Christian Petzold is the writer-director of “Jerichow,” which will be released on May 1, 2009 by The Cinema Guild.

Emmanuel Mouret is the writer-director-actor of SHALL WE KISS?, which is being released by Strand Releasing on March 27, 2009. Says Mouret, “I had in mind the story of a man who visits his best friend. I am particularly interested in stories about desire.  You often have two people who desire one another, and a third person somewhere who ends up cast aside.”

One generally forgets the very first motivations for a project. I think that the first scene that came to mind was the image of a son hitting his mother. What reason would provoke such an improbable situation? Writing a screenplay is a very chaotic process. For this film it was more complicated than for my previous ones and made it necessary to bring in a co-screenwriter–Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Cannes Film Fest 2008--Three Monkeys world premiered in competition at the Festival de Cannes.  Zeitgeist will release the film, which was initially picked up by New Yorker, in April 2009.

“Since the beginning of my early youth, what has most intrigued, perplexed and at the same time scared me, has been the realization of that unprecedented wide scope of what goes on in the human psyche.  It has always astonished me to see in the human soul the coexistence of the power to rule and the potential to forgive, the interest in the most holy and that of the lowest banality, and love and hate–Nuri Bilge Ceylan 

Director Andy Fickman, who had just completed the hit comedy “The Game Plan” for Walt Disney Pictures, heard that Producer Andrew Gunn was contemplating a reworking of the “Witch Mountain” franchise. “When I was given an opportunity after ‘The Game Plan’ to continue my relationship with Disney, I told them I wanted to make ‘Race to Witch Mountain’ as memorable for audiences today as it was for me in 1975.”