The 22nd CineLink Industry Days took place at 30th Sarajevo Film Festival, where projects in different formats and stages of development from Southeast Europe and the MENA region were presented. These included the Docu Rough Cut Boutique and Docu Talents from the East projects. CineLink awarded prizes totaling €130,000 and €73,500 in-kinds across all sections, both documentary and fiction.
The DOCU ROUGH CUT BOUTIQUE awards were decided on by a jury comprising: Hanka Kastelicová, Warner Bros. Discovery/HBO; Eugen Kelemen, Avanpost; Marcel Maiga, DOK Leipzig; Catherine LeClef, CAT&Docs; Margje de Koning, Movies that Matter, and
Veronika Fidrmuc Dvořáčková, East Silver Caravan Award.
HBO AWARD
IN HELL WITH IVO https://www.cinelinkindustrydays.com/2024-docu-rough-cut-boutique/in-hell-with-ivo by director/producer: Kristina Nikolova. Production Company: LunaClipse Media. Countries: Bulgaria, USA. Award of €2,000
CAT&DOCS AWARD
KARTLI by Tamar Kalandadze, Julien Pebrel. Producer: Ketevan Kipiani. Production Company: Sakdoc Film. Countries: Georgia, France. Award of €2,000
DOK LEIPZIG PREVIEW AWARD
ELECTING MISS SANTA by Raisa Razmerita. Producer: Ion Gnatiuc. Production Company: HaiDOC Productions. Countries: Republic of Moldova, Romania. Invitation to present a project at DOK Leipzig 2024
AVANTPOST AWARD
IN HELL WITH IVO by director/producer: Kristina Nikolova. Production Company: LunaClipse Media. Countries: Bulgaria, USA. Award of €20,000 in kind
MOVIES THAT MATTER AWARD
ELECTING MISS SANTA by Raisa Razmerita. Producer: Ion Gnatiuc. Production Company: HaiDOC Productions. Countries: Republic of Moldova, Romania. Invitation to present a project at Movies that Matter Festival
EAST SILVER CARAVAN AWARD
IN HELL WITH IVO by director/producer: Kristina Nikolova. Production Company: LunaClipse Media. Countries: Bulgaria, USA. The Institute of Documentary Film (IDF), in kind distribution service worth €3,500
THINK-FILM IMPACT PRODUCTION
DIVIA by Dmytro Hreshko. Producers: Polina Herman, Glib Lukianets. Production Companies: Gogol Film, UP UA Studio. Countries: Poland, Ukraine, Netherlands. Award of €20,000 in kind
DOCU TALENTS FROM THE EAST
On August 18, eight ‘Docu Talents from the East’ documentaries from Central and Eastern Europe, planned for theatrical release during the upcoming 12 months, were presented August 18 as part of CineLink Industry Days at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Projects from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine made it to the final selection.
The Docu Talent Award was granted to the most promising project, Lithuanian-German-Latvian co-production Baltic UXO by directors Agnė Dovydaitytė and Alexander Belinski, produced by Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė. The award is accompanied with financial prize 5,000 USD in cooperation with the festival’s partner Current Time TV.
The 3,000 EUR in-kind DAFilms.com Distribution Award was awarded to The Big Chief by Polish director Tomasz Wolski and produced by Anna Gawlita. The award covers the international VOD release on DAFilms.com (including Americas, Europe, Asia) for two years.
