NEM Awards 2024 shortlist revealed
November 29, 2024 12.53 Europe/London By Julian Clover


The full list of finalists in the NEM Awards 2024 have been revealed. Announced during the upcoming NEM Zagreb 2024 (10-12 December), the contest is designed to create 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

Rιka Pigniczky – Concrete Jungle Dreams: The Human Impact of Housing Projects
Sanja Matovina Janski – The Laundresses from Preko
Timea Huszαr & Daniel Washington – Underneath the Waves
b) Entertainment format

Darko Karanfilov – Scratchcards
?or?e Stankovi? – The Right Question
Sean Patterson- Around the World in New York
c) Scripted series

Ivan Kneževi? – Angela
Lana Sabljari? – Mirabelle, Pickles & Oliver
Teodora Markova & Sta?islavs Tokalovs – The Last Divorce of Communism
d) Scripted feature length film

Andreas Relster – Monsters of Art
Anastasia Pashkevich – Unfettered
Selena Stankovi? – 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 Srbija – V Effect
Keshet International/Voyo – Extractors
StarLight Films – In Her Car
TVN Warner Bros. Discovery – The Thaw
Telewizja Polska (TVP) – The Bay of Spies
NEM Zagreb 2024 is co-funded by the European Union, through the Creative Europe MEDIA sub-programme.

All winners will be announced on December 11, 2024.