Investors Circle 2024
This year’s event featured panels with leading international experts in film and media financing. The panels were followed by a private pitching session showasing ten grand-scale film projects — never before revealed — from acclaimed directors. Carefully selected for their potential to captivate audiences and investors alike, these projects, with budgets ranging from one to over 20 million euros, represent a diverse array of storytelling and creative visions.
The presence of lead producers and internationally renowned directors lent an air of exclusivity as they unveiled their projects to a select audience of VIP investors, who had the exclusive opportunity to discover these 10 anticipated projects for the first time.
The 2024 selection of film projects revealed:
Red Mist Descending
directed by Rakhshan Banietemad (Iran)
produced by Mina Kershavarz at MiniDoc Film Production
Tear Gas
directed by Uta Beria (Georgia)
produced by Anna Khazaradze and Nino Chichua at 1991 productions
Renoir
directed by Chie Hayakawa (Japan)
produced by Eiko Mizuno-Gray and Jason Gray at Loaded Films
Goliath
directed by Lorcan Finnegan (Ireland)
produced by Brunella Cocchiglia at Lovely Productions
Yes
directed by Nadav Lapid (Israel)
produced by Judith Lou Levy at Les Films du Bal
Heysel 85
directed by Teodora Ana Mihai (Romania / Belgium)
produced by Hans Everaert at Menuetto
The Entertainment System is Down
directed by Ruben Östlund (Sweden)
produced by Erik Hemmendorff at Plattform Produktion and Philippe Bober at Coproduction Office
One Year of School
directed by Laura Samani (Italy)
produced by Nadia Trevisan at Nefertiti Film
Hot Spot
directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska (Poland)
produced by Klaudia Smieja at Madants
Death Has No Master
directed by Jorge Thielen Armand (Venezuela)
produced by Stefano Centini at Volos Films Italia SRL
2024 ArteKino International Award
As part of the 2024 Investors Circle, the ArteKino Foundation proudly offered a €10,000 prize to the main producer of one of the selected projects. The winner was chosen by a jury of five cinephiles from diverse backgrounds.
The 2024 ArteKino International Award went to Nadia Trevisan of Nefertiti Film, the producer behind One Year of School, directed by Laura Samani (Italy).
