EAVE PUENTES, the most relevant and successful training programme for developing European-Latin American co-production is thrilled to announce the selection of the 14 participants for its 2021 edition!
PUENTES takes place over 2 workshops. The first workshop will take happen online from June 14 – 25, in partnership with FVG Audiovisual Fund, IDM Südtirol / Alto Adige and MiC. During the second week of the first workshop, EAVE and its partners will organize in addition PUENTES ITALIA, a special programme dedicated to Italian producers and film professionals interested in deepening opportunities for collaborating with Latin America. PUENTES ITALIA will be held from June 21-24 in Bressanone, Italy.
Workshop 2 will be held in Uruguay in November 2021, prior to Ventana Sur (November 29 – December 3). Thanks to a partnership between EAVE and Marché du Film, the 2021 PUENTES participants will attend the Latin American Audiovisual Market.
In partnership with Mutante Cine, the second workshop of PUENTES is granted with the support of ICAU (Instituto de Cine y Audiovisual del Uruguay), Egeda, Montevideo Socio Audiovisual and IBERMEDIA PROGRAMME.
The following 9 participants focusing on project development with feature films development and 5 participants focusing on career development have been selected for PUENTES:
Alessandro Borrelli,La Sarraz Pictures, Italy
Alba Bosch-Durán, Oberon Media, Spain
Julia Cherrier, Calouma Films, France/Mexico
Bárbara Defanti, Sobretudo Produção, Brazil
Pamela Guinea, Cine Concepción, Guatemala Project: Nosotros by Joaquín Ruano
Lionel Massol, Film Grand Huit, France Project: El Día de Mi Bestia by Camila Beltrán
Lorena Morín, MECAS International Market dedicated to Almost Finished Films and Films to be Made, Spain
Clementine Mourão-Ferreira, Barraca Producciones, Portugal / Mexico
Annabelle Mullen Pacheco, Belle Film, Puerto Rico, Project: Braided by Raisa Bonnet
Emanuele Nespeca, Solaria Film srl, Italy Project: Ultraworld by Felice V. Bagnato
María Ángeles Palacios Bonilla, Punk S.A., Ecuador Project: Loretta Young and the Monsters by Javier Andrade
Paola Andrea Pérez Nieto, Inercia Films, Colombia Project: Horizon by César Augusto Acevedo
Triin Tramberg, Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia
Quentin Worthington, MPM Premium, France
In addition, 11 Italian professionals have been selected for PUENTES ITALIA taking place in parallel to the main workshop.
4 of them are bringing a documentary project in development to the workshop, 3 of them a fiction feature and 4 are focusing on their career development and exploring the opportunities of working with Latin America.
Michele Aiello, ZaLab, Documentary project: Oasis
Armando Andria, Ladoc Docu-fiction project: The Utopia of Pulcinella
Chiara Gramizzi, Bo film Documentary project : La Maleta de Francisca
Chiara Toffolo, Tesla production Documentary project : Digital Nomads
Ivan Casagrande Conti, Rosso Fiction project: Los Océanos Son Los Verdaderos Continentes
Chiara Cruciatti, Disparte Fiction project : Il Cileno
Francesca Portalupi, Indyca Fiction project : LP
Debora Nischler, Albolina Film
Lucia Pornano, Doc/It (Associazione Documentaristi Italiani)
Paolo Bogna, Nefertiti Film
Moritz Bonatti, HELIOS sustainable Films
The PUENTES workshop is made possible with the support of the Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union and IBERMEDIA, and with the recognition of the Directorate-General for Cinema and Audiovisual of the Ministry of Culture.