Every year the programme brings together five producers with feature projects from Asia and five from Europe.

The following producers were selected for TIES THAT BIND 2012:

• Guillaume de la Boulaye, Zorba Production, France, project: Red House, director: Jero Yun
• Fernanda del Nido, Tic Tac Producciones, Spain, project: The Moon in September, director: Jorge Coira
• Gita Fara, Set Film Production, Indonesia, project: The Seen and Unseen, director: Kamila Andini
• Isabelle Glachant, Chinese Shadows, France/Hog Kong, project: A Borrowed Life, director: Kit Hu
• Dave Kim, Rainbow Factory, South Korea, project: The Promise, director: Kim Jho Gwangsoo
• Mari Mukai, Horizon Features, Japan, project: Two by the River (Tentative), director: Kana Tomoko
• Ebba Sinizinger, WILDart Film, Austria, project: Moneyboys, director: Bo Chen
• Paul Smith, Pipedream Pictures, UK, project: Moth, director: John Williams
• Nandita Solomon, Apparat, Malaysia, project: Interchange, director: Dain Iskandar Said
• Pacharin Surawatanapongs, Pop Pictures, Thailand, project: The White Buffalo, director: Aditya Assarat

Here you can read more detailed information about the 10 producers and projects selected for TTB.

During the two workshops the 10 selected producers will work together with top level experts from both continents on script development, co-production between Asia and Europe, financing in the two regions, legal aspects of co-production, marketing, pitching and promotion, and meet with decision makers during both sessions.