Savage Film producer Bart Van Langendonck is in Cannes to present his Brussels-based production outfit's new three-year slate. Besides brand new projects from the directors the company started with five years ago (i.e. Michaël R. Roskam and Bram Van Paesschen), young filmmakers such as Hans Van Nuffel, Matthias Schoenaerts and Robin Pront are now joining the producer's growing talent pool to develop their own feature-length projects.
Equator is the second feature by Hans Van Nuffel, the 2011 European Film Award® Discovery of the Year winner (for Oxygen). This ambitious project will take us to Congo and South Africa where the daughter of a recently deceased Belgian businessman tries to discover what really happened to her father.
The Faithful (Le fidèle) is the second feature film project from Oscar® nominated director Michaël R. Roskam (Bullhead). Described as an amour-noir, the film is set against the background of a crime gang in Brussels in the early 90's.
Franky will be the directorial debut of critically acclaimed Flemish actor Matthias Schoenaerts' who plays opposite Marion Cotillard in Jacques Audiard's Cannes competition entry Rust & Bone (De rouille et d'os), and could also be seen in the Oscar-nominated Bullhead. The film is a portrait of Schoenaerts' one-legged friend Franky, filmed over the course of two years. It's a powerful feature-length documentary about loss, courage, bad luck, friendship and social (in)justice.
The Ardennes is a disturbing Belgian road movie written by Jeroen Perceval (the actor playing the supporting role in Bullhead), to be directed by first-time feature director Robin Pront.
Welcome to Chocolate City is the final part of a feature documentary trilogy directed by Bram Van Paesschen (whose Savage Film produced Empire of Dust won the award for best Belgian documentary at last week's Docville fest in Leuven).
Savage Film is also in the process of finalizing the financing on Wim Vandekeybus' first feature Galloping Mind, Douglas Boswell's youth drama The Labyrinth and Pieter-Jan De Pue's feature doc The Land of the Enlightened. Currently in production is Frank Theys' Lab-Life, the follow-up to his critically acclaimed Technocalyps documentary trilogy.
New co-productions include Fabrice du Welz' feature film Alleluia (prod. La Parti - Belgium), The Life according to Nino (prod. Family Affairs/Waterland Film - The Netherlands), a youth drama written by Urszula Antoniak and directed by Simone Van Dusseldorp, and the feature documentaries The Last Hijack (prod. Submarine - The Netherlands) by Tommy Pallotta & Femke Wolting, Thomas Wallner's Gardenia (prod. Gebrüder Beetz - Germany) and Ciaran Cassady's documentary The Disappearance (prod. Fastnet Films, Ireland), among others.
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