17-03-2011

PRODUCTION: The Edge of Happiness in Development

By Iulia Blaga

    BUCHAREST: Romanian director Ruxandra Zenide (Ryna) is currently developping her second feature, The Edge of Happiness, the story of a girl, Felicia, who arrives in Geneva in the autumn of 1989, hoping to find her mother who is in a coma after an accident. Felicia leads her own investigation in order to find the truth about this accident, loosing herself between revelations and paranoia.

    The Edge of Happiness /La cosmetique du bonheur/Despre cosmetice şi fericire (working title) is produced by Alex Iordăchescu of Swiss company Elefant Films (www.elefantfilms.ch) in co-production with Dan Burlac of Romania's Elefant Film and Richard Copans of French company Les Films d'Ici (www.lesfilmsdici.fr).

    The budget is 2.2 million euro. The project has received support from the MEDIA Programme (http://ec.europa.eu/culture/media), Ville & Etat de Genève (www.geneve.ch) and the Romanian National Centre for Cinema (www.cncinema.abt.ro) which gave it a development grant in 2009.

    Zenide co-wrote the script with Iordăchescu and Marek Epstein.

    Shooting is set for September-November 2011 in Geneva, Iordăchescu told FNE. The lead actors are Dorotheea Petre, Elina Lowensohn and Antonio Buil.

    Contact information:

    Elefant Films

    3 rue Voltaire

    1201 Geneva, Switzerland

    Phone: +41 22 301 6500

    Fax: + 41 22 301 6501

    www.elefantfilms.ch

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    Elefant Film

    123 Calea Moşilor street

    Sector 2, Bucureşti, Romania

    Contact - Dan Burlac: + 40 746 242635

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    Les Films d'Ici

    62 bld Davout 75020 Paris, France

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    Phone : +33 (0)1 44 52 23 23

    Fax : +33 (0)1 44 52 23 24

    www.lesfilmsdici.fr