PUENTES – Europe / Latin America Co-Production Workshop 2015/2016: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Call for applications
The call for applications for the seventh edition of PUENTES – Europe / Latin America Co-Production Workshop is now open until August 20, 2015.
Throughout the 6 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.
Among the most recent successful PUENTES projects in terms of festivals and international distribution are VIOLENCIA by Jorge Forero (Berlinale Forum 2015), HISTORIA DEL MIEDO by Benjamin Naishtat (Berlinale Competition 2014), FERIADO by Diego Araujo (Berlinale Generation 14+ 2014), GLORIA by Sebatian Lelio (Berlinale Competition 2013), TANTA AGUA by Ana Guevara & Leticia Jorge (Berlinale Panorama 2013), TRES by Pablo Stoll (Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2012).
All the above mentioned projects had been selected for the PUENTES / Europe Latin America Co-Production 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, 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.
PUENTES is targeted at Latin American & European producers with projects, 10 of which will be selected for the workshop. We are also open to receive the applications of other European professionals interested in working with Latin America (sales agents, financiers, distributors, festival programmers, co-production market representatives) or European producers without project. 4 of them will be selected to be an active part of the group.
The 14 selected participants will attend 2 workshops. The first one will be held in Montevideo (November 25 – 29, 2015) in partnership with Mutante Cine and the second one in Locarno (August 2016) in partnership with Festival del film Locarnoand its Industry Days. Thanks to a special partnership, all participants involved will be able to attend VENTANA SUR (Nov 30 – Dec 4, 2015, in Buenos Aires).
Target group:
- Experienced feature film producers in their own countries wishing to work on an international scale and to create long term creative and business relationships between Europe and Latin America. Interested producers should apply with a feature film project in development stage. European producers applying must be able to demonstrate a clear involvement with Latin America and vice versa.
- Related European film professionals (such as sales agents, distributors, festival and market representatives, financiers) or producers coming without project and wishing to work on an international scale and to create long term creative and business relationships with Latin America
Project criteria:
- feature-length fiction film (for theatrical release)
- projects suitable for an international co-production and looking for co-producers
- projects suggested by European applicants should have a link to Latin America (thematic, cultural, technical) and the producer should be motivated to work with / in Latin America and vice versa
- applicants with a project must be the lead producer of the submitted project
- producers must have completed at least one film released theatrically in the last 3 years
- 1st draft of the script should be available in English for the first workshop and at the latest by October 20, 2015.
Application documents:
- Completed Application Form (available for download here)
- 1 page Letter of Motivation concerning your participation at the workshop
- 1-2 page CV of the Producer and the Director
- Brief description of the production company
- A list of the company's productions: in development, pre-production, production and of those released
- 1 page Note of Intention of the Producer and 1 page Note of Intention of the Director concerning the development of your project
- 1 page Synopsis
- 8-10 pages Treatment
Scripts are to be sent only on request, but should be ready for the first workshop by October 20.
All documents have to be sent in English – the working language of the workshop will be English.
Participation fees & conditions:
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.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: August 20, 2015
The selection will be made by a selection committee and will be published by the end of September 2015. Selection interviews might be held via SKYPE.
If you wish to have further information, please contact: tanika@eave.org
Page published 17 June 2015. Updated 19 June 2015.
