The ninth edition of When East Meets West (WEMW, 20-22 January) has wrapped with the announcement of the winners of six awards handed out at the co-production forum, which featured 22 projects.

The main award, the Film Centre Serbia Development Award, valued at €5,000, was granted to the project Brotherhood [+lire aussi :
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The Dutch project Pink Moon [+lire aussi :
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The Slovakian project Victim by Michal Blasko also picked up two awards: the Flow Postproduction Award of €15,000, and the EAVE Producers Workshop scholarship for its producer, Jakub Viktorin (Nutprodukcia). The Polish project Her/His by Anna Kazejak will benefit from a complete marketing package provided as an integral part of the Asterisk Visual Marketing Award. Finally, the Italian project Le Paradis C'est Ici by Giovanni Troilo won the new Pop Up Film Residency Award, which invites the director to spend three weeks at the newly established residence programme that was first introduced during WEMW.

In the sidebar sections of WEMW, starting with the Last Stop Trieste, the big winner was the Ukrainian documentary Heat Singers by Nadia Parfan, produced by Illia Gladshtein (Phalanstery Films), which was the recipient of all the major prizes – the HBO Europe Award, the Flow Digital Cinema Award and the newly introduced Film Centre Serbia LST Award. The Dox Consulting Award was bestowed upon the Italian project Never Whistle Alone [+lire aussi :
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Finally, in the This Is IT work-in-progress section, the Italian-Mexican co-production T [+lire aussi :
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A newly introduced award, the Italy-Baltic Development Award for Co-Production, was also handed out during WEMW. The €30,000 cash prize was delivered by MiBAC – the Ministry of Cultural Activities and Heritage, the Estonian Film Institute, the Lithuanian Film Centre and the National Film Centre of Latvia to Ultramondo, a Lithuanian-Italian film aimed at younger audiences that was co-produced by Solaria Film (Italy) and Fralita Films (Lithuania), and to Searching for Antigravity, which was co-developed by Studio Nominum (Lithuania), Giuma Produzioni (Italy), VFS Films (Latvia) and Les Films Figures Libres (France).

According to the final stats, at WEMW, 22 projects were selected for the co-production forum and 13 films for the work-in-progress sections, chosen from among over 350 submissions. Also, 45 different countries were represented, while 200 international decision makers and 500 participants were present in Trieste, where more than 600 one-to-one meetings were scheduled.

Here is the full list of winners at the ninth WEMW:

WEMW co-production forum awards

Film Centre Serbia Development Award
Brotherhood – Francesco Montagner
Production company: Nutprodukce (Czech Republic)

EWA European Women’s Audiovisual Network Award
Pink Moon– Floor van der Meulen
Production company: KeplerFilm (Netherlands)

EAVE Producers Workshop scholarship
Jakub Viktorin – Victim (Slovakia)

Producers Network Prize
Magalie Dierick – All-In [+lire aussi :
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Derk-Jan Warrink – Pink Moon (Netherlands)

Flow Postproduction Award
Victim – Michal Blasko
Production company: Nutprodukcia (Slovakia)

Asterisk Visual Marketing Award
Her/His – Anna Kazejak
Production company: Lava Films (Poland)

Pop Up Film Residency Award
Le Paradis C'est Ici - Giovanni Troilo
Production company: Bright Frame (Italy)

Last Stop Trieste

Film Centre Serbia LST Award
Heat Singers – Nadia Parfan
Production company: Phalanstery Films (Ukraine)

HBO Europe Award
Heat Singers – Nadia Parfan

Flow Digital Cinema Award
Heat Singers – Nadia Parfan

Dox Consulting Award
Never Whistle Alone [+lire aussi :
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Production company: Candy Glass (Italy)

This Is IT

Laser Film Award
Tony Driver [+lire aussi :
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Production company: Dugong Films (Italy)