Current Projects
Løvset's Manoeuvre
Sandy, a fifty-year-old homecare nurse, spirals into familiar patterns of rescue and interference when her daughter Jess racks up a serious debt on the day of her younger daughter's graduation party. A tender, unflinching exploration of emotional addiction and the nature of love, nurture, and what we can and can't control.
Writer-Director: Elizabeth Chatelain
Status: Post-production (Principal photography completed April 2025, Hibbing, MN)
Producing alongside Paul Mezey and Rebecca Wyzan, Present Company, and Jon Steinhorst, Mid-Western Workhorse
SOIL
Therese, an agricultural scientist, returns to her family's Minnesota dairy farm after her father's suicide, where she is torn between her girlfriend in India and her married childhood friend, while uncovering a deadly government cover-up of toxic fertilizer that's poisoning farmers and threatening her own sanity. A psychological horror exploring ecological destruction, corporate and governmental cover-up, and intergenerational trauma.
Writer-Director: Elizabeth Chatelain
Status: Development
Producing alongside Elle Roth-Brunet, Night Breeze Productions
88
Two American siblings, Kirsten and Gabriel, embark on a pilgrimage around the island of Shikoku hoping to recapture the bond they shared as children. But as childhood patterns resurface and adult realities intrude, they are forced to pursue their individual paths to healing, and find that love sometimes means accepting the distance necessary for both to grow. A coming-of-age hybrid narrative documentary.
Writer-Director: Elizabeth Chatelain
Status: Development
Producing alongside Sachiko Miyase
FIVE
After serving 7 years for accidentally killing his sister, Malcolm, a recently converted Muslim convict must learn to forgive himself before he can earn his mother's forgiveness and fulfill his obligation to make hajj. A cultural exploration of empathy and forgiveness post incarceration, where Islamic Surahs are underscored by west coast 808s.
Writer-Director: Duran Jones
Status: Development
Development Projects
♇ | The Plutonians
What really happened to Pluto? How could a planet just stop being a planet overnight? And why are scientists still fighting over this event (“awful”, “vindictive”, “essentially unforgivable”) to this very day?
Welcome to The Plutonians, an acerbic, almost-true comedy about how we lost the ninth planet, and how one deeply insecure Pluto expert lost his job, his marriage, and his identity over a single disastrous weekend in Prague, 2006.
Generously supported by the Sundance Institute Producing Lab Fellowship, the Sundance Institute / Sloan Foundation Commissioning Grant, and the NYU Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Award.
Previous Work
All Dogs Die
Allir Hundar Deyja (original title)
Iceland, Croatia, USA | Narrative | Icelandic | 2019 | 17 min
A solitary farm is home to an equally solitary man named Gunnar. The endless silence that surrounds him is occasionally disturbed only by the barking of his canine companion, and by the presence of his granddaughter, who turns up one day… A tender story of unspoken fears, of powerful gestures that disguise weakness, and of mortality, a subject we all have to address at some point in our lives.
Written & Directed by Ninna Pálmadóttir
Produced by Shao Min Chew Chia, Ninna Pálmadóttir & Oddur Elíasson
Starring:
Theódór Júlíusson
Lára Jóhanna Jónsdóttir
With the generous support of
The Spike Lee Film Production Fund
Developed at European Short Pitch 2019
Select Screenings
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2021
Zagreb Film Festival 2020
Stockfish Film Festival 2020
Reykjavik International Film Festival 2020