28/03/2012

Three South Mediterranean projects selected by the Jan Vrijman Fund

Industry, Events and Festivals, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt

This January, the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA)’s Jan Vrijman Fund chose three South Mediterranean film projects for funding from 401 projects from over 40 countries.

These were The Cleaner by Sarah Lamrini (Morocco), Zaineb Hates the Snow by Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia), and Whose Country by Mohamed Siam (Egypt).

In total, an amount of € 212.000 was granted to 20 projects. The committee selected six projects for script and project development, eight projects for production and post-production, as well as six festivals and/or workshops.

The selection committee for the January 2012 round consisted of Ally Derks, director of IDFA and JVF, Adriek van Nieuwenhuijzen, head of Industry IDFA, Barbara Truyen, commissioning editor at VPRO, Carmen Cobos, producer for Cobosfilms, Denis Vaslin, producer for Volya Films, Isabel Arrate Fernandez, manager of the Jan Vrijman Fund, Martijn te Pas, programme coordinator of the IDFA, Nick Ware, documentary consultant, and Steven Markovitz, producer for Big World Cinema.

Here are the selected projects:

Script and project development

• The Cleaner by Sarah Lamrini, Morocco
• GITI – The Paradise in the Hell by Yves Niyongabo, Ruanda
• Buddha of Africa by Nicole Schafer, South Africa
• Kashmir: Beyond the Line of Control by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Pakistan
• The Marble Cow by Enrique Colina, Cuba
• Anonymous project

Production and post-production

• Logs of War by Hawa Essuman and Anjali Nayar, Kenya
• The Devil’s Lair by Riaan Hendricks, South Africa
• Zaineb Hates the Snow by Kaouther Ben Hania, Tunisia
• United Red Army by Naeem Mohaiemen, Bangladesh
• Char.. The Island Within by Sourav Sarangi, India
• Shall I Adopt or Confront by Siti Ariani Muflikhah, Indonesia
• Selection: Who will be a Gurkha by Kesang Tseten Lama, Nepal
• Whose Country by Mohamed Siam, Egypt

Other activities

• K-DOX Workshop, Rutagungira Didier, Ruanda
• Trigger Pitch, Indian Documentary Foundation, India
• International Documentary Film Festival ‘Santiago Alvarez in Memoriam’, ICAIC, Cuba
• Baghdad International Film Festival, BIFF, Iraq
• 2 anonymous projects

Source: idfa.nl