The final workshop of the 6^th edition of Biennale College - Cinema will be held in Venice from 11 to 15 January 2018. The three projects chosen during the first workshop from the initial 12 selected from all over the world (coming from Canada, China, Colombia, Italy, Poland, Mexico, Spain, Turkey, Hungary, United States), have reached the final stage of the Venice Biennale initiative, which involves the creation of three micro-budget features, with a contribution of €150,000 for each project, which will then be presented at the 75^th Venice Film Festival 2018.

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The selected teams will work on the development of their films in close contact with industry professionals. For the 2017/2018 edition, two debut features and one second feature were chosen, coming from Italy, Turkey and Hungary.

Zen in the Ice Rift [+lire aussi :
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Yuva [+lire aussi :
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"Now we come to take you gently, throwing you into the fire" is the cryptic description for the debut feature, Deva [+lire aussi :
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Directed by Alberto Barbera (Head of Program Savina Neirotti) and supported by MIBACT, Biennale College - Cinema (with its virtual reality branch) has obtained an important loan from the European Commission – Directorate General’s MEDIA Program - Creative Europe for its 2017/2018 projects. Biennale College - Cinema is also receiving the support from Eurimages for the travel, living and training costs of a female director (Eurimages Residency Grant), which this year is Petra Szocs (Hungary), director of the project Deva.