Agora, the industry section of the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (TIDF), has named the 14 projects which will take part in the Pitching Forum, to be held from March 7th to 15th.
Created in 1999, Agora is a major event for producing and financing international documentary projects from Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Every year the Pitching Forum presents several awards, including the IEFTA Award for Best Documentary in Development (worth €10,000), the Onassis Award (€5,000) and the ERT Award for Greek projects (€2,000).
Among this year’s selected projects: Lefteris Charitos’ Born Greek – Made American (Greece, United States), Hazal Hanquet’s My Aunties (Turkey), Kinda Kurdi’s Memoirs of Jerusalem (Jordan, United Kingdom) and Anthoniy Hristov’s Life on Pause (Bulgaria).
