24/09/2024 - Working in partnership with 19 co-production markets, the online platform will soon be handing out its development prize for the third time

Directors Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova, who are selected with Mather

Initiated by the professional online platform Coprocity (read our interview) which works in partnership with 19 co-production markets, the Coprocity Development Prize, which crowned Maura Delpero and Frida Kempff its victors in 2022 (news) thanks to Vermiglio, the Mountain Bride [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Maura Delpero
film profile] and The Swedish Torpedo [+see also:
film review
interview: Frida Kempff
film profile] respectively, and Manuela Martelli last year thanks to The Meltdown (news), will be coveted by 10 projects this year, nine of which are works of fiction and one a documentary.

Standing tall in this selection of young talent are the 3rd fiction feature film projects coming courtesy of the Bulgarian duo Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova - who were unearthed in competition in Locarno in 2019 by way of Cat in the Wall [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
film profile] and who were selected for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section in 2021 thanks to Women Do Cry [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
film profile] – and Finnish director Selma Vilhunen (awarded the Generation 14Plus Crystal Bear in Berlin 2019 thanks to Stupid Young Heart [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] and selected in Rotterdam’s Big Screen competition last year via Four Little Adults [+see also:
film review
interview: Selma Vilhunen
film profile]).

Equally noteworthy are the second feature films projects put forth by Poland’s Aga Woszczyńska (who competed in Toronto’s Platform line-up in 2023 with Silent Land [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Aga Woszczyńska
film profile]), Lithuania’s Irma Pužauskaitė (acclaimed in Tallin, Lecce and Cottbus in 2022 via The 9th Step [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Irma Pužauskaitė
film profile]) and Greece’s Asimina Proedrou (her country’s candidate at the Oscars last year, wielding Behind the Haystacks [+see also:
film review
film profile]).

The 10 projects in the running for the Coprocity Development Prize (endowed with 3,500 euros) will be assessed by a jury composed of international sales agent Lucies Desquiens (Charades), Italian producer Alessandro Amato (Dispàrte) and the author of this article. The name of the winning project will be unveiled in the Co-Production Village unspooling 14 – 17 December within the Les Arcs Film Festival.

Coprocity’s co-production market partners are CineMart IFFR, Brussels International Film Festival Co-Production Market, When East Meets West, Torino Film Lab, Meeting Point Vilnius, Connecting Cottbus, Les Arcs Industry Village, Baltic Event, Thessalonique - Agora Crossroads et Agora Docs -, New Nordic Film Haugesund, Sofia Meetings, CineLink, Ventana Sur, Young Horizons Industry, Cinekid Junior Co-Production Market, Dot.on.the.Map, Göteborg Industry and New Horizons Polish Days.

The projects selected for the Coprocity Prize are as follows:

A White House - Francesco Romano
Production: Raffaella Pontarelli for Amarena Film (Italy)
Co-production: Giovanni Donfrancesco for Bocalupo Films (France)

Black Water - Aga Woszczyńska
Production: Agnieszka Wasiak for Lava Films (Poland)
Co-production: Liisa Karpo for Napa Films (Finland) and Elina Litvinova for Three Brothers (Estonia)

Blythe is doing OK - Tinna Hrafnsdóttir
Production: Tinna Hrafnsdóttir for Freya Filmworks (Iceland)

Hold Me Closer - Irma Pužauskaitė
Production: Ruta Petronyte for Smart Casual (Lithuania)

Hystera - Asimina Proedrou
Production:  Maria Kontogianni for Wild At Heart (Greece)
Co-production: Danijel Hočevar for Vertigo (Slovenia), Ivan Tonev for Ars Digital Studio (Bulgaria) and Birgit Kemner for Manny Films (France)

Mather - Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova
Production: Mina Mileva for Activist 38 Ltd (Bulgaria)

Monte Zombie - Danilo Beckovic
Production: Marko Paljić for Gargantua Films (Serbia)
Co-production:  Jani Pösö for It's Alive (Finland) and Lazar Rašović for Vissoco Studio (Montenegro)

She Did Not Show Remorse - Selma Vilhunen
Production: Venla Hellstedt for Dionysos Films (Finland)
Co-production: Tøri Gjendal for Nordisk Film Production Norway (Norway), Matilda Appelin for Nordisk Film Production Denmark (Denmark) and Alexander Olai Korsnes for Rein Film (Denmark)

Stink Eye - Cristina Sánchez Salamanca
Production:  Duván Duque for Continente Pictures (Colombia) and Paola Pérez for Inercia Películas (Colombia)
Co-production: Mireia Graell for Ringo Media (Spain)

While Our Sun Burns - David Krøyer (documentary)
Production: Anna Marina Skouros for Onomamono (Denmark)
Co-production: Rea Apostolides for Anemon Productions (Greece)

(Translated from French)