World Premiere of "ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL" is at IDFA (www.idfa.nl) on November 25th, 2008. The film has been selected for Joris Ivens Competition.
Cara Mertes from the Sundance Institute decided to award "On Tha Way to School". This prestigious award marks the important professional relationship established between Greenhouse and the Sundance Institute and the uncompromising support Greenhouse is receiving from one of the most significant organizations in the international documentary industry.
"The Sundance Documentary Film Program is honored to support talented artists from around the world with funding at critical moments in their filmmaking to ensure the creation and completion of these important films,” said Cara Mertes, Director of the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program. ”This is an exceptional docket of documentary films with major work from established and emerging filmmakers. The films funded today reflect the Documentary Film Program’s interest in helping filmmakers tell the stories of our changing world, including films with the potential to transform it."
23-28 October 2007
"On the Way to School" has been selected best project in Greenhouse Pitching Forum.
The 13 filmmakers, who participated in the third seminar in Turkey, represent 6 MEDA countries: Algeria, Tunisia, Palestine, Turkey, Jordan and Israel.
In the framework of this seminar we held a pitching workshop, moderated by Philippe Van Meerbeeck, Commissioning Editor at VRT, Belgium.
The participants worked with Paul Pauwels, Director of the European Television Management Academy, who prepared them for the pitching forum. They also worked with their personal mentors: John Appel from the Netherlands, Nenad Puhovsky from Croatia, Erez Laufer from Israel and Serge Gordey from France, creating trailers for their projects and completing their production packages, to be presented during the pitching forum.
Personal meetings were held between each of the participants and the panel members the day after the forum. In this framework, they discussed further support options and future collaborations with TV Stations and film funds, producers and distributors.
