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TITLE: HIGHRISE
SYNOPSIS: In the midst of a vast ocean stands the Elysium Tower – a glistening vertical city – a sanctuary for challenging times. Powered by sun and earth, designed by the greatest architectural visionary of the new millennium, Elysium is a self contained world. A world of commerce, cuisine and entertainment, featuring restaurants, swimming pools, libraries, cinemas, even a research hospital. It is not just the tallest and most technologically advanced work of modern architecture, but one that embodies the world's highest aspirations. Dr. Robert Laing, a new arrival, settles in and adjusts to this hermetic life. But before long he becomes aware of something unsettling in the building. In an escalating atmosphere of unrest the residents break into tribal factions. Laing watches in horror as the myth of a utopian society is shattered.
Based on the influential science fiction novel by J. G. Ballard (Empire of the Sun, Crash, Cocaine Nights)
DIRECTOR: Vincenzo Natali
WRITERS: Vincenzo Natali, Rudy Wurlitzer
CO-PRODUCER: The Recorded Picture Company
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TITLE: VILLENEUVE
SYNOPSIS: Set in the turbulent world of Formula One Racing, Villeneuve is a story of speed, courage and triumph over adversity. On track to win the World Championship in 1982, Gilles Villeneuve dies in a terrible crash during a qualifying race. The film starts fifteen years later, in Jerez, Portugal, with his son Jacques preparing to race for the coveted title of World Champion. During these preparations, time is suspended, leading us back to the story of his father Gilles, a driver whose skill and daring personified the ideals of Grand Prix racing.
WRITER: John McBrearty
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TITLE: BURDEN OF DESIRE
SYNOPSIS: Halifax was a busy port in 1917. The First World War was raging in Europe where millions of soldiers suffered pointless deaths. All troops and ammunition were transported on ships via Halifax, where they awaited a convoy across the Atlantic in order to avoid the German submarines.
On December 6th, 1917 two ships collided in the Halifax harbour causing the biggest explosion in history prior to Hiroshima in 1945. Thousands were killed and half of the city disappeared. For the survivors life changed radically.
With a world still reeling from the trauma of September 11th and the recent tsunami disaster in the Indian ocean, Burden of Desire holds a mirror to these cataclysmic events. It shows what happens when a society is torn apart physically and emotionally – delivering an anti-war sentiment that has more relevance now, than ever before.
DIRECTOR: Bille August
WRITER: Rudy Wurlitzer
CO-PRODUCER: Future Films
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TITLE: THE KNIGHT AND THE LOATHLY LADY
SYNOPSIS: “What is it that a woman most desires?” is the perplexing riddle none of King Arthur’s knights, not even the chivalrous Sir Gawain can answer. Nor does Merlin the magician have the power to break the spell that lays waste to the land. King Arthur, who daily grows weaker, has one month to answer before he loses his kingdom. Only a loathsome hag knows the truth which will save the country. Will Sir Gawain overcome his repulsion and marry her to solve the riddle, save the crown and rid the kingdom of an evil sorceress and her bewitched consort, the Black Prince, who, together, are threatening the land? Find out the answer in the family fantasy film The Knight and the Loathly Lady.
WRITER: Noel Baker
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TITLE: COCKSURE (A Sort of Musical)
SYNOPSIS: Set in London in the swinging 60s, Mordecai Richler’s COCKSURE is an irreverent blend of Austin Powers, Hairspray and The Producers.
It is a biting satire of stardom, publishing, the film industry and the sexual revolution delivered through Richler’s wit and wisdom.
COCKSURE centers around the misadventures of Mortimer Griffin, a beleaguered and idealistic filmmaker whose small film company is being swallowed up by a huge conglomerate. It is a tale filled with eccentric characters: the gorgeous Polly who directs her life as though it were a movie; Rachel Coleman, slinky black-panther of the boudoir; Starmaker, the narcissistic Hollywood tycoon who has discovered the secret to eternal life; and a precocious group of schoolchildren with a taste for the teaching of the Marquis de Sade.
WRITER: Jason Sherman
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TITLE: THE TROLL UNDER THE TABLE
SYNOPSIS: Based on a poem written by director Brad Peyton, The Troll Under the Table tells the story of a lonely young troll born to a couple who wished for a child. Forbidden to leave the house by a loving mother and an ashamed father, the Troll spends the majority of his young life unaware of what lies beyond his front door. That is until the day he ventures into the backyard and glimpses the little girl next door whose beauty he falls in love with.
Brad Peyton weaves a haunting tale that parallels the daunting journey and struggles of high school through the eyes of an outsider and gives the audience a protagonist who triumphs in his own way against all odds.
DIRECTOR: Brad Peyton
WRITERS: Brad Peyton, Karen Walton
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