K5 Independent is to handle international sales for Visar Morina’s feature debut Father (Babai) which is currently shooting in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Shooting began at the beginning of this month in Macedonia’s Ohrid for the German-Kosovar-Macedonian co-production between Nicole Gerhards’ NiKo Film, Produksioni Krusha and Skopjie Film Studio.
A refugee hostel somewhere in Germany was recreated on the grounds of the the former British and Nato headquarters in Mönchengladbach-Rheindahlen, and there is also shooting at locations in Kosovo.
Financial backing for the production has come from broadcasters Wdr and Arte, Film- und Medienstiftung Nrw, Kosovo Cinematography Center, German Federal Film Board (Ffa), nordmedia, and the Macedonian Film Fund. Theatrical distribution in Germany will be handled by Berlin-based missingFilms.
Pristina-born Morina, who studied at the Academy of Media Arts (Khm) in Cologne, also wrote the screenplay about 10-year-old Nori who is obliged to grow up at a very young age after the early death of his mother...
Shooting began at the beginning of this month in Macedonia’s Ohrid for the German-Kosovar-Macedonian co-production between Nicole Gerhards’ NiKo Film, Produksioni Krusha and Skopjie Film Studio.
A refugee hostel somewhere in Germany was recreated on the grounds of the the former British and Nato headquarters in Mönchengladbach-Rheindahlen, and there is also shooting at locations in Kosovo.
Financial backing for the production has come from broadcasters Wdr and Arte, Film- und Medienstiftung Nrw, Kosovo Cinematography Center, German Federal Film Board (Ffa), nordmedia, and the Macedonian Film Fund. Theatrical distribution in Germany will be handled by Berlin-based missingFilms.
Pristina-born Morina, who studied at the Academy of Media Arts (Khm) in Cologne, also wrote the screenplay about 10-year-old Nori who is obliged to grow up at a very young age after the early death of his mother...
- 7/23/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
On tap right now is another foreign horror treat for you cats, this time of the Dutch variety. Get on those bathing suits, head up to the diving board, and jump in for your first look into The Pool (De Poel).
Chris W. Mitchell directs from a script he wrote with Gijs Scholten van Aschat, who also stars in the film. Katja Herbers, Bart Klever, Carine Crutzen, Jamie Grant, Alex Hendrickx, and Chris Peters co-star.
Synopsis
Two families go camping illegally in a forest and set up their tents near a beautiful pond, far away from the daily hubbub. However, they soon discover that the pond contains a mysterious force, which will not allow them to leave. Rot and decay strike, and madness follows.
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Chris W. Mitchell directs from a script he wrote with Gijs Scholten van Aschat, who also stars in the film. Katja Herbers, Bart Klever, Carine Crutzen, Jamie Grant, Alex Hendrickx, and Chris Peters co-star.
Synopsis
Two families go camping illegally in a forest and set up their tents near a beautiful pond, far away from the daily hubbub. However, they soon discover that the pond contains a mysterious force, which will not allow them to leave. Rot and decay strike, and madness follows.
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- 2/21/2014
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
[Updated with subtitled trailer] A small pool in a forest may contain a bad secret or two, in the Dutch horror thriller The Pool (De Poel), directed by Chris W. Mitchell. He also co-wrote the script with starring actor Gijs Scholten van Aschat, who scores his first writing credit here. The Pool is described as a typically Dutch horror film, with a psychological twist. Its synopsis: Two families go camping illegally in a forest, and set up their tents near a beautiful pond, far away from the daily hubbub. However, they soon discover that the pond contains a mysterious force, which will not allow them to leave. Rot and decay strike, and madness follows. The production tweets jokingly mention plot points about horny teenagers, belligerent...
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- 2/20/2014
- Screen Anarchy
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