CHANNEL 8
Feature, 111 minutes, 35mm, colour, Dolby stereo,
in development.
Screenplay & Direction: Andrea Maria Dusl
Dramaturgical Consultants: Jim Hart, David Keating, Ruth Mader, Marcia Nasatir, Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Cinematography: Wolfgang Thaler
Editing: Karina Ressler
Music: Peter Dusl, Andrea Maria Dusl
Executive Producer: TBA
Producer: TBA
Production: TBA
presented at: 25th éQuinoxe Screenwriters‘ Workshop 2005, RomeFilmFest, New Cinema Network 2006
CHANNEL 8, my next film, is about today’s Europe. It is about the attitude of the West always knowing better – and the spiritual longing of the East for a better world. The Thriller “Channel 8” circles around the fear of our time: beeing unable to tell reality from fiction. The story is about two people, who are connected in an uncanny way.
A tv-anchorman from Paris and a female painter from Russia have never met in person, nevertheless they are close to each other. That is because Valentin and Anastasija dream each other. Like two radio stations sending on the same frequency, they experience each other’s life in their dreams. Valentin starts to search the person on the other side of the Channel. He wants to find the person, whose life he happens to encounter in his dreams. He will cross borders, he would never ever have considered possible, not in his craziest thoughts.