Frontières, the self-described “first and only co-production market to connect North America with Europe in an environment specifically focused on genre film production and financing” has revealed the first wave of films it will be pitching at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival.
Of all the projects announced (including work form the directors of A Serbian Film, and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer) we can’t help but be most intrigued by a picture from Anouk Whissell, Francois Simard, and Yoann-Karl Whissell – collectively known as RKSS Films – titled Elora. Admittedly this might have something to with our coverage of RKSS’s last film, the 2015 SXSW Midnighters Audience Award-winner Turbo Kid – which one of our writers may have described as a “bizarre, heartwarming, kickass, ultraviolent vision.”
The 2015 Fantasia International Film Festival will be held from July 14th to August 4th in Montreal.
Check out the list of Frontières’ first wave of films below:
3 1/2 (USA – India)
Director: Sooni Taraporevala
Writer: Sooni Taraporevala
Producer: Michael Roiff (Night & Day Pictures)
Executive Producer: Ritesh Batra
CARNY KILL (USA)
Director: John McNaughton
Writer: John McNaughton & Ted Mann (Screenplay) / Robert Edmond Alter (Novel)
Producer: Steven A. Jones
ELORA (Québec)
Directors: Anouk Whissell, François Simard & Yoann-Karl Whissell (RKSS FILMS)
Writers: Anouk Whissell, François Simard & Yoann-Karl Whissell
Producer: Anne-Marie Gélinas (EMAfilms Inc.)
KILL MODE (Netherlands)
Director: Thijs Meuwese
Co-Director: Colinda Bongers
Writer: Thijs Meuwese
Producers: Colinda Bongers & Thijs Meuwese
‘LUDE BEHAVIOR (Québec)
Director: Renaud Gauthier
Writer: Renaud Gauthier & Mary Elizabeth Hickey
Producer: Mathieu Gauthier (GoBROS Pictures)
SINGER (Canada)
Director: Seth Smith
Writer: Darcy Spidle, Seth Smith
Producer: Rob Cotterill (Yer Dead Productions)
SYNCRETIZE (USA / Canada / Haiti)
Director: Matt Swinsky
Writer: Bryan Strickland
Producers: Katarina Gligorijevic, Tim Reis, Matt Swinsky (Ultra 8 Pictures & Vrille Film)
Executive Producer: Colin Geddes (Ultra 8 Pictures)
WHEREOUT (Serbia)
Director: Srdjan Spasojevic
Writers: Aleksandar Radivojevic, Srdjan Spasojevic
Leave a Comment