The 7th TorinoFilmLab Meeting Event, which took place on November 24-26 within the Torino Film Festival, brought together a line-up of 43 projects and hundreds of industry professionals, including 200 Decision Makers from all over the world.
We would like to thank all participants and Decision Makers for being with us, sharing their stories and enthusiasm. This year’s edition was a big-hit: a three-day journey through storytelling and filmmaking, projects’ pitches and networking, plus two new Awards, TFL Distribution Award and the Digital Production Challenge II Award.
And now all the winners and prizes!
The international Jury, chaired by Alberto Barbera, Director of Turin’s Museo Nazionale del Cinema and of Venice Film Festival, and comprised of Álvaro Brechner (Uruguay), writer/director, producer and TFL Alumnus; Doreen Boonekamp (Netherlands), CEO of the Netherlands Film Fund; Marta Donzelli (Italy), producer and Sophie Mas (France), producer, has decided to award 3 Production Awards (amounting to a total of € 160.000) to the following FrameWork projects:
POPEYE by Kirsten Tan (Singapore/Thailand) – € 60.000
HUNTING SEASON by Natalia Garagiola (Argentina) – € 50.000
THE WOUND by John Trengove (South Africa) – € 50.000
The following prizes were also awarded:
Voted among the FrameWork projects by all the Decision Makers attending the TFL Meeting Event, the Audience Award of € 30.000 went to:
KODUKUSHI by Janus Victoria (Philippines/Japan)
TFL Distribution Award (€ 43.000) – aimed at supporting innovative audience development strategies at the moment of distribution, went to:
Eilon Ratzkovsky for July August Production, producer of MOUNTAIN by Yaelle Kayam (Israel)
Assigned by ARTE France Cinéma to one of the Script&Pitch projects, the ARTE International Prize of € 6.000went to:
HOME by Fien Troch (Belgium)
The Post-Production Award EP2C assigned to a FrameWork project, which allows the producer to participate in a workshop on post-production, went to:
Phaedra Vokali from Marni Films (Greece), producer of PIGS ON THE WIND
The Les Arcs Coproduction Village Prize, consisting in the selection at the Arc 1950 Coproduction Village, went to:
THE VOICE by György Pàlfi (Hungary) – Script&Pitch
The Digital Production Challenge II Award, consisting in the participation in the DPC II Workshop, is granted by Focal Resource and went to the Script&Pitch project:
A BACKWARDS JOURNEY by Pietro Marcello and Alfredo Covelli (Italy)