Womb receives Krzysztof Kieslowski award Benedek Fliegauf's cloning project, also in Atelier at Cannes, takes top prize in second annual ScripTeast competition.
Benedek Fliegauf's script Womb has received the second annual Krzysztof Kieslowski TVP Award for Best Eastern and Central European Script in Cannes.
Special Mention went to The Witness by Polish writers Mitko Panov and Wladyslaw Pasikowski.
Womb is set in the near future and deals with the moral and ethical issues surrounding human cloning. The project, Fliegauf's first in English, is produced by Inforg Studio of Hungary, with France's A.S.A.P. Films and the UK's Film4 co-producing and Berlin-based Razor Film serving as delegate producer.
The project is also backed by Womb Filmfoerderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, the MEDIA Programme, and the Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary.
Shooting on Womb will take place this summer somewhere in northern Europe.
Twelve feature scripts from eight Eastern European countries competed for this year's $15,757 (Euros 10,000) prize.
ScripTeast heads of studies Christian Routh and Tom Abrams were present in Cannes for the session, as were advisory board members Sandy Lieberson, Antonio Saura, Manfred Schmidt, and Dariusz Jablonski.
Benedek Fliegauf's script Womb has received the second annual Krzysztof Kieslowski TVP Award for Best Eastern and Central European Script in Cannes.
Special Mention went to The Witness by Polish writers Mitko Panov and Wladyslaw Pasikowski.
Womb is set in the near future and deals with the moral and ethical issues surrounding human cloning. The project, Fliegauf's first in English, is produced by Inforg Studio of Hungary, with France's A.S.A.P. Films and the UK's Film4 co-producing and Berlin-based Razor Film serving as delegate producer.
The project is also backed by Womb Filmfoerderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, the MEDIA Programme, and the Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary.
Shooting on Womb will take place this summer somewhere in northern Europe.
Twelve feature scripts from eight Eastern European countries competed for this year's $15,757 (Euros 10,000) prize.
ScripTeast heads of studies Christian Routh and Tom Abrams were present in Cannes for the session, as were advisory board members Sandy Lieberson, Antonio Saura, Manfred Schmidt, and Dariusz Jablonski.
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