Berlinale World Cinema Fund Opens 2008 Applications

BERLINALE WORLD CINEMA FUND OPENS 2008 APPLICATIONS

Screen Africa, South Africa
Nov 27 2007

The World Cinema Fund (WCF) has announced its next deadline for funding
applications. The production funding applications is March 13, 2008;
for distribution funding it is December 20, 2007. (More information
at )

In the seventh selection round of theWCF, chaired by Berlinale director
Dieter Kosslick, four film projects have been recommended for funding
from Armenia, Indonesia, Iran, and Israel.

The new Jury of theWCF – film scholar and curator Viola Shafik
(Germany/Egypt), programme coordinator of the Swiss Television,
Alberto Chollet (Switzerland), director of the script programme of the
EON Screenwriters’ Workshop Alby James (England), as well asWCF fund
managers Sonja Heinen und Vincenzo Bugno – had to choose between 108
projects submitted from a total of 40 countries, and granted funds
of 220.000.

The funding recommendations of the seventh selection round on November
19, 2007:

Chnchik, director: Aram Shahbazyan (Armenia), production: ARMNA LLC,
Yerevan. German co-producer: zero fiction film GmbH, Berlin. Feature
film, funding: 50.000

Jermal, director: Ravi Bharwani (Indonesia), production: SALTO FILMS,
Jakarta. Feature film, funding: 55.000

The Hunter, director: Rafi Pitts (Iran), production: AMA MEDIA
PRODUCTIONS, Tehran. Feature film, funding: 50.000

Tanathor, director: Tawfik Abu-Wael (Israel), production: LAMA FILMS,
Tel Aviv. Feature film, funding: 65.000

Since the founding of theWCF in October 2004, 710 projects from 61
countries of theWCF focus regions (Africa, Latin America, Middle
East and Central Asia, as well as, since summer 2007, South East
Asia and the Caucasus) have been submitted. 43 projects have received
production or distribution funding so far.

Within merely three years, theWorld Cinema Fund has established itself
as an instrument for cultural funding and intercultural dialogue, as
well as for promoting international contacts within the film industry.

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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS