Now in its seventh edition, Last Stop Trieste, the fine cut section run together with the Trieste Film Festival, will present 5 creative documentaries to more than 50 international sales agents, festival programmers and TV commissioning editors. All films will be in the running for the HBO Europe Award (cash prize of 1.000 EUR), Flow Digital Cinema Award, and the First Hand Fund Award (consisting in rough cut dramaturgy as well as promotion and distribution consultancy). The LST 2021 international jury will feature Hanka Kastelikova (HBO Europe), Manuela Buono (Slingshot Films) and Fabio Mancini (RAI3).
For the fourth edition, When East Meets West and Trieste Film Festival will renew the partnership with Milano Film Network for the section exclusively dedicated to long feature fiction films and hybrid works produced or co-produced by Italian producers. This is IT will present 6 films ready for festival premiere/international distribution and a jury composed by Daniela Cölle (Pluto Film), Anne Delseth (Quinzaine des réalisateurs, Cannes' Directors' Fortnight) and Alberto Fasulo (director of Menocchio) will deliver the prestigious Laser Film Award.
Last but not least, WEMW will continue the collaboration with the MIDPOINT Institute, selecting 9 participants for the second edition of Cold Open, the TV Series lab for independent producers, with a background in feature film producing, aspiring to shift to high end series content.
In the coming days WEMW will reveal the complete programme of this special “Out of the Box” edition, including the details of the over 500 registered film professionals who will be living from Jan 25 till Jan 28 in the brand new WEMW digital world.
The 5 documentaries that will be presented at Last Stop Trieste, the 6 feature films selected for This is IT and the 9 producers participating in the Cold Open lab are:
LAST STOP TRIESTE BROTHERHOOD director: Francesco Montagner producers: Pavla Janoušková Kubecková, Nadia Trevisan countries: Czech Republic, Italy FACTORY TO THE WORKERS director: Srdjan Kovacevic producers: Sabina Kresic, Luka Venturin country: Croatia MUSEUM OF THE REVOLUTION director: Srđan Keča producer: Vanja Jambrović country: Croatia | MY MOTHER THE STATE director: Ieva Ozolina producers: Madara Melberga, Larus Jonsson countries: Latvia, Iceland RECONCILIATION director: Marija Zidar producer: Danijel Hočevar country: Slovenia |
This is IT CROWN SHYNESS director: Valentina Bertani producer: Pietro Puccioni country: Italy DARKLING director: Dusan Milic producers: Snezana van Houwelingen, Debora Chiara Desio countries: Serbia, Italy DOGS AND ITALIANS NOT ALLOWDED director: Alain Ughetto producers: Enrica Capra, Alexandre Cornu countries: Italy, France | ETERNITY PACKAGE director: Magdelena Ilieva producers: Ilaria Malagutti, Martichka Bozhilova countries: Italy, Bulgaria MODERN RITUAL director: Lorenzo Pallotta producers: Andrea Gatopoulos, Stefano Chiavarini, Andrea Rosasco country: Italy THE TALE OF KING CRAB director: Alessio De Righi producer: Tommaso Bertani country: Italy |
COLD OPEN Ada Solomon company: microFILM country: Romania Andraž Jerič company: Temporama country: Slovenia Anna M. Bofarull company: KaBoGa art & films country: Spain Claudia Sümeghy company: Juno11 Pictures country: Hungary Irina Malcea-Candea company: Luna Film country: Romania | Juraj Krasnohorsky company: Artichoke country: Slovakia Patrice Nezan company: Les Contes Modernes country: France Radovan Síbrt company: Pink country: Czech Republic Sarah Pennacchi company: Tico Film Company country: Italy |
WEMW is organized once again by the FVG Audiovisual Fund in collaboration with the Trieste Film Festival, EAVE, Creative Europe Desk Italy and thanks to the precious and constant support of Creative Europe/MEDIA Programme, MIBACT -Direzione Generale per il Cinema, CEI – Central European Initiative, Film Center Serbia and the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia. The 2021 Focus on Israel and Italy is run in partnership with the Israel Cinema Project, Rabinovich Foundation and MIBACT – Direzione Generale per il Cinema.