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PUENTES Europe - Latin America Producers Workshop
First workshop: Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 8 – 11

Following the successful first edition of PUENTES in 2009, we are delighted to announce that PUENTES is back in 2010 with an extended formula of two workshops, supported by MEDIA International. EAVE and TyPA/BAL will organize a joint workshop for Latin American and European producers. Workshop 1 will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from April 8-11, 2010, within the framework of the BAFICI (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) and workshop 2 will take place in Gijon (Spain), from November 23-26, 2010, during the Festival Internacional de Gijon.

The following producers were selected for PUENTES:

• René Bastian, Belladonna Productions, Germany/USA; project: Song Without a Name
  
• Raúl Bravo, NorteSur Producciones, Venezuela; project: Lucía
  
• Irina Caballero, AbacaFilms & Jaguar Films, Ecuador – Panama; project: Ruta de la Luna
  
• Nicolás Celis López, Pimienta Films, Mexico; project: El placer es mío (It's My Pleasure)
  
• Agustina Chiarino, Control Z Films, Uruguay; project: 3
  
• Fernanda del Nido, Tic Tac Producciones, Spain; project: Polvo (Dust)
  
• Anna G Magnúsdóttir, LittleBig Productions, Sweden; project: The Bird Girl
  
• Dymitr Solomko, Tank Production & Andzrej Wajda Foundation & Master School of Film Directing, Poland; project: Voliera Romance
  
• Daniel Werner, Magoya Films & Bambú Cine, Argentina; project: Mujer Conejo (Rabbit Woman)
  
• Paula Zyngierman, RZS Films, Argentina; project: The Land of the Carob Tree

The 10 selected producers (4 from Europe and 6 from Latin America) will work on the comprehensive development of their projects with top professionals from both continents:

• Hugo Castro Fau, Lagarto Cine, Argentina
• Jean des Forêts, Petit Film, France
• Alan Fountain, EAVE Head of Studies, United Kingdom
• Jorge Goldenberg, Script Consultant, Argentina
• Miguel Machalski, Script Consultant, France
• Hernan Musaluppi, Rizoma Films, Argentina
• Roberto Olla, Eurimages, European Union
• Peter Rommel, Rommel Film, Germany

The PUENTES workshop will offer in-depth insight into audiovisual market and operating conditions, legal frameworks, financing, sales, distribution and exhibition practices in both continents, it will provide opportunities for networking between the participants and their companies to create medium and long term informational co-financing and co-production relationships and it will enable the access to a network of producers, markets, festivals and decision makers in both continents.

For more information please contact:
EAVE: Tanika Sajatovic, International Coordinator: tanika@eave.org
BAL/TyPA: Fanny Rolland, Workshop Manager: fanny@bafici.gov.ar
www.eave.org & www.bafici.gov.ar