MeetMarket Project Selection
MeetMarket Projects 2009
For 2009, we were delighted to have 61 highly-original projects being pitched at the Sheffield Doc/Fest MeetMarket, representing 16 countries, and a wide range of genres and styles. We were especially pleased that the selection includes 13 cross-platform projects
The projects
¡Inventando! (Netherlands) - Phanta Vision Film International (Director: Nicole van Damme, Producer: Marijn de Vries)
94 Elements (UK) – PFilm Ltd (Co-producers: Mike Paterson and Roz Mortimer)
Alasdair Gray – A Life in Pictures (UK) – Hopstoch Films (Director: Kevin Cameron, Producer: John Archer)
Arshile Gorky-My Grandfather. A film by Cosima Spender (UK) – End Street Productions (Director/Producer – Cosima Spender, Co-Producer: Anna Teeman)
Leaping Over The Dragon’s Gate (Finland) – NBB Navy Blue Bird Oy (Director: Mika Mattila, Producer: Markku Niska
Bad Weather (UK) – Cornbread Films (Director: Giovanni Giommi, Producer: Carlotta Mastrojanni)
Be A Cancer Chancer (UK) – Ginger Army Ltd (Director: Heather Leach, Content Producer: Mark Hardwick)
Best Bad Boy (Denmark) - Kamoli Films (& C&C Productions) (Director: Jon Bang Carlsen, Producer: Helle Ulsteen)
Brainfood Game (UK) – Ymogen (Creative Director: Mark Hardwick)
Breakout! (Canada) - Breakout Media (Producer: Lalita Krishna)
Burning Needs (UK) - Notion Pictures Ltd (Director: Adam Wakeling, Producer: Brian Woods)
Casablanca Calling (UK) – Redbird (Director: Rosa Rogers, Producer: Hilary Durman)
The Chameleon (US) - The Bear Media (Director: Berndt Mader and Ben Steinbauer, Producer: Joel Heller, Malcolm Pullinger, James Payne)
Dinner With Haskell (US) – Duck in a True (Director: Joan Churchill)
Elephant and Castle (UK) – Tigerlily Films (Director: Enrica Colusso, Producer: Sandra Whipham)
Eleven (Australia) - Proud Mother Pictures (Director: Chiemi Karasawa, Co-producer: Chiemi Karasawa)
Farewell Comrades (Germany) - Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion (Director: Sergey Bukowski)
First Person Shooter (UK) - Quark Films (Director: Piers Sanderson, Producer: Anna Higgs and Gavin Humphries)
Free The Mind (Denmark) – Danish Documentary Production (Director: Phie Ambo, Producer: Sigrid Dyekjær)
Give up Tomorrow (US) – Thoughtful Robot Productions (Director: Michael Collins, Producer: Marty Syjuco)
How To Re-Establish A Vodka Empire (UK) - Optimistic Productions (Director: Dan Edelstyn, Producer: Hilary Powell)
The Iron Horse to Juba (Ireland) – Loopline Film (Director: Emile Dinneen, Producer: Martina Durac and Vanessa Gildea)
John Healy After Oblivion (Ireland) - Screenworks (Director: Paul Duane, Producer: Mary Carson/John Battsek)
Kling Klang (UK) - Synchronicity Films Ltd (Director: James Marsh, Producer: Claire Mundell)
Lab Rats (US) - Wishbone Films (Director: Michael Palmieri)
Last Call (Italy) – Zenit arti audiovisive (Director - Enrico Cerasuolo, Producer: Massimo Arvat, Co-producer: Serge Lalou)
Last Days of Arctic (Iceland) – Sagafilm (Director: Magnus Vidar, Producer: Margrét Jónasdóttir)
A Long Way From home (UK) – Konk Studios (Director: Ray Davis)
Love Addiction (Denmark) – Danish Documentary Productions (Director: Pernille Rose Grønkjær, Producer: Sigrid Dyekjær)
Love Freedom (UK) - ScreenStation (Director: Mayenzeke Baza, Producer: Andy Jones)
Manoeuvres in The Dark – The North Korean Jeans Story (Sweden) – Amp Film (Director: Maria Ramström, Producers – Erik Pauser, Dylan Williams, and Peter Wintonick)
Marx Returns (Austria/UK/Germany) – Knut Ogris Films (Director: Jason Barker, Producer: Knut Ogris, Co-producer: Andreas Schroth)
My Lai (US) – PBS International (Producer: Mark Samuels)
My Suicide (UK) - VIXPIX Films Ltd (Director: Vikram Jayanti)
NHS The Musical (UK) - Ginger Army Ltd (Director: Brian Hill, Producer: Heather Leach)
Out of the Ashes (UK) - Bungalow Town Productions (Director: Lucy Martens and Tim Albone, Producer: Rachel Wexler and Leslie Knott)
Pilot Season (US) - Boxhead Films (Director: Dan Sturman, Producer: Dylan Nelson)
TPB AFK (The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard) (Sweden) - Apollon Bild & Film AB (Director: Simon Klose, Producer: Martin Persson)
Pirate Hunters (UK) - Two Step Films Ltd (Director/Producer: Fran Robertson, Executive Producer: Kevin Macdonald)
POSSESSION of the SEA - the Story of the Somalian pirates (Netherlands) – Submarine (Director: Tommy Pallotta)
Planet of Snail (South Korea) – CreativEAST (Director: Seung-Jun Yi, Producer: Min-Chul Kim)
The Polish Plumber (Bulgaria) – AGITPROP (Director: Boris Despodov, Producer: Martichka Bozhilova, Co-producer: Martina Durac, Loopline Film)
Poor Consuelo Conquers The World (US) – Crossroads Films (Director: Peter Friedman, Producer: Paul Miller)
Prison Valley (France) – Upian (Director: David Dufresne and Philippe Brault, Producer: Alexandre Brachet)
Putin’s Kiss (Denmark) – Bastard Film A/S (Director: Lise Birk Pedersen, Producer: Helle Faber)
Seeds (US) - Teddy Bear Films (Director: Micha X. Peled)
Sex Death and The Gods (UK) - Cross Street Films c/o Lillavision (Director: Beeban Kidron, Producer: Fran Robertson)
The Slums are Alive with The Sound of Music (UK) – Ronanchan Films (Director: Sarah McCarthy, Executive Producer: Angus Macqueen)
The Story Tent Project (Finland) - Videokuu Oy (Director: Benjamin Oroza, Producer: Juhani Oroza)
The Challenge (FR) – What’s Up Films (Director: Laetitia Moreau, Producer: Matthieu Belghiti, Co-producer: Arnaud Dressen)
The Great Liberty (Sweden) - Strix AB– (Director: Åsa Blanck , Producer - Fredrik von Krusenstjerna)
The Kuchera Project (UK) – (Director: Joshua Neale, Proucer: Sandra Whipham)
The Man Who Said No (Australia) - Charlie Productions Pty Ltd (Director: Kathryn Millard, Producer: Susan MacKinnon)
The next big thing (Germany) - DeTAiLFILM Gasmia & Kamm GbR (Director: Supriyo Sen, Producer: Henning Kamm)
The Warlords Wife (UK) – Greenside Productions (Director: Victoria Steventon, Producer: Johnny McCune, Executive Producer: Simon Chinn)
Violence (Sweden) – Mantaray Film (Director: Ewa Cederstam, Producer: Stina Gardell)
Virtual War (Finland) – Illume Ltd (Director - Pekka Niskanen, Producer: Pertti Veijalainen)
Wham Bam Islam (US) – Endeavor Films (Director: Isaac Solotaroff, Producer: Katharyn Bond Marquez, Executive Producer: Natasha Dack)
When They Are all Free (UK) – Films of Record (Director: James Rogan, Producer: Roger Graef)
The Road to Wigan Pier (UK) – Tigerlily Films (Director: Zara Hayes, Producer: Nikki Parrott, Co-producer: Selina Dey)
William the Conqueror (France) – Les Films D’ici (Authors Bruno de Sa Moreira and Edward Lussan, Producer: Serge Lalou)