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.

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 [+leggi anche:
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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 [+leggi anche:
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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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Milica Tomovic
scheda film] – Milica Tomović (Serbia/Croatia)
Writer: Milica Tomović
Producer: Vladimir Vasiljević (EED Productions)
Co-production company: Antitalent Produkcija