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Written by Ian Mundell
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
BRUSSELS -- Twenty-six film projects share €385,000 ($595,000) in awards announced today by the Hubert Bals Fund, part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Coin will go to helmers from 17 countries, mainly in Asia and Latin America.
Support for digital production goes to five helmers, including fest favorite Lav Diaz of the Philippines for "The Great Desaparecido." The line up of the IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund Spring 2008 Selection Round in full:
Post production
Be Calm and Count to 7 ; Ramtin Lavafipour - Iran
The Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly ; Edwin - Indonesia
Baksy ; Guka Omarova - Kazakhstan
Green Rocking Chair ; Roxlee - Philippines
Tony Manero ; Pablo Larraín - Chile
Moon at the Bottom of the Well ; Nguyen Vinh Son - Vietnam
Turistas ; Alicia Scherson - Chile
Er Dong ; Yang Jin – China
Pandora’s Box ; Yesim Ustaoglu – Turkey
Script development
Our Grand Despair ; Seyfi Teoman - Turkey
Girimunho ; Helvécio Marins Jr. - Brazil
Once Upon a Time in China ; Cui Zi’en - China
Jean Gentil ; Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas - Dominican Republic / Mexico
Kalayaan ; Adolfo Alix Jr. - Philippines
Kosmos ; Ihor Podolchak - Ukraine
Circumstance ; Maryam Keshavarz - Iran
Sur la planche ; Leila Kilani – Morocco
Tanta agua ; Ana Guevara & Leticia Jorge - Uruguay
Los ultimos cristeros ; Matias Meyer - Mexico
Digital production
The Great Desaparecido ; Lav Diaz - Phillippines
Lucía ; Niles Atallah - Chile
That Year When We Were Young ; Tao Peng - China
One Day When the Rain Falls ; Ifa Isfansyah - Indonesia
Woman On Fire Looks for Water ; Woo Ming Jin - Malaysia
Distribution and special projects
War, Love, God and Madness ; Mohamed Al-Daradji - Iraq
Directors Across Borders (DAB Forum), Yerevan - Armenia
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