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New Head of Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund Tamara Tatishvili Vows to ‘Revamp and Revise All Schemes’
Tamara Tatishvili’s ambition is to 'revamp and revise all schemes,' while also focusing on how to best streamline their application process.
“I will use the festival to connect to professionals outside of IFFR, hosting informal think tank meetings with industry professionals, producers and sales agents within a close environment to see what their observations and ideas are, and how this could feed into the future thinking strategies of Hubert Bals Fund,” she tells Variety. Recent festival hits supported by the fund include Amanda Nell Eu’s “Tiger Stripes,” Wang Bing’s “Youth (Spring)” and Rodrigo Moreno’s “The Delinquents.” Three HBF-backed films are playing this year’s IFFR: Elene Naveriani’s “Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry,” Toma Selivanova’s “Dolomite and Ash” and Julia De Simone’s “Praia Formosa.” To work on a long-term strategy for the fund is next on Tatishvili’s to-do list, but she is hoping to take 2024 as a “year of thinking.” “I’m not rushing, I’m not going to revolutionize anything in 24 hours.
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