International Film Festival Rotterdam

While in Rotterdam, Global Film Initiative decided to make three grants of 10,000 US Dollar each available to participants in this year's CineMart, in support of the long relationship with the Hubert Bals Fund and IFFR.
 
Susan Weeks Coulter, Chair of the Board of Global Film Initiative: “We felt that perhaps this year, filmmakers would appreciate knowing they had an immediate decision about some financing and we have decided to make that a reality for three of them today.
 
The three projects receiving the grants are Chingari - The Spark by Rajesh S. Jala (India, produced by The Elements and A.S.A.P. Films), Nervous Translation by Shireen Seno (The Philippines, produced by Peliculas Los Otros), and Mustang by Deniz Gamze Ergüven (Turkey/France/Germany, produced by Aurora Films).
 
 
CineMart was the first platform of its kind to offer filmmakers the opportunity to launch their ideas to the international film industry and to find the right connections to get their projects additionally financed. CineMart also heralds an important start of the 'film year'.
Every year, CineMart invites a select number of directors/producers to present their film projects to co-producers, funds, sales agents, distributors, TV stations and other potential financiers. For its 31^st edition, CineMart selected twenty-five projects. The selection included three ‘Art:Film’ projects and two projects from this year’s Boost! program.
 
CineMart is supported by MEDIA Programme of the European Union, City Development Corporation (OBR), City of Rotterdam and MEDIA Mundus.