Story Market

The sales event of the film projects, or Story Market, will be held in August 2007.

Lapin Lisä culminates in the Story Market in Tornio in August. A maximum of 8 projects selected in March in the Story Pipe will participate in the sales event.

The sales event will consist of two parts: public pitching and private discussions. In the morning the projects that participated in the Package- workshops and that have a production company are pitched to the film-financiers under the guidance of a director, (a scriptwriter) and a producer. It is possible for scripts that don't have a production company to be pitched for script funding. In the afternoon it is possible to meet the film-financiers face to face and discuss the projects.

The most important national film-financiers: the Finnish Film Foundation (SES), The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture (AVEK) and YLE are committed to the event. The aim of pitching is that film-financiers get to know Lappish film talent and possibly decide to fund a film project (script funding, preliminary funding, or subsidies).

Subsequently scriptwriters who don't have a production company may participate in the private discussions of the sales event. And Lappish production companies with the project's scriptwriter / director may be involved with the actual pitching. Production companies from Lapland and elsewhere are free to join the sales event.

Programme of the Story Market:

In the morning:
Open short presentation round. Project pitching which involves a Lappish production company (about 15 minute sales pitch plus 15 minute discussion).

In the afternoon:
Personal discussion about the film projects with the film-financiers and production companies. The production companies that have pitched and the selected scriptwriters meet film-financiers. Scriptwriters without production companies have an opportunity to privately meet film-financiers and agents of the production companies.

In the afternoon and in evening:
Award-ceremony and common evening entertainment.

Prizes of the Story Market

The Story Market rewards the scripts and film projects that have the best capacity to move ahead to production (the judgement involves a beforehand delivered script or sales package of the film project as well as the sales pitch and the private meeting). Prizes at the Story Market are altogether worth 4000 euros.