06/11/2009

TorinoFilmLab is a year-round, international laboratory that supports emerging talents from all over the world who are working on their first and second feature films, through training, development and funding activities.

Linked to the Torino Film Festival, TorinoFilmLab is promoted by the main film institutions established in Torino and Piedmont - Museo Nazionale del Cinema and Film Commission Torino Piemonte - in close partnership with the advanced Script&Pitch Workshops training course supported by the EU MEDIA Program.

TorinoFilmLab started from 2008 with an annual budget of 1,000,000 Euros for all activities, granted by the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Regione Piemonte and Città di Torino.

The 3 main support activities of TorinoFilmLab are:
Training
Development
Funding

The Training and Development activities run parallel during the year. They both reach their conclusive moment in a final event on November 25rd and 27th 2009, during the Torino Film Festival, when the projects will be presented to a selected group of producers, sales agents, distributors and other professionals from all over the world working in independent filmmaking.

On this occasion a group of decision makers will assign six Development Awards, that will allow filmmakers coming from the Training programme to work on their projects for another year at TorinoFilmLab. A Jury composed of TorinoFilmLab’s Advisory Board will also assign a number of Production Awards to the best projects coming from the Development programme.

Interchange
Supported by Media International, TorinoFilmLab, the Dubai International Film Festival and EAVE are launching a new Middle East – Europe Training: Interchange – TFL/DIFF/EAVE Development and Co-production Workshops. The aim is to build cooperation between film professionals from Europe, the Gulf countries and selected countries of the Middle East (Bahrain, Iraq , Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestinian Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen), selecting 12 teams of writer/director + producer and bringing them together for 2 residential 4 and 5-day workshops, one in Torino in April and one in Dubai in December.