It was so nice of producer Peter Schwarzkopff and Wim Wenders to invite me to the premiere of their latest movie LAND OF PLENTY at the Film Festival in Venice. But I messed it up. Instead of being a movie addicted and trying to get tickets for the premieres like everybody else, I rented one of the cabanas at the Lido Beach and behaved like a wealthy tourist.
Eva von Malotky assists Wim Wenders and his team for the production of LAND OF PLENTY, a digital low budget project with great actors such as Michelle Williams, John Diehl or the wonderful Richard Edson shot in Los Angeles and Trona/California.
The American daughter of missionaries Lana returns to Los Angeles from Palestine to work in a mission helping homeless people. Lana was born in Ohio and raised in South Africa and Middle East, and she is an authentic citizen of the world, connected through Internet and aware of how other people see the lack of culture and knowledge and exaggerated patriotism of average American people. Her unique relative is her unknown uncle Paul, a veteran of Vietnam War that cut relationships with his family and is bigot and paranoid. Paul lives in a surveillance van, lives as if he were a secret agent, sees conspiracy and terrorist cells everywhere, and has a great prejudice against Arabs and other non-American breeds after the September, 11th. They meet each other, and when they see the murder of a poor Pakistanis nearby the mission, they travel together to the small town of Trone to deliver his corpse to the family, where Paul sees a different reality.