LAST CHANCE FOR APPLICATIONS WITHOUT PROJECT: PUENTES – EUROPE / LATIN AMERICA PRODUCERS WORKSHOP
Call for applications
For the sixth edition of PUENTES – Europe / Latin America Producers Workshop, there are still some last seats left for European film professionals that want to attend the programme without a project.
European professionals interested in working with Latin America (producers, sales agents, financiers, distributors, festival programmers, co-production market representatives) can apply until September 5, 2014!
In addition to the 10 selected producers with feature films in development, they will be an active part of the group, working together on the projects over one year under the guidance of top notch consultants, on aspect of script development, the financial, co-production, marketing and distribution strategies in order to increase their knowledge abut co-production between Europe and Latin America and to extended their professional network meeting key players of the industry in Europe and Latin America.
The 2 workshops will be held in Montevideo (November 27-December 1, 2014) in partnership with Mutante Cine and Locarno (August 2015) in partnership with the Locarno International Film Festival and its Industry Days. Thanks to a special partnership, all participants involved will be able to attend VENTANA SUR (December 1-5, 2014, in Buenos Aires).
Throughout the 5 years of its existence, PUENTES has become the most relevant and successful training programme for developing European-Latin American co-production with exceptionally good results in terms of sales and distribution and festival exposure: 69% of the finalised projects developed at PUENTES got an international sales agent on board and over 84,6% of the projects have a successful festival exposure.
Recent examples of successful PUENTES projects in terms of festivals and international distribution are HISTORIA DEL MIEDO by Benjamin Naishtat (Berlinale Competition 2014), FERIADO by Diego Araujo (Berlinale Generation 14+ 2014),TANTA AGUA by Ana Guevara & Leticia Jorge (Berlinale Panorama 2013), TRES by Pablo Stoll (Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2012) and GLORIA by Sebatian Lelio (Berlinale Competition 2013) which was sold to 29 countries world-wide.
The participation at PUENTES is free of charge. Each participant will be offered accommodation during the workshop stay and we will cover part of the meals. In addition, we will offer a limited number of partial scholarships to contribute to the travel costs in specific cases.
EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS for professionals without project: September 5, 2014.
The selection will be made by a selection committee and will be published by September 25, 2014.
Selection interviews might be held via SKYPE.
If you wish to have further information, please contact: tanika@eave.org
The complete application form and further information can be found on: www.eave.org
Page published 27 August 2014. Updated 29 August 2014.
