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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Bavaria film is EUR crossing guard

Bavaria Film, a longtime pillar German film and television production, is looking increasingly beyond the borders of the land, as it seeks to expand operations and ramping up international productions.

The Group has a slew of film in the works, including English language by Ian Fitzgibbon "Superhero," Comedy Italian Edoardo De Angelis "mozzarella" stories and Chernobyl tragedy "Innocent Saturday," that he shot earlier this year in Ukraine.

Bavaria had, for decades, focused mainly on television productions, but co-topper Matthias Bait was eager to increase production of feature films to the group membership of the company in 2006.

To this end, has sought to expand the Group's activities in Germany and abroad, through partnerships with established international players.

Bavaria has in recent years, began to refocus cinematographic, through national and international projects.

A large group and multiform, Bavaria has a number of divisions of production that are in development and production of feature films, including images of Bavaria, managed by Jan Kaiser and Deputy Director Philipp Kreuzer, who also oversees Italy media Munich based on Rome.Established five years ago, BMI has evolved from a sales office of Bavaria Film international in Rome. speaker Kreuzer, in Italian, took over the company two years ago with the objective of increasing local production in Italy.

"We can be a bridge on the Italian market whilst providing a bridge from Italy in Germany", says Kreuzer.

"Stories of mozzarella" are first English feature film of BMI developed and realized as a producer of majority.

A black comedy, the pic local centres, familiar mozzarella factory that sees threatened by the arrival of the ambitious Chinese creators of cheese.De Angelis ' film debut feature, which he shot in southern Italy, this summer, stars Luisa Ranieri, Massimiliano Gallo and Aida Turturro of the fame of "Sopranos".

While a first for BMI, "Stories of mozzarella" isn't the first Italian project of the group.

Images Bavaria co-produced recent Venice Screener Saverio Costanzo "loneliness of prime numbers," teaming with offices in Rome, offside and Les Films des Tournelles in Paris.Based on the Italian bestseller by Paolo Giordano, the drama revolves around the difficult relationship between two young people emotionally scratched edges. part of the film shot in Germany, and Bavaria was able to bring the regional funding for the project.

Pictures of Bavaria also is seeking international co-productions production and financing partners. "We are a production unit that gets involved actively in development and production of responsibility ", says Kreuzer.

Pictures of Bavaria is partnering with headquarters in Dublin Large pictures on the "Superhero of Fitzgibbon," based on the novel by Anthony McCarten "death of a Superhero," about a boy of 15 years who tries to escape from a deadly disease in a world of fantasy comicbook. Andy Serkis and Thomas Brodie Sangster star.

Writer-director Alexander Mindadze "innocent" Sunday, "about the catastrophe of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant, images of Bavaria is working with partners of co-production by Russia and the Ukraine for the first time.

"Saturday innocent" began shooting this summer the Ukrainian city of Sverdlovsk. the CIS centres a love story set against the worst nuclear accident in history, after an explosion in one of the reactors of the plant sent a radioactive fallout plume in much of Europe.

There are even vampires teen on the horizon. Bavaria is developing an ambitious franchise of English, based in Berlin and Egoli Tossell film lemming of Holland, based on the novel by Ulrike Schweikert "The Heirs of the Night--Nosferas," the first in a series on Europeans who attend a vampire Academy.


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