B2B - BELGRADE INDUSTRY MEETINGS PRIZES AWARDED

This year's B2B pitching - Belgrade Industry Meetings held in the scope of this year's FEST presented 12 projects from 12 countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The projects have been selected by an international commission, out of 80 projects that have been applied from 17 countries.

After the pitching individual meetings were held with the representatives of Western film productions - producers, cinema funds representatives and international distributors. Upon the vote by the representatives of Western countries, B2B and FEST awards were extended for the development of projects, in the amount of 5000 euros to film projects from the following groups of countries: Balkan, Eastern European and Euroasian.

The following projects have received the development prizes:

PIANO ROOM from Macedonia, directed by Igor Ivanov;

INSTRUCTIONS FOR DIVORCE from Georgia, by Tamara Sulamanidze,

MACHO from Kazakhstan, by Nariman Turebayev

Upon the realization of these films, the producers of the awarded projects committed to have their regional-Balkan premiere on a future edition of FEST, in the scope of the Europe out of Europe competition program.

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