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Discover the future of children’s and youth cinema at the BUFF-pitch. Selected filmmakers present feature and short film projects to an audience of a youth panel, financiers, and industry representatives. During the pitch, projects receive feedback and have the opportunity to make connections that support their further development. The session concludes with a networking reception in Varvstaden.
Panel:
Miriam Vogt – Berlinale
Rose-Marie Strand – Folkets Bio
Ludvig Rodman – Film i Skåne
Anne-Marie Söhrman Fermelin – Film Stockholm
Eva Esseen Arndorff – Triart
Janne Vierth – Film commissioner children and youth
Hidde de Vries – Cinekid
Prisha Dubey – youth panel
Iris Ekenstierna – youth panel
Programme:
Presentation of Region Sörmland’s Children’s Film Residency
Participants: Joakim Wassberg, Film i Sörmland
Pitch #1 – To Hiba from Anja
Format: Short film
Participants: Stella Nilsson
Pitch #2 – 1 2 3 – Action!
Format: Feature film
Participants: Anna Brodin, Victor Lindgren
Sickan dreams of becoming a director, and when her school announces a film competition, she sees her chance. But making a film with others proves difficult, and suddenly everything is at stake.
Pitch #3 – Natthärberget 1982
Format: short film. Participants: Julia Ammouri
The year is 1982. At a youth care home, we follow newly formed friends Jawad and Eddie as their relationship is tested when Jawad receives a letter from Lebanon.
Pitch #4 – Flickan och hunden
Format: Feature film
Participants: Jakob Ekvall
A lost teenager and an even more lost dog are on the run across half of Sweden, both searching for family.
Pitch #5 – Parkeringen
Format: Feature film, documentary
Participants: Emelie Löfgren, Tanja Holm
Too old to stay at home, too young to get into a club–the teenage bedroom has moved out to the parking lot. A documentary about love, alcohol, and life’s big questions in the gap between childhood and adulthood.
Pitch #6 – Accidental Shahada
Format: Short film
Participants: Hiba Fawaz
Some seventh graders’ group work takes an unexpected turn when one of the girls becomes convinced that she has converted to Islam by accident.
Read more about the projects on your Eventival page.