Filmmaker Uta Beria awarded Arras Days French development grant
Film director Uta Beria (middle) received the production grant while his recent feature ‘Negative Numbers’ had its world premiere at the French festival. Photo: Léa Rener/Arras Film Festival.
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Film director Uta Beria has been awarded the development grant of Arras Days, a platform of the Arras Film Festival in France, for his in-progress work Love in the Time of Riot.
The young creative, whose feature Negative Numbers premiered in the festival’s European Competition, received €7,500 in grant for the project on the weekend.
Based on screenplay by the director, the latest film will follow two young protesters developing a relationship following a chance encounter at a demonstration.
The fireworks launched by the demonstrators create a romantic atmosphere for Elene and Andro, and they start kissing. But the special forces begin to use rubber bullets, and Elene and Andro lose one another in the chaos” - Cineuropa
[ARRASDAYS] Bourse #ArrasDays de 7 500 €
— Arras Film Festival (@ArrasFilmFestiv) November 17, 2019
???? LOVE IN THE TIME OF RIOT
un projet d'Uta Beria#ArrasFilm pic.twitter.com/qgDUK3ZAOj
Beria and his team will now benefit from the grant handed to them by producers Delphine Schmit and Pavlina Jeleva and journalist Patrice Carré.
The Arras Days platform has been held since 2012 and aims to support emerging creatives “spotted by the festival” early in the production stage of their projects. Their submissions are presented to three European cinema professionals working as a jury team to select eventual winners.
Audiences of the French festival were introduced to the Georgian filmmaker through Negative Numbers, a feature based on true events of rugby professionals bringing the game to young prisoners in a juvenile detention facility.
It is a debut feature for Beria on screenplay by the director and cinematography by Tato Kotetishvili.
The Arras Film Festival ran between November 8-18.