INGENIUM / Feature film
FRENCH PREMIERE
Directed by Steffen Hacker
Produced by Eric Sonnenburg and Steffen Hacker
CAST :
GERMANY
The movie is listed 4 times in competition for the 2018 PAMA for :
– Best Feature Film
– Best Director
– Best Actress
– Best Editor
PITCH : As Felicitas’ life is turned upside down she doesn’t know if her nightmares are taking over or if something bigger is trying to control her – and the only way to find out the truth is her best friend Natascha who is locked up in an asylum.
Festival’s appreciation :
“INGENIUM is an intense run with elements and twists of a thriller and surprises beyond that.”
HIGHLIGHT :
This is the incredible directorial debut of director-producer Steffen Hacker.
“Getting exposure and an audience after so many years of work went into one film means the world to me being a first time filmmaker – I´d finally love to see how people react, if the film entertains, gives them the thrill we all love to get in cinema. So thank you for providing us Indie filmmakers that possibility to show our work to the people that love movies beyond mainstream.“
Studied visual effects at the renowned Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Germany and teamed up with former classmate Alexander Kiesl, CEO of unexpected GmbH in Stuttgart, to found the commercial directing duo “Alex & Steffen” in 2005.
His first self-financed Indie feature film as director, “Ingenium”, was finished in 2018.
PARALLEL LINES / Documentary
EUROPEAN PREMIERE
Directed by Allison Walsh
Produced by Melanie Walsh and Margaret LeJeune
CAST :
USA
The movie is listed in competition for the 2018 PAMA for :
– Best Documentary
PITCH : Parallel Lines tells the stories of Olga Perez, a formerly undocumented maid, and Chuck Foss, a former U.S. border patrol agent, who respectively live in the border towns of Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas, and whose occupational histories would seem to put them at odds. But the stories Olga and Chuck share reveal a much more complex relationship between those who police the border and those who cross it, which also includes compassion, respect, and a shared daily existence.
Allison Walsh is an artist and emerging documentary filmmaker. She combines her art disciplines to bring new life to the documentary stories she encounters. Walsh has a BFA in Painting and a BA in Spanish from Bradley University. Parallel Lines is Walsh’s first film, beginning in January 2017.
THE DARK OF NIGHT / Short film
PARIS PREMIERE
Directed by Robin Wright
Produced by Robin Wright, Nini Le Huynh, Michael Witt, Sharif Salama and Cassandra McCarthy
CAST :
USA
The movie is listed 3 times in competition for the 2018 PAMA for :
– Best International short film
– Best Actor
– Best Actress
PITCH : One dark and stormy night, a woman on her way to Chicago for a job interview seeks refuge in an isolated diner where nothing – and no one – are who they seem.
Imdb.
Robin Gayle Wright is an American actress and director. She is the recipient of seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations and has earned a Golden Globe Award and a Satellite Award for her work in television.
OFF LIMITS/ Dance film
PARIS PREMIERE
Directed by Severine Reisp
Produced by Severine Reisp
CAST :
USA
The movie is listed in competition for the 2018 PAMA for :
– Best Dance
PITCH : Off Limits is a short dance film about the power dynamics in a relationship. It depicts the seduction of a young woman and the passion in a relationship. It is an excerpt of the director´s longer dance film “Giselle”.
“I believe that dance can sometimes say more than words concerning emotions and political topics and that a narrative dance film can merge new choreography, music and current social issues.
Encouraging women is also important to me and as a director I felt empowered to let my own visions come to life.
Before enrolling in college I was a professional ballet dancer with State Street Ballet and Joffrey Ballet in New York. Hence, I see directing as choreography on the screen.“
Severine Reisp was born in Bielefeld, Germany in 1994. At the age of 16 she received a scholarship to attend a boarding school in England where she was able to combine her academic studies with a high level of dance training. She speaks German, English and French fluently. During her teenage years she received scholarships to attend ballet summer intensives at Joffrey Ballet School, Rosella Hightower in Cannes, Northern Ballet School in the UK, Festival Ballet in Santa Barbara, California and Scuola Danza Hamlyn in Florence. After graduating from secondary school in England with honours in five A-levels, she was accepted at Warwick Business School in the UK but she decided to continue with dancing first and deferred her place to college. She was invited to become a trainee with Joffrey Ballet School in New York and later with State Street Ballet in Santa Barbara, California. To further combine her academic interests with dance, she eventually decided to enrol at Sarah Lawrence College at which she received the presidential scholarship. She moved back to New York and at Sarah Lawrence, she has been able to combine her interests in theatre, film and dance. She was able to make her own visions come to life and to collaborate with many talented dancers, filmmakers, actors , composers and cinematographers in New York.
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LA CHAMBRE NOIRE / Short film
Directed by Morgane Segaert
Produced by CENTRE FACTORY
CAST :
FRANCE
The movie is listed 3 times in competition for the 2018 PAMA for :
– Best Student Film
– Best Director
– Best Director of Photography
PITCH : France, 1910. As her mother suffers from a mysterious illness that she intends to hide, the young Cassandre feels a growing presence in her home … What shadow hides in the silence of the dark room?
Festival’s appreciation :
“Imagine the Downton Abbey’s atmosphere and period piece meeting a dark and shadow haunting Nosferatu. No need for a lot of words, this film is a mastered piece of directing what’s on and off screen.”
HIGHLIGHT :
Serial winner in many festivals, THE DARK ROOM shows the French talent when it comes to genre films, even short forms.
Imdb.
Morgane Segaert is a young director from Lyon who is passionate by history movies. After three years in a cinema school, she presents you today her first short fiction. Through The Dark room, she transports you in her dark and atypical universe, inspired by a strong moment of her personnal life.
SPOTTERS’RIFT / Series
WORLD COMPETITION PREMIERE
Directed by Léo Guyard
CAST :
FRANCE
The movie is listed 4 times in competition for the 2018 PAMA for :
– Best Production
– Best Dance
– Best Student Film
– Best Director
PITCH : In a world where nobody can die anyway, Helene survives in arid forests where she have to live out of her protected town. Everybody needs to know why she’s gone from here and how to get inside too…
Festival’s appreciation :
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HIGHLIGHT :
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“I’m doing movies to experiment, to create, follow my dreams, share stories, and mostly to help people creating.“
Working on his own, directing shorts since his 7 years old, Léo started with stop-motion videos and some web series with friends in high-school. Leo decide to stop his studies at 21 to do movies, directing “Spotters’ Rift” in 2015, his first drama post-apocalytic show.
BEING GOOD / Animated film
EUROPEAN PREMIERE
Directed by Jenny Harder
Produced by Jenny Harder and Randolph Mills
CAST :
UK
The movie is listed in competition for the 2018 PAMA for :
– Best Animated Film
PITCH : The short film BEING GOOD is about a teenage girl called Embry and her two guardians, the angel Ava and the demon Mal who act as her conscience. While Ava and Mal could easily be considered as “good” and “evil”, the film develops the idea of their humanity and flaws. Being Good is intended to highlight the importance of free will and identity.
“”Being Good” has been an incredible experience. A team of 80 remote people from all over the world have brought this beautiful short to life. Being Good had no funding and was created completely from scratch using the online platform Artella. Our team is very proud of what we have achieved and can’t wait to share this with the world.“
Director Biography – Jenny HardeJenny Harder is a concept & storyboard artist who has worked with Ubisoft and Disney over the last years. Jenny specialises in designing stylized characters and worlds and is currently directing her own animated short film BEING GOOD. She is also working on another short film directed by Jorge Gutierrez.