“The Bear”, written and directed by Dan Chisu, will be pitched at Connecting Cottbus, the 10th edition of the East -West co-production market, as one of the 14 projects which have been selected and will be presented to industry professionals from around 20 countries on November 13th 2008. “The Bear” has caught the attention of several potential co-producers in Utrecht, where it has been presented at The Netherlands Production Platform, a co-production market whose aim is to encourage co-production collaboration between the Netherlands and other countries by introducing 25 feature films in development to a selected group of international industry professionals, sales agents, producers, distributors and broadcasters.