• With more than 60 delegates and participating in more than eight sections, Chile will mark its presence at Marché du Film, the world’s largest audiovisual market, as part of the Cannes Film Festival.
• Producers Network, Cannes Docs, Animation Days and Short Film Corner, are some of the sections where experienced professionals of the industry will stand out with their features, documentary, animated feature films, and national short films.
• Blood Window, Fantastic 7, Sanfic Industry Goes to Cannes and an online Screening Room, are other spaces where the delegation will shine.
• Meanwhile, the outstanding director Dominga Sotomayor, will be part of the Special Screenings section of the Festival with the world premiere of The Year of the Everlasting Storm, where she participates along with other directors.
The 73rd edition of the Cannes Film Festival will take place in France between 6 and 15 July, and with it a new version of the Marché du Film, the industry section of the event, where Chile will have a unprecedented participation. The Chilean audiovisual sector will be represented by more than 60 delegates, in various industry sections, where the directors will be granted screenings, promotion, financing and opportunities of networking at an international level.
Five producers will be part of the Producers Network Spotlight, a network that each year hosts more than 500 industry professionals from around the world, where they will be able to build alliances and interact with their peers from different countries participating in the event. In its 18th edition, the section will receive producers from Chile, the United Kingdom, Poland, Russia and the Baltic States. Chilean producers include Alejandra García from Wood Producciones; Giancarlo Nasi from Quijote Films; Gabriela Sandoval from Storyboard Media/SANFIC INDUSTRIA; Dominga Sotomayor from Cinestación; and Alejandro Ugarte from Infractor Films. «We are happy to return to Marché du Film, where we have been partners for the past six years, and we are very proud to be able to promote five producers with long experience on the Chilean cinematographic scene, who will participate in this event to network and establish connections for international co-production. As CinemaChile, we want to give a platform of visibility to this group that has put the name of Chile very far on the map «says Constanza Arena, Executive Director of CinemaChile.
Cannes Docs, the documentary-oriented section of the Marché du Film, will have this year an activity especially dedicated to Chilean projects: Docs in Progress Showcase Chile. Chiledoc, which organizes this activity, will thus become one of the eight international partners with a sample of works in the editing stage, which will be screened before the industry agents present in the market. «This event is very important, as it involves decision makers, festival programmers and sales agents, which will boost the search for funding and co-production opportunities for these four projects and for the rest of the national industry. To this work is added the participation in the Sunny Side of the Doc Festival, also in France, which together ratify the recognition that Chile has achieved in a key market for the sector. These outstanding participations, supported by ProChile, aim at the same goal that we have been working together and that is to deepen the internationalization of our documentarians «says Jorge O’Ryan, General Director of ProChile.
Docs in Progress Showcase Chile will feature four projects: Under Suspicion, directed by Daniel Díaz and produced by Esteban Sandoval; Bastardo. La herencia de un genocida, directed by Pepe Rovano and produced by Clara Taricco; Meeting Point, directed by Roberto Baeza and produced by Paulina Costa; and Edita, directed by Pamela Pollak and produced by Cristóbal Sotomayor, Carolina Ojalvo and Pamela Pollak. «It is the second time that Chiledoc organizes a Showcase with projects in the editing stage that are presented to decision makers in the largest film market worldwide, exposing current, relevant and global issues: human rights violations, discrimination against women, segregation towards persons of indigenous origin or the relationship between unrecognized children and their parents. The participation of Chile in Cannes Docs shows how our documentaries are being recognized today for their artistic quality and their global topics in the international orbit «says Paula Ossandón, director of Chiledoc.
Animation Days, for its part, is a key section for the global animation community, which Chile will attend to with five feature film projects within the Animation Work In Progress Chile: Tata Miguel, directed by Tomás Montalva and produced by Cecilia Baeriswyl; Historia clandestinas, directed by José María González and produced by Catalina Donoso, Partricio Ochoa and Kamila Velich; La veta del diablo, directed by Germán Acuña and produced by Sebastián Ruiz; Winnipeg, the ship of hope, directed by Elio Quiroga and Beñat Beitia, and produced by Marianne Mayer-Beckh, Antoni Marin and Ricardo Ramon; and Uky and Lola in Tierra del Fuego, directed by Fabián Andrade and produced by Simón Barrionuevo. «It is a tremendous experience for us to participate in this market that is just opening new window of opportunities for animation. Chile has stood out in the region in terms of the generation of original ideas and memorable characters, who are often very Latino, but somehow manage to connect with the international market and become universal content. These markets and alliances are key for these ambitious projects to transcend and cross borders «said José Navarro, representing Chilean Animation.
In addition to national participation in other festival and industry sections such as the Short Film Corner, Sanfic Industry Goes to Cannes and the Screening Room, among other activities, Chile has three official selections. The year of the everlasting storm, a compendium of short films where director Dominga Sotomayor participates as the only Latin American representative, and which is presented at Cannes as World Premiere within the Special Screenings section. Meanwhile, Alien Island, directed by Cristóbal Valenzuela and produced by Diego Breit and Sarah Pennacchi, will be presented with a ten-minute excerpt at the Blood Window Showcase, a space dedicated to the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. Likewise, Fever, a project directed by Elisa Eliash and produced by Clara Taricco, will be presented in Fantastic 7, a joint initiative between the Cannes Film Festival and the Sitges Festival in Catalonia dedicated to projects of fantastic genre.
Chile’s participation is led by various public and private institutions: the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage (MINCAP), ProChile, the Chilean Documentary Corporation, the CinemaChile and Chiledoc sector brands, the Association of Animation of Chile and its brand Chilean Animation, Chile Shorts and SANFIC Festival.
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