Producers upbeat at Rotterdam's CineMart

ROTTERDAM -- No-one at CineMart states the crisis is finished, however it's difficult to get a glum producer within the Rotterdam Film Festival's co-production market, which wrapped Wednesday with honours to some photos. "Duncharon," Greek helmer Athina Rachel Tsangari's follow-around "Attenberg," won the ten,000 ($13,000) Arte France Cinema prize for top project. The $39,500 Eurimages prize for top co-production getting a European partner visited Serbian debut helmer Nikola Ljuca's "Humidity." "Everybody knows the problem in the market at this time and we've been delighted while using positive reaction we've had," mentioned Christine Alderson of Ipso Facto Films, who's within the mart with debut helmer Andrew Hulme's "Snow in Paradise," of a violent guy who turns to Islam in London's East Finish. Tale's mix-over potential inside an art-house market was one attraction, she mentioned. "People really interact with the project and how we're trying to ensure it is.In . Following CineMart contacts, her goal is always to ink a sales deal and choose co-producers with the finish in the Berlinale. Chelsea Winstanley, of latest Zealand's Defender Films, found Rotterdam trying to find German or Austrian co-producers for Taika Waititi's "Jojo Rabbit," of a 10-year-old boy in war time Vienna who aspires being our planet's best Nazi. The response remains very positive, she mentioned. "We're inside the fortunate position of getting a chance to choose." Frans van Gestel of Topkapi Films, creating Urszula Antoniak's "Nude Area," also provides an entire contacts book. "After CineMart just about everyone has the partners you need to have attached, and several probably a telemarketer.Inch Bigger names inside the mart, for instance Ruben Ostlund and Kelly Reichardt, predictably attracted attention. But most likely probably the most buzzed about projects was Indian helmer Ritesh Batra's debut, "The Lunch Box," which registered Paris-based Cedomir Kolar just like a co-producer. CineMart's first 3d project, Alexei Popogrebsky's "Lost Rooms," also came interest. "It absolutely was a bit of the gamble for people, because lots of people might believe it is not only a CineMart project, nevertheless it actually was popular," mentioned Jacobine van der Vloed, the mart's senior coordinator. Pic joins Ostlund's "Tourist" and "Jojo Rabbit" round the Rotterdam-Berlinale Express, which inspires projects at Berlin's European Film Market. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com