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TALENT PROJECT MARKET
This is a hands-on training programme for producers and directors participating in the Berlinale Talent Campus.
The Talent Project Market (TPM), in cooperation with the Berlinale Co-Production Market, offers young producers and directors the opportunity to present their film projects to experienced co-producers and financiers.
The Berlinale Co-Production Market is a 2 ½ day event during the Berlin International Film Festival which brings together around 500 producers and financiers from all over the world for exclusive and concentrated networking. Here, producers working on international co-productions can introduce their pre-selected projects and find co-production partners and/or financiers. (For further information please click here)
The Talent Project Market is one of the Talent Campus hands-on-training programmes and a special section within the Berlinale Co-Production Market for 10 up-and-coming producers and directors participating in the Berlinale Talent Campus. You can apply with a feature film project for theatrical release and suitable for an international co-production. The script must be finished and it is preferable (although not necessary) if a producer and/or some financing is attached already.
An international jury selects around 10 projects by Talents. If your project is invited, you will participate in the 3-day TPM programme and have the chance to talk about your project to various potential partners who attend the Berlinale Co-Production Market in pre-scheduled one-on-one meetings.
The first day is dedicated to the preparation of your meetings and learning about the international business and markets. A renowned pitching trainer, our international TPM jury and other industry experts are there to help you, to give you valuable advice on how to present and to market your project, and to tell you about the ins and outs of international co-production, financing and markets.
The following days are dedicated to one-on-one meetings with potential partners for your project. They read about your project beforehand in the Berlinale Co-Production Market Project Catalogue and can request 30-minute meetings with you which will be pre-scheduled by us.
In addition to all this, the TPM offers a variety of informal networking opportunities. You will have the chance to exchange ideas and share your projects with other participants of the TPM as well.
As a TPM participant you will automatically be considered for the Talent Highlight Pitch, sponsored by the VFF - Verwertungsgesellschaft der Film- und Fernsehproduzenten. Three Talents will be selected by our international TPM jury for the Talent Highlight Pitch where they pitch their projects in front of some of the participants of the Berlinale Co-Production Market and receive awards endowed with 3.000 Euros each for further project development.
Many projects presented in previous TPM editions have found their partners here and are realised by now. Here you can find a list of finished TPM projects:
- Amreeka (Cherien Dabis), USA (TPM 2007)
- Bena (Niv Klainer), Israel (TPM 2006)
- Does It Hurt? - The First Balkan Dogma (Boris Missirkov, Georgi Bogdanov), Bulgaria (TPM 2006)
- La Sangre Brota (Pablo Fendrik), Argentina (TPM 2006)
- Párpados Azules (Luis Albores), Mexico (TPM 2006)
- Tiny Dancer (Eva Husson), Frankreich (TPM 2006)
- Exhibit A (Darren Bender), UK (TPM 2005)
- Salt of This Sea (Annemarie Jacir), Palestine (TPM 2005)
- Jeder schweigt von etwas anderem/Last to Know (Marc Bauder), Germany (TPM 2004)
- Big River (Atsushi Funahashi), USA/Japan (TPM 2004)
- Nemesis (Nicole Mosleh), Germany (TPM 2004)
- Goodnight Irene (aka Olho Negro/Black Eye) (Paolo Marinou-Blanco), Portugal (TPM 2004)
- Shame (Mohammed Naqvi), Pakistan/USA (TPM 2004)
Participants of the Talent Project Market
| Participants BTC 2010 | Project | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Asitha Ameresekere | Kin | United Kingdom |
| Laura Astorga | Princesas Rojas | Costa Rica |
| Basile Doganis | Lifelined | France |
| Tal Granit | My Sweet Euthanasia | Israel |
| Arne Kohlweyer | Out of Time Man | Germany |
| Amiel Livne | Central Station | Israel |
| Noah Pink | I Am North | Canada |
| Odilon Rocha | The Samaritan | United Kingdom |
| Brooke Sebold | Gone, June | United States |
| Olivia Silver | Arcadia | United States |
| Thomas Wangsmo | Without Mercy | Norway |
| Participants BTC 2009 | Project | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Lars Blumers | Carjacking | France |
| Alejo Crisóstomo | Fe | Guatemala |
| Elad Gavish | New Family | Israel |
| Gabriela Isas | Cuando Llegues (When You Arrive) | United States / United Kingdom |
| Amy Lo | The Hanji Box | United States |
| Meike Martens | Palestinian Gangster | Germany |
| Azza El-Hassan | Jordan | |
| Afia Nathaniel | Neither the Veil nor the Four Walls | Pakistan |
| Felipe Sholl | The Other End | Brazil |
| Margie Templo | Akyat-Baba, Paikot-Ikot | Philippines |
| Theresa von Eltz | Exit 47 | United Kingdom/Germany |
| Participants BTC 2008 | Project | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Ewa Borowski | Amselfeld | Germany |
| Jean des Forets | Caribbean Chronicles | France |
| Hope Dickson Leach | English Rose | United Kingdom |
| Jennifer Westin | United States | |
| Othman Karim | Squire Musa | Sweden |
| Kirsi Marie Liimatainen | The Scream of the Butterfly | Finland |
| Carey McKenzie | Black South-Easter | South Africa |
| Rusudan Pirveli | Susa | Georgia |
| Alka Raghuram | The Conqueror | India |
| Maria Laura Ruggiero | Arches | Argentina |
| Marleen Slot | Tony Ten | Netherlands |
| Participants BTC 2007 | Project | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Cherien Dabis | Amreeka | United States |
| Domenico Distilo | When Elephants Fight | Italy |
| Peter Folie | Mainland | Germany |
| Rosario Garcia-Montero | Las Malas Intenciones (The Bad Intentions) | Peru |
| Matan Guggenheim | The Unforgettables | Israel |
| Roland Kanamüller | The Pirates of Rat River | Germany |
| Yen San Michelle Lo | Strangers | Malaysia |
| Mayu Nakamura | Intimate Stranger | Japan |
| Emmy Oost | How to Rewind Your Dog | Belgium |
| David Rosfeld | September | Canada |
| Srdjan Sarenac | The Rescued | Bosnia / Herzegovina |
| Participants BTC 2006 | Project | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Bobby Abate | Magic Minerals | Netherlands / United States |
| Luis Albores | Parpados Azules | Mexico |
| Rusudan Chkonia | Keep Smiling | Georgia |
| Alfredo Covelli | James' Run' - The Shabu Crackdown | Italy |
| Pablo Fendrik | La Sangre Brota | Argentina |
| Eva Husson | Tiny Dancer | France |
| Niv Klainer | Bena | Israel |
| Boris Missirkov | Does it Hurt? - The First Balkan Dogma | Bulgaria |
| Georgi Bogdanov | Bulgaria | |
| Peter Modestij | The Symbiosis Project | Sweden |
| Minh Nguyen-Vo | Point of Reference | United States / Vietnam |
| Cassandra Nicolaou | Kristy Kazinski: Lesbian Nerd | Canada |
| Anil Rao | The Villain | United Kingdom |
| Maythem Ridha | A Plane for My Soul | United Kingdom |
| Reinier Selen | A Recipe for Hendrik Hadders | Netherlands |
| Melinda Jansen | Netherlands | |
| Dipankar Sen Gupta | Janani (The Mother) | Bangladesh |
| Maya Vitkova | Queen Victoria | Bulgaria |
| Maria Zamora | Short Distances | Spain |
| Participants BTC 2005 | Project | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Federico Alvarez Mattos | Corned Beef | Uruguay |
| Darren Bender | Exhibit A/ Home Movie | United Kingdom |
| Khavn De La Cruz | Mondomanila: How I Fixed My Hair After a Rather Long Journey | Philippines |
| Eric Finkel | Raw | Canada / United States |
| Javier Fuentes-Leon | Undertow | United States / Peru |
| Camille Griffin | In My World Of You | United Kingdom |
| Igor Hertzev | Islands | Russia |
| Sergei Potemkin | Russia | |
| Annemarie Jacir | Salt of This Sea | Palestine / United States |
| Kamran Rastegar | Palestine / United States | |
| Bethany Jacobson | The Electric Virgin | United States |
| Florence Jaugey | La Yuma | Nicaragua |
| Barbara Kulcsar | LenguaMadre/MotherTongue | Switzerland |
| Peter Mackie Burns | The Land of Milk+Honey | United Kingdom |
| Galel Maidana | La Parte Ausente | Argentina |
| Levon Minasian | The Second Journey | France |
| Elchin Musa Oglu | The 40th Door | Azerbaijan |
| Philipp Schmid | A Lesson in Murder | Germany/United Kingdom |
| Mellissa Tong | Ghostkeeper | United States/ Hongkong |
| Aaron Yanes | Going Nowhere | United States |
| Luca Zamai | Kosmopolis | Germany / Italy |
| Participants BTC 2004 | Project | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Oskar Thor Axelsson | Three Times a Gentleman | United States / Iceland |
| Marc Bauder | Last to Know - Many Greetings from Your Past | Germany |
| Julia Bayer | Cinema Mobile | Germany |
| Andrea Engl | Germany | |
| Pazeet Ben Hayl | Identity | Israel |
| Matthew Brown | Tres y Medio | South Africa |
| Andrew Cahn | The Real Georgina Starr | United Kingdom |
| Catherine Cahn | United Kingdom | |
| Anastas Charalampidis | Slon | Greece |
| Yasmin Coles | The Sum of Our Misunderstandings | Philippines |
| Christine Falco | Gregor S. | Canada |
| Andras Fesös | Rise and Walk | Hungary |
| Brahim Fritah | Slimane the Magnificient | France |
| Atsushi Funahashi | Big River | United States / Japan |
| Melanie Giel | Heavy Ass | Germany |
| Lance Hammer | The Imperfect Cell | United States |
| Tini Horwath | Hello Hippo | Germany |
| Rumbi Katedza | Playing Warriors | Zimbabwe |
| Bartek Konopka | Oxybar | Poland |
| Tommi Lepola | The Demons of Martin | Finland |
| Tero Molin | Finland | |
| Ilkka Niemi | Finland | |
| Paolo Marinou-Blanco | Olho Negro – Goodnight Irene | Portugal |
| Nicole Mosleh | Nemesis | Germany / Italy |
| Mohammed Naqvi | Shame | United States / Pakistan |
| Yvette Paz-Soldan | Trapped in Blue | Bolivia |
| Beryl Richards | The Outsiders | United Kingdom |
| Jennifer Romine | A Little Original Sin | United States |
| Alejandra Sanchez | What Some Eyes Can See | Mexico |
| Ernesto Contreras | Mexico | |
| Alejandro Andrade | Mexico | |
| Oleksandr Shcherbyna | Dshan | Ukraine |
| Adam Thal | Kofifi | South Africa |
| Mirtha Vega | Mariposa | USA |
| Peter Vogt | Children of Love | Poland |
| Kit Hung | To the Clouds | United States/Hongkong |
| Luca Zamai | Kosmopolis | Germany / Italy |
If you need further information, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Kathi at
tpm@berlinale.de or +49 30 25920 522.