8/4/2015 - IDFA Bertha Fund announces its final February 2015 selections

The IDFA Bertha Fund - the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam's scheme that supports documentary filmmakers and festivals in developing countries - has concluded its February 2015 selection run, and has picked 11 project for its Classic scheme and 6 projects for its new European category.

 

For its IFB Classic selection round, the Fund considered 265 projects from more than 65 different developing countries. In total, it granted 126,500 euro to the 11 chosen projects. The committee selected five projects for script development and project development and six projects for production and post-production.

 

For the newly set up IFB Europe round, 24 projects from 8 different countries recognised by the MEDIA sub-program - and all projects had to be co-productions between a European and non-European producer as well as a director from a developing country. In total, 240,000 euro were granted to the six projects that were picked from it.

 

Here is the full list of the selected projects:

 

IBF Classic: Project Development 

• Alabang Boy by Monster Jimenez, Philippines

• Big Character by Ju Anqi, China

• Past, Continuous by Nishtha Jain, India

• The Second Revolution: A Dream for the Poor, a Nightmare for the Rich by Khalo Matabane, South Africa

• Stories from the Field by Arun Bhattarai, Bhutan

 

IBF Classic: Production and Postproduction

• Indispensable by Asad Faruqi, Pakistan/USA

• Selling Humans by Pankaj Johar, India

• Slaughterhouse by Lahsen Ferhani, Algeria/France

• The Sound of Masks by Kofi Zwana & Sara Gouveia, South Africa/Portugal

• Spiral by Jeffery Kalousdian & Maria Saakyan, Armenia

• When the Guns Go Silent by Natalia Orozco, Colombia

 

IBF Europe

• Fathers & Sons - The Legacy of War by Talal Derki, Co-production between Cinema Group Production (Syria) and DIE BASISberlin Medien GmbH (Germany)

• Freedom Fields by Naziha Arebi, Co-production between Huna Productions (Libya) and SDI Productions Ltd (UK)

• The Grown-Ups by Maite Alberdi, Co-production between Micromundo Producciones (Chile) and Volya Films (The Netherlands)

• Hissène Habré, A Chadian Tragedy by Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Co-production between Goï-Goï Productions (Chad) and Pili Films (France)

• The Iron Demon by Jude Ratnam, Co-production between KRITI – A Work of Art (Sri Lanka) and Sister Productions (France)

• Proposition for a Revolution by Vinay Shukla & Khushboo Ranka, Co-production between Friendly People (India) and KeyDocs / Le Boxeur (The Netherlands)