The Blind Room

Status: Pre Production

A psychological thriller about the disintegration of a woman’s mind.

But is she really insane?

“Rosemary’s Baby” meets “The Others”

Following the kidnapping of her little daughter, Anna Laura MacPhearson starts to develop symptoms of a lethal sensitivity to daylight and suffers from abdominal cramps and hallucinations. Unlike her husband, the oil billionaire Maurice, she still clings to the hope that her daughter is still alive. Strange telephone calls and video tapes containing bizarre footage make Anna Laura believe Maurice is keeping a horrible secret from her. When the kidnapper strikes again and also takes her second child Anna Laura succeeds in following his trail and is to make shocking discoveries; about the real fate of her children, her husband’s involvement in a snuff-movie-cult

and, eventually, her own sanity …

THE BLIND ROOM is like an onion from which you remove layer after layer until you get to its ultimate one – beneath which lies the final revelation. Beware as the worst nightmare happens when you are not dreaming at all.

Robert Sigl was born in 1962 and raised in Germany. From 1981 to 1986 he attended Munich Film School. His diploma work LAURIN won him the Bavarian Film Award for Best Direction of a Newcomer. Since then he has directed several acclaimed feature films and TV movies in Canada, France, Hungary, Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. He has received numerous development fundings for his projects and screenplays and he has worked for U.S. Networks Showtime and SciFi Channel with stars like Malcolm McDowell, Eleanor Tomlinson (female lead in Bryan Singer's JACK THE GIANT SLAYER) and others. Three-times-Oscar winning composer Howard Shore is going to provide the soundtrack for Sigl’s upcoming 15-Million-Dollar-production THE SPIDER. Furthermore, Robert Sigl received a nomination for the German Director's Award Metropolis 2012. Robert Sigl's first novel, WURDILAK, was published in Germany and Switzerland and is currently seeking an English/American publisher.

EDUCATION:

Directing: Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film HFF, Munich, Germany 1986

Screen Writing: Drehbuchwerkstatt München, Munich, Germany 1989

AWARDS:

Bavarian Film Award 1989 for Best Direction of a Newcomer

Nominated for Max-Ophüls-Award 1989

Nominated for the GERMAN DIRECTOR AWARD METROPOLIS 2012

LANGUAGES:

Fluent English, German & conversational French

DEVELOPMENT FUNDINGS:

for the projects THE SPIDER, THE 13th DISCIPLE, MEDUSA, LAZARUS, WURDILAK and Dan Simmons’ CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT by MEDIA, FFF BAYERN, FFA

ROBERT SIGL

FILM DIRECTOR – CV

Burgstr. 2

80331 Munich

Germany

Phone: + 49 89 3089954

Mobile: + 49 171 3551485

info@robert-sigl.de
www.robert-sigl.de

Represented by: 

Blake Friedmann Literary, TV and Film Agency
Agent: Conrad Williams

122 Arlington Road

London NW17HP  UK

Phone: +44(0)2072840408

info@blakefriedmann.co.uk