A scene from Drowsy City by director Luong Dinh Dung. (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - An incomplete movie by director Luong Dinh Dung will beshown at the 22nd Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival between November 16 andDecember 2 in Tallinn, Estonia.
Themovie, titled Drowsy City, will compete in the Works inProgress category. The jury will choose the winning project from othercontenders including Golden Voices (Israel), Daysof Whale (Colombia), Senafon (Russia,Thailand), On the Edge (Russia), TheHunt (Turkey), Sisters (Norway) and ComingHome (Armenia, Russia).
Thewinning project will get a prize of 10,000 EUR to complete the final productionstage and boost publicity for the film.
Dung’sfilm features Tao, who lives in an abandoned house. His life is simple until agroup of strange men and one woman move to the area.
Themovie is adapted from a novel written by the director under the same name in2008.
Dungsaid the movie had a low budget and aimed to participate in international filmfestivals before its scheduled June 2019 screening in Vietnam.
The TallinnBlack Nights Film Festival has a sizeable selection of participating films inits four main categories.
The BalticEvent Co-Production Market, where projectsare presented to decision makers during two days of intensive one-on-onemeetings, with an extra day of training, includes 16 projects from Estonia,Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Poland, Hungary,the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina,Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Russia, Georgia, and Ukraine,as well as the 2018 focus country, Italy.
Theywill be vying for the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award,worth 20,000 EUR, the Best Pitch from Screen International andtwo passes to the 2019 Producers Network from the Cannes Film Market.
The BalticEvent Works in Progress showcase feature films in production orpost-production looking for a sales agent or a festival for an internationalpremiere. They are split into two categories. The international category haseight projects, and the Baltic category has 11. The main award in theInternational section is 10,000 EUR of post-production services from Finnishcompany Post Control, while the top prize in the Baltic section is acontribution of 3,000 EUR towards expenses for promotion and distribution inthe Baltic countries.
The POWR Baltic StoriesExchange trains writers to deliver a good pitch andfind a producer at the public project presentation, as well as get industryfeedback from carefully selected Baltic Event participants. This year, it ispartnering with In Focus, a Finnish initiative aimed at female filmmakers. Itincludes ten projects, six of them by Finnish female screenwriters.
Finally, Script Pool Tallinn isa script competition that gathers talented scriptwriters whoseprojects already have producers attached to provide them with support forenhancing their scripts and maximising production and distributionpotential. The main award of 5,000 EUR is provided by internationalsales company Global Screen GmbH.-VNS/VNA
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