FILMS IN PROGRESS 3.

The Rencontres Cinémas d’Amérique Latine de Toulouse and Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival selected the following movies from among 39 works from 11 Latin-American countries, for participation in the 3rd Films in Progress rendezvous:

• Ana y los otros, by Celina Murga (Argentina)
• Bar El Chino, by Daniel Burak (Argentina)
• Pueblo chico, by Fernán Rudnik (Argentina)
• El transcurso de las cosas, by Esteban Menis (Argentina)
• Pyme (Sitiados), by Alejandro Malowicki (Argentina)

These five movies, all independent Argentinean productions, were accompanied by two feature films presented at last years Films in Progress:

• Siete días, siete noches, by Joel Cano (Cuba)
• Capital Rancho, by Gabriel Bertini (Argentina)

The respective directors and producers presented their films still at the provisional stage, in their original language with subtitles, on Thursday 27 and Friday 28 March at the Cervantes Institute in Toulouse as part of the XV Rencontres Cinémas d’Amérique Latine (21-30 March 2003).

These professional screenings are exclusively reserved for producers, distributors, technical industries, TV channels, festivals, organisations and companies related to the different stages of the cinematographic process whom, as a whole, can play a decisive part in helping these projects to reach the general public.

FILMS IN PROGRESS 4.

Films in Progress celebrated its fourth rendezvous on 23-24 September 2003, during the 51st Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival, in close collaboration with the Rencontres Cinémas Amérique Latine de Toulouse.

The projects presented at San Sebastián were:

• EL CIELITO, María Victoria Menis (Argentina)
• FUGAZ, Víctor Dinenzon (Argentina)
• METEORO, Diego de la Texera (Brasil)
• OTRA VUELTA, Santiago Palavecino (Argentina)
• PUEBLO CHICO, Fernán Rudnik (Argentina)
• LA SOMBRA DEL CAMINANTE, Ciro Guerra (Colombia)
• EL TRANSCURSO DE LAS COSAS, Esteban Menis (Argentina)

Films in Progress ended with a screening of the first images of

• LOS SUSPIROS DE MI CORAZÓN, Enrique Gabriel (España-Argentina)

The movies were screened exclusively to an audience comprising producers, distributors, representatives of technical industries, television companies, festivals, institutions and companies related to the different stages of filmmaking leading projects to the audience.

The Films in Progress Award went to LA SOMBRA DEL CAMINANTE (The Wandering Shadows), by Colombian director Ciro Guerra.