27-08-2012

PRODUCTION: Ounpuu Shooting Free Range

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    PRODUCTION: Ounpuu Shooting Free Range Veiko Õunpuu

    TALLINN: The Venice Horizons award-winning Estonian director Veiko Õunpuu is shooting his third feature film with the working title Free Range, scheduled for release in March 2013.

    The movie tells the story of a young writer who faces an urgent decision about his future when learning of his girlfriend’s pregnancy. The director is still seeking a suitable Estonian title to correspond to the English phrase. Filming will be finished in September 2012.

    Shot almost entirely in Tallinn, the film is budgeted at 570,000 EUR and funded by the Estonian Film Foundation (www.efsa.ee) and the Estonian Cultural Endowment (www.kulka.ee) . Unlike Õunpuu’s previous films, Autumn Ball and The Temptation of St. Tony, the movie is not and international coproduction. The producer has attached LevelK of Denmark with Tine Klint as an international sales agent.

     

    Credits:
    Original title: Free Range
    Director: Veiko Õunpuu
    Script: Veiko Õunpuu, Robert Kurvitz
    Cinematography: Mart Taniel
    Set designer: Jaagup Roomet
    Costume designers: Jaanus Vahtra, Lotte Jürjendal
    Producer: Katrin Kissa
    Production company: Homeless Bob Productions
    Supported by: Estonian Film Foundation, Estonian Cultural Endowment

     

    Cast:
    Lauri Lagle, Jaanika Arum, Laura Peteson, Denis Lavant (France), Peeter Volkonski Rita Raave, Roman Baskin, Lauri Kaldoja, Markus Luik, Jan Uuspõld, Meelis Rämmeld, Anne Türnpu, Mari Abel