12/11/2024 - From 21 to 23 November, the audio-visual lab organised by the National Cinema Museum will present works from the past year

29 works supported by the TorinoFilmLab have seen the light of day in the past year alone. To cite just two, All We Imagine As Light [+see also:
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film profile] by Maura Delpero, whose script was developed within the 2021 ScriptLab, winner of the Grand Jury Prize in Venice and current Italian representative in the Oscar race. There have been 220 films realised with the contribution of the TFL since 2008. This year as well, at the Meeting Event taking place between 21 and 23 November, industry insiders from all over the world will be able to learn about the films of the future and start precious collaborations to realise them.

More than 200 audiovisual professionals, from producers, sales agents and broadcasters to distributors, are expected in Turin to listen to project presentations during pitch sessions and meet the participants of the 2024 TFL programme, thanks to one-on-one moments and some networking (read the news). This 17th edition is enriched by the presentation of projects from the ComedyLab and the SeriesLab, two programmes involved with the Meeting Event for the first time: four comedy feature projects developed during the first edition of ComedyLab from 89 candidates, and nine original television series projects chosen from 143 candidates for the SeriesLab.

The cornerstone of the gathering remains the long-standing programmes of the TorinoFilmLab: FeatureLab with its 10 projects, 7 of which are first films and 3 are second ones at the advanced development stage, selected from 175 candidates; ScriptLab and its 16 projects, 8 of which are debuts, 5 second films, and 3 more mature, chosen from 612 applications, as well as 2 projects close to shooting which received the TFL Co-Production Funds (€50,000). In total, there are 41 projects presented by 74 participants, more than half of which are professional women, coming from 35 countries.

In addition, to create connections between the Italian and the international industries, the TorinoFilmLab offers a new edition of the Boost IT Lab workshop, in which national and foreign projects work together with co-production models in order to develop their own potential on the global scale, and which culminates with a project presentation (there are 8 in total) at the TFL Italy event hosted by Torino Film Industry on 21 November.

The 17th Meeting Event will conclude on the evening of 23 November with the awards ceremony, during which a series of prizes will be given out to projects, worth a total of €376,000 thanks in part to international partners, in order to support their development, production and sustainability. Beyond the traditional prizes, the SeriesLab Development Award (€20,000 for one or two series projects) and the ComedyLab Award (€5,000) will also be handed out for the first time, by two dedicated juries.

Finally, it is worth mentioning that six titles on which the TorinoFilmLab has worked between 2019 and 2024 have been selected for the 42nd Torino Film Festival, 3 of which in competitive sections: Holy Rosita [+see also:
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interview: Andrea Jaurrieta
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interview: Nada Riyadh, Ayman El Amir
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The projects:

ScriptLab

Atropical Energy - João Salgado (Portugal)
Writer: João Salgado

Eva - Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen (Norway)
Writer: Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen, Norah Mc Gettigan (Ireland)

Explorer - Hilke Rönnfeldt (Germany/Iceland)
Writer: Hilke Rönnfeldt

Human Resource - Stefan Bohun (Austria)
Writer: Stefan Bohun

Josie Goes to War - Coline Confort (France)
Writer: Coline Confort, Perrine Prost

Kindergarten Optimisten - Anastasia Veber (Russia)
Writer: Anastasia Veber

Mothership - Artemis Shaw (USA/Greece)
Writer: Artemis Shaw

On the Way to Forgive I Forgot Myself - Rand Abou Fakher (Syria)
Writer: Rand Abou Fakher

Sants - Mikel Gurrea (Spain)
Writer: Mikel Gurrea

The Criminals - Serhat Karaaslan (Turkey)
Writer: Serhat Karaaslan

The Dance of the Shadows - Kathy Mitrani (Colombia)
Writer: Kathy Mitrani

The Funeral - Carolina Markowicz (Brazil)
Writer: Carolina Markowicz

The Hallucinations - Andrea Gatopoulos (Italy)
Writer: Andrea Gatopoulos

The Healers - Lun Sevnik (Slovenia)
Writer: Lun Sevnik, Atila Urbančič

The Void Is Immense in Idle Hours - Sam Manacsa (Philippines)
Writer: Sam Manacsa

Villain - Kevin Biele (Germany)
Writer: Kevin Biele

ScriptLab Story Editor Trainees

Yanis Gaye (France/Senegal)
Miriam Newman (United Kingdom)
Marie-Gabrielle Peaucelle (France)
Michal Reich (Czech Republic)

ComedyLab

Bootleg - Reem Morsi (Egypt/Canada)
Writer: Reem Morsi

Honeyjoon - Lilian T Mehrel (USA/Germany)
Writer: Lilian T Mehrel

MidLife - Oleksii Sobolev (Ukraine)
Writer: Oleksii Sobolev

The Last Queen (series) (Italy)
Creator: Stefano La Rosa
Writer: Stefano La Rosa, Luca Renucci
Director: Luca Renucci

Comedylab Writers/Performers

Tatiana Delaunay (France)
Cecilia Gragnani (Italy)
Kate Hammer (Canada)
Michael Kunze (United States)

SeriesLab

Accidental Villains (Egypt/USA)
Creator: Ahmed Ibrahim
Writer: Ahmed Ibrahim
Director: Ahmed Ibrahim

Dear Insects and Other Creepy Stories (Croatia)
Writer: Karla Lulić
Director: Karla Lulić
Producer: Karla Lulić, Jelena Mađarić (Dobar Film)

Death Doula (Finland)
Creator: Anastasia Pashkevich, Eeva Putro
Writer: Anastasia Pashkevich, Eeva Putro

Ensemble (Netherlands)
Creator: Emma-Rose Thompson
Writer: Emma-Rose Thompson
Producer: Hanneke Bosman

Freeloaders School (Spain)
Creator: Horacio Alcalá
Writer: Horacio Alcalá, Blanca Tormo
Producer: Blanca Tormo (The Aurora Project Ent.)

Goodnight Girl (Ireland)
Creator: Janna Kemperman, Hiram Harrington
Writer: Hiram Harrington
Director: Janna Kemperman
Producer: Maggie Ryan (Escape Pod Media)

Metamorphoses (Belgium)
Writer: Hasse Steenssens, Michael De Cock
Producer: Helena Vlogaert (Caviar)

The Heir (UK)
Creator: Abiola Ogunbiyi
Writer: Abiola Ogunbiyi

The Making of a Terrorist (Sweden)
Creator: Leif Edlund
Writer: Leif Edlund, Emelia Hansson

SeriesLab Story Editor Trainees

György Baráthy, writer & story editor (Hungary)
Jacob Dijker, story editor & script coach (Netherlands)
Tonyia Dowling, story editor & creative producer (Ireland)

FeatureLab

A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra - Jacqueline Lentzou (Greece)
Producer: Annabelle Aronis (Avion Films)

Antonivka - Kateryna Gornostai (Ukraine)
Production: Vika Khomenko (Moon Man)

Cold Ashes Can Cause Forest Fires - Ashmita Guha Neogi (France)
Production: Avantika Singh Desbouvries (Salt for Sugar Films)

Hard Sub - Novruz Hikmet (Germany)
Production: Julian Gerchow (plotlessfilm)

Legacy - Aliaksei Paluyan (Germany)
Production: Paulina Toenne (Tamtam Film)

Sea, Star, Woman - Jeunghae Yim (France)
Production: Helen Olive (5 à 7 Films)

The Boy and the Fight of the Spiders - Jarell Mahinay Serencio (Philippines)
Production: Jed Medrano (FBN Media)

The Night Burns - Angelica Gallo (Italy)
Production: Andrea Gori (Lumen Films)

Versorgen - Nora Longatti (Switzerland)
Production: Chantal Scheiner (Seeland Filmproduktion)

Yellow Chrysanthemum - André Hayato Saito (Brazil)
Production: Mayra Faour Auad (MyMama Entertainment)

Co-Production Fund

Awaiting Birds - Sofía Quirós Ubeda (Norway)
Producer: Elisa Fernanda Pirir (Sputnik Films)

Past Future Continuous - Firouzeh Khosrovani, Morteza Ahmadvand (Italy)
Producer: Giulia Campagna (ZaLab Film)

Boost It Lab

Great Fear On The Mountain - Hugo Bousquet (France)
Producer: Elise Tamisier (Septième Lame Films)

Nothing Will Be Named After Me - Maja Todorović (Montenegro)
Producer: Miljan Vučelić (Bitter Frames)

The Woman Mara - Daiva Žalnieriunas (Canada)
Producer: Emily Harris (Opc)

Three Summer Days - Álvaro López Alba (Spain)
Producer: Nuria Muñoz Ortín (Nexus Creafilms)

Flare - Marco Mingolla (Italy)
Producer: Martina Bertuccio (Cattive Produzioni)

Amerika - Davide Maldi (Italy)
Producer: Massimiliano Navarra (Ring Film)

Bove - Matteo Fresi (Italy)
Producer: Alice Drago (Epica Film)

Lunàdiga - Elisa Chiari, Francesca Trovato (Italy)
Producer: Stefano Cravero (Base Zero)

(Translated from Italian)