Evini Films

"Good Thoughts - Good Words - Good Deeds"

-Zoroaster

"What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?"

-Friedrich Nietzsche

Jano Rosebiani

In Kurdish, Evini [á-vee-nee] means love.
If love means accepting the other, then Evini I find
a befitting moniker for my work abode, for it sums up my purpose as filmmaker.
Film, being a simulation of human behavior, is the definitive medium for cultural exchange in which diverse mores, values and traditions may be converged, like a musical fusion, physically and intellectually to make for a festive experience
for the senses.
My aim is to make stories with international, intercontinental and intercultural themes.
Such, I would like to call my signature.

(English)

"Dance of the Pendulum" deals with a paradoxical, almost otherwordly interlogical encounter between the Creator(s) and his/her/their Creation where they have to come to terms through an exchange of perspectives. When that end proves unattainable, the tables are turned and the ever-exploited Creation gives her Makers a taste of their own medicine. It is the avenge of the Underdog upon the uncompromising Big Wheel, and metaphorically
a cry for justice.

In the absence of understanding one another there is little chance for harmony, in the absence of which choas and bloodshed will be our lot.

(Kurdish)

"Jiyan" displays the end result of such choas - death and destruction. However, despite the dire premise, Jiyan, meaning Life, is about the triumph of the human spirit over the perpetuated madness. The film is a life-affirming tale of the underdog's resillience and love of life.

In Post Production

(English and Kurdish)

"Chaplin of the Mountains" fits a more presice example of my aforementioned signature. It is a cross-cultural film in a true sense - a road movie with American, French, Italian and Kurdish characters trekking the magestic mountains of Kurdistan to remote villages where music, dance
and poetry are the course of the everyday.

Jano Rosebiani with Chaplin of the Mountains cast

In Pre-Production

(Kurdish)

"One Candle, Two Candles..."
(photography to begin in Fall 2010)
A romantic tragicomedy in which a rebellious new breed of young Kurds are set opposite the old school. Some traditions are thrown to the wind while others, such as eloping, are rekindled.

NOW CASTING
(in Kurmanji)
please send photo and CV to: candles@evinifilms.com

VIYAN (female): sweet, shy and innocent-looking teenage girl.
ZOZAN (female): articulate, intelligent and strong character in late twenties, early thirties.
NARIN (female): mid twenties, pleasant, mild-mannered.

In Development

(Kurdish, English, Arabic)

"House of Fire"
Following the liberation of Kerkuk from Saddam's grip, an American Journalist is caught in the middle of boiling ethnic tension as displaced Kurds return to reclaim their homes.

(English, Dutch, French, Spanish, Japanese)

"MEET ME IN BRUSSELS"
An intellectual intercontinental comedy about seven lonely souls from seven continents brought together in the Union's capital by a succession of unanticipated events.

(English, French)

"Kiss of the Silent Poet"
Love being the triumph of imagination over intelligence is the theme pf this classical struggle between rags and riches where love pervails against all odds.

(Kurdish)

"The Smile"
When life gives you a thousand reasons to cry, show that you have a million reasons to smile.
The Anfal genocide of the Kurds seen through the eyes of a six-year old.
An adoptation from the novel "The Smile" (Zerdexene) by Amanj Shakli.

Evini Films is a California based LLC. Dedicated to the making of innovative independent quality films with fresh subject matters that will withstand time.

Seeking producers of like-mind and investors who believe in the finer works in life.
For more information on any of the above films in development please contact me at:
Email: inquiries@evinifilms.com
Tel. 1 (310) 734-8803
Fax. 1 (208) 246-0706
Skype: Avestar

Evini Films	In Distribution	In Post	In Production	In Development	Documentaries	TV Pilots

About Us	Jiyan	Chaplin of the Mountains	One Candle, Two Candles...	House of Fire	Mass Graves	Radio Citadel
Contact Us	Dance of the Pendulum			The Smile	Chemical Ali
				Kiss of the Silent Poet
				Meet Me In Brussels

Evini Films 32687 Calle Barcaldo, Temecula, California 92592 USA Tel. +1 310 734 88803 Fax. +1 208 246 0706 Skype. Avestar Email. inquiries@evinifilms.com