{"id":574657,"date":"2023-05-16T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cannes-austrian-production-company-schubert-launches-with-projects-from-past-fest-contenders\/"},"modified":"2023-05-16T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T02:30:00","slug":"cannes-austrian-production-company-schubert-launches-with-projects-from-past-fest-contenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cannes-austrian-production-company-schubert-launches-with-projects-from-past-fest-contenders\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cannes: Austrian Production Company Schubert Launches With Projects From Past Fest Contenders"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n European cinema has a new production boutique. Austrian producer Johannes Schubert, whose latest work with compatriot Jessica Hauser,\u202fClub Zero<\/em>, is screening in this year\u2019s Cannes competition, has launched a stand-alone production outfit, called simply Schubert.<\/p>\n

\n The company\u2019s initial slate includes new features from Austria\u2019s Markus Schleinzer, director of 2011 Cannes competition entry \u202fMichael\u202f<\/em> and 2018\u2019s\u202f Angelo<\/em>, which premiered in San Sebastian; Egyptian-Austrian writer\/director Abu Bakr Shawky, a 2018 Palme d\u2019Or contender with \u202fYomeddine<\/em>; and the new project from Germany\u2019s Franz B\u00f6hm, whose Dear Future Children<\/em> won the 2021 audience award at Toronto\u2019\u2019s Hot Docs fest.<\/p>\n

\n Rose, <\/em>Schleinzer\u2019s new film, is a 17th-century period drama set in the aftermath of the Thirty Years\u2019 War, in which a mysterious soldier app<\/a>ears in a secluded Protestant village, claiming to be the heir to a long-abandoned estate. The soldier tries to fit in and even contemplates an arranged marriage with the daughter of a wealthy farmer, but the villagers, and an old servant on the estate, doubt his true identity. The project, inspired by hundreds of documented cases of transgender figures in European history, is in the financing stage, with Germany\u2019s Karsten St\u00f6ter of Row Pictures on board as co-producer and backing in place from the Austrian Film Institute and the Vienna Film Fund. Packaging is underway and Schubert expects to soon unveil a major German actress cast to play the lead.\u202f<\/p>\n

\n B\u00f6hm\u2019s\u202f Keep Her Quiet<\/em>, which has secured pre-production financing from Germany\u2019s MFG film fund, Austrian Film Institute, and the Vienna Film Fund, is a fictionalized thriller based on the true-life story of the journalists who first reported on the existence of internment camps for the Uyghur Muslim minority in western China. The film follows an Uyghur journalist based in Washington D.C. who risks everything to uncover the truth about China\u2019s policy of \u201ccultural genocide\u201d and traces a young Uyghur woman\u2019s escape from the camps.<\/p>\n

\n For something completely different, Schubert is developing Abu Bakr Shawky\u2019s Ramses<\/em>, a political satire\/road movie set against the attempt to build the first car \u201cmade in Egypt\u201d in the 1960s. But when the car breaks down during a test drive across the Austrian Alps, Selma, a young motoring journalist, uncovers the truth behind the vehicle\u2019s origins and finds herself at the forefront of a diplomatic crisis. The project is still in the script stage.<\/p>\n

\n Operating in Austria and Germany, Schubert is also looking to get on board projects as a co-producer, hoping to benefit from Austria\u2019s new production incentive, which in addition to a 35 percent tax incentive, includes a potentially game<\/a>-changing 60 percent tax rebate up to $5.5 million [\u20ac5 million] per project on an international local spend of at least $109,000 [\u20ac100,000] above Austrian financing.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n