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Non sono un Assassino,
by Andrea Zaccariello
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manages a TV Film Fund offering €4.5m over the three- €120,000 for web series, web documentaries, interactive towards the beginning of May as part of the 18th
year period spanning 2018-2020, for the development of video, 360° video, mobile video, mobile series, virtual International Book Forum of Turin, this gathering allowed
audiovisual, cinematic and TV productions within the reality and augmented reality content, and immersive 50 international players in the editorial sector and in the
region, in the form of feature films, TV films and TV content in general. cinema, TV, web and theatre production industry to come
series. Then there’s the Piedmont Doc Film Fund, the first As with the Sardinian example, Piedmont is also looking together and compare notes.
ever Italian fund for the development of documentary to set up an image centre dedicated to animated film, The Friuli Venezia Giulia Film Commission provides
films, founded back in 2007 to encourage co-productions virtual reality and the gaming sector, and has signed a financial support of up to €280,000 to audiovisual
between professionals working in the region and external memorandum of understanding with the association productions whose teams ultimately decide to film in the
entities of both national and international provenance. Cartoon Italia to this effect. Another industry initiative region. There’s also the Regional Audiovisual Fund, which
Last but not least, there’s the Short Film Fund, not to put forward by Piedmont is the Production Days event, has a specific focus on projects belonging to production
mention the Under 35 Digital Video Contest – Giovani organised by the regional Film Commission in companies headquartered outside of the Friuli Venezia
Protagonisti [Young Protagonists] with its budget of collaboration with FIP Film Investimenti Piemonte. Held Giulia region. Their areas of expertise are training, project
development and the distribution of audiovisual products
aimed at the regional, national and international market.
Twin Flower, When East Meets West (WEMW) is the real jewel in the
directed by Laura region’s crown: a co-production market which is held at
Luchetti
the end of January in Trieste, and which is organised in
league with the Trieste Film Festival. The last edition had
a new East and West double focus and gathered together
over 450 professionals from all corners of Europe, most
notably from the spotlight countries of the 2019 event:
Central and Eastern Europe (Poland, The Czech Republic,
Slovakia and Ukraine) and the Benelux Union (Belgium,
Luxembourg and The Netherlands). WEMW carried over
all the winning ingredients of its earlier editions. But in
addition to the pitching forum for projects in development,
it also made room for Last Stop Trieste and First Cut Lab
— two parallel sections designed for projects in the editing
phase and aimed at facilitating their entry into the
international market — as well as launching This is IT, a
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