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European Film Market (Berlin)
February 5-11, 2009
Marriot Suite 256 |
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| Distributors |
For appointments, please contact:
Jeffrey Goldman, Vice President of Worldwide Sales:
jeffrey@americanworldpictures.com
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| Executives in Attendance |
Jeffrey Goldman, Vice President of Worldwide Sales
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| ANIMALS |
| Genre: |
Horror/Sci-Fi |
| Director: |
Douglas Aarniokoski |
| Cast: |
Marc Blucas, Naveen Andrews, Nicki Aycox |
| Synopsis: |
Syd Jarrett (Marc Blucas) is an unsuspecting, down-and-out man in a washed-up hick town whose life is turned upside down when the drop-dead gorgeous Nora (Nicki Aycox)walks through the doors of his best friend Jules' (Andy Commeau)roadhouse blues bar. But Jarrett doesn't realize that Nora is actually a shape-shifting creature on the run from her lover, Vic (Naveen Andrews). |
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I WANT SOMEONE TO EAT CHEESE WITH
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| Genre: |
Comedy |
| Cast: |
Jeff Garlin, Sarah SIlverman, Bonnie Hunt. |
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James (Jeff Garlin) is a middle aged, food loving, overweight comic living with his mom in Chicago. He hits rock bottom when his girlfriend dumps him and his agent can’t find him a legitimate job, dropping him as a client. After having a meltdown at a grade school career day he drowns his sorrows at the local ice cream shop. There he meets the ever optimistic and quirky Beth (Sarah Silverman). Beth’s cheerful personality masks her sadness over her empty life and the two soon become friends and lovers. Filling the other’s void, the couple may have found that one someone to eat cheese with. |
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PARASOMNIA
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| Genre: |
Horror |
| Director: |
William Malone |
| Cast: |
Dylan Purcell, Cherilyn Wilson, Patrick Kilpatrick, Jeffrey Combs, Timothy Bottoms, Dov Tiefenbach, Kathryn Leigh Scott |
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In "Parasomnia," a stylish horror/thriller from director William Malone ("House on Haunted Hill," "Masters of Horror,") Laura Baxter is a young woman, literally a "sleeping beauty," who suffers from a medical condition called "parasomnia." A childhood accident victim, she is actually sleeping her life away, awakening briefly on rare occasions. Art student Danny Sloan falls in love with her, unaware that her hospital neighbor, a terrifying mass murderer and mesmerist named Byron Volpe has other, more sinister plans. Sloan helps Laura escape from her hospital prison only to discover that Volpe is about to enter her dreams. |
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FREEBIRD
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| Genre: |
Comedy |
| Director: |
Jon Ivay |
| Cast: |
Phil Daniels, Gary Stretch, Geoff Bell, Laila Rouass, Peter Bowles |
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Fred (Gary Stretch), Grouch (Phil Daniels) and Tyg (Goeff Bell) head to the Welsh countryside in search of an elusive hippy and his cannibis farm - but what is supposed to be a nice weekend in the country turns into a madcap mission, fueled by booze, vast cocktails of drugs, lots of air guitar, a 7ft masked wrestler, motorcycle gang warfare and a lot of laughs! |
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| BANSHEE!!! |
| Genre: |
Sci-Fi Horror |
| Director: |
Colin Theys |
| Cast: |
Ashley Bates, David McCarthy, Kevin Shea, Iris McQuillan-Grace, Troy Walcott, Kerry McGann, Jess Wakefield |
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A group of college friends on a spring break camping trip are stalked and slashed by an unknown creature with the ability to make them hallucinate through sound waves. The survivors hold up refuge in an isolated farmhouse, cut off from all communication. Now, they have to come up with a plan to kill this unrelenting creature before it kills them. "Banshee" takes the idea of the legendary Irish myth and spins it around into a terrifying and unstoppable monster! |
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THE MAN WHO CAME BACK
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| Genre: |
Western |
| Director: |
Glen Pitre |
| Cast: |
Billy Zane, Eric Braeden, Sean Young, Armand Assante, George Kennedy, Carol Alt |
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After four years of bloody Civil War, and a dozen years of “Reconstruction,” the American South remains a land of violent inequality. When former slaves go on strike against Judge Duke’s (Academy Award Winner George Kennedy) plantation, all hell breaks loose. Judge Duke has the law, Amos (Armand Assante) and Ezra (Billy Zane) in his pocket but Reese Paxton (Eric Braeden), a white landowner, takes the side of the slaves, starting a chain of events that leaves many dead and no one unchanged |
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SHOOT ON SIGHT
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| Genre: |
Drama |
| Director: |
Jag Mundhra |
| Producers: |
Aron Govil |
| Cast: |
Brian Cox, Greta Scacchi, Sadie Frost, Naseeruddin Shah, Ralph Ineson, Om Puri . |
| Synopsis: |
Shoot On Sight is a fictional story based on London Police order to shoot suspected terrorists after the July 7th 2005 London bombings, that resulted in racial profiling. The Film is a thrilling & riveting drama that unfolds the turmoil in the life of Tariq Ali, a Muslim police officer at Scotland Yard. Commander Ali, born in Lahore and married to an English woman, is tasked to investigate the police shooting of a suspected Muslim terrorist on the London Underground. Distrusted by both his superiors in the police, and his fellow Muslims, he finds his inquiry hampered from all sides. When evidence surfaces pointing to the slain man's innocence, as well as the existence of a terrorist cell operating in his own backyard, Tariq must face the realization that sometimes, the right decision is the hardest one to make. |
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THE LENA BAKER STORY
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| Genre: |
Drama |
| Director: |
Ralph Wilcox |
| Producers: |
Dennis Johnson, Barton Rice, Charles Rice |
| Cast: |
Tichina Arnold, Beverly Todd, Peter Coyote, Michael Rooker. |
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A chronicle of the true life story of Lena Baker, the first woman to be sent to the electric chair in Georgia for the murder of her employer, who forced her into sexual slavery. |
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THE LITTLE TRAITOR
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| Genre: |
Drama |
| Director: |
Lynn Roth |
| Producers: |
Evanstone Films Ltd., Panther Productions |
| Cast: |
Ido Port, Alfred Molina, Jake Barker, Theodore Bikel, Levana Finkelstein, Rami Heuberger, Boris Reinis, Lior Sasson, Ofer Shechter, Gilya Stern |
| Synopsis: |
Liebowitz, a militant yet sensitive eleven year old wants nothing more than for the occupying British to get the hell out of his land. Proffy is seized by Sergeant Dunlop, a British officer while out after curfew one night. What ensues in the weeks to come is a friendship between these two foes. |
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| HOME OF THE GIANTS |
| Genre: |
Drama |
| Director: |
Rusty Gorman |
| Cast: |
Haley Joel Osment, Ryan Merriman, Danielle Panabaker, Kenneth Mitchell, Brent Briscoe |
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Home of the Giants is a coming-of-age story told through the eyes of "Gar", a high school journalist who covers the basketball team as it heads toward a state championship. Gar's best friend, Matt , is the team's star ; when Matt is asked by a drug dealer and small-time hood to throw the big game, Gar inevitably gets caught in the middle. |
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| KEITH |
| Genre: |
Drama |
| Director: |
Todd Kessler |
| Producers: |
Todd Kessler, Rebecca Hobbs, David Grace |
| Cast: |
Jesse McCartney, Elisabeth Harnois, Jennifer Grey, Tabitha Brownstone, Ron Carlson, Victoria Chalaya. |
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A 17-year-old thinks she's got it all figured out until she falls for a guy who has nothing to lose. |
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| THE POET |
| Genre: |
Action Drama |
| Director: |
Damian Lee |
| Cast: |
Daryl Hannah, Roy Scheider, Kim Coates, Colm Feore |
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Germany occupies Poland in 1939. They face opposition in the countryside from Polish fighters. German spy units are sent in, one headed up by young Oskar Koenig, a poet by nature. He saves the life of a beautiful young woman, Rachel, dying in a blizzard. He takes her to his cabin, nurses her back to health as the war closes in on them. They consummate their immense attraction to each other despite her being the daughter of a Rabbi, and engaged to Bernard, an orthodox Jew in her village.
Rachel returns to her village to find it and its inhabitants destroyed by German soldiers. Oskar rides in, saves both her and Bernard, her fiancé, and sends them, with horses and money, toward the Russian front. It’s a dangerous journey but their only hope. Rachel soon discovers she’s pregnant with Oskar’s child. Bernard forgives her, pledges his love and they marry. Rachel gives birth to a baby boy. She and Oskar unite at a German military camp. But her baby is killed. She and Bernard flee the camp after Rachel kills the German that killed her baby. Bernard sacrifices his life so that Rachel can live and re-unite with Oskar.
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