Cinema Valli, 16.7. at 10:00
Another edition of the pitching programme Work in Progress will be held in front of a n international three-member jury, and is aimed at all Croatian or Croatian minority feature projects in postproduction that are planned to be finished within a year. The jury will decide on the best projects to receive three prices: 6,000 EUR cash prize awarded by Brijuni Rivijera; postproduction audio processing in the amount of 10,000 EUR, awarded by the Czech studio Sleepwalker; and picture and sound processing in the amount of 3,000 EUR, awarded by the Slovenian company Teleking. Up to ten projects will be selected for the pitching, and all selected finalists will be able to participate in the workshop programme to prepare for their presentations.
MENTOR: Ena Rahelić
Ena Rahelić is the head of Industry and strategic development consultant at Mediterranean Film Festival Split/Kino Mediteran. With a background in journalism and communication science studies, she gained experience in her 15 years of work in the media and film industry. Along with TV and radio production in Austria, she spent more than seven years working for Obala Art Centar/ Sarajevo Film Festival as manager of CineLink Industry Days, head of Operation Kino, the Dealing with the Past section, and works as distributer for the territory of former Yugoslavia. Since 2018, she has been working with Mediterranean Film Festival Split as consultant for strategic development and head of Industry. She is also producer at Digital Magic Studio for audio postproduction from Zagreb, and in 2023 she took over the position of head of Industry – Meeting Point at Vilnius International Film Festival.
JURY:
Alen Munitić
Alen Munitić started Mediterranean Film Festival Split in 2018, and serves as its artistic director. At that time, he already had a number of years of professional experience at the largest regional festivals such as Zagreb Film Festival, Motovun Film Festival, ZagrebDox, Animafest Zagreb, and others. Mediterranean Film Festival Split quickly became the most visited cultural event in Split. In 2012, he started Kino Mediteran, a project aiming to revitalise cinemas in Dalmatia that is now held in more than twenty towns and attracts 70,000 visitors every year. Since 2016, Kino Mediteran has been heading regional distribution of independent European films, and in 2020 started a VOD platform dedicated to independent film. From 2018 to 2021, he was the president of the Croatian Independent Cinemas Network.
Nico Marzano
Film curator, film lecturer and film producer, Nico Marzano has been head of the film department of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London for ten years; under the ICA Cinema label, led the acquisition, presentation and distribution of multiple Cannes winner titles and Oscar-nominated films both in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and both in theatres and on the VoD circuit. Currently collaborating with the Rome Film Fest, he has served on the juries of prestigious festivals such as Sundance, Venice Film Festival, London Film Festival and Cinema du Reel. He has held workshops in Cannes and at important institutional venues worldwide. Nico has advised and collaborated in various capacities on numerous indie film productions.
Milan Stojanović
Milan Stojanović is the producer of films How I Learned to Fly (2022), Working Class Goes to Hell (2023), Oasis (2020) and Barbarians (2014). He co-produced the films Forever Hold Your Peace (2024), Housekeeping for Beginners (2023), Traces (2022) and Uncle (2022), as well as the drama series The Last Socialist Artefact (2021). He is a member of the European Film Academy and the EAVE national coordinator for Serbia. He is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade.
