As part of its industry program running parallel to the Helsinki Film Festival Love & Anarchy, which takes place Sept. 14 – 24, the Finnish Film Affair is presenting five local TV series currently in the works that will be pitched to potential co-producers, financiers, broadcasters, streaming platforms, sales agents and other international industry …
July 3, 2021 Share
Gábor Fabricius’ “Erasing Frank” has been added to the Cannes market lineup by Totem Films, a Paris-based worldwide sales, and production firm.
The film is set in Budapest in 1983, behind the Eastern European Iron Curtain, and follows Frank, the dynamic vocalist of a banned punk band who represents their generation against a totalitarian dictatorship. Frank will risk everything to resist being sent to a police psychiatric facility in an attempt to silence him.
Otherside Stories is producing the film, which is being financed by the National Film Institute of Hungary.
Fabricius, a Central Saint-Martins College London graduate, has written two books and directed a number of short films. His first feature film is titled “Erasing Frank.”
Hannaleena Hauru) creates a fake Instagram romance after missing out on a gig, only to find herself elevated to âinfluencerâ status. Her friend Lasse (the co-writer of the film,
Lasse Poser) doesn t seem too thrilled about it, though, and soon enough, fiction starts patting reality on the shoulder. Hauru talked us through the film.
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