EXCLUSIVE: The Thessaloniki International Film Festival’s industry-focused AGORA part has chosen 15 initiatives from 14 nations for this 12 months’s Crossroads Co-production Forum. Scroll down for the total record of initiatives.
Hailing from throughout southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean area, the initiatives are in varied levels of improvement. The choice options debut and sophomore characteristic movies alongside extra skilled administrators presenting their third and even fifth movie initiatives. The choice additionally options ten feminine administrators of various ethnic backgrounds.
Taking place largely onsite with further on-line networking alternatives, members will be a part of workshops on methods to current their initiatives to the {industry}, with mentorship from producer Amanda Livanou (Neda Film).
As a part of this 12 months’s AGORA part, operating (Nov 3-11), the pageant can even launch Bridge to the North, a brand new collaborative strand aimed toward “creating fertile ground for co-productions, synergies, and cultural exchange” by exploring new alternatives in financing and inventive collaborations. Each 12 months, the strand will platform a visitor nation from the Baltic and Scandinavian areas. This 12 months, the visitor nation is Lithuania. In partnership with the Lithuanian Film Centre, a Lithuanian delegation of producers, administrators, distributors, and movie programmers will attend all AGORA actions and take part with their very own initiatives.
Elsewhere in new additions, AGORA and the Thessaloniki Film Festival have set a brand new competitors prize, the Greener Screen Consultancy Award. The prize comes with a €7,000 money prize alongside a tailor-made inexperienced manufacturing plan for the profitable challenge, digital coaching for the eco-manager on this plan, steady help for the eco-manager throughout prep-stage and manufacturing and elective “Greener Script” consultancy periods for the author, director and the artistic producer. The prize is a part of the pageant’s plan to pioneer ecological sustainability all through the {industry}.
This 12 months marks the nineteenth version of the Crossroads Co-production Forum. It will run Nov 5-9. Recent Crossroads Co-production Forum initiatives embrace Cannes titles Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry by Elene Naveriani and Inshallah A Boy by Amjad Al Rasheed. Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren’s Berlin competitors title, 20,000 Species of Bees, was additionally developed at Crossroads.
The Thessaloniki Film Festival will run Nov 2 – 12.
Selected Crossroads Co-production Forum initiatives 2023:
40 MARIA LUISA BOULEVARD – In collaboration with Sofia Meetings Director / Scriptwriter: Kristina Spassovska, Production: Maya Vitkova-Kosev – Viktoria Films, Bulgaria
AND ME TOO – In collaboration with Mediterranean Film Institute Director / Scriptwriter: Sondos Shabayek, Production: Kesmat Elsayed – SEERA FILMS Gmbh / See Media Production, Germany, Egypt
BLACK WATER — Director / Scriptwriter: Isabella Margara, Production: Kyriaki Virou – AbFab Productions, Greece
FRIENDS, BIRTHDAYS, MURDER, ETC — Directors / Scriptwriters: Lida Vartzioti, Dimitris Tsakaleas, Production: Ioanna Bolomyti – Atalante Productions SA, Greece
GOD BREAK DOWN THE DOOR – In collaboration with MIDPOINT Institute Director / Scriptwriter: Vojtěch Novotný, Producer: Tomáš Pertold – Perfilm, Czech Republic
THE GRAND INQUISITOR — Director / Scriptwriter: Marat Sargsyan, Producer: Klementina Remeikaite – afterschool manufacturing, Lithuania
I MATTER — Director / Scriptwriter: Alina Serban, Producer: Ada Solomon – microFILM, Romania
LADY SUNSHINE — Director: Anna Korom, Scriptwriters: Anna Korom, András Soós, Producer: Anna Szijártó – Kinomoto Kft., Hungary
PETROL STATION — Director / Scriptwriter: Yuliia Hontaruk, Producer: Elena Saulich – BABYLON13, Ukraine
SINGING HORSES — Director: Luka Papić, Scriptwriters: Luka Papić, Vladimir Vulević, Producer: Srđa Vučo – Ranč manufacturing, Co-producer: Julia Cöllen – Fünferfilm, Serbia, Germany
SO THE LOVERS COULD COME OUT AGAIN — Director / Scriptwriter: George Peter Barbari, Producer: Christelle Younes – Bee On Set Productions, Lebanon
STRINGA — Directors / Scriptwriters: Maria Hatzakou, Alexandra Matheou, Producer: Maria Hatzakou – Merricat Film, Greece
SYDNEY SMILE FUTURE PERFECT — Director: Gregoris Rentis, Scriptwriters: Gregoris Rentis, Nikolas Kouloglou, Pauline Wolff, Producers: Myrto Stathi, Mando Stathi – Byrd, Greece
TETHYS OCEAN — Director / Scriptwriter: Anna Jadowska, Producer: Maria Blicharska – Blick Productions, Co-producer: Damien Mc Donald – Blick Productions International, Poland, France
YIANNIS — Director: Kyros Papavassiliou, Scriptwriters: Yiannis Gaitanides, Kyros Papavassiliou, Producers: Kyros Papavassiliou, Maria Varnakkidou – dryTree movies, Co-producer: Konstantina Stavrianou – Graal, Cyprus, Greece
The Crossroads Co-production Forum Awards:
Two Thirty-Five (2|35) Award Post-production (picture and sound)
Onassis Film Award 10,000 euros to a Greek challenge collaborating within the Agora (Crossroads Co-production Forum and Agora Works in Progress)
CNC – Centre nationwide du cinéma et de l’picture animée
8,000 euros for script improvement
Finos Film 3,000 euros to a Greek challenge
The Producers’ Network of the Cannes FF Free accreditation
Sofia Meetings of the Sofia IFF Project choice
Mediterranean Film Institute Script 2 Film Workshops scholarship
Initiative Film Consultation to at least one challenge
EAVE Marketing Workshop Scholarship
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