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
Producer: Lisa Roling
Composer: Ben Roessler
Director
Sara Summa was born in 1988 to an Italian family in France.
In 2008 she started developing her own films as a writer and director. She has lived and worked in Berlin since 2011, where she began studying directing at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin in 2013.
After several short films (funded by the DFA and RBB, among others), her first full-length feature film "The Last to See Them" celebrated its world premiere at the 69th Berlinale. The film was then shown at numerous festivals around the world (e.g. AFI Fest LA, Fantastic Fest Austin, Vancouver International Film Festival, FICCI Cartagena, etc.) and won awards for Best Director and Best Feature Film.
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