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A Final Cut in Venice 31.08 – 02.09.2019 LABIENNALE.ORG VENICEPRODUCTIONBRIDGE.ORG FINAL CUT in VENICE A Final Cut in Venice 31.08 – 02.09.2019 LABIENNALE.ORG VENICEPRODUCTIONBRIDGE.ORG FINAL CUT IN VENICE B Venice Production Bridge 2019 76. Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica La Biennale di Venezia Final Cut in Venice La Biennale di Venezia Director General Alessandra Speciale and its collaborators for Andrea Del Mercato Final Cut in Venice With the kind support of Erika Giorgianni Artistic Director Thierry Lenouvel Lara González Lobo of the Cinema Department Annouchka De Andrade Laura Kirlum Alberto Barbera Thierry Jobin Eugenia Leonardi Mariachiara Manci Venice Production Bridge Chiara Marin Pascal Diot Alessandro Mezzalira Savina Neirotti Nikolas Montaldi Daniela Persi [email protected] www.labiennale.org veniceproductionbridge.org FINAL CUT IN VENICE 7TH EDITION A workshop to support films in post-production from Africa, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria. The goal of the project is to enhance the role of the Venice International Film Festival as a bridge builder supporting the production of independent quality films coming from Africa and Arab countries; providing concrete help to film production and promoting the competitiveness of their audiovisual products on the international market. The work-in-progress copies of 6 films from different geographical and cultural areas (Algeria, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Iraq, Morocco) will be presented in the presence of directors and producers. Access is reserved exclusively to Gold and Trade accreditations. The one-to-one meetings session between the selected projects and the professionals attending the Venice Production Bridge will be organized on September 2nd. Thanks to Db Logic S.r.l. Festival Scope The Final Cut in Venice brochure for 2019 has been edited using the information assembled by July 18th, 2019. The Venice Production Bridge may not be held responsible for possible errors. THE PRIZES SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY The workshop will conclude with the awarding of prizes, in kind or in cash, AUGUST 31, 2019 SEPTEMBER 1, 2019 SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 for the financial support of the films in their post-production phase: PALAZZO DEL CINEMA PALAZZO DEL CINEMA HOTEL EXCELSIOR 3° FLOOR SALA PASINETTI SALA PASINETTI FOYER For the third year La Biennale di Venezia will give a prize of € 5,000 for the best film in post-production. La Biennale di Venezia Prize will be attributed 09:30 09:30 09:30–13:00 / 14:30–18:30 by a jury composed of three members named by the Festival Director, while Introduction and opening remarks KABATEN EL ZA’ATARI / One-to-one meetings with the the other prizes will be awarded by final and irrevocable decision of the by Alberto Barbera, Director of the CAPTAINS OF ZA’ATARI 6 selected projects to find funding, Festival Director, in conjunction with the project partners, the heads of the 76th Venice International Film Festival (EGYPT, JORDAN, QATAR) 44’ distribution possibilities and institutions, and the service companies providing the prizes. DIRECTOR Ali Elarabi festival selection. 09:45 PRODUCTION Dina Emam and Aya Dowara • € 15,000 for the color correction of a feature-length film, offered by Laser Film EN ROUTE POUR LE MILLIARD / (Ambient Light Films / Lotus Picture Co) (Rome) for up to 50 hours of work (technician included); ON THE WAY TO THE BILLION GENRE Documentary • up to € 15,000 offered by Mactari Mixing Auditorium (Paris) for the sound mixing of (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, LOGLINE Two teenage best friends trapped a feature length film (up to 12 days of work, sound re-recording mixer not included); FRANCE, BELGIUM) 90' in the Za’atari Refugee Camp in Jordan have • € 15,000 to be chosen for either 10 days of mixing studio and sound deliveries (sound DIRECTOR Dieudo Hamadi an undying dream of becoming professional mixer not included), or 5 days of DCP grading, including conformation, rendering and PRODUCTION Hélène Ballis (Kiripifilms) soccer players. Having never left the camp master DCP (colourist not included), offered by Studio l’Equipe (Brussels); GENRE Documentary since they arrived, the two work against the • up to € 5,000 for color-grading; up to € 3,000 for the production of a DCP master, LOGLINE June 2000 there was a war odds to achieve their goal while making i-Tunes, Google or Netflix files; up to € 2,000 for French or English subtitles in Kisangani. Thousands of people died, sure to pave a way for the next generation (translation not included), offered by TitraFilm (Paris); thousands were injured. After the war, of youth in the camp. • up to € 7,000 for the production of the DCP master and Italian or English subtitles, 1 billion dollars were promised to the + offered by Sub-Ti Ltd. (London); victims. 18 years later they travel to Q&A • up to € 7,000 for the accessible contents of the film for audiences with sensory Kinshasa to claim this money. Gold and Trade accreditation only disabilities: subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired and audio description for + the blind and visually impaired, with audio subtitles, in Italian or English, offered Q&A 10:45 by Sub-Ti Access Srl (Turin). The SDH file and the audio described soundtrack for Gold and Trade accreditation only KULSHI MAKOO / DCP will be provided; ANOTHER DAY IN BAGHDAD • € 5,000 for the purchase of two-year broadcasting rights by Rai Cinema; 12:00 (IRAQ, FRANCE, KUWAIT, • $ 5,000 awarded to one of the Arab projects and an invitation to participate in the MICA UNITED KINGDOM, GERMANY) 110’ industry platform CineGouna offered by the El Gouna Film Festival; (MOROCCO, FRANCE) 60' DIRECTOR Maysoon Pachachi • “Coup de cœur de la Cinémathèque Afrique” Prize, offered by Cinémathèque Afrique DIRECTOR Ismaël Ferroukhi PRODUCTION Patrice Nezan of the Institut Français (Paris). The prize consist of the acquisition of the non PRODUCTION Lamia Chraibi (La Prod) (Les Contes Modernes) commercial and non exclusive broadcasting rights for 7 years with a value of GENRE Fiction GENRE Fiction € 4,000 – 6,000 depending on the genre, length and available territories of the film; LOGLINE Mica, 10, lives with his mother LOGLINE Sara and her neighbors open • participation in the production costs of a DCP (€ 2,500), offered by the Festival and sick father in a slum on the outskirts a door to their everyday life, in a International du Film d’Amiens; of Meknes. His parents’ friend, a middle-class district of Baghdad where, • participation in the production costs of a DCP (€ 2,500), offered by the Festival handyman in a tennis club in Casablanca, marked by the physical and moral International de Films de Fribourg; takes him as his apprentice. Mica finds mutilations, saddened by the war, and • Marketing, publicity and distribution in the Arab World for one Arab project, himself in a whole new world where a new in front of the extreme ambient violence, offered by MAD Solutions (except for projects already attached to MAD Solutions); life awaits him. each tries to find the thread of their • One of the selected films will have the possibility to benefit from the Eye on Films + existence. label, that will present the film to distributors and festivals affiliated to EoF and Q&A + will contribute to the communication of the film for a value of € 2,500 during its Gold and Trade accreditation only Q&A world premiere in an A-category festival. Gold and Trade accreditation only 14:45 MAKONGO 14:45 (CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, NARDJES, ALGER, MARS 2019 / ARGENTINA) 60' NARDJES, ALGIERS, MARCH 2019 DIRECTOR Elvis Sabin Ngaibino (ALGERIA, BRAZIL, PRODUCTION Daniele Incalcaterra FRANCE, GERMANY) 80' GENRE Documentary DIRECTOR Karim Aïnouz LOGLINE In the south-east of the Central PRODUCTION Richard Djoudi African Republic, two young Pygmies, (Show Guest Entertainment) Albert and André, fight for the literacy GENRE Documentary of children in their community. To finance LOGLINE The film draws a portrait of their project, they do not count on the Nardjes, a young Algerian woman, as she help of the State, nor on the NGOs, but joins thousands of pacifists protesters in the on the sale of their caterpillar harvest: streets of Algiers on the 8th of March 2019, the makongo. International Women’s Day, when President + Bouteflika has announced his candidacy for Q&A a 5th presidential term. Nardjes’s and Gold and Trade accreditation only protesters’ goal is to fight to overthrow a regime that has silenced them for decades. + Q&A Gold and Trade accreditation only THE VENICE PRODUCTION BRIDGE WELCOMES THE 6 SELECTED TEAMS AND THEIR PROJECTS TO THE 7TH EDITION OF FINAL CUT IN VENICE. Final Cut in Venice, the workshop for films in post-production from Africa of the films selected you will recognize names like Karim Aïnouz, winner and Arab countries has, in these past seven years of activity, proved to be of Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2019, Ismaël Ferroukhi, Lion of the Future an important point of reference for the launch of films in the industry. at Venice International Film Festival in 2004 with Le Grand Voyage and In addition it also represents a significant source of financing for work-in- the award-winning Congolese documentary filmmaker Dieudo Hamadi. progress films. For this edition the formula of last year has been confirmed, The selection also includes the fiction debut of a documentary filmmaker, two days of screenings of six work-in-progress films, exclusively for Gold Maysoon Pachachi, and two documentaries by first-time filmmakers, and Trade pass-holders, followed by a day of one-to-one meetings in which the Egyptian Ali Elarabi and Elvis Sabin Ngaibino from the Central African the directors and producers of the selected films will be protagonists of the Republic, a country never before represented at the Venice Film Festival.
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