Up and coming Irish producer Conor Barry, whose credits include ‘Savage’ and ‘Love Eternal’, has been selected as Ireland’s ‘Producer on the Move' for this year’s Cannes International Film Festival.
A graduate of the National Film School at IADT, Conor set up SP Films with the writer/director Brendan Muldowney and has produced the feature film ‘Savage’, along with eight short films. Muldowney recently directed Love Eternal, which Conor also produced through Fastnet Films.
Based on the Japanese novel ‘Loving the Dead' from acclaimed author Kei Oishi, ‘Love Eternal’ centers on a damaged young man who after shutting himself away for ten years is forced to venture out into a world that he no longer understands. The film is an Irish/Luxembourg/Dutch/Japanese co-production which Conor produced with Morgan Bushe and Macdara Kelleher for Fastnet Films. It will be selling at the Cannes Film Festival. Barry is currently producing the UK/Irish/Dutch co-production ‘Brand New-U’ with John Keville for SP Films.
Now in its 14th year, the ‘Producer on the Move’ scheme is organised by European Film Promotion and aims to create select networking opportunities for Europe’s most up and coming leading producers, in order to facilitate new co-production opportunities.
The programme provides its participants the chance to meet with sales agents, financiers and the international media. It also allows the producers to schedule pitching sessions, one-on-one speed-dating meetings, and it gives the producers various opportunities to come away from the event with a co-production deal.
The emerging and independently working producers are selected by EFP member organisations from the respective countries.
29 producers from 29 different European countries will take part in the event from18 to 21 May 2013.
