Starting from 2023, Open Doors has been championing filmmaking from regions where independent cinema is especially challenging, building bridges for collaboration across regions, countries and continents. Through Open Doors' public and professional programs, we aim to provide a space where talents find support in every step of their creative and professional journey and where discussion and reinvention of today’s cinema can happen among free voices.
For three years, Open Doors is dedicated to film projects and talents from the following regions and countries:
The professional and public programs of Open Doors take place during the Locarno Film Festival and year-round, onsite and online. Read more about them here below.
Open Doors is proud to spotlight the following projects and emerging producers from Latin America and the Caribbean in its professional activities taking place 3-8 August 2023, in the framework of the 76th Locarno Film Festival.
Projects’ Hub
Co-production platform for feature-length projects.
Desidia
Director: Leandro Grillo
Producer: Alejandra Antequera, Trisomia Cine
Bolivia, Chile
El ultimo rey (Last of Kings)
Director: Victor Checa
Producer: Jimena Hospina, Pierrot Films
Peru, Germany, Mexico
Libertinas (Libertines)
Director: Leslie Ortiz
Producer: Adriana Morán, Relativo Films
El Salvador, Peru
LOA. Mata a tus amos (LOA. Kill Your Masters)
Director: Carlos Zerpa
Producer: Carlos Zerpa, Mecha
Venezuela
Pantasma
Director: Gloria Carrión
Producer: Leonor Zúniga
Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras
Raised by Goats
Director: Gibrey Allen
Producer: Nadean Rawlins, Raw Management Agency
Jamaica
Tres balas (Three Bullets)
Director: Génesis Valenzuela
Producer: Wendy Espinal, Colectivo Cinematográfico 81
Dominican Republic
Vía láctea (Milky Way)
Director: Paz Fábrega
Producer: Federico Moreira, La Mayor Cine
Costa Rica, Uruguay
Producers’ Lab
Training workshop for creative producers with feature projects.
Veronica Haro
Abril films, Ecuador
Ana Isabel Martins Palacios
Fosforito Films, Honduras
Daniela Muñoz
Estudio ST, Cuba
Carlos Ormeño Palma
La Fiebre Films, Peru
Gregorio Rodríguez
Casa Latina Films, Dominican Republic
Joaquín Ruano
Producciones Concepción, Guatemala
Samuel Suffren
Kitfilms, Haiti
Ivana Urízar
Cine Mío, Paraguay
Read more about the selection in our press release.
Details of all selected projects will be available upon request.
For more information, please contact the Open Doors team at opendoors@locarnofestival.ch
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