Director: Kristof Z. Markovics
(Documentary-series, 2023-)
-Work-in-progress-
The documentary series follows the daily lives of Swedish Sea Rescue Society (Sjöräddningssällskapet) presenting different missions and operations both from the sea, air and land, when the Swedish sea rescuers fight with different weather conditions to help on people in need, while we get an insight to the rescuer’s personal backgrounds, how they manage their private life in the meantime.
Director: Kristof Z. Markovics
(Feature, 2023-)
-Under development-
Former war photographer Miro starts his new life in Denmark, where he meets another photographer, Stine in an infamous underground bar which dredges up their state of mind with post traumatic disease and unspoken midlife crisis.
Director: Kristof Z. Markovics
(Documentary, 2023-)
-Work-in-progress-
Religious and non-religious personal stories presents the local life in Ukraine, how locals’ own belief can drive them through the difficult times during the war in the conflict zone in Kherson region, juxtaposed with a relatively safer city of Odessa.
Director: Kristof Z. Markovics
Producer: Kiril Schjørring
(Invictus Film, FilmFyn, Odense Filmværksted, Zentropa)
(Short Drama, 2018)
An inspiring drama about an undecided taxi driver, Christian standing at a crossroad in his life when one day he takes and old lady, Dorete to several stops she wishes to pass by; Christian soon has to realize, that this ride is not an average one: this will be an ultimate life-changing journey for him.
Our film festival services help you along the way of your movie’s afterlife.
We are strongly committed to send each of the film projects personalised to specific
film festivals, markets and pitch contests where the story, genre, target group func-
tions the best.
We are interested in:
• Early stage,
• Work-in-progress projects,
• Final cuts.
Thus you have the opportunity not only to submit your completed film, but also its
midlife process and the final draft of your script to us, where we can already evaluate
the future of the project right from the start - therefore it’s a great opportunity also to
recommend either pitch competitions to you in the early process already.
Hence you have the potential to expose your work to even more platforms right after
the script development.
Do not hesitate to submit your project to our email address with an offline link and
password, or the script in a pdf version. Following this we will contact you to arrange a
conversation, where we can evaluate the right festival platforms while we always con-
centrate on your specific needs.
That’s exactly we would like to change. At the moment we are focusing mainly to art-house cinemas thus to a specific target audience, since we are engaged to spread valuable, universal independent works that can’t be seen in many places. Our aim is to screen international shorts and documentaries that are in great contrast with Nordic films (and vice versa) in terms of film language - these projects could re- flect to the filmmaker’s own society, politics and culture. Reaching this, we are always looking for new, talented, innovative shorts and docu- mentaries in any genre, hence our participation in relevant global film markets and festivals are crucial, where we can look at your work, mingle and get to know each other.
Director: Minerva R. Bolaños
Producer: Minerva R. Bolaños
(Procine)
(Short Drama, 2023)
A highly acclaimed Mexican director is accused of rape, decides to make a documentary to try to prove his innocence, swinging between fame and suspicion. Inspired by true events.
Director: Kristof Z. Markovics
Producer: Kiril Schjørring
(Invictus Film, FilmFyn, Odense Filmværksted, Zentropa)
(Short Drama, 2018)
An inspiring drama about an undecided taxi driver, Christian standing at a crossroad in his life when
one day he takes and old lady, Dorete to several stops she wishes to pass by; Christian soon has to realize,
that this ride is not an average one: this will be an ultimate life-changing journey for him.
Director: Kristof Z. Markovics
(Odense Filmværksted)
(Short History Drama, 2016)
Based on a Hungarian novel, young Lise confesses a crime in the court that she has never committed,
saving her older sister to be imprisoned: sacrifice versus sisterhood.
Director: Kristof Z. Markovics
(Documentary, 2023-)
Religious and non-religious personal stories presents the local life in Ukraine, how locals’
own belief can drive them through the difficult times during the war in the conflict zone in
Kherson region,
juxtaposed with a relatively safer city of Odessa.
We are very proud to have all these strong and recognised film partners, organisations and companies at Phaeton’s flag. Our company is fully engaged to have a specific, strong partnership with each of them for a valuable, profitable long-term collaboration.These partnerships do not meet only the classic business criteria, but also create artistic exchanges and real interactions through our cooperation with the filmmakers.
Phaeton Nordics is a Danish film production and distribution start-up company, founded by director and photographer Kristof Z. Markovics. When Kristof attended in several film festivals and had networking with his own productions globally, recognized a great need to distribute short and documentary projects in any genre to the global and Nordic film market, connecting local and international filmmakers. After having dozens of conversations with Nordic filmmakers, there is a great need to have a regional film company who focus also to film festival distribution, since filmmakers don't have enough time and in many cases even knowledge to submit their films to the right film festivals nor don't have the proper insight to sell and screen their work in the global film market. Therefore lot of valuable, potential film projects can't be seen in the industry, since they miss the opportunity to have a global showcase. Throughout our services we are determined to increase the chance to pass valuable and potential film projects to the global industry film market. While we are collaborating with filmmakers and productions, our company is attending also in some of the most relevant international film festivals and markets. Therefore we are determined to build up our network with great talents, clients and partners to create a strong, market leader brand in Denmark.
Hungarian-born Kristof Z. Markovics has been living in Denmark for more than 7 years and directed, photographed couple of fiction, documentary and commercial projects, and worked in camera departments in the Danish film industry.Kristof was a remote screener member in the pre-selection team of Oscar-qualified Woodstock Film Festival, US in 2023, where he had an exclusive insight to the current visual trends and contemporary film language worldwide, which gave a great experience to navigate potential filmmakers even better to the film festival market.Kristof was nominated and awarded as Best Director in Canada and Denmark, winner of a pitch contest in Danish film festival Guldægget, and his previous Danish short films were officially selected, nominated and awarded in several film festivals globally, including Denmark, Finland, Canada, Mexico, Hungary and so on.
Andy is an Enterprise Architect with over 10 years of experience in software delivery, technical management and enterprise change management. He is a CEO of the international IT company Zenosyne Technologies and has several years of expertise of start-up company development. Andy was selected as Leader of the year in Hungary for the Young entrepreneur award Top 10 in 2023. He worked alongside Kristof on a couple of short films as production assistant before, therefore Phaeton Nordics as a start-up gives a perfect collaboration for them to combine their interests in terms of film and business.
