Logline

Tanja finds the money to pay off her senile father’s gambling debt only to realize that the money is not hers to keep.

Synopsis

TANJA (37) lives with her senile FATHER (73), a gambling addict who amassed twenty-thousand euro debt with a loan shark ENVOY literally sitting in front of the apartment until the debt is settled. One night Tanja returns from jogging and tells the Envoy, Father and her Sister over the phone that she found the money.

According to her story, she went to buy a soda with a sweepstake on it, and it was a winning one.

After she put her Father to sleep, she dozes off in front of the TV featuring late news. There was a stabbing, and the person barely survived. This prompts Tanja to go to the police, where she admits she is the person who found the man and called the ambulance. Believing he was dead, Tanja left the scene early. Now, she wants to visit him in the hospital.

Tanja goes to the hospital and learns that the man has lost his leg due to bleeding. MAN’S FATHER is watching his son in the intensive care. Tanja comes and tells him she was the one to call for help. Man’s Father hugs her. However, that is not the only reason she came. Tanja takes out the cork, and hands it to

Man’s Father revealing it belonged to his son before she snatched it from him.

Director’s Statement 

Though a sequel to my previous short film, ‘Finders (not) keepers’ is very much different in a sense that it is character driven and focuses solely on Tanja and the events unfolding in the course of one night. What intrigued me is a strong conflict she finds herself suddenly in, and gravity of burden and decision she has to make. To help herself and her family in an unjust way, or to do a morally right thing but maintain her life struggle.

An unusual situation from which she can get out scot-free is unlikely to happen to most of us, but if did – what would you do? This is the question I would like to ask the audience with this short film.

Visually, film will maintain somber atmosphere of dark primary colors of background that allow only Tanja to stand out in her jogging costume. This will establish her as a character who runs the story, but also a character who changes throughout. I plan to use very little music, perhaps only toward the end of the film. Until then, foley will create atmosphere and build tension, especially in the intensive care unit scene.

Director’s Bio

Zvonimir Munivrana holds a degree in psychology from the Zagreb university, and has spent four years in Los Angeles studying performing arts (SAG member), at such schools as the Lee Strasberg Institute, and Stella Adler Academy. Prior to his US experience, he produced feature film ‘The Last Will’, a Croatian-USA co-production comedy. Produced with a budget of well over million euros, film was the largest production in modern Croatia, as well as a major cinema success, sold in over 25 territories worldwide. It won the Best Debut and Audience awards at Pula film festival (2001). Zvonimir was also an associate producer on an American TV show ‘Wild on’, featured on E! Entertainment Television. After producing numerous industry and commercial films, in 2008 Corvus film went on to create and produce a TV series entitled ‘U stanici’ – seven-episode sitcom that aired on TV Z1. It was comissioned by Nova TV in 2010. In 2013 for which he wrote thirteen episodes. He wrote and produced feature film ‘Children of the Fall’ featured at Centeast, and Braunschweig film festival. In 2018, Zvonimir co-produced Albanian film ‘My Lake’ by Gergj Xhuvani. An Albanian-Italian-Croatian-Macedonian co-production was supported by Eurimages. Zvonimir is Berlinale Talents alumnus, and has completed a three module Maia producer workshop. In addition, he participated in MFI from script to film workshop in Greece, Sources2 script development workshop in Luxembourg, and eQuinoxe Europe workshop.

Fluent in English and Spanish with good knowledge of French, he enjoys horseback riding and poetry by Pablo Neruda.

Producer’s Bio

Bojan Kanjera  was born 1986, Zagreb As a producer, he is currently developing new feature films of leading Croatian directors of the younger generation such as Jure Pavlovic (PICNIC, European Film Academy Award for the Best European Short), Marko Santic (GOOD LUCK NEDIM, Student Visionary Award – Tribeca FF, Heart of Sarajevo for best short film – Sarajevo FF), Sara Hribar (LET ME SLEEP – Golden Pram for the best Croatian short film – Zagreb FF) and others. Up to date Bojan has produced three feature length fiction films, Lada Kamenski (dir.Sara Hribar and Marko Šantić), Home (dir. Dario Pleić, executive producer), Jimmie (dir. Jesper Ganslandt, minority co-producer) and is currently in post-production of Matriarch (dir. Jure Pavlović, producer). Bojan has worked on numerous short films as well as TV formats, commercial and documentary audiovisual projects. www.sekvenca.hr

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