‘Boost!’: a new partnership of the Hubert Bals Fund, Binger Filmlab and CineMart

40th International Film Festival Rotterdam
January 26 – February 6, 2011
 
PRESS RELEASE February 1, 2011
 
‘Boost!’: a new partnership of the Hubert Bals Fund, Binger Filmlab and CineMart
A route for funding, script development and international financing combines the specialties of each of the partners to give projects a boost!
 
The International Film Festival Rotterdam is recognized for supporting independent filmmaking from around the globe through the Hubert Bals Fund and the CineMart. Underlining this supportive character, the Hubert Bals Fund and CineMart join forces with Binger Filmlab through Boost!
 
Since 1989, the Hubert Bals Fund supports filmmakers from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East in the realization of their film projects. Each year, the fund supports approximately 20 projects with a script and project development grant of 10,000 Euro. Annually five recipients of HBF development support are offered the opportunity to further develop their project at Binger Filmlab, starting with HBF’s Spring selection round coming March.
 
Boost! is a new component of the Binger On Demand programme that started in 2009. With Binger on Demand Binger Filmlab presents an a la carte menu from which film professionals can both choose a type of coaching as well as the advisor to work with through one or more one-to-one sessions. The Binger Filmlab has direct access to coaches in various fields through its broad international network. Filmmakers such as David Verbeek, Urszula Antoniak and Heddy Honigmann have developed their new film projects through Binger on Demand.
 
With Boost! Binger will focus on the projects selected by the Hubert Bals Fund. The five selected projects are offered coaching – based on the specific needs of the project and filmmaker – focused on the further development of the films in order to give them an extra boost.
 
At the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the five projects selected for Boost! will be presented at the CineMart, IFFR’s co-production market bringing together over 800 industry delegates to Rotterdam each year. At CineMart, the Boost! projects will be offered special pitching and project development sessions prior to taking one-to-on meetings at the market.
 
Through Boost! the HBF, CineMart and Binger Filmlab will give these film projects a creative impulse and launch them at the international market.
 
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Press information IFFR:
IFFR Press Office, Bert-Jan Zoet or Nancy van Oorschot
[email protected], +31 10 8909090
 
 
Press information Binger Filmlab
Daan Gielis
[email protected], +31 6 10156925