Cinelink Workshops 2012 started on Monday, 28th of May until 1st of June in Admiral Hotel in Slano.
CineLink 2012 attracted over 80 projects in development from 18 different countries in Southeastern Europe. The selection committee selected 17 projects altogether for the CineLink and the CineLink Plus lineups.
CineLink is open for feature-length fiction film projects with potential for theatrical distribution, created by authors from Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey and UNMI Kosovo.
Projects selected for CineLink 2012 will participate at the CineLink Project Development Workshop before being presented at the CineLink Co-Production Market during the Sarajevo Film Festival in July.
CineLink Plus projects will be presented directly at the CineLink Co-Production Market.
Projects presented in both line-ups are eligible for CineLink Development Awards in cash and services, courtesy of the partners and sponsors: ARTE, CNC (Centre national de la cinematographie), Eurimages and Synchro Film and Video.
30 000 EUR Eurimages CineLink award
10 000 EUR CNC CineLink award
6 000 EUR Arte International Relations CineLink award
Living Pictures Service CineLink Award – in kind support up to 10.000 EUR
3 x Synchro Film Vienna CineLink Award – in kind support up to 2.500 EUR
EAVE Scholarship
Cinelink 2012 selected projects
Eight projects were selected in the CineLink line-up and they participated in the Project Development Workshop organized in collaboration with the Binger Filmlab and Croatian Audiovisual Center, where the directors and producers work on the scripts as well as the financial, legal and marketing aspects of their projects.
CineLink Project Development Workshop is a three-day event consisting of script development sessions and consulting sessions focusing on financial, production and marketing strategy of the projects. All sessions are one-on-one meetings between the consultants and representatives of a project, providing a specific, project-targeted training. Authors and producers attend all sessions together.
CineLink covers full travel and accommodation costs for two representatives of the project (author and producer).
Cinelink selected projects includes
Two projects from Greece
LIGNITE, Writer: Effi Gavrilou, Director: Gregory Rentis, Producer: Maria Tsigka
Two from Serbia
PANAMA, Writer: Pavle Vučković & Jelena Vuksanović, Director: Pavle Vučković, Producer: Tatjana Žeželj
One from Croatia
COWBOYS, Writer / Director: Tomislav Mršić, Producer: Suzana Pandek
From Bosnia and Herzegovina
From Slovenia
THE MINER, Writer / Director: Hanna A. W. Slak, Producer:
Dunja Klemencand from Georgia
BRIDES, Writer / Director: Tinatin Kajrishvili. Producer: Tinatin Kajrishvili
Georgia
Nine projects were selected in the CineLink Plus line-up 2012
Three from Turkey
DUST CLOTH, Director: Ahu Öztürk, Producers: Çiğdem Mater & Nesra Gürbüz
SOUTH FACING WALL, Writer / Director: Kutlug Ataman, Producer: Kutlug Ataman, Co-Producer: Sezgi Ustun - Zeynofilm
THERE, OUTSIDE, Writer / Director: Emre Yeksan, Producer: Ozgur Dogan
Two from Romania
4 BLOWS, Writer / Director: Peter Kerek, Producer:
Anca Puiu, Co-Producer: Alexander Wadouh
Romania
THAT TRIP WE TOOK WITH DAD, Writer / Director: Anca Miruna Lazarescu, Producer: Verona Meier (a Romanian / German co-production)
Two from Hungary
CLIMBING THE MOUNTAIN, Writer / Director: Gabriel Dettre, Producers: Viktor Huszar & Ferenc Pusztai
S.K., Writers: Laszlo Nemes & Clara Royer, Director: Laszlo Nemes, Producer: Gabor Sipos, Gabor Rajna
One from Kosovo in co-production with Germany
FATHER, Writer / Director: Visar Morina, Producers: Jonas Katzenstein & Maximilian Leo & Visar Krusha
And one from Croatia