India’s Manjeet Singh to pitch for funds for film at Cannes

New Delhi: Two projects from Asia including one from India are among the 15 new works selected to take part in this year‘s Atelier, part of the Cannes Film Festival‘s Cinefondation.

Ciao Ciao by Song Chuan from China and Chenu by filmmaker Manjeet Singh from India will be participating, though full details will be announced next month.

The aim of the exercise is to bring about creative films and encourage a new generation of talent all over the world. It offers its participants access to international co-production.

So far, 83 projects have been completed out of 126 projects presented over the last eight years and 29 are currently in pre-production.