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The director’s second feature follows three teenagers facing harsh reality in a Roma ghetto. After his feature debut, 2011’s Sneakers, Bulgarian actor-director Valery Iordanov is currently in post-production with his second feature, Shakespeare Like a Street Dog. The story of three teenagers living in a brutal ghetto in Sofia, the film is being staged by Chouchkov Brothers, with Viktor and Borislav Chouchkov sharing producing duties. The screenplay, written by Iordanov, follows three teenagers, Danko, Eli and Itso, who live in a Roma ghetto in Sofia. Danko, who has been adopted by Eli and Itso’s father, Chavo, is in love with literature, but he is also very good at boxing, a talent he will have to cultivate in order to make ends meet. The boys’ harsh life becomes even harsher when Chavo suffers an aneurysm, and his three sons are willing to do anything in order to get the money for.

Denmark’s Katja Adomeit and Germany’s Ingmar Trost among upcoming European producers set to be showcased at Cannes.Scroll down for full list

European Film Promotion (Efp) has selected 20 emerging young European producers for the 16th edition of its Producers on the Move networking initiative, which will be held during the upcoming Cannes Film Festival from May 15-18.

The 2014 selection includes Danish producer Katja Adomeit, who produced and co-directed the hybrid film Not At Home with the Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat as well as co-producing Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure as a freelancer for the Copenhagen office of Philippe Bober’s The Coproduction Office.

Cologne-based Ingmar Trost of Sutor Kolonko has also been selected. His credits include Ilian Metev’s award-winniıng documentary Sofıa’s Last Ambulance, Latvian director Juris Kursietis’ Modrıs and Ingo Haeb’s The Chambermaid Lynn, and he has just completed production of his third feature, Isabelle Stever’s The Weather Inside.

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