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DOCU TALENT AWARDS 2022 WENT TO DAD’S LULLABY AND BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS

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EAST WEST INDEX 2022 SURVEY & EMERGING PRODUCERS 2023 PRESENTED IN SARAJEVO

Nine outstanding documentaries from Central and Eastern Europe in post-production – Docu Talents from the East 2022 – were presented yesterday by the Ji.hlava IDFF at the Sarajevo Film Festival. 

The Docu Talent Award 2022 for the most promising project was accorded to a personal story from contemporary Ukraine Dad’s Lullaby directed and produced by Lesia Diak. The award is accompanied with financial prize 5,000 USD, in cooperation with the festival’s partner Current Time TV. 

The 3,000 EUR in-kind DAFilms.com Distribution Award was awarded to an archive-constructed film about unofficial history told from the women's perspective Between Revolutions by Romanian director Vlad Petri and produced by Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan. The award covers international VOD release on DAFilms.com (including Americas, Europe, Asia) for two years. 

The exclusive survey EAST WEST INDEX 2022 shows that Eastern European festivals screen almost half of the European films produced in Western Europe, while the reverse is only 15% - less than one in six European films screened by Western European festivals is from the Eastern European region. See the survey in detail here.

The names of EMERGING PRODUCERS 2023 – a prestigious selection of up-and-coming European documentary film producers – were also announced in Sarajevo. Seventeen European producers are accompanied by a producer from the 2023 guest country Qatar.