EAVE NEWSFLASH : PUENTES – Europe / Latin America Producers Workshop
NEWSFLASH
EAVE NEWSFLASH : PUENTES – Europe / Latin America Producers Workshop
PUENTES prepares for its fifth edition in Locarno and Montevideo after the great success of projects including Gloria and Tanta Agua.
The next deadline for applications for the PUENTES – Europe / Latin America Producers Workshop is approaching: May 31, 2013. Several of the projects developed during previous editions have been doing extremely well at festivals and in international distribution.
GLORIA by Sebastian Lelio was the buzz film in this year’s Berlinale Competition (Silver Bear for Best Actress), and has provoked a mini-stampede among buyers. The Chilean film was sold by Funny Balloons to the US (Roadside Attractions), the UK (Network Releasing), Benelux (Wild Bunch Benelux), France (Ad Vitam), German-speaking territories (Alamode), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Spain (Vertigo), former Yugoslavia (Discovery), Greece and Cyprus (Strada), Chile (BF Distribution), Brazil (Imovision) and Colombia/Ecuador (Babilla Cine) and deals for many other territories were closed in Berlin.
Debut feature TANTA AGUA by Ana Guevara & Leticia Jorge premiered at the BERLINALE Panorama section and won Best First Feature at the Guadalajara IFF, Best Film and Best Script at the Miami IFF and FIPRESCI award at the Cartagena de Indias IFF. It is selected for Competition in Toulouse and BAFICI and also confirmed for San Sebastian. Following the successful Berlinale screening, the producers have received a lot of requests and are now working on the best career for the film.
Both GLORIA and TANTA AGUA had been selected for the PUENTES / Europe Latin America Producers Workshop, where the projects were developed over one year by the attending producers under the guidance of top notch consultants, working on the script development, and the financial, co-production, marketing and distribution strategies and where the producers extended their professional network meeting key players of the industry in Europe and Latin America.
As TANTA AGUA producer Agustina Chiarino puts it: “PUENTES is a great opportunity to share and learn from experts and colleagues experiences. Also a way to take the time to think your project through all different phases, including analyzing the script, which, in my case, is the first thing that makes me want to be involved in the whole process. ”
Sales agent Virginie Devesa from Alpha Violet, who came to PUENTES as one of the Decision Makers adds: “TANTA AGUA has benefited thanks to its financing process of works in progress exposure (with PUENTES) where the film gained good word of mouth. Berlinale Panorama selection allowed us to distinguish the film thanks to a very nice and strong visual in the style of Control Z with humor and subtlty. We have sold so far to Brazil-Providence Filmes, Romania-Transilvania, Russia-A One, Benelux-Wild Bunch. We are in negotiation with Germany and the US as well as Sweden and thanks to the festivals selections, I hope we will move on with distributors especially since the film is supported for the release by Europa Distribution.”
PUENTES is targeted at Latin American & European producers with projects, bringing them together with potential financiers, distributors, sales agents, and reinforcing artistic and industrial cooperation between Europe & Latin America.
The 2013 workshops will be held in Locarno (August 8-14) in partnership with the Locarno International Film Festival and its Industry Days, and in Montevideo (November 29-December 4) in cooperation with Mutante Cine. The programme culminates in a special partnership with VENTANA SUR (December 3-6 in Buenos Aires).
The call for entries is open until May 31, 2013.
More on http://eave.org/programmes/puentes-2013/
Page published 22 March 2013.
