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TRAINING Italy

TorinoFilmLab presents projects to producers and buyers

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Promoted by the National Film Museum and the Turin Piedmont Film Commission (and tied to the Turin Film Festival, with support from the EU MEDIA Programme and in partnership with the advanced training courses “Script&Pitch Workshops”), the TorinoFilmLab is the first Italian workshop to help emerging talent from throughout the world, guaranteeing production training, development and funding for first or second films.

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Complimentary activities ensure that the TorinoFilmLab Meeting Event (scheduled for November 23-24 at Turin’s RAI Auditorium) will not only be a showcase of young filmmakers, but also an important co-production market.

There are 23 selected projects, which will be presented to producers, sales agents, distributors and other industry professionals.

Eight are participating in the Development Programme 2008 and going up for the Production Awards (worth an overall €600,000), given by the seven international members of the Film Lab’s Advisory Board. The candidates come from Costa Rica, France, Iceland, Italy, Portugal, Thailand and Uruguay, and are equally divided among feature debut filmmakers and names already familiary to festival audiences, such as Aditya Assarat (a prize-winner at Rotterdam for his debut Wonderful Town) and Italy’s Michelangelo Frammartino (director of the acclaimed The Gift [+see also:
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The other 15 projects are all European and come from Sweden, Italy, Estonia, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Finland and the Czech Republic. They were developed through the Script&Pitch Workshops/2008 Training Programme. The top six will be automatically admitted into the TorinoFilmLab’s 2009 Development Programme.

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(Translated from Italian)

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