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FUNDING Croatia

List of funding recipients announced

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Croatia, the first candidate to join the MEDIA 2007 Programme on March 17, has announced the film projects it will finance in 2008. Generally, Croatian films are financed by the Ministry of Culture and national television (HRT).

Two hundred and seventy-one applicants waited for seven months for the results of the competition, and it is still not known how much HRT will give.

The Ministry of Culture will support ten features with €4.1m, out of a total of €6m for all productions. The other projects sharing the remaining funds are: 20 shorts and documentaries (€618,000), 13 alternative films (€200,000), eight animated shorts (€340,000), one animated feature (€483,000) and six co-productions (€180,000).

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The two feature projects to receive the most funding (€579,000 each) are Dejan Sorak's In the Wonderland and Branko Ivanda's Children's Kingdom.

The biggest winner is one of Croatia's most successful production companies, Interfilm, which will receive €1.2m for three features – In the Wonderland, Neven Hitrec's The Man Under the Table (€440,000) and debut director Danilo Serbedzija's The Project (€152,000) – and €21,000 for Mladen Juran's short documentary Living Photographs 3.

The recipients include some of Croatia’s most bankable filmmakers. Hrvoje Hribar, who made a splash in 2006 with the comedy What Is a Man Without a Moustache? – which garnered over 157,000 admissions to beat out Borat, overcoming the fact that Croatians don't rush to domestic films – will get €441,000 for his new project, The Man Swallowed By the Sea.

Rajko Grlic, the only director who managed to unite companies from all of the former Yugoslav countries for his 2006 film Border Post, will receive €482,000 for Just Between Us.

More famous names will be supported in the co-productions category. Besa, Serbian director Srdjan Karanovic's first film since 2003 festival favourite Loving Glances, will receive €41,000 and Slovenian director Damjan Kozole's Slovenian Woman will get €27,500.

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