Short Film News (SFN)- The winners of 15th session of the Cinefoundation Residence were announced.

Four female directors and two male directors were chosen and the 15th session of the Residence will help them in the scripting of their first or second feature film.

Emily Atef, an Iranian director, is among the selected directors who is going to script his 2nd feature-film project, Kill Me, by the help of Cinefoundation.

She made her first film - Molly's Way - in 2005. It released in Switzerland Tout Ecran Festival, Munich International Film Festival in Germany, Cairo Film Festival in Egypt, Bratislava Festival in Slovak Republic, Denver Film Festival in the U.S.A, etc. and won the Best Film award and the Best Actress award in Bogota Film Festival in Columbia and in Mar del Plata International Film Festival in Argentina it won the Grand Jury Prize.

In her second film, she follows the adventures of a teenager and a prisoner on escape on the run.

The five other selected filmmakers are from China, Sweden, Mexico, Israel, and America.

The Cinefoundation also assist the selected filmmakers with the actual preparations of their films.

Since its creation, the Cinefoundation Residence has welcomed more than eighty directors among which fifty of them became films.

The Cinefoundation Residence is an official section in Cannes Festival released short films and school works. Abbas Kiarostami and Martin Scorsese are the honored managers of this section.