DIRECTED BY
RAÚL DE LA FUENTE & DAMIAN NENOW
A FILM BASED ON
RYSZARD KAPUŚCIŃSKI’S NOVEL
“JESZCZE DZIEŃ ŻYCIA” [ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE]
TABLE OF CONTENTS
B A S I C P R O J E C T I N F O R M A T I O N 3
S Y N O P S I S 4
D I R E C T O R ’ S N O T E 6
D I R E C T O R S ’ P R O F I L E S 1 1
P R O D U C E R I N F O R M A T I O N 1 4
C O - P R O D U C E R I N F O R M A T I O N 1 6
S A L E S A G E N T 2 0
P A R T N E R S 2 1
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BASIC PROJECT INFORMATION
TITLE LENGTH DIRECTED BY SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL FILM CONCEPT ART DIRECTION PRODUCTION CO-PRODUCTION GENRE BUDGET START OF PRODUCTION PLANNED END OF WORKS WEBSITE ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE ( JESZCZE DZIEŃ ŻYCIA )
80 min
Raúl de la Fuente ( Spain ), Damian Nenow ( P oland )
Raúl de la Fuente, Amaia Remírez, David Weber, Niall Johnson
Raúl de la Fuente & Amaia Remírez
Rafał Wojtunik
Platige Films ( P oland )
Jarek Sawko, Ole Wendorff-Østergaard
Kanaki Films ( Spain )
Amaia Remírez, Raúl de la Fuente
Walking the Dog ( Belgium ) – Eric Goossens
Wüste Film ( Germany ) – Stefan Schubert
Animations Fabrik ( Germany ) – Joern Radel
Puppetworks ( Hungary ) – Frantisek Ambrus
full-length animated movie
EUR 6.1 million
August 2014
Q1 2017
www.anotherdayoflifefilm.com
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CONTACT
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SYNOPSIS
Another Day of Life is a story of a reporter seeking the truth about war, who during a mortally
dangerous journey through Angola encounters situations and events forcing him to change his
attitude to work and life. The film’s action takes place during the three months Kapuściński
spent in this war-torn country in 1975.
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During the expedition, the reporter realizes that he is a witness to events, the meaning
of which requires him to go beyond the role of an observer. To recount the story of Angola,
he will have to undergo a deep transformation himself. Another Day of Life ( Jeszcze dzień
życia ), the book in which Kapuściński writes about his experience in Angola, bears witness
to his rebirth both as a writer and as a human being.
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DIRECTOR’S NOTE
Another Day of Life
THE PLOT
Another Day of Life is a movie based on the book written by legendary Polish war correspondent
Ryszard Kapuściński. It tells the story of a journalist, left to himself to write a feature story
on the civil war in Angola on the advent of its regaining independence in 1975.
Kapuściński is an idealist, a friend to lost causes and revolutions. Although he had been
to many front lines before, Angola was to change him forever. He was to get closer to the
realities of war; he was to discover that journalistic reporting was far too limiting for him;
he could dispatch his reports to the editor’s office by telex, yet his enormous imagination
and internal voice are ill-fitted to this message-limiting machine.
Kapuściński experienced a dangerous journey into the heart of darkness which changed
him forever. He left for Angola as a reporter to come back as a writer. He discovered that
the honest and idealistic world he was seeking does not exist in Africa… and so he created
it by means of a typewriter and became a writer of a world renown.
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Another Day of Life
STYLE AND VISUAL PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
Another Day of Life is a film which will be produced as a stylized animation with fragments
of documentary photographs. We want to transport the audience to the war theatre, to the
front lines, have the viewers stand next to Kapuściński, in the place where their eyesight
is reduced to the foreground. What did Kapuściński feel during the war in Angola? Loneliness,
fear, madness, panic… Life or death.
TWO LAYERS OF NARRATION
The story in our film will be delivered on two levels of narration.
1. 1. ANIMATED NARRATION will play a double function. It will be used to recount historical
events transpiring in 1975 and convey the surrealist realities of the war in Angola. Additionally,
we will take advantage of the possibilities that animation gives in terms of shifting borders
between the real world and the imagination. We want viewers to be kept in suspense and
captivated, while asking themselves whether what is going on is happening in reality
or in Kapuściński’s mind. The animation will constitute 60 minutes of the entire film.
2.2. DOCUMENTARY NARRATION will supplement the story recounted by means of animation
in the likeness of a missing puzzle piece. The documentary will allow us to include the
memory of those who survived and will furnish the story with a layer of reality. Not through
interviews, but thanks to travelling to the places where the events of 1975 transpired and
contact with animated characters which our camera will imbue with life in 2014. The viewer
will embark on a film voyage to Angola, Cuba, and Portugal to meet Commandant Farrusco,
a white man who joined the rebels, Queiroz, a fighter journalist who travelled across Angola
with Kapuściński, and many other interesting characters the writer described in his book.
The documentary photographs supplement the history presented in the animation, contributing
to the realism, but above all else imbuing the work with EMOTIONS. The documentary part
is going to constitute 20 minutes of the entire film.
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STYLING IN ANIMATION
3D techniques provide a huge styling potential.
WE CHOSE A CARTOON STYLE AS THE STYLING MODE. This manner of presenting similar
themes has proved to be most successful in our previous projects. Cartoon graphics, brimming
with graphical simplifications are perfectly fitted for illustrating this type of story. It furnishes
us with a huge arsenal of ‘play’ tools: manipulation of colors, shapes, level of detail, graphical
simplifications, etc. Moreover we employ a graphic convention that viewers can easily read
and accept from the very beginning of the film, and so their attention will not be distracted
by imperfections at the level of realism. The viewer will not be wondering if the water is sufficiently
blue or whether the transparent skin effect was simulated or not. The style itself will supplement
the story with the gritty and austere realism of war.
STYLE OF DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHS
Documentary photographs continue and supplement the story presented in the animation:
Kapuściński, Angola, the year 1975. True survivors, advanced in years, RECALL the pain and
despair they shared with our main protagonist – Kapuściński.
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Although we are working with real characters, we do our best to avoid the traditional visual
style of a documentary film. There are no interviews shot directly in front of the camera lens.
In 2014, we are going back to the script of war. We are recreating emotions with great care
for the photography: travel, shots of the car interior, aerial photographs.
Objective: a spectacular realistic image.
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SOUND AND MUSIC
Another Day of Life is a war film. Resorting to orchestral music, we seek a sound that would
bring a legendary and epic world closer. We will also use several 1970s hit songs to put
spectators in a suitable mood.
Raúl De La Fuente and Damian Nenow
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DIRECTORS’ PROFILES
RAÚL DE LA FUENTE
DIRECTOR ( SPAIN )
Raúl de la Fuente is the scriptwriter and the responsible for the original idea for the film
“Another day of life”. As Ryszard Kapuściński, main character of the film, Raul de la Fuente has
travelled the world in search for stories, directing and writing the script for documentaries,
spots, short films and TV programs in India, Angola, Lapland, Sierra Leone, Algeria, Mongolia,
Ethiopia, Venezuela, Peru, Cuba, Bolivia, Guatemala, Ecuador, Russia, Kazakhstan, Poland,
Rumania, USA, Canada, Qatar, UK, Switzerland, New Caledonia, Haiti, Benin, Togo…
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In 2015, Raúl de la Fuente’s film “Minerita” was shortlisted for the 88 th Oscars© Academy
Awards as Best Short Documentary Subject. The film won in 2014 the Goya Award, Spanish
Cinema Academy, for Best Short Documentary Film and it’s having an outstanding documentary
career, with over 140 selections since its release in October 2013 at international film festivals
such as IDFA (Amsterdam), the most important documentary film forum, or Clermont-Ferrand
(France), the best festival for short format, and was elected to represent Spain at the filmmakers
gathering organized by UNESCO-Golden Nights in Paris. “Minerita” has won 45 international
prizes so far and got theatrical exhibition in cinemas in Spain.
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His first feature film “Nömadak TX” was the most awarded Spanish documentary film
at international film festivals in 2007 ( 17 prizes and more than 150 festivals ). Released
in 2006 at San Sebastian International Film Festival, got the CICAE Award, ( Confédération
Internationale des Cinemas D’Art et d’Essai ). With this film Raul de la Fuente got the Best
Young Director Award at Guadalajara International Film Festival, México, 2007. The film was
produced for the Spanish Public Television TVE. “Nömadak TX” was shot in India, Algeria,
Lapland, Morocco and Mongolia.
In 2012, Raúl de la Fuente was Nominee for the Goya in Best Short Film for “Black Virgin”,
a short film about how sex is for Mozambican women.
During 2013, the United Nations Development Program, UNDP Haiti, commissioned him
a documentary trilogy about the country, culminating in the request for a new feature
documentary, “I Am Haiti”. That same year, Raul de la Fuente directed in Mozambique the
documentary film “A Luta Continua”, selected in several Film Festivals such as PUKAÑAWI
in Bolivia or A Film For Peace in Italy.
“I Am Haiti”, was premiered at the 62nd Edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival
and was screened as the opening film at Zinemaldia.Cat, Barcelona. It has been awarded at the
BioBioCine International Film Festival in Chile, FENACO in Peru and the the Social Impact Media
Awards in Los Angeles, USA, it has been included in their prestigious catalogue "Travelling
Series". In 2015 the film was awarded as Best Documentary at the International Film Festival
of Santa Cruz in Bolivia.
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DAMIAN NENOW
DIRECTOR ( P OLAND )
Joined Platige in 2005 after graduating from the Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film,
Television and Theatre in Lodz.
He directed three original short animations: “The Aim” ( 2005 ), “The Great Escape” ( 2006 ) and
“Paths of Hate” ( 2010 ). All these works were well-received at international festivals. The last
of them, Paths of Hate, was screened at more than 90 international festivals. It won 25 awards.
The following are worth mentioning amongst the most important: honorary mention of the Jury
at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, the Jury Award at the SIGGRAPH 2011 Computer
Animation Festival, award for the best animated film and the Jury award at the Comic– Con IIFF.
The film was also Oscar-shortlisted.
Damian Nenow has been cooperating with Platige Image since 2005. He is a co-creator of numerous
projects, from commercials to special artistic projects. He is responsible for editing such movies
as “The Kinematograph” and “Animated History of Poland” ( both directed by Tomek Bagiński ).
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In 2011 he directed “City of Ruins” – an animated documentary showing Warsaw in the spring of 1945.
The film was produced for the Warsaw Rising Museum. The film garnered substantial interest
worldwide; it was screened at the Moscow International Film Festival. It was also appreciated
by the American Visual Effect Society, which nominated the production to it VES Award in 2011.
The second of the special projects directed by Nenow – “Move your imagination: Nature” – is a short
animation created for the needs of a campaign promoting Polish tourism at the largest tourism
industry event – the ITB fair in Berlin. The film produced for the Polish Tourist Organization was
screened during the fair opening ceremony in 2011.
In 2013, Damian Nenow directed a spot entitled “ Hunger is a Tyrant” created in the frames of the
United Nation’s campaign Zero Hunger Challenge.
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PRODUCER INFORMATION
PLATIGE FILMS
Platige Films ia a division of Platige Image dedicated to feature film production.
Platige Image is an award winning, Oscar-nominated creative studio specializing in designing
CG imagery, 3D animation, and digital special effects. Platige, combines film and advertising
work with a strong passion for art, education, and entertainment.
The Platige team is comprised of 200 professionals: directors, art directors, graphic designers,
and producers. Its staff is very passionate about storytelling, and that is why the company
constantly seeks out new and original ways to shape narratives and experiment with new media.
The studio has been internationally recognized with over 200 awards and honors among which
are the two British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards. The studio was also
nominated for an Oscar, the Golden Palm at Cannes and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
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KANAKI FILMS
SPAIN
Kanaki Films is a Spanish company originating from the Basque Country. The main area of its
operations covers production of feature and documentary films for international markets. It was
established by the award-winning director Raúl de la Fuente and producer Amaia Remírez.
In 2015, their film “Minerita“ was shortlisted for the 88 th Oscars© Academy Awards as Best
Short Documentary Subject. The film won in 2014 the Goya Award, Spanish Cinema Academy, for
Best Short Documentary Film and it’s having an outstanding documentary career with over 140
selections and 40 awards since its release in October 2013.
Kanaki Films produced the short film “Black Virgin” in 2012 and was nominated for the Goya
Awards in the Short Documentary category. In 2013, Kanaki Films produced in Mozambique the
documentary film “A Luta Continua”, selected in several Film Festivals such as PUKAÑAWI in Bolivia
or A Film For Peace in Italy. In 2014 the company premiered the feature documentary “I Am Haiti”
at the 62nd Edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival. The film has been awarded
at the BioBioCine International Film Festival in Chile, FENACO in Peru and the the Social Impact
Media Awards in Los Angeles, USA, where it has been included in their prestigious catalogue
"Travelling Series". In 2015 the film was awarded as Best Documentary at the International Film
Festival of Santa Cruz in Bolivia.
The company has a vast experience in shooting in foreign and developing countries. It has shot
documentaries in Lapland, Sierra Leone, Algeria, Mongolia, Ethiopia, Venezuela, Peru, Cuba, Bolivia,
Guatemala, Ecuador, Russia, Kazakhstan, Poland, Rumania, USA, Canada, UK, Switzerland, New
Caledonia, Haiti, Morocco. The company combines creative projects with assignments from
international institutions.
“Another Day of Life” has the support of the Spanish Cinema Institute ( I CAA ), Basque
Government, Navarre Government, Eurimages, Televisión Española, EiTB and Canal +.
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CO-PRODUCER INFORMATION
WÜSTE FILM
GERMANY
Wüste Film was established in Hamburg in 1989. It is currently managed by Stefan Schubert.
From the beginning of its existence, Wüste Film Hamburg and its sister companies in Cologne
and Berlin have produced more than 40 feature films of all genres, among them such works
as: Forgotten ( 2 012 ) directed by Alex Schmidt ( the official selection at the 69 th Film Festival
in Venice ), “Alive and Ticking” ( 2 011 ) directed by Andi Rogenhagen ( the International Film
Festival in Shanghai ), “Die Tür” [The Door] ( 2 009 ) directed by Anno Saul ( the Silver Melies
Award at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival ), “Emmas Glück” [Emma’s Bliss]
( 2 006 ) directed by Sven Taddicken ( the official selection at the International Film Festival
in San Sebastian ), “Gegen die Wand” ( Head-On ) ( 2 004 ) directed by Faith Akin ( the EFA Award
for the best European film, Deutscher Filmpreis Award for the best film, Goya Award for the
best foreign film ), “Kurz und schmerzlos” ( Short Sharp Shock ) ( 1 999 ) directed by Fatih
Akin ( the Brown Leopard Award for the best actor at the 51 st Locarno Film Festival ), and
“Wasteland” ( 1 997 ) directed by Andrea Schwartz ( the award for the best documentary film
at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and at the Hot Docs Canadian
International Documentary Festival ).
Other films co-produced by Wüste Film include “Flammen & Citronen” ( Flame & Citron ), a work
by Ole Christian Madsen ( 2 008 ), completed in co-production with Denmark and subsidized
from the Council of Europe’s EURIMAGES – European Cinema Support Fund.
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WALKING THE DOG
BELGIUM
Walking the Dog is an independent animation studio established in 1999 by a duo of producers,
Anton Roebbeen and Erica Goossens, who thanks to the success of their earlier films ( “Little
Big One” and “Trix” ) launched their own operations focusing on the production of full-length
animated films which present a huge artistic challenge. The company’s headquarters and
studio are located in the center of Brussels, at C-Mine in Genk.
Today, Walking The Dog can boast the completion of a number of projects in the capacity
of a co-producer and as an independent animation studio.
The company began to gain a world-wide recognition thanks to such full-length Oscar-nominated
films as: “Les triplettes de Belleville” ( T he Triplets of Belleville ) from 2013 ( directed by Sylvain
Chomet ) and Tom Moore’s “The Secret of Kells” from 2009.
Another great success was “The Day of the Crows” ( 2 012 ), directed by J.C. Dessaint ( the
first screening at the Cannes festival in 2012 ). The following year, the studio participated
in co-producing Pinocchio ( Enzo D’Alo ), nominated for the EFA Award in the best full-length
animated film category in 2013. It was the first full-length 2D animated film in the studio’s
history produced without the use of paper, but created fully with the use of the latest digital
technologies. The same technique was used in the work on “The Congress” by Ari Folman
( the film won the EFA Award for the full-length animated film, it was shown at Quinzainerealisateurs in Cannes in 2013 ).
The Walking The Dog studio has become specialized not only in traditional 2D animation, but
in the production of CGI films, as well. “Un Monstre a Paris” ( A Monster in Paris ) from 2011,
directed by Bilbo Bergeron ( a film nominated to the César Award and awarded at LAAF ) was the
studio’s first co-production with Europacorp. Both companies also co-operated at producing
Jack and the “Cuckoo Clock Heart” ( Mathias Malzieu and Stéphane Berla ). The film was first
screened in February 2014 and it was nominated in the Generation Kplus category at the
Film Festival in Berlin in the same year.
At present, Walking The Dog has engaged in production of the film entitled “Richard the
Stork”. This full-length stereoscopic animated movie will be co-produced with partners from
Germany, Norway, Luxembourg, and Belgium.
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ANIMATIONS FABRIK
GERMANY
AF is a one-stop visual effects and animation production house based in Hamburg, Germany,
operational since May 2000.
In our studio we offer a wide range of services backed by more than a decade of experience.
With a very strong background in feature films and character animation, we continuously
expand our skills and look for new challenges.
Every project is something special and comes with it's very own requirements; we treat them
all with the passion they deserve.
Our creative services span from concept creation to full production. Talented in-house
artists and a large pool of freelancers allow us to fluently assemble the perfect team for
every project. We will also offer support and advice in early stages of project development
with great pleasure.
A proprietary asset management system forms the backbone of our production pipeline and
allows us to easily keep the overview in complex projects, regardless of how many hundred
shots required.
A large number of work stations for 3D and compositing, plugged into a bold render farm,
let us tackle even the most ambitious projects in advertising, as also for television series
and feature films.
For animation requiring natural movements and fast results we possess our own, highly
mobile motion capture system.
Several editing and grading suites connected to a 3D capable cinema provide a comfortable
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We have won several honours and awards for our work:
• Winner of the ADC – Art Directors Club – Award, Germany for the Cinemaxx Power Drill
• Best Children’s Film Awards for Captain Bluebear and Laura’s Star,
• Animago Production Award and the Bronze Lion, Cannes, for the Mercedes “Embryo” spot,
• Silver World Medal at the New York Festival for the TV series “Little Dodo”,
• And the Silver Swiss ADC Award for the ZVV spot.
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PUPPETWORKS
HUNGARY
Puppetworks Animation Studio is a Budapest-based digital animation studio. Founded
in 2009 by a team of highly-talented Hungarian 3D artists, Puppetworks has grown into
an international studio of over 100 artists from 12 different countries dedicated to creating
high-quality 3D media.
Since its inception, Puppetworks has become renowned for the striking visual content it has
produced for feature films, television, games, advertising and integrated media. To date,
the studio has completed over 50 animated projects with the bulk of these projects being
associated with names such as BBDO, Eset, Ubisoft, Microsoft and Riot Games.
More recently, Puppetworks has begun to develop its own ideas into transmedia concepts with
the studio's primary focus being the family genre. The first of these concepts to be realized
is “The Tale of Momonga,” an animated feature project currently in the pre-production and
funding stage.
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SALES AGENT
INDIE SALES
Bringing independent films to audiences worldwide.
In May 2013, veteran sales agent Nicolas Eschbach and producer Eric Neve launched Indie
Sales an independent, international sales and co-production company based in Paris. Their
complementary professional backgrounds bring a solid, unique structure to the international
film distribution business.
Indie Sales acquires 10 live action and animated films per year; all genres with a strong
commercial and artistic potential. We enjoy working with established directors and producers
and have a special affinity for newcomers and films made by women.
Films in our line up have been selected in The Directors Fortnight, Critics Week ( C annes ),
TIFF, San Sebastian, Venice, Locarno.
In 2015 Indie Sales won the prestigious Best European Distributor of the Year award
at Cartoon Movie in Lyon.
Indie Sales can get involved in any stage in a film’s lifespan offering tailor-made strategies
to launch films in a market which is growing increasingly complex. We are actively seeking
co-production opportunities.
CONTACT
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