The 19th connecting cottbus launches coco Work in Progress
- The East-West co-production market organised during the Cottbus Film Festival has announced the four projects selected for the very first edition of coco Work in Progress
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For its 19th edition, the connecting cottbus East-West co-production market, aka“coco”, is launching a new initiative called Work in Progress/WIP. connecting cottbus will take place on 9 and 10 November during the 27th Cottbus Film Festival (7-12 November), thus making the east German city, located just a few miles away from the Polish border, a key destination for Central and Eastern European film professionals once again.
Four projects have been selected from among 50 submissions from 25 countries. These are: Crystal Swan [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Darya Zhuk
film profile] by Darya Zhuk, produced by Birgit Gernboeck for Demarsh Film (Belarus/Germany/USA); Yesterday [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Bálint Kenyeres, produced by Jamila Wenske for One Two Films (Germany); Speedway by Dorota Kędzierzawska, produced by Arthur Reinhart for Kid Film (Poland); and Voroshilovgrad by Yaroslav Lodygin, produced by Vladimir Yatsenko for LIMELITE (Ukraine).
These projects are competing for the €35,000 coco WIP Award, an in-kind prize sponsored by German post-production company D-Facto Motion.
This new programme should contribute to further extending coco’s impressive track record, which includes The High Sun [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Dalibor Matanic
interview: Tihana Lazovic
film profile], A Good Wife [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] and Kills on Wheels [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile], to mention but a few recent examples that have passed through the platform.
connecting cottbus is supported by the German regional funds Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and MDM Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, as well as Creative Europe – MEDIA.
Click here for more information on connecting cottbus.
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