During the most recent Cannes International Film Festival, the Greek Film Centre (GFC) renewed the convention with France’s Centre National du Cinéma (CNC) that aims to support Greek-French cinematic co-productions (Aide à la Coproduction d’Œuvres Cinématographiques Franco-Grecques – see the news).

Of the 17 submitted feature projects – 15 fictions and two documentaries – five have been selected to be supported by the mutual Greek-French fund that has a total budget of €600,000. €400,000 of this is coming from the French side and €200,000 from the Greek side.

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The selection includes Alexis Alexiou’s (Wednesday 04:45 [+leggi anche:
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The funded projects are:

Mesogia – Alexis Alexiou
Producers: Senorita Films (France), View Master Films (Greece)

The Ballad of a Pierced Heart – Yiannis Economides
Producers: EZ Films (France), Argonauts Productions SA (Greece)

Holy Emy [+leggi anche:
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Producers: StudioBauhaus (Greece), Mezzanine Films (France)

Meltem [+leggi anche:
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Producers: Elzévir Films (France), Blonde SA (Greece)

Sundays – Alethea Avramis
Producers: Mezzanine Films (France), Heretic (Greece) 

Furthermore, the GFC has announced the selection of three international projects that have a Greek producer as a minority partner and which will receive financial support of €40,000 each:

Kala azar [+leggi anche:
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Greek producer: Heretic

Meltem – Basile Doganis (France/Greece)
Greek producer: Blonde SA

A Tale of Three Sisters [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Emin Alper
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Greek producer: Horsefly

Finally, the GFC has pre-approved 20 short films to receive financial support amounting to €345,000, two feature-length documentaries to be financed with a total of €90,000, and €25,000 to be divided between two fiction feature projects that are currently in development.