/upcoming/
Estonia-France / dir. Matt Azoulay & William Mermoud
Kelly’s way - diary of a champion
(post-production)
Feature documentary, 80-90 min
Estimated delivery - Autumn/winter 2021/2022
At only 13, KELLY SILDARU becomes the youngest X-Games gold medalist of all times. Her discipline, Slope Style, doesn’t even exist yet in her country. Making her way to a highly predictable Olympic title, KELLY’s hopes are brutally robbed away from her by an unforgiving knee injury. She watches Pyeong Chang 2018 from her couch.
After a long and painful recovery, she finally steps back onto her skis, only to face the next challenge: reclaiming domination at the 2019 X-Games. But she will do it her way: with her family as her team and by breaking a new record!
While facing an intensifying pressure, so much more suddenly seems at stake: family, the pride of her country, disappointing her sponsors... What will her future be made of?
This is her diary…
Estonia / dir. Rein Zobel
Albercht’s Gift
(in-development)
VR short film, 11 min
Estimated delivery - September 2022
No dialogue
3D 360 degrees format, live action
Spatial sound design
Genre - film noir-inspired mystery
Albrecht is a detective with a very special gift. His sense of the world is extraordinary - a smell, a sound or a touch can ignite vivid images of different places and worlds. But this comes at a price - Albrecht is constantly looking for small moments of joy to escape the dystopian police work.
One day Albrecht comes to contact with a bottle of mysterious liquid while investigating a strange suicide case. The substance gives him very clear visions and he starts unravelling a new drug epidemic that is about to begin. Albrecht must use his supernatural talent and skills as detective to find the dark power who is responsible.
In the end, he is able to destroy the evil character but finds himself trapped between worlds.
Community & evolution with dr Tamas David-Barrett
HUMAN BEAST
(IN-DEVELPOMENT)
TV documentary series
Evolutionary anthropologist, Dr Tamás David-Barrett, takes off from the lecture halls of Oxford University to travel the globe experiencing and sharing the common threads that shows us that how we got here is who we are, exposing the beautiful and the beastly in human nature.
KEY WORDS: anthropology, rituals, sharing food, on-screen experiments, human bonding, love, sacrifice, exploration, expedition, culture, evolution, history, future, behavioural science.
Tamás is a professor at the Centro de Investigación de Complejidad Social at the Universidad del Desarollo in Santiago de Chile, teaches economics at Trinity College, University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and is affiliated with the Population Studies Research Institute in Helsinki, Finland. He is a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Estonia-latvia
Head Uut Aastat!
(in-Development)
Feature Film, 90 min
Head Uut Aastat! (Happy New Year!) is a romantic comedy about the exciting events during the last hours of New Year’s Eve. Our main character is a good-natured Toomas who follows his grandfather’s tradition and drives taxi on this magical night to help others. Soon enough, the witty characters start to drag him to tragicomic situations, colourful characters invade his taxi and take Toomas into all sorts of crazy events. In the midst of this, Toomas needs to work up his courage to get back his lost love. This cheerful story creates a wonderful connection between the festive and joyful mood of the New Year and with the splendid love lines.
/released/
Latvia-Japan / Drama, Comedy
Magic Kimono (2017)
dir .Maris Martinsons
Associate Producer
World Sales: Antipode
Magic Kimono tells the story of middle-aged Japanese woman Keiko, who has been living in a shell for decades due to a family tragedy in Kobe. The modest act of eating and the sensations it gives us provided Keiko a lifeline to survive. The films stars two Japanese screen legends - Issey Ogata (Martin Scorsese’s “Silence”) and Kaori Momoi (“Memoirs of a Geisha”). Magic Kimono was the first Japanese-Latvian co-production and was shot in Riga, Latvia, and Kobe, Japan.
Laos-France-Estonia / Supernatural horror, drama
Dearest Sister / Nong Hak (2016)
dir. Mattie Do
Producer
World Sales: Raven Banner Entertainment, XYZ Films (North America)
Dearest Sister a 2016 Lao-French-Estonia horror film. It is the second feature film directed by Mattie Do and was selected as the Laotian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, the first time that Laos has submitted a film for consideration in this category, but it was not nominated.
The film is about a Lao village girl who travels to Vientiane to care for her rich cousin who has mysteriously lost her sight, and somehow gained the ability to communicate with the dead. Matters are further driven by the cousin’s ambivalent marriage with an Estonian white migrant, who has his own dark secrets to hide.
Festivals: Fantastic Fest (World Premiere), London BFI (International Premiere), Sitges
Canditate for Best Forgein Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards in 2017.
South Korea / Romance, Drama
Man and Woman / Namwgayeo (2016)
dir. Lee Yoon-ki
Production Consulting
World Sales: Showbox Entertainment
Festivals: Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
A Man and a Woman is a 2016 South Korean romance film directed by Lee Yoon-ki. It stars Jeon Do-yeon and Gong Yoo as two people who meet and begin a love affair in Finland.
South-Korea - Estonia
Angry Painter (2015)
dir. Jeon Kyu-hwan
Co-Producer
World Sales: M-Line Distribution
Festivals: Bifan, Sitges, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
A mysterious man, ‘Painter’ is a chase, who always be with ‘Driver’. Driver is in a relationship with and Estonian girl, who works at US soldier’s club. She was drifting several regions because of father’s gambling debt. Someday US soldier goes mad for their relationship, and kill her and her boyfriend in front of Painter. Being so angry Painter turns into mad creature and mysterious power leads him to even Estonia.
USA / Horror, Fantasy, Omnibus
VHS Viral -
segment “Bonestorm”(2014)
dir. Aaron Moorhead & Justin Benson
Associate Producer
World Sales: XYZ Films
V/H/S: Viral is a 2014 American anthology horror film from Bloody Disgusting. The final film in the V/H/S trilogy, created by Brad Miska, features a series of found-footage shorts written and directed by Nacho Vigalondo, Marcel Sarmiento, Gregg Bishop, Justin Benson and Aaron Scott Moorhead.
A trio of skateboarders perform various stunts as the videographer they hired pushes them into increasingly dangerous circumstances in the hopes of filming a snuff film. After they become bored, the videographer suggests they continue the film shoot in Tijuana, where they subsequently become lost after buying fireworks withut knowing they've been closely watched by a cult.
Estonia / Anthology Film, Installation, Performance
60 Seconds of Solitude
in Year Zero (2011)
Creative dir. Veiko Õunpuu, Taavi Eelmaa
Associate Producer, Directors liaison
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero is a 2011 anthology film, a one-time-only event that took place in the Port of Tallinn, Estonia on 22 December 2011. The film is a collection of one-minute short films created by 60 filmmakers from around the world on the theme of the death of cinema.
The project, developed as an ode to 35mm film and dedicated to preserving the freedom of thought in cinema, was conceived by Veiko Õunpuu with Taavi Eelmaa and funded by the 2011 European Capital of Culture Tallinn, the Estonian Ministry of Culture and the EU-Japan Fest Committee.
The directors included Phie Ambo (Denmark), Shinji Aoyama (Japan), Jes Benstock (UK), Mark Boswell (USA), Mark Cousins (Ireland), Maxì Dejoie (Italy), Gustav Deutsch (Austria), Feyyaz (Germany), Michael Glawogger (Austria), Jorge Michel Grau (Mexico), Malcolm Le Grice (UK), Jan Ijäs (Finland), Ishii Sogo-Gakuryu (Japan), Jeon Kyu-hwan (South Korea), Jussi Jaakola (Finland), Ken Jacobs (USA), Vimukthi Jayasundara (Sri Lanka), Woo Ming Jin (Malaysia), Viktor Kaganovich (Ukraine), Kang Kiyoung aka Dalpalan (South Korea), Tolga Karaçelik (Turkey), Manuela Kaufmann (Italy), Naomi Kawase (Japan), Ville Kerimaa (Finland), Eric Khoo (Singapore)
Kim Jee-woon (South Korea), Aku Louhimies (Finland), Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon (Iceland), Marina Manushenko (Switzerland), Bruce McClure (USA), Brillante Mendoza (Philippines), Kyungwon Moon (South Korea), Amir Naderi (Iran), Park Chan-wook (South Korea), Rafi Pitts (Iran), Pen-ek Ratanaruang (Thailand), Jussi Reittu (Finland), Simon Rumley (UK), Albert Serra (Spain), Ronni Shendar (Israel), Norbert Shieh (USA), Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson (Iceland), Auraeus Solito (Philippines), Mika Taanila (Finland), Mart Taniel (Estonia), Andres Tenusaar (Estonia), Tom Tykwer (Germany), Gillian Wearing (UK), Gereon Wetzel (Germany), Oliver Whitehead (Finland), Adam Wingard (USA), Edmund Yeo (Malaysia/Japan), Kari Yli-Annala (Finland), Brian Yuzna (USA), Veiko Õunpuu (Estonia)
