The inaugural Tokyo Gap-Financing Market (TGFM) got off to a busy start on Wednesday, with 20 projects from around the world looking for production and distribution partners, along with the final pieces of their funding puzzles.
The 14 films and six TV series, chosen from 87 submissions, have meetings in their own Zoom rooms over the next three days with investors, sales agents, production companies, broadcasters and streamers.
The initiative is being hosted by TIFFCOM, the content market of the Tokyo International Film Festival, and held all online.
TGFM head Pascal Diot, who has run a similar venture at Venice for the last seven years, said more than 100 meetings had been arranged by the time the market opened on Wednesday morning in.
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