Designed as a workspace dedicated to short film projects in development and post-production, the program took place in an intimate working environment. Many experts and mentors supported the participants in the development of their projects, helping them refine their vision, strengthening the structure of their story and supporting them during the key stages preceding their finalization, in order to facilitate the distribution of these films in the making.
On the program, sessions around the screenplay, editing, sound design, production and financing, distribution, purchasing, musical composition, pitch deck, pitching, career development or even the general ecosystem of the short film industry… That’s more than 50 sessions in total, individual and general, which were organized for this program!
A look back at the 10 projects supported within The Lab!
WRITING HUB
with the support of ECAM, La Fémis, Le Fresnoy, Swiss Films
BITTER ORANGES (ORANGES AMÈRES)
Elise Levy | France
Fiction | Produced by Léna Bapt (Rebecca Films)
DEADLINE
Mona Khaouli | France
Fiction | Produced by Nadia Turincev (Easy Riders Films)
DUST HOUSE
Ysana Watanabe | France, Japan
Docu-Fiction, Experimental | Produced by Pandora Creation
GABRIEL, GABRIEL
Aimée Lavignac, Laura Weibel | Suisse
Fiction
KEEP IT RECORDING
Gulzar | Canada
Fiction
WHY DO YOU ONLY CALL ON FRIDAYS?
Daniela Naranjo P. | Spain
Fiction | Product by Valentina Ferreira (Zona Cielo Films)
EDITING ROOM
with the support of Docs by the Sea, Iraqi Film Fund, MIDPOINT Institute, Polish Film Institute
KOBIETO, TO TYLKO ZIEMA (WOMAN, IT’S JUST THE LAND WE CAME FROM)
Angelika Cygal | Poland
Documentaire | Produit par The National Film School in Åódź
THE VALLEY
Mohammed-Mahdi Al-Obaidi | Iraq
Fiction | Produced by Mohammed-Qasim Al-Obaidi
UNTITLED DURIAN FILM
Ash Goh Hua | Singapore, USA
Documentary | Produced by Sanjna Selva
VARGA (SLASH)
Vlad Bulgarian | Moldavia
Fiction | Produced by VOLT Cinematography
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The CFS | Rendez-vous Industry warmly thanks all the experts and mentors for their investment: Flavio Armone (Lights On), Opal Hope Bennett (American Documentary | POV), Jérôme Blesson (La Belle Affaire Productions), Thibaut Bracq (Script mentor), Aurélie Chesné (France Télévisions), Isabelle Fauvel (Silence&Conversation), Andréa Goncalves (Manifest), Mathieu Janssen (Go Short Nijmegen), Delphine Jeanneret (Int’l Kurzfilmtage Winterthur), Sanne Jehoul (Script mentor | eleven films), Facundo Lema (Script mentor), Hakim Mao (Script mentor, Pitching coach), Eiko Mizuno-Gray (Loaded Films), Shams Mohajerani (75East), Jules Reinartz (Temps Forts Production), Laurence Ripoll (Music & Cinema Marseille), Sebastián Sepúlveda (Editor, Screenwriter, Director), Vuk Vukmanovic (Sound designer)
