Every year Film Bazaar’s Co-Production Market invites a select number of directors/producers to present their projects to co-producers, funders, distributors, sales agents and other financial partners from across the world.

Co-Production Market is held concurrent to IFFI in Goa for four days in a highly productive yet informal atmosphere.

Once the project selection is completed, the Film Bazaar team creates a dossier of information on the selected projects. A master list of attending guest list is put up on the website. With their unique login and password, participants can set up meetings in advance. In addition, the Film Bazaar team exclusively dedicated, provides intensive individual support, helps in setting up these meetings during the Co-Production Market. The accredited guests have a free access to all Film Bazaar activities - Work-in-Progress Lab, Industry Screenings and Knowledge Series as well as access to IFFI.

Please refer to the application form for more details and application directions.

Important Note - Please read the Regulations | Information of the Co-production Market along with FAQs.

The selection criteria:

1. The most important criteria for selection are quality and viability of the plan along with demonstrable talent of director/and producer.
2. The projects can be at any stages of production however the project must be recent.

Eligibility:

1. Only projects that have 25% of their finance in place are eligible to apply. Financiers of a project must send in a letter of intent on their letterhead stating financial commitment towards the said project. Please Note – Applications without financiers attached WILL NOT be eligible for the Co-production Market
2. Mainly feature films with minimum duration of 70 mins
3. The project can be from anywhere in the world dealing with South Asian story
4. For which a complete script is available during the market
5. Projects which are new and recent
6. With a potential international market
7. Which have producer and director attached

Specific Conditions:

1. Entry fee of INR 2,000/- (Rupees Two Thousand Only)
2. None of the submitted material can be returned to the sender.
3. Once the project is selected, at least one representative of the project should be present for all four days (November 21 - 24, 2012) of the market.
4. Film Bazaar Co-Production Market requires a line or a logo in the credits of the film once finalized. The following sentence must be mentioned in the credits: [film title] has been presented at the co-production Market of Film Bazaar. Logo can be sent on request.

How to apply/entry submission deadline: September 30, 2012

In order to make a sound selection, Film Bazaar Co-production Market expects the applicants to provide the following documents in the application:

1. Synopsis (max – 250 words)
2. Treatment of the story (story outline) as it plays out in the script [8 | 10 pages] Please Note: Full scripts will not be accepted
3. Director’s note of intent | statement (max – 250 words)
4. Photo of the Director (shall be asked for if project is selected) *
5. Photo of the Producer (shall be asked for if project is selected) *
6. Letter of commitment of Financiers | Partners towards the project **
7. Finance plan including Co-production expectations
8. Producer’s statement of intent | goals for the Co-production Market

* Film Bazaar might request for a high-resolution photograph (300 dpi) of the Director and Producer of the project at a later date.

**  Projects that have 25% of their finance in place are eligible to apply. Financier to a project must send in a letter of intent on their letterhead stating financial commitment towards the said project. Please note – Applications without financiers attached WILL NOT be eligible for the Co-production Market.

Applications will be considered incomplete without the submission of the above documents and shall not be considered. More information may be sought from an applicant at a later stage if needed.

We may also ask for examples of their previous work, but the DVDs may not be sent along with your application. If requested, the DVD(s) of previous work should be sent to by post or courier to

National Film Development Corporation Ltd.
6th Floor, Discovery of India Building
Nehru Centre
Dr. Annie Besant Road
Worli
Mumbai 400018

Please mention ‘Without commercial value; for cultural purpose only’

The Incredible India Award

The Incredible India Award was presented to the best project in the Co-Production Market this year. A sum of 10.00 Lakhs was extended by the Ministry of Tourism for a deserving project presented at FB 2011 Co-Production Market towards the project’s development.

Chauranga won the Incredible India Award at FB 2011, the film will be directed by writer-director Bikas Mishra and produced by Anticlock films an independent production company set up by director-producer Onir and actor-producer Sanjay Suri.

Bikas Mishra, director, Chauranga shares his thoughts on the Co-Production Market – "The Co-Production Market was immensely fruitful for our project mainly due to the Incredible India Award. We are now in the position to start the Pre-Production work on the film, which is a great start for us immediately after the conclusion of the market. Also, the co-production market is where we had our meeting with the representative of the Goteborg International Film Festival Fund, so the market helped us connect with the Film Fund, and the funding we have received from GIFFF is the off-shoot of the meetings at the market.".

The DFM will organize meetings for the selected filmmaker with international and regional producers, funders, distributors and sales agents with the aim of finding potential production partners.  The filmmaker will also get the opportunity to explore additional networking, development and funding possibilities with the industry professionals attending the festival.

Cinemart, Rotterdam

Four  projects from Co-Production Market and Work-in-Progress Lab are selected to attend Producers Lab, CineMart Rotterdam.

Independent Film Project

The IFP (Independent Film Project) is the oldest and largest forum in the United States of America for the discovery of new projects in developement and new voices in the independent film scene. IFP takes place in New York from Spetember 16 - 20.

Up to two projects are taken to the No Borders International Co-production Market, where accreditation of one Film Bazaar representative is given to the Independent Film Week. IFP schedules meetings for these two projects with industry representatives participating in No Borders and overall in the Independent FIlm Week. An annual IFP Community Membership is also provided.