Selected Projects
Love Child
Dark Comedy Feature
11-year-old JUNIOR, an aspiring Broadway star, fiercely loves his mother Misty. Junior encourages Easy, the handsome man hired to help run the family business, to court his mother and become his new Dad. But when the two fall in love, nothing can stop Junior's fierce jealousy.
a Killer Films production
in association with Volition Media
In Early Pre-Production
Una
Animated Feature Film
Una is a 9 year old girl living in a small mountain village. The arrival of a mining company is only the first step taken to destroy her beautiful world and eventually will lead to the village’s evacuation. Una and her friends stage a protest. When their actions spiral out of control, and with security guards on their tails, Una gets separated from her friends and begins a dreamlike adventure where she will encounter her future and decide to fight for the sake of the village, the mountain and herself.
in association with Bando A Parté (Portugal) // BAP (Portugal) // Coala Filmes (Brazil) // Art Shot (Latvia)
In Early Pre-Production
An Odd Enchantment
Original Fantasy Drama Feature
A long retired opera diva, Madame P, lives in a private fantasy world filled with fear and wonder in her secluded mansion. When her estranged nephew and his wife suddenly arrive, insisting on taking care of her, Madame P will have to summon all her defenses in order to push them away and protect her little paradise.
Co-Producer: Rodrigo Areias (Portugal)
Cast: Maria de Medeiros, Willem Dafoe, Isaach De Bankolé
in association with Bando A Parté
In Early Pre-Production
Two Men, A Boy and A Llama
Original Drama Feature
In the 1970s, after the Apollo missions, a depressed U.S. astronaut goes to Bolivia's salt desert in a search for a blinding light he saw from space. There he meets a disgraced shaman and his precocious grandson. Their friendship will change all of them and help the two tormented older men to finally let go.
Writers/Directors: Maria Camilla Arias & Fernando Lopez Escriva
in association with Roosevelt Film Lab
In Early Pre-Production
Foreigners' Club
Original Comedy Feature
Five misfits from different corners of the world, determined to find answers to their inexplicable encounters with extraterrestrials, take a cross-country trip in Iceland to an alien convention. The journey, which leads them through absurd and humorous experiences, inadvertently forces them to reexamine their lives and make bold choices in moving forward.
Writer/Director: Sofija Sztepanov
Cast: Kim Bodnia, Moon Lee
Torino Film Lab // Comedy Program 2022
In Development
White Noise
Supernatural Horror Crime Series
White Noise is a cosmic horror crime drama, inspired by the literature and worlds created by H.P. Lovecraft and Horacio Quiroga. The series references projects that disrupted the conventions of the genre - films like The Thing, Annihilation, Cure, and series, like The Haunting of the Hill House, Channel Zero, Les Revenants, Jordkskott and The Terror. White Noise is about both the supernatural and the horrors of everyday life. Because hell is not just a place; it lives within you.
Creators/EPs: Gabriel Maria and Gustavo Rademacher
Cast: Bárbara Colen
in association with O2 Filmes (Brazil)
In Development
Report of The Miracles of The Earth
Mystical Drama Feature
An Italian engineer comes to the small city of Muxima in the heart of the Angolan jungle, where he will supervise the construction of a dam to protect the poor neighborhoods from flooding. Several surreal events will shape his initial contact with this new world in which bureaucracy and the clash of classes take on often cartoonish proportions. It is when he meets an old cook that the hero begins to understand the philosophy of this place. Having survived a shipwreck, the cook has made a promise to the Saint protector of the city: on the day of the procession, he will carry a huge stone on his back to the church altar. But not knowing if he will be able to fulfill it, he asks the young engineer to help.
Director/Writer: Carlos Conceicao
Producer: Joao Matos
in association with Terratreme Productions (Portugal)
In Development
Wild Nights
Original Anthology Mini-Series
Composed of six wild stories that pivot around universal topics of intimacy and loneliness, Wild Nights shows us nightly adventures that explore the extremities of human behavior while experiencing insomnia.
Creator: Sofija Sztepanov
In Development
The Chair
Surreal Dark Comedy
A young aspiring chair designer succumbs to crippling paranoia as he sculpts an apparently normal chair that nobody can sit on. Blinded by obsessive dreams of fulfilling his career, the sculptor struggles to balance a healthy family life as the chair phenomenon globally spirals out of control.
Director/Writer: Corina Adrian
Birmingham Film & TV Market - October 2023
FEST - New Directors | New Films Festival - "Feature Gems" Pitching Forum 2023 // Winner: Filmarket Hub Award.
FemArt Residency by ARFC 2021 (Romanian Association of Women in Cinema).
2 artistic residencies in The Playground (2020/2022)
in association with Alina Grigore (Romania)
In Development
Achinos
Orignal Drama Feature
Two sisters, seven and ten years old, live with their family close to nature. In order to protect themselves from the harsh reality of life, they become sea urchins and turn death into a game.
Director/Writer: Iris Baglanea
Producer: Ioanna Bolomyti
in association with Atalante Productions (Greece)
In Development
Jerusalem
Drama Feature
An adaptation of the award-winning novel of the same name by Gonçalo M. Tavares which has been translated into 32 languages.
Director: Rodrigo Areias
Writer: Gonçalo M. Tavares & Kamen Velkovsky
in association with Bando A Parté
In Development