ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL has been awarded in the main competition of Adana
Golden Boll Film Festival (in the Feature Film Competition) which is
one of the Turkey's major national
film festivals:
- YILMAZ GÜNEY Grand Jury Price
- Turkish Film Critics's Prize (Given to the best Turkish film in the
main competition).
The Greenhouse' 12 panel members of the Third Pitching Forum that took place in Izmir, Turkey on March 2009 selected "Voice of My Father" by Zeynel Dogan & Melisa Onel from Turkey to the best Greenhouse' third year project. Claire Aguilar, Vice President of Programming for ITVS (USA), awarded the filmmakers with a $15,000 development grant.
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.
