Czech Republic/Latvia co-production “The Pack” is at Busan’s Asian Project Market seeking the remainder of its $1.4 million budget, having raised more than $400,000 already.
The film will follow a 16-year-old diabetic ice hockey player who deals with bullying on the team. Director Tomas Polensky, who has shot a six-minute pilot for the film, has personal experience of the sport. His sister, Alana Polenska, is the captain of the Czech national woman’s ice hockey team, and Polensky has been an ice hockey player for 16 years. “I know the environment well,” Polensky told Variety.
“I experienced bullying from both sides, from the position of the victim and the position of the aggressor, so I thought it would be interesting to talk about it and make a movie about it,” says Polensky. “I love to study psychology and the main question is what makes us being aggressive and I wanted to deal with this question.
The film will follow a 16-year-old diabetic ice hockey player who deals with bullying on the team. Director Tomas Polensky, who has shot a six-minute pilot for the film, has personal experience of the sport. His sister, Alana Polenska, is the captain of the Czech national woman’s ice hockey team, and Polensky has been an ice hockey player for 16 years. “I know the environment well,” Polensky told Variety.
“I experienced bullying from both sides, from the position of the victim and the position of the aggressor, so I thought it would be interesting to talk about it and make a movie about it,” says Polensky. “I love to study psychology and the main question is what makes us being aggressive and I wanted to deal with this question.
- 10/8/2018
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: UK sales outfit has picked up a Croatian comedy and a Us western featuring Kris Kristofferson.
London-based Starline Entertainment has picked up two titles for international sales ahead of Cannes.
The first is Croatia-set comedy Ministry Of Love, which opens in Croatia later this year through local distributor Blitz.
The film was produced by Stanislav Babic of Zagreb based Telefilm and co-produced by Julietta Sichel for Czech Republic company 8Heads Productions.
Directed by Pavo Marinković, the project was originally developed through the Eastern European development lab ScripTeast, organised by the Independent Film Foundation.
Starring Stjepan Perić, the plot follows a disillusioned drifter who is hired by the government to help enforce a deeply unpopular money saving scheme targeting war widows.
The second title is contemporary western Lawless Range, featuring Kris Kristofferson and Beau Bridges alongside Patrick John Flueger and Austin Nichols. The latter play Texan brothers whose family loyalties are tested when one finds himself indebted...
London-based Starline Entertainment has picked up two titles for international sales ahead of Cannes.
The first is Croatia-set comedy Ministry Of Love, which opens in Croatia later this year through local distributor Blitz.
The film was produced by Stanislav Babic of Zagreb based Telefilm and co-produced by Julietta Sichel for Czech Republic company 8Heads Productions.
Directed by Pavo Marinković, the project was originally developed through the Eastern European development lab ScripTeast, organised by the Independent Film Foundation.
Starring Stjepan Perić, the plot follows a disillusioned drifter who is hired by the government to help enforce a deeply unpopular money saving scheme targeting war widows.
The second title is contemporary western Lawless Range, featuring Kris Kristofferson and Beau Bridges alongside Patrick John Flueger and Austin Nichols. The latter play Texan brothers whose family loyalties are tested when one finds himself indebted...
- 5/4/2016
- ScreenDaily
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