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 The title, which loses completely its French double-meaning, has been replaced by 1975.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.