EXCLUSIVE: France’s Paradise City Sales has acquired Greek filmmaker Konstantina Kotzamani’s debut feature Titanic Ocean, a coming-of-age story about teenage girls training to be mermaids in Japan, and will launch the film at the European Film Market.
Set at a boarding school devoted to the growing subculture of ‘mermaiding’, the film blends mythology with contemporary teenage culture. It follows a 17-year-old girl striving to find her siren voice, experience first love and undergo a metamorphosis.
It stars a rising Japanese cast including Arisa Sasaki, Melina Mardini, Haruna Matsui, Hanase Kotone, Aki Kigoshi, Hanna Muro and Riku Nakamura.
The project has been selected for various international workshops and labs, including TorinoFilmLab, Oxbelly Retreat, CineMart, EAVE – Ties that Bind, APostLab, Semaine de la Critique - Next Step II Program, Onassis Culture’s “Meet the Future”, IFFAM Project Market, ΤIFFCOM and Venice Gap-Financing Market.
Shot in Japan and Romania and now in post-production, Titanic Ocean is produced by Greece’s Homemade Films with Germany’s Wunderlust and Bayerischer Rundfunk, Romania’s deFilm, France’s Manny Films, Spain’s Frida Films, Japan’s Happinet Phantom Studios and Mam Film. Backers include Greece’s ERT S.A., Vodafone TV and Onassis Culture, in association with the UK’s Quiddity and Finite Films and Cyprus’ Felony.
“Inside every woman is a siren voice that makes her sing freely, her heart beat deeply, and feel wholeheartedly. This is the voice I seek to bring into the open, powerful, intuitive, and unrestrained,” said Kotzamani, who has previously made short and medium-length films that have screened at Cannes, Venice, Berlin and Locarno.
Alexandre Moreau, head of sales at Paradise City Sales, described Titanic Ocean as: “A highly original debut that confirms Konstantina Kotzamani as one of the most exciting filmmakers of her generation. Set within the mesmerising world of mermaiding, the film creates a daring and deeply sensorial universe with striking visual power.”
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