The FB Co-Production Market is designed to bring together film professionals in order to encourage opportunities for international co-production and to contribute actively to the dynamism of the South Asian film industry. It is a four-day event where delegates are provided with the opportunity to meet, formally and informally with international producers, sales agents, distributors as well as broadcasting and funding representatives active in the field of co-production. The agenda is to draw a variety of industry professionals from across the globe, looking out for international collaborations and good business contacts.

The FB Co-Production Market team provides intensive individual support and sets up meetings for delegates according to the availability of both. Upon arrival, each delegate receives his own customised meeting schedule. In 15-minute long individual meetings, these projects can be pitched to potential partners for finance, distribution, and artistic support.

Projects such as As the River Flows (Bidyut Kotoky), Ocean of an Old Man (Rajesh Shera), Shor (Raj Nidimoru & Krishna DK), That Girl in Yellow Boots (Anurag Kashyap), He (Mangesh Joshi), Ceylon (Santosh Sivan), I Am (Onir & Sanjay Suri), Love, Sex Aur Dhoka (Dibakar Banerjee), The Return of Tiger (Mike H Pandey), Goodbye Kathmandu (Nabin Subba, Nepal), Karma (Prasanna Jayakody, Sri Lanka), Television (Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, Bangladesh), Chhota Aadmi (Ajitpal Singh), Deool (Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni), Shanghai (Dibakar Banerjee) were some of the projects presented in previous FB editions.

The FB 2011 edition saw the introduction of 27 South Asian stories from across the globe including an Independent Filmmaker Project, USA and four projects from the Israel Film Fund. Some projects presented this year included Azmaish (Trial) by Sabiha Sumar (Afghanistan), Diary of a Housewife by Rubaiyat Hossain, (Bangladesh), Story from the Dragon Kingdom by Ugyen Wangdi (Bhutan), The Pollutant by Prakash Belawadi (Sweden), Tigers by Danis Tanovic (France), Il Vegetariano by Roberto San Pietro (Italy), Noor -the Princess Spy by Ketan Mehta (India), and Boy and the Bandits by Dibakar Banerjee (India) among others.

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."