In the ninth selection round of the World Cinema Fund (WCF) on October 25, the WCF drew a positive balance for 2008 and proposed three film projects for production funding. The WCF jury – film scholar and curator Viola Shafik (Germany/Egypt), programme coordinator of the Swiss Television Alberto Chollet (Switzerland), director of the script programme of the EON Screenwriters' Workshop Alby James (England), as well as WCF project managers Sonja Heinen and Vincenzo Bugno – chose between 108 projects submitted from a total of 33 countries and granted funds totalling 160,000 euros. 

 

Find more information on these and other WCF-supported film projects under Funded Projects Production respectively Funded Projects Distribution. 

In collaboration with the Goethe-Institute, the event series World Cinema Fund Spotlight has been launched as a WCF “showcase”: selected WCF-funded films have so far been shown in Israel, the Palestinian Territories, in Peru and Chile as well as Indonesia and Mexico in order to inform filmmakers and producers about the WCF. Besides the film series, there are also workshops and case studies on the films funded by the WCF to date at the Goethe-Institutes in each of these countries.  

 

More World Cinema Fund Spotlights were held in Yerevan, Armenia at the Golden Apricot Film Festival (July 13-20, 2008) and at the Damascus International Film Festival (November 1 –11, 2008) in Syria. 

Download WCF-Booklet 2008, pdf (5347 KB)