When East Meets West
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Co-production forum designed to select 22 producers with a project in development and bring together over 550 producers, financiers, decision makers and film professionals from more than 35 European Countries.
WEMW is organized by the FVG Audiovisual Fund and the Trieste Film Festival in collaboration with EAVE, Creative Europe Desk Italy, EURIMAGES, and the support of Creative Europe/MEDIA Programme, MiBACT – Direzione Centrale per il Cinema, CEI – Central European Initiative and the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia.
The East & West double focus is based on two complementary ideas: on the one hand, every year the call for entries will be open to all producers from Europe (plus North and Latin America) who are developing a project with international co-production potential, preferably with one of the countries in focus; on the other hand, WEMW will ensure the presence of a large delegation of key decision makers, financiers, producers and film professionals from each spotlight territory so to maximise the co-production, financing and distribution opportunities for all selected projects.
Together with the Co-Production Forum, the programme of WEMW includes all its now established side events: the fine cut section for creative documentaries Last Stop Trieste, the workshop for long feature fiction films in editing phase First Cut Lab and the work in progress section for films produced or co-produced by Italian companies This is IT. But there was also room for some new fresh initiatives, such as the TV series mini lab MIDPOINT Cold Open, the project showcase of short films developed at MIDPOINT Shorts and the international Work-in-Progress presentation of the First Cut + curated portfolio of 8 fiction features. Furthermore it presented a series of panels and case studies dedicated to the co-production opportunities with the spotlight territories.
For further information please have a look at www.wemw.it