CULTURE
Locarno Film Festival`s Open Doors sidebar presented in Baku
Baku, January 29 (AZERTAC). The Open Doors section of the Locarno Film Festival has today presented in Nizami Cinema Center here.
The presentation was co-organized by the Azerbaijan Association for Cinematography, the Producers Guild and Narimanfilm Studio.
Representative of the Locarno Film Festival Joel Chapron spoke of the importance of the section.
“With support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) of the Swiss Foreign Ministry, for the last ten years the Open Doors section has worked to highlight filmmakers and films from countries whose cinema is still developing, and is committed to enabling them to find co-production partners for their new projects.
This initiative, focusing on a different region every year, operates in two modes. On the one hand, the Open Doors Co-production Lab brings professionals from the chosen region together with potential partners, mostly from Europe, to foster support for projects that would otherwise be difficult to make. Every year, following a call for submissions, the Festival selects a dozen new projects from the chosen region.
On the other hand, especially meant for the public audience, the Open Doors Screenings present a selection of films particularly representative of the cinematographic and cultural universe of the chosen region.”
The Open Doors section of the 66th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, which will be held on August 7-17, will operate till August 10-13.
A deadline for submissions is March 5th, 2013.