Greenhouse Fourth Year Pitching Forum ends with Great Success!!!
Greenhouse' Final Pitching Forum Culminated with a $15,000 DEVELOPMENT GRANT awarded by Claire Aguilar - ITVS to "5 Broken Cameras" from Palestine/Israel
The final pitching forum took place on December 12th in Izmir, Turkey. 10 prominent professionals from the international documentary industry attended the Greenhouse event, moderated by Paul Pauwels, Director of the European Television Management Academy.
Mariam Mekiwi & Mohamed El Assyouti Pitching their project "Colony"
Panel Members: Claire Aguilar, Marieanne Bergmann & Alex Szalat
Amongst the 10 panel members, Claire Aguilar: Vice President of Programming (ITVS) / USA; Marieanne Bergmann: Head Hamburg Film Fund Funding / Germany; Bruni Burres: Executive Producer – Pivot Pictures/International Center for Transitional Justice / USA; Gitte Hansen: First Hand Films / Switzerland; Tabitha Jackson: Editor, More4 – Channel 4 / United Kingdom; Simon Kilmurry: Executive Director, American Documentary | P.O.V./ USA; Margje de Koning: Responsible for the Television Department of IKON / The Netherlands; Adriek van Nieuwenhuijzen: Head of Industry Office (FORUM, Docs for Sale and IDFAcademy), The Netherlands; Leena Pasanen: Executive Producer/Coordinator of Programmes at YLE Fact and Culture / Finland; Alex Szalat: ARTE France / France.
13 projects were presented by Greenhouse' 24 filmmakers from Egypt, Israel, Turkey &Palestine.
At the end of the presentation the 10 panel members selected "5 Broken Cameras" by filmmakers Emad Burnat (Palestine) and Guy Davidi (Israel) as the best Greenhouse IV project. Claire Aguilar, Vice President of Programming for ITVS (USA), awarded the directors with a $15,000 development grant.
The day following the Pitching Forum, the filmmakers met in one-on-one meetings with the panel members, to further discuss possible cooperation and receive constructive feedback concerning their projects.
