Logline
A Safe Place is a musical set in the snowy wonderland of wintery small town, haunted by recession and depression. The frozen lake at the center of the town’s white landscape is the melancholic environment where Oliver and Laura’s love feels protected. They test its solidity dancing and singing on the slippery surface. Yet soon the ice starts to crack.
Crew
Script: Sara Summa
Director: Sara Summa
Producer: Roxana Richters
Composer: Ben Roessler
Director
Sara Summa is a French-Italian-German director, known for her features "The Last to See Them" and “Arthur&Diana”, which respectively premiered at the 69th Berlinale and TIFF 2023. Both films won numerous nominations and awards on renowned film festivals around the world. Sara’s new project “A Safe Place”, currently in development, won the German ministry for culture’s screenplay grant (BKM). Sara has also served as a speaker and a jury member at international festivals, and is a laureate of different prestigious residency programs (Villa Aurora in LA; BerlinAir in Rome).
Awards
"Flow Postproduction Award 2021" - When East Meets West Coproduction Forum
Press
BKM Script Development Fund: https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktuelles/kulturstaatsministerin-monika-gruetters-foerdert-spielfilmvorhaben-mit-4-74-mio-euro-1763656
Torino Film Lab Next: http://www.torinofilmlab.it/training/tfl-extended-2/tfl-next/tfl-next/35-tfl-next-film-development
Berlin AIR Residency: https://www.medienboard.de/en/foerderung-film/artist-in-residence-programme/standard-titel
MBB Development Fund: https://www.medienboard.de/presse-events/pressemitteilungen-und-publikationen/mitteilung/News/mbb-unterstuetzt-42-neue-film-und-serienprojekte-mit-82-mio-euro
TIFF International Financing Forum: https://www.screendaily.com/news/projects-involving-lulu-wang-lily-gladstone-head-to-20th-ontario-creates-international-financing-forum/5208174.article