Don't Give Up The Ghost
A Feature-length narrative by French screenwriter/director, Jean-Louis Milési
In Pre-Production
Three French brothers, Matt, Eliot and Lucas, follow their American mother to California where her uncle has mysteriously disappeared. Upon arrival, the mother must take care of unfinished business left by her uncle and neglects her sons. Bored, alone with very little spending money... The kids look for creative ways to entertain themselves... That's when a ghost appears to Eliot and tells him where to find a few $100 bills..
The ghost, the money... it’s all a hoax set up by Eliot. 14 year-old Eliot is insecure, he is his father’s punching bag and the laughing stock of his brothers. Inventing this story is the only way Eliot has found to give himself a better role and an admirable place in the family. Everything changes when the ghost that he has conjured begins to truly manifest itself...Under the guise of mere entertainment, this film also speaks of the malaise of childhood, it talks about brotherhood. This film tells us how the imagination can enable us to move forward and progress in our everyday life.
Please click on the image to go to the film's website.
In Pre-Production
Three French brothers, Matt, Eliot and Lucas, follow their American mother to California where her uncle has mysteriously disappeared. Upon arrival, the mother must take care of unfinished business left by her uncle and neglects her sons. Bored, alone with very little spending money... The kids look for creative ways to entertain themselves... That's when a ghost appears to Eliot and tells him where to find a few $100 bills..
The ghost, the money... it’s all a hoax set up by Eliot. 14 year-old Eliot is insecure, he is his father’s punching bag and the laughing stock of his brothers. Inventing this story is the only way Eliot has found to give himself a better role and an admirable place in the family. Everything changes when the ghost that he has conjured begins to truly manifest itself...Under the guise of mere entertainment, this film also speaks of the malaise of childhood, it talks about brotherhood. This film tells us how the imagination can enable us to move forward and progress in our everyday life.
Please click on the image to go to the film's website.
Life in Balance
Completed.
Shot in the summer and fall of 2010, this environmental documentary uses captivating visuals, combined with interviews of local and international experts to reveal the rapid ongoing devastation of the amazon by illegal gold mining in Peru. Considered the "lungs of our planet", the amazon's rainforests produce more than 20% of the world's oxygen. Once upon a time rainforests covered 14% of our the earth's land surface, today they cover a mere 6%. According to experts, if we continue down this destructive path we could consume the remaining rainforests within the next 40 years.
Commissioned by Amazon Aid Foundation
Shot in the summer and fall of 2010, this environmental documentary uses captivating visuals, combined with interviews of local and international experts to reveal the rapid ongoing devastation of the amazon by illegal gold mining in Peru. Considered the "lungs of our planet", the amazon's rainforests produce more than 20% of the world's oxygen. Once upon a time rainforests covered 14% of our the earth's land surface, today they cover a mere 6%. According to experts, if we continue down this destructive path we could consume the remaining rainforests within the next 40 years.
Commissioned by Amazon Aid Foundation
Tales of Goudougoudou
Feature-length documentary by Guetty Felin
In pre-production
In pre-production
This original documentary is a riveting meditation on life after tragedy. It is a personal undertaking as Haitian-American director, Guetty Felin journeys to her native land to explore the repercussions of the deadly 7.1 magnitude earthquake that nearly destroyed the island nation on January 12th 2010. Far from the sensationalized images of cable news, Ms. Felin presents us with a cinematic vista to peer into some of the insurmountable realities that plague Haitian society through a melliflous flow of compelling characters. Through her lenses we also discover the many creative channels used by her compatriots to return to normalcy in the aftermath of “goudougoudou”. A tragi-comic tale of loss, memory and survival.
In Co-production with Enfin Bref Productions in Paris. For detailed info please visit the project website by clicking on picture.
In Co-production with Enfin Bref Productions in Paris. For detailed info please visit the project website by clicking on picture.
Life Underground
By Herve Cohen
In development
"Life Underground" is a wandering across borders, interconnecting the lives of metro riders from around the world, through a unique network across continents and oceans. From Mexico to Moscow, Cairo to New York, Calcutta to Stockholm, workers shuffle along, love stories begin, strangers get lost, homeless seek shelter. Around the corner of a corridor or on a metro seat, destinies intertwine. In this underground world, our common humanity is brought to the surface.
The film is the foundation of an engaging trans-media project, which will bring the viewer inside of a no border world, where individuals and communities connect, cross each others' paths, share their stories, their struggle, their specific and yet universal experience, hence encouraging a mutual understanding.
In development
"Life Underground" is a wandering across borders, interconnecting the lives of metro riders from around the world, through a unique network across continents and oceans. From Mexico to Moscow, Cairo to New York, Calcutta to Stockholm, workers shuffle along, love stories begin, strangers get lost, homeless seek shelter. Around the corner of a corridor or on a metro seat, destinies intertwine. In this underground world, our common humanity is brought to the surface.
The film is the foundation of an engaging trans-media project, which will bring the viewer inside of a no border world, where individuals and communities connect, cross each others' paths, share their stories, their struggle, their specific and yet universal experience, hence encouraging a mutual understanding.
Ayiti Mon Amour
In development
Co-written by Guetty Felin and Edwidge Danticat
Ayiti Mon Amour is an aesthetically visual and poetic film using tragedy comedy and magic realism to explore life after disaster through the universal theme of love.
Fiscally sponsored by The San Francisco Film Society
Co-written by Guetty Felin and Edwidge Danticat
Ayiti Mon Amour is an aesthetically visual and poetic film using tragedy comedy and magic realism to explore life after disaster through the universal theme of love.
Fiscally sponsored by The San Francisco Film Society
Bright Stars, Future Leaders..
By Herve Cohen
In development
In development
The International Center of Art and Music is a revolutionary new school which opened its doors in Ouidah, Benin, West Africa, in the fall of 2010. Elementary school children receive an academic classical training combined with music, art and dance. The film has already captured the first steps of some of these future artist/leaders and will follow many of these children throughout several years to explore the role of the arts in their acquiring cognitive skills but also how the arts can shape their vision and help them identify their place as future leaders in their society.
A Rooster on the Fire Escape or The Day I kissed the President
Screenplay for a feature-length narrative by Guetty Felin
"The past is never dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner
Through the eyes of a young woman, the story of her family's exile unfolds, but also the lingering traumas of their country's brutal dictatorship as they struggle to adapt to the new homeland. A story of love and betrayal set in the backdrop of New York in the tumultuous 70s.
"The past is never dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner
Through the eyes of a young woman, the story of her family's exile unfolds, but also the lingering traumas of their country's brutal dictatorship as they struggle to adapt to the new homeland. A story of love and betrayal set in the backdrop of New York in the tumultuous 70s.