Hamburg-based producer Sebastian Weyland of Heimathafen Film & Medien is reuniting with Lithuanian filmmaker Tomas Vengris for The True Story Of Earth And Sky which is being pitched to potential partners at the European Genre Forum at the Black Nights International Film Festival in Tallinn this week.
The English-language project is in early development. Described as “a lyrical allegory set in the not-too-distant future”, The True Story Of Earth And Sky centres on a low-level server technician for a power hub who can’t help but think that there is more to life than the unchanging routine dictated by a highly advanced AI system of a strict global paramilitary government.
Weyland and Vengris first worked together on the director’s debut feature Motherland which was presented at Tallinn’s Baltic Event co-production market in 2015 and subsequently had its world premiere in…
