The Thessaloniki Film Festival continues its extroversion initiatives aiming to boost Greek cinema
The Thessaloniki Film Festival is intensifying its efforts for the greater extroversion of Greek cinema and its promotion abroad. The Festival gives the opportunity to film professionals from Greece who have participated in the Festival’s industry section, Agora, to travel to large international film festivals, in order to promote their work. The actions are implemented within the framework of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan "Greece 2.0" with the funding of the European Union - NextGenerationEU, within the integrated project "SUB 6.3 - Market extroversion of the Thessaloniki Film and Documentary Festival".
After successful actions in Cannes, Sunny Side of the Doc, Sarajevo and Locarno film festivals, the Thessaloniki Film Festival will facilitate Greek producers to present their work to the Rotterdam Film Festival and to the Berlin Film Festival. More specifically, the Festival financially covers the travel of cinema professionals (accreditation, travel expenses, accommodation etc.), while with the input of specialists, it provides consulting services before, during and after the completion of their trip. At the same time, the Festival supports the participation of professionals in special programs held in the framework of the international film markets.
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Four Greek producers with projects at the Agora’s Crossroads Co-production Forum will travel to IFFR Pro/International Film Festival Rotterdam and specifically to CineMart from January 28-31.
The participants are: Kyriaki Virou (ABFAB Productions), Ioanna Bolomyti (Atalante Productions SA), Myrto Stathi (Byrd) and Maria Hatzakou (Merricat). Kyriaki Virou participates with the project Black Water directed by Isabella Margara, Ioanna Bolomyti participates with the project Friends, Birthdays, Murder, etc. directed by Lida Vartzioti and Dimitris Tsakaleas, Myrto Stathi with the project Sydney Smile Future Perfect directed by Gregoris Rentis and Maria Hatzakou with the project Stringa directed by Alexandra Matheou and Maria Hatzakou.
Their mentor is producer Yorgos Tsourgiannis.
At the EFM of the Berlin Film Festival
Three producers with projects that participated at the Agora Works in Project 2023 will travel to the Berlin Film Festival to participate at the European Film Market, which will take place from February 15 to 21, 2024.
The participating producers are: Christina Stavropoulou (FILMIKI PRODUCTIONS), who will participate with the projects Lula Leblanc directed by Stergios Paschos and Maldives directed by Daniel Bolda, Konstantinos Koukoulis (ΠΛΑΝΚΤΟΝ Films) with the project Beachcomber directed by Aristotelis Maragkos and Thanos Anastopoulos (Fantasia Ltd) with the project Meat directed by Dimitris Nakos.
Their mentor is Katarina Tomkova, producer, mentor - kaleidoscope, Punkchart films, MIDPOINT Institute (Slovakia & Czech Republic).
