A total of 22 projects from 19 countries were pitched, among them 12 were feature films and 10 documentaries. Click HERE to see the full list of the projects.
This year WEMW dedicated a special focus to Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries in Europe and Latin America.
Two new initiatives were launched during the last edition of WEMW dedicated to films in the postproduction stage, Last Stop Trieste (LST), a work-in-progress section for creative documentaries organized in collaboration with Trieste Film Festival, and First Cut Lab (FCL), a programme designed for long feature fiction films in the editing phase.
WEMW is organized by Friuli Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Fund together with the Trieste Film Festival, in collaboration with EAVE, Maia workshops, Creative Europe Desk Italy MEDIA, Eurimages and with the support of Creative Europe - MEDIA Programme, Direzione Generale per il Cinema – MiBACT, CEI (Central European Initiative), Confartigianato Udine and the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia.
LIST OF WINNERS:
WEMW Development Award: Kentannos (Argentina, Italy), documentary
Directed by Victor Cruz
EAVE Scholarship Award: History of Love (Slovenia, Croatia, Iceland), fiction
Directed by Sonja Prosenc
Produced by Monoo
Coproduced by Nukleus film, Duo production
Flow Postproduction Award (consisting of 10,000 EUR in postproduction facilities): Foam at The Mouth (Latvia, Lithuania, Poland), fiction
Directed by Janis Nordis
Produced by Tasse Film
Supported by National Film Center of Latvia
Last Stop Trieste Award (sponsored by HBO Europe): See You in Chechnya (Georgia, Estonia, France, Germany), documentary
Directed by Alexander Kvatashidze
Produced by Lokokina Studio, Kinoport
Coproduced by Kepler 22 Production, Petit à Petit, Made in Germany
Supported by Georgian National Film Center, Estonian Film Institute
TRL Espresso Award (the brand new award that guarantees automatic selection for Rome’s New Cinema Network co-production market and also the Film London PFM in October 2016)
History of Love (Slovenia, Croatia, Iceland), fiction
Directed by Sonja Prosenc
Produced by Monoo
Coproduced by Nukleus film, Duo production
Producers Network prize went to:
Asli Filiz (Turkey) for the project For Women Only
Agnieszka Dziedzic (Poland) for the project Stances and Statues
