Road Movies Slate Projects in Development: Road Movies Slate

Programme(s): Creative Europe Programme (CREA)-undefined

Topic(s): CREA-MEDIA-2021-DEVSLATE

Type of action: CREA Lump Sum Grants

Project ID: 101053723

Objective:

Road Movies was founded in 1976 by Wim Wenders in Berlin. The company has been producing and co-producing over 100 arthouse films by Wim Wenders and various other directors, such as Paris, Texas, Wings Of Desire, Bread And Roses or Don't Come Knocking. Documentary films have always been the company’s other focus with award-winning productions like Buena Vista Social Club, PINA, and most recently A Black Jesus. After a few year break in the early 00’s, the company was re-born in 2008 under the name Neue Road Movies, with Gian-Piero Ringel and Wim Wenders as co-founders and shareholders. Until 2015, Gian-Piero Ringel was also co-managing director alongside Wim Wenders. In 2019, the company’s name was changed to Road Movies again. For the years to come, Road Movies made it its mission to collaborate with partners from all over the world with a diversity of visions and similar values. The projects in our slate are in different stadiums of development and represent a healthy mixture of directors with different levels of experience. They show Road Movies’ support of a new generation of filmmakers and their voices, while maintaining a continuity with Wim Wenders’ work, its ethics and inherent international character: I’ll be gone in June will be Student Academy Awards nominated Katharina Rivilis’ directorial debut set in New Mexico. Tamer El Said’s A Second Film is the Berlin-based Egyptian director’s second feature, set between Berlin and Cairo. Jellyfish will be documentary filmmaker Hella Wenders’ first fiction drama, set in Italy and Germany. Our fourth project, Peace by Peace, is a hybrid series curated by Wim Wenders, meant to be a collaborative undertaking for filmmakers, advertisers and peace activists. Finally, we also plan to produce a short film, Killer Kids, by I’ll be gone in June’s director Katharina Rivilis.