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Open Films continues to produce, shoot and develop content for a number of companies here in New York and Internationally. We also have two sound stages with our partner in the heart of New York on Broadway and 18th Street right next to Union Square. If you need a stage, we have the place and the equipment. Open Films Documentary Projects include a feature length documentary about the development of great wines in America told through the eyes of Mark's grand uncle, André Tchelistcheff, known as the "Winemakers winemaker" and one of the founding fathers of wine in America. Additionally, in development are two projects: one focussing on modern piracy in South East Asia and the other about an inward mirror into the culture, life and history of Japan. Open Films Feature film Co-Produced/financed by Mark Tchelistcheff, "Conversations with other Women", won the Special Jury Award and Best Actress Award for Helena Bonham Carter at the Tokyo International Film Festival and a great review by Roger Ebert:"Conversations with Other Women" is another of the best films I have seen here. Directed by Hans Canosa, it stars Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter in an idea that seems like a stunt and then deepens into the sadness of unrealized love. The stunt is that that entire film has been made in split-screen, so that we are always looking at two pictures. The left is usually occupied by Eckhart, the right by Bonham Carter, although they are free to enter each other's frames and sometimes seem to be standing so close that the frame division is a formality; other characters sometimes enter either frame. They meet at a wedding. She is a "substitute bridesmaid."