Germany’s Maze Pictures and Red Balloon and Italy’s Palomar have teamed up to co-produce promising family pic “Grisella,” based on a German classic about a talking donkey. German-Kurdish helmer Huseyin Tabak is attached to direct.
The project is being developed in English with financing from an Italy-Germany co-development fund. “Grisella” is being pitched to prospective partners at the Locarno Festival’s Alliance For Development initiative which aims to help develop and co-produce projects from France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.
Tabak, who studied film with Michael Haneke in Vienna, has made a splash with hit drama “Your Beauty is Worth Nothing,” which provided a 12-year-old Turkish boy’s perspective on how he and his family contended with challenges of immigration in Austria.
Described in promotional materials as family entertainment for a broad audience, “Grisella” is about an eponymous donkey with the magical gift of human language who bonds with Tino,...
The project is being developed in English with financing from an Italy-Germany co-development fund. “Grisella” is being pitched to prospective partners at the Locarno Festival’s Alliance For Development initiative which aims to help develop and co-produce projects from France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.
Tabak, who studied film with Michael Haneke in Vienna, has made a splash with hit drama “Your Beauty is Worth Nothing,” which provided a 12-year-old Turkish boy’s perspective on how he and his family contended with challenges of immigration in Austria.
Described in promotional materials as family entertainment for a broad audience, “Grisella” is about an eponymous donkey with the magical gift of human language who bonds with Tino,...
- 8/6/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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