The script based on the short story by Irish writer Philip Ó Ceallaigh intertwines two love stories and four main characters, three of them becoming the creators of the fictional versions of their lives. The story is a reflection on the process of fashioning experience into narrative, which in turn affects experience, giving depth to the story. Damian and Ó Ceallaigh co-wrote the script.
Damian is producing through the Romanian company Aparte Film together with the Czech company Maur Film in coproduction with the Swedish companies Film i Väst and Filmgate, the Scottish company Faction North, and the Romanian companies Abis Studio and Sharf Studio.
A Very Unsettled Summer / O vară foarte instabilă is supported by the Romanian Ministry of Culture, Studio Video Art, The Czech State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography and Goodyear, with the participation of the BBC, HBO Romania and DR Broadcasting. The budget is 886,888 EUR, Damian told FNE.
The cast includes Jamie Sives, Ana Ularu, Kim Bodnia, Diana Cavallioti and Teo Corban. Liviu Mărghidan is the DoP. The film has Romanian and English dialogue and was shot in Romania and the Czech Republic.
Postproduction will wrap at the end of summer 2013.
Production Information
Aparte Film
165/3/21, Calea Călăraşi
030614 Bucharest, Romania
Phone/Fax: +40.21.320.41.28
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MAUR film
Salvátorská 4
110 00 Prague 1
Czech Republic
Alena Vandasova - Public Relations & The Head of Office, Phone: +420 775 117 646
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Abis Studio
87 Emanoil Porumbaru
011421 Bucharest 1 Romania
Phone: +4021 222 68 75
Fax: +4021 223 44 93
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Producer: Gabi Antal
Sharf Studio
8 Partiturii Street, Bl. 62, Ap. 150
Sector 6, Bucharest, Romania
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Mobile: +40-722.304.788
Credits
Director: Anca Damian
Script: Anca Damian
Philip Ó Ceallaigh
DoP: Liviu Mărghidan
Editor: Ion Ioachim Stroe
Music: Nathan Larson
Production Designer: Raluca Popa
Art Designer: Vladimír Bedřich Dvořák
Animation: Dan Panaitescu
Sound Designer: Gustaf Berger
Sound Mixing: Cristinel Sirli
Cast: Jamie Sives
Ana Ularu
Kim Bodnia
Diana Cavallioti
Teo Corban