Boghossian Foundation and Fondation Liban Cinema are pleased to launch for the 5th consecutive year, the « Coup de Coeur Award » for the distribution of a Lebanese film.
The Coup de Coeur Award 2022 aims at rewarding a Lebanese feature narrative/documentary film, that has at least a first cut but still needs to finish any stage of the post-production, whether to lock the image, or the sound editing/mixing or the color correction.
The Coup de Coeur Award is a cash prize of $ 10,000 and the second prize is an artist residency at Villa Empain-Brussels for one artist / filmmaker to develop his/her next film project.
Eligibility’s conditions:
– The film must be Lebanese, with a Lebanese director and a Lebanese producer or co-producer.
– The film must be a feature film of at least 70 minutes: fiction or documentary
– The film must be in the final stage of the post-production with at least a first editing cut.
– The prize must help the filmmaker and the producer to finish the post-production of the film.
– The Boghossian Foundation and Fondation Liban Cinema’s logos must appear in the end credits of the winning film.
– The Boghossian Foundation and Fondation Liban Cinema will each keep a copy of the winning film for non-commercial use.
Required documents:
- A Financial Plan of the film.
- A note of intent from the producer explaining his interest in the prize
- An action plan and a detailed budget for the $ 10,000
- The film in its current stage uploaded on Vimeo with a private link.
Deadline to submit: September 5, 2022
Please send your documents and the Vimeo link on both e-mail addresses:
[email protected]
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A jury of Lebanese and international professionals will meet in September to deliberate.
The results will be announced in October 2022.