Industry Guide Australab

AUSTRALAB INDUSTRY GUIDE Cine sin Fronteras | Cinemalab

Oct. 3 al 7 - 2012 Valdivia | Chile

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ARGENTINA

LATAM Cynthia García Calvo

It brings auteur cinema closer to an audience eager for new proposals, through acquisition, marketing, and distribution. It managed the acquisition of European films for different distributors such as Michael Haneke’s Amour, and Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy. It devised and produced guerilla marketing campaigns for films like Wim Wender’s Pina 3D for Zeta Films. In 2011 it established a distribution venture in Argentina, with the releases of Amat Escalante’s Los bastardos, and Julio Hernández Cordón’s Las marimbas del infierno. Its next release will be Aleksandr Sokurov’s Fausto, winner of Venice 2011 Golden Lion.

www.videoflims.com.ar erojas@videoflims.com.ar

www.latamcinema.com cynthia@latamcinema.com Specialized information portal regarding the Latin American film industry. Oriented towards sector professionals as well as the general public, the site offers key information to discover and drive new projects and businesses in the industry, along with broadening the professional contact network within the American continent. Through a daily updated news thread, reports and interviews, the contents in our portal cover the main areas in the industry: production, distribution and exhibition.

LAT-E Florencia Schapiro www.lat-e.org florschapiro@gmail.com

VIDEOFLIMS DISTRIBUCIÓN Esteban Rojas

PASTO CINE Bárbara Francisco www.pastocine.com.ar barbara@pastocine.com.ar Independent film production company founded by Bárbara Francisco and Fernando Brom, who had formerly worked in Rizoma Films for over seven years. They have produced Santiago Mitre’s first feature film El estudiante along with La Unión de los Ríos. In 2009 they started to work with Maximiliano Schonfeld, from Crespo, Entre Ríos, where all of his projects take place. In 2012 they produced his first feature film Germania. Currently they are developing Schonfeld’s second film The Black Frost. In addition, they have started working on The Fire by Juan Schnitman.

With more than three years of experience, VIDEOFLIMS is, maybe, the most independent distribution company in Argentina.

With a catalogue composed by more than a hundred titles, it worries about spreading and recovering films that nobody else dares to edit. Focused in horror, science fiction, and fantasy films in general, they edit DVDs, release films in commercial cinemas, and give a solid platform to spread nationally and internationally the films and directors they represent. They also produce their own contents. They have produced already three feature films and at the moment they are developing their fourth one.

Violeta Bava violeta@rudacine.com.ar Currently, she works as a film programmer in BAFICI and co-directs Buenos Aires Lab (BAL). Also, she co-founded Ruda Cine, production company established in 2004, specialized in arthouse cinema and creative

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documentary films. She produced Milagros Mumenthaler’s feature film Abrir puertas y ventanas, winner of the Golden Leopard at Locarno Film Festival, among others. Violeta teaches at Centro de Investigación Cinematográfica in Buenos Aires, is a member of Torino Film Lab’s Advisory Board, suggest proyects to Jerusalem Film Lab, and is one of the Latin AMerican delegates of Venice Film Festival.

critic at Clarín, a daily newspaper published in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Lerer is also the president of FIPRESCI Argentina and the owner of Micropsia, a film website.

Marcelo Panozzo

Leyers and the director Caroline Strubbe.

MINDS MEET is specializing in the creation and production of artistic European cinema like Lost Persons Area by Caroline Strubbe and Little Baby Jesus of Flandr by Gust Van Den Berghe. The company explores on years of experience in emotion development, artistic story-writing and overall imaginative production. The team seeks out the best emerging and established talents and bring them together to craft dynamic, unique creations with singular voices. Production is for them a way to meet great minds.

BRAZIL

mpanozzo@festivales.gob.ar

Jorge Goldenberg jorgegoldenberg@gmail.com Screenwriter, director and playwright. He participates as a screenwriter in Argentinian, Chilean, Colombian and Spanish films.

Among others, Plata dulce, La película del Rey, La frontera, Miss Mary, De eso no se habla y Las Alas de la vida. He co-directed with Patricio Coll the documentary film Regreso a Fortín Olmos. He has also a long experience as consultant in screenwriting workshops in Argentina, Spain, France, Cuba and Colombia.

Born in Buenos Aires in 1967. Journalist and film critic, works as an editor in Random House Mondadori Argentina. Film programmer in BAFICI from 2001 to 2004, and in 2008 and 2009 editions. Currently, he is Artistic Director of BAFICI.

BELGIUM

www.lumefilmes.com.br machado@lumefilmes.com.br

MINDS MEET Tomas Leyers, Gus Van Den Berghe Diego Lerer micropsia.otroscines.com diegolerer@yahoo.com Latin America Delegate and Correspondent of the Roma Film Festival. Editor and film

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LUME FILMES Frederico Machado

www.mindsmeet.be tomas@mindsmeet.be gust@mindsmeet.be Brussels-based, young independent production company set up by the producer Tomas

Founded in 2000 by filmmaker Frederico Machado, in recent years has established itself as the most important film distributor of independent and authorial films in Brazil.

LUME has distributed in the Brazilian market, more than 150 titles. Works by directors like David Lynch, Luis Bunuel, R.W. Fassbinder, Todd Solondz and many others that are part of what is recognized as the largest DVD collection of authorial films in Brazil. As a Production Company, LUME made several short films and video, including Questão de Prova, Cartas and Ódio.

PRETA PORTE FILMES Juliana Vicente, René Guerra

cing feature films, short films, TV-series and, documentaries in Latin America and Europe.

The company was founded by the Colombian-Spanish Carlos García and the Danish producer Katrin Pors. They are both graduated from La Escuela Internacional de Cine in Cuba and have a broad professional experience in both Europe and Latin America.

Currently BLOND INDIAN FILMS is producing Anders Morgenthalers new animation film in co-production with Zentropa Entertainment and TrustNordisk. La Resistencia by Carlos García is the company’s first fiction feature film.

pretaportefilms.wordpress.com juliana@pretaportefilmes.com.br, luizrene@gmail.com Founded in 2009 in São Paulo with the objective of developing audiovisual projects that combine art and communication for a diversified market. Our work has been seen in many festivals, such as Grandmothers at Berlinale and The Shoes of Aristeu at ClermontFerrand, receiving more than 50 awards.

COLOMBIA

BLOND INDIAN FILMS Carlos García, Katrin Pors

COSTA RICA

PACÍFICA GRAY Marcelo Quesada www.pacíficagrey.com marcelo@pacificagrey.com

BURNING BLUE Diana Bustamante, Jorge Forero www.burningblue.com.co dbe@burningblue.com.co, jorgeforero@burningblue.com.co

Distribution company based in Costa Rica that seeks to broaden independent cinema’s offer and propose new ways of watching films. The ultimate goal is to bring good independent cinema closer to new audiences, in order to to be a rallying point for fans of various art forms, genres and styles. We have previously work on the theatrical release of films such as Agua fría de mar by Paz Fábrega and Marimbas del infierno by Julio Hernández Cordón, and is working as well on the release of an independent cinema VOD platform.

Established in the year 2010 by Diana Bustamante y Jorge Forero, the company focuses on cinematographic expressions constantly bordering its limits, aimed mostly at formal developments as to the audiovisual language.

Highly independent and rigorous, BURNING BLUE has positioned its films in the most important world film festivals, being now consolidated as a production model that is viable and effective in national and international scenarios.

carlos@blondindian.com katrin@blondindian.com Newly formed film production company based in Colombia, with the aim of produ-

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CHILE

Owned by Turner Broadcasting System, subsidiary of the US media corporation Time Warner, Chilevisión (CHV) is one of Chile’s oldest TV channels, making its broadcast debut in 1960. Chilevisión is an independent, pluralist and modern audiovisual media outlet committed to respond to society’s interests with high- quality programming of current affairs, information and entertainment, reacting to current audience concerns, and anticipate future demands and emerging trends.

ARTISTAS FELICES Javier Correa, José Miguel Matamala artistasfelices.com javiercorrea3@gmail.com, matamala2010@gmail.com Production company established in Valdivia by five film directors. Their objective is to develop fiction and nonfiction, feature films and short films in different formats. In 2011 they released the feature film Leña and the short film Malihue in FICValdiva. They have participated with their projects in markets as Dok Leipzig, IDFA, Ventana Sur, and DocBuenosAires. In 2012, they will release the feature film A primera hora and the short film El hombre E in FICValdivia.

CHILEVISIÓN Ángela Poblete www.chilevision.cl angela.poblete@chilevision.cl

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CINEMACHILE Constanza Arena www.cinemachile.cl constanza@cinemachile.cl Chilean sectorial promotion agency with the objective of promoting and achieving international visualization of the Chilean audiovisual sector, at the main film, documentary and TV festivals around the world.

CINEPATA Alberto Fuguet, Silvio Canihuante, Horacio Valdivia www.cinepata.com fuguet.cinepata@gmail.com, silvio@cinepata.com, horacio@cinepata.com Production company owned by Chilean partners Alberto Fuguet and Mauricio Varela.

They produced Fuguet’s films, such as Velodromo (2010) and Música Campesina (2012), winner of FICValdivia’s 2011 Chilean Competition. They also created a website in which for no charge it is possible to watch online independent films from Latinamerica, and read movie reviews and film articles. Located in Santiago, its goal is to produce awesome garage films.

CNTV Mauricio García www.cntv.cl mgarciat@cntv.cl The CNTV-Fund is the main financing for quality TV production in Chile, 20 years of great talent and contents to the screens.

Almost US$8 millions available every year, for twelve categories of audiovisual projects, including theatrical Telefilms (full-length feature or documentary films), Series and International Co-productions. The Chilean states National Television Council is the regulator of the television exercise in Chile, and since 1993 it’s Funding and Development Department manages the CNTV-Fund, resulting in more than 250 productions, over 60.000 minutes on screen, achieving several national and international prizes and distribution (like International EMMY, Prix Jeunesse, Altazor, etc.). Mauricio García is Consultant for the Funding and Development Department, that develop and manages the CNTV-Fund rules, project selection and evaluation, and quality supervision of winner projects on production.

DON QUIJOTE FILMS Giancarlo Nasi, Yassin Velásquez

over 20 years experience in directing documentary series for television channels, such as Discovery Channel,Travel Channel, People & Arts, and Channel 4, as well as for Chilean television such as TVN and Canal 13. The company’s documentary films have been selected and won awards at Torino International Film Festival, Ducopolis, FIDOCS, among others. Its projects are characterized by a commitment to pursuit new expressive possibilities in cinematic language.

www.donquijotefilms.com giancarlo@donquijotefilms.com, yassin@donquijotefilms.com It has co-produced the feature films Te creis la más talentosa by José Manuel Sandoval, and R. Lorena by Isidora Marras, and produced the feature documentaries Después del mar, nationally broadcasted by Canal 13 in 2010, and Salam, to be premiered in 2013.

Currently, it is working on developing new projects such as feature films La memoria queda en el aire and Valle negro, as well as various TV series. DON QUIJOTE FILMS has also gained prestige through its award-winning short films and advertising.

DOMESTIC FILMS Tiziana Panizza

FORASTERO Gregorio González, Josefina Undurraga www.forastero.cl gregorio@forastero.cl, josefina@forastero.cl Production company established in 2009, with La nana winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Dramatic in Sundance 2009; nominated to the Golden Globes as Best Foreign Film. The company aims to develop high artistic quality films, through the exploration of new financial mechanisms, public and private; and establishing strong co-production relations locally and internationally. Currently, they are working in the feature films El circuito de Román

by Sebastián Brahm, De jueves a domingo

by Dominga Sotomayor, Pérez by Álvaro Viguera, R.Lorena by Isidora Marras, and the project Ave de caza by Nayra Ilic.

tpanizza@yahoo.com Independent, audiovisual production company, which produces creative documentary films. The company is based in Santiago, Chile. It is comprised of professionals with

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Its main activities are the film creation and professional filming. Since 2009 is developing documentary projects, starting with the film Escape to Silence: Notes of Life Alfredo Espinoza directed by Diego Pequeño, which gets the audience award FIDOCS 2010 and it was exhibited at documentary festivals in Chile and abroad. In 2011/2012 produces and premieres the documentary Dungun, The language directed by Pamela Pequeño, Chilean winning project Latin America DOCTV III Fund.Currently, it is preparing the documentary film The Blops directed by Diego Pequeño and Ana Maria Lara.

GALLINAZO FILMS Diego Ayala, Aníbal Jofré, Soledad Trejo diegoayalariquelme@gmail.com, anibal.jofre@gmail.com, strejot@gmail.com Production company established by a group of classmates of UDD Film School to produce their graduation feature film.

HEMISFERIO DERECHO Pamela Pequeño www.hemisferioderecho.cl pamepequeno@gmail.com Production company formed in 2005, dedicated to the production in the audiovisual area.

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IFE SERVICES María Ignacia Barja www.ifeservices.com maria.ignaciabarja@ifeservices.com Multi-award winning provider of in-flight entertainment solutions. They have an absolute commitment to quality, innovation and customer service over many years which has allowed them to attract a worldwide client base that includes over 50 airlines, cruise ship operators and other travel companies.Their team of experts is the best in the industry at tailoring and delivering the perfect package to provide passengers with a first-class entertainment experience.

IN-EDIT Marisol García www.inedit.cl solgarcia@yahoo.com Only Chilean annual encounter specialized in music and cinema (fiction and documentary films). Born in 2004, it has been proposed as a meeting place for films and music, sound and image in order to bring together two usually dissociated audiences. IN-EDIT has also successive dates in different European and Latin American cities, and in Chile it counts with eight continuous editions.

que aspiren a innovar en la cinematografía a través de nuevos directores, tomando riesgos.

LA TOMA Paulina Costa, José María González

KINÉ IMÁGENES Daniel Dávila, Florencia Larrea, Enrique Stindt www.kine-imagenes.cl daniel@k-i.cl, florencia@k-i.cl, enrique@k-i.cl Kiné-Imágenes is a digital cinema platform for creation and services, specializing in image, from preproduction to exhibition.

We develop close relationships with filmmakers and their projects, including creative contribution and optimal technical execution, understanding that today, images are the result of a joint effort between photography and postproduction. We search for state-ofthe-art technological solutions at the international level, to the highest quality standards, implementing them in national and regional situations.

www.latoma.cl pcosta@latoma.cl, cuentosdetokio@yahoo.es Established as a film school and production company in 2003. They develop film workshops and projects related to independent cinema: feature documentary film “Darío en toma” by José María González (2012), feature fiction film “Bareta” by Roberto Farías (2012).

Their catalogue includes feature documentary film “Quiero entrar” by Roberto Farías (2011), winner of Best Documentary Film Director and Public Award at FICIANT 2011.

MANUFACTURA DE PELÍCULAS Macarena López, María José San Martín malopezb@uchile.cl, pepasanmartin@yahoo.es Productora audiovisual con sede en Santiago orientada a desarrollar y producir películas

MALAPARTE Simón Rivera, Juan Eduardo Murillo www.malaparte.cl joan.rivera@malaparte.cl, juane.murillo@malaparte.cl Malaparte was born in 2003 as a production company. Their first goal was to generate an independent and diverse platform for audiovisual creation. In 2010 they started the distribution area of our company being selected in the Cine Sin Fronteras workshop, and establishing an acquisition network with 5 Latin-American partners. In Chile they have theatrical released the features Perro Muerto

by Camilo Becerra and El eco de las canciones by Antonia Rossi.

MARÍA UNA VEZ María Paz González mapazgonzalez@gmail.com Born in 2011 with the challenge of producing movies with an international pursuit. Minimal

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stories focused on human beings in constant tension with the material and social landscape of Latin America. Their first production was the documentary film Hija by María Paz González, which was exhibited in over 20 international festivals such as Thessaloniki, Málaga, Bafici and Leipzig, and won the first prize of FIDOCS 2011 national competition.

Currently, MARÍA UNA VEZ is working in new projects: short experimental film Escondido

by Mihai Grecu and María Paz González, feature documentary film De la selva sus cuentos by Brian Jacobs and María Paz González, and Todas vuelven by María Paz González.

effort to reflect about contemporary times.

Up to now the company has produced music videos, web publicity, and short films, which have been selected in several international film festivals. They are developing the feature films Las plantas by Roberto Doveris and La hija by Isabel Orellana.

SIETE OCHENTA Edison Cájas, Catalina Donoso fitosofia@gmail.com, catalinadonoso.k@gmail.com

OCHOALETAS Zebastian Fuenzalida ochoaletas.blogspot.ch ochoaletas@gmail.com

NIÑO NIÑA PRODUCCIONES Roberto Doveris, Nicolás Guzmán, Isabel Orellana ninoninaproducciones.blogspot.com robertodoveris@gmail.com, nicolasguzmanmartinez@gmail.com, isa.orellanag@gmail.com Established by Roberto Doveris and Nicolás Guzmán after graduating from the first generation of Film and Television at Universidad de Chile. Their production is oriented to arthouse cinema, new formats exploration, and diverse narratives and technologies in an

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Audiovisual investigation space, made up by a group of multidisciplinary members, with the objective of developing, creating, and spreading the audiovisual arts as a medium for innovation and social content mobility.

Born in 2002 with the production of the short film El agua que respiro by Sebastián Fuenzalida. En el país de las manzanas by Sebastián Margaño is their first feature film.

In 2011, they were invited to Suiza where they co-produced different films.

Young company established in Santiago in 2012, looking for entrepreneurship alternatives in professional and university students networks. Their aim is to continue exploring and exploiting good ideas, and identifying human resources to develop. One of their principal negotiation lines is independent audiovisual production. El vals de los inútiles is their first feature documentary film.

SOLITA Paz Urrutia Fernando Guzzoni, paz@solita.cl fernandoguzzonic@gmail.com, A company cofounded by Paz Urrutia as the consolidation of different projects carried on for a decade, with the goal of becoming the home of different audiovisual projects and position itself within the local and international markets. It has several years of expe-

rience with local television, feature film, and documentary projects, like Cristián Galaz’s feature film El regalo, and the documentary features Fernando Guzzoni’s La colorina, and Sabatini, Sallato, and Larraín’s Ojos rojos.

major scale projects, integrating services and offering solutions to our diverse clients. With the best professionals in our team, we put at your disposal state-of-the-art audiovisual technology from worldwide leading brands.

Pioneers in Broadcast, we offer the highest penetration of video cameras, recording systems, news and commercials automation, high-resolution monitoring and a permanent and safe magnetic tape stock provision.

Sebastián Brahm brahmgligo@gmail.com

SONAMOS Roberto Espinoza www.sonamos.cl roberto@sonamos.cl Sound post-production for audiovisual media, led by Roberto Espinoza. He has over 17 years of experience in sound postproduction, and has participated in over 160 audiovisual productions and projects for the audiovisual industry in Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico and Spain. Their latest productions are La noche de enfrente by Raul Ruiz, De jueves a domingo by Dominga Sotomayor, Joven y alocada by Marialy Rivas and Miguel san Miguel by Matias Cruz, among others.

Maite Alberdi maitealberdi.s@gmail.com Studied Film and Aesthetics at Universidad Católica de Chile. As a director she has developed a highly particular style that accomplishes an intimate portrayal of the characters she works with, through everyday stories in small-scale worlds. She currently works as a producer for projects coherent with her style. She teaches in different universities in Santiago and coauthored the book Teorías del cine documental chileno 1957-1973. She had directed the short-film The hairdressers, and the documentary feature film El salvavidas, winner of IDFA Oficial Competition, among others.

Actually she is editing her second feature film La once.

Studied Journalism at Universidad Católica de Chile and entered the film industry after several years working as a reporter. A selftaught multi-tasker, he writes, directs, edits, produces and acts. As a writer/director, he has developed a particular style that draws inspiration from biology and psychology in order to tell stories that probe specific aspects of the human psyche. He also plays the lead role in the film Te creís la más talentosa

by Che Sandoval. His first feature film El circuito de Román became a critics’ darling, and had his premiere at Toronto International Film Festival, and take the Special Jury Prize in FICValdivia.

Susana Díaz corteirracional@gmail.com

VIDEOCORP Cristian Maturana www.videocorp.cl cmaturana@videocorp.com Leaders in the audiovisual market, we have provided technology for 20 years, developing

Born in Santiago de Chile, 1978. Academic, documentary filmmaker and film critic, has directed two documentary films, Supersordo; History and Geography of a Noise and Hardcore: The Unfinished Revolution. Also Sanfrik Against Cinema Festival programmer, today is working in a non-fiction film about the deceased filmmaker Rodrigo Maturana.

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as Manager of Creative Santiago, CSCL, Program of Promotion and Development to the Creative Industry of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago, Chile.

FRANCE

ECUADOR Elisa Eliash www.aquiestoyaquino.com elisaeliash@gmail.com Born in 1984 in Santiago de Chile. Mami te amo was her first film, released at the Toulouse Film Festival, and winner of the Cine B Film Festival in Santiago. It has been exhibited in over 25 festivals around the world.

Her second film Here I am, Here I’m not was recently premiered at the official competition in BAFICI. Currently she keeps developing her new projects as a screenwriter, and director of feature films, documentaries, ads, and television.

Leonardo Ordoñez leo.ordonezg@gmail.com International advisor for the design of policies, plans and programs linked to the development of the artistic and cultural sectors, with a broad and distinguished career in Chile and in Latin America. He re-designed and directed the CORFO Program for Cinema and Audiovisual Industry Promotion, one of the main public programs offering support to the sector. Ordóñez is also founding member of the Council for the Audiovisual Arts and Industry, and has consulted on several initiatives relating to the audiovisual sector, both in Chile and abroad. Nowadays, he practises

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ALPHA VIOLET Virgine Devesa OCHOYMEDIO Mariana Andrade www.ochoymedio.net marianaa@ochoymedio.net Cultural Organization established in 2001. It has four movie theaters in Quito, Guayaquil, and Manta, where it exhibits independent films from around the world. These are the venue of Ecuador’s main film festivals, producing thematic series, film seasons, and educational projects through cinema. It produced Miguel Alvear and Patricio Andrade’s feature film Blak Mama and Miguel Alvear’s documentary feature Más allá del mall, among others. It also works as an editorial line, publishing books, a monthly newspaper, and a blog (KM 8-1/2) on the topic.

www.alphaviolet.com virginie@alphaviolet.com Independent sales company based in Paris. It wishes to offer transparency to the filmmakers and producers they work with.

ALPHA VIOLET adapts its sales strategies according to the character and specificities of the films to meet expectations of the production companies. Since its creation, the company has participated to Berlinale with Off White Lies by Maya Kenig and in Cannes with Aquí y allá by Antonio Méndez Esparza, winner of the Grand Prix of Critic’s Week.

FIDLAB Fabienne Moris www.fidmarseille.org fmoris@fidmarseille.org A professional platform for co-production support, which offers a meeting place for discussing film projects selected from all

over the world, in order to offer film-makers an opportunity to make useful contacts and network with producers, distributors, international sales agents, sponsors, and broadcasters. In a diverse, international context, aims to reinforce projects chosen not only for their artistic and creative qualities, which coincide with the FIDMarseille’s editorial ethos, but also for their international potential and market accessibility. Different from a platform purely for promotion, it offers the professional audience a chance to see not only images but also artistic and film influences that may increase our understanding of the work in progress.

INSTITUT FRANÇAIS Aide aux cinémas du monde

Nathalie Streiff

Initially founded in 1994 by Sébastien Hussenot as a short-film and documentary production company. Searching for talented artists, the company has produced roughly 60 films.

LA LUNA PRODUCTIONS films have travelled all across the world and received over 300 awards, including an Academy Award nomination in 2009 for the best short-film with Manon sur le bitume directed by Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont. La Luna Productions produced Last Season, a documentary feature film by Raphaël Mathié released in 2009 in theatres and broadcasted on french TV Arte in 2011.

www.institutfrancais.com nathalie.streiff@institutfrancais.com

GAIJIN Sophie Erbs www.gaijin.fr sophie@gaijin.fr This company comes from two desire of cinema, the need to create a work tool, a cinematool, that first of all intends to be an instrument of freedom. It’s a firm answer coming from a common reflexion on cinema work the desire to emancipate from the “systems” of fabrication. For them, this means integrating the restraints, economic and artistic, as a creative neccesity. Determine for each film, the reality principle in wich it will blossom at it’s best, and this in a common consciousness and trust of each participant. Gaijin, it’s four women, three genrations, gathered around a same love, cinema. Their catalogue includes Nana by Valerie Massadian.

Run by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Institut français exists to promote French culture abroad. With an exceptional catalogue of 3,500 films the Institut français works alongside with uniFrance Films to promote films which are part of French cultural heritage by organizing non-commercial screenings of recent creations As well as managing and leading the Cinémas du Monde Pavilion in Cannes, the Institut français works in tandem with the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée to manage the Aide aux cinémas du monde (World Cinema Support), a new fund dedicated to international cinema managed by Nathalie Streiff.

PETIT FILM Jean des Forêts desforets@petit-film.com Initiated in 2010 and based in Paris, PETIT FILM is producing and co-producing films from a small but various selection of directors: cineastes or visual artists, formalists or storytellers, French or foreign.

LA LUNA PRODUCTIONS Sébastien Hussenot www.lunaprod.fr sebastien@lunaprod.fr

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WILD BUNCH Gary Farkas

in scriptwriting and general project development includes assessment, consultancy, training and writing. He runs workshops in virtually all parts of the world and has acted as a consultant on several award-winning films. He has written two Spanish-language books on screenwriting and over 20 feature screenplays, three of which have already been produced: Kluge, el arreglador by Luis Barone, Ramata by Léandre Alain-Baker, and América by Sonia Fritz.

www.wildbunch.biz gfarkas@wildbunch.eu One of the world’s leading players in the field of international sales, its position strengthened by both a wealth of experience recognized by foreign distributors world-wide, and a broad, artistically diverse selection of the best of director-led international cinema. Currently handling an international sales catalogue of around 300 titles, it has established a reputation for both professionalism and provocation with distributors world-wide.

Characterized by its diverse editorial policy, the company offers a constantly renewed and always innovative slate of films from all over the world, regularly honored at both European and international festivals. It is also renowned for discovering new and innovative directorial talent, having to date handled more than fifty first or second-time features.

GERMANY

BERLINALE Javier Martin www.berlinale.de javi.martin@free.fr

Elizabeth Marre elizabethmarre11@gmail.com Born in Paris, from a Puerto Rican mom and a French dad. She worked as First Assistant Director on a dozen feature films, which got her traveling from Lebanon to Hong-Kong.

She has written and directed with Olivier Pont 2 short films: Manon on the Asphalt was rewarded in many international festivals and has received an Oscar nomination in 2009.

In 2011, Elizabeth has directed 4 episodes of a TV series for the French-German channel ARTE entitled Ainsi soient-ils (“So be it”) to be broadcasted October 2012.

Great cultural event and one of the most important dates for the international film industry. Around 300,000 sold tickets, more than 19,000 professional visitors from 115 countries, including 4,000 journalists.The public programme of the Berlinale shows about 400 films per year, in the various sections. In close connection with the festival, the European Film Market, bringing together around 400 companies and 8,000 professionals from 90 countries, and the Berlinale Co-Production Market reflect the importance of the film industry at the Berlinale, as well as the World Cinema Fund, the Berlinale Residency and the Berlinale Talent Campus.

Miguel Machalski www.miguel-machalski.com miguel.machalski6@gmail.com Born in Buenos Aires from a British mother and a Polish father, he has been based in Paris for many years. His international expertise

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Jurij Rudolf - EAVE jure.rudolf@gmail.com Born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2006 moved to Berlin and works there as freelance setdesigner for film and theatre, directs theatre

plays and organizes workshops for theatre and film. In 2012 he is a International Coordinator of Workshops for EAVE.

pe. Edgar San Juan is the screenwriter and producer of Norteado by Rigoberto Perezcano (Mexico-Spain, 2009), co-producer of La nana by Sebastián Silva (Chile-Mexico, 2009); co-producer of La sirga by William Vega (Colombia, France and Mexico, 2011) and screenwriter and producer of Chalan by Jorge Michel (Mexico, 2012).

ITALY CINETECA NACIONAL DE MÉXICO Paula Astorga www.cinetecanacional.net paula.astorga@gmail.com

TORINO FILM LAB Anita Voorham www.torinofilmlab.it anita@bravadofilm.nl Supports emerging talents from all over the world through training, development and funding. It offers several year-round programmes such as Script&Pitch aimed at script development, The Writer’s Room aimed at transmedia and FrameWork aimed at project development for filmmakers working on their first and second feature films. Torino Film Lab is supported by the Italian Culture Ministry, Regione Piemonte, Torino City, MEDIA and MEDIA Mundus.

Founded on 1974, CINETECA NACIONAL DE MÉXICO is the public body in charge of the preservation, classification, rescue and diffusion of the film heritage of México.

Member of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) since 1977, it offers eight exhibition rooms, a bibliographic documentation center, library, restaurant and cafeteria.

Its film archive includes over 12,000 films in 16mm and 35mm, preserved in four vaults according to FIAF regulations. A fifth vault gathers non-filmic material, including video archive, photography, posters, photomontages, slides and negatives.

INTERIOR 13 Sandra Gómez www.int13cine.com sandra@int13cine.com Distribution company based in Mexico City, focused on local distribution of Latin American cinema, international arthouse, publications on avant garde filmmakers and the promotion of Mexican talents. Founded in 2008 by Sandra Gómez and Maximiliano Cruz as a label for film promotion, INTERIOR 13 has produced Paraísos artificiales (2011)

by Yulene Olaizola and Los mejores temas (2012) by Nicolás Pereda. INTERIOR 13 also provides programming and consulting services for international film festivals such as Riviera Maya Film Festival and FICUNAM.

MÉXICO FILM TANK Edgar San Juan www.filmtank.mx snjuan@yahoo.com Independent company focused on Latin America films with links in USA and Euro-

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as Bafici, Miami, San Sebastian, Tribeca, La Havana, Lima, Sanfic & IDFA, and on the other side is Ruben Imaz, director of Familia Tortuga premiered at San Sebastian and awarded with the Coup de Cour at Tolouse.

Ruben is also partner in the company Axolote Cine.

ND MANTARRAYA Lisa Gervassi, Fiorella Moretti

NETHERLANDS

www.ukbarfilmes.com pandora@ukbarfilmes.com

www.mantarraya.mx lgervassi@mantarraya.com Its main purpose is to offer the Mexican audience, high quality cinematography films.

Its line up includes titles from Latinoamerica, Europe and Asia. Among other films: the Palm d’Or winners Uncle Boonmee by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Amour by Michael Haneke, Camera d’Or winner Hunger by Steve McQueen, and Bruno Dumont’s last three titles: Hadewijch, Hors Satan and Camille Claudel. Our next title is our own production Post Tenebras Lux by Carlos Reygadas, Best director at Cannes 2012.

malacosa CINE Yulene Olaizola intimidadesde@gmail.com malacosa CINE is a Mexican based production company that started operations with the film Fogo by Yulene Olaizola, premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight 2012. The two partners on the company are Yulene Olaizola, whom previous films Intimidades de Shakespeare y Victor Hugo and Paraísos Artificiales have been awarded in several festivals such

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UKBAR FILMES Pandora da Cunha Telles

LEMMING FILM Eva Eisenloeffel www.lemmingfilm.com eva@lemmingfilm.com Established in 1995, LEMMINF FILM is one of the leading film and television production companies based in Amsterdam, with a proven track record in delivering quality film and television productions. It produces children and family features, as well as international art house features. It was founded by and continues to be run by Co-CEO’s Leontine Petit and Joost de Vries. Since 2007 the team was expanded with producers Eva Eisenloeffel and Derk Jan Warrink.

PORTUGAL

UKBAR FILMES joins good stories to the best creative. Has held dynamic directors, curious and plastically advanced, writers and screenwriters who bet heavily on narrative films to revitalize the Portuguese market and projecting aggressively into the international market. Modular teams, short shooting periods, high creative costs and low structural costs with the best solid partnerships with national and international distributors, which will contribute to the fast entrance of UKBAR FILMS in the market.

SPAIN

IMPRONTA FILMS Ana Fernandez-Saiz www.improntafilms.com info@improntafilms.com Company based in Valencia that aims to create fiction feature films and documenta-

ries, while staying open to other formats, especially those that help create ways to merge the cultural idiosyncrasies of Europe and Latin America. Their main mission is to show a new approach to cinema, focusing on its capacity to break through geographic and cultural frontiers, and dedicating special attention to today’s tendencies and characteristics of the European and Latin American markets. Silent Boy is their third production project, and the second being developed in co-production.

its competitive sections, or the new perspectives of filmmaking expression, concentrating especially on such new film directors and industries as command international attention.

UNITED KINGDOM TURANGA FILMS Lina Badenes turangafilms.com lina@turangafilms.com

THE FILM AGENCY Sarah Calderón www.thefilmagency.eu sarah@thefilmagency.eu THE FILM AGENCY is a newly launched marketing consultancy solution specialized in the film industry. Its director Sarah Calderón has a major in advertising at the PUJ of Bogotá and a Master degree in Multicultural Communication at the CELSA Sorbonne IV in Paris. Sarah has more than ten years of work experience in the audiovisual sector in different positions including: Manager and Promoter of Film Festival: Toma5inco – Bogotá, Head of International Sales at Coproduction Office – Paris, and distributor coordinator at Karma Films – Madrid. In parallel to THE FILM AGENCY she works as marketing tutor and consultant for EAVE, the Media Programme and several Media Desks.

Recently created production company based in Madrid. It was created with the main goal of producing feature films and documentaries with a projection in the international markets. Turanga favors the development of projects that combine elements of entertainment with topics of social interest. Turanga Films is composed by a young and dynamic team with studies in film and communications.

SWITZERLAND | ITALY

LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL Nadia Dresti

EAVE Alan Fountain www.eave.org fountain@eave.org European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs is a professional training, project development and networking organization for audiovisual producers. Working with a worldwide network of partners they are involved in programmes for producers in Europe, Russia, Latin America, the Arab world, Asia and Africa. They believe that the support of independent voices, creative imagination and culturally driven companies within the global media industries is an urgent necessity in the 21st century.

Through their work EAVE aims to contribute towards the creation of strong networks of producers and to encourage the exchange of knowledge and skills which will strengthen independent production across the world.

www.pardo.ch nadia.dresti@pardo.ch The Locarno Film Festival aims to promote personal filmmaking of artistic merit; to provide a showcase for major new films of the year from around the world; to take stock, in

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UNITED STATES

MOVIECITY Diana Salcedo www.moviecity.com dsalcedo@moviecity.com Owned by 20th Century Fox, FOX International Channels, and Paramount Pictures, Moviecity is Latin America’s best premium entertaining video experience –it has the most recent films, series, documentaries, concerts, and events, in exclusive, with no commercial breaks, and in high quality audio and video. More than a thousand shows offered monthly by its six original brands, each with a definite personality thought up to entertain and satisfy the taste of different audiences at home. Additionally, Moviecity offers HD channels, HD contents, exclusive 3D content, and Moviecity Play –an on-demand programming service to enjoy the best of Moviecity online.

SHORELINE ENTERTAINMENT Tom Davia www.shorelineentertainment.com tom@slefilms.com For more than fifteen years, it has delivered cutting edge and critically acclaimed entertainment to the global marketplace.

Under the creative direction of Morris Ruskin, the company has produced more than thirty feature films and secured distribution for hundreds more. Their most distinguished projects have premiered as marquee films at prestigious festivals and enjoyed subsequent theatrical releases. Distributors around the world turn to SHORELINE for quality independent cinema. Their films span all genres, from cast-driven dramas and comedies, to thrillers, action, horror, and even documentaries.

TRANSCINEMA John Campos Gómez www.transcinemafestival.com john@transcinemafestival.com International non-fiction festival, which reconsiders the conventions that for decades

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prefigured the way we look after cinema.

The objective is break into its complexity.

Festivals are an example of film creation, as they in some way appropriate the works they exhibit. Without this aesthetic and political appropriation it isn’t possible to prove the coherence of its discourse. Then TRANSCINEMA is an international platform that intends to reflect on the purposes of cinema and its new forms of expression, mainly in works which question the limits between documentary and fiction films.

URUGUAY

MALBICHO CINE Agustín Banchero, Sandino Saravia agusbanchero@gmail.com, sandinosaravia@gmail.com Production company with offices in Montevideo. Established by director Rodrigo Plá and producer Sandino Saravia Vinay, it focuses on development and production of feature films in Latin America. La Demora directed by Plá is their first production and was premiered in the Berlinale, Forum 2012. Now they are developing Bull Down! by Gabriel Mascaro in co-production with Desvia Filmes (Brazil) and Antes de Ayer first feature film by Agustín Banchero.

to develop independent and auteurial audiovisual contents while working as a channel for contents and sensibilities, as reflected by Javier Hayrabedian’s screenplay Las Mariposas.

MUTANTE CINE Agustina Chiarino, Fernando Epstein www.mutantecine.com aguchia@yahoo.com, fernandoepstein@gmail.com New film production company, created in 2011 by Agustina Chiarino and Fernando Epstein. Over the past decade, from Control Z Films they have produced and distributed several films and short-films, including 25 Watts, Whisky, Hiroshima, all with several awards in major film festivals. MUTANTE CINE is committed to continue producing films and, at the same time, open to new horizons, maintaining the emphasis in the discovery of new talents and the exploration of differents areas inside the film production and audiovisual training.

Alicia Cano elpaisdealicia@gmail.com Born in Uruguay, 1982. She works at the University of La República teaching cinema in Fine Arts Faculty, and as a freelance filmmaker. She has participated in BAFICI Talent Campus in 2010. She took Master degree in documentary cinema in the Università Cattolica from Milan, Italy, and stay there for three years working as a filmmaker for the documentary serial Reparto Maternità in Fox Life. The Bella Vista is her first feature-length documentary that was awarded production funds from World Cinema Fund - Berlinale, ICAU - Cinema Institute in Uruguay. She’s currently preparing a new short film for the Why Poverty? intiative.

VENEZUELA

PELÍCULAS PRESCINDIBLES Rober Calzadilla, Marianela Illas lamaquinatre@gmail.com, nella. illas@gmail.com Production company established in 2010

by Marianela Illas and Rubén Sierra Salles with the goal of developing film projects from Venezuelan authors. Its work includes the medium-length films April’s Sorrow” by Rober Calzadilla, and The Last Afternoon by Rubén Sierra Salles, and the feature films Dora’s Ballad by Rober Calzadilla and Lucía

by Ruben Sierra Salles. In 2010, Lucía was the first Venezuelan project to be selected for L’atelier of Cannes.

TRÁFICO FILMS Javier Hayrabedian, Germán Castiglioni jhayrabedian@yahoo.com, germancastiglioni@gmail.com Tráfico Films is a group project and at the same time a personal development, looking

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EQUIPO AUSTRALAB

ERICK GONZÁLEZ General Delegate

ÚRSULA BUDNIK Executive Producer

CLARA TARICCO Coordinator

erick.gonzalez@ficv.cl

ubudnik@ficv.cl

clara.taricco@ficv.cl

ANTONIA GOYCOOLEA Coordinator

GILDA CID Administration

ASTRID ABURTO Assistant

antonia.goycoolea@ficv.cl

CAMILA MANNS Assistant

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