The highly-anticipated Tribeca Creators Market is almost here, and IndieWire can reveal the buzzy projects selected for the three-day, invitation-only industry marketplace event. The 2025 Tribeca Festival, presented by Okx, has unveiled the slate of features, series, and audio projects that were chosen to be part of the Creators Market, in partnership with Indeed.
The Tribeca Creators Market will take place from June 9 to 11, and connect rising filmmakers and content creators with industry executives, financiers, and distributors to foster the production of indie projects. This year marks the first-ever open submissions call for the Works in Progress showcase; 12 narrative and documentary filmmakers were selected to preview their feature or episodic projects to financiers, festival programmers, and producers. Past Works in Progress alums include Cristian Carretero and Lorraine Jones Molina, who are debuting their “Esta Isla” during the 2025 Tribeca Festival, and Raul Paz-Pastrana, who helmed Tribeca pick “Backside.”
“Tribeca is proud to...
The Tribeca Creators Market will take place from June 9 to 11, and connect rising filmmakers and content creators with industry executives, financiers, and distributors to foster the production of indie projects. This year marks the first-ever open submissions call for the Works in Progress showcase; 12 narrative and documentary filmmakers were selected to preview their feature or episodic projects to financiers, festival programmers, and producers. Past Works in Progress alums include Cristian Carretero and Lorraine Jones Molina, who are debuting their “Esta Isla” during the 2025 Tribeca Festival, and Raul Paz-Pastrana, who helmed Tribeca pick “Backside.”
“Tribeca is proud to...
- 5/16/2025
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Agora, the industry section of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, announced its awards Wednesday, with Alexa Bakony’s “Highways of Hope” taking the Iefta Award for Best Documentary in Development, accompanied by a 10,000 euro cash prize.
The film, produced by Gábor Osváth and Veronika Gál of Filmfabriq in Hungary, centers on Gulnaz, a 21-year-old Muslim woman from India, who drives trucks across Europe. The jury said: “This project led by a young female team promises to cross European borders and break Indian stereotypes about Muslim minorities through an energetic story of emancipation. We were captivated by the main character facing a darkening world with youthful joyfulness and optimism.”
A special mention was given by the jury to “Bugboy,” directed by Lucas Paleocrassas, and produced by Rea Apostolides of Anemon in Greece. The project is about the relationship between a boy and an insect, which reveals the transformative power of nature. The...
The film, produced by Gábor Osváth and Veronika Gál of Filmfabriq in Hungary, centers on Gulnaz, a 21-year-old Muslim woman from India, who drives trucks across Europe. The jury said: “This project led by a young female team promises to cross European borders and break Indian stereotypes about Muslim minorities through an energetic story of emancipation. We were captivated by the main character facing a darkening world with youthful joyfulness and optimism.”
A special mention was given by the jury to “Bugboy,” directed by Lucas Paleocrassas, and produced by Rea Apostolides of Anemon in Greece. The project is about the relationship between a boy and an insect, which reveals the transformative power of nature. The...
- 3/12/2025
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Three fiction features and two documentary films were presented to an industry audience at the Cannes Film Market as part of its Thessaloniki Goes to Cannes, the Cannes Film Market’s Works-in-Progress showcase, on May 23.
“Panellinion”
Described as a movie about obsession, madness and loneliness, “Panellinion” is the debut documentary feature of Spyros Mantzavinos and Kostas Antarachas.
The film is named after a coffee-house for passionate chess players in the heart of Athens, which has become a refuge for those who suffocate in modern life. Giannis, the owner, hates chess, but has a fatherly affection for his regulars. Through footage shot in Super8 and black and white, an eclectic crowd that includes scientists, artists and pensioners tell the story of the place which will soon be a memory of the past as Giannis prepares to retire.
Producer Leonidas Konstantarakos of Athens-based Alaska Films told Variety: “We want to use the...
“Panellinion”
Described as a movie about obsession, madness and loneliness, “Panellinion” is the debut documentary feature of Spyros Mantzavinos and Kostas Antarachas.
The film is named after a coffee-house for passionate chess players in the heart of Athens, which has become a refuge for those who suffocate in modern life. Giannis, the owner, hates chess, but has a fatherly affection for his regulars. Through footage shot in Super8 and black and white, an eclectic crowd that includes scientists, artists and pensioners tell the story of the place which will soon be a memory of the past as Giannis prepares to retire.
Producer Leonidas Konstantarakos of Athens-based Alaska Films told Variety: “We want to use the...
- 5/25/2022
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
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