VENICE 2021 Venice Production Bridge
The Venice Gap-Financing Market selects 57 projects from all around the world
- Wim Wenders is among those selected for the eighth edition of the market, which is dedicated to projects at an advanced stage of funding and development, and is unfolding 3-5 September
A total of 57 projects are set to be presented during this year’s three-day Venice Gap-Financing Market whose eighth edition will unspool between 3 and 5 September, as organised by Venice Production Bridge, within the wider context of the 78th Venice Film Festival. The market dedicated to projects hailing from all corners of the globe and in the final phases of development and funding - whose teams can secure outstanding finance by way of one-to-one meetings with international sector professionals - will welcome 30 feature film projects to the Lido, both works of fiction (10 European and 13 international) and documentaries (2 European, including Wim Wenders’ latest work, and 5 international).
The event will also screen 13 Virtual Reality Immersive Story projects (10 European and 3 international), in the form of fiction films, documentaries, animated films and other interactive installation experiences; 11 Biennale College – Virtual Reality projects, which were developed during the fifth edition of the Biennale College Cinema VR workshop and are at different stages of development; and 3 Biennale College Cinema projects, which were developed during the first workshop of Biennale College Cinema’s nineth edition, and which have since reached different stages of development and pre-production.
The Venice Gap-Financing Market will host one-to-one meetings between the 57 project teams (each composed of the producer and the director) and industry professionals vested with decision-making power (producers, private and public investors, banks, distributors, sales agents, TV networks, web and video platforms, institutions and post-production companies).
The Book of Projects containing detailed information on each of the projects, will be sent by email to film industry professionals so as to give them the opportunity to organise bespoke, half-hour meetings with the producers of the selected projects, via the Venice Production Bridge website.
The selected titles are as follows:
Films and Documentaries
¡Caigan las rosas blancas! - Albertina Carri (Argentina/Brazil/France)
Production: Gentil Cine
A Rooster on the Fire Escape - Guetty Felin (France/Haiti)
Production: Aldabra Films
Facing Darkness [+see also:
film review
interview: Jean-Gabriel Périot
film profile] - Jean-Gabriel Periot (France/Bosnia-Herzegovina/Switzerland/Germany)
Production: Alter Ego Production
Allah n’est pas obligé – Zaven Najjar (France/Luxembourg/Belgium)
Production: Special Touch Studios
The Year I Started Masturbating [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Erika Wasserman (Sweden)
Production: Gimme A Break, AB
Ashkal [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Youssef Chebbi (Tunisia/France/the Netherlands)
Production: Supernova Films
The Cemetery of Cinema [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Thierno Souleymane Diallo
film profile] - Thierno Souleymane Diallo (France/Senegal/Guinea)
Production: L’image d’après
Birthmark – Aditya Vikram Sengupta (India/Luxembourg/Denmark/France/Norway)
Production: For Films
Bufis - Mahad Ahmed, Vincenzo Cavallo (Kenya/Germany)
Production: Cultural Video Production, Unafilm
The Store - Hanna Sköld (Italy/Sweden/Norway)
Production: Indyca
El repartidor está en camino [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Martín Rejtman (Argentina/Portugal)
Production: Un Puma
Electric Child [+see also:
film review
interview: Simon Jaquemet
film profile] - Simon Jaquemet (Switzerland/Germany)
Production: 8horses GmbH
Floating - Quirine Racké, Helena Muskens (the Netherlands/Belgium)
Production: Family Affair Films
Halissa - Sophie Artus (Israel)
Production: Deadline Production, July August Productions
Holly [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Fien Troch
film profile] - Fien Troch (Belgium/the Netherlands/France)
Production: Prime Time
Kabul Melody - Sarah Mani (Afghanistan/France)
Production: Afghanistan Dochhouse
Kipkemboi - Hubert Davis (Canada/Kenya)
Production: New Real Films
La piel pulpo - Ana Cristina Barragán (Ecuador/Mexico/Greece/Germany)
Production: Caleidoscopio Cine, Desenlace Films, Graal SA, Unafilm
Los Angeles - Joaquin Cociña, Cristóbal León (Chile)
Production: Globo Rojo Films
Los colonos [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Felipe Gálvez
film profile] - Felipe Gálvez (Chile/Argentina/France/Denmark)
Production: Quijote Films
Mother Mara [+see also:
film review
film profile] - Mirjana Karanovic (Serbia/Luxembourg/Slovenia/Montenegro/Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Production: This and That Productions
Non morirò di fame [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Umberto Spinazzola (Italy/Canada/Poland)
Production: La Sarraz Pictures
Pamfir [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
interview: Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
film profile] - Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk (Ukraine/France/Poland/Chile)
Production: Bosonfilm
Plan 75 [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Chie Hayakawa
film profile] - Chie Hayakawa (Japan/France/Philippines)
Production: Loaded Films Ltd.
Retour en Alexandrie - Tamer Ruggli (Switzerland)
Production: Tipi’mages Productions
Heartless [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Nara Normande and Tião (Brazil/France/Germany)
Production: Les Valseurs
A Holy Family [+see also:
film review
film profile] - Elvis A-Liang Lu (Taiwan/France)
Production: Volos Films Ltd.
The Life and Times of Omar Sharif (working title) - Axel Petersén, Mark Lotfy (Sweden/Egypt/UK)
Production: Fedra
The Secret of Places – Wim Wenders (Germany/Switzerland/Norway)
Production: Road Movies
The Silent Treatment – Caroline Strubbe (Belgium/the Netherlands/Hungary)
Production: Minds Meet
VR Immersive Stories
Abandon - Farah Shaer (Lebanon/Egypt/Qatar)
Production: Fig Leaf Studios
Anon VR - Jan Lachauer and Clarens Grollmann (Germany)
Production: K5 Factory GmbH
Blood Speaks: Maya - The Birth of a Superhero - Poulomi Basu and C.J. Clarke (UK/France)
Production: Just Another Production Company, Floréal Films
Buried in the Rock (Series: Extraordinary People Extraordinary Places) - Shehani Fernando (UK)
Production: ScanLAB Projects
Café Glaser-Müller - Gorki Glaser-Müller (Sweden/the Netherlands)
Production: GGM Film
Confident - Jérome Blanquet (France)
Production: Wise Bird
Empereur - Marion Burger, Ilan Cohen (France)
Production: ATLAS V
Escape - Rossella Schillaci (Italy/Portugal)
Production: MYBOSS srl
Fight Back VR - Céline Tricart (France/USA)
Production: Red Corner, Lucid Dreams
Knight of the Wailing Stars - Denis Semionov (France/Russia/Italy)
Production: VRrOOm
Shepherd - Eric Darnell (USA/Canada)
Production: Baobab Studios, Dark Slope
Symbioses - Marcel van Brakel, Mark Meeuwenoord (the Netherlands)
Production: Studio Biarritz, Polymorf
Winterover - Ido Mizrahy, Nir Saar (Canada/Israel)
Production: Holy City VR
Biennale College - Virtual Reality
Duchampiana VR - Lilian Hess (France)
Production: Tchikiboum
GulliVR - Ricardo Karman (Brazil)
Production: Delirium XR
Highlife VR - Tomáš Koucký (Czech Republic/France)
Production: Oldrich Company
Human Violins - Ioana Mischie (Romania)
Production: Storyscapes, Studioset
Math is Weird - Ana Corrie (Italy/UK)
Production: Associazione Museo Nazionale del Cinema
Origen - Emilia Sánchez Chiquetti (Argentina/Colombia)
Production: Proyectil
Senza freni - Matteo Nicoletta and Daniele Grassetti (Italy)
Production: d’Aria SRL
Tales of the March - Stefano Casertano (Germany/Italy)
Production: Daring House
The Broom - Nim Shapira (Israel)
Production: Nim Shapira
Los ojos of Mila Kaos - Yimit Ramírez (Spain/France/USA)
Production: Free Hundred Media
The Last Party VR - Alberto Caffarelli and Paololuca Barbieri (Italy)
Production: NOS Visual Arts Production
Biennale College Cinema
A Mutual Gift - Gianclaudio Cappai and Pilar Perrotta (Italy)
Production: Palosanto Films SRL
Madame Negritude - Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich (USA)
Production: Madame Negritude LLC
La extranjera - Patricia Pérez Fernández (Spain/Serbia/France/Cuba)
Production: Free Hundred Media
(Translated from Italian)
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