Earlier this year producer Leon Flamholc attended the Berlinale to meet with co-producers through the European Producer’s Club, regarding financing and producing our horror/thriller script ‘Daggers Drawn’.

Several possible contacts cooperations presented themselves and found interest in our ideas on production and distribution.

Then two days of intense meetings  Central Asian producers – a personal adventure for myself to learn about their projects, as I happen to have been born in Kirghyzstan and speak Russian.

After too much fantastic wine, succulent Parma ham and Swiss cheese I am back in London calculating the harvest from this well organised Locarno Film Fest - The result is:

• Continued negotiations with 5 possible EU based co-producers on “DAGGERS DRAWN”.
• Awaiting material on 5 possible projects seeking us as co-producers.
• Many new contacts from around the globe who I’m sure will develop into interesting projects in the not too far off future.

more on the development of “Daggers Drawn” soon…

Leon is meeting producers, distributors and sales agents from Germany, France, Spain, the UK and the US, to discuss possible co-productions.

Europe is simmering with this kind of activity at the moment as the EU commission is actively implementing support mechanisms, helping to make artistically interesting projects attractive to investors.

We’re keeping our fingers crossed that Leon will return with good news both our own project and prospects of getting involved in other interesting projects that we’ve spotted out there.

More soon.

Leon Flamholc presenting our Horror Feature Film "Daggers Drawn" at the 62nd Locarno Film Festival

Our main mission is to raise £2m for investment in the marketing of the release to achieve the necessary initial groundswell of a domestic UK box-office success. Once this is achieved the movie’s future market potential is secured.

The UK finds itself in the perfect place to launch a film, due to the globally accepted English language – BUT – with only a fraction of the marketing spend required, to make the film a success in comparison to the US.

New technology is also helping to change the game. Our experiment with seeding videos on our YouTube channel, TheCaravanTube, is at present on 1.2 million views and counting.

Please contact us if you find our proposition interesting. We offer subscription to our EIS film-fund. Shares available between £5000 – £500 000 (to remain eligible for tax relief). Once we get documented interest covering £2m, we will proceed to production and implement the fund capital when the film is ready for release.

We Welcome You to Invest in our UK Feature Film Release Fund

Most of the attention is created by films on the subject of ethnic and religious differences. This dramatically reflects the political tension in the world out there and reminds us how difficult it is for anybody to put themselves in the shoes of someone else.

Keep watching and commenting.

The debate is sometimes very harsh, but in the long run we believe it can lead to understanding for some.

We're very proud to have more than 1 million views four our YouTube clips... and still counting... fast!

A few of the elements that the Forum will cover:

- EPC: Role of EPC between China-Europe co-production
- China representatives present the situation regarding production, distribution, exhibition, production bases

How to produce in and co-produce with China

- Financing in China – Brief on Chinese film institutions: roles and procedures – How to co-produce with China – Brief about existing China-foreign treaties

- Brief on Europe industry\policy\Europe-China co-production; - Is there a market, an audience for Chinese films in Europe?
- Case-study of recent China-Europe co-productions
- Chinese distributors explain the new trends in Chinese cinema

We have a few feature film projects that would be suitable to co-produce with Chinese companies and shoot fully or part of in China. We’ll be looking forward, with excitement, to hearing what contacts Leon makes and what opportunities reveal themselves during his trip.

TheCaravanTube

During this time we have unfortunately not been able to put up a lot of new material on the Channel… so we’re very happy to see that people are not losing interest in what is already there. On the contrary, the visitor frequency, comments and discussions are increasing. It’s a fine line to know when to let something run it’s course or when to continuously and relentlessly try to produce new stuff. The biggest eye-opener for us is how some of the most discussed material online at the moment, are documentary films that were made for Swedish Television in the early 90s, but which are still considered not to be dated in any way by the majority of people commenting on the clips. We’re by no means implying that we’re taking credit for making classic timeless films, but would instead want to humbly draw attention to the subjects of these films and how in some ways very little seem to have changed in the last 15 years.

It’s still Leon Flamholc’s documentary “Racist Sweden?” (1993) about racism in Sweden, which draws the most views and the discussions between visitors on many of the episodes are running wild.

400.000 views - 12 June '09

Hopefully people will continue to watch this documentary. Through the years we have had many confirmations that it hits on important points, both in Sweden and it’s culture and development and in societies world wide. Soon after the film was screened on Swedish television in the 90s, the country’s school system bought the film for educational purposes.

Apart from “Racist Sweden?” we have also uploaded many of our other feature films and documentaries on YouTube. If you haven’t already, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/thecaravantube