The Greek Film Centre (GFC) has announced its fourth round of funding pre-approvals for 2018, which was officially decided on in July. In this funding slate, the GFC will support seven fiction feature films that have applied for the Basic Film Production Programme, two international co-productions for the Incentives Programme to Attract Foreign Productions to Greece, and two projects for script rewriting. 

The amount of support granted totals €942,000 – €852,000 for the Basic Programme and €90,000 for the Incentives – covering projects submitted to the GFC from 1 November 2016 to 31 January 2017 and from 3 April 2018 to 3 May 2018, respectively. In total, 78 film projects have received GFC support this year.

In the Basic Film Production Programme, the selected projects are Middle Earth (Mesogia) by Alexis Alexiou (Wednesday 04:45 [+leggi anche:
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For the Incentives Programme to Attract Foreign Productions to Greece, two projects received the GFC’s support via their Greek producer as a minority partner: the sophomore feature Quicksand (Netherlands/Sweden/Greece) (Greek production company: Homemade Films) by Dutch director Margot Schaap (12 Months in 1 Day [+leggi anche:
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