The films, now at the postproduction stage, were presented to 60 European film professionals attending the event.
Polish VFX studio Platige Image (www.platige.com) will grant $10,000 of postproduction services to Hide Your Smiling Faces by Daniel Carbone. The film will also receive subtitling services from DCinex (www.dcinex.com) and VSIParis/Chinkel (www.vsi-paris.tv) worth $5,000.
Alvernia Studios (www.alvernia.com) will support Bluebird by Lance Edmands with 10,000 EUR in postproduction services.
A Song Still Inside by Gregory Collins will get a soundtrack valued at $10,000 from the Polish composer Maciej Zieliński of Soundflower Studio (www.soundflower.pl) from Warsaw.
A jury also awarded Matt Porterfield’s film I Used to be Darker with promotion and distribution support from Europa Distribution (www.europa-distribution.org) and CICAE (www.cicae.org).
The producers of Hide Your Smiling Faces (Jordan Bailey-Hoover) and Milkshake (Mariko Munro) will receive free passes for the 2013 Cannes Producers’ Network.
