supporting partner

CineLink is the industry section of the Sarajevo Film Festival. Its activities are spread trough out the year and are designed to meet the current needs and expectations of Southeast Europe’s film industry in reshaping.

Series of workshops concentrating on script development, financing and marketing that producers and authors of selected feature-fiction projects undertake before presenting their projects at the CineLink Market. The workshops take place in Sarajevo every April and June.
Taking place during the last three days of Sarajevo Film Festival, every August CineLink Co-production Market presents the best of feature fiction projects in preparation by both emerging and already acclaimed authors from Southeast Europe.

Market is based on the CineMart model, using prescheduled ‘’one to one’’ meetings in order to link the projects with potential partners. It attracts over 300 delegates from all film industry sectors, allowing the authors and producers to close the entire structure of their projects at one place.

In 2008, CineLink, the industry section of the Sarajevo Film Festival, launches of a new industry service: CineLink Work In Progress  This new service is a pilot project of CineLink and presents films that currently are in the stage of postproduction. It has been designed to promote selected, outstanding films from the region and to secure their international circulation. It is a complementary element to CineLink, which showcases feature projects in development and preproduction.

Three projects from CineLink selection are each awarded with 10 000 EUR in cash, plus 2 500 EUR in services of our sponsors. One of the producers receives a prestigious EAVE scholarship, allowing him/her further development of the project on the highest possible level.