THE WEIGHT OF ELEPHANTS, director DANIEL JOSEPH BORGMAN'S first feature film project has been accepted into the Cannes Film Festival's THE RÈSIDENCE development program.

The Résidence du Festival provides every year 12 young international directors with the opportunity to live and write in Paris in order to develop their first or second feature film projects into production, in two sessions lasting four and a half months (from October 1st to mid February, and from the end of February to mid July).The Weight of Elephants is a coming of age drama about 14-year-old Jess, a local paper boy, whose life is turned upside down when an horrific murder occurs in the street where he delivers newspapers.The Weight of Elephants is the first ever Danish/New Zealand co-production. Head production company, Zentropa Entertainmenst5, will work with New Zealand production company, Severe Features Limited. Shooting is set to commence in June 2011. Daniel’s last short film, Lars & Peter, screened in the Official Competition in the Cannes Film Festival in 2009.The film is produced by Katja Adomeit and co-produced by Leanne Saunders. For more information:Producer Katja Adomeit, Zentropa: +45 3141 3848www.zentropa.dkhttp://www.festival-cannes.com/en/theResidence/sessions.htmlhttp://www.variety.com/article/VR1118016227.html?categoryid=19&cs=1&nid=2562&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+variety%2Fheadlines+(Variety+-+Latest+News)

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