Three Georgian-produced films receive Eurimages fund grant
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Three films being shot by Georgian filmmakers or co-produced by studios from the country have received production grants from Eurimages, a major cultural support fund of the Council of Europe.
Feature film projects 43 by Dito Tsintsadze, Negative Numbers by Uta Beria and Girls of the Sun by Eva Husson have been selected among 66 in-development works for this year's co-production funding scheme.
Husson's work follows the French director's 2015 feature Bang Gang and was granted a major €500,000 ($589,000) funding as the film is being readied for a 2018 release.
Eva Husson's upcoming 'Girls of the Sun' follows female resistance fighters in conflict embroiling their Kurdish town. Photo: elledriver.fr.
The Georgian participation in the work is marked by the 20 Steps Productions studio, working on the project alongside Maneki Films/Wild Bunch France and Belgium-based Gapbusters.
The film will tell the story of female resistance fighters taking back their Kurdish town from armed extremists and will feature Golshifteh Farahani and Emmanuelle Bercot along with other actors.
The upcoming feature 43 by Tsintsadze, co-produced by Georgia's Cinetech LTD and Russia's Viva Films, received €120,000 ($141,000) in funding from Eurimages.
It will mark the latest project by the filmmaker whose works have been awarded with prizes at the Locarno International Film Festival and San Sebastian International Film Festival, among other events.
Uta Beria will tell personal stories of juvenile convicts learning to play rugby at their detention centre in Tbilisi. Photo: Alief LLC/Variety.
Young director and screenwriter Uta Beria will be assisted in developing his drama Negative Numbers with €86,000 ($101,000) from the fund, as the work is co-produced by Magnet Films of Georgia, Wide of France and 39 Films of Italy.
Beria's first feature is a dramatised account of a true story of a Tbilisi juvenile detention facility with young inmates convicted of petty crimes amidst economic hardships of the early 2000s Georgia.
When a number of former professional rugby players went to the place to help teach the young offenders the sport, they wrote down stories of the inmates. The stories, in turn, inspired Beria to shoot the film.
The project has also received support from the Georgian National Film Centre at its ongoing production stage.
The Eurimages co-production funding scheme was designed to support "fiction, animation and documentary feature films", with projects featuring at least two co-production studios based in the fund's member states considered for review.
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