Who would have thought, back in 2014 when this Fund was born, that ten years later we’d been typing here, revealing the titles to be supported by the TFL Audience Design Fund edition of 2024?
This time 3 international co-productions in post-production stage will receive a € 45,000 grant, benefiting also from 3 mandatory online sessions (in April, May and June) to deeply focus on audience design strategies tailor-made for each film.
The consultancies will be held by five experienced Audience Designers: the CEO of Pluto Film Benjamin Cölle (Germany), the Coordinator of the Berlinale-World Cinema Fund Isona Admetlla (Spain/Germany), the Director of The Audience Design Lab for the International Screen Institute Síle Culley (Ireland), the owner of Stendhal Films Silvia Lobo (Spain), the screenwriter and script consultant Kirsten Loose (Germany) and the assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen Petar Mitric (Serbia). Three experts also join the team: the Head of Acquisition of the sales agency Films Boutique Gabor Greiner (Hungary), the Alphapanda Head of Strategist Mathias Noschis (Finland), and two representatives from The PR Factory (Belgium).
Let’s get to the point, which are the titles selected by the Fund?
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT by Kapadia Payal (India) | fiction - 2nd feature film
Production company: petit chaos (France)
Co-production company: Chalk and Cheese (India), Baldr Film (The Netherlands) and Les Films Fauves Sarl (Luxembourg)
Prabha and Anu, two nurses living in Mumbai, are each stuck in impossible love situations. One day the two women go on a road trip to a beach-town where the mystical forest becomes a space for their dreams to manifest.
THE BRINK OF DREAMS by Nada Riyadh and Ayman El Amir (Egypt) | documentary – 2ndfeature film together
Production company: Felucca Films (Egypt)
Co-production companies: Dolce Vita Films - beneficiary of the Fund (France) and Magma films (Denmark)
In a conservative village in southern Egypt, a group of Coptic girls forms an all-female street theater troupe, challenging traditions while fleeting between childhood and womanhood.
THE SKY IS MINE by Deepak Rauniyar (Nepal,based in the USA) | fiction - 3rd feature film
Production company: Aadi Films (Nepal)
Co-production company: Tannhauser Gate - beneficiary of the Fund (Norway) and Baasuri Films (Nepal)
In the midst of escalating race riots in Nepal, Pooja, a resolute 40-year-old detective, is thrust into a high-profile kidnapping case of two young boys. Surrounded by a maze of deceit and entrenched male prejudice, Pooja is in a race against time to solve the case. Solving it could restore peace but failure would certainly fan the flames into a full-blown revolution.
The TFL Fund is organised with the support of Creative Europe – MEDIA Sub-programme of the European Union.
In the picture: a still from THE BRINK OF DREAMS.