Exclusive: Paris-based sales agent Reel Suspects has taken on international sales for Lithuanian director Ignas Miskinis’ third feature, King’s Shift (previously known as Deadweight).
The screenplay set in a private clinic on Christmas Eve about a young policeman guarding a patient suspected of crimes during the Second World War was written by Miskinis (Low Lights) with fellow writer-director Saulius Drunga (Anarchy in Zirmunai).
The film was developed during the eighth edition of the ScriptEast workshop in 2013/2014.
Lithuanian producer Ieva Norviliene of Tremora told ScreenDaily during this week’s Baltic Event that King’s Shift was co-produced with Latvia’s Film Angels Production and received backing from the Lithuanian and Latvian Film Centres as well as Eurimages.
A former Producer on the Move in Cannes, Norviliene also produced Low Lights and Anarchy In Zirmunai, among other projects, at Tremora which she launched with Miskinis in 2005.
The screenplay set in a private clinic on Christmas Eve about a young policeman guarding a patient suspected of crimes during the Second World War was written by Miskinis (Low Lights) with fellow writer-director Saulius Drunga (Anarchy in Zirmunai).
The film was developed during the eighth edition of the ScriptEast workshop in 2013/2014.
Lithuanian producer Ieva Norviliene of Tremora told ScreenDaily during this week’s Baltic Event that King’s Shift was co-produced with Latvia’s Film Angels Production and received backing from the Lithuanian and Latvian Film Centres as well as Eurimages.
A former Producer on the Move in Cannes, Norviliene also produced Low Lights and Anarchy In Zirmunai, among other projects, at Tremora which she launched with Miskinis in 2005.
- 11/16/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Veteran UK producer Patrick Cassavetti has boarded Marat Alykulov’s black comedy Lenin?!.
Cassavetti, producer on Terry Gilliam’s Brazil and Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas - agreed to become executive producer on the Kyrgyzstani project following talks in Cannes last month.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily at this year’s Moscow Business Square (Mbs), producer Joanna Bence of Curb Denizen Productions said that Cassavetti will also offer new ‘perks’ to the ‘Help Bury Lenin?!’ crowdfunding campaign by giving burgeoning filmmakers the chance to receive personal feedback on their past or upcoming productions.
Bence also revealed that German-born, London-based DoP Stephan Bookas - who has worked on Maleficent and the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy - is confirmed as cinematographer for the project, which was pitched at the Mbs’s co-production forum last year after having been presented at Busan’s Asian Project Market and Connecting Cottbus in autumn 2012.
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Cassavetti, producer on Terry Gilliam’s Brazil and Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas - agreed to become executive producer on the Kyrgyzstani project following talks in Cannes last month.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily at this year’s Moscow Business Square (Mbs), producer Joanna Bence of Curb Denizen Productions said that Cassavetti will also offer new ‘perks’ to the ‘Help Bury Lenin?!’ crowdfunding campaign by giving burgeoning filmmakers the chance to receive personal feedback on their past or upcoming productions.
Bence also revealed that German-born, London-based DoP Stephan Bookas - who has worked on Maleficent and the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy - is confirmed as cinematographer for the project, which was pitched at the Mbs’s co-production forum last year after having been presented at Busan’s Asian Project Market and Connecting Cottbus in autumn 2012.
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- 6/23/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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