For the second year running, the Locarno Film Festival is dedicating its Open Doors program, a co-production platform that focuses on cinema from underrepresented countries, to films from Latin America and the Caribbean.
The 2023 Open Doors project hub lineup, unveiled Wednesday, includes eight in-development features from across the Americas.
Among the highlights are Milky Way, the latest feature from Costa Rican director Paz Fábrega, whose Cold Water of the Sea won the Tiger Award for best film at the 2010 Rotterdam Film Festival; the animated hybrid Pantasma by exiled Nicaraguan director Gloria Carrión, whose short Leaves of K. screened in Open Doors last year; the Jamaican drama Raised by Goats, by director Gibrey Allen (Right Near the Beach); animated horror Loa. Kill Your Masters from first-time filmmaker Carlos Zerpa from Venezuela, winner of the 2022 Open Doors’ online script consultancy award in Locarno last year, during last year’s session; and Last of the Kings,...
The 2023 Open Doors project hub lineup, unveiled Wednesday, includes eight in-development features from across the Americas.
Among the highlights are Milky Way, the latest feature from Costa Rican director Paz Fábrega, whose Cold Water of the Sea won the Tiger Award for best film at the 2010 Rotterdam Film Festival; the animated hybrid Pantasma by exiled Nicaraguan director Gloria Carrión, whose short Leaves of K. screened in Open Doors last year; the Jamaican drama Raised by Goats, by director Gibrey Allen (Right Near the Beach); animated horror Loa. Kill Your Masters from first-time filmmaker Carlos Zerpa from Venezuela, winner of the 2022 Open Doors’ online script consultancy award in Locarno last year, during last year’s session; and Last of the Kings,...
- 6/7/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Directors Paz Fábrega and Gloria Carrión among those presenting projects.
Rotterdam Tiger Award winning filmmaker Paz Fábrega and exiled Nicaraguan director Gloria Carrión are among those set to present projects at this year’s edition of the Locarno Film Festival’s Open Doors programme.
The initiative, aimed at supporting independent cinema from the global south and east, is entering the second of a three-year cycle focused on Latin America and the Caribbean and takes place August 3-8 as part of the Locarno Film Festival.
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Open Doors will present eight projects in its Projects’ Hub co-production initiative,...
Rotterdam Tiger Award winning filmmaker Paz Fábrega and exiled Nicaraguan director Gloria Carrión are among those set to present projects at this year’s edition of the Locarno Film Festival’s Open Doors programme.
The initiative, aimed at supporting independent cinema from the global south and east, is entering the second of a three-year cycle focused on Latin America and the Caribbean and takes place August 3-8 as part of the Locarno Film Festival.
Scroll down for full list of projects and participants
Open Doors will present eight projects in its Projects’ Hub co-production initiative,...
- 6/7/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
The Locarno Film Festival has announced the line-up for the 21st edition of its Open Doors program, which will focus on filmmakers from underrepresented countries in Latin America and the Caribbean for the second year running.
The program runs online in July and onsite during the festival’s Locarno Pro Days industry sidebar, running from August 3 to 9.
The eight films in development selected for its Project Hub coproduction platform include Milky Way (Vía láctea) from Costa Rican director Paz Fábrega, whose Cold Water of the Sea won the Tiger Award in Rotterdam in 2010.
Further projects include exiled Nicaraguan director Gloria Carrión’s animated hybrid work Pantasma; Jamaican director Gibrey Allen’s Raised by Goats; first-time Venezuelan filmmaker Carlos Zerpa’s Loa. Kill Your Masters (Loa. Mata a tus amos) as well as vampire western Last of the Kings by Peruvian director Victor Checa. His first feature The Shape of Things to Come...
The program runs online in July and onsite during the festival’s Locarno Pro Days industry sidebar, running from August 3 to 9.
The eight films in development selected for its Project Hub coproduction platform include Milky Way (Vía láctea) from Costa Rican director Paz Fábrega, whose Cold Water of the Sea won the Tiger Award in Rotterdam in 2010.
Further projects include exiled Nicaraguan director Gloria Carrión’s animated hybrid work Pantasma; Jamaican director Gibrey Allen’s Raised by Goats; first-time Venezuelan filmmaker Carlos Zerpa’s Loa. Kill Your Masters (Loa. Mata a tus amos) as well as vampire western Last of the Kings by Peruvian director Victor Checa. His first feature The Shape of Things to Come...
- 6/7/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Panama City — An innovative omnibus film, “Dias de Luz” (Days of Light), produced by six Central American countries – Panamá, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador – received the $5,000 second prize at Iff Panama’s 4th Primera Mirada pix-in-post sidebar.
Coordinated by Panama’s Isabella Galvez, the $500,000 project highlights the work of six young directors. It has participated in the Rotterdam Lab, Fundación Carolina’s project development workshop, Costa Rica’s Cine en Construcción and has co-production support from Ibermedia. In April, it will screen at the Malaga Festival’s work-in-progress sidebar and will be released theatrically across Central America.
The six interwoven stories are based on radically different settings, ranging from the tropical forests of Guatemala to the skyscrapers of Panama City.
The characters in the six countries react to a sequence of shared events, that begin when a solar storm leads to a region-wide power outage.
As power is shut down,...
Coordinated by Panama’s Isabella Galvez, the $500,000 project highlights the work of six young directors. It has participated in the Rotterdam Lab, Fundación Carolina’s project development workshop, Costa Rica’s Cine en Construcción and has co-production support from Ibermedia. In April, it will screen at the Malaga Festival’s work-in-progress sidebar and will be released theatrically across Central America.
The six interwoven stories are based on radically different settings, ranging from the tropical forests of Guatemala to the skyscrapers of Panama City.
The characters in the six countries react to a sequence of shared events, that begin when a solar storm leads to a region-wide power outage.
As power is shut down,...
- 4/12/2018
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
Ruben Blades Is Not My Name closed Latino event on Wednesday.
Top brass at the seventh Iff Panama handed out awards on Wednesday night (April 11) as the Latino event drew to a close with a screening of SXSW audience winner Ruben Blades Is Not My Name.
Fabien Pisani’s En La Caliente (Cuba) won first prize in the Works in Progress (Primera Mirada) section, followed by Días de luz with second prize.
The latter hails from Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala and was directed by Mauro Borges (Costa Rica), Enrique Pérez (Panama), Gloria Carrión (Nicaragua), Enrique Medrano...
Top brass at the seventh Iff Panama handed out awards on Wednesday night (April 11) as the Latino event drew to a close with a screening of SXSW audience winner Ruben Blades Is Not My Name.
Fabien Pisani’s En La Caliente (Cuba) won first prize in the Works in Progress (Primera Mirada) section, followed by Días de luz with second prize.
The latter hails from Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala and was directed by Mauro Borges (Costa Rica), Enrique Pérez (Panama), Gloria Carrión (Nicaragua), Enrique Medrano...
- 4/12/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The 4th Iff Panama’s Primera Mirada pix-in-post sidebar has selected five features – from Cuba, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Panama – and an omnibus film, “Dias de Luz” (Days of Light), produced by six Central American countries.
The number of films submitted to the Central America and Caribbean sidebar has risen by almost 50% this year – 32 films were submitted in 2015, 46 in 2016, 48 in 2017 and 67 this year.
Sales agents attending the work-in-progress creenings – which run April 9-10 – include FiGa Films, Habanero Film Sales, Weisner Distribution, the Havana Film Festival, Berlinale and OpenReel.
Projects will be screened in exclusive private sessions for sales agents, distributors, and film festival programmers. The jury members are Mexican producer, Laura Imperiale, Panamanian writer, Daniel Domínguez Z., and veteran Peruvian director, Francisco J. Lombardi.
The sidebar is particularly important for the region’s filmmakers who often desperately require post-production completion finance and mentoring advice. Three out of last year’s...
The number of films submitted to the Central America and Caribbean sidebar has risen by almost 50% this year – 32 films were submitted in 2015, 46 in 2016, 48 in 2017 and 67 this year.
Sales agents attending the work-in-progress creenings – which run April 9-10 – include FiGa Films, Habanero Film Sales, Weisner Distribution, the Havana Film Festival, Berlinale and OpenReel.
Projects will be screened in exclusive private sessions for sales agents, distributors, and film festival programmers. The jury members are Mexican producer, Laura Imperiale, Panamanian writer, Daniel Domínguez Z., and veteran Peruvian director, Francisco J. Lombardi.
The sidebar is particularly important for the region’s filmmakers who often desperately require post-production completion finance and mentoring advice. Three out of last year’s...
- 4/2/2018
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
Tribeca Film Institute (Tfi) has announced the 10 recipients of the 2015 Tfi Latin America Fund and introduced Los Cabos Film Festival and Labodigital as new partners.
The fund, now in its fifth year, is presented by Bloomberg and has awarded more than $600,000 in support of 44 film-makers from 12 Latin American countries whose work reflects their cultures.
For the first time the awards includes scripted projects in addition to documentary and hybrid feature-length films.
This year the fund will grant $156,000 to ten projects in advanced development, production or post-production selected from 240 submissions.
The partnership with the Los Cabos Film Festival and Labodigital will provide $56,000 in post-production services to one Tfi grantee participating in Tfi’s Network Market that runs from April 21–22 as well as expenses paid to work on the film at the Labodigital facilities in Mexico City.
“We’re honoured to announce the 2015 grantees for the Tfi Latin America Fund, and to open the grant to include a group...
The fund, now in its fifth year, is presented by Bloomberg and has awarded more than $600,000 in support of 44 film-makers from 12 Latin American countries whose work reflects their cultures.
For the first time the awards includes scripted projects in addition to documentary and hybrid feature-length films.
This year the fund will grant $156,000 to ten projects in advanced development, production or post-production selected from 240 submissions.
The partnership with the Los Cabos Film Festival and Labodigital will provide $56,000 in post-production services to one Tfi grantee participating in Tfi’s Network Market that runs from April 21–22 as well as expenses paid to work on the film at the Labodigital facilities in Mexico City.
“We’re honoured to announce the 2015 grantees for the Tfi Latin America Fund, and to open the grant to include a group...
- 4/9/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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