09-11-2012

FNE at Cottbus 2012: Kosovo, Turkey Win Connecting Cottbus Awards

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    COTTBUS: Three Windows and a Hanging, the first project from Kosovo to be presented at Connecting Cottbus (www.connecting-cottbus.de), won the coco Best Pitch Award voted on by the attendees of the forum.

    The film from producers Shkumbin Istrefi and Mentor Shala and director Isa Qosja was also a triumph of sorts for the new Kosova Film Cinematography Center (www.qkk-rks.com), which supported it with a grant of 250,000 EUR. It has already lined up

    German coproducer NiKo Film.

    The coco Post Pitch Award went to Motherland from Turkish director Senem Tuzen and producers Sevil Demirci and Adam Isenberg. The project wins post-production services worth 25,000 EUR from Germany’s The Post Republic.

     

    Contacts:

    Three Windows and a Hanging

    Shkumbin Istrefi

    Tel: +381 38 225 611

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    Motherland

    Olena Yershova, Tato Film

    Tel: +90 242 323 50 89

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