Director: Jeff REICHERT & Farihah ZAMAN

Director:Claudio FAEH
Writers:Claudio FAEH, Zoran STEVANOVIC
Cast:Luna MIJOVIC
Producers:Claudio FAEH, Anne WALSER (C-Films), Helge SASSE (Senator Filmproduktion), Jasmila ZBANIC (DEBLOKADA), Damir IBRAHIMOVIC (DEBLOKADA)

Executive Producers:Derek POWER, Angelika SCHOULER, John ZARITSKY

Synopsis:

LEAVING SARAJEVO is based on the true love story of Admira Ismic and Bosko Brkic, a young couple who tragically died in the Balkan war in 1993. She was a Bosnian Muslim. He was a Serb.

We meet Admira and Bosko as they fall in love in a city once a beacon of multi-ethnic tolerance. When war breaks out and Sarajevo falls under siege, their love is tested to the utmost. After great hardship and a fierce daily struggle to survive, they are forced to try to escape the besieged city. Three quarters of the way across a bridge in no man’s land, they are shot down by a sniper to die in each other’s arms. Two young people embracing, a Muslim and a Serb, killed while trying to escape the madness of war.

This tragic love story made worldwide headlines. The couple became known as the ‘Romeo and Juliet of Sarajevo’. To this day, people from all over the world visit their grave in Sarajevo, inspired and touched by their story of love in a time of war.

This story has been covered by media all over the world including an award-winning PBS frontline documentary in 1994. Most recently The LondonTimes, CNN, PBS and Die Zeit and numerous others covered the 20 year anniversary of the beginning of the war.

Producers: Elizabeth STANLEY (ELIZABETH STANLEY PICTURES), Ilene Kahn POWER (KAHN POWER PICTURES)

THE WORLD OF DARKOVER

Darkover chronicles the development of a remarkable civilization – technology poor but rich in its ability to harness the psi powers of the human brain (such as telepathy and telekinesis). The absence of metal on the planet made the creation of technology almost impossible. Darkover, however, is rich in other resources such as the matrix stones and kiriseth flowers that enhance and magnify psi-powers (or laran).  The only human-habitable planet of the seven which orbit a fictional red giant star called Cottman IV; Darkover was settled by colonists from Earth when their spaceship accidentally crashed there. The crash ruined the ship and all technology on board, leaving the Terran (Earth) survivors only one choice – to make a new home on the cold and foreign planet. As a result of inter-breeding with a native species known as the Chieri, a small group of humans gained psi-powers(telepathy and telekinesis). These powers seemed to be unique to the Comyn, a red-headed bloodline that became the ruling class. Darkover’s social structure revolves around the possession of psi-powers and the harsh cycles of nature that dominate all life on the planet.

The Spell Sword and The Forbidden Tower are the basis for the film, DARKOVER: THE FORBIDDEN CIRCLE. It tells the story of four people – two men and two women – who come together to challenge the sacred traditions of Darkovan society and the ancient laws of its Matrix Towers.

The lead characters are: Ruling caste member Damon Ridenow; Ellemir, his betrothed, twin sister to Callista-the next Keeper of Arilinn Tower and Earthman Andrew Carr–in love with Callista.

Photograph by Joe Parks

A Proposal For a 12 Part Television Series

Producers: Jean-Pierre Dutilleux and Alexandre Bouchet/Yemaya, Paris
Executive Producer: Derek Power, Los Angeles and London

“Tribes are like stars in the sky, identical from a distance but up close,
all are different, unique strands in the extraordinary tapestry that forms humanity.”

Jean-Pierre Dutilleux

Prepare to encounter twelve tribes, from headhunters and cannibals to gentle fishing people and hunter gatherers all intimately known to world renowned ethnographer, photographer and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Jean-Pierre Dutilleux.

Decades in the field have taken Dutilleux beyond the role of ethnographer to conscience awakener. His friendship with The First People – the tribal world on five continents – can be summed up in this singular truth: In order to sustain a relationship or indeed this planet, you must revere it. And in order to love anything well you must know it intimately. And so we must listen to the First People.

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