The ScriptLab and FeatureLab projects, together with the titles awarded with the TFL Co-Production Funds were joined on stage for the first time by SeriesLab and ComedyLab. Between pitching sessions, presentations and monologues of story editor trainees and comedy writers/performers and one-to-one meetings, this surely was a week to remember: which prizes have been assigned during the final Awards Ceremony?
THE TFL PRODUCTION AWARDS
Among the FeatureLab projects developed in 2024, four received the TFL PRODUCTION AWARDS - for a total of € 160,000 - and have been given to an international jury (Didar Domehri - France, Kristy Matheson - UK, Julien Razafindranaly - France/Germany, Nada Riyadh - Egypt and Holger Stern - Germany)
ANTONIVKA by Kateryna Gornostai and Vika Khomenko (Ukraine)
“I will not die of death – I will die of life.” (Mykhailo Semenko)
COLD ASHES CAN CAUSE FOREST FIRES by Ashmita Guha Neogi and Avantika Singh Desbouvries (India)
At an off-season hotel, arrival of old family friends throws Uma (13) headlong into the adult’s world of lies and secrets.
THE BOY AND THE FIGHT OF THE SPIDERS by Jarell Serencio and Jed Medrano (Philippines)
A spider-obsessed boy is forced to face manhood after a tragedy strikes his remote mining town.
YELLOW CHRYSANTHEMUM by André Hayato Saito and Mayra Faour Auad (Brazil)
Erika, a young Japanese-Brazilian girl, struggles with grief while divided between two cultures
THE SERIESLAB DEVELOPMENT AWARDS
Two grants of € 20,000 in total have been given, by a dedicated jury (Mignon Huisman - Netherlands, Sophie Taylor-Gooby - UK, Iñigo Trojaola - Spain) to two outstanding projects participating in SeriesLab. This grant is intended to significantly enhance the development and realisation of the selected concept.
THE HEIR by Abiola Ogunbiyi (UK)
A young doctor inherits her father’s mind control powers, fuelling her search for his killers.
THE MAKING OF A TERRORIST by Leif Edlund and Emelia Hansson (Sweden)
A family man with dynamite, a heated hunting team and failing authorities. The outcome?
THE COMEDYLAB AWARD
A grant of 5,000 € has been assigned by an international jury (Oscar Alonso - Spain, Gabrielle Dumon - France and Laura Nacher - France) to one of the ComedyLab projects. It is designed to support the creative and production development of the selected project.
THE LAST QUEEN by Stefano La Rosa and Luca Renucci (Italy)
All Lorena has ever known is work and selflessness. Until she pretends to be Marie Antoinette.
THE GREEN AWARDS
TorinoFilmLab has introduced two awards to support the reflection on the global changes affecting our society, and to encourage eco-sustainable actions on the production set.
The WHITE MIRROR AWARD, a writing grant of € 5,000 assigned to a ScriptLab project to support stories that tackle environmental issues, sustainability or any related changes happening in today’s world, has been given to:
THE FUNERAL by Carolina Markowicz (Brazil)
When the patriarch of a wealthy family dies, an unofficial daughter appears. In Cancel Culture times, decisions must be careful.
The GREEN FILMING AWARDS (up to a maximum of € 4,000 each) are provided by TFL and Trentino Film Commission and were given to 3 FeatureLab projects willing to make their future film production more sustainable:
ANTONIVKA by Kateryna Gornostai and Vika Khomenko (Ukraine)
COLD ASHES CAN CAUSE FOREST FIRES by Ashmita Guha Neogi and Avantika Singh Desbouvries (India)
LEGACY by Aliaksei Paluyan (Belarus) and Paulina Toenne (Germany)
Would you fight against the injustice your family is complicit in, even if it means losing them?
THE PARTNERS’ AWARDS
Prestigious international audiovisual institutions choose every year to support our TFL projects, awarding some of them with a grant directly on the TFL Meeting Event stage.
The EURIMAGES CO-PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT AWARD - a cash-prize of € 20,000 pushing international co-production has been given to a jury (Csaba Bereczki - Hungary, Christoph Friedel - Germany and Fiorella Moretti - Peru) to the ScriptLab project:
THE CRIMINALS by Serhat Karaaslan (Turkey)
Two young lovers seeking privacy on a getaway weekend get stranded in a hotel for not being married.
The CNC AWARD - a grant of € 8,000 to back the further development of one of the ScriptLab projects, supporting the respective writer/ director in the work after the participation in TorinoFilmLab – has been assigned by the jurors (Francesca Andreoli - Italy, Frederic Boyer - France and Ioanna Stais - Greece) to:
JOSIE GOES TO WAR by Coline Confort and Perrine Prost (France)
Josie falling for a Napoleon Bonaparte impersonator makes the 19th and 21st centuries collide.
The leading designer and manufacturer of camera and lighting systems, ARRI, picked a FeatureLab project for its ARRI AWARD (€ 10,000):
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JO: CHAPTER PHAEDRA by Jacqueline Lentzou (Greece) and Annabelle Aronis (France/Greece)
Today, Jo gets shot by a cop, out of the blue. She is undeniably killed, yet is she entirely dead?
The ARTEKINO INTERNATIONAL AWARD (€ 6,000), designed to support the development of a ScriptLab project, sponsored by the European culture channel ARTE’s foundation for the promotion of arthouse cinema, went to:
EXPLORER by Hilke Rönnfeldt (Germany/Iceland)
On a mission at sea, an all-consuming mining engineer meets the ship’s captaine – her nemesis.
A fruitful and enduring collaboration between TorinoFilmLab and Sub-ti, assigning two awards to the FeatureLab projects. The SUB-TI ACCESS AWARD (value up to € 5,000), promoting the accessibility of film contents for audiences with sensory disabilities, has been given to:
THE NIGHT BURNS by Angelica Gallo and Andrea Gori (Italy)
Massimo and his friends steal jewels and valuables at concerts by spraying pepper spray.
While the SUB-TI AWARD will provide English, Italian or German subtitles (value up to € 2,000) to:
SEA, STAR, WOMAN by Jeunghae Yim (Korea) and Helen Olive (UK)
I return to a country I chose to leave, Korea, to find meaning in my mother’s deleted image.
The International Emerging Film Talent Association (IEFTA) supports the growth and promotion of the future generation of storytellers especially focusing on emerging filmmakers from developing regions around the world. In this frame, the IEFTA AWARD (€ 3,000) went to the SeriesLab project:
DEAR INSECTS AND OTHER CREEPY STORIES by Karla Lulić and Jelena Mađarić (Croatia)
A worn-down socialist concrete building. Seven apartments. Seven different stories. Seven nightmares.
Lastly, a former TFL project received a grant of € 20,000 in creative post-production services from two high end companies in Amsterdam. The producer will also be the recipient of a full scholarship to participate in the annual workshop of APostLab. The POST-PRODUCTION AWARD was offered and assigned by APostLab in collaboration with Filmmore and Posta to SEALSKIN by Irene Moray and Marta Cruañas (Spain).