Sarajevo City of Film Fund
Start date: Sep 1, 2014,
End date: Dec 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
Sarajevo City of Film Fund is a production scheme of the Sarajevo Film Festival that has been supporting short films done in technical, artistic and financial co-production between young filmmakers from 12 different countries in Southeast Europe. It has supported 25 short films over the 2008-2013 period, with 350 000 EUR in cash. In early 2013 the Fund has undergone an internal review and has been stirred towards support to feature films. Since then, a pilot edition in 2014 was carried out under which two features have been supported, both multilateral international co-productions. For the 20th anniversary of the SFF, the two new schemes of the Fund will be unveiled: 1.) International co-production support scheme and 2.) International circulation P&A support scheme. The two schemes represent a concentrated effort to find new markets by opening the channels for investment in production between territories that haven’t been traditionally cooperating and kick-starting the international circulation of supported films by attracting leading European sales agents to pick up the films, take them to the market in a proper way and get the best suppliers to take the films to wider international audiences.In the next two years, the Fund will invest nearly 800 000 EUR and aim for completion of 8 international co-productions structured between producers from Southeast Europe, rest of Europe and countries not part of the MEDIA and Eurimages areas of established cooperation. We expect 4 of these to be successfully launched to the international market with the support from the P&A scheme by the end of the second year. We are after co-production structures that ensure releases within co-producing countries and want to boost further international circulation by incentivizing the sales agents to overcome the risk of investing in promotion when taking the films to the international market.
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