These names will be added to those of the national projects already announced to participate in the third stage of VENTURA, an international co-production forum that will take place on the 8th and 9th March.
Organised by the Enfoques Cultural Association, responsible for the Play-Doc International Documentary Film Festival, VENTURA is a new platform for filmmakers and producers internationally, with strong artistic visions in independent filmmaking.
VENTURA takes place throughout the year in three distinct stages, dedicated to professional training, project development and industry meetings, combining online and face-to-face activities. After successfully holding its two initial stages reserved for national projects – a week of an online mentoring and guest lectures, and an intensive writing residency – VENTURA will hold its final stage: an international co-production market to take place in Tui (Galicia, Spain) from the 8th to 9th March 2023. A series of one-to-one meetings will take place with representatives of production companies, distributors, funds, markets and international festivals.
These 12 projects taking part in this co-production forum have been selected from 257 applications and represent 11 countries (Argentina, Colombia, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Serbia, United Kingdom and United Kingdom), and are as follows:
- A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JO. CHAPTER: PHAEDRA (Directed by Jacqueline Lentzou and produced by Andrea Queralt)
- AS ESTAÇÕES (Directed by Maureen Fazendeiro and produced by Luís Urbano, Valentina Novati, Beli Martínez)
- DESPUÉS DE NADA (Directed by Carla Andrade and produced by Pilar Monsell and Gonzalo E. Veloso)
- EL ALUMBRE (Directed by Alejandro Tarraf and produced by Felipe Lage)
- ELENA DIO A LUZ A UN HERMOSO NIÑO (Directed by Chiara Marañón, Juan Soto Taborda and produced by Luís Ferron, Ricard Sales, Sandra Tabares Duque)
- LA CASA EN LA FRONTERA (Directed and produced by Andrés Duque)
- LA CHAMBRE D’OMBRES (Directed by Camilo Restrepo and produced by Helen Olive)
- MARE’S NEST (Directed by Ben Rivers and produced by Andrea Queralt, Ben Rivers)
- MIL OURELAS (Directed by Sebastián Uría and produced by Olaia Ledo, Oliver Laxe)
- MONTAÑA OU MORTE (Directed by Pela del Álamo and produced by Pela del Álamo, Felipe Lage)
- SERENA ((Directed by Alessandro Comodin and produced by Thomas Ordonneau, Tommaso Bertani)
- U SENCI ROGOVA (Directed by Ognjen Glavonić and produced by Dragana Jovović, Stefan Ivančić)
- In addition to the Spanish projects participating in the first two phases, the international projects are A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JO. CHAPTER: PHAEDRA, AS ESTAÇÕES, LA CHAMBRE D’OMBRES, MARE’S NEST, SERENA and U SENCI ROGOVA.
All of them will compete for the VENTURA prize of €10,000 and a series of prizes in services provided by Cinemar Films, Cormorán VFX, Laboratorio Numax and the Doc’s Kingdom seminar. In addition to the prizes already announced, there will also be two distribution prizes awarded by Atalante in Spain and Filmgarten in Austria. The prizes will be awarded by an international jury that the organisation will announce in the coming days.
VENTURA is a project funded with the support of the European Union – NextGenerationEU, the Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA) and the Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia. The Asociación Cultural enfoques is grateful for the collaboration of the Concello de Tui and Play-Doc, Tui International Film Festival.
