LIM2023 | Under the noise…

The premises are strong and the ingredients are here…
Some very personal and original approaches to the genre as in the case of the Scottish Ciaran Lyons, the Portuguese Gonçalo Almeida, the Swiss Luca Zuberbühler and the Ukrainian Stanislav Bytiutskys. We can already imagine them telling each other scary stories, while walking back at night on the beaches of Plouneour-Brignogan, LIM’s headquarters in Brittany.
With the sound of the wind… maybe some of their words will reach as well those sitting at the Café du Port in the middle of a writing room, the Azeri Suad Gara, the Danish Christian Bonke, the British Alfie Baker and the French Théo Jourdain. They are discussing their main characters and the weight they carry.
Just a bit further, on the same huge beach covered in white sand, observing the incredible change of the landscape due to the tides, slightly lit by the moon, the Basque Ainhoa Gutiérrez del Pozo and the Australian Gabrielle Brady are murmuring about the impact of the ocean on their projects.
On the other side of the bay, hidden in the dunes, in a circle, we discover little by little the Belgians Hyun Lories and Sun Mee Cattrysse, the Croatian Lana Barić, the Norwegian Magnus Lysbakken, as well as the Ukrainians Kateryna Gornostai, Alina Matochkina and Tetiana Symon. They all seem to look at the moon, and share how for each of them intimacy becomes a weapon in times of turmoil. It’s as if they feel totally safe, daring to expand their world into new territories.

Throughout 2023, the development of all sixteen projects will be taken care of by four midwives / sparring-partners, four rare brains from all over Europe: Meritxell Colell Aparicio (Spain), Tony Grisoni (UK & Italy), Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk (Ukraine) and Vinca Wiedemann (Denmark).

In the same movement, LIM2023 has selected twelve “Development angels”, creative producers, development executives or script development professionals that want to benefit from the script development frame and tools LIM has developed over the years.
From every corner of our continent, they are Rebecca Anastasi, Nina M. Barbosa Blad, Marek Čermák, Penny Davies, Paul FitzSimons, Clara Kiskanc, Elena Martin, Gaia Meucci-Astley, Nicola Ofoego, Joyce Palmers, Gemma Pascual and Anja Wedell.

No sure recipe indeed, but so many inspiring human beings together, with their dreams, their hopes, their fears, combined with the tides, raises the possibility of something outstanding happening within this LIM2023 Selection.