Open Doors Grant
An incentive for production or project development, offered by the Swiss production support fund visions sud est (backed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, SDC) together with the City of Bellinzona.
Open Doors Grant (CHF 35,000) to:
Open Doors Grant (CHF 15,000) to:
Development grant CNC – Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (€ 8,000) to:
ARTE Kino International Prize (€ 6,000) to:
Open Doors – Sørfond Award
A prize to participate in the Pitching from the South platform of the Norwegian fund Sørfond to:
One of the Lab participants is offered the opportunity to take part in the training workshop Rotterdam Lab during the IFFR Pro 2023:
Open Doors – BR Lab Award
A new partnership offering travel, accommodation and participation in the BR Lab project development program in November 2022:
Open Doors – World Cinema Fund Award
A new collaboration with the World Cinema Fund, which awards a participant in the Projects’ Hub or the Producers’ Lab from the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Lucia or Grenada, with a specific program tailored and geared to closely follow the development of an audience engagement strategy
Open Doors – OIF – ACP – EU Award
This new collaboration provides a project or participant from the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Lucia and Grenada with a mix of story-editing and co-production strategy support, advice on the development and refinement of the film dossier, based on the specific needs of the awarded project.
Open Doors – LEXIA Insights Award
For the first year, this collaboration with experienced professionals will provide the awardee with research tools and methodologies to fine-tune the project's pitch, script, dossier, mood board and teaser.
Open Doors - Moulin d’Andé-CECI Award
A writing residency offered to an emerging director who took part in Open Doors 2022 (Hub, Lab or Screenings), enabling them to continue working on writing and development of their project.
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur / Villa Sträuli Residency
Two-month residency at Villa Sträuli, Winterthur. The winner is chosen from among the participants in the sections of Open Doors, Pardi di domani and the Filmmakers Academy of the Locarno Film Festival 2022 coming from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America, who are developing their first or second feature films.
Since its beginnings in 2003, Open Doors has been organized in cooperation with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA).
In addition to the partners mentioned above, Open Doors enjoys the support and collaboration of the following other European and international organizations:
European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE), ACE Producers, Produire au Sud - Festival des Trois Continents, Festival Scope Pro, Doha Film Institute, Dominican Republic Film Commission, Costa Rica Film Commission, JAMPRO, Centro Costarricense de Producción Cinematográfica, ACM (Arts Council of Mongolia) and Ulaanbaatar International Film Festival, AFiS Busan Asian Film School.
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