Marche du Film 2015 Line-Up

Marche du Film 2015 Line-Up
FIREFLIES
Genre: Drama/2015/India/103 m.
Screening: Saturday May 16th @ 6pm Gray 5
Director: Sabal Singh Shekhawat
Cast: Rahul Khanna (Love Aaj Kal), Arjun Mathur (My Name is Khan), Monica
Dogra (Mumbai Diaries) and Shivani Ghai (Bride & Prejudice)
Logline: A tragic incident from their childhood has colored the relationship of two
estranged brothers and their journey to find true love.
OUTLIER
Genre: Thriller/2015/Andorra/English/90 m.
Director: Jose Pozo
Cast: Melina Mathews (The Gunman), Molly Malcolm (Wild Oats),
Timothy Gibbs (Magnus Opus)
Logline: A young boy with a boundless imagination tries to solve a murder he
witnessed.
BORDERING ON BAD BEHAVIOR
Genre: Comedy/2014/S. Africa/ 105 m.
Screening: Friday, May 15th @ 4pm Gray 3
Director: Jac Mulder
Cast: Tom Sizemore, Bernard Curry, Oz Zehavi
Logline: Bad behavior & military mayhem ensue on the border of chaos when a volatile
cocktail of three soldier’s bruised ego’s and hatred are forced to reconcile…with good
weed, good drink and good times!
“a bro-film…5 out 5 Stars!”~The Other View
UNPEACEABLE
Genre: Thriller/2015/ USA/ 100 m.
Director: Graham Streeter
Cast: Grace Zabriskie (The Grudge), Tim Bagley (TheMask), Angela Prendergast
Logline: Karen, a visually impaired teen and her grandmother make a routine visit to
clean the family-owned rental property. But things become unsettling when Karen
finds herself alone and childhood memories surface.
HEART OF LIGHTNESS
Genre: Dramedy/2015/Norway/English 107 m.
Director: Jan Vardoen
Cast: Sam Heughan (Outlander), Matt Ryan (Constantine), Laura Donnelly (Dread)
Logline: Jan is a filmmaker and drunk who has taken money from the Film Institute
to make a movie but has spent it on London barhopping instead. Stumbling across a
production of Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea and realizing the script is public domain,
he sees a solution: Impulsively inviting the cast to Norway, he plans to crank a filmed
version out using local film students as unpaid crew.
BONOBO
Genre: Comedy/2014/ U.K./ 83 m.
Director: Matthew Hammett Knott
Cast: James Norton (Grantchester), Tessa Peake-Jones, and Eleanor Wyld
Logline: A straight-laced middle-aged widow attempts to remove her daughter from a
hippy sex commune.
“Smart, Funny & Original” ~ Total Film, UK (Jan/15)
FREQUENCIES
Genre: Sci-Fi/Romance/2014/ U.K./ 105 m.
Director: Darren Paul Fisher
Cast: Daniel Fraser, Eleanor Wyld, Dylan Llewellyn
Logline: A boy and a girl are destined to never be together because their individual frequencies are so totally incompatible their meetings always end in disaster. Zak however
will not stop figuring out ways to be with Marie.
SPEAK NO EVIL
Genre: Horror/2014/USA/74 m.
Director: ROZE
Cast: Gabrielle Stone, Greg Bronson, Annalise Cavender
Synopsis: Anna, a single mother, receives little help in the search for her missing
daughter until people realize that all of the town’s children have disappeared.
When the kids do return they are changed, diseased and violent.
FULL CIRCLE
Genre: Action/Comedy/2014/USA 81 m.
Director: Olli Koivula & Solvan Naim
Cast: Solvan Naim, Rob Morgan, Kelvin Hale
Synopsis: A young pizza delivery boy faces a life-changing crisis when his curiosity
pulls him away from his delivery order into an adjacent apartment’s open door. He cannot
resist the temptation when he stumbles across a large sum of money in the aftermath of
what seems to be a drug deal gone bad.
THE WORD
Genre: Crime/Drama/2013/USA/ 92 min
Director: Gregory W. Friedle
Cast: James Naughton (The Devil Wears Prada), Kevin O’Donnell
Synopsis: A man's otherwise perfect life is destroyed when his son is kidnapped and murdered. He finds himself torn between avenging his son's death and moving on with his
now hollow existence.
ROAD 47
Genre: Drama/2014/Brazil/Italy/ 109 m.
Director: Vicente Ferraz
Cast: Sergio Rubini (Talented Mr. Ripley), Richard Sammel (Inglorious Bastards)
Logline: The unusual meeting between three deserters from different nationalities
(Brazil, Germany and Italy) during World War II. It all begins with four soldiers from a
bomb squad of the Brazilian army experiencing a panic attack. They flee from the front
and at dawn they are lost in no man’s land. Desperate and unprepared, these soldiers must
choose between the enemy or court martial.
ROAD TO JUAREZ
Genre: Action/Thriller/2014/US/92 min
Director: David De Leon
Cast: William Forsythe (The Rock), Adal Ramones (Saving Private Perez), Walter Perez,
Charley Koontz
Synopsis: An American ex-con with Mexican underworld ties ensnares a pair of young
misfits into a dangerous heist in Mexico.
APARTMENT 1303 3-D
Director: Michael Taverna
Genre: Supernatural Thriller/2013/USA/ 84 min
Cast: Mischa Barton, Rebecca De Mornay, Julianne Michelle
Synopsis: Having grown up under the controlling grip of her fame-hungry mother, Janet
jumps at the opportunity to move into what looks to be a great high-rise apartment in downtown Detroit, until one night her boyfriend finds her in the middle of the street, having fallen
from the balcony 13 stories above.
ANINA
Genre: Animation/Kids/Family/2013/ Uruguay/80 min
Director: Alfredo Soderguit
Cast: Federica Lacaño, María Mendive, César Troncoso
Logline: A fantastical journey into the world of a ten-year-old girl who, following a playground skirmish, is given the weirdest punishment in the history of weird punishments.
Awards: Berlinale (Section Generation), Bafici (Audience Award), BFI London, San Sebastion,
Cartagena FF (Best Director) and Uruguay’s submission to the Academy Awards ® .
CHIMÈRES
Genre: Vampire/Thriller/2013/Switzerland (French lang)/104 min
Director: Olivier Beguin
Cast: Jasna Kohoutova, Yannick Rosset, Catriona McColl
Synopsis: Hospitalized after being hit by a car while on holiday in Romania with his girlfriend Livia, Alexander must undergo a blood transfusion. On his return, he seems afflicted
with a strange disease.
Awards: Neuchatel Intl FFF (Special Mention), Montevideo Fantastico (Best Actress), Screamfest (Best Edit)
DURBAN POISON
Genre: Crime/Romance/2013/S. Africa/105 min
Director: Andrew Worsdale
Cast: Brandon Auret, Gys de Villiers, Danny Keogh, Cara Roberts
Synopsis: Following a police investigation into four murders, this road movie charts the
doomed romance of its two protagonists that went on an alcohol and drug-driven killing
orgy ~ a modern day Bonnie & Clyde.
DIRTY MONEY
Genre: Thriller/2013/UK/87 min
Director: Adam Tysoe
Cast: Anthony Welsh, Elsa Mollien, Max Wrottesley & Mem Ferda
Synopsis: Seduced and corrupted by the criminal rewards offered by London’s high-class
underground sex industry. If he is to survive he needs a new set of rules
Marche du Film 2015 - Production Line-Up
RESILIENT 3-D
Principal Photography Sept 9th 2015
Director: Michael Taverna
Genre: Sci-Fi/Disaster/2015/ USA
Cast: Robert Beltran (Startrek), Ayelet Zurer (Man of Steel),
Virginia Madsen (Sideways) & Ben Cross (Star Trek)
Synopsis: During Earth’s final days, theoretical physicist Dermot Turner is tasked by
the President to lead the Exodus Program and move the human race to Europa, Jupiter’s moon. Dermot, whose wife Claire has died in a tornado, seeks the assistance of
Adele, the leader of a Mars settlement. Should they fail, a war will ensue between a
race desperate for survival and the inhabitants of Mars who don’t want their new
world destroyed as Earth was by billions of unsustainable newcomers. With war days
away, Dermont returns to Earth to find a solution—forever Resilient. His past will
shape our future.
PRINCESS AISHA 3-D
In Development
Director: TBD
Genre: Action/2015/USA
Cast: TBD
Synopsis: After the first Great Islamic nuclear war, hundreds of thousands of refugees have landed on European shores and are now kept in walled cities. Inside in
those encampments, life is ruled by the Sword of Nedal who’s Princess, Aisha, realizes on the day of her 20th birthday her mother had been betrayed and killed by the
leader of her Clan.
Revenge is now her only desire.
Available Territories: Worldwide
HEAR NO EVIL
Principal Photography October 10th
Director: ROZE
Genre: Horror/2015/USA
Cast: Gabrielle Stone, Annalise Cavender
Synopsis: Anna and Joey are on the run from past Evil (SPEAK NO EVIL) and live
a transient life from motel to motel. When a soldier commits suicide next door to
them, Joey finds and steals a MASK the soldier carried back from Nineveh, Iraq.
Without a place to go and no money, Anna decides to go stay with her Uncle Pete in
a small town in the Arizona desert. Soon Anna realizes the Mask is giving Joey extraordinary powers over her new schoolmates and before long the town children start
assaulting their parents.