THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
November 4-13 2011
7TH CROSSROADS, CO-PRODUCTION FORUM CALL FOR ENTRIES
November 8-11 2011
Celebrating its 7th edition the CROSSROADS Co-production Forum is announcing its Call for Entries for its next event, taking place during the 52nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival in November 2011.
CROSSROADS’ goal is to support the producers of feature-length fiction film projects that share a link with the Mediterranean, Central and South-eastern Europe. Qualifying features will be produced or co-produced by a country in this area or will contain story elements based in this region. Mediterranean and European producers with a feature film script are given the chance to meet a new network of financiers, co-producers and leading industry specialists. The programme is varied and provides the opportunity to meet, formally and informally, distributors, broadcasters, sales agents and consultants.
This year we are adding Central Europe in an attempt to bring European projects together.
We happily announce that Poland, Hungary, Czech & Slovak Republic may submit a film project to Crossroads Co-production Forum and have a chance to network, discuss and meet with international film professionals.
Countries that are eligible to submit are: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, FYROM, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey.
In its six previous editions, CROSSROADS included projects by filmmakers such as Amos Gitai, Yesim Ustaoglu, Constantine Giannaris, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Alexis Alexiou, Iglika Triffonova, Ozcan Alper, Dover Kosashvili, Annemarie Jacir, Radu Jude, Kazim Oz, Eric Nazarian and Ognjen Svilicic among others.
Invited industry experts are varied and include, producers, sales agents, fund & festival representatives, organisations and institutions from all over the world.
Each year the Crossroads Jury gives an award to the best Crossroads film project which is accompanied by an amount of maximum €10.000 in services by Kodak S.A. In addition, the producer of the winning project is granted a Producer’s Network accreditation for the next Cannes Film Festival and has the opportunity to represent the project in Sofia Meetings the next March. The MFI (Mediterranean Film Institute) is offering a scholarship to its Script 2 Film Workshop for one of the projects.
Completed films or film projects that are under way such as Zion and his Brother by Eran Merav, Disengagement by Amos Gitai, Sut by Semih Kaplanoglu, Pandora’s Box by Yesim Ustaoglu, Mission London by Dimitar Mitovski, Black Field by Vardis Marinakis, Autumn by Ozcan Alper, Tilva Rosh by Nikola Lezaic, Ajami by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani, Man at Sea by Constantine Giannaris and Amnesty by Bujar Alimani have participated in CROSSROADS.
All submissions must be received by August 31st, 2011 and all relevant information can be downloaded from our website: http://www.filmfestival.gr
Crossroads is partners with KODAK, Producer’s Network, Sofia Meetings and MFI Script 2 Film Workshops and is supported by MEDIA.
For more information please contact Angeliki Vergou at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
