Eighty participants from both countries have been confirmed. They include producers Opus Film, Storm Studios, Maipo, and Prasa i Film; sales agents Trust Nordisk; distributors Gutek Film, Best Film, and Vivarto; and buyers from Polsat, TVP and Canal+ Poland.
The event will include both pitching to a group and one-to-one meeting sessions. Case studies of Essential Killing and King of Devil's Island - two recent successful Polish-Norwegian co-productions - will also take place during the Forum.
The forum is a joint enterprise of the New Horizons IFF and the Norwegian Film Institute operating within the "Norway Expanded" project co-financed by the Cultural Exchange Programme within the EEA Financial Mechanism and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism.
Projects selected for the Forum are:
Eggg (Maipo AS)
Norge (Storm Studios)
One Last Chance, dir. Mona J. Hoel (Freedom from Fear AS)
The Grass Widows, dir. Åse Svenheim Drivenes (Sant & Usant)
Polak Potrafi, dir. Leiv Igor Devold (Devold Film)
Charlotte, dir. Marcin Filipowicz (Kalejdoskop)
Fugue, dir. Agnieszka Smoczyńska (Prasa i Film)
Love in Times of Communism, dir. Anna Jadowska (Donten & Lacroix Films)
The Yellow Coat, dir. Kordian Piwowarski (Pokromski Studio, Kwieciński Group)
The Trap, dir. Robert Turło, Paweł Czarzasty (Metro Films)
