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)