PUENTES – the sixth edition takes off in Montevideo together with EAVE ON DEMAND Uruguay!
Press release
PUENTES – the sixth edition takes off in Montevideo together with EAVE ON DEMAND Uruguay!
The sixth edition of PUENTES starts in Montevideo and Buenos Aires for the 14 selected producers and professionals from Europe and Latin America.
The second PUENTES workshop will take place in Locarno (Switzerland) in August 2015, organised with our partners from the Festival del film Locarno.
Following the first workshop and thanks to our special partnership with VENTANA SUR (December 1-5, 2014), the producers selected for PUENTES and EAVE ON DEMAND Montevideo will attend the market in Buenos Aires where they will meet potential partners and decision makers for the projects they have been developing at PUENTES throughout the year.
In parallel to the PUENTES workshop, a tailor-made EAVE ON DEMAND session in Montevideo will be organised for 10 selected Uruguayan producers. In addition to their ‘à la carte” workshop, the producers will have the opportunity to network with the Puentes participants and attend VENTANA SUR together.
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 selected producers 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
The following producers and professionals from Europe and Latin America have been selected for the sixth edition of PUENTES:
- 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
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 the 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 27 November 2014. Updated 28 November 2014.
