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Producers interested in submitting
projects for the 8th Berlinale Co-Production Market, holding from
February 13 to 15, 2011, are now free to do so. The co-production
market will hold as part of the 61st Berlin International Film
Festival, taking place in Berlin, Germany, from February 10 to 20.

“Now, we are again looking forward to
find new projects – fresh, promising, and high-quality projects that we
can matchmake with potential partners to help them on their way onto
the big screen,” said a statement from the organisers.

Interested producers are to submit a
project with budgets ranging between two and 10 million Euro, latest
October 28, 2010. The submission form is available for download at
www.efm-berlinale.de. Candidates will be selected by December 22 and
the list of successful applicants published in January 2011.

The Berlinale Co-Production Market is a
two-and-a-half-day service and networking platform designed for
producers, financiers, sales agents, distributors, broadcasters, and
funding representatives who are working on international co-productions.

Producers whose works are selected are
able to present their projects to interested co-production partners and
financiers in pre-scheduled one-on-one meetings at the event which
started in 2004. Participants are also able to network at fora
including theme talks, cocktail receptions, and producers lounge.

36 projects from 22 countries were
presented at the Berlinale Co-Production Market held earlier this year
and attended by about 500 industry professionals from across the world.

Some of the projects selected for the
Berlinale Co-Production market, and which have screened successfully in
cinemas and festivals include Rafi Pitts’ ‘The Hunter’ and Esmir
Filho’s ‘The Famous and The Dead’. Rusudan Pirveli’s ‘Susa’ screened at
the Berlinale; ‘Undertow/Contracorriente’ by Javier Fuentes-León won an
Audience Award at Sundance and has just been theatrically released in
the UK, while Cristi Puiu’s ‘Aurora’ was presented at Cannes.