New Horizons’ Polish-Norwegian Co-Production Forum selects 10 projects

By Screen staff

21-07-2011

 

 

Participants include Opus Film, Storm Studios, Maipo

and Trust Nordisk

Ten projects have been selected to participate in the

Polish-Norwegian Co-production Forum at the 11th

New Horizons International Film Festival.

Taking place July 26-28 during the festival, the Forum

enables attendees to find co-producers, distributors

and sales agents for a project. Five films from each

country in different stages of production were selected

as specially promoted projects pitched during the

event.

 

Eighty participants from both countries have been

confirmed, including producers such as Opus Film,

Storm Studios, Maipo, Prasa i Film, sales agents such

as Trust Nordisk, distributors such as Gutek Film, Best

Film, Vivarto and buyers from Polsat, TVP and Canal+

Poland.

 

The event will include both group pitching and one-toone

sessions. Case studies of two recent successful

Polish-Norwegian co-productions - Essential Killing

andKing Of Devi´s Island - will also be held.

The Forum is a joint enterprise of the New Horizons

International Film Festival (which takes place July 21-

31 in Wroclaw, Poland) and the Norwegian Film

Institute, ran within the Norway Expanded project cofinanced

by the Cultural Exchange Programme within

the EEA Financial Mechanism and the Norwegian

Financial Mechanism.

 

Projects selected for the Forum are:

 

Eggg (Maipo AS)

 

Norge (Storm Studios)

 

One Last Chance, dir: Mona J. Hoel (Freedom from

Fear AS)

 

The Grass Widows, dir: Åse Svenheim Drivenes (Sant

& Usant)

 

Polak Potrafi, dir: Leiv Igor Devold (Devold Film)

 

Charlotte, dir: Marcin Filipowicz (Kalejdoskop)

 

Fugue, dir: Agnieszka Smoczynska (Prasa i Film)

 

Love In Times Of Communism, dir: Anna Jadowska

(Donten & Lacroix Films)

 

The Yellow Coat, dir: Kordian Piwowarski (Pokromski

Studio, Kwiecinski Group)

 

The Trap, dir: Robert Turlo, Pawel Czarzasty (Metro

Films)