At the Work-in-Progress Session, which took place for the third time at the HFM Co-Production Platform, European filmmakers and producers presented initial clips and teasers of the films that they had pitched as projects over the last few years. The Filmmore Work-in-Progress Prize, valued at €5,000 in facility services, went to A Quiet Passion [+lee también:
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Marion Hänsel and her producer Digna Sinke showed a teaser and some early clips from their upcoming film En amont du fleuve [+lee también:
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Funding was also a tricky issue for the German debut feature Schrotten (Wreck it!) by German Student Oscar winner Max Zähle. In this story, two brothers are trying to save the scrapyard that their late father has left them. “It is a comedy with a dramatic backdrop,” explains Andrea Schütte, a producer from Hamburg-based Tamtam Film. After the project had been received positively at the HFM Co-Production Platform in 2014, they wanted to make a co-production with Dutch partners. “Three weeks before principal photography started, our funding application was turned down by the Netherlands Film Fund,” reported the producer. Although there was a financing gap, Tamtam Film managed to complete the picture, which stars actors such as Lucas Gregorowicz and Frederick Lau (Victoria [+lee también:
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Further films that were presented as works in progress include the drama Dew by Denijal Hasanovic, which is a co-production between Skorpion Arte in Poland, SCCA/PRO.BA in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Focus Media in Croatia. “We are looking for post-production support and sales,” stated the writer-director.

Also in search of post-production of the sound design as well as a world sales representative is the team behind Waterboys [+lee también:
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