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CineLink Call for Entries

Sarajevo Film Festival is proud to once again announce that call for entries for filmmakers from Southeast Europe to participate in the CineLink Project Development Workshop and Co-Production Market is open from 1st of December, 2011.

Deadline for project submissions is 12th of March, 2012.

CineLink project, the backbone of the Sarajevo Film Festival's Industry Section, is a development and financing platform for carefully selected local feature projects destined for European co-production.

With average conversion rate of its selected projects from development to production of over 60% in the past 9 years, CineLink grew into one of the most successful development and financing platforms in Europe. Selection and diversification in development are central to this success, while focus on local productions with international potential, emerging talent and contemporary cinematic language proved essential to the program's raising profile in the film industry.

Most promising projects from Southeast Europe are selected every year by the selection committee focusing on authentic stories with international potential, emerging talent and modern cinematic language, for a series of tailor-made development workshops culminating in a financing event taking place during the last three days of the Sarajevo Film Festival (from the 11th to the 14th of July, 2012). This event, the CineLink Co-production Market, totals more than 500 participants from all spheres of the film business ready to network, discover talent, co-produce or commission new projects, while creating an annual hub for regional professionals and adding international industry relevance to the Festival.

CineLink is open for feature-length fiction film projects with potential for theatrical distribution, created by authors from Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey and UNMI Kosovo.

Selected projects compete for the CineLink awards.
30 000 EUR Eurimages CineLink award
10 000 EUR CNC CineLink award
6 000 EUR Arte International Relations CineLink award

Selected projects compete for the CineLink awards.

30 000 EUR Eurimages CineLink award
10 000 EUR CNC CineLink award
6 000 EUR Arte International Relations CineLink award

Also, all selected projects compete for
Living Pictures Service CineLink Award – in kind support up to 10.000 EUR
3 x Synchro Film Vienna CineLink Award – in kind support up to 2.500 EUR
EAVE Scholarship

For further information:
CineLink Co-Production Market 2012