or Tragedy for Left-Handers

Director Ernestas JankauskasProducers: Gabija Siurbyte, Monika Sakalauskaite, Jurga Jutaite

Co-producers: Malte Forssell, Keren Cogan

introductionw e are excited to present our full feature movie "Jellyfish

in the Moon". We have always been a team, interested in producing content that has a high production value and is able to earn the appreciation from wide range of au-diences. And that is exactly what we are aiming for with

"Jellyfish in the Moon".

We have been working on this project for a year and now, having the 5th draft of the script in our hands and strong international co-producers by our side, we strongly be-lieve, that it has all what it takes to be a winner. Sensitive social issues wrapped in the form of the fairy-tale story, extraordinary characters revealing themselves through a challenges of destiny, drama of self-sacrifice and all the other elements of the story are worth spreading, possi-ble to produce within a reasonable budget and universal

enough to touch viewers around the globe.

We are not only looking forward to bringing this unique story to life, but we are also looking for companions – per-fectionists willing to create projects with enduring value.

Any kind of partnership that could make the projectbetter is more than open to be discussed.

It is a fairytale about a SELFISH con artist who agrees to destroy

left-handers theatre “The Moon”, but

the plan is shattered when

she finds what to fight for.

logline

CIRCUMSTANCES

Once upon a time a city Rightland existed. It was similar to all other cities around the world with only one exception. Only right handed people lived there.

There even was a rehabili-tation center for those who were not lucky enough and were born left handed. But then one day somebody noticed that people are tor-tured there. So, the clinic was closed and left-hand-ers theatre “The Moon” was created in the very same

place.

But it takes more than one theatre to change the per-

ception of the whole city...

synopsis

Someday, somewhere is a city called Rightland that is predominant-ly populated by right-handed people. One building, amongst many wonders of the city, is to be singled-out: an exclusively left-handed

people’s theatre called “The Moon”.

Veronica, a selfish con artist, arrives to the city while searching for a hid-ing place from vicious man, called Placido, whom she has swindled. While settling in Rightland, she meets a mysterious Mr. Hades. He offers her a deal – he would give her the money if she would pretend to be a left-hander and infiltrate “The Moon”. Veronica agrees to take on a mission

that consists of finding the evidence to destroy the theatre.

After some lessons of how to use the left hand, Veronica knocks on the doors of “The Moon”. A young alluring David lets her in. Solomon, theatre director, wants Veronica to rehearse for the main part in the new play and pushes her to her limits. What was supposed to be an easy mission turns out to be a search for Veronica’s true iden-tity. Veronica tries to abandon Mr. Hades mission but is threatened by Placido who finds her in Rightland and asks for money that Veronica

owes him.

With time Veronica begins feeling her better self in “The Moon” and falls in love with David. Meanwhile Mr. Hades is changing his plans and now de-mands Veronica to bring him a left-handers glove. She accomplishes the task, takes her fee and flees the theatre. But on the way she discovers that David is accused of the murder of the right-hander, the evidence being a

glove found in a crime scene.

Meanwhile riot starts breaking out in the city. Right-handers demand “The Moon” to be closed. They don’t want to have murderers in the

neighborhood.

Veronica feels that she is an only one to blame for this situation. She decides to fight back even if it means being a person she fears the most – herself.

27 years

She is a selfish and attrac-

tive fraud. She is inspired by money and her own agenda. She agrees to

pretend to be a left-hander and

infiltrates “The Moon”.

27 years

He is charming director’s assistant. He strongly believes that all people are born

equal. He is straightforward and likes honesty.

65 years

Egocentric director of left-handers theatre “The Moon”. He loves art and be-

lieves that theatre can change the world.

45 years

She is the main actress in “The Moon”. Her eyes are filled with sadness.

She feels love only on stage.

50 years

A real manipulator. He calls himself – “The puppeteer”. His biggest dream is to

destroy “The Moon”.

CHARACTERS LOOK ALIKE

VERONICA MR. HADES DAVID

CLOTILDESOLOMON and

the Theatre OFFICERS

CHARACTERS LOOK ALIKE

director's noteThis is an universal story about dis-crimination of minorities, preconception, blindness of society, manipulation and lies, false justice and power of huma-nity. Story where love and perception of equality overcomes vanity and blind prejudice, though all of that is marked by losses and mistakes of human behavior.

I am from a small country that was all-ways in a crossroad between Europe and Russia. For ages lots of different cultures and religions lived and nourished togeth-er in my hometown Vilnius. It all changed as we became part of Soviet Union. We fought back our independence, but peoples psychology was changed. Once multicultural, Vilnius became homopho-bic. The threat of Russia is still in the air, especially now, when we have Ukraine crisis. The core of the story is based on Lithuanian Russian Drama Theatre that creates shows in Russian language for Russian speaking population (5% in total in Lithuania). Lithuanians do not go to that theatre as it is the relict of Soviet Union and the Theatre is very closed one.

I want to tell a story about peoples ma-

nipulation through the con artist Veronica. By accident she becomes the key figure in manipulation game between people who want to destroy the minority theatre “The Moon”. Her change interests me as an artist most – how much we can all sac-rifice in the sake of others? How blind we can stay if we are offered the fulfilment of our dreams?

Furthermore, I believe that similar sto-ries happened, happens and will happen – that is the reason I do want to use “no time, no place” concept. For this story I also want to use very vivid characters with high pitch emotions and absurd situ-ations.

As sometimes we can not believe in re-ality that is happening around us, I want to use the style of an old dark fairy tale. When I was a kid, I believed in them. But I always believed in good endings too as “all the ideas created by evil will fail sooner or later” (theatre director Jonas Vaitkus).

MOOD and STYLE >>> In terms of film mood and style, we will be going towards "modern noir" look. Where the shadows, dark tones, darkness and monochromatic colours will dominate.

CHARACTERS >>> As the story will take us in to the mysti-cal, unnatural, fictional world in the place that exists “somewhere" and "sometime", our characters will be exaggerated in their look and style. In terms of acting, main Characters will proceed on the quite natural style of acting, though supporting Characters will amplify their characteristics and emotions.

CINEMATOGRAPHY >>> In terms of Cinematography we will be working with low key lighting and under exposed material. That will be the main consideration, when we will be talking about lighting the sets and creating the mood of the film. Our camera movement will work along with Main Character’s journey, emotions and experiences in the world that is new to her, while she tries to find her way of understanding her mission and herself. Camera goal is to create and magnify not only the Charac-ters, but also to complete and exaggerate the dark fairy tale look. So, I do plan to amplify camera movement and accom-pany it with poetic and/or surrealistic shots to amplify emotions, metaphors and underlined meaning.

LOCATIONS >>> As for Locations, we are looking for the cities, that have old-towns with an epic looks and marvellous architectural styles, accompanied with abandoned, untouched, rough, really old buildings, dark cobblestone streets and beauti-ful nature.

Art References

Characters references

CINEMATOGRAPHY REFERENCES

LIGHT REFERENCES

LOCATION REFERENCES

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2014 2015 2016 2017 2017-18MEDIA grant for development:

received30 000 EUR

Dansu films share: received

5 000 EUR

DEVELOPMENT

Lithuanian Film Center for develop-

ment: received 20 000 EUR

Lithuanian Film Center: 235 000 EUR

(to be applied inOctober 2015)

The Netherlands Film Fund: 70 000 EUR (to

be applied in 2015)

Swedish Film Insti-tute: 70 000 EUR (to be applied in 2015)

Searching for partners

PRE-PRODUCTION

Eurimages: 100 000 EUR

(to be applied in March)

Crowd Funding:

15 000 USD (to be launched in

April)

Private investors: 50 000 Eur

SHOOT

Lithuanian Tax Incentive scheme:

70 000 EUR

POST-PRODUCTION

Lithuanian Film Center for

distribution:15 000 EUR

DISTRIBUTION

timeline and financialplan

Productionnotes

WORKING TITLE Jellyfish in the Moon

RUNNING TIME 110 min

BUDGET Around 700 000 EUR

AUDIENCEPrimary – woman from 18 to 40 years old middle and upper middle class;

Secondary – woman 55+

PRODUCTION COMPANIESProduction Company: ‘Dansu Films’ (Lithuania)

Co-production Companies: “Skäggafilm” (Sweden),“Keren Cogan Films” (The Netherlands)

MARKETING TOOLSTexts, visuals, teasers, social media:

Facebook page; group for left-handers (case studies on re-teaching to right-hander actions, troubles being left-hander, etc.);

Blog for discussions where debates on the topics of war and scarifying per-sonal ambitions for the sake of others will be launched, publishing data on percentage of left-handers and right-handers in the areas of politics, arts,

war industry in co-producing countries and their neighbor countries;Twitter, Youtube and Vimeo channels will be used to post teasers, trailers, in-

terviews, and to follow films and music videos created by left-handers, etc.

Crowd funding page will be used for financing and marketing purposes, spreading the news for backers.

Special activities: theater play where only left-handers are invited and vice versa; competition (any sport, depending on the time of the year) for left-handers versus right-handers; funding concert where right-handers and left-

handers are performing together.

Is movie and commercials director, who started in movie business as Assistant Director. He has worked in American, English, French and German produc-tions as 1st AD. His first short movie “No Focus” was made for national short movie festival AXX in 2006. From then he worked hard to find his style and voice as a director. He has directed over 40 commercials and has become the first director in Baltic States whose commercials were featured in world known magazine “Shots”. Also commercials directed by him have won awards in national advertis-ing festival “Adrenalinas”. Lately Ernes-tas directed short fiction “The Queen of England Stole my Parents”, which has won Best Short Film award “Silver Crane 2014” at Lithuanian National film ceremony.

Founder and a head of DANSU, Gabija is a professional project manager and has 13 years of experience in event organizing and movie business. Leading her company, she became first producer from Baltic States, whose works were presented in international magazine “Shots”, which is archiving world’s best commercials. After providing production service for Swedish Feature film “The Crown Jewels”, Gabija was accredited as a producer and now is one of the youngest producers in Lithuania to be recognized by Swedish Film Institute. Currently Gabija was working as Producer for shooting in Lithuania for feature film “Gentlemen”.She made her debut as a screenwriter for short films “The Queen of England Stole my Parents” and “The Ghost I don’t Re-member”. At the moment she is develop-ing feature film “Jellyfish in the Moon”. Ga-bija is also a member of EAVE and a board member of Independent Producers’ Asso-ciation of Lithuania.

Is counting her 10th year in movie business. Monika started working as Production Assistant in such interna-tional projects as “Wallis & Edward”, “Visas for 6.000 lives”, “Surviving di-saster. Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster”, “9/11: the Twin Towers”, “Nuclear Sci-ence”. From 2008 Monika was successfully working as Production Coordina-tor and since that time was a part of such crews as “Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire”, “Defiance”, “The Crown Jewels”. From 2012 Monika worked in such projects as TV series “Friends of Friends“ and feature film “Gentle-men” as Asst. Project Manager. 2013 she started to work as Producer and did such projects as “The Queen of England Stole my Parents” (Best Short Film award “Silver Crane 2014”) and “The Ghost I don’t Remember”.

DIRECTOR Ernestas Jankauskas

WRITER / PRODUCER Gabija Siurbyte

ProducerMonika Sakalauskaite

Co-producer Malte Forssell is one of Sweden’s most experienced and well-renowned producers with over 30 years in the industry. His latest film ”The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared” has been one of the largest blockbusters in Sweden and other countries in recent years. Few of well known films Malte Forssell worked on:1. “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared” (2014)2. “Wallander” (2005-2013)3. “Call Girl” (2012) 4. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” (2011)5. “Dogville” (2003)

Co-producer ‘s Keren Cogan strength lies in her multicultural background and her deep interest and understand-ing for people and stories from various backgrounds. This enables her to work creatively on a high level with all kinds of filmmakers.The films produced by Keren Cogan:1. “Tzirk” (2009) - short fiction.2. “Wes” (2009) - short fiction.3. “Cat & Mice” (2010) - short fiction, the Dutch entry Academy Awards Live Ac-tion Short 2010, winner of Best Short Live Action Film at Palm Springs Inter-national Shortfest.4. “8 Hoog” (2010) - short fiction.5. “Show me Love” (2012) - short fiction.6. “Between 10 and 12”, feature length drama.

Started her career as a producer with a short movie “Brown-nose”. After suc-cessful debut, a lot of shorts followed: “Split”, “Hot dog”, “The Riddle”, “South-ern”. 2011 Jurgita joined the team of fea-ture film “The Crown Jewels” as a prod. Coordinator LT for pre-production. Ms. Jutaite has also joined DANSU Production Company where she is still currently working. During those years she has produced more than 20 TV commercials for major local and inter-national brands. She also produced “Sunrise Avenue” music video “I do not Dance”.The latest shorts produced by Jurgita were “The Queen of England Stole my Parents” and “The Ghost I don’t Re-member”.

PRODUCTIONCOMPANY

Company has produced four short length fiction films:

1. "The Queen of England Stole my Parents" by Ernestas Jankauskas.

The movie has won Best Short Film award "Silver Crane 2014" at Lithuanian National Film ceremony.

2. Segment "K" for "ABCs Of Death 2" by Kristina Buožyte and Bruno Samper.

3. "The Ghost I don't Remember" by Jonas Trukanas (distribution)

4. “The Trolleybus Man” by Jonas Trukanas (pre-production)

After six thriving years of managing "Dansu" LLC that spe-cializes in providing production services for foreign film and TV commercials, the owners Ernestas Jankauskas and Ga-bija Siurbyte established brand new company, dedicated to

producing their own films.

Most recent feature film which “Dansu” has provided pro-duction service to is “Gentlemen” (directed by Mikael Mar-cimain) had it’s world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival, was selected as opening movie for Stockholm In-ternational film festival and has won 3 Guldbaggen awards

(Best Costume, Best Make-up, Best Original Music).

Started in June of 2013, “Dansu Films” is young and vigorous company, dedicated to produce high class feature films and TV.

Thank youIf you have more questions:

Monika Sakalauskaite+370 674 39 737

monika@dansu.eu

Gabija Siurbyte+370 698 14 141

gabija@dansu.eu

Jurga Jutaite+370 659 98 796jurga@dansu.eu