Oksana Cernovskaya, CEO of LitFilmas (www.litfilmas.com), a production company based in Vilnius, told FNE that shooting was expected to start in April 2013.
The EUR 70,000-90,000 budget film is being 15% cofinanced by London-based Film Republic (www.film-republic.co.uk), 40% by an unnamed Belarusian film company (no website), and the rest will come from LitFilmas.
“We are very close to signing with Film Republic,” Cernovskaya speaking to FNE at the Scanorama Film Festival (www.scanorama.lt) said, adding that.the film’s producers will seek to sell distribution rights to all the countries through which the three grannies will pass: Belarus, Poland, Germany, France and the UK.
The film, directed by Julija Zubavicene, tells the story of the three eponymous old ladies, who put aside a lifelong enmity and unexpectedly decide to make the long journey together to visit their beloved granddaughter.
Director Julija Zubavičienė
Scriptwriter Julija Zubavičienė
Camera Vilius Mačiulskis
Sound Julius Zubavičius
Editing Julija Zubavičienė
Producer Oksana Černovskaja
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Lida, Vanda, LiusiaVILNIUS: Lida, Vanda, Liusia, an Anglo-Lithuanian coproduction documentary about three Lithuanian grandmothers who make a road journey from Vilnius to London, has started pre-production.
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