Media Luna sells Unveiled to North America
by Annika Pham
The Cologne-based international sales company Media Luna Entertainment has just sold the German/Austrian co-production Unveiled to Wolfe Releasing for the US and Canada. The film directed by Angelina Maccarone has also been invited to compete at the upcoming Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 1-9). It is the story of an Iranian woman (Jasmin Tabatabai) prosecuted in her home country because of her love to another woman and who flees to Berlin where she begins a new life under the assumed identity of a man.
Media Luna has two market screenings of the film shown for the first time in its complete version including tomorrow Saturday 14 May.
Ivo Trajkov’s The Great Water, the Macedonian entry for the 2005 Oscars nominations in the Best Foreign Language category, is another key title in Media Luna’s Cannes line-up. The children’s film set in World War II was recently sold to PictureThis in North America and will be released theatrically in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. According to Abike Lisa Ullrich, sales manager, the film had its first market screening yesterday and was very well received. “We’ve had a very good start at the market, with a lot of buyers coming to see what we have”, she said. éAsia in particular is very important to us and all the big buyers came. We’ve also set up a few meetings with French TV buyers".
Media Luna has a very eclectic catalogue of European titles from Iceland (Cold Light shown at the 2005 Panorama Section in Berlin, or Anna Th. Rögnvaldsdottir’s Every Colour Of The Sea in post-production); the Netherlands (In Orange screening at the market), Spain (Miguel Albaladejo’s award-winning film Bear Cub), Italy (Stefano Pasetto’s Turtles On Their Backs) and of course Germany (Platinum,a co-production with South Africa).
Media Luna also picked up a few days ago the US independent film Brother to Brother written and directed by Rodney Evans. The film won many international awards including the 2004 Sundance Special Jury Prize in the Dramatic Competition. "We have world rights (excluding the US handled by Wolfe Releasing), so it’s a great opportunity for us to start working here on this film" said Ullrich.
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