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SEE Cinema Network awards handed out at the Balkan Film Market

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- One film from each of the eight countries in the network will receive €8,000 for development

SEE Cinema Network awards handed out at the Balkan Film Market
Director Milica Tomović, who won for Serbia with her project Celts

The SEE Cinema Network, which held its general assembly for the second time at the Balkan Film Market in Tirana (3-7 October), has announced the eight projects that will receive €8,000 for development. 

Each of the eight countries in the network – Albania, Cyprus, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia – submitted two projects, and the requirement was that they must have secured financing from their home funding bodies and must have at least one co-production company attached from another country in the network.

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The SEE Cinema Network is an initiative founded by the Greek Film Center in 2003 and has funded nearly 100 co-productions since then.

The winners are as follows: 

Albania
Light Falls – Sven Dagones, Phedon Papamichail (Albania/Greece/Georgia)
Writer: Sven Dagones
Producer: Genc Permeti
Co-producers: Stamatis Athanasoulas, Erekle Rodonaya 

Cyprus
Patchwork – Petros Charalambos (Cyprus/Greece)
Writer: Janine Teerling
Production company: AMP Filmworks
Co-producer: Boo Productions

Greece
Mignon – Sofia Georgovassili (Greece/Romania)
Production company: Plays2place
Co-producer: Irina Andrea Malcea (Luna Film)

Kosovo
Looking for Venera [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Norika Sefa
film profile
]
– Norika Sefa (Kosovo/Czech Republic)
Writer: Norika Sefa
Production company: Circle Production 
Co-producer: Pavla Kubečková 

Macedonia
Mimi – Darijan Pejovski (Macedonia/Serbia/Greece)
Writer: Darijan Pejovski
Producer: Tomi Salkovski (Skopje Film Studio)
Co-producers: Miroslav Mogorović (Art&Popcorn), Vassilis Mazomenos (Horme Pictures

Montenegro
Sirin [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
– Senad Šahmanović (Montenegro/Serbia/Croatia/France)
Writers: Claudia Bottino, Senad Šahmanović
Production company: CUT-UP
Co-producer: Jure Pavlović (Sekvenca)

Romania
Yellow Tie – Serge Ioan Celebidachi (Romania/Croatia)
Writers: Serge Ioan Celebidachi, James Laurence Olivier
Production company: Oblique Media 
Co-production company: Celi Film

Serbia
Celts [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Milica Tomovic
film profile
]
– Milica Tomović (Serbia/Croatia)
Writer: Milica Tomović
Producer: Vladimir Vasiljević (EED Productions)
Co-production company: Antitalent Produkcija

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