MUMBAI: Siddharth Sinha‘s film Twosome was awarded with the Hubert Bals award for most promising feature film project at the close of the three-day networking and project meetings at India‘s Film Bazaar held from 24 to 26 November.

Written and to be directed by Sinha, Twosome is a story of two women - one a single working mother fighting to keep her apartment, and the other a young woman who falls in love with a pimp.

The project has been produced by Paris-based production house, Trompe Le Monde.

Sinha was one of the 10 Indian filmmakers who had projects selected for the main section of Film Bazaar, an event organised by India‘s National Film Development Corporation (NFDC).

His project, along with four others like Onir‘s I Am, Ben Rekhi‘s Keep Off The Grass and Sandeep Varma‘s Manjunath have been selected to take part in next year‘s Cinemart.

The NFDC will support the producers of all four projects to attend the Rotterdam film festival‘s projects market in January.

In addition to the financing side of Film Bazaar, six projects took part in Screenwriters‘ Lab, four were analysed in a Work-In-Progress Lab while five Indian and an equal number of European projects were part at the Media programme-backed initiative Primexchange.

All this activity, in addition to a series of presentations and seminars, resulted in a
Film Bazaar is held during the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), which this year opened with Chinese director He Ping‘s Wheat on 23 November and goes on up to 3 December, with Pedro Almodovar‘s Broken Embraces being the closing film.