Organized by the Cannes Festival and Market and Argentina’s INCAA film agency, this year’s Ventana Sur, the biggest film-TV event in Latin America, is rapidly gaining in critical mass. In one cruci…
In one crucial development, INCAA president Luis Puenzo confirmed to that Ventana Sur will coincide with the latest meetings of CAACI, the body of governmental audiovisual authorities in Ibero-America – Latin America, Spain and Portugal – and of its biggest dedicated film fund, Ibermedia.The agenda for CAACI meeting will not have been drawn up. But two issues look inevitably to be on the table, one way or another. One is support measures to aid the recuperation of the region’s film industries.
“I’d say there’s no region in the world that is not imagining its future. But that’s not just a question of emerging from the pandemic. If we talk about audiovisual production in Latin America, the plague has accelerated what we saw coming. “Times have changed, bringing other stories and ways of producing and distributing them. But that’s the history cinema and we’re prepared,” said Puenzo.
Whether Latin America will table legislation equivalent to the E.U. Audiovisual Media Services Directive is a moot question indeed, however. The health of the local film industry hardly seems a priority in either Mexico or Brazil. Having driven into arthouse, animation and genre, Ventana Sur announced at the Cannes Marché du Film that it will launch an extensiveMadrid-based Spotlight is offering cash prizes of €15,000 and €5,000 for the development of two Latin American series at Ventana Sur’s SoloSerieS, in return for exclusive rights over 18 months.
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