PUENTES proudly announces the selection for the sixth edition!
Press release
PUENTES proudly announces the selection for the sixth edition!
We are delighted to announce the selection for the sixth edition of the PUENTES Europe – Latin America Producers Workshop!
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.
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 Sebastian Lelio (Berlinale Competition 2013) which was sold to 29 countries worldwide.
The 6th edition of PUENTES 2014/5 will feature 2 workshops: one in Montevideo, Uruguay (Nov 27-Dec 1, 2014) with the partnership of Mutante Cine and one in Locarno, Switzerland (August 2015) in the framework of the Festival del film Locarno.
The programme will bring together fourteen producers and other professionals from Europe and Latin America to work on feature film projects in development. They will be working together throughout the year with leading experts from both continents on script development, pitching, co-production, financing, legal aspects, marketing, distribution and sales, and will meet with decision makers during both sessions.
Parallel to the PUENTES workshop, a tailor-made EAVE ON DEMAND session in Montevideo will be organised for selected Uruguayan producers. In addition to their ‘à la carte” workshop, the producers will have the opportunity to network with the PUENTES participants.
Thanks to the special partnership with VENTANA SUR (Dec 1-5, 2014), the producers selected for PUENTES and EAVE ON DEMAND Uruguay will attend the market in Buenos Aires.
The selected participants for PUENTES 2014/5 are:
- Isabel Carrasco, La República Invisible, Ecuador - Project: Yellow Sunglasses, director: Iván Mora
- Anaïs Del Pino, Training&Networks, Viña del Mar, France/Chile
- Sophie Erbs, Cinéma Defacto, France - Project: Small Talk, director: Marcela Said
- Karen Fraenkel, Mira, Paraguay - Project: The Heiresses, director: Marcelo Martinessi
- Santiago Gallelli, Rei Cine, Argentina - Project: Dolores, director: Gonzalo Tobal
- Lila Graffin, AliaFilms, France - Project: Mamma, director: Naruna Kaplan de Macedo
- Kristofer Henell, Zentropa International Sweden, Sweden Project: The Return, director: Gorki Glaser-Müller
- Marion Klotz, France- Claudia Lepage, Tres Cinematografía, Venezuela - Project: Aurora, director: Marcel Rasquin
- Ivette Liang, Galaxia 311, Colombia - Project: The Dragon Defense, director: Natalia Santa
- Valentina Novati, Norte Productions, Italy/France
- Katarzyna Siniarska, New Europe Film Sales, Poland
- Malgorzata Staron, Staron Film, Poland - Project: Leading Actor, director: Paula Markovitch
- Nicolas Van Hemelryck, dokTARANTULA, Belgium/Colombia
The selected participants will work on the development and financing of their projects under the guidance of top industry professionals from both continents, such as:
- Sarah Calderón, The Film Agency, Spain
- Vania Catani, Bananeira Filmes, Brazil
- Fernando Epstein, Mutante Cine, Uruguay
- Gustavo Fischer & Mercedes Castells, Fischer Abogados, Uruguay
- Jean des Forêts, Petit Film, France
- Alan Fountain, EAVE, United Kingdom
- Christoph Friedel, Pandora Film Produktion, Germany
- Jorge Goldenberg, Script Consultant, Argentina
- Jean Labadie, Le Pacte, France
- Miguel Machalski, Script Consultant, France
PUENTES is organised by EAVE in partnership with Industry Days and the Open Doors Initiative of the Festival del film Locarno Mutante Cine and Ventana Sur & with the support of Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union.
For more information please contact:
EAVE - Tanika Sajatovic, International Coordinator: tanika@eave.org
MUTANTE CINE – Agustina Chiarino, PUENTES Project Manager: aguchia@yahoo.com
Page published 28 October 2014. Updated 24 November 2014.
