Spain’s push to position itself as a premier player in the world’s film and TV industries extends to the documentary zone, as both audiences and industry delegates discovered in the impressive display of the country’s finished and work-in-progress films and co-production know-how at Toronto’s Hot Docs Festival this week.
According to the European Audiovisual Observatory’s Yearbook 2023/2024, Spain is the European leader in documentary production, with 153 films in 2022—a sign that Spain’s €1.6 billion public investment in the strategic sector, intended to spur production growth for the 2021-2025 period, has taken root in the doc space.
On the opening morning of the festival’s industry conference, five Spanish producers on the panel “International Co-production: Working With Spain” used their current projects as a jumping off point to describe and discuss the benefits of and opportunities for co-productions to dazzled delegates.
In addition to the usual funding...
According to the European Audiovisual Observatory’s Yearbook 2023/2024, Spain is the European leader in documentary production, with 153 films in 2022—a sign that Spain’s €1.6 billion public investment in the strategic sector, intended to spur production growth for the 2021-2025 period, has taken root in the doc space.
On the opening morning of the festival’s industry conference, five Spanish producers on the panel “International Co-production: Working With Spain” used their current projects as a jumping off point to describe and discuss the benefits of and opportunities for co-productions to dazzled delegates.
In addition to the usual funding...
- 5/2/2024
- by Jennie Punter
- Variety Film + TV
Buenos Aires-based boutique sales outfit Compañía de Cine has acquired international rights to Mauro Colombo’s contemplative second feature, “Wild Gleaming Space,” (“Luminoso Espacio Salvaje”) ahead of its global bow on Wednesday at Toronto’s Hot Docs, which runs April 25 to May 5.
Shot in Panama, Chile, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy and Belgium, the film weaves together intimate and resounding first-person accounts from its subjects and dynamic natural backdrops in an ambitious attempt to reach out and document the abstract confluence of life and death.
Parents in mourning, children with terminal illness, doctors and scientists and those who’ve experienced near death experiences are plumbed for their roving and mind-bending wisdom.
“‘Wild Gleaming Space’ explores uncharted territories in an intimate journey, delving into the complexities of death with a unique approach. Compañía de Cine was extremely impressed by the film’s visual treatment and Mauro’s handling of such a difficult subject matter.
Shot in Panama, Chile, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy and Belgium, the film weaves together intimate and resounding first-person accounts from its subjects and dynamic natural backdrops in an ambitious attempt to reach out and document the abstract confluence of life and death.
Parents in mourning, children with terminal illness, doctors and scientists and those who’ve experienced near death experiences are plumbed for their roving and mind-bending wisdom.
“‘Wild Gleaming Space’ explores uncharted territories in an intimate journey, delving into the complexities of death with a unique approach. Compañía de Cine was extremely impressed by the film’s visual treatment and Mauro’s handling of such a difficult subject matter.
- 4/30/2024
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
The Italian sales agent will also be handling Mauro Colombo’s award-winning documentary Inland, which will be featured in Iffr’s Bright Future. Italian international sales agent The Open Reel has announced the acquisition of Days and Works, the upcoming feature-length documentary by Italian filmmaker Francesco Dongiovanni. The film follows Peppino Maiullari, who lives in the Italian countryside, flitting between Apulia and Basilicata, Altamura and Matera. His days and his work are dedicated to the land and the animals. The pace of his existence follows the movement of the sky and the wind. Any more information about him is unnecessary, as everything is written in his eyes. The documentary, which was recently completed, comes four years after Dongiovanni’s latest medium-length documentary, Anapeson – Sleepless, and follows his short films Studio (2016), which was co-produced by The Open Reel, and The Riddle (2017), all of which premiered at the Torino Film Festival and.
Costa Rica 3–5 September 2019The new meeting point of the Audiovisual Industry in Central America and the Caribbean is set for Costa Rica September 3–5, 2019http://www.maucc.netJose Castro of the Costa Rica Film CommissionWe have made an important alliance between the Film Commission of Costa Rica and the organizers of the Expo Andina Link Costa Rica (Latin American meeting of cable and television), to create this new space with the mission of facilitating business and exchange between suppliers in Central America and the Caribbean and buyers of international audiovisual content.This initiative seeks not only to create a market space, but also a space for co-production between the countries of our region.
Central America and the Caribbean are introducing film funds in their countries and awaiting government approval.
Producers of audiovisual content who want to offer their portfolio of contents and projects, must register at www.maucc.net before August 4th.
Central America and the Caribbean are introducing film funds in their countries and awaiting government approval.
Producers of audiovisual content who want to offer their portfolio of contents and projects, must register at www.maucc.net before August 4th.
- 7/31/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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