The Fondazione Prada has unveiled the feature film projects selected for the first funding round of its new film fund.
Launched during the Venice Film Festival last September, Fondazione Prada Film Fund marks a new phase in the Italian fashion’s house 20-year relationship with cinema, which sees it get behind feature films for the first time.
The inaugural 14 projects include upcoming projects by Tatiana Huezo, Apichatpong Weerasethakul & Levan Akin.
Four of the projects are in development, nine are in production and one is in post-production. The projects involve production companies active in 26 countries across 5 continents and span a wide range of genres. They are authored by 6 women and 8 men, and include 2 debut features.
“The quality and experimentation of the selected projects demonstrate the dynamic nature and variety that
characterize contemporary independent cinema,” said Miuccia Prada, President and Director of the Fondazione.
“With the Film Fund we aim to promote the work of authors, especially those who most need concrete support to translate their vision into reality. Moving forward, Fondazione Prada intends to continue promoting the idea of afree, demanding, and visionary cinema by building a stronger dialogue with those who conceive, develop, and produce films.”
The selected projects are:
THE SLEEPING WOMAN – Daria Martin (United Kingdom, Ireland)
AMARCORD ’90 (working title) – Yuri Ancarani (Italy) – Phase: Development
CAPTIONS WILL BE NEEDED – Natalia Almada (Mexico, United States) – Phase:
Production
COSMOFONIA – Verena Paravel (France, United Kingdom) – Phase: Development GALERNA – Tatiana Huezo (Mexico, Spain, Switzerland) – Phase: Production
JENJIRA’S MAGNIFICENT DREAM – Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Colombia, the
Netherlands, France, Mexico, Thailand) – Phase: Production
LAS ITALIANAS – Laura Citarella (Argentina, France, Germany, Italy) – Phase:
Development
MULATRESSE SOLITUDE – Baloji (Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, South
Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo) – Phase: Production
ON LAND AND SEA – Hlynur Pálmason (Denmark, Iceland, France, Finland, Sweden) –
Phase: Production
SUMMER IN HEAT – Levan Akin (Sweden, Germany, France) – Phase: Production
THE COSTUME – Corneliu Porumboiu (France, Germany, Romania) – Phase: Production
THE DIFFICULT BRIDE – Rubaiyat Hossain (Bangladesh, France, Portugal, Norwey,
Germany) – Phase: Post-production
THE HALLUCINATIONS – Andrea Gatopoulos (France, Italy, Greece) – Phase:
Development
THE HUMAN PURGE – Eduardo Williams (Argentina) – Phase: Production
THE SLEEPING WOMAN – Daria Martin (United Kingdom, Ireland) – Phase: Production
