More than 1,500 film professionals are already accredited for the Venice Production Bridge, which will run Sept. 2-10, and interest in new projects being unveiled is running high. Pascal Diot, chie…
, chief of the informal Venice market, said roughly 800 meetings have already been booked between producers and sales agents pertaining to the 30 projects — including seven docs — being unveiled at theAt this stage, the feature film project sparking most interest is female empowerment drama “The Year I Started Masturbating,” by Swedish filmmaker
Swiss-Egyptian director Tamer Ruggli’s feature film debut, “Electric Child,” about 45-year-old psychotherapist named Sue who leaves her well-organized life in Switzerland to return to her birthplace in Egypt, which turns out to be an empowering journey.a country where playing music by women is considered perverse,” as the synopsis puts it, and where “young Afghan female students risk their lives for their musical passion,” is also booking lots of meetings.
Diot pointed out that with buyers not going to Toronto this year due to COVID constraints and the AFM and Tokyo marts going digital, his only fear “is that we will be in a kind of bubble, since most of the markets thatIn terms of U.S. companies, Netflix is on the Lido in full force, including its film chief Scott Stuber; Amazon, HBOMax, Warner Bros., FilmNation, Anonymous Content and Participant Media are among other heavyweights in attendance.
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