Kiyoshi Kurosawa, David Wnendt titles to be showcased at Venice Gap-Financing Market

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Kiyoshi Kurosawa

The Venice Gap-Financing Market has selected the projects for its 5^th edition, to be held from August 31-September 2 during the Venice film festival.

Organised as part of the Venice Production Bridge, the three-day event will present 46 projects from around the world in the final stages of development and funding.

The titles include 25 feature fiction and documentary projects; 15 virtual reality works; and six projects developed during the workshop of Biennale College Cinema.

Fiction projects include Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To The Ends Of The Earth (working title), which shot in Uzbekistan in April and May, featuring a Japanese and Uzbek cast. Based on an original screenplay by Kurosawa, the film tells the story of a young Japanese woman who finds her cautious and inward-looking nature tested when she travels to Uzbekistan to shoot a travel variety show.

David Wnendt’s The Sunlit Night, starring Jenny Slate, Alex Sharp, Gillian Anderson and Zach Galifianakis is also being showcased. Adapted from Rebecca Dinerstein’s novel of the same name, the film is set between New York City and Norway, and follows US painter Frances (Slate) and émigré Yasha (Sharp), an unlikely pair who find each other in the Arctic circle. Mister Smith Entertainment has international rights to the project.

Documentary projects include Anna Eborn’s Transnistra, set in the self-proclaimed state of Transnistria where a group of 16-year-olds search for friendship among each other when society has turned its back on them. The project was also recently announced as a recipient of Eurimages funding.

The market arranges meetings between the creative teams on each projects and industry decision makers, including private and public financiers, distributors, sales agents, commissioners and post-production companies.

For the fiction and documentary titles to be eligible, they must have at least 70% of funding already in place.

Selected projects

FICTION

5 È Il Numero Perfetto (It, Bel, Fr) - by Igort, Propaganda Italia
Des Pas Dans La Neige (Fr) by Jean Denizot, Mezzanine Films
Do Not Hesitate (Neth, Bel, Col) by Shariff Korver, Lemming Film
Insula (Rom, Fr) by Anca Damian, Aparte Film
Sans Soleil (Bel, Neth, Fr) by Banu Akseki, FraKas Productions
Semina Il Vento (It, Fr) by Danilo Caputo, Okta Film
And They May Still Be Alive Today (Rom, Gr) by Tudor Cristian Jurgiu, Libra Film Productions
The Prague Orgy (Czech, Slovakia) by Irena Pavlásková, Prague Movie Company
The Sunlit Night (Ger, Nor, US) by David Wnendt, Detail Film and Ape&Bjørn
January (Bul, Port, Czech) by Andrey Paounov, Portokal
All This Victory (Leb, Fr, Ger) by Ahmad Ghossein, Abbout Productions
Blanquita (Chile, Arg) by Fernando Guzzoni, Quijote Films
City Of Small Blessings (Sing) by Chen-Hsi Wong, Akanga Film Asia
Deserto Particular (Braz, Port) by Aly Muritiba, Grafo Audiovisual
La Intemperie (Arg, Braz) by Juan Schnitman, Wanka Cine
To the Ends Of The Earth (working title) (Jap, Uz) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Loaded Films, Tokyo Theaters Co. Inc.
The Unknown Saint (Mor, Fr) by Alaa Eddine Aljem, Le Moindre Geste

DOCUMENTARIES

Angels Of Sinjar. Yazidis - 21st Century Genocide (Pol, Ger) by Hanna Polak, Hanna Polak Films, Saxonia Entertainment
Dragon Women (Bel) by Frédérique de Montblanc, Savage Film
Et J’aime À La Fureur (Slovakia, Fr) by André Bonzel, Artichoke
Flee (Den, Swe, Fr, Nor) by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Final Cut for Real, Sun Creature Studio
Fugue (working title) (Czech, Fr, Arg, Aust) by Artemio Benki, Artcam Films
Push (Swe) by Fredrik Gertten, WG Film
Tony Driver, Un Deportato Al Contrario (It, Mex) by Ascanio Petrini, Dugong Films
Transnistra (Swe, Den, Bel) by Anna Eborn, Momento Film

VIRTUAL REALITY PROJECTS

-22.7°C VR (Fr, Bel) by Jan Kounen, Zorba Production
A Symphony Of Noise (UK, Ger) by Jamie Balliu and Anrick Bregman, Up Creatives, Kloos & Co.
Fatherland (UK, Sp, US) by Ben Samuels, Limbik
Inside: A Journey Into The World Of Outsider Artist Judith Scott (UK) by Sacha Wares, National Theatre Immersive Storytelling Studio
Jailbirds (Fr, Bel, US) by Thomas Villepoux, Digital Rise - DVgroup
Mirror (Fr, Bel) by Pierre Zandrowicz, Atlas V
Peep Show (Sp) by Nacho Vigalondo, Gaz VR
The Android (Fr, Tai) by Gaelle Mourre, Digital Rise- DVgroup
The Imaginary Friend (Neth, UK) by Steye Hallema, Submarine Channel
Breathe (US, Can) by Milica Zec and Winslow Porter, New Reality Company
Chomsky Vs Chomsky (Can) by Sandra Rodriguez, EyeSteelFilm
Container (SA) by Meghna Singh and Simon Wood, Electric South
Garden Of Vision (Col, Can) by Diana Rico Muñoz, 4Direcciones audio-visual
Marco Polo Go Round (Can) by Ben Steiger Levine, Item 7
Under the Skin (Braz, China) by João Inada, Luz Mágica Produções