It`s a wrap for PUENTES in Montevideo!

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PUENTES Europe/Latin America Co-Production Workshop headed to Montevideo for the second workshop of this year’s edition (Dec 5 - 9). The 14 selected participants (complete list below) met again to work on each other’s projects under the guidance of the two group leaders Jean des Forêts (Petit Film, FR) and Fernando Epstein (Mutante Cine, UY). The experts included Jacques Akchoti (Script Consultant, FR), Linda Beath (Ideal Filmworks Italia, IT), and Aranka Matits (Featurette, DE). Veteran indie producer Jim Stark (Icicle Films, USA), talked about the role of the independent producer; Gaël Nouaille  (Borsalino, FR) shared his experience with distribution in Latin America and the newly appointed Head of the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes Paolo Moretti (La-Roche-Sur-Yon International Film Festival, FR) gave a session entitled festival insights. Aside from the plenary sessions, daily group work sessions built the core of PUENTES.

In parallel to the workshop, local producers from Uruguay attended PUENTES Uruguay sessions and had the opportunity to network with the PUENTES participants during the common plenary and networking events.

Thanks to a special cooperation with Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes, all PUENTES & PUENTES Uruguay participants were able to attend VENTANA SUR (Dec 10 -15) in Buenos Aires after the workshop.

On the occasion of this 10th anniversary, Ventana Sur and the San Sebastian Film Festival were launching PROYECTA, a new collaboration to foster Co-Productions with and within Latin America invited 3 projects participating to the PUENTES-Europe/Latin America Co-production Workshop:

PABLO, by Enrico Maria Artale, producer: PUENTES graduate Carla Altieri (Italy)
SHOCK LABOR, by Marcos Diaz Sosa, producer: PUENTES graduate Maria Carla del Rio (Cuba)
MATUFIA, directed and produced by Aparicio García, (Uruguay - PUENTES Uruguay)

Additionally, 2 EAVE projects were pitched at PROYECTA:

EAVE project LE BARBARIE by Andrew Sala, producer: EAVE graduate Federico Sande Novo
EAVE project THE JUNGLE by Mathias Huser, producer: EAVE graduate Tolga Dilsiz

Page published 18 December 2018.