Thessaloniki Movie Pageant Units Co-Manufacturing Discussion board Tasks – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: The Thessaloniki Worldwide Movie Pageant’s industry-focused AGORA part has chosen 15 initiatives from 14 international locations for this 12 months’s Crossroads Co-production Discussion board. Scroll down for the total record of initiatives. 

Hailing from throughout southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean area, the initiatives are in numerous 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.

Happening largely onsite with further on-line networking alternatives, members will be a part of workshops on how you can current their initiatives to the {industry}, with mentorship from producer Amanda Livanou (Neda Movie).

As a part of this 12 months’s AGORA part, working (Nov 3-11), the pageant may even launch Bridge to the North, a brand new collaborative strand aimed toward “creating fertile floor for co-productions, synergies, and cultural change” by exploring new alternatives in financing and creative collaborations. Annually, 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 Movie 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 Movie Pageant have set a brand new competitors prize, the Greener Display screen Consultancy Award. The prize comes with a €7,000 money prize alongside a tailor-made inexperienced manufacturing plan for the successful undertaking, digital coaching for the eco-manager on this plan, steady assist for the eco-manager throughout prep-stage and manufacturing and non-obligatory “Greener Script” consultancy classes for the author, director and the inventive 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 Discussion board. It’s going to run Nov 5-9. Latest Crossroads Co-production Discussion board initiatives embody 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 Movie Pageant will run Nov 2 – 12. 

Chosen Crossroads Co-production Discussion board initiatives 2023:

40 MARIA LUISA BOULEVARD – In collaboration with Sofia Conferences Director / Scriptwriter: Kristina Spassovska, Manufacturing: Maya Vitkova-Kosev – Viktoria Movies, Bulgaria

AND ME TOO – In collaboration with Mediterranean Movie Institute Director / Scriptwriter: Sondos Shabayek, Manufacturing: Kesmat Elsayed – SEERA FILMS Gmbh / See Media Manufacturing, Germany, Egypt

BLACK WATER — Director / Scriptwriter: Isabella Margara, Manufacturing: Kyriaki Virou – AbFab Productions, Greece

FRIENDS, BIRTHDAYS, MURDER, ETC — Administrators / Scriptwriters: Lida Vartzioti, Dimitris Tsakaleas, Manufacturing: 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 — Administrators / Scriptwriters: Maria Hatzakou, Alexandra Matheou, Producer: Maria Hatzakou – Merricat Movie, 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 Worldwide, 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 Discussion board Awards:

Two Thirty-5 (2|35) Award Submit-production (picture and sound)

Onassis Movie Award 10,000 euros to a Greek undertaking collaborating within the Agora (Crossroads Co-production Discussion board and Agora Works in Progress)

CNC – Centre nationwide du cinéma et de l’picture animée

8,000 euros for script improvement

Finos Movie 3,000 euros to a Greek undertaking

The Producers’ Community of the Cannes FF Free accreditation

Sofia Conferences of the Sofia IFF Venture choice

Mediterranean Movie Institute Script 2 Movie Workshops scholarship

Initiative Movie Session to 1 undertaking

EAVE Advertising Workshop Scholarship