Drift

The Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) has greenlit five very different projects in its June support round. Grid Film’s animation short Drift, a team productions’ The Pond, indie game developer Tale of Tales’ Luxuria Superbia and Off World’s documentaries My Ras Tafari Roots and The Age of Death were confirmed for production support. In total, more than €375,000 was awarded.

Brussels-based production outfit Off World leads the pack with no fewer than two greenlit projects. In the medium-length documentary My Ras Tafari Roots, director David Verhaeghe goes off to find the truth behind an age-old family mystery: was his Italian grandmother the lovechild of legendary Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie?

The Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) confirmed support for eight animation projects in its recent subsidy round. The list might not be endless, the projects are promising with several new titles from production outfit Lunanime, known for their work on A Cat in Paris, and a big-budget sequel to Sammy’s Adventures by nWave.

Kris Mergan and Geert Vandenbroele, who created the creative animated short Good News, are to receive funding to start producing their next animated short Diamond. Production outfit Lunanime can also start on two of its projects: Bram Mondy’sRapsodie en rose and Rémi Vandenitte’s Betty Blues. Finally, Ben Stassen of nWave (Fly Me to the Moon) directs and produces the sequel to his animated b.o. hitSammy’s Adventures: the Secret Passage, titled Sammy 2.