CineLink Industry Days announces line-up for Work in Progress 2021

 

The selection includes 10 exciting new feature-length films: 7 fiction and 3 documentary, which will be presented to the high-profile industry professionals (funders, sales agents, distributors, broadcasters and festival programmers) with the aim of assisting their completion and enhancing their distribution possibilities.

 

“It was a pleasure to discover projects in this yer selection of WIP. There is a rich variety and diversity of films with subject and genres shifting from the tough social issues and poetic treatments of reality to meta cinema and authenticity of humor. Very strong and diverse projects in this selection can be seen through prism how the industry coped well in these challenging times,” explains Amra Bakšić Čamo, Head of CineLink.

 

The projects will compete for three awards: the Post Republic Award (50,000 EUR in kind), the CineLink Iridium Award (20,000 EUR in kind) and the Turkish National Radio Television Award (25,000 EUR in cash). The jury deciding the awards: Ava Cahen – Artistic director, Semaine de la Critique Cannes, Esra Demirkiran - Festivals Coordinator, Turkish National Radio Television, Michael Stütz – Head of Panorama, Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Petra Kader-Göbel – Senior Inhouse Producer, The Post Republic and Yohann Comte – Co-Founder, Charades.