New films from Baskin, Transfiguration directors part of Finance Forum

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Last year, the Frontières International Co-Production Market teamed with the Fantasia International Film Festival and the Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes to create the Frontières Finance & Packaging Forum, a genre-focused, invitational event that allows filmmakers with projects at the packaging stage to have those projects assessed by industry experts that analyze finance, marketing, and distribution strategies.

Twelve projects were chosen to take part in the first Frontières Finance & Packaging Forum. For the second annual forum, which will be held in Amsterdam next month, a lucky thirteen projects have made the cut.

That includes new films from THE TRANSFIGURATION director Michael O'Shea, BASKIN's Can Evrenol (the image above comes from BASKIN), REPLACE's Norbert Keil, Neasa Hardiman (whose credits include episodes of the Marvel shows Inhumans and Jessica Jones), PRAIRIE DOG producer Gianna Isabella (hoping to hear a release date for that one soon), HARDWARE/DUST DEVIL's Richard Stanley, THE VOID producer Casey Walker, and KILL LIST's Ben Wheatley, among others.

The full list: 

BACKGROUND NOISE (USA)
Director: Michael O’Shea
Writers: Amanda Kagiwada & Michael Ryan Assip and Michael O’Shea
Producers: Susan Leber (Susie Q Productions) and Peter Phok (Phok Productions )

THE BALLAD OF AUDREY EARNSHAW (Canada/Ireland)
Director/Writer: Thomas Robert Lee
Producers: Gianna Isabella (Gate 67), Thomas Robert Lee, Julianne Forde & Ruth Treacy (Tailored Films),Marie-Claude Poulin (Executive Producer, MCP Productions), Patrick Ewald (Executive Producer, Epic Pictures)

BLACK CONFLUX (Canada)
Director/Writer: Nicole Dorsey
Producers: Michael Solomon (Band With Pictures), Kerry Gamberg (Butter Pictures)

CENSOR (UK)
Director: Prano Bailey-Bond
Writers: Prano Bailey-Bond & Anthony Fletcher
Producer: Helen Jones (Silver Salt Films)

JESUS SHOWS YOU THE WAY TO THE HIGHWAY (Spain/Estonia/Ethiopia)
Director/Writer: Miguel Llansó
Producers: Sergio Uguet de Resayre (Lanzadera Films), Alasti Kino 

LAMB (working title) (DÝRIÐ) (Iceland/Sweden)
Director: Valdimar Jóhannson
Writers: Sjón & Valdimar Jóhannson
Producers: Hrönn Kristinsdóttir & Sara Nassim (Go to Sheep), Piodor Gustafsson (Spark)

THE MONSTER WITHIN (Chile/Denmark)
Director: Rodrigo Susarte
Writer: Valeria Hofmann
Producers: Florencia Larrea & Gregorio González (Forastero), Lene Borglum (Space Rocket Nation)

THE PAPER TIGERS (USA)
Director/Writer: Tran Quoc Bao
Producers: Michael Velasquez, Al’n Duong, Yuji Okumoto, Dan Gildark (Beimo Films LLC)

PERIHAN (Turkey)
Director/Writer: Can Evrenol
Producer: MO Film – Müge Büyüktalaş

REUNION (USA/Germany)
Director: Norbert Keil
Writers: Richard Stanley & Norbert Keil
Producers: Gudrun Giddings (G4C Innovation), Sam Sarkar, Daisy Hamilton, Norbert Keil (Wunderbar Film)

SEA FEVER (Ireland/Belgium)
Director/Writer: Neasa Hardiman
Producers: Brendan McCarthy & John McDonnell (Fantastic Films), Jean-Yves Roubin (Frakas Productions)

TIN & TINA (TIN Y TINA) (Spain)
Director/Writer: Rubin Stein
Producer: Olmo Figueredo González-Quevedo (La Claqueta PC)

WHITAKER (Canada/UK)
Director: Casey Walker
Writers): David Suridge & George Perry
Producers: Andy Starke, Pete Tombs, Ben Wheatley (Executive Producer) (Rook Films), Casey Walker (Cave Painting Pictures), Jonathan Bronfman (JoBro Productions)

I wish I could see synopses for them, but hopefully we'll be hearing more about all of these projects soon. In the meantime, wish them luck at the forum.

The second annual Frontières Finance & Packaging Forum will take place February 22nd through the 24th.