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Work In Progress
Les Arcs Work In Progress, what is it?
© Claire Nicol
The Work in Progress is a presentation of European projects in post-production. Around 14 projects are presented during a special screening during the Industry Village. 7 to 8 minutes of excerpts of each project are screened in front of industry professionals (sales agent, distributors, festival programmers…) by their teams. They're selected by Frédéric Boyer, Artistic Director of the festival, and the executive team.
The call for projects is now open until mid-October.
SUBMISSIONS
The call is now open for the Work in Progress 2024 !
Industry Village is calling out again to Europeans projects in post-production.
The 12 selected projects will be presented during a special screening to an audience made up of international sellers, distributors and festival programmers.
📌 Deadline : October 16th, 7PM CEST
A quick reminder of the eligibility criteria :
- Fiction, animation or documentary with a minimum length of 70 min, currently in production or post-production
- The production should be mainly European
- The project should have no sales agent attached
- It must be the first presentation of the project in a Work in Progress session.
Please note that in order to assess the projects, we ask for a preview link for some scenes of the film. We ask for 10 minutes material, but can also assess from a whole rough cut - it is however advised to prepare and send us 20 to 30 minutes of excerpts. All material sent must be English or French subtitled, and scenes, no teasers.
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AWARDS
The selected projects compete for three awards:
- TITRAFILM AWARD
The selected work-in-progress projects are eligible for the TITRAFILM Award, worth €10.000 in image/sound post-production services.
In the past, this award has been granted, among others, to Little Trouble Girls by Urška Djukić (2023), Rossosperanza by Annarita Zambrano (2022), Opponent by Milad Alami (2021), Silver Haze by Sacha Polak (special mention - 2021), Clara Sola by Natalie Alvarez Mesen (2020), Benni by Nora Fingscheidt (2018) or Girl by Lukas Dhont (2017).
- Alphapanda Audience Engagement Award
Alphapanda offers to one project an award of €6,000 - composed of €800 of advertising spend and €5,200 in-kind to develop a digital marketing strategy and implement a social media campaign around the awarded film’s festival premiere. All films participating in the Work in Progress are eligible, subject to shortlisting.
In the last years, the award was allocated to the projects ZION by Nelson Foix (2023), Veni Vidi Vici by Daniel Hoesl & Julia Niemann (2022), Stranger in my own skin by Katia De Vidas (2021), Reflection by Valentyn Vasyanovitch (2020) and The Hill Where Lionnesses Roar directed by Luàna Bajrami (2019).
- 22D Music Award
22D awards a prize of €10,000 for Music Composition. This award is dedicated to the financing of the production of an original composition (€5,000 in-kind and €5,000 in the form of an executive production service). The financing will be supported by a follow-up and monitoring at the music publishing level. The eligibility of the projects will be assessed by the Industry Village and 22D teams.
This award was granted in 2023 to the project The Swedish Torpedo by Frida Kempff, in 2022 to Hunters on a White Field by Sarah Gyllenstierna and in 2021 to the project Nika by Vasilisa Kuzmina.
2023 EDITION
Discover the 2023 Work In Progress projects selection here
For its 15th edition, Les Arcs Work in Progress presented 13 feature film projects in post-production. The event is designed to help projects that are in post-production to find international sales agents and distributors. In total, 181 projects have been received and considered and the selection included 17 different countries. In 2023's final selection, 7 projects were directed by women and 6 by men. The selection included 8 first films, 4 second films and 1 film from a more established director. 17 countries were represented in the final selection, coproduction countries included.
Contacts
Frédéric Boyer
Artistic Director
Jérémy Zelnik
Head of Industry
Lison Hervé
Industry Village Program Manager
Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin
C.E.O.
wip@lesarcs-filmfest.com
+ 33 (0)1 82 28 50 10
