Venice Gap-Financing Market 2024 to Showcase 61 Global Film Projects

Venice Film Festival

Italy

The Venice Gap-Financing Market, a cornerstone event of the Venice Production Bridge, will hold its 11th edition from August 30 to September 1, 2024. This significant three-day event will run during the 81st Venice International Film Festival, scheduled for August 28 to September 7, 2024.

This year, the market will showcase 61 projects from around the globe, all in the final stages of development and funding. These projects were selected from nearly 320 applications, reflecting a broad spectrum of backgrounds, stories, aesthetics, genres, and budgets. The market is recognized as a crucial event for the film and immersive industries, facilitating crucial connections between project teams and international decision-makers.

In 2024, the Venice Production Bridge will spotlight Luxembourg, Wallonia-Brussels, and Japan. This focus is supported by Film Fund Luxembourg, Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel, and JETRO, respectively.

The selected projects are categorized as follows:

• 34 feature-length fiction and documentary projects, including 6 VPB Focus projects.
• 16 immersive projects, including 4 VPB Focus projects.
• 8 Biennale College Cinema - Immersive projects.
• 3 Biennale College Cinema projects.

Selected Fiction and Documentary Projects:

1. A Sweetness From Nowhere (Sweden, Norway) / Ester M. Bergsmark
2. AMA (Luxembourg, France, Japan) / Yuki Kawamura - Focus on Luxembourg
3. Amoeba (Singapore, The Netherlands, France, Spain) / Siyou Tan
4. Becoming Ema (Denmark, Spain, Slovakia) / Patricia Drati
5. Better Class (Spain) / Victor García León
6. Black Water (Poland, Finland, Estonia) / Aga Woszczyńska
7. Cuba & Alaska (Ukraine, France, Belgium) / Yegor Troyanovsky
8. Death Has No Master (Venezuela, Canada, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Spain) / Jorge Thielen Armand
9. Dengue (India, France, The Netherlands) / Prantik Basu
10. Devolution (Belgium, Italy, Poland) / Nicolas Boucart - Focus on Wallonia-Brussels
11. Dust (Belgium, Greece, Poland, United Kingdom) / Anke Blondé
12. Global Project (Portugal, Luxembourg) / Ivo M. Ferreira
13. Golem (Czech Republic, France, Slovakia) / Jiří Barta
14. If I See a Rainbow (China, France) / Zhao Hao
15. In Alaska (The Netherlands, Canada) / Jaap Van Heusden, Vinnie Karetak
16. Jealous White Men (Argentina, Portugal, Italy, Brazil, Germany) / Ivan Granovsky
17. La Baleine (France, Spain, Belgium) / Sylvère Petit
18. Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes (Spain, Portugal) / Gabriel Azorín
19. Legítima (Mexico) / Elisa Miller
20. Love Before Sunrise (Taiwan, Japan) / Chen-Ti KUO
21. Marie & Jolie (France, Tunisia, Qatar) / Erige Sehiri
22. Movie Kintsugi (WT) (Japan, Germany) / Eva Knopf - Focus on Japan
23. No Good Men (Germany, France, Norway, Denmark) / Shahrbanoo Sadat
24. The Blood Countess (Austria, Luxembourg, Germany) / Ulrike Ottinger - Focus on Luxembourg
25. The Good Life (United Kingdom) / Matt Winn
26. The Isle of the Demoiselle (Belgium, France, Canada) / Micha Wald - Focus on Wallonia-Brussels
27. The Life of Simon Jashi (Georgia, France, Lithuania) / Dmitry Mamuliya
28. The Magic City (Belgium, France, Sweden) / Pablo Guarise, Guillaume Maupin - Focus on Wallonia-Brussels
29. The Reserve (Argentina, Spain, Mexico) / Ezequiel Yanco
30. The Station (Yemen, Jordan, France, The Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Qatar) / Sara Ishaq
31. Theft of Fire (Canada, Palestine, France) / Amer Shomali
32. Three Black Nights (Chile, Spain) / Theo Court
33. Tristes Trópicos (Austria, Argentina) / Gastón Solnicki
34. Twins (Ukraine, Poland, The Netherlands) / Eva Neymann

Selected Immersive Projects:

1. 275 Milion Births and Deaths (Belgium, The Netherlands) / Zam Zadeh
2. A Cure for Straightness (USA, France) / Cameron Kostopoulos
3. Body/Memory (Germany, Italy) / Stefano Casertano
4. Collective Body (France, USA) / Sarah Silverblatt-Buser
5. Demaré, A Sensory Journey into the Depths of the Ocean (Brazil, Argentina, Germany, Austria) / Emilia Sánchez Chiquetti
6. Dysmorphia: Playing with Reality (France, UK) / May Abdalla, Barry Gene Murphy
7. First Virtual Suit (Japan) / Kazuki Yuhara - Focus on Japan
8. Harvest (UK) / Matt Shaw, William Trossell
9. Lalalabyrinth (WT) (Germany) / Pedro Harres
10. Museva (Belgium, France) / Sergio Ghizzardi - Focus on Wallonia-Brussels
11. Resonanz (Germany, Denmark) / David Adler, Ioulia Isserlis
12. Tachychronia (Luxembourg, Canada) / Gwenael François - Focus on Luxembourg
13. Tempus Alterna (Luxembourg, Canada) / Nimrod Shanit - Focus on Luxembourg
14. The Ancestors (The Netherlands) / Steye Hallema
15. Tiny People: Prologue (USA, Brazil) / Ricardo Laganaro, Marcelo Marcati
16. When Brooklyn Was Queer (USA, Australia) / Yasmin Elayat, Wadooah Wali

Selected Biennale College Cinema - Immersive Projects:

1. Edifice (Germany, USA) / Andreea Ion Cojocaru
2. Eporia, The Mountain Mermaid (South Africa) / Kirstin Lee Grey Erasmus
3. Kitchen of Memories (USA) / Mattia Casalegno
4. Library of Dreams (Georgia, Germany) / Jane Rzheznikova
5. Mnemosyne (China, Japan) / Wuer
6. Mons Venus (Argentina) / Paula Orlando
7. Proprioceptive Memory (Australia) / Ben Joseph Andrews, Emma Roberts
8. Unscrolling the Truth (Poland, India) / Joanna Murzyn

Selected Biennale College Cinema Projects:

1. Dog Days of Summer (Italy) / Camilla Carè
2. Jaysan (Kyrgyzstan) / Aisha Sultanbekova
3. The Forest (Hungary) / Bálint Kenyeres

The Book of Projects, which details each selected project, will be available online in the second half of July. Accredited film industry professionals can request one-on-one meetings with the project teams through the Venice Gap-Financing Market’s dedicated area on the Venice Production Bridge website.