Submissions are now open for the ninth edition of L'Atelier Milano Film Network 2023, a support fund for independent feature films in post-production whose finalists will be presented and awarded prizes in the second half of Milano Industry Days - MID by MFN on 22 November 2023, hosted by curators Alice Arecco and Alessandra Speciale.

The call is open until 20 October (with an early-bird price available until 13 October), welcoming feature films in the post-production phase presented by Italian production houses and Italian directors owning sole proprietor firms, as well as internationally co-produced films, provided that minority co-productions are helmed by an Italian director. The full rules and regulations can be downloaded here.

Thanks to a variety of collaborations and new partners, numerous prizes in kind and in cash will be awarded this year, namely: the First Milano Film Network Prize consisting of €5,000, awarded by the Milano Film Network; the LaserFilm Prize offering colour correction; the 196-Media Prize offering a theatrical 5.1 mix; editing tutoring from Carlotta Cristiani and Valentina Andreoli; sound editing tutoring from Daniela Bassani; audience design tutoring from Greta Nordio; and a DCP master from Start. What’s more, one of the shortlisted projects of L’Atelier MFN 2023 will be selected and presented in the This is IT line-up in January 2024, in collaboration with When East Meets West and the Trieste Film Festival.

The shortlisted films will be presented to an audience of Italian and international festival directors and programmers, distributors, buyers and commissioning editors, with a 30-minute screening of the working copy of each film, followed by a Q&A session with the directors and producers involved. These presentations will be followed by one-to-one meetings and a post-production awards ceremony organised by the Milano Film Network and its partners.

Since its foundation, L'Atelier MFN has promoted and supported countless Italian works in progress, by way of prizes in kind and in cash, including Pure Unknown [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Mattia Colombo and Valentina Cicogna (co-produced by Italy, Switzerland and Sweden), The Last Chapter [+lire aussi :
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interview : Gianluca Matarrese
fiche film] by Gianluca Matarrese (screened in Venice’s Critics’ Week 2021) and Il posto – A Steady Job [+lire aussi :
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interview : Gianluca Matarrese et Matt…
fiche film] by Mattia Colombo and Gianluca Matarrese (both Italian-French co-productions), The Properties of Metals [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Antonio Bigini (screened in the 2023 Berlinale’s Generation Kplus section), Mother Lode [+lire aussi :
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interview : Matteo Tortone
fiche film] by Matteo Tortone (France/Italy/Switzerland, screened in Venice’s Critics’ Week 2021), Una Promessa [+lire aussi :
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interview : Gianluca et Massimiliano D…
fiche film] by Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio (Italy/France, screened in the 2020 Giornate degli Autori), Divinations [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Leandro Picarella (Italy/France), Menocchio The Heretic [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Alberto Fasulo (Italy/Romania, in competition in Locarno in 2018), The Young Observant [+lire aussi :
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interview : Davide Maldi
fiche film] by Davide Maldi (awarded Turin’s Special Jury Prize in 2019), Tony Driver [+lire aussi :
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interview : Ascanio Petrini
fiche film] by Ascanio Petrini (Italy/Mexico, screened in Venice’s Critics’ Week 2019), Deliver Us [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Federica Di Giacomo (crowned Best Film in Venice’s 2016 Orizzonti line-up), Happy Winter [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Giovanni Totaro (screened Out of Competition in Venice 2017), The Stand-In [+lire aussi :
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interview : Rä di Martino
fiche film] by Ra di Martino (Italy/Morocco/France), and Spira Mirabilis [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Massimo D'Anolfi and Martina Parenti (Italy/Switzerland, in competition in Venice in 2016).