‘My Favourite Cake,’ Girls Will Be Girls’ Win Berlinale Co-Production Market Awards
variety.comNaman Ramachandran Projects from France-Iran and India were the big winners at this year’s Berlinale Co-Production Market, which is part of the European Film Market.The Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, endowed with €20,000 ($22,628), went to the producers of Caractères Productions from France, and Honare Khiyal from Iran for their project “My Favourite Cake” by directors Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghaddam.
The VFF Talent Highlight Award with prize money of €10,000 went to director Shuchi Talati’s “Girls Will Be Girls.” The film is to be produced by Pushing Buttons Studios, an outfit founded by Indian actors Ali Fazal (“Death on the Nile”) and Richa Chadha (“Gangs of Wasseypur”) and co-produced by Sanjay Gulati and Pooja Chauhan of Crawling Angel Films (2020 Berlinale selection “The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs”) and Claire Chassagne of Dolce Vita Films (2019 Venice and Cairo winner “A Son”).
The award is presented annually by the VFF — Copyright Agency of Film and TV Producers — and promotes one promising young project from the Talent Project Market organized by the Berlinale Co-Production Market in cooperation with Berlinale Talents.
The project was pitched at the market by Chauhan.Awards of €1,000 each went to the producers Kobi Mizrahi of KM Productions, Israel, for “Available Now” (director: Assaf Machnes) and Bárbara Defanti of Sobretudo Produção, Brazil, for “Cachalote” (director: Angelo Defanti).
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