Projects in Development and in Pre-Production
Altered Ego Entertainment
has several feature
projects currently in development,
Jettisoned,
Made in China,
M & N: 1975,
This Mortal Coil,
Seeds,
Overload,
The Greatest Gig in the Sky and
Air-Conditioned.
Penned by
Frederic Colier, these screenplays are planned to be shot over the next
few years...
We have also completed
our first TV Reality show:
Bull School. We
spent the last six months traveling the country to unveil interesting characters
and engaging stories. We anticipate to sell the show in the near future
and have partnered with
Silent Crow Arts to roll into
first season.
Made in China,
the script, was finalist Berlin Campus
2008, IFP Emerging Narrative 2008, Nicholl 2009, and selected for the Dreamago
Screenwriters' Lab 2010 is currently in development. AEE has entered into
an agreement with Impatient Pictures,
based in Vancouver, BC. Gregory Mackenzie will produce the film.
The story depicts the struggle of
two brothers, Roy and Mike, in a small town of New York state, who have to come
to term with thier unresolved past. The brothers live
together in controlled animosity until the day a Chinese woman, Maggie, land in
their life. Roy, who has been confined to a wheelchair for the last twenty
years and who had secretly hoped for a dream job faraway is not so sure anymore
about his goal. Mike, who has just lost his job, because his factory
relocates in China, watches him.
2011
M & N
which won the
Panasonic Filmmaker Award at the IFP Market 2007 (in the Emerging
Narrative category) and was a finalist at the Sundance
Lab 07, has been adapted to an American setting. The original version
was aimed to be shot in France and in French.
The title, which loses completely its French double-meaning, has been
replaced by
1975.
Instead of dealing with the French-Algerian war that ended in 1962, the
new story focuses on the Vietnam war, which officially ended in 1975.
Production is forecast for Spring 10. (Check Pre-Production Page).
The
new version follows a guilt-ridden
old woman, Mary Rae,
who after years of alienation with her daughter, Faith, desperately tries to
reconnect with her. Problems arise when Faith refuses to allow her mother
in her life. Instead, Mary Rae finds herself under the care of a
middle-aged Asian woman. Mary Rae never recovered from her son's death during
the Algeria in
1962. The co-habitation and the quest for her daughter only marks the
beginning of a painful journey towards awareness and acceptance.
Jettisoned narrates the story
of a couple on the verge of breakdown following the disappearance of their daughter.
Suspected of sexually abusing his daughter, Stan falls prey to his wife, Amanda, and her thirst for truth during a deceptive boat outing. With nothing to lose,
Stan fights back to prove his innocence, even at the cost of sinking everything.
The Greatest Gig in the Sky.
A weary and frail cocoon is about to break, and the sixty-year-old butterfly
(Judith) emerges to take her first and last flight. But John, her
defrocked brother-in-law is watching her. Wanda O'Connell is attached to
play Judith, David McCandless, John. To be directed by Frederic Colier with Max
Shuppert at the camera.