PUENTES - AUSTRALAB 2012 – the selection!
After the great success of the PUENTES workshops for European and Latin American producers and the AUSTRALAB industry meetings in Valdivia, we are delighted to announce the selection for PUENTES - AUSTRALAB, a new and innovative platform connecting professionals from Europe and Latin America.
PUENTES - AUSTRALAB combines producer training, project development, co-production meetings and distribution opportunities and offers a strong and direct connection between the different agents of the value chain of film production in Europe and Latin America: development, training and access to the markets, encouraging the distribution and circulation of films by bringing together the key players: talents-producers-financiers-sales agents-distributors-cinema owners.
The workshop modules bring together five European and five Latin American producers with their feature projects in development for two workshops in Montevideo, Uruguay, from April 25-29, 2012, and Valdivia, Chile, during the Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia, from October 10-14, 2012. After the second session, targeted co-production meetings in Valdivia will be organized around the 10 selected projects following the workshop.
The following producers were selected for PUENTES - AUSTRALAB 2012:
- Maite Alberdi, Escala Humana, Chile; project: La vida sexual de las plantas
- Lina Badenes García, Turanga Films, Spain; project: The Cabin
- Diana Bustamante, Burning Blue, Colombia; project: Violence
- Ana Fernandez-Saiz, Impronta Films, Spain; project: Silent Boy
- Sébastien Hussenot, La Luna Productions, France; project: Blanche La Nuit
- Marianela Illas, Películas Prescindibles, Venezuela; project: Dora's Ballad
- Tomas Leyers, Minds Meet, Belgium; project: Lucifer
- Katrin Pors, Blond Indian Films, Denmark/Colombia; project: The Resistance
- Sandino Saravia Vinay, Malbicho Cine, Uruguay; project: Antes de Ayer
- Juliana Vicente, Preta Pôrte Filmes, Brazil; project: Lily and the Dragonflies
The 10 selected producers will work on the development of their projects under the guidance of top industry professionals from both continents, such as for the first session in Montevideo:
- Sarah Calderón, The Film Agency, Spain
- Verónica Cura, Utópica Cine, Argentina
- Fernando Epstein, Control Z, Uruguay
- Gustavo Fischer, Fischer Abogados, Uruguay
- Jean des Forêts, Petit Film, France
- Christoph Friedel, Pandora Filmproduktions, Germany
- Alan Fountain, EAVE, UK
- Jorge Goldenberg, Script Consultant, Argentina
- Miguel Machalski, Script Consultant, France
- Christa Saredi, World Sales Consultant, Switzerland
The PUENTES - AUSTRALAB workshop will offer in-depth insight into audiovisual market and operating conditions, legal frameworks, financing, sales, distribution and exhibition practices in both continents, it will provide opportunities for networking between the participants and their companies to create medium and long term co-financing and co-production relationships and it will enable the access to a network of producers, markets, festivals and decision makers in both continents.
PUENTES – AUSTRALAB is organised by EAVE in partnership with Mutante Cine and Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia, and with the support from MEDIA Mundus. The first PUENTES – AUSTRALAB workshop in Montevideo, Uruguay, is organised with the kind support of ICAU, EGEDA URUGUAY, URUGUAY XXI, TEATRO SOLÍS, LOCACIONES MONTEVIDEANAS, UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL URUGUAY, AUDIOVISUAL URUGUAY, FILM COMMISION, CÁMARA AUDIOVISUAL DEL URUGUAY.
For more information please contact:
EAVE - Tanika Sajatovic, International Coordinator: tanika@eave.org
MUTANTE CINE – Agustina Chiarino, PUENTES-AUSTRALAB Project Manager for the first workshop in Montevideo: aguchia@yahoo.com
www.eave.org | www.australab.cl
PUENTES - AUSTRALAB combines producer training, project development, co-production meetings and distribution opportunities and offers a strong and direct connection between the different agents of the value chain of film production in Europe and Latin America: development, training and access to the markets, encouraging the distribution and circulation of films by bringing together the key players: talents-producers-financiers-sales agents-distributors-cinema owners.
The workshop modules bring together five European and five Latin American producers with their feature projects in development for two workshops in Montevideo, Uruguay, from April 25-29, 2012, and Valdivia, Chile, during the Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia, from October 10-14, 2012. After the second session, targeted co-production meetings in Valdivia will be organized around the 10 selected projects following the workshop.
The following producers were selected for PUENTES - AUSTRALAB 2012:
- Maite Alberdi, Escala Humana, Chile; project: La vida sexual de las plantas
- Lina Badenes García, Turanga Films, Spain; project: The Cabin
- Diana Bustamante, Burning Blue, Colombia; project: Violence
- Ana Fernandez-Saiz, Impronta Films, Spain; project: Silent Boy
- Sébastien Hussenot, La Luna Productions, France; project: Blanche La Nuit
- Marianela Illas, Películas Prescindibles, Venezuela; project: Dora's Ballad
- Tomas Leyers, Minds Meet, Belgium; project: Lucifer
- Katrin Pors, Blond Indian Films, Denmark/Colombia; project: The Resistance
- Sandino Saravia Vinay, Malbicho Cine, Uruguay; project: Antes de Ayer
- Juliana Vicente, Preta Pôrte Filmes, Brazil; project: Lily and the Dragonflies
The 10 selected producers will work on the development of their projects under the guidance of top industry professionals from both continents, such as for the first session in Montevideo:
- Sarah Calderón, The Film Agency, Spain
- Verónica Cura, Utópica Cine, Argentina
- Fernando Epstein, Control Z, Uruguay
- Gustavo Fischer, Fischer Abogados, Uruguay
- Jean des Forêts, Petit Film, France
- Christoph Friedel, Pandora Filmproduktions, Germany
- Alan Fountain, EAVE, UK
- Jorge Goldenberg, Script Consultant, Argentina
- Miguel Machalski, Script Consultant, France
- Christa Saredi, World Sales Consultant, Switzerland
The PUENTES - AUSTRALAB workshop will offer in-depth insight into audiovisual market and operating conditions, legal frameworks, financing, sales, distribution and exhibition practices in both continents, it will provide opportunities for networking between the participants and their companies to create medium and long term co-financing and co-production relationships and it will enable the access to a network of producers, markets, festivals and decision makers in both continents.
PUENTES – AUSTRALAB is organised by EAVE in partnership with Mutante Cine and Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia, and with the support from MEDIA Mundus. The first PUENTES – AUSTRALAB workshop in Montevideo, Uruguay, is organised with the kind support of ICAU, EGEDA URUGUAY, URUGUAY XXI, TEATRO SOLÍS, LOCACIONES MONTEVIDEANAS, UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL URUGUAY, AUDIOVISUAL URUGUAY, FILM COMMISION, CÁMARA AUDIOVISUAL DEL URUGUAY.
For more information please contact:
EAVE - Tanika Sajatovic, International Coordinator: tanika@eave.org
MUTANTE CINE – Agustina Chiarino, PUENTES-AUSTRALAB Project Manager for the first workshop in Montevideo: aguchia@yahoo.com
www.eave.org | www.australab.cl
