Filmmakers from Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia and Myanmar will be in focus at this year's Open Doors section of the Locarno International Film Festival. Details:
, which won the Grand Prix in Cannes last year. Pakistani filmmaker Hamza Bangash, winner of the 2018 Open Door Award for excellence, won top honors at the 2020 Locarno Shorts Weeks Award for his 24 minute drama"In recent years, the Open Doors section has shown itself to be a formidable laboratory for exploring new avenues to support cinema from every latitude," said Locarno artistic director Lili Hinstin.
Alongside the industry exposure, the Open Doors program supplies development grants for individual projects. The main Open Doors Grant, backed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and sponsors including Swiss film fund Visions Sud Est and the Swiss City of Bellinzona, will provide $71,670 in development funding to a selection of projects this year, a significant increase on previous grants.
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