director of Sales)
Office: Loews Hotel, Suite 622, Market
Mobile: 1.702.524.3114. Fax:
1.702.974.0707
SENSELESS
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Simon Hynd
Writer: Simon Hynd
Producers: Micky McPherson, and Nigel
Thomas
Co-Producer(s): Shoreline Entertainment
Key Cast: Jason Behr, Emma
Catherwood, and Joe Ferrara
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
Elliot Gast was cruising on the road to
success, until he became violently
overturned by a group of political
extremists and brutally tortured for acts
he wasn’t even aware he had
committed.
KILLING ZELDA SPARKS
Drama (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Jeff Glickman
Writer: Josh Ben Friedman
Producer: Jeff Glickman & Jesse Ikeman
Co-Producer: Shoreline Entertainment
Key Cast: Sarah Carter, Vincent
Kartheiser, & Colm Feore
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
Estranged friends, Terry & Craig, are
forced to confront their old high school
nemesis, Zelda Sparks, resulting in a
prank they soon realize may have turned
deadly.
BULLETS, BLOOD, AND A
FISTFUL OF CA$H
Action (118 min)
Language: English
Director: Sam Akina
Writer: Sam Akina
Producer(s): Vu Le
Key Cast: Jerry Lloyd, Roy Stanton, and
Tom Doty
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A hard boiled tale of bloody revenge that
interweaves the stories of nine criminals.
DAYDREAMER
Psychological Thriller (85 min)
Language: English
Director: Brahman Turner
Writer: Adam Sigal
Producer: Warren Meyer and Brahman
Turner
Key Cast: Aaron Paul and Arielle Kebbel
Status: Completed
Year Of Production: 2007,
Country of Origin: USA
Clinton is convinced that Casey,
a young and attractive woman he
casually met at a bar one night, is
actually a figment of his
imagination as strange and unexplainable
events occur.
MAN FROM EARTH, THE
Science-Fiction (87 min)
Language: English
Director: Richard Schenkman
Writer: Jerome Bixby
Producer: Emerson Bixby and Richard
Schenkman
Key Cast: David Lee Smith, Tony Todd,
Richard Riehle, and John Billingsley
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country: USA
An impromptu goodbye party for
Professor John Oldman becomes a
mysterious interrogation after the
retiring scholar reveals to his
colleagues he is an immortal who has
walked the earth for 14,000 years.
MAN IN THE CHAIR
Drama (107 min)
Language: English
Director(s): Michael Schroeder
Writer: Michael Schroeder
Producer(s): Michael Schroeder
Cast: Christopher Plummer, Michael
Angarano, and Robert Wagner
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007,
Country of Origin: USA
Coming of age drama.
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I’M RICK JAMES
Documentary (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Perry Santos
Producer(s): Perry Santos
Cast: Rick James, Ron Jeremy, George
Clinton, and Linda Blair
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A candid look at the life and death of
Rick James, as told by family and
friends.
WEIRDSVILLE
Comedy (96 min)
Language: English
Director: Alan Moyle
Writer: Willem Wennekers
Producer: Nicholas Tabarrok
Co-Producer: Shoreline Entertainment
Cast: Scott Speedman, Wes Bently, and
Taryn Manning
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
Screwball comedy of two junkies on the
run from a satanic cult, a cabal of midget
knights, a vengeful drug dealer, and a
mouse.
THE FIFTH PATIENT
Thriller (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Amir Mann
Writer: Amir Mann
Producer: Amir Mann
Co-Producer: Shoreline Entertainment
Key Cast: Nick Chinlund, Brendan Fehr,
Isaach De Bankole, Peter Bogdanovich
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Israel/Mexico
When American John Reilly awakens to
confusion and chaos in a tangled web of
political intrigue and espionage, John
struggles to discover the man he was and
which side he’s truly on.
IN YOUR DREAMS
Comedy/Fantasy/Romance (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Gary Sinyor
Writer: Gary Sinyor
VACLAV
SIMPLY CINEMA
Producer: Gary Sinyor
Cast: Dexter Fletcher, Parminder Nagra,
Elize Du Toit, & Linda Hamilton
Status: Complete
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
As a kid, Albert Ross was going to go
places. As an adult, he’s gone no where.
He’s a frustrated dentist, when suddenly,
his dreams starting coming true.
Literally.
SHOWBOX /
MEDIAPLEX, INC.
Showbox / Mediaplex, Inc., 16F Hansol
Bldg, 736-1 Yeoksam-dong, Gangnamgu, Seoul, Korea 135-983. Tel:
82.2.3218.5649. Fax: 82.2.3444.6688.
www.showbox.co.kr, email:
sales@showbox.co.kr
Sales Agent, Distributor, Investor
At AFM: Judy Ahn (Head of Int’l Sales),
Steve Lee (Head of Int’l Business)
Acquisition Executive: Chris Lee
Office: Room 454/6, Tel: 310.458-6700,
room 454
M
(110 min)
Language: Korean(English subtitle)
Director: LEE Myung-Se
Writer: LEE Myung-Se, LEE Hae-kyung
Producer: LEE Myung-Se, O Su-mi
Co-production partners: Production M,
M&FC
Key Cast: GANG Dong-won, LEE Yeonhee, GONG Hyo-jin
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Korea
A prominent up-and-coming author
Minwoo readies his new much
anticipated follow-up novel while
suffering from frequent nightmares and
hallucinations.
HAPPINESS
(123 min)
Language: Korean(English subtitle)
Director: HUR Jin-ho
Writer: HUR Jin-ho, LEE Sook-yeon,
SHIN Joon-ho, SEO Yoo-min
Producer: KANG Bong-rae, LEE
Eugene
Co-production partners: rai Film, Zip
Cinema
Key Cast: HWANG Jung-min, LIM Soojung
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Korea
Young-su leads a careless and
fashionable high life in Seoul but when
stricken with liver cirrhosis, his business
and love affairs go down the drain.
TWO FACES OF MY GIRLFRIEND
(117 min)
Language: Korean(English subtitle)
Director: LEE Seok-hoon
Writer: HWANG In-ho
Producer: KIM Min-ki
Co-production partners: Fineworks, Inc.
Key Cast: BONG Tae-gyu, CHUNG
Yeo-won
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Korea
College student Gu-chang has never
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kissed a girl before and he blames it all
on his dependency on his sister and lack
of any disposable income.
LOVERS BEHIND
(100 min)
Language: Korean(English subtitle)
Director: E.oni
Writer: Ko Yun Hee
Producer: Kim ki Jong
Co-production partners: Sidus FNH
Key Cast: LEE Mi-yun, LEE Tae-ran
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Korea
32-year old Jung-wan is a promising
photographer who enjoys her freedom as
a single.
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 AFM: David A. Jackson (President),
Shauna Shapiro Jackson (Executive Vice
President), Scott Bedno (Director of
International Sales), Bruce Livingston
(Chief Financial Officer), Rob Lynch
(Executive Representative, Domestic
Sales & Worldwide Acquisitions), Linda
Paolucci (Executive Assistant & Market
Coordinator), Leslee Jones-Allmon (VP Worldwide Distribution Services), Cara
Shapiro (Vice President - Acquisitions),
Natalie Geller (Acquisitions Assistant)
Office: Loews Hotel – Suites 806 & 807,
Tel: 1.310.458.6700 x807
PURPLE VIOLETS
Relationship Comedy
Written and Directed by Edward Burns
Produced by Aaron Lubin
Cast includes Selma Blair (“Hellboy,”
“Legally Blonde”), Debra Messing (TV’s
“Will & Grace,” “The Wedding Date”),
Edward Burns (“She’s the One,” “The
Brothers McMullen”) and Patrick Wilson
(“Little Children,” upcoming “The
Watchmen”).
A witty and touching story of rekindled
romances and redemption.
APE ESCAPE
Kids Animation (38 x 2’)
Based on the best-selling Sony
PlayStation videogame, APE ESCAPE,
is an animated series starring the planet’s
most diabolical ape, Specter, who wants
to rid the world of humans and replace
them with his minions of monkeys.
PIGS
Teen Comedy
Written and Directed by Karl DiPelino
Produced by Chris Ragonetti
Stars Jefferson Brown (“The Right Way,”
“If Wishes were Horses,” “The Dog
Walker”), Darryn Lucio, Christopher
Elliott and Melanie Marden.
College ladies man Miles bets his pals
that he can bed 26 girls, one for each
letter of the alphabet, before graduation.
SHOW EAST
Show East, 10F, New Seoul B/D, 618-3,
Shinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, 135894, Korea. Tel: 82.2.3446.9590. Fax:
82.2.3446.9620. www.showeast.co.kr/eng
Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor
At AFM: DJ KIM (President), Michelle
SON (Head of Int’l Business), Luna
CHOO (Manager of Int’l Business)
Acquisition Executive: Michelle
SON(Head of Int’l Business)
Office: Le Merigot 254 E, Tel:
310.395.9700 #254, Fax: 310. 395. 9200
LE GRAND CHEF (SIK-GAEK)
www.showeast.co.kr/eng
Drama (114min)
Language: Korean, Japanese
Director: JEON Yun-su
Writer: SHIN Dong-ick, JEON Yun-su
Producer: KIM Dong-joo
Key Cast: KIM Gang-woo, LIM Wonhee, LEE Ha-na
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $ 4M
Year of Production: 2007. Country of
Origin: Korea
The secret of the royal chef and his
knife, and the one who deserves to be the
best cook of the nation.
BEYOND ALL MAGIC (WORKING
TITLE)
Family Fantasy Drama
Language: Korean
Director: CHO Nam-ho
Writer: CHO Nam-ho, HWANG Sunggu, LEE Dong-ha
Producer: CHOI Joon-young
Key Cast: SHIM Hye-jin, KIM Soo-mi,
LEE Sang-woo, LEE Da-hee
Delivery Status: In-production
Budget: $ 3M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Korea
Three eccentric women (granny, mom,
daughter) and one attractive man’s dash
at love.
YACHA
Zombie Horror Martial Arts
Language: Korean
Director: RYOO Seung-wan
Writer: RYOO Seung-wan
Producer: Syd LIM
Key Cast: TBA
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Budget: $ 7M
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: Korea
Yacha, the name of Korean Zombie. The
night of horror and chaos has begun!
SILVERLINE
ENTERTAINMENT
Silverline Entertainment, 21550 Oxnard
Street, Suite 300, Woodland Hills, CA
91367 UNITED STATES. Tel:
818.710.8899. Fax: 818.710.8848.
http://www.silverlineentertainment.com,
email:
admin@silverlineentertainment.com
At AFM: Leman Cetiner (CEO), Robert
Yap (VP of Production & Distribution)
Office: 453, Tel: 1.310.458.6700 x453
EXPIRATION DATE
Romantic Comedy (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Rick Stevenson
Writer: Hamish Gunn, Rick Stevenson
Producer: John Forsen, Rick Stevenson
Key Cast: Robert Guthrie, Sascha Knopf,
Dee Wallace Stone
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: United States
Charlie is cursed to die by a milk truck
on his 25th birthday. Just as he accepts
his fate with eight days left, he meets a
girl who won’t let him die in peace.
DISPLACED
http://www.displacedmovie.com
Action/Science-Fiction (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Martin Holland
Writer: Carol Anne Strange
Producer: Mark Strange
Key Cast: Mark Strange, Malcolm
Hankey, Ian Mckellen (Voice)
Delivery Status: Completed
FEMMES DEL'OMBRE - TF1 INTERNATIONAL
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Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
An alien teams up with a British soldier
to infiltrate a rogue paramilitary group
that sells advanced alien technology on
the black market.
WHAT’S BUGGING SETH
http://www.whatsbuggingseth.com
Family (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Eli Steele
Writer: Eli Steele
Producer: Eli Steele
Key Cast: Ross Thomas, Nora
Kirkpatrick, Amy Purdy
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: United States
A heart warming tale about a young deaf
man’s triumphs and struggles with his
handicap, running his self-owned bug
extermination business, and finding true love.
SND
SND, 89 Avenue Charles de Gaulle
92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine France. Tel:
33.(0)1.41.92.68.66. Fax:
33.(0)1.41.92.68.69. www.m6da.com,
infom6da@m6.fr
Sales agent
At AFM: Thierry Desmichelle (CEO),
Laetitia de la Gravière (Deputy
Manager), Caroline Mougey (Head of
Sales), Grégory Chambet (International
Sales & Marketing)
Office: Hotel Loews, Suite 741, Tel:
1.310.455.7435. Fax: 1.310.455.7436
ALL ABOUT ACTRESSES
Comedy (90 min)
Language: French
Director: Maïwenn
Writer: Maïwenn
Producer: Les Films du Kiosque
Key Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Karin
Viard, Jane Birkin, Jeanne Balibar,
Romane Bohringer, Julie Depardieu,
Mélanie Doutey, Pascal Greggory,
Marina Foïs, Mylène Jampanoï, Estelle
Lefébure, Noémie Lvovsky, Maïwenn,
Linh-Dan Pham, Marie-France Pisier,
Muriel Robin, Karole Rocher
Delivery Status: In production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: France
A director shoots a documentary about
all kinds of actresses: stars, drama
queens, unknowns, has-beens… At first
distant, she is quickly pulled in by those
fragile but manipulative women, and
ends up falling in love with one of them.
VAMPIRE PARTY
Comedy (90 min)
Language: French
Director: Stephen Cafiero & Vincent
Lobelle
Writer: Jean-Patrick Benes & Allan
Mauduit
Producer: Karé Production
Key Cast: Tcheky Karyo, Stéphane
Freiss, Sam Karmann, Hélène de
Fougerolles, Patrick Mille, Stefan
Weinert, Julie Fournier, Julien Boisselier,
Frédérique Bel
Delivery Status: In post-production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: France
A group of friends attends a secretive
and exclusive party taking place in a
luxurious and isolated castle. But the
party is in fact a vampire gathering, and
they are… the buffet !
UGLY MELANIE
Comedy (90 min)
Language: French
Director: Jean-Patrick Benes & Allan
Mauduit
Writer: Jean-Patrick Benes & Allan
Mauduit
Producer: Karé Production
Key Cast: Marilou Berry, Frédérique
Bel, Chantal Lauby, Pierre-François
Martin-Laval
Delivery Status: In pre-production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: France
Since she was born, everybody makes
fun of Melanie because of her looks…
But Melanie doesn’t care and is the
nicest person around… until the day she
gets hurt once too many times.
SOLA MEDIA / ATRIX
FILMS
Sola Media / Atrix Films, Osumstrasse
17, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany. Tel:
49.711.479.36.66. Fax:
49.711.479.26.58. www.sola-media.net,
email: Post@sola-media.net
Sales Agent, Film Financing, Distributor
At AFM: Solveig Langeland (CEO),
Beatrix Wesle (CEO)
Office: Loews Hotel, Suite 866, Tel:
1.310.899.4571; 49.177.2781625
SUNSHINE BARRY AND THE
DISCO WORMS
www.sola-media.net
Animation / Family (89 min)
Language: English
Director: Thomas Borch Nielsen
Producer: Nina Crone, Solveig
Langeland
Cast: Animation
Delivery Status: in production
Budget: $ 4,7 Mio.
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: Denmark, Germany
“Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms” is
an incredibly original and innovative
universe about the young earthworm
Barry, who is fed up with being at the
bottom of the food chain.
THE TURTLE´S SONG
Documentary (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Nick Stringer
Writer: Nick Stringer
Producer: Mike Downey, Sam Taylor,
Nick Stringer, Helmut Grasser
Delivery Status: in Production
Budget: $ 5
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: UK, Austria, Germany
The Turtle’s Song is a theatrical
documentary feature film and tells the
story of a little loggerhead turtle, who
follows in the path of her ancestors on
one of the most extraordinary journeys in
the natural world.
BATHORY
www.bathorythefilm.com
Thriller (137 min)
Language: English
Director: Juraj Jakobisko
Writer: Juraj Jakobisko
Producer: Mike Downey, Deana
Jakobikova, Sam Taylor
Cast: Anna Friel, Vincent Regan, Karel
Roden
Delivery Status: completed
Budget: $ 14 Mio.
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK, Czech Republic, Slovakia,
Hungary
Bathory is based on the legends
surrounding the life and deeds of
Countess Elizabeth Bathory, known as
the greatest murderess in the history of
mankind.
SOMNIA ARS
Somnia Ars, Calle Fermin Galan y
Garcia Hernandez 2-10, Burjassot,
(Valencia), 46100, Spain. Tel:
34.96.143.94.90. Fax: 34.96.143.92.40.
http://www.somnia.es, email:
contact@somnia.es
Sales Agent, Producer
At AFM: Nathalie Martinez (Executive
Producer, Sales Agent)
Acquisition Executive: Nathalie
Martinez
Office: Room 446 in the Loews (Cinema
from Spain), Tel: 1.310.458.6700 x446,
mobile: 34.630.67.49.48
ESCUCHANDO A GABRIEL
(LISTENING GABRIEL)
http://www.escuchandoagabriel.com
Romantic Drama (100’)
Language: Spanish
Director: Jose Enrique March
Writer: Maxi Valero
Producer: Nathalie Martinez
Co-production partners: Eddie Saeta,
Sorolla Films, Alfadali Films, Tav
Produccions
Key Cast: Silvia Abascal, Antonio
Dechent, Javier Rios, Silvia Medina,
Rikar Gil, Juan Mandli
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 2,800,000.00 $
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Spain
Three wandering characters in their own
personal way will meet in a crossroads in
their lives.
STEELBRIDGE
FILMWORKS, INC.
SteelBridge FilmWorks, Inc., 1180 Ponce
de Leon Blvd., Bldg. #301, Clearwater,
FL 33756. 10100 Santa Monica Blvd.,
Suite 300, Los Angeles, CA, 90067-4107.
Tel: 888.421.9444. Fax: 727.442.8518.
www.steelbridgefw.com
Short-term Financier
At AFM: Charles Behr (CEO), Michael
Nole (President), Ben Rizzo (EVP,
Marketing & Business Development),
Donald Barton (EVP, Business & Legal
Affairs)
Office: Loews #331, Tel: 727.480.0404,
Fax: 310.359.0821
SteelBridge exists to provide short-term,
asset-based financing in the form of pre
and post
production bridge loans, tax rebate
financing, P&A funding, and equity
participation in select projects.
STOCK’S EYE
Stock’s Eye, 148 West Street, Granby,
MA 01033, US. Tel: 413.467.2761. Fax:
413.467.7062. www.stocks-eye.com,
email: rstock@stocks-eye.com
Producer/Distributor
At AFM: Robert Stock (Owner), David
Horgan (Sales), Antonio Saillant
(Producer), Marty Langford (Producer)
Acquisition Executive: Robert Stock
Office: Loews 315, Tel: (Hotel)
1.310.458.6700 x315, Tel: 413.467.2761.
Fax: 413.467.7062
ANGEL’S BLADE
www.angelsblade.com
Horror (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Robert Stock
Writer: Robert Stock
Producer: Danielle Hoitt
Key Cast: Jason Drumwright, Olivia
Andrunik
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: US
Archaeologist Harrison Peters has
unearthed a doorway to Zibalba, Land of
the Dead. He unwittingly summons an
ancient god’s soul into the stillborn fetus
of his daughter. Will she
succeed in unleashing her demons on our
reality?
SUMMIT
ENTERTAINMENT
Summit Entertainment, 77 Dean Street,
London W1D 3SH UK. Tel:
44(0)207.494.1724. Fax:
44.(0)207.494.1725. In Los Angeles:
1630 Stewart Street, Suite 120, Santa
Monica CA USA.
Tel: 1.310.309.8400. Fax:
1.310.828.4132
At AFM: Patrick Wachsberger (President
& Co-Chair, Summit Entertainment;
CEO, Summit International), Rob
Friedman (CEO & Co-Chair, Summit
Entertainment), David Garrett (President,
Summit International), Bob Hayward
(COO), Ralpho Borgos (Senior Vice
President, Sales), Bernardo DeFonseca
(Director, International Sales), Trellis
Huahn (SVP Contracts/ Business
Affairs), Erik Feig (President, Production
& Acquisitions)
Office: Loews Hotel, Suite 644, Tel:
1.310.455.7452
SEX DRIVE
Comedy/Teen
Director: Sean Anders
Producers: Leslie Morgenstein & Bob
Levy
Writers: Sean Anders & John Morris
Cast: Clark Duke, Josh Zuckerman,
Amanda Crew, Dave Koechner
Production Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
A fun teen romp in the spirit of
AMERICAN PIE, this wild, high school
road trip centers on lovable loser IAN’s
quest to lose his virginity.
TWILIGHT
Thriller/Romance
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Producers: Mark Morgan & Greg
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Mooradian
Writers: Mark Lord, Melissa Rosenberg
Cast: TBD
Production Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
When 17-year-old BELLA moves to a
small town to live with her father, she
becomes drawn to EDWARD, a pale,
mysterious classmate who seems
determined to push her away.
PUSH
Sci Fi/Action
Director: Paul McGuigan
Producers: Bruce Davey, William Vince
Writers: David Bourla, Michael Brandt
& Derek Haas
Cast: Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning,
Camilla Belle and Djimon Hounsou
Production Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
Nick, a young American expat with the
ability to move things with his mind is
hiding out in Hong Kong to avoid being
placed under the control of the Division,
the American supernatural intelligence
agency.
STEP UP 2 THE STREETS
Teen/Dance/Romance
Director: Jon Chu
Producers: Patrick Wachsberger, Erik
Feig, Adam Shankman, Jennifer Gibgot
Writers: Toni Ann Johnson, Karen Barna,
Alex Tse
Cast: Briana Evigan, Robert Hoffman,
Will Kemp, Cassie Ventura, Sonja Sohn,
Channing Tatum
Production Status: Post-Production. U.S.
Release via Touchstone on February 14,
2008.
Country of Origin: U.S.
When rebellious street dancer Andie
West lands at the elite Maryland School
of the Arts, she finds herself fighting to
fit in while also trying to hold onto her
old life.
CITY OF EMBER
Fantasy/Adventure
Director: Gil Kenan
Producers: Tom Hanks & Gary
Goetzman
Writers: Caroline Thompson
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Bill Murray, Tim
Robbins, Toby Jones
Production Status: Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
For generations, the people of the City of
Ember have flourished in an amazing
world of glittering lights. But Ember’s
once powerful generator is failing . . .
GET SOME
Teen Action/Drama
Director: Jeff Wadlow
Producers: Patrick Wachsberger, Erik
Feig, Craig Baumgarten & David Zelon
Writers: Chris Hauty
Cast: Sean Faris, Cam Gigandet, Amber
Heard, Evan Peters, Leslie Hope and
Djimon Hounsou
Production Status: Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
Jake Tyler never goes looking for
trouble, but it always seems to find him.
IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH
Drama
Director: Paul Haggis
Producers: Paul Haggis, Laurence
Becsey, Patrick Wachsberger, Steven
Samuels, Darlene Caamaño Loquet
Writers: Paul Haggis, based on a story
by Mark Boal & Paul Haggis
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize
Theron, Frances Fisher and Susan
Sarandon
Production Status: In Competition,
Venice Film festival
Country of Origin: U.S.
A man investigates the death of his son,
who was murdered after returning from
duty in Iraq.
MICHAEL CLAYTON
Drama/ Thriller
Director: Tony Gilroy
Producers: Sydney Pollack, Jenifer Fox,
Steven Samuels, Kerry orent
Writers: Tony Gilroy
Cast: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson,
Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack
Production Status: In Competition,
LOVERY COMPLEX –TOHOKUSHINSHA FILM CORP.
Venice Film Festival
Country of Origin: U.S.
Michael Clayton, an in-house “fixer” at
one of the largest corporate law firms in
New York, is sent to tackle an
unprecedented disaster and in doing so
comes face to face with the reality of
who he has become.
SYNDICATE FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
Syndicate Films International, 10850
Wilshire Blvd. 6th Fl, Los Angeles, CA
90024 USA. Tel: 310.234.0909. Fax:
310.234.0902. www.yarifilmgroup.com
At AFM: Bob Yari (CEO & President),
David Glasser (CCO & President,
International Distribution), Ennis
Hensley (Vice-President, International
Distribution), Kendra Dousette (VicePresident, Business & Legal Affairs),
Marguerite Mello (Project Manager,
International Distribution)
Office: Loews Hotel, Escondido suite,
8th Floor, Tel: 310.455.7494, Fax:
310.455.7497
KILLING PABLO
Biopic
Language: English
Director: Joe Carnahan
Writer: Mark Bowden (novel), Joe
Carnahan (screenplay)
Producer: Bob Yari, Mark Gordon, and
Jason Zelin
Key Cast: Christian Bale, Javier Bardem
Delivery Status: In Development
Budget: available upon request
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: USA
The biopic about druglord Pablo Escobar
based on the novel “Killing Pablo: The
Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw.”
THE LONELY MAIDEN
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Peter Hewitt
Writer: Mike LeSieur
Producer: Lori McCreary, Rob Paris,
Morgan Freeman, Bob Yari
Key Cast: Morgan Freeman, William H.
Macy, Chris Walken
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: available upon request
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: USA
Three security guards at a museum find
their beloved art pieces are being moved
to another museum.
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
Drama
Language: English
Director: Rod Lurie
Writer: Rod Lurie
Producer: Bob Yari, Rod Lurie, Marc
Frydman
Key Cast: Matt Dillion, Kate Beckinsale,
Vera Farmiga, David Schwimmer, and
Alan Alda
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget: available upon request
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: USA
A Washington-based female newspaper
reporter outs a CIA agent and is
imprisoned for refusing to reveal her
source.
T
TANDEM
COMMUNICATIONS
Tandem Communications , Sonnenstrasse
14, Munich 80331 Germany.
Tel: 49.89.962283.00.
Fax: 49.89.962283.10.
http://www.tandemcom.de, email:
info@tandemcom.de
At AFM: Rola Bauer (Managing
Director/Partner), Tim Halkin (Managing
Director/Partner), Jonas Bauer
(Producer/Sales Rep. Italy &
Spain/Partner), Bernhard Schwab
(International Sales Director), Karmen
Svagan (Press & PR)
Office: Loews Hotel 617 & 619, Tel:
1.310.455.7464. Fax: 1.310.455.7465
IMPACT
http://www.tandemcom.de
Action/Catastrophe Event Miniseries (90
min)
Language: English
Co-Production Partners: Jaffe/Braunstein
Films & Tandem Communications
Delivery Status: In Development
Budget: US$ 13 Million
Year of Production: 2008
The moon is knocked off course by an
enormous meteor not only reaping havoc
with its gravitational pull, but also
putting it into a collision course with the
Earth. In 45 days it will impact…
STARZ FANTASY ADVENTURE
COLLECTION: SANDS OF
OBLIVION
http://www.tandemcom.de
Fantasy/Adventure (90 min)
Language: English
Director: David Flores
Co-Production Partners: Starz Media in
association with Tandem
Communications
Producer: Karen Bailey, Kevin van Hook
Key Cast: George Kennedy, Morena
Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Victor Webster
Delivery Status: Post Production
Budget: US$ 3 Million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A true unsolved Hollywood mystery:
After the completion of the original TEN
COMMANDMENTS – a film that was
never released – famed producer Cecille
B. DeMille had the ancient Egyptian set
buried in the sands of the central
California desert – no one knows why …
until now…
STARZ FANTASY ADVENTURE
COLLECTION: THE LOST
TREASURE OF GRAND CANYON
Fantasy/Adventure (90 min)
Language: English
Co-Production Partners: Starz Media in
association with Tandem
Communications
Delivery Status: In Development
Budget: US$ 3 Million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: USA
Arizona, USA: An acclaimed
archaeologist goes missing on an
expedition through the Grand Canyon.
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STARZ FANTASY ADVENTURE
COLLECTION: MERLIN’S QUEST
Fantasy/Adventure (90 min)
Language: English
Co-Production Partners: Starz Media in
association with Tandem
Communications
Delivery Status: In Development
Budget: US$ 3 Million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: USA
The legendary sorcerer of the Camelot
battles for the fate of King Arthur is
freed from a century long imprisonment
only to learn that a powerful spell has
rendered him virtually powerless…
TELEPOOL GMBH
Telepool GmbH, Sonnenstrasse 21,
80331 Munich, Germany. Tel:
49.89.55876.0. Fax: 49.89.55876.118.
www.telepool.de, email:
telepool@telepool.de
Sales Agent, Financier
At AFM: Dr. Thomas Weymar
(Managing Director), Marc Gabizon
(Deputy Managing Director), Philipp van
Doornick (Deputy Managing Director),
Kilian Steiner (Head of Legal
Department), Irina Ignatiew (EVP
International), Wolfram Skowronnek
(Sales Manager)
Acquisition Executive: Dr. Thomas
Weymar, Marc Gabizon, Philipp van
Doornick, Julia Müntefering, Silke
Wilfinger
Office: Hotel Loews Office 770, Tel:
1.310.458.6700. Fax: 1.310.458.6761
WITHIN THE WHIRLWIND
Drama
Language: English
Director: Marleen Gorris
Writer: Nancy Larson
Producer: Christine Ruppert, Hubert
Toint, Vincent Macheras
Key Cast: Emily Watson, Julia Jentsch,
Tobias Moretti
Delivery Status: Preproduction
Year of Production: 2007 / 2008,
Country of Origin: Germany, Belgium,
France
Deeply emotional drama about Russian
poet Evgenia Ginzbourg, who survived
the Gulag thanks to her belief in poetry.
Starring Oscar Nominee Emily Watson
and Julia Jentsch (Sophie Scholl).
LILLY THE WITCH – THE
DRAGON AND THE MAGIC BOOK
(WT)
Family Entertainment
Language: German
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Writer: Armin Toerkell, Ralph Martin,
Stefan Ruzowitzky
Producer: Corinna Mehner, Martin
Husmann, Michael Coldewey
Co-production partners: Babelsberg
Film, Buena Vista International Film
Production (Germany), Classic SLR, Dor
Film, Steinweg Emotion Pictures S.L.,
Buena Vista International (Spain)
Key Cast: Alina Freund, Anja Kling,
Ingo Naujoks, Pilar Bardem, Sami
Herzog, Yvonne Catterfeld
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget: $ 12 Mio
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
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Origin: Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain
Little Lilly is apprenticed to become the
successor of Surulunda the Witch. Based
on the internationally best-selling book
series, this magical US$12 million
family fairy-tale combines Live Action
and CGI.
NIKO & THE WAY TO THE STARS
Animation, Family Entertainment
Language: English
Director: Michael Hegner, Kari Juusonen
Writer: Hannu Tuomainen, Marteinn
Thorisson, Mark Hodkinson
Producer: Hannu Tuomainen, Petteri
Pasanen
Co-production partners: Magma Films,
Ulysses, A.Film
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007 / 2008,
Country of Origin: Finland, Germany,
Ireland, Denmark
This heart-warming fairytale about
reindeer NIKO, squirrel JULIUS and
weasel WILMA will hit theatres
December 2008. Released by Nordisk,
Universum, Filmax, Kino Swiat, among
others.
MARCELLO, MARCELLO
Romantic Comedy
Language: Italian
Director: Denis Rabaglia
Writer: Denis Rabaglia, Luca De
Benedittis, Mark David Hatwood
Producer: Anne Walser
Co-production partners: Martin
Hagemann
Key Cast: Francesco Mistichelli, Elena
Cucci, Ivo Garrani, Renato Scarpa
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Switzerland, Germany
Enchanting love story about 19-year-old
Marcello, who falls for beautiful Elena, even
though she’s way out of his league. Starring
Italy’s top newcomers and A-list actors.
TF1
INTERNATIONAL
TF1 International, Immeuble Central
Park - 9, rue Maurice Mallet , 92130
Issy-les-Moulineaux – France.
Tel: 33(0)1.41.41.21.68.
Fax: 33(0)1.41.41.21.33.
www.tf1international.fr,
email: sales@tf1.fr
At AFM: Mr. Patrick Binet (Chairman),
Mrs. Sara May (EVP Acquisitions), Mr.
Nicolas Eschbach (EVP Sales &
Acquisitions), Miss Adeline Fontant
Tessaur (Senior VP International Sales &
Acquisitions), Mr. Dimitri Stéphanides
(International Sales Manager), Mrs.
Anna Marsh (International Sales
Manager), Mrs. Marie Carmen Rami
Sanchez (Marketing Manager)
Office: Loews Santa Monica Beach
Hotel (CF plan), Offices 826 & 827, Tel:
1.310.455.7468, Fax: 1.310.455.7469
MUTANTS
Language: French
By: David Morley (Organik – short film
– Grand Prize at the Gerardmer Film
Festival 2005)
Producers: Alain Benguigui and Thomas
Verhaeghe – Sombrero Films (A
Common Thread, Seaside)
Cast: Hélène de Fougerolles
Delivery: 2008
As a pandemic virus turns human beings
into bloodthirsty mutants, a pregnant
woman struggles to save her baby.
IN THE ELECTRIC MIST
Language: English
By: Bertrand TAVERNIER (Round
Midnight, It all starts today, The Bait,
D’Artagnan’s Daughter)
Production: Michael Fitzgerald ITHACA PICTURES, INC. (The Three
Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The
Pledge) and Frédéric Bourboulon LITTLE BEAR PRODUCTIONS (It all
starts today, The Bait, D’Artagnan’s
Daughter) in coproduction with TF1
International
Cast: Tommy Lee JONES (The Three
Burials of Melquiades Estrada – Best
Actor at the Cannes Film Festival 2005,
Men In Black 1 & 2, Space Cowboys,
Double Jeopardy, Batman Forever), John
GOODMAN (O’Brother, The Big
Lebowski), Peter SARSGAARD
(Jarhead, Flightplan), Ned BEATTY
(Superman 1 & 2, Cookie’s Fortune),
Kelly MacDONALD (No Country For
Old Men, Nanny McPhee, Finding
Neverland), Tom SIZEMORE (Black
Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor)
Delivery Status: Post Production
The new gripping thriller in English by
Bertrand Tavernier, starring Tommy Lee
Jones. Based on James Lee BURKE’s
best-seller “In The Electric Mist With
Confederate Dead”
CASH
Language: French
By: Eric BESNARD (scriptwriter of
Babylon A.D and Cash Truck)
Cast: Jean RENO (The Da Vinci Code,
Crimson Rivers 1 & 2), Jean
DUJARDIN, Valeria GOLINO (36,
Respiro, Frida), Alice TAGLIONI
(Treasured Island, The Valet, Sky
Fighters)
Production: Patrice LEDOUX –
PULSAR (The Valet, The Messenger:
The Story Of Joan of Arc, The Fifth
Element, The Professional)
Delivery Status: Post Production
Only one thing’s for sure. Scores will be
settled. Revenge will be taken for the
death of a friend and brother.
Somebody’s got to lose. But who will it
be?
FEMALE AGENTS
(LES FEMMES DE L’OMBRE)
By: Jean-Paul SALOMÉ (Arsene Lupin,
Belphegor)
Produced by: Eric NÉVÉ – LA
CHAUVE-SOURIS (Crime Insiders,
Spybound, Dobermann)
Cast: Sophie MARCEAU (Anthony
Zimmer, The World Is Not Enough,
Braveheart,
Belphegor), Julie DEPARDIEU (A Very
Long Engagement, Poltergay), Marie
GILLAIN (On Guard !, The Bait),
Déborah FRANÇOIS (The Child, La
Tourneuse De Pages), Maya SANSA
(Buongiorno, Notte, La Meglio
Gioventu), Moritz BLEIBTREU (The
Elementary Particles, Munich)
Status: Shooting, Delivery: Early 2008
A thrilling wartime adventure starring
Sophie Marceau.
OFF AND RUNNING (PASSE PASSE)
Languages: French
By: Tonie MARSHALL [Venus Beauty
(Institute)]
Produced by: Olivier BOMSEL, Tonie
MARSHALL and Alain PEYROLLAZ TABO TABO Films
Cast: Nathalie BAYE [Catch Me If You
Can, Tell No One,The Little Lieutenant,
Venus Beauty (Institute)], Edouard
BAER (Molière)
Delivery: First semester 2008
An unemployed loser, an upper-class
woman on the run, a financial scandal. A
bittersweet and comic road-movie
starring Nathalie Baye.
CROSSFIRE (LA MAIN
COURANTE)
Language: French
By: Claude-Michel ROME
Coproduction: Philippe ROUSSELET &
Etienne COMAR - Les Films de la Suane
Cast: Richard BERRY (The Valet, Ruby
& Quentin), Pascal ELBE (Thirtyfive
Something), Aïssa MAÏGA (Les Poupées
Russes, Paris, Je T’Aime), Bernard
BLANCAN (Days Of Glory), Zabou
BREITMAN (Gustave Klopp), Moussa
MAASKRI (Vidocq)
Delivery: First semester 2008
A tense thriller packed with suspense.
JOHNNY MAD DOG
Language: English
By: Jean-Stéphane SAUVAIRE
Coproduction: Mathieu KASSOVITZ
and Benoit JAUBERT - MNP Entreprise
in coproduction with EXPLICIT Films
and SCOPE Pictures
Cast: Christopher MINIE, Daisie
Victoria VANDY
Delivery Status: In Post Production
Based on the novel by Emmanuel
DONGALA “Johnny Mad Dog,” a
deeply moving film on African child
soldiers.
I COME WITH THE RAIN
Language: English
By: Tran Anh Hung (At the Height of
Summer, The Scent of the Green Papaya
– Golden Camera and Award of the
Youth at the Cannes Film Festival 1993,
Best First Work at the Cesar Awards
1994, nomination for the Best Foreign
Film at the Academy Awards 1994,
Cyclo – Golden Lion and Fipresci Prize at
the Venice Film Festival 1995)
Production: Fernando Sulichin (Babel,
She Hate Me, Bully, associate producer
on Malcom X), Jean Cazès (Cyclo, Living
Las Vegas, The City of Lost Children)
and Jon Kilik (Babel, Inside Man, Broken
Flowers, Alexander, 25Th Hour)
Cast: Josh Hartnett (The Black Dalhia,
Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down), Tran
Nu Yên Khê (At the Height of Summer,
The Scent of the Green Papaya, Cyclo),
Lee Byung-Hun (Joint Security Area, A
Bittersweet Life), Elias Koteas (Shooter,
Zodiac, Harrison’s Flowers), Takuya
Kimura (Hero, Love and Honor, 2046)
Delivery Status: In Post Production
Year of production: 2007, Shooting in
HD TRAN ANH HUNG’S new film, a
modern thriller starring Josh Hartnett,
shot in Los Angeles, the Philippines
and Hong Kong.
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SHALL WE KISS? (UN BAISER S’IL
VOUS PLAIT)
Language: French
By: Emmanuel MOURET (Change of
Address)
Produced by: Frédéric NIEDERMAYER
- MOBY DICK Films
Cast: Virginie LEDOYEN (The Valet, 8
Women, The Beach), Stefano ACCORSI
(Romanzo Criminale, L’Ultimo Bacio),
Emmanuel MOURET, Julie GAYET
(Mon Meilleur Ami)
Delivery Status: screening
A delicious romantic comedy about
desire. And that dangerous, treacherous
first kiss.
SUSO’S TOWER (LA TORRE DE
SUSO)
Language: Spanish
By: Tom FERNANDEZ
Production: MEDIAPRO /2007
Cast: Javier CAMARA (Captain
Alatriste, Bad Education, Talk to Her
[Goya Award: Best Actor], Paris, Je
T’Aime), Gonzalo DE CASTRO, César
VEA (Pan’s Labyrinth), José Luis
ALCOBENDAS, Malena ALTERIO,
Mariana CORDERO (Princesas, Solas),
Fanny GAUTIER (Open Your Eyes),
Emilio GUTIERREZ CABA
Delivery Status: screening
A comedy about serious things in life.
MIO FRATELLO E FIGLIO UNICO
(MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY
CHILD)
Comedy
Language: Italian
Producer: Riccardo Tozzi, Giovanni
Stabilini, Marco Chimenz
Director: Daniele Luchetti
Writer: Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli,
Daniele Luchetti
Leading Cast: Elio Germano, Riccardo
Scamarcio, Diane Fleri
Status: Screening
Production Country: Italy
Two Italian brothers, coming of age in
the politically charged 1960s and 70s,
come to realize that despite their glaring
differences, they are much more alike
than they ever imagined.
THE LAST WORD
Comedy
Language: English
Producers: David Hillary, Timothy
Wayne Peternel, Alexandra Milchan,
Bonnie Timmermann, Jack Utsick
Director: Geoffrey Haley
Writer: Geoffrey Haley
Leading Cast: Winona Ryder, Wes
Bentley, Ray Romano
Status: Post-Production
Production Country: USA
Evan writes suicide notes for a living.
THINKFilm International, Bridge House,
2nd Floor, 63-65 North Wharf Road,
London, UK W2 1LA. Tel:
44.207.298.6200. Fax: 44.207.298.6201.
www.thinkfilmcompany.com, email:
films@capitolfilms.com
At AFM: Nick Hill (Managing Director),
Peter Naish (Managing Director), Eve
Schoukroun (Head of International),
David Fenkel (VP International), Aranka
Matits (Sales Executive)
Office: Suite 802 Loews Hotel,
Tel: 1.310.899.4517.
Fax: 1.310.899.4520
EL PASADO (THE PAST)
Drama
Language: Spanish
Producers: Oscar Kramer, Hugo Sigman,
Hector Babenco
Director: Hector Babenco
Writer: Hector Babenco, Marta Goes
Leading Cast: Gael García Bernal,
Analia Couceyro, Moro Anghileri
Status: Screening
Production Country: Argentina, Brazil
Rimini (Gael García Bernal) is a young
translator whose 12-year long marriage
to his high school love, Sofía, has come
to an end.
Y.P.F. (YOUNG PEOPLE FUCKING)
Comedy
Language: English
Producers: Steve Hoban, Tracey Boulton
Director: Martin Gero
Writer: Martin Gero
Leading Cast: Carly Pope, Diora Baird,
Callum Blue
Status: Screening
Production Country: USA/Canada
A comedy about five young couples that
are…well, fucking.
Toei Company, Ltd, 2-17, 3-chome,
Ginza , Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8108 Japan.
Tel: 81.3.3535.7621. Fax:
81.3.3535.7622. http://www.toei.co.jp,
email: international@toei.co.jp
At AFM: Masayoshi Endo (Managing
Director), Yasuhiko Njiama (Manager)
Office: Loews 547, Tel: 1.310.458.6700
x547
THE INVITATION FROM CINEMA
ORION
http://www.orionza-movie.jp
Drama (116min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Kenki Saegusa
Writer: Kiyot Inagaki
Co-Production Partners: WILCO Co.,
Ltd
Key Cast: Rie Miyazawa, Ryo Kase
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Japan
An emotionally touching story about a
small theater in Kyoto and its owner
couple.
X-CROSS
http://www.xx-movie.com
Thriller / Action (89min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Kenta Fukasaku
Writer: Tetsuya Oishi
Co-Production Partners: avex
entertainment
Key Cast: Nao Matsushita, Ami Suzuki
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Japan
Two girls go on a trip to the mysterious
village, which still keeps a horrifying
tradition.
THE BRUTAL HOPELESSNESS OF
LOVE
http://hito-hito.jp
THINKFILM
INTERNATIONAL
TOEI COMPANY, LTD
Erotic / Thriller (115min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Tshi Ishii
Writer: Tshi Ishii
Key Cast: Mai Kitajima, Naoto Taken
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Japan
A new story of Ishii’s legendary Femme
Fatale “Nami” series.
MASKED RIDER THE NEXT
http://www.maskedridernext.jp
Action (103min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Ryuta Tasaki
Writer: Toshiki Inoue
Key Cast: Masaya Kikawada, Hassei
Tno
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Japan
Remake of the Japan’s most popular TV
Hero series.
TOHO CO., LTD.
Toho Co., Ltd., 2029 Century Park East,
Suilte 1150, Los Angeles, CA 90067. Tel:
310.277.1081. Fax: 310.277.6351.
http://www.toho.co.jp, email:
info@tohousa.com
At AFM: Shozo Watanabe (Section
Chief, Sales and Licensing), Yukio
Kotaki (General Manager), Kenji Sato
(Sales Manager), Takemasa Arita (Sales
Manager)
Office: 605, Tel: 1.310.458.6700, ext.
605
SANJURO TSUBAKI SANJURO
http://www.tsubaki-sanjuro.jp/
Samurai Action (119 min)
Japanese with English subs
Director: Yoshimitsu Morita
Writer: Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo Oguni,
Akira Kurosawa
Co-Production Partners: Kadokawa
Haruki Co./Toho/Avex/TV
Asahi/I.N.P./Fields/ABC/Nagoya
TV/Tokyo FM/Quaras
Producer: Haruki Kadokawa
Key Cast: Yuji Oda, Etsushi Toyokawa,
Kenichi Matsuyama
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Japan
This is a remake of SANJURO (1962)
by AKIRA KUROSAWA. Sanjuro
returns with sharper, faster, subtler
sword, talking and perception!
LIFE TEARS IN HEAVEN (LIFE
TENGOKU DE KIMINI AETARA)
http://www.life-tenkimi.jp/
True Story Drama (118 min)
Japanese with English subs
Director: Takehiko Shinjo
Writer: Hiroshi Saito, Tomoko Yoshida
Co-Production Partners:
Toho/TBS/Dentsu/MBS/CBC/RKB/HBC/S
unny Side Up/Asahi shimbun/Yahoo Japan
Producer: Tomoyo Nihira
Key Cast: To Osawa, Misaki Ito, Miki
Maya, Sho Aikawa
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Japan
Based on a true story about a Japanese
windsurfer. He enjoyed his life and had
great success in the windsurfing
competition. But one day he learns he
had a cancer.
CLOSED NOTE
http://closed-note.com
Drama (139 min)
Japanese with English subs
Director: Isao Yukisada
Writer: Tomoko Yoshida, Chihiro Ito,
Isao Yukisada
Co-Production Partners: Toho/Hakuhodo
DY Media Partners/SDP/Sony Music
Entertainment (Japan)/Kadokawa Shoten
Producer: Minami Ichikawa
Key Cast: Erika Sawajiri, Yusuke Iseya,
Yuko Takeuchi
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Japan
A university student Kae finds an old
diary written by a young female teacher.
Dreaming of becoming a teacher herself,
Kae start reading the diary.
V
VISION FILMS
Vision Films, 14945 Ventura Blvd., Suite
306, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 USA. Tel:
818.784.1702. Fax: 818.788.3715.
www.visionfilms.net,
sales@visionfilms.ne
At AFM: Lise Romanoff (Managing
Director, Worldwide Distribution), Andre
Relis (Vice President Intl. Sales &
Acquisition), Brady Bowen (Sales
Executive)
Office: Loews 725, Tel: 1.310.458.6700
x725
WHAT WE DO IS SECRET
Bio-Pic (90 min)
Director: Rodger Grossman
Cast: Shane West (A League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen, ER), Bijou
Phillips (Almost Famous), Rick
Gonzales (War Of The Worlds), and
Noah Segan
The extraordinary story that captures the
explosive and tumultuous life of Darby
Crash, the seminal singer and songwriter
of The Germs.
MAMA, I WANT TO SING
Drama
Director: Charles Randolph-Wright
Cast: Ciara (GRAMMY Award Winner),
Patti LaBelle (GRAMMY Award
Winner), and Lynn Whitfield (The
Josephine Baker Story, A Thin Red Line
Between Love and Hate)
Music-sensation Ciara stars in the tale of
a young girl pursuing her dreams and the
faith that it takes to reach them.
TWIN DAGGERS
Action/Martial Arts (98 min)
Director: Kuen-Hou Chen
Cast: Rhett Giles (Fear Chamber, Lost),
Coco Su, Veronica Bero (The Sopranos),
and Joey Covington
Three martial arts assassins, two
treacherous twin sisters, and a hit man
must find the truth to say alive.
SOMEBODY HELP ME
Horror/Thriller (90 min)
Cast: Omari Grandberry (You Got
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Served, Feel The Noise) Marques
Houston (Fat Albert, You Got Served),
Alexis Fields (Jacked), and Brooklyn
Sudano (Rain)
Year of Production: 2007
An intense thriller about a little girl’s
secret, and ten friends stranded in the
dark.
IOWA
Thriller (104 min)
Directed and Produced by: Matt
Farnsworth
Cast: Matt Farnsworth, Diane Foster,
John Savage (The Deer Hunter,
The New World), Rosanna Arquette
(Desperately Seeking Susan, Pulp
Fiction), and Michael T. Weiss
(Freeway)
Year of Production: 2006
An unflinching look into the lives of two
addicts who become victims of greed,
and the debilitating effects on the people
around them.
7EVENTY 5IVE
Horror (102 min)
Director: Brian Hooks and Dean Taylor
Cast: Rutger Hauer, Brian Hooks, and
Gwendoline Yeo
Year of Production: 2007
College students are engaged in a
harmless prank-calling contest called
“75” which ultimately becomes lethal.
SNOOP DOGG’S
HOOD OF HORROR
Horror (84 min)
Director: Stacy Title
Cast: Snoop Dogg,
Jason Alexander, Brande Roderick,
Ernie Hudson, and Billy Dee Williams
Year of Production: 2007
A hip-hop horror anthology of
three tales of terror told by the Hound of
Hell (Snoop Dogg) himself about the
residents of an inner-city neighborhood.
BACKWATERS
Thriller (90 min)
Director: Jag Mundhra
Cast: Tamzin Outhwaite, Nicolas Irons,
and Jason Flemyng
Year of Production: 2006
A famous actress has gone missing in the
backwaters of the Kerala Spa in India,
and her cheating husband is framed for
her murder.
EGYPT: NEW DISCOVERIES,
ANCIENT MYSTERIES
Hi Def Documentary (6 x 1 hour)
Year of Production: 2007
New findings of Ancient Egyptian
mysteries with never- before-seen
footage in spectacular high-definition.
WWII: COMBAT ZONE 1939-1945
Documentary (15 x 1 hr)
Year of Production: 2007
Re-live the crucial battles of WWII, as
told through the personal experiences of
combat veterans, from Dunkirk to the
Battle of Britain, Midway to Iwo Jima.
VISION MUSIC
Vision Music, 14945 Ventura Blvd., Suite
306, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403. Tel:
818.784.1702. Fax: 818.788.3715.
www.visionmusicinc.net, email:
sales@visionmusicinc.com
At AFM: Lise Romanoff (Managing
Director, Worldwide Distribution), Andre
Relis (Vice President Intl. Sales &
Acquisition), Brady Bowen (Sales
Executive)
Office: Loews 725, Tel: 1.310.458.6700
x725
ROCK THE BELLS
Documentary Feature (103 min)
Director: Denis Hennelly and Casey
Suchan
Cast: Wu-Tang Clan, Redman, Dilated
Peoples, MC Supernatural, Sage Francis,
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Eyedea + Abilities, Chali 2na, and DJ
NuMark of Jurassic 5
Year of Production: 2006
One man’s quest to reunite the Wu-Tang
Clan and a celebration of the diversity of
hip-hop!
PUNK’S NOT DEAD
Documentary Feature (105 min)
Director: Susan Dynner
Year of Production: 2007
A celebration of 30 years of Punk Rock
featuring interviews and performances
by Green Day, Offspring, Social
Disorder, Rancid, NoFX, UK Subs and
more.
BOB MARLEY: FREEDOM ROAD
Documentary/Performance (DVD 55
minutes, CD 45 min)
Year of Production: 2003
Remarkable insight into the legendary
singer’s rise to fame through his friends
and family.
CLASH: THE JOE STRUMMER
STORY
Documentary/Performance (62 min)
Year of Production: 2006
The life of one of the original members
of The Clash, Joe Strummer, and his
reasons behind the split of one of the
most iconic punk rock groups of the day.
TREASURES OF LONG GONE
JOHN
Documentary Feature (96 min)
Year of Production: 2006
Long Gone John is the king of
collectables and a rare form of art called
Lowbrow that he made famous with
album covers from the 700 bands of his
record label including White Stripes.
ANNIE: LIFE AFTER TOMORROW
Documentary (75 min)
Year of Production: 2006
Director: Julie Steven and Gil Cates
What happened to the girls who starred
in the hit Broadway musical Annie such
as Sarah Jessica Parker, Alyssa Milano,
and Molly Ringwald?
LUCIANO PAVAROTTI: THE MAN
AND HIS MUSIC
Performance (75 min)
This legend’s flame fills the hearts of the
audience in this exclusive performance
in Barcelona where he sings his best
arias and sonnets.
PREACHING TO THE CHOIR
Drama (95 min)
Director: Charles Randolph-Wright
Cast: Patti LaBelle (GRAMMY Award
Winner), Eartha Kitt, and Tichina Arnold
Year of Production: 2006
This is a story of unconditional love &
redemption. Twin brothers have taken
radically different paths of life. One has
become a minister while the other lives
the gangster lifestyle as hip-hop star Zulu.
BOSS ‘N UP
Musical, Drama, Romance (90 min)
Director: Pook Brown
Produced by: Snoop Dogg
Cast: Snoop Dogg, Lil’ Jon, Trina,
Shillae Anderson, and Hawthorn James
(The Five Heartbeats)
Year of Production: 2005
Snoop, a charismatic pimp climbs to the
top, but finds he must choose between
love and the game. Inspired by the music
from Snoop’s Rhythm and Gangsta
Album.
DEATH OF A DYNASTY
Comedy .(91 min)
Cast: Damon Dash, Devon Aoki (Sin
City), Dr. Dre, Flavor Flav, and Maria
Carey (GRAMMY Award Winner)
Year of Production: 2003
A young journalist gets inside Jay-Z’s
hip-hop empire, Roc-a-Fella Records,
and thinks he’s a “playa”, only later finds
out that he is the one being played.
THE GOLDEN BOYS – CINEMAVAULT
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VISUAL FACTORY
Visual Factory, Forest Lodge Forest
Road, Pyford, Surrey GU22 8NA United
Kingdom. Tel: 44.20.74.99.75.44.
http://www.visualfactory.co.uk, email:
contact@visualfactory.co.uk
At AFM: Igor Sekulic (Director), Jerome
Plattner (Sales)
Office: UK Film Council US, 7/Malibu,
Tel: 1.310.455.7472
VAMPIRE DIARY
Horror (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Mark James Phil O Shea
Writer: Phil O Shea
Producer: MArgaret Matheson Michael
Riley
Key Cast: Anna Walton (Hellboy2)
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
Among the London Goths a real vampire
is hiding. She is pregnant she needs
blood and she will kill.
VAMPYRES
http://www.vampyres-themovie.com
Documentary (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Laurent Courau
Producer: Emmanuel Prevost
Key Cast: Don Henrie, Father Sebastiaan
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: France, USA
15,000 real vampires live across the
USA.
SURVEILLANCE
VOLTAGE PICTURES
Voltage Pictures, 6360 Deep Dell Place,
Los Angeles, CA 90068 USA. Tel:
323.464.8351. Fax: 323.464.8362.
http://www.voltagepictures.com, email:
sales@voltagepictures.com
At AFM: Nicolas Chartier
(CEO/President), Nadine de Barros (VP,
Sales & Acquisitions), Mimi Steinbauer
(Sales Consultant), Jenn Lee
(International Coordinator)
Office: Loews 848 and 849, Tel:
310.458.6700
GEORGE A. ROMERO’S DIARY OF
THE DEAD
Horror (94:41)
Language: English
Director: George A. Romero
Writer: George A. Romero
Producer: George A. Romero, Peter
Grunwald, Sam Englebardt and Artur
Spigel
Key Cast: Josh Close, Phillip Riccio, Joe
Dinico1
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A group of film students struggling to
get home amidst the chaos and terror of
a zombie outbreak
create a first-person video “diary”
detailing their horrific encounters with
the undead.
THE HURT LOCKER
Action/adventure (120 min)
Language: English
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Writer: Mark Boal
Producer: Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal,
Greg Shapiro & Nicolas Chartier
Key Cast: Jeremy Renner, Brian
Geraghty, Anthony Mackie, Ralph
Fiennes, Guy Pearce, David Morse
Delivery Status: Post Production
Budget: $15M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Forced to play a dangerous game of catand-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite
Army bomb squad unit must come
together in a city where everyone is a
potential enemy and every object could
be a deadly bomb.
WHILE SHE WAS OUT
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Susan Montford
Writer: Susan Montford
Producer: Mary Aloe, Don Murphy, Kirk
Shaw and Guillermo del Toro
Key Cast: Kim Basinger, Lukas Haas
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A typical suburban housewife is forced
to fend for herself when she becomes
stranded in a desolate forest with four
murderous thugs.
TORTURED
Thriller
English
Director: Nolan Lebovitz
Writer: Nolan Lebovitz
Producer: Adam Lebovitz, Kirk Shaw
and Mary Aloe
Key Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Cole
Hauser, James Cromwell, Kevin Pollak,
James Denton, Jon Cryer and
Emmanuelle Chriqui
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
In the high-stakes world of organized
crime, FBI Agent Kevin Cole assumes
the undercover identity of gangster
Jimmy Vaughn to penetrate a powerful
crime syndicate led by the infamous and
faceless Ziggy.
W
THE WEINSTEIN
COMPANY
The Weinstein Company, 345 Hudson
Street, 13th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10014
USA. Tel: 1.646.862.3400. Fax:
1.212.352.0022. www.weinsteinco.com,
E-mail: International@weinsteinco.com
At AFM: Glen Basner (President,
International), Michael Rothstein (SVP,
International Sales& Dist), Jonathan Kier
(VP, International Distribution),
Rosenblatt, Jesse (VP, International
Business & Legal Affairs), Richard
Baker (VP, International Marketing)
Office: Loews Suite 831, Tel:
310.455.7476. Fax: 310.455.7477
SUPERHERO!
Comedy
Director: Craig Mazin
Writer: Craig Mazin
Cast: Sara Paxton, Leslie Nielsen, Drake
Bell, Christopher McDonald
Producer: Robert K. Weiss, David
Zucker, Craig Mazin
THE BOX
Thriller
Director: Richard Kelly
Writer: Richard Kelly
Producers: Sean McKittrick, Producer:
Richard Kelly
Cast: Cameron Diaz
THE READER
Drama
Director: Stephen Daldry
Writers: Screenplay by David Hare based
on the novel by Bernhard Schlink
Producers: Anthony Minghella, Sydney
Pollack, Scott Rudin, Robert Fox
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Ralph Fiennes
THE GREAT DEBATERS
Drama
Director: Denzel Washington
Producers: Todd Black, Kate Forte,
Oprah Winfrey, Joe Roth
Writers: Screenplay by Robert Eisele and
Tom Epperson, Story by Robert Eisele &
Jeffrey Porro
Cast: Denzel Washington, Forest
Whitaker
WIDE
MANAGEMENT
Wide Management, 40, rue Sainte Anne,
75002 Paris, France. Tel:
33.1.53.95.04.64. Fax: 33.1.53.95.04.65.
www.widemanagement.com, email:
wide@widemanagement.com
Sales Agent
At AFM: Loïc Magneron (General
Manager - Head of Sales)
Office: Loews 760, Tel: 1.310.458.6700
x760
HER NAME IS SABINE
Documentary (85 min)
Language: French
Director: Sandrine Bonnaire
Writer: Sandrine Bonnaire
Producer: Thomas Schmitt, Mosaique
Films
Key cast: Sabine Bonnaire
Delivery status: Completed
Budget: 313 780 EU
Year of production: 2007, Country of
origin: France
A sensitive portrait of Sabine Bonnaire, a
38-year-old autistic woman, filmed by
her closest sister.
FISSURES
Psychological Drama/Fantastic (87 min)
Language: French
Director: Alanté Kavaïté
Writer: Alanté Kavaïté
Producer: Antoine Simkine, Les Films
d’Antoine
Key cast: Emilie Dequenne, Ludmila
Mikael, Mathieu Demy, Jacques
Spiesser, Étienne Chicot
Delivery status: Completed
Budget: 2 094 398 EU
Year of production: 2006/2007, Country
of origin: France
Charlotte uses her sound equipment to
carry out her own investigation of her
mother’s murder.
SONIC MIRROR
Documentary (79 min)
Language: Portuguese / German /
English
Director: Mika Kaurismaki
Writer: Mika Kaurismaki, Uwe Dresch,
Marco Forster
Producer: Marco Forster, Marco Forster
Productions
Co-production partners: Marianna Films
Oy, Doc Productions GmbH, UWE
DRESCH FILM Ltd
Key cast: Billy Cobham
Delivery status: Completed
Budget: 500.000 EU
Year of production: 2007, Country of
origin: Switzerland / Finland / Brazil
A surprising and emotional dive into the
world of rhythm… With Billy Cobham
to the world of autists in Switzerland and
kids in a favela in Brazil…
TWISTED SOULS
Drama (77 min)
Language: French
Director: Cheyenne Carron
Writer: Cheyenne Carron
Producer: Jacques Driencourt, BerFilms
Key cast: Mélanie Thierry, Vincent
Martinez, Frédéric Saurel
Delivery status: Completed
Year of production: 2007, Country of
origin: France
A young couple leaves for vacation in an
isolated house in the countryside. During
their stay, with the shelter of the glances,
they slip into a violent and passionate
relationship, which will lead them to
make the worst…
WONDERPHIL
PRODUCTIONS
Wonderphil Productions, 4712 Admiralty
Way #324, Marina del Rey, CA 90292
USA. Tel: 310.482.1324.
http://www.wonderphil.biz/ - email:
phil@wonderphil.biz
At AFM: Phil Gorn (Principal), Sanders
Robinson (Acquisitions Manager)
Office: Suite 206, Tel: 1.310.458.6700
x206
FALLEN ANGELS
Horror (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Jeff Thomas
Writer: Jeff Thomas
Co-Production Partners: Lewis Lane
Productions
Producer: Derek Zemrak & Leonard
Pirkle
Key Cast: Michael Dorn, Bill Moseley,
Adrianne Curry, Michael Berryman,
Michael Kaliski, Kevin McCarthy, Ruth
Buzzi, Daniel Zacapa, Christie Hemme
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A CSI team arrives at a small town to
investigate a crime scene but they make
a disturbing discovery that will
eventually unveil a legion of seven
demons and their chilling origins.
SOVIA
Thriller/Horror (85 min)
Language: German
Director: Robert C. Franke
Co-Production Partners: A Young
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Cinema Rebels Production
Producer: Nicholas Graebert, Christian
Mueller, Robert C. Franke
Key Cast: Diana Radnai
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $500k
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Germany
A nurse makes a fatal mistake in the
emergency room, killing a patient.
Unknowingly, she passes a bruise, where
the patient touched her, to others – who
are then killed at the hands of the
deceased.
VIPER COPS
Action-Comedy (80 min)
Language: French
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $200k
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: France
Two super cops are assigned to
investigate the murder of a politician and
his security team - the prime suspect
being a highly decorated police officer.
G.O.R.A.
http://www.Wonderphil.biz
Sci-Fi Comedy (120 min)
Language: Turkish
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $5 million
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Turkey
An amateur con-man is kidnapped by
extraterrestrials and shows his great
humanitarian spirit by continually
outwitting - & completely annoying - the
evil commander-in-chief.
A GOAT’S TAIL
Drama (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Julius Amedume
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 200k
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK/Ghana
Kojo, a charming young man from
Ghana, travels to London in pursuit of a
young woman & a career as a poet.
THE WITCHES HAMMER
Action/Horror/Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: James Eaves
Key Cast: Stephanie Beacham, Claudia
Coulter
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 400k
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: UK
Rebecca is brought back from the brink
of death by top secret agency ‘Project
571’. She is trained as a lethal assassin
and sent on missions to kill that which
she has become, a vampire.
LOVE & OTHER FOUR LETTER
WORDS
http://www.Wonderphil.biz
Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Steven Ayromlooi
Writer: Mandel Holland
Key Cast: Tangi Miller, Flex Alexander,
Essence Atkins, Marcus Patrick, Aloma
Wright, Tasha Smith, Sandy Brown,
Mary Linda Phillips, Tico Wells
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 750k
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
In this warm-hearted romantic comedy,
Stormy La Rue, a rising star T.V. Talk
Show host in Philadelphia, must dig her
way out the hole she creates — telling an
innocent white lie to please her dying
grandmother that she plans to wed.
THE WORKS
INTERNATIONAL
The Works International, Portland
House, 4 Great Portland Street, London,
W1W 8QJ UK. Tel: 44(0)20.7612.1080.
Fax: 44(0)20.7612.1081.
www.theworksmediagroup.com
At AFM: Joy Wong (Head of The Works
International), Clare Crean (Sales
Manager)
Office: Loews #724, Tel: 1.310.455.7492
BRICK LANE
Drama (101 min)
Director: Sarah Gavron
Writers: Abi Morgan, Laura Jones
Producers: Chris Collins, Alison Owen
Cast: Tannishta Chatterjee, Satish
Kaushik, Christopher Simpson, Harvey
Virdi
Delivery Status: Screening
Set against the changing backdrop of
multicultural Britain, Brick Lane is a
truly contemporary story of love, cultural
difference, and, ultimately, the strength
of the human spirit. Adapted from the
international bestselling novel by Monica
Ali.
CHOP SHOP
Drama (84 min)
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Writers: Bahareh Azimi & Ramin
Bahrani
Producers: Lisa Muskat, Marc
Turtletaub, Jeb Brody
Principal Cast: Alejandro Polanco,
Isamar Gonzales, Rob Sowulski, Carlos
Zapata, Ahmad Razvi
Delivery Status: Completed
In this chaotic world of adults, young
Alejandro struggles to make a better life
for himself and his 16-year-old sister,
Isamar.
GARBAGE WARRIOR
Feature documentary (84 min)
Director: Oliver Hodge
Producer: Rachel Wexler
Delivery Status: Completed
Shot over three years in the USA, India
and Mexico, Garbage Warrior is a
feature-length documentary film telling
the epic story of maverick architect
Michael Reynolds and his fight to
introduce radically sustainable housing.
THE KILLING OF JOHN LENNON
Drama (112 min)
Director: Andrew Piddington
Writer: Andrew Piddington
Producer: Rakha Singh
Cast: Jonas Ball
Delivery Status: Completed
A chilling insight into the mind of Mark
David Chapman, the 25 year old
narcissist who gunned down John
Lennon in 1980. Screened at the
Edinburgh Film Festival and the
Rotterdam Film Festival.
FRENCH FILM
Romantic Comedy
Director: Jackie Oudney
Writer: Aschlin Ditta
Producers: Arvind Ethan David, Rachel
Connors, Jonny Persey, Stewart Le
Marechal
Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Anne-Marie
Duff, Douglas Henshall, Victoria
Hamilton, Eric Cantona
Delivery Status: In Post-Production
French Film is a bittersweet romantic
comedy which playfully pits the French
against the British in the art of
relationships.
WORLDWIDE FILM
ENTERTAINMENT,
LLC
Worldwide Film Entertainment, LLC,
280 So. Beverly Drive, Suite 306,
Beverly Hills, Ca., 90212 USA. Tel:
310.641.5360. Fax: 310.641.5693.
http://www.wfewfe.com,
info@wfewfe.com
Distributor
At AFM: Barbara Mudge, Richard
DeLong, Diana Romero
Office: Loews Hotel 7th Floor Zuma
Room, Tel: 1.310.458.6700
ADRIFT IN MANHATTAN
Drama
Language: English
Director: Alfredo de Villa
Cast: Heather Graham, Victor Rasuk,
William Baldwin, Dominic Chianese
Delivery Status: Complete - Screening
In NYC, a chance encounter on the
subway brings together the loneliness,
desperation, and tragedy of strangers
whose lives intersect.
SING NOW OR FOREVER HOLD
YOUR PEACE
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Bruce Leddy
Cast: Molly Shannon, David Alan
Basche, Elizabeth Reaser
Delivery Status: Complete - Screening
College buddies and their wives gather
10 years later to sing at a wedding but
the trip up the aisle has some hilarious
side trips.
HIDING VICTORIA
Drama
Language: English
Director: Dan Chinander
Cast: Margo Harshman, Anita Gillette
Delivery Status: Complete - Screening
A young woman hides from her past
until she is drawn from behind her mask
by the kindness of a stranger.
BROTHERS THREE – AN
AMERICAN GOTHIC
Drama
Language: English
Director: Paul Kampf
Cast: Patrick Wilson, Neal McDonough,
John Heard
Delivery Status: Complete - Screening
Brothers reunite resulting in explosive
secrets about their past.
THE 7
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Adam Schlachter
Cast: Henry Czerny, Sandra Echeverria
Delivery Status: Complete - Screening
High school students on a science class
field-trip become prey to a creature in a
desert cavern.
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GREG S. BERNSTEIN
Law Offices of Greg S. Bernstein, 9601
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California, USA. Tel: 1.310.247.2790.
Fax: 1.310.247.2791. Mobile:
1.310.266.5365. www.thefilmlaw.com,
email: greg@thefilmlaw.com
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Producer Representative
At AFM: Greg S. Bernstein
(Entertainment Attorney, Producer
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