23/02/2011

London’s Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) has boarded a slew of productions for 2011. First up is an April 2 shoot for Dutch director Jacco Groen’s Manila-set sex worker drama Snow White.

The Netherlands National Committee for International Cooperation and Sustainable Development and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment are financing, along with Spring Film Foundation, Filmore, Wisenberg Fairtrade putting up the films €1.5m budget, besides F&ME.

Also set for a spring 2011 shoot is Peter Greenaway’s biopic of Dutch engraver Hendrick Goltzius, Goltzius and the Pelican Company, a co-production between F&ME, the Netherlands’ Kasander Film, France’s CDP and Zagreb’s MP Film, and will shoot in Croatia on a €2.05m budget. Other financiers are Netherlands Film Fund, the Rotterdam Film Fund, the Centre National du Cinema (CNC) and Eurimages.

Andrzej Jakimowski’s Blind Watching, which rolls May 2 in Lisbon, is a €2.5m co-production between F&ME, ZAiR (Warsaw), KMBO (Paris) and Filmes do Tejo II Multimedia (Lisbon), funded by the Polish Film Institute, the CNC, the Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual (ICA), Canal + Cyfrowy Poland and Forum Film Distribution.

Antonia Bird’s erotic thriller Cross My Mind that rolls in Rotterdam on May 23 was developed with the UK Film Council and the Netherlands Film Fund, with support from the MEDIA Programme’s development fund. Other financing of the £1.8m budget comes from Limelight, the Rotterdam Film Fund, Belgium’s Motion Investment Group and a pre-sale to Benelux’s Cinéart.

Julien Temple’s rockumentary Children of the Revolution starts in Brazil in September and Gary Love’s £3.7m thriller Needlepoint with Australia’s Macgowan Films begins soon.