48th Thessaloniki International Film Festival

These are the results of the 5th Balkan Fund, Thessaloniki’s International Film Festival Script Development Fund. 13 projects from 6 different countries participated in the event. The following projects received awards and special mentions:

2 SPECIAL MENTIONS:

1. METASTASES - Director: Branko Schmidt - Producer: Stanislav Babic

2. SOME OTHER STORIES - Writers/ Directors: Ana Maria Rossi / Ines Tanovic / Maria Dzizeva / Hanna Slak / Ivona Juka - Producer: Nenad Dukoc

4 AWARDS:

1. RIO - Writers: Nicolas Panoutsopoulos & Argyris Germanidis - Director/Producer: Nicolas Panoutsopoulos (Greece)

2. THE POOR LITTLE THINGS - Writer: Onder Cakar - Director: Ayhan Hacifazlioglu - Producer: Sevil Demirci Cakar (Turkey)

3. FIRST OF ALL, FELICIA - Writers/Directors: Melissa De Raaf & Razvan Radulescu - Producer: Ada Solomon (Romania)

4. MOTHER - Writer/Director: Juraj Lerotic - Producer: Dana Budisavljevic (Croatia)

JURY MEMBERS:

LENNY CROOKS (UNITED KINGDOM)
RICHARD KWIETKNIOWSKI (UNITED KINGDOM)
TUDOR GIURGIU (ROMANIA)
CHRISTINA KALLAS (GREECE/GERMANY)

BALKAN FUND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: CHRISTINA KALLAS
BALKAN FUND COORDINATOR: LOUKIA RIKAKI