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In 2012, the San Sebastian Festival launched the I Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum. Its priority objectives are to foster the development of audiovisual projects, encourage collaboration between professionals and promote an opening out towards new international markets.

Intended for developing works, the Co-Production Forum is open to film projects from Europe and Latin America.

Those responsible for projects will have the opportunity to present their works to industry members at pitching sessions and they will receive a personal agenda of appointments with professionals interested in participating in their projects.

The Festival will present the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum Award 2015 to the Best Project, carrying EUR10,000 and sponsored by Egeda (Audiovisual Producer’s Rights Management Association) for the producer of one of the selected projects.

The Forum also includes initiatives to prompt informal meetings between participants and activities to encourage the exchange of experiences and knowledge of key matters related to the audiovisual industry past and present.

It is also a gathering place for all industry professionals present at San Sebastian with its own matchmakers crew to facilitate contacts.

As an extension to the San Sebastian Forum, and as a result of the "Forging Alliances" collaboration agreement signed with the Producers Network of the Marché du Film-Festival de Cannes and Argentina’s INCAA (Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales), a number of these projects will be able to continue their international trajectory thanks to participation in the Ventana Sur market and in the coming edition of the Cannes Producers Network. This initiative will lend a decisive boost to their international promotion.

Programme of the IV Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum

The Co-production Forum is open to Latin American and European projects at the development stage. European projects must have a direct link with Latin America: involvement of a Latin American producer, shooting locations, actors in the leading roles or subject in the script.

The project requirements are:

Minimum duration of 60 minutes and transmedia, crossmedia and multiplatform projects taking cinematographic film as one of their main platforms. Journalistic or informative audiovisual reports will not be considered as non-fiction projects.
20% of financing assured.
It will be an advantage if the project is being presented for the first time at a forum, if the production company has already carried out at least one international co-production, if it innovates in formats and addresses new distribution and financing formulas, and if complementary material is presented including earlier works completed by its director.

The submission requirementsare:

Acceptance of the Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum Rules and Regulations
Online registration (To submit a project you must be registered, log in and click "new project").
Documentation (in english or spanish or basque): Producer´s notes (2 pages), Director´s notes (2 pages), treatment (8-12 pages), budget summary and financing plan.

For further information, please contact: industryclub@sansebastianfestival.com

The Europe-Latin America Co-Production Foro is an activity organised by the Industry Department of the San Sebastan Festival to promote the development of film projects between Europe and Latin America and to strengthen co-production and inter-continental distribution networks.

The submission of film projects at the development stage. The call is circulated to all of the industry professionals in the Festival data database, is published in the media and is announced on its website.

The Festival will select a maximum of 20 projects for participation in the Co-Production Forum based on the reports of three international experts. Those responsible for the projects may find strategic, industrial and financial partners to co-produce their projects among the professional guests at the Festival. They will also have the opportunity to present their works to industry members at pitching sessions and will be provided with an individual agenda of meetings with professionals interested in their projects.

The Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum will take place on 19th, 20th and 21st September 2016 in the framework of the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival.

Projects presented to the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum must meet the following conditions:

ARTICLE 1

The call for submission is open to production companies in Europe and Latin America with projects at the development stage that meet the following requirements:

Minimum duration of 60 minutes and transmedia, crossmedia and multiplatform projects taking cinematographic film as one of their main platforms. Journalistic or informative audiovisual reports will not be considered as non-fiction projects.

The projects will be presented by the production company and the director or directors must be involved in them.

European projects must have a direct link with Latin America: involvement of a Latin American producer, shooting locations, actors in the leading roles or subject in the script.

The producers of the projects must present a budget in euros and a funding plan with at least 20% already assured.

It will be an advantage if the project is being presented for the first time at a forum, if the production company has already carried out at least one international co-production, if it innovates in formats and addresses new distribution and financing formulas, and if complementary material is presented including earlier works completed by its director.

ARTICLE 2

Projects can be submitted, free of charge by duly completing the online submission form and accepting these rules & regulations as a preliminary condition.

ARTICLE 3

To present additional images, the interested party must provide a web link where the material in question can be viewed. Material in physical format will not be accepted.

ARTICLE 4

The Festival will recognise the person who signs this confirmation as the sole representative for all aspects related to participation of the project in the Co-Production Forum and as the sole responsible as opposed to other companies or individuals involved in the project.

ARTICLE 5

The decision taken regarding the selection of projects will be final.

ARTICLE 6

The invitation made to each project will remain strictly confidential between the San Sebastian Festival and the producers or representatives of the project until such time as the Festival decides to make an official announcement in this regard.

ARTICLE 7

The producers of the selected projects undertake to:

Confirm participation of the project in the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum.

Confirm their presence and/or that of the director during the dates of the Forum. It is however recommended that both attend.

Send all additional information requested by the organisation for its catalogue or website in English and Spanish or Basque.

ARTICLE 8

The Festival will present an Award carrying EUR 10,000 for the majority producer of one of the selected projects. The prize money, always paid in euros, will be handed over either as a bank cheque or as an international cheque.

Moreover, ARTE France Cinema will present the ARTE International Prize carrying EUR 5,000 for the majority producer of one of the selected projects at the V Europe-Latin America Co-Production Foro.

ARTICLE 9

Once production of the projects is complete, those responsible for them must include the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum logo in the credits of the definitive copy. This logo is available in various languages on the festival official web site.

ARTICLE 10

All doubts arising from the interpretation of these rules and regulations will be solved by the San Sebastian Festival Management.

ARTICLE 11

In the event of discrepancy in the interpretation of these rules and regulations, the Spanish version will apply.

JAVIER MARTÍN

BSconSc from the University of Valladolid. In 1995 he moved to Paris, where he started working for the French distribution company, Colifilms, specialists in the distribution of Spanish and Latin American cinema in France. Meanwhile, he coordinated several co-productions with Spain and Latin America, through the French production company Albares Productions.

Since 2002 he has been a member of the programming team at the Forum des images, a film body dependent upon Paris City Council.

He has also collaborated with several film festivals. Between 2005 and 2007 he coordinated the International Film School Meeting in San Sebastian. From 2006 to 2011 he worked for the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes, firstly as a correspondent for Spain and Latin America, and later as a member of the selection committee for the 2010 and 2011 editions. Today he is a delegate at the Berlinale for some 15 Latin American countries; he is also a member of the Cinéma du Réel Documentary Film Festival selection committee.

MANUEL PÉREZ ESTREMERA

Started as a contributor to magazines on film and cultura: Film Ideal, Nuestro Cine, Cuadernos para el diálogo, Primer Acto. He collaborated in numerous series and programmes for Spanish television, TVE, and was director of the weekly film programme, Fila 7; from 1987 to 1992 he was the company’s Assistant Director of External Production. He has also held a variety of executive positions with the Sogecable group, including Director of the programme Magacine and Director of Own Productions with Canal Plus. He was Director of the San Sebastian Film Festival for two years and a member of its Management Committee until 1997.

Manuel was also head of the Production Department at the San Antonio de los Baños International Film and Television School in Cuba between 1998 and 2000. He is the author of four books: Correspondencia inacabada con Arturo Ripstein, Nuevo Cine Alemán, Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, and Problemas del Nuevo Cine.
His more recent positions include Director of Cinematography with the Spanish Ministry of Culture (ICAA) (2004) and Director of TVE (2005-2007).

ANDREA STAVENHAGEN

Andrea Stavenhagen, the new delegate for Latin America holds a Degree in History from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She began her professional career in the field of film promotion and dissemination collaborating in the Directing of Short Film Production at IMCINE. She went on to become Deputy Director of Research and Dissemination at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica. At the Guadalajara International Film Festival she was head of the Ibero-American Co-production Meeting. She was the Director of Industry with the FICG until August 2013. She also co-directed for ten years the Morelia Lab Workshop for Young Producers in Latin America at the Morelia Film Festival where she currently coordinates the activities for Inudstry professionals.