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British-Irish production company Film and Music Entertainment has added an adaptation of Arthur Machen’s fantasy novel “Hill of Dreams” to its production slate. Machen’s fans include Mick Jagger and Guillermo del Toro.

The screenplay has been written by Jonathan Preece and the film will be directed by Fatmir Koci, who previously teamed on “Elvis Walks Home.” It centers on an aspiring writer who “seeks beauty through literature, but is lured by a femme fatale into a world of fantasy and nightmare in Victorian London,” according to F&Me.

Preece is “a real talent to watch out for, able to turn his hand to original work and creative adaptations. The screenplay has now been delivered, and we are working on putting the package together to take to financiers,” said Mike Downey, F&Me co-chief.

Also on the slate is “Jumpman,” directed by Russia’s Ivan Tverdovsky, best known for “Corrections Class,...

UK/Irish production outfit also developing adaptation of Arthur Machen’s fantasy masterpiece Hill of Dreams.

UK/Irish production company Film and Music Entertainment (F&Me)’s busy slate includes reuniting with award-winning Dede director Mariam Khatchvani on Nene.

Georgian writer/director Khatchvani also produces and co-writes the new film with producer Vladimer Katcharava, and is developing at Cannes Cinefondation after winning the Asia-Pacific Screen Awards development grant.

The plot, based on a true story, is about law enforcement agencies using force against citizens. F&Me reunites with Dede partners 20 Steps Productions (founded by Katcharava) and JaJa Film Productions.

F&Me’s Irish outfit will also again pair with Netherlands-based Jaja Film Productions on Jacco Groen’s Streetkids United III – The Road To Russia, about more than 200 street kids from across the world who will come together in Moscow for The Street Child World Cup.

F&Me also collaborates with Jaja on Jamillah van der Hulst’s Fighting...

Exclusive: F&Me slate includes two projects with Ida writer Rebecca Lenckiewicz; plus Streetkids United III.

UK co-production specialists Film and Music Entertainment (F&Me) have boarded films to shoot in 2017 including The Dream Girl written and directed by Maurizio Braucci, best known for writing Matteo Garrone’s Gomorra and Reality.

Braucci co-wrote the film with Ida writer Rebecca Lenckiewicz and the UK-Ireland co-production is set to shoot from September. F&Me are working with accountants Grant Thornton in Ireland to access the section 481 tax credit. Windmill Lane is on board for post-production services.

F&Me are also working with Lenkiewicz on The Disciple, to be directed by Ivan Ostrochovsky and written by Lenkiewicz, Marek Lescak and Ostrochovsky. The film looks at two friends who go to a seminary in Communist Slovakia.

Also shooting by the end of 2017 will be the documentary Streetkids United III – The Road to Moscow. As with the past two films in the...

Exclusive: Fatmir Koci [pictured] to direct; shoot set to begin in August.

A UK-Albania co-production is underway in which an Elvis impersonator finds himself in the middle of a war zone.

The UK’s Film and Music Entertainment (F&Me) has joined forces with Albania’s Kkoci Productions and Zagreb’s Propeler Films on Elvis Walks Home, based on an original screenplay by Welsh author Jonathan Preece and directed by Fatmir Koci.

The shoot begins on August 15 in Albania and Bosnia. Us actor Nick Shreli plays the lead role of Mickey, who gets a job entertaining British troops during the 1999 Balkans wars but finds himself in the middle of the battlefield – dressed as Elvis.

Other roles will be taken by Ndricim Xhepa, Amos Zaharia , Dritan Kastrati, Romir Zalla, Ergys Halili, Maradona Kodra.

Elvis Walks Home marks the second collaboration of Preece, Koci and Mike Downey of F&Me following Amsterdam Express, which was the...