TIES THAT BIND 2016:

Who should apply TTB 2016

10 Asian & European producers with projects and 5 other European film professionals or producers without project.

TIES THAT BIND is targeted at 10 Asian & European producers with projects. We are now opening the call in addition also to other European professionals interested in working with Asia (sales agents, financiers, distributors, festival programmers, co-production market representatives) or producers without project. 5 of them will be selected to be an active part of the group.

Target group:

 Applicants WITH A PROJECT: 

experienced feature film producers from Asia (Japan, Korea, China incl. Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, Mongolia, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Indonesia) and Europe (European Union and the countries mentioned in the following document as eligible to apply for the MEDIA SUB-programme: https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/sites/eacea-site/files/20112015-eligible-countries_en.pdf) wishing to create long term creative and business relationships between Europe and Asia. Interested producers should apply with a feature film project in development. European projects should have a strong co-production or co-financing potential with Asia. 

 Applicants WITHOUT PROJECT: 

European film professionals (e.g. sales agents, distributors, festival and market representatives, financiers) or European producers without project and wishing to create long term creative and business relationships with Asia.

Project criteria:

• feature-length fiction film (for theatrical release) with strong potential to find co-producers and/or  attract Asian private financiers. We are open to any genre and type of project (from arthouse to commercial projects)
• preferably a minimum of 20% should be in place- applicants must be the lead producer of the submitted project
• producer must have completed at least one film released in the last 3 years (theatrically, TV, DVD, VOD)
• 1st draft of the script must be available in English for the workshop 

Page last updated 14 December 2015