FICTION: FINISHED PROJECTS
GOOD-BYE, DADDY
Short / Drama / 20 Min. / 2010
Little girl Charlie doesn’t know how to cope with the separation of her
parents. Inspired by the fairy tale, Snow White, she believes that her
father was poisoned by his new girlfriend. She tries to free her father
from this spell, but doesn’t realize that she playing with human lives
there…
Writer & Director
Produced by
With |
Sandra Nedeleff
Sineast Filmproduction in
Co-Production with Sandra Nedeleff
Christoph Grunert, Feo Aladag, Lucy Ella von Scheele, Magdalene
Artelt
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Finished May
2010. Supported by FFA, ARRI Rental Berlin, Camelot Berlin, Magna Mana,
Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk e.V., and many more.
THE HUMA-PORCELLONE-SYNDROME Short / Comedy / 22Min. / 2007
A satirical comedy about the twisted relationship of the Danes with their 25 million pigs who live and die in the kingdom.
Writer & Director
Produced by With |
Signe Astrup
Sineast Filmproduction,
Mads Astrup
Sigurd Emil Roldborg,
Stine Holm Joensen u.a. |
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Supported by the Danish Filminstitut Workshop.
Festivals: Green Film Festival Seoul 2008
New Mills International Short Film and Animation Festival 2008
HEARTACHE Short / Drama / 16 Min. / 2007
Alex and Lena. A young couple in a long-distant relationship. A film about a troubled love in modern times.
Writer & Driector
Produced by With |
Robin Meurer
Sineast Filmproduction
Young-Shin Kim
Andreas Schwankl |
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Festivals: International Shortfilmfestival Berlin-Oberschöneweide 2007
FICTION: PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT
CAPITAL LIES (WT)
Feature
Film / 90 Min. / 2011
When Helena meets the charismatic Dane Sixten, she thinks he is the love
of her life. But Sixten, who claims to be an UN-diplomat, is a con man.
In order to get to Helena’s money, he pretends to be threatened by the
Al-Qaida. However Sixten doesn’t realize that she is the wrong woman for
that kind of game. Once Helena learns about his scheme, she turns the
tables and lets everything blow up into his face.
Writer Director
Produced by
With |
Signe Astrup
Matthias Kopp
Sineast Filmproduction in collaboration with international
Co-Producers (negotiating) Emily Behr, ect.
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NON-FICTION: FINISHED PROJECTS
THE CLEVER GO GARDENING Documentary / 27Min. / 2007
The film embarks on a search for the Laubenpieper – a typical German allotment holder – and finds an old fashioned garden culture settled somewhere between dusted GDR structures and the new artist elite of Berlin.
Writer & Director
Produced by With |
Signe Astrup
Sineast Filmproduction
Wladimir Kaminer,... |
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Festivals: Docs-for-Sale at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2007 (IDFA)
Green Film Festival Seoul 2008
METROPOLIS TV
Short documentaries / 5-10Min.per episode /
2008–10 Dutch short-documentary TV-series covering cultural and social themes for a young, international audience.
Sineast reports from Berlin/Germany and Greenland.
Finished Episodes (more in development):
Sweet 15
Elvis – a worldwide phenomenon
Social outcasts
The world of Billy
Superstition
A Dog’s Life
Report on Cops in Greenland
Report on Gays in Greenland
World of Soccer
Prostitution
Writer& Director
Produced by |
Signe Astrup, Robin Meurer,
Lene Lavtsen
Sineast Filmproduction
for VPRO and NED3 |
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Winner of the international MEDEA AWARD für innovative television. Winner of the SILVER PRITCHETT at the Silver-Nipkow Prize.
TRUTH, HOPE AND GREENLAND
Documentary / 45 Min. / 2008
Through the eyes and the work of five artists from Greenland, the film is going on a journey home, to the cultural roots of this amazing country and island.
Writer & Director
Director
Produced by |
Signe Astrup & Ivalo Frank
Ivalo Frank
Signe Astrup & Ivalo Frank
In collaboration with
KNR TV, Greenland |
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NON-FICTION: PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT
SILKE & DAVE Documentary / 45 Min.
/ 2010–2011
Silke loves Dave (Names changed). But Silke lives in a small Austrian village and Dave is in the United States - and he is on death row fighting for his freedom.
This personal film follows Silke on one of her hard-earned trips from her village to the Union Correctional Institution in the U.S. where she visits him again...
Writer & Director
Produced by |
Robin Meurer
Sineast Filmproduction in collaboration with cine parallel Ltd. &
Co. KEG, Austria |
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Supported by Cinestyria Filmfund Status: production started
Feb. 2010
MOLLY LUFT Short documentary / 15
Min. / 2009
She once was Germany’s most known und heaviest prostitute. Today she
is 65 and has cancer – but she’s still working in her newly opened
brothel. Molly Luft gives us an inside look into her life and lust and
tells us how the prostitution business has changed over the years…
Writer & Director
Produced by |
Signe Astrup
Sineast Filmproduction |
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Status: post-production
AT THE END OF TIME Documentary /
60 Min. / 2010–2012
Because of the precious coal that lies underneath their ground,
three Brandenburg villages Kerkwitz, Atterwasch and Grabko are about
to be removed. However, the people of Lusatia haven’t given up the
fight yet. Especially the young ones are eager not to be driven out of
their homes so fast. Why do these young people want to stay in a
village that doesn’t provide them any future and which will be gone
soon? "At the end of time" will search for an answer.
Writer & Director
Producer Produced by |
Peter Benedix
Edda Reiser Sineast Filmproduction |
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Status: in development
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