HAVC backs the new films by Maja Miloš and Milcho Manchevski
- The new projects by Serbia's Srdjan Keča, Montenegro's Senad Šahmanović and Slovenia's Sara Božanić have also been supported through the minority co-production scheme
The Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC) has announced the results of its latest minority co-production support scheme, where five projects received a total of €277,206.
The biggest names among the winners are Serbian director Maja Miloš and Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski.
Miloš, whose first feature, Clip [+see also:
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Manchevski got the same amount for his seventh feature, Kaymak [+see also:
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Montenegrin director Senad Šahmanović, whose short Tranquility of Blood made a splash on the festival circuit in 2015, received €59,407 for his feature debut, Sirin [+see also:
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Serbian filmmaker Srdjan Keča, whose highly anticipated documentary Museum of the Revolution [+see also:
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Finally, Slovenia's Sara Božanić received €13,202 for the post-production of her hybrid animated short Cinda Real, a co-production between Slovenia's Institute for Transmedia Design, Croatia's Minya Film and Animation, Portugal's Sparkle Animation, and Bosnia and Herzegovina's AEON Productions.
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