28/02/2022 - The ten participating projects from Southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean region will be in with a chance of winning one of the Agora Docs in Progress post-production awards

Director Robin Kvapil, who has been selected with his project Citizen Miko

Ten film projects that are currently in post-production, and which hail from Southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean region, will be featured in the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival’s Agora Docs in Progress. This year’s iteration will unspool on Monday 14 March, and the projects will be seen by Thessaloniki’s invited industry professionals, encompassing sales agents, distributors, producers and festival programmers, attending both on site and online.

The Docs in Progress international jury consists of Martin Horyna (programmer at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival), Greek producer Phaedra Vokali (Late Bloomers) and US distributor Jeffrey Winter (The Film Collaborative). The participating projects will be in with a chance of winning one of the Agora Docs in Progress post-production awards: the 2|35 post-production company offers the main DiP Award for post-production services, the MuSou company offers a prize for music and sound services, and the Greek Film Centre provides an award of €3,000 in cash, while Neaniko Plano will present a prize for subtitling in English or French.

The selected works in progress are as follows:

#METISOFIA - Vania Turner (Greece)
Producers: Onassis Culture, Maria Sidiropoulou, Amanda Livanou

Citizen Miko - Robin Kvapil (Czech Republic)
Producer: Martina Strunc (Silk Films)

The Fortress - Shorena Tevzadze, Giorgi Pridonishvili (Georgia)
Producers: Shorena Tevzadze (Diafilm), Tamar Mshvenieradze (Actmedia)

I Had a Life - Octavio Guerra (Spain)
Producer: Elisa Torres (Calibrando Producciones)

λesvia, The Herstory of Eressos - Tzeli Hadjidimitriou (Greece)
Producer: Tzeli Hadjidimitriou (Anemos Dimiourgias)

The Love Room - Suzana Dinevski (North Macedonia)
Producer: Suzana Dinevski (Suzi Kju Production)
Co-producers: Vladimir Stojcevski (Award Film and Video), Bonnie Bojana Dinevski (Suzi Kju Production)

Panellinion - Spyros Mantzavinos, Kostas Antarachas (Greece)
Producer: Leonidas Konstantarakos (Alaska Films)

The Soul of the Bossales - François Perlier (France)
Producers: Odile Méndez-Bonito, François Perlier (Corpus Films)

Timekeeper - Kristina Paustian (Italy/Germany/Russia)
Producers: Paolo Maria Spina (Revolver), Margarita Amineva-Jester (Voices Films)
Co-producers: Tamara Bogdanova (KinoKult), Yanna Buryak (Mimesis Productions)

Toward Happy Alleys - Sreemoyee Singh (Bulgaria/India/Germany/Finland)
Producers: Boris Despodov (Arthouse Blockbusters), Sreemoyee Singh (Happy Alley Films)

Furthermore, five Greek projects that are currently at the post-production stage will participate in the Agora Lab, a complementary section to Docs in Progress that aims to support the local film industry. The teams behind the selected films have the chance to gain invaluable guidance and advice from the tutors: Selin Murat, markets manager at IDFA; Greek producer Eleni Chandrinou; Greek sales agent Christina Pelekani (Endorphin Films); and Yannis Sakaridis, director, editor and artistic director of the Drama International Short Film Festival. The tutors will present one project with the Guidance Award, offered by Denmark’s Paradiddle Pictures.

The selected films are as follows:

#METISOFIA - Vania Turner (Greece)
Producers: Onassis Culture, Maria Sidiropoulou, Amanda Livanou

λesvia, The Herstory of Eressos - Tzeli Hadjidimitriou (Greece)
Producer: Tzeli Hadjidimitriou (Anemos Dimiourgias)

Inside - George Vitsaropoulos (Greece)
Producer: Fragkiskos Penidis (Fp Media House)
Co-producer: Rea Apostolides (Anemon Productions)

Panellinion - Spyros Mantzavinos, Kostas Antarachas (Greece)
Producer: Leonidas Konstantarakos (Alaska Films)

True To Our Inner Daemon - Tassos Gkoletsos (Greece)
Producer: Tassos Gkoletsos (Kato Apo Tin Patission)
Co-producers: Klodiana Camati (Anapoda Theater), Vangelis Papoutsis