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Planning Div.), Eiji Murano (Member   (Head of International Sales),    DOG’Y’DOG AND THE BONE   Rosalee Glass, a former Holocaust   Gomez, Philip d’Amore, Paul Meyd,
              of The Board, Acquisition & Planning   Anne Bernstein (French Tv   STORY    survivor taken prisoner to a Siberian   Kaesang Pangarep, Chika Jessica,
               Div.), Kiyoshi Watanabe (CEO of   Sales), Anne-Sophie Martel (Int’L   Production. Animation.  gulag during WWII transforms her   Debby Corbuzier, Stella Cornelia.
               Gaga America), Haruko Watanabe   Sales Manager), Rémi Cervoni   By Dan St Pierre.  destiny.  In  her  80s  she  begins  an
                (Manager-Int’L Sales Dept.),    (Development Executive),    A teenage dog goes on the road trip   acting career, in her 90s wins a   LOOKING FOR ANDREW
                Kanami Nakayama (General   Camille Berreur (Development ),   of a lifetime in search of his missing   Senior beauty pageant and dares   Completed. Road movie, 100’.
                 Manager), Akio Yamamoto   Christina Douguet (Development ),   "doggynaut" father.  to ride Alaskan Sled dogs at 100.  By Josh Whittaker with Cory Kays,
              (Acquisition Division), Natalie Miura   Dorothée Recker (Assistante Ventes                           Justin Rose, James Rohrbaugh,
                 (International Sales Dept.),    Internationales), Johanna Byer    THE NAKED WANDERER  SAVIORS     Amanda Lynn Joyce.
               Keiko Yoshida (International Sales)  (SVP of Creative Affairs),    Post-Production. Road movie, 95’.  Completed. Thriller, 85’.  A group of childhood friends return
                                          Guillaume Colboc (Directeur    By Alan Lindsay with Angus Mclaren,   By  Christopher  Greenslate  with   home  after  graduating  college  to
              FAREWELL SONG               Adjoint du Developpement)  Sophie Kennedy Clark, Natasha Liu   Megan Johnson, Glenn Lutz.  discover that one of their own has
              Post-Production. Drama, 116’.                     Bordizzo, John Cleese.    A young woman embeds herself   mysteriously gone missing.
              By  Akihiko  Shiota  with  Mugi   GAUMONT PROMOREELS    A heartbroken young man decides   in a white power group in order to
              Kadowaki, Nana Komatsu, Ryo   CANNES 2019         to walk 4,000 km along the coast   find her adoptive African-American   LURED
                                                                                                                   Completed. Horror, 88’.
              Narita.                  Completed. Comedy.       of Western Australia in the searing   mother, but one night after the
              A female duo band Haru-Leo and                    heat, wearing nothing but a loin   group returns from a rally they test   By David Li with Jeff Gonek, Lei
              their roadie Shima set out on a road   GFM FILMS  cloth & a backpack…       her allegiance. Shot in a single,   Wong, Corey Woods.
              trip for their final tour before the   10 Coda Studios - 189 Munster        continuous take.         Jason, a young filmmaker, travels to
              break-up of the unit.       Road, Unit 10 - Coda Centre  GLASS HOUSE                                 a remote village in China to meet
                                                                                                                   Kate, another aspiring filmmaker.
                                        SW6 6AW London, United Kingdom   DISTRIBUTION     TRAUMA THERAPY
              LITTLE NIGHTS, LITTLE LOVE                                                  Completed. Horror, 95’.
              Post-Production. Romance, 119’.  Tel: +44 207 186 63 00   20 West Park Ave, Suite 207  By Tyler Pavey with Brian Krause,   REMEMBER REMEMBER
              By Rikiya Imaizumi with Haruma   [email protected]  11561 Long Beach, New York, USA  Tom Malloy, Chase Coleman,   Completed. Historical, 90’.
                                                                                                                   By Mark Hindman Smith with Mark
              Miura, Mikako Tabe, Taizo Harada.  gfmfilms.co.uk      Tel: +1 818 934 12 40   Luciana Fahlhaber, David Josh   Hindman Smith, Richard Carter, Carl
              Market researcher Sato is a dreamer   Rado Beach Helen  [email protected]  Lawrence, Vince Lozano, Stephanie   Howe, Alex Parten.
              who hopes for a dramatic encounter   Anthony Buckner (Sales Director),   glasshousedistribution.com  Cleough.
              for his love life.              Claudia Ramos      Riviera: J8 (Tel: +1 213 377 74 92)  At a remote wooded retreat, a   THE TAPE
                                           (VP International Sales)  Tom Malloy (President),    group of lost souls meet famous   Completed. Horror, 93’.
              THE TRUTH (TBC)                                      Michelle Alexandria (Head of   guru Tobin Vance. As  the  guests   By  Saket  S  Behl  with  Samir  Soni,
              Post-Production. Family.  A GREYHOUND OF A GIRL    International Sales), Robert Deege   get pushed further and further by   Jaswinder Kaur, Anuradha Khaira.
              By Hirokazu Kore-Eda with Catherine   Pre-Production. Animation.  (Head of Worldwide Sales),    Vance’s extreme program, which
              Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan   By Enzo D’Alo.  David Josh Lawrence (Acquisitions)  includes lie detectors, firearms, and   THE TARGET
              Hawke.                   ANOTHER BLOOMIN’ CHRISTMAS                         experimental drugs, they begin to   Completed. Thriller, 102’.
              Fabienne is a star; a star of French   Pre-Production. Animation.  A BAD IDEA GONE WRONG  question the methods and fear for   By Art Camacho with Olivier Gruner,
              cinema. She reigns amongst men   By Dave Unwin.   Completed. Comedy, 85’.   their lives.             Patrick Kilpatrick,  Richard  Grieco,
              who love and admire her : her new                 By Jason Headley with Matt Jones,                  Martin Kove, Nina Bergman, Robert
              partner, her former husband, her   THE LEDGE      Will Rogers.                 GLOBAL GENESIS        Miano.
              agent…                   Pre-Production. Science-fiction.  Two would-be thieves forge a
                                       By Howard J Ford.        surprising  relationship  with an   GROUP, LLC     TROLL: THE TALE OF A TAIL
              BRAVE FATHER ONLINE - OUR   It follows the story of Kelly, a young   unexpected housesitter when they   64 N Pecos Rd., Suite 201  Completed. Animation, 88’.
              STORY OF FINAL FANTASY XIV   woman chased by the group of   accidentally trap themselves in a   89074 Henderson, Nevada, USA  By Kevin Munroe with Richard
              Completed. Family, 114’.  men who murdered her best friend   house they just broke into.  Tel: +1 310 579 9107   Dumont, Elana Dunkelman, Angela
              By Teruo Noguchi, Kiyoshi Yamamoto   Sophie after she witnesses the           [email protected]  Galuppo, Sonja Ball, Rick Jones.
              with Kentaro Sakaguchi, Kotaro   tragedy. Kelly’s only way to survive   DRIVERX   globalgenesisgroup.com
              Yoshida.                 will be to free-climb a steep rock   Completed. Drama, 98’.  Palais -1: 23,06  UNDERDOG
              Akio wishes he had a better   wall trying to reach the summit of   By Henry Barrial with Patrick Fabian,   Harel Goldstein (Executive VP   Completed. Social issues, 100’.
              relationship with his reserved father   the mountain.  Tanya Clarke, Melissa Fumero.  Entertainment), Charles Morris, Jr.   By Ritchie Greer with Becca
              Akira. One day Akira suddenly quits               Skidding into middle-age, a stay-at-  (VP Development & Acquisitions),   Buckalew, Kim Estes.
              his job and retires without giving out   SAINT SEIYA : KNIGHTS OF THE   home dad must drive for an Uber-  Alan Green (VP Sales)  Sam is a young foster woman with
              any explanation to the family.  ZODIAC            like rideshare company (DriverX)                   a traumatic, criminal past. As she
                                       Pre-Production. Action/Adventure.  to help support his working wife   BEYOND BROTHERHOOD  is recovering from a near fatal
              HELL GIRL                                         and two young daughters. But low   Completed. Romance, 110’.  drug overdose, she is introduced to
              Completed. Drama.        By Tomek Baginski.       pay and wild LA nights put an even   By Arianne Benedetti with Drew   Donovan,  an  older  boxing  coach,
              By Koji Shiraishi with Tina Tamashiro,   A troubled young man answers the   greater strain on his marriage.  Fuller, Valerie  Dominguez, Robin   who has is own addiction issues.
              Manami Hashimoto.        call to become the Pegasus Knight
                                       in order to save mankind from   THE LAST FILM FESTIVAL  Duran, Maria Conchita  Alonso,
              KAKEGURUI                threatening mythological forces.  Completed. Comedy, 90’.  Juana Viale, Arianne Benedetti, Eric   GLOBAL SCREEN GMBH
              Completed. Drama, 119’.                           By Linda Yellen with Dennis Hopper,   Roberts.            Sonnenstr. 21
              By Tsutomu Hanabusa with Minami   SPIRITS         Jacqueline Bisset, Chris Kattan,   Two young siblings ended up living   80331 Munich, Germany
              Hamabe,  Mahiro Takasugi, Aoi   Pre-Production. Animation.  Leelee Sobieski, Jobeth Williams.  on the streets, having nothing left but   Tel: +49 89 24 41 29 55 00 
              Morikawa.                By Todd Edwards, Timothy Hooten.  There are 4,000 film festivals around   their love. It’s a story about survival,   [email protected]
                                       To earn his angel wings and be set                 second chances and second falls,   globalscreen.de
              ORGAN                    free, wandering ghost Jacob Marley   the world. Where would you go if   with an unexpected turn at the end.  Riviera: L7
              Completed. Family, 119’.  recruits an oddball team of spirits to   your film was turned down by 3,999   (Tel: +49 17 21 53 98 39)
              By Emiko Hiramatsu with Erika Toda,   pull off the haunting of a lifetime :   of them?  CHASING SHADOWS  Julia Weber (Head of Theatrical
              Sakurako Ohara.          scare Scrooge into a better man!  LLOYD THE CONQUEROR  Completed. Crime, 87’.  Sales & Acquisitions), Alice Buquoy
              A nursery teacher Kaede and her                   Completed. Comedy, 95’.   By Aoun Khan with Cengiz Dervis,   (Senior Sales & Acquisition Manager
              colleagues evacuate from Tokyo   10 LIVES         By  Michael Peterson with Brian   Lloyd Sparsi, Julie Rose Smith, Faye   Theatrical), Klaus Rasmussen (Senior
              with their 53 infant students before   Production. Animation.  Posehn, Harland  Williams, Mike   Sewell, Kevin Golding, Alex Reece.  Sales & Acquisitions Manager
              the city is devastated by air raid at   By Mark Koetsier.  Smith, Evan Williams.  GROTTO               Theatrical), Anna-Maria Masser
              the end of WW II.        A pampered cat who has managed   Three male college students, must   Completed. Family, 93’.  (Sales Assistant), Nico Wirtz
                                       to cheat his way into gaining a new   do battle against Derek the Unholy,   By Micol Pallucca with Samuele   (Chief Marketing officer)
                    GAUMONT            set of lives, discovers that he must   a dark wizard who is determined to   Biscossi, Gabriele Fiore, Iris
                 30, Av. Charles de Gaulle  travel many different roads to find   hold onto his title as champion of   Caporuscio, Christian Roberto,   THE JOURNEY OF THE ELEPHANT
               92200 Neuilly-Sur-Seine, France  the best version of himself.  the Larpers.  Leonardo Similaro.     SOLIMAN
                                                                                                                   Production. Children’s, 80’.
                  Tel: +33 1 46 43 20 00                                                                           By Sandor Jesse.
                  [email protected]  BLAZING SAMURAI          THE OUTDOORSMAN           IN THE LIGHT             What  better  way  to  travel  across
                                                                                          Completed. Drama, 86’.
                                                                Completed. Comedy, 99’.
                     gaumont.net       Production. Animation.   By David Haskell with Brent Morin,   By Andres Valle, Carlos Valle with   the  Spanish  desert,  the Alps  and
               Christophe Riandee (Vice CEO),   By Chris Bailey, Mark Koetsier.  Sasheer Zamata, Spencer Grammar,   Mario Cimmaro, Soccorro Bonilla,   halfway around the world than on
              Cécile Gaget (Head of International   Hank, a scrappy, wide-eyed pooch   Peri Gilpin.  Silvana Arias, Jacqueline Salgado,
                Production and Distribution),    on the run, scrambles ashore with   Jason has made up his mind : he’s   Edwin Daniel Espinoza,  Trinity
               Jerome Hilal (Directeur Distibution   dreams of becoming a  Samurai   going to live in the wilderness for a   Milagro Wilderstein.  FOR FULL
               France), Franck Weber (Directeur    like  his  kitty heores. There’s  just   year. One problem : he’s never been
                   Du Developpement),    one problem; he doesn’t quite fit   camping.     LITTLE HERO                DETAILS, GO TO
               Jérôme Soulet (Directeur Vidéo,   in. But he is the perfect pawn for a     Completed. Animation, 106’.
               Télévision et Nouveaux Médias),   scheming warlord named Ika Chu,   REINVENTING ROSALEE  By William Fajito, Antonius (Director),
                 Adeline Falampin (Head of   who is after Kakamucho’s land and   Completed. Family, 90’.  Jason J. Lewis with Alex Hyde-White,
              International Sales), Alexis Cassanet   needs the townscats out of his  By Lillian Glass with Rosalee Glass.  Jason J. Lewis, Aly Marianelli, Jillian

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