05/07/2012 - The fourth Les Arcs European Film Festival is to select 22 European co-production projects and nine Works in Progress

In only three years, the Les Arcs European Film Festival has acquired incontestable notoriety and become sought after for the quality of its programming, its conviviality, and its effective Co-production Village. The festival has just launched a call for applications for its European co-production market and Work in Progress event to be held at its fourth edition from December 15 to 22 this year.

For three days, selected participants representing their film projects (fiction features, animation features, or feature-length documentaries, in development or post-production, that are European initiatives and directed by a European) will be invited to Les Arcs to meet potential co-producers (including EAVE - European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs members), distributors (including some from Europa Distribution and the French network DIRE), representatives from regional funds (Rhône-Alpes Cinéma and other partners of the European network Cine Regio), international sales agents, and representatives from the financial sector. Projects that already have a European region’s support and projects that have already gathered 25% of funding will be at an advantage.

The Co-production Village 2012 will also repeat the Works in Progress screenings launched last year (read more). Frédéric Boyer (artistic director for the Les Arcs Film Festival as well as the Tribeca Film Festival) will animate the session to allow film professionals to discover a selection of nine films in post-production looking for extra funding, distributors, and international sales agents.

The co-production market’s programme will also include debates and case studies on European film production and distribution, with a focus on Belgium this year.

Applications for the Co-production Village are open until September 21 on the festival’s website.