Support for co-productions
The Polish Film Institute (PISF) continues to encourage foreign producers and directors to invest in the Polish film market. After having provided its support to Nightwatching [+see also:
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Some of the reasons for the increase in the number of co-productions with Poland are without doubt the creation of PISF and its new funding system (see Special Report).
At the latest session of the PISF commission, each of the co-production projects proposed was approved. These projects include films by major directors such as Ken Loach’s new title These Times and Zelenka’s adaptation of The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky.
In addition, two co-productions by foreign directors have been allocated funding, Parker’s The Little White Horse and The Hunchback by Hodi.
Loach’s project – which has received approximately €137,000 in funding from the Polish co-producer SPI International Polska – actually contains Polish elements in the script and plans to use Polish actors. Filming will also take place in and around Katowice, in the southern Polish region of Upper Silesia.
Funding of €250,000 for Zelenka’s project is justified in that the film will be shot entirely in Poland with a partly Polish cast and crew for this co-production between Poland (Warsaw Pact Film Production), the Czech Republic (Prvni Verejnopravni) and Slovakia (Sisart).
(Translated from French)
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