The Bulgarian National Film Center announces the winners of its first grant session for 2019
- Six minority co-productions also received total production support of approximately €495,000
Following the domestic success of his previous feature, Heights/The Liberators [+see also:
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Besides Bojinov’s projects, the total amount of production support of approximately €2.44 million was shared by Zornitsa Sophia’s Mother (produced by MQ Pictures), Pavel G Vesnakov’s Windless (Red Carpet), Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov’s Triumph (Abraxas Film), and Magdelena Ilieva’s The Eternity Package (Agitprop).
Three short films shared a total of €76,000, while another €92,000 were distributed among nine projects in development.
After increasing its minority co-production funding by 53% at the beginning of 2019 (see the news), the centre has announced six new European productions that will receive financing through their Bulgarian co-production partners. Slobodan Sijan’s The Great Tram Robbery (Chouchkov Brothers), Irini Vachlioti and Panagiotis Kleitharas’ Vassilis Arvanitis (Klas Film), Radivoje Andric’s How I Learned to Fly (Art Fest), Ştefan Constantinescu’s Man and Dog [+see also:
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film profile] (Klas Film), Jean Bergeron’s Berlin or the Art of Escape (Trivium Films), and Elina Psykou’s Stray Bodies (Red Carpet) received amounts varying between €45,000 and €113,000.
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