The organizers of NEM Zagreb have revealed the full list of finalists from NEM Awards 2024, a contest which primarily serves for creating opportunities for new TV and film projects from CEE, co-productions between CEE countries and co-production between low and high-production capacity countries.

Best Pre-Development Project Award Powered by HAVC and Council of Europe Series Co-Production Development Award finalists will be presented during first and second day of NEM Zagreb 2024. All winners will be announced on December 11, 2024.

Best Pre-Development Project Award powered by HAVC is a category for screenwriters who have an idea for a TV script, regardless of their experience and the finalists depending on four categories are:

a) Documentary series/Feature-length film

Réka Pigniczky – Concrete Jungle Dreams: The Human Impact of Housing Projects

Sanja Matovina Janski – The Laundresses from Preko

Timea Huszár & Daniel Washington – Underneath the Waves

b) Entertainment format

Darko Karanfilov – Scratchcards

Đorđe Stanković – The Right Question

Sean Patterson- Around the World in New York

c) Scripted series

Ivan Knežević – Angela

Lana Sabljarić – Mirabelle, Pickles & Oliver

Teodora Markova & Staņislavs Tokalovs – The Last Divorce of Communism

d) Scripted feature length film

Andreas Relster – Monsters of Art

Anastasia Pashkevich – Unfettered

Selena Stanković – Mileva: Frau Einstein

Council Of Europe Series Co-Production Development Award is intended to foster creative collaborations in series co-production and empower independent producers and the finalists are:

Antitalent – Jinx

Arcadia Media – Letters to Leonard

Harald House, Born Wild, Locomotive – Brux

Joyrider Kft. – Imperial Vampire Committee

Little Big Talents – Witness

Stefi – The Left Hand of Venus

Sacrebleu Productions – The Chimera Brigade

NiraPro – List of Small Things

Visual Walkabout & Wunderlust – And Then We Took Berlin

Vertice 360 & Rastika – Red Handed

Best Finished TV Series in the CEE Award is a prestigious acknowledgment of excellence, celebrating fully realized and completed works in TV series originating from Central and Eastern Europe, and the finalists are:

BH Telecom – I Know Your Soul

Canal+ Czech Republic – Daughter of the Nation

Cosmote TV-OTE SA – 17 Threads

Czech Television/ZDF Studios – We’re on It, Comrades!

ERT S.A., Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation – The Wilder

Firefly Productions/Telekom Serbia– V Effect

Keshet International/Voyo – Extractors

Starlight Films – In Her Car

TVN Warner Bros. Discovery – The Thaw

Telewizja Polska (TVP) – Bay of Spies