The Greek Film Centre announces its first funding slate of 2018
- The GFC is granting over €850,000 in support of new directors, documentaries, low-budget films, and projects in scriptwriting and development
The Greek Film Centre (GFC) has announced its first round of funding pre-approvals for 2018. Divided into four different programmes, the support granted totals over €850,000. More precisely, 11 feature films will receive the centre’s support, in the New Directors, Documentaries, and Low Budget programmes. Also, 25 projects that are currently at various stages of scriptwriting will be supported through the Script Writing/Development programme, to the tune of €160,500. This is the first session of pre-approval grants decided on by the new GFC board of directors, which took office earlier this month.
Three projects have been selected out of the seven submitted for the New Directors programme (intended for first or second feature films), with the amount of support granted totalling €296,000. One of the projects is Behind the Haystacks [+see also:
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In the Documentary programme, six projects out of the nine submitted will receive a total grant of €285,000. In detail, the feature-length documentary projects are O Sporos tou Kolomvou by Marianna Oikonomou (producer: Stefi & Lynx Productions), Evropi O Evropi by Elina Psykou (Αnemon Productions), 1,000sq Chronou by Maro Anastopoulou (Inkas Film Productions), I Epistrofi tou Dionisou by Spyros Tsiftsis (Portolanos Films), O Telefteos Partizanos by Andreas Hadjipateras (Exile Films) and Made in Vain by Michalis Klioumis (Heretic).
For the Low Budget programme, two projects out of seven have been granted €110,000. The projects are The Mountain Tears [+see also:
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