The Central European Children’s Film Forum
Synopsis:Martin (16) finds out from his mother Marta (34) that he will have to live with her new boyfriend Jonas (40) and his daughter Zoraya (15). He runs away from home, dreaming of finally seeing his real father Georgi (36), and becoming a grappling champion like him, not a cellist musician as his mother insists. In his rush, he forgot his inhaler, Zoraya followed him and suddenly the two embarked on a journey from Sofia to Varna. Director Note of Intention:“Amazing Tandem” is a low-budget teenage feature film project. The film explores cultural diversity, presenting a child and teenage audience with different personalities, interests, and dreams in the context of home and family. Special attention is focused on adolescent relations and discrimination issues. This is a film about the journey of two different in origin children from Sofia to Varna and the adventures they will experience together. The project is in the final stage of development, ready to shoot. Additional financing needed: pre-sale and/or a co-producer. | Bulgaria Director Screenplay Photography Producer Editing Music Cast Funded by planned release date Looking for Presented by |
Synopsis:The plot of “GameGirl”, a children’s fantasy adventure film, starts in the real world and gradually spills over into a computer game. The main character, twelve-year-old Alice, is an anxious, introverted girl with a physical handicap, unhappy at her new school. Like many children of this age, Alice feels misunderstood by both her mother and her classmates. Afraid of not being accepted, she refuses to get close to other kids and instead seeks refuge from reality in the world of computer games. Alice is a great gamer, but no one knows about it. After a car accident involving her mother and herself, Alice wakes up in the world of a mysterious game. In order to survive, she must win – and in order to win, she must become a team player. As she moves through the game, Alice learns to accept other kids as well as herself, and carries the experience back to the real world with her. Director Note of Intention:“GameGirl” – a charming coming-of-age story cleverly packaged in a genre film touches several important topics – how complicated it is to be growing up in today’s social-networked world. The pressure to deliver the best performance, the competitiveness present everywhere, the constant pressure of comparing oneself to the more successful and more beautiful, the growing feeling of imperfection ... all of this often forces young people to escape from reality into the virtual world of games, where everything is much easier. GameGirl would like to show in an entertaining and clever way that it is only possible to escape from the real world into the virtual one for a while, that one must always return anyway, that real friends are more important than fictional characters, and that cooperation is the key to success. | Czech Republic, Croatia Director Producer Production Company Funded by Planned release date Looking for |