Czar Slate 2021

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The slate is very diverse in both cast, crew, themes, genres, and representation, but all the projects are expected to reach far and wide. We experiment with different budget levels, production approaches, and distribution methods. The slate allows us to both tackle innovative online release patterns, while securing a spot at festivals – both animation and live-action – and even in the art world. The formats vary from a confined feature of high production-value to a globetrotting creative docu-series, to a hybrid arthouse film, and finally, a fully engaging and original animation film by a first-time feature director. HAUNTED is a high-profile attention-grabbing feature adapted from a work by Chuck Palahniuk. It will be our first international genre production of this size and we expect great attention, festival attendance, and access to many new and large territories. THE DEVIL'S TOY will be filmed all over Europe in a co-production with Netherlands, Latvia, and France. We will experiment with alternative release patterns and extensive marketing. The creative documentary series is framed around skateboarding while examining the meaning of subcultures and some extraordinary individuals. We develop the project with an emerging talent. LE SOIR TOMBE is visual poetry and an audio-visual meditation on nature, life, and humanity in the face of great challenges. And it’s quite literally through the lens of renowned photographer Stephan Vanfleteren, one of the most acclaimed photographers of our time. We expect the project to reach an audience at a variety of outlets, including museums and galleries, arthouse cinemas, and event screenings. WOLF is a ground-breaking animation feature with a unique style, by an immensely gifted animator and director, aimed at festivals and entirely without dialog. We’re supporting the director with his first feature and see the project as a brand-new direction in animation.