This yr’s Transylvanian Movie Competition features a new business concentrate on style initiatives from Central and Japanese Europe. The Full Moon Artistic Lab, initiated by the competition along with Romanian Movie Promotion launches this yr with a concentrate on thriller, horror and fantasy TV collection initiatives.
The Lab builds on the competition’s Full Moon Script Contest, launched in 2020, which awards three inventive residencies a yr to successful writers in Transylvania. Full Moon Artistic Lab venture supervisor Ileana Cecanu stated the response to the brand new TV program, first unveiled a yr in the past, has “exceeded all expectations.” Cecanu stated she trusts we’ll quickly seen the initiatives pitching at Full Moon this yr on a TV or streaming platform within the close to future. “I’d positively be the primary one binging them,” she says.
The three initiatives chosen for the Full Moon Artistic Lab program, which focuses on enhancing creators’ collaborative collection writing abilities inside a European context, are the Slovenian mini-series thriller Adverse Break up written by Barbara Skubic, the supernatural horror collection Immortal Care Unit from Italian screenwriter Giulio Rizzo, and the Romanian thriller collection Aurora, written by Adina Istrate.
Moreover, 9 different proficient screenwriters from round Europe had been chosen from the open name and assigned to one of many three initiatives, forming three writers’ room teams. The yearlong inventive collaboration had its grand finale with a pitching session on the Transylvania Worldwide Movie Competition in entrance of influential producers, broadcasters, gross sales brokers, TV and main streaming platforms representatives. The successful venture will obtain the Full Moon Artistic Lab Award, a €5,000 ($5,300) bursary, co-funded by the European Union, for additional improvement.
Launched in 2014 as a workshop for younger filmmakers from Romania and Moldava the Transylvania Pitch Cease has since remodeled right into a premiere co-production platform for regional filmmakers from the Balkans and the Black Sea areas. Over 100 initiatives chosen over time have landed at main worldwide festivals together with Berlin, Cannes and Venice.
In its eleventh version, the Transylvania Pitch Cease featured movie initiatives in improvement from Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine pitched to producers and financiers, gross sales brokers, movie funds, and different business professionals, adopted by one-to-one conferences.
“Key themes of the chosen initiatives embody relationships, private struggles, social points, and historic contexts and we additionally emphasize variety with feminine voices and coming-of-age tales,” says Dumitrana Lupu, now in her third yr as head of the Transylvania Worldwide Movie Competition business program. “We had a particular deal with this yr earlier than the pitch: a brief showcase of a few of the completed movies that beforehand participated in TPS, providing a glimpse into their journey.”
Drawn from round 40 submissions, the style eclectic choice consists of three debuts: Turkey’s Alkim Özmen drama My Glad Household a few tween who secretly movies uncommon moments of pleasure and happiness in his abusive residence; Ukrainian drama Curtain explores intimate relationships and self-growth following the outbreak of conflict; and Romanian drama A Flower Is Not A Flower, a robust story about 11-year outdated Ana who escapes from an orphanage within the 1980’s communist Romania. There have been three extra native initiatives: Razvan Marinescu’s warm-hearted journey Child Hazard, Ioana Mischie’s darkly humorous dystopian drama Die, Please, and Mihai Dragolea’s Grained, a wild story about two ladies within the jap plains of Romania in 1946.
Transylvania Pitch Cease initiatives will likely be competing for the Chainsaw Europe award (value $27,000 (€25,000) in post-production companies), the Transylvania Pitch Cease Improvement award supplied by Avanpost, valued at $5,500 (€5.000), the Nationwide Middle of Cinematography Republic Of Moldova Award award, value $1,600 (€1,500), the VILLA KULT Improvement award ($550/€500), and the Connecting Cottbus cocoLAB Award given to an up-and-coming Romanian or Moldovian producer to take part within the new upcoming cocoLAB program on the 2024 Connecting Cottbus Co-Manufacturing Market.
The Full Moon Artistic Lab and Transylvania Pitch Cease awards will likely be handed out Friday night time on the Business Gala Awards, forward of Transylvania Movie Competition‘s gala closing awards occasion Saturday night.
A full checklist of Full Moon Artistic Lab and Transylvania Pitch Cease initiatives is beneath.
The 2024 Full Moon Artistic Lab
ICU – Immortal Care Unit (Italy)
Style: Supernatural, Horror
Head author: Giulio Rizzo
Co-writers: Sînziana Cojocărescu, Greg Simmons, Nadya Todorova
Adverse Break up (Slovenia)
Style: Thriller, Drama
Head author: Barbara Skubic
Co-writers: Cristina Iliescu, Rafael Alberto Garciolo, Attila Veres
Aurora (Romania)
Style: Non secular Horror
Head author: Adina Istrate Co-writers: Barry Murphy, Richard Karpala, Rossella di Campli
The 2024 Transylvania Pitch Cease
Divorce Room (Hungary)
Directed by Otto Banovits
Produced by Anna Sípos, Veronika Gál (Stranger Movies)
Winemaker’s Daughter (Moldova)
Directed by Ivan Naniev
Produced by Sergiu Scobioala (Shepherd Firm)
Die, Please (Romania)
Directed by Ioana Mischie
Produced by Andra MacMasters (STUDIOSET)
A Flower Is Not A Flower (Romania, Latvia)
Directed by Cristian Pascariu
Produced by Adriana Răcășan (Level Movie), Antra Gaile and Liga Gaisa
(Air Productions)
Grained (Romania)
Directed by Mihai Dragolea
Produced by Velvet Moraru (ICON Manufacturing)
Child Hazard (Romania)
Directed by Răzvan Marinescu
Produced by: Irina Enea (Baking Movies)
Termites Have Wings Of Roughly The Similar Size (Serbia)
Directed by Svetislav Dragomirović
Produced by Nevena Savić (Cinnamon Movies), Svetislav Dragomirović (Grey Tree Movie)
Dancing Angels (Turkey)
Directed by Ferit Kilic
Produced by Diloy Gülün; Beste Yamalioglu (Karma Movies)
My Glad Household (Turkey)
Directed by Alkim Ozmen
Produced by Olena Yershova (TatoFilm), Alkim Ozmen (Meraklı Hayalperver)
Curtain (Ukraine)
Directed by Valeria Sochyvets
Produced by Inna Lastochkina (Modern Ukrainian Cinema)