19-01-2011

PRODUCTION: Touch Me Not in development

By Iulia Blaga

    BUCHAREST: Writer/ director Adina Pintile is developing her first feature film, Touch Me Not, a study of the human longing for contact, with three a woman and two men fighting solitude and searching for intimacy.

    Touch Me Not/Nu mă atinge-mă is produced by the Romanian company Manekino Film (www.manekinofilm.ro), founded by Adina Pintilie together with cinematographer-producer Marius Iacob and editor/sound designer Tudor Petre. The French company Atopic and the Romanian 4 Proof Film (www.4prooffilm.ro) are co-producing.

    The budget, dependant on finding foreign coproducers, is set at 980,000. The project has been selected for the CineMart co-production market at Rotterdam IFF taking place 30 January to 2 February 2011.

    The project will also apply for a grant from the Romanian National Centre for Cinema (www.cncinema.abt.ro) this spring. It was developed at the Binger Filmlab Amsterdam - Script Development Program 2009/2010 (www.binger.nl) and has been selected for Binger Filmlab Director's Lab 2011. Prior to this, the project was awarded a Pre-Media Support Traning grant (www.pre-mediasupport.ro), and was selected for the Script & Pitch Workshop (supported by the Media Program).

    The shooting is set for autumn 2012 and will take place in Romania and in one of the co-producing countries. Pintilie completed the first draft of the script. Marius Iacob is producing with Manekino and is also the DOP. Antoine Segovia is the French co-producer and Monica Lazurean Gorgan the Romanian co-producer from 4 Proof Film.

    The premiere is set for 2013.

    Adina Pintilie (born 1980) graduated the Bucharest Drama and Film University and made short and mid-length fiction and documentary films awarded and screened in festivals around the world: Oxygen, Don't Get Me Wrong/Nu te supăra, dar..., Sandpit #186/Balastiera#186 (co-director George Chiper), and Nea Pintea Model.

    Production information

    Manekino Film

    18 Banu Manta

    Bl 28, scara B, ap. 77, sector 1

    011226 Bucuresti, Romania

    Mobile phones: 0040 723 124 329

    0040 722 413 005

    www.manekinofilm.ro

    www.dont-get-me-wrong.com

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    Atopic

    16 rue Bleue 75009

    Paris - France

    Phone: + 33 (0) 6 16 28 91 51

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    4Proof Film

    7B Inisor street, Sect.2

    Bucharest, Romania

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    Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan

    phone: +40.749.100.958

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    www.4prooffilm.ro