Inside Venice Gap Financing 2023: GARDEN ALCHEMY (Tindrum production, The Animation Workshop)

Agnese Pietrobon

A final article to wrap up XRMust's overview on the Venice Gap-Financing 2023, the part of the Venice Production Bridge that, during the 80th Venice International Film Festival, will offer selected European and International projects the opportunity to close their international financing, through one-to-one meetings with international decision-makers. In the previous articles we met the […]

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