MUMBAI: At the Locarno Film Festival‘s 2009 Open Doors Factory, Eleven Flowers, a film directed by Wang Xiaoshuai and produced by Isabelle Glachant, was awarded a grant of $46,000 (50,000 swiss francs) by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), has also given development grants to two other projects namely Bus No. 8 and Don‘t Expect Praises. The two grants were each worth $14,000 (15,000 swiss francs).
The four-day Open Doors co-production lab, which features a different filmmaking region each year, this year focused on Greater China with 12 projects selected out of 114 applications from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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