WHEN EAST MEETS WEST is a co-production platform organised in Trieste by Friuli Venezia Giulia Film Commission. It brings together over 450 producers, financiers, decision makers and film professionals from more than 35 countries. The East & West double focus is based on two complementary ideas: on the one hand, every year the call for entries will be open to all producers from Europe and North/Latin America who are developing a project with international co-production potential, preferably with one of the countries in focus; on the other hand, WEMW will ensure the presence of a large delegation of key decision makers, financiers, producers and film professionals from each spotlight territory so to maximise the co-production, financing and distribution opportunities for all selected projects. The programme includes different actions: WEMW CO-PRODUCTION FORUM, FIRST CUT LAB, LAST STOP TRIESTE.
Agata Wieczorek
Writer-director
Wieczorek is a Polish-origin artist currently living and working in France. Her practice evolves between film and photography while moving between constructed documentary and documented fiction.
She graduated from the National Film School in Lodz, Poland (MFA with Distinction 2017-2020), where she studied photography and cinematography, and from the Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz (MFA with Distinction 2011-2016), where she studied intaglio printing techniques and photography. From 2020 she was an artist in residence at Le Fresnoy – Studio national (FR), which she graduated in 2022.
Her artistic and filmic work has been showcased internationally, in art institutions and film festivals (Art Basel Miami, US – The Finnish Museum of Photography, FI – Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, JP- Gérardmer Film Festival, FR – NEW HORIZONS Int Film Festival, PL – among others), and awarded (Grand Prix: WENCH Int Film Festival – Grand Prix: CourtMétrange Film Festival 2022 – Le Prix Analix Forever 2021, Geneva, CHE).
She currently works on her first feature film with Futur Antérieur Productions (Paris, FR)
JOY
5 year-old Sarah observes her Mother’s body changing upon giving birth to baby Joy. Fascination with woman’s corporeality brings Sarah to an unsettling observation: the arrival of the baby does not bring the expected happiness. Sarah’s quest to regain Mother’s joy confronts the little girl with women’s untold experiences.
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