Latin Pitch: a financing and promotion platform for Latin American documentary projects
The Latin Pitch consists in the presentation of 6 projects from Latin America in front a selection of financers, especially interested in projects from these countries, and DocsBarcelona accredited professionals.
To apply for the Latin Pitch, the project must have a minimum of a 60% of Latin American production and the director must have Latin-American nationality.
WHEN AND WHERE
Friday, May 27th from 3.30 p.m to 6.15 p.m at CCCB.
All the pitch presentations will be in English.
After Guantanamo
Director: Guillermo Rocamora
Producer: Santiago López
Oriental Features
Uruguay
Away from meaning
Director: Olivia Luengas Magaña
Producer: Odín Acosta Ascencio
Phonocular
Mexico
Mirrors for Gold
Directors and Producers: Carlos Pérez Osorio, Enrique R. Bencomo
Scopio
Mexico
Story of my name
Director: Karin Cuyul
Producers: Dominga Sotomayor, Joséphine Schroeder
Cinestación
Chile
The net caster
Director: Jonathan Ceballos
Producer: Pablo Navarro
Colombia
Unheard voices Brazil
Director: Renata Maria Coimbra
Producer: Juliano Lueders
Futuro Coletivo, T’ai
Brazil
- Renaud Allilaire, France Télévisions, France 4, (France)
- Axel Arnö, SVT (Sweden)
- Kazz Basma, Sideways Film (UK)
- Lorenzo Benítez, 3BoxMedia (Spain)
- Kathryn Bonnici, JAVA Films (France)
- Anais Clanet, WIDE House (France)
- Jess Gormley, The Guardian (UK)
- Maëlle Guenegues, CAT&Docs (France)
- Astrid Guger, Autlook Filmsales (Austria)
- Diana Karklin, Rise&Shine (Germany)
- Karen Michael, ARTE France (France)
- Luke Moody, BRITDOC Foundation (UK)
- Juan David Orozco, DocsBarcelona Medellín (Colombia)
- Michela Pascolo, Slingshot Films (Italy)
- Sebastián Pelayo, SPR (Mexico)
- Valentina Ripamonti and Antonia Valenzuela, SurDocsBarcelona (Chile)
- Jose Rodriguez, Tribeca Film Institute (USA)
- Claudia Rodriguez Valencia, Preciosa Media (Colombia)
- Joan Salvat, TVC (Spain)
- Irena Taskovski, Taskovski Films (UK)
- Nicole Tsien, PBS, POV (USA)
- Jenny Westergård, YLE (Finland)
- Nathalie Windhorst, VPRO (The Netherlands)
After Guantanamo
Director: Guillermo Rocamora
Producer: Santiago López
Oriental Features
Uruguay
Away from meaning
Director: Olivia Luengas Magaña
Producer: Odín Acosta Ascencio
Phonocular
Mexico
Mirrors for Gold
Directors and Producers: Carlos Pérez Osorio, Enrique R. Bencomo
Scopio
Mexico
Story of my name
Director: Karin Cuyul
Producers: Dominga Sotomayor, Joséphine Schroeder
Cinestación
Chile
The net caster
Director: Jonathan Ceballos
Producer: Pablo Navarro
Colombia
Unheard voices Brazil
Director: Renata Maria Coimbra
Producer: Juliano Lueders
Futuro Coletivo, T’ai
Brazil
- Renaud Allilaire, France Télévisions, France 4, (France)
- Axel Arnö, SVT (Sweden)
- Kazz Basma, Sideways Film (UK)
- Lorenzo Benítez, 3BoxMedia (Spain)
- Kathryn Bonnici, JAVA Films (France)
- Anais Clanet, WIDE House (France)
- Jess Gormley, The Guardian (UK)
- Maëlle Guenegues, CAT&Docs (France)
- Astrid Guger, Autlook Filmsales (Austria)
- Diana Karklin, Rise&Shine (Germany)
- Karen Michael, ARTE France (France)
- Luke Moody, BRITDOC Foundation (UK)
- Juan David Orozco, DocsBarcelona Medellín (Colombia)
- Michela Pascolo, Slingshot Films (Italy)
- Sebastián Pelayo, SPR (Mexico)
- Valentina Ripamonti and Antonia Valenzuela, SurDocsBarcelona (Chile)
- Jose Rodriguez, Tribeca Film Institute (USA)
- Claudia Rodriguez Valencia, Preciosa Media (Colombia)
- Joan Salvat, TVC (Spain)
- Irena Taskovski, Taskovski Films (UK)
- Nicole Tsien, PBS, POV (USA)
- Jenny Westergård, YLE (Finland)
- Nathalie Windhorst, VPRO (The Netherlands)
3 out of the 6 documentary projects have been selected from the call for entries and the remaining 3 have been selected from the diferent partnerships with the documentary film festivals of Latin America DocsDF (Mexico), DocsBarcelona+Medellín (Colombia) and SurDocs (Chile).
The Magic of a Great Project & Pitch Workshop will take place as training for the Latin Pitch
Latin Pitch participants will attend a training workshop to fine tune their projects and pitching skills so to have the best opportunity for a successful meeting with broadcasters and funders, and improve the chances of financing their documentary. The workshop will be led by the two international tutors Mikael Opstrup from EDN, European Documentary Network and Catherin Olsen, International Documentary Consultant.
If your project is selected, the cost to participate at Latin Pitch is:
| FEE (21% VAT excluded) | FEE (21% VAT**) |
| 265€ | 320,65€ |
*The fee is per project, the maximum number of people allowed per project is 2.
** Non Spanish European companies or professionals with an intra-community VAT number registered at VIES (Vat Information Exchange System) are not subject to pay 21% VAT.
The fee includes:
- Participation at the Latin Pitch.
- Participation at The Magic of a Great Project & Pitch Workshop.
- Access as a viewer at the Interactive Pitch.
- Access to the interDocsBarcelona conference.
- Access to Opening and Closing ceremonies (RSVP needed).
- Access to the Festival screenings.
- Access to Master Classes and industry conferences.
- Industry Guide including all contacts from the festival participants.
- Access to “Making Africa” exhibition at CCCB.
Best Latin Pitch Award
After the presentations of the Latin Pitch projects, the panel members vote the best pitch. The winning project gets two free professional accreditations for the next edition of DocsBarcelona.