The development of the “BANDIERA ROSSA” a new documentary project by Nicola Piovesan was awarded with 15 000 € in Trieste Italian-Baltic Co-production Forum late January.
“Bandiera Rossa” will be co-produced by Italian company Sayonara Film/Adam Selo, Olga Torrico and Exitfilm.
Last stages of the post-production of the Goodbye Soviet Union completed:
-Sound mix prepared by sound designer Karri Niinivaara/B-Plan and mixed by Olli Pärnänen, Pekka Karjalainen / Meguru Film Sound was completed late January in Helsinki.
-Colour grading lead by cinematographer Elen Lotman and graded by Jussi Myllyniemi / WhitePoint was completed early February in Helsinki.
Since now Nicola Piovesan’s retro-futuristic short animation “ROBOT WILL PROTECT YOU” has been participating in about 70 festivals all over the world and has won 18 awards. Among them:
- Miami Science Fiction Festival (US) Best Animation Short Award
- Short to the Point (Romania) Best Fantasy/SciFi Award
- Cordillera Film Festival (USA) Best Animation Award
- Berlin Sci-Fi Filmfest (Germany) Nomination Best Animation
- Inventa un Film (Italy) Best Animation Award
- Kaohsiung Film Festival (Taiwan) Nomination Youth Award
The editing of the Lauri Randla’s “GOODBYE SOVIET UNION” was successfully completed mid-November in Finland and Estonia. Thanks to Leo Liesvirta and Andres Hallik for your professional involvement!
On August 12th our crew completed the 5 days intensive shoot of the short film “CERBERUS” by young ambitious director Kaspar Ainelo. This is a thriller story of a well-sped countryman Meelis (Indrek Sammul) and his favorite dog Ringo committing mysterious crime in the village.
Nicola Piovesan’s new retro-futuristic film “ROBOT WILL PROTECT YOU” was completed in late December 2018. The short animation film continues Nicola’s interest to the retro-futuristic cyber universe (“Attack of the Cyber Octopuses”).
“ROBOT…” has started successfully it’s festival round at cross-media festival Fabrique du Cinema/Roma winning the Best International Short Award.
Katrin Tegova „Väike objekt A“ issued the FB for „Goodbye Soviet Union“
On September 6th the crew completed the summer shoot in locations of Kohtla-Järve, Tallinn and around the city. The symbolic is that the crew spent the last shooting day in famous Tallinn Seewald - the historical madhouse.
Happily nobody didn’t turn mad after very demanding shooting period, instead we all celebrated the end of the important period in local „Derevjashka“ tavern’s funny interior of the 90-ties merrily until 3 o’clock in the morning.
On 4th of July Exitfilm OÜ and AB Bufo OY started the shoot of the "Goodbye Soviet Union” in Stalinistic surroundings of the Sillamäe - a previous military town, where uranium was mined.
The crew was well prepared and succeeded nicely despite of the not very friendly weather. Actors were in good mood and enjoyed the majestic exteriors. Around 100 enthusiastic local extras helped to create a real 1980/90-ies atmosphere.
The production is planned as follows - the shoot and the shooting crew from Estonia, shooting equipment and postproduction from Finland.
European Co-Production initiative Eurimages considers Lauri Randla’s "Goodbye Soviet Union” fitting successfully to the conditions of the initiative, sees it’s perspective for the international market and supports the production of the film with 99 587 €.
The competition was intense, „Goodbye Soviet Union” was one of the 20 winning projects from the 68 appliers.
Exitfilm has signed the Agreement with Finnish company OY BUFO AB to co-produce and distribute the production. Companies have been successful applying the production support from local financiers Estonian Film Institute and Finnish Film Foundation. Also Public broadcasters ERR and YLE are participating in the project.
The casting involves well-known Estonian and Finnish actors – Ülle Kaljuste, Tõnu Oja, Nika Savolainen, Pääru Oja, Jekaterina Novosjolova. The main children characters are Finnish schoolboy Niklas Kousmitchev and Estonian schoolgirl Elina Baratashvili.
„Attack of the Cyber Octopuseses“ won the „Best Set Design Award“ in Miami Sience Fiction IF and was nominated as „Best Fantasy“ in Kaohsiung FF Taiwan.
Meantime it has been selectected for Visioni Italiane, Montevideo Fantastico Uruguai, Grindhouse Planet FF UK, Neon Dystopia FF US, Image Castebany France, Black Nights FF Estonia, Madeira Fantastic FilmFest, Calacticat FF Spain, Skepto FF Italy, etc.
The film follows a critical day of the young boy in the lonely farm between the forests, which puts an end to his childhood – his father commands him to kill a lamb...
The film will be premiered in the cassette of the young authors „Fresh Blood: Us and Others“ in autumn 2018 together with Anna Hints' "Ice".
After two years of successful travelling on the world film festivals, „Mausoleum“ won the „Best Short Film Award“ in London Lift-Off FF and the „Best Set Design Award“ in Lift-Off Season Awards in Berlin.
„Ice“ won EFTA 2018 (Estonian Film and Television Awards) in the short films' category. The event took place in Nordea Concert Hall in Tallinn and was broadcasted by three major Estonian television stations.
„Ice“ has been in more that 40 festivals in competition and has won 8 awards so far.
Short film "Ice" by Anna Hints participates in a film cassette "Fresh Blood: Us and Others" that consists of six Estonian short films premiered in 2017 and 2018 by young directors. The cassette is 91 min and allows the films to be screened in cinemas around Estonia.
"Ice" has participated in 28 festivals and won four awards so far:
