Highlights of the Zurich Market initiative
Zurich Market : Opportunity for Indie Film Sales with Zurich Screenings.
The Zurich Film Festival, together with the San Sebastián Film Festival organizes a film market for independent productions. The aim of the Zurich Market initiative is to revive the film business and to bring together the most important players in Zurich.
The market takes place physically in Zurich from Friday, September 25, to Monday, September 28. The approximately 20 new titles will be presented to interested buyers and festival programmers in dedicated market screenings. International sales outlets will travel to Zurich to present and sell their films at the Zurich Market. "Due to the ongoing global pandemic, many independent films with artistic merit were unable to hold market premieres and now threaten to remain without theatrical release," explains Christian Jungen, Artistic Director of the Zurich Film Festival. "We want to help them find a distributor and are therefore organizing the first Zurich Market together with our partner festival San Sebastián." The approximately 20 titles that will be shown at the Market are highly anticipated productions that have not yet had any market premieres.
"We want this initiative to serve as an opportunity for films unable to screen, to be shown to an audience of buyers and distributors and to do our bit in revitalizing the global film industry. We would also like to thank our friends at the Zurich Film Festival for the collaboration in this forward-looking initiative, starting this year", emphasizes José Luis Rebordinos, Director of the San Sebastián Film Festival, which provides strategic support to the market, but will not host a physical event. Zurich Market Provides Opportunity for Indie Film Sales
- 20 new titles receive market premiere
- Dedicated market screenings in Zurich
- Zurich Summit Conference
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