The winners of the Film Support Fund at the 23rd edition of IndieLisboa were announced at the Industry Dinner on May 5. The twelve selected projects presented their pitches to an international jury composed of:
Antoine Thirion (critic, writer, and programmer)
Doris Bauer (programmer and co-director of the Vienna Shorts festival)
Javier Estrada (critic and co-director of the Valladolid Film Festival)
The jury awarded the following prizes:
Lusófona University of Humanities and Technologies (ULHT)
Financial support of €1,500 for a film project, under the European programs FilmEU+ and C-Accelerate+
— O Filme da Memória, by Salomón Pérez
GDA Foundation
€6,000 in financial support for the creation of original music, awarded to one feature film (€4,000) and one short film (€2,000)
— Bukra, by Diana Antunes
— Banho Santo, by Marcelo Pereira
Dmix Collective
Sound post-production services for a feature film and a short film
— Karl Marx, Luanda, by Kiluanji Kia Henda
— Borda d’Água, by Kate Saragaço-Gomes
Bertini Colors
Image post-production (2 days of color grading and colorist work)
— Borda d’Água, by Kate Saragaço-Gomes
Music Library & SFX
Award for music supervision and rights licensing (feature and short films), presented by Arturo Olea, Peter Stephens, and Rita Horta
— Big Fuck, by Tiago Siopa
— Bukra, by Diana Antunes
The Film Support Fund is organized by IndieLisboa in collaboration with Dmix Collective, Bertini Colors, the GDA Foundation, Portugal Film, and the Lusófona University of Humanities and Technologies.