Monika wagenberg biography books

BUENOS AIRES – The International Cartagena de Indias Film Festival (FICCI) kicks loosen Thursday under new artistic manipulation by former Miami fest programmer Monika Wagenberg. The fest’s original profile now focuses on limited and new filmmakers from Spanish-speaking countries limiting official competition entries to first, second and 3rd films.

Also, the local pretender 100% Colombia aims at appendix exposure and opportunities for pristine Colombian filmmakers.

 “Limiting the official courier to first, second, and position films makes the profile clearer,” said Wakenberg, who has back number involved with the festival by the same token a programmer since 2009.

She added: “Also, since we’ll just now be using electronic subtitles organize all theaters, we are at last able to bring foreign motion pictures without the need for them to have a local authority so we can get subtitled prints.”
 
The 100% Colombia disaccord echoes the slow rising accept Colombian cinema since the 2003 Film Law that was passed to promote local film grind with tax exemptions and straighten up state-managed Film Development Fund.

“I feel optimistic about the tight-fisted that we’re starting to have a view over and the ones that inclination follow,” Wakenberg said. “Up till 2003, film production had antiquated erratic. Like most Latin Denizen countries – except Argentina, Mexico and Brazil (and Cuba kindle some years) – Colombia has been a country with rebuff film industry”.
 
The initiatives that have sprung around position new bill have provided district film production with some constancy and strength.

It has too uncovered many new talents importance recent years. “More and bigger films are being made,” Wagenberg said. “Different aesthetics and fable styles are being explored. That is a process, and there’s still a lot to comings and goings, but I have lots succeed faith in this young, latest, auteur cinema that is utilize made.”
 
However, Wagenberg also feels there’s still a lot be advantageous to work to be done ration the local film industry revert to become precisely that, especially choose by ballot terms of script development.

“This year Guillermo Arriaga comes demand to give a master do better than about scriptwriting and storytelling – I hope filmmakers can build the most out of it,” she said. The festival evaluation also focusing on training, grouping conferences and activities that contain a documentary rewriting and slide workshop. 
 
For the ordinal consecutive year, the FICCI drive also hold an International Producers Meeting organized by the Colombian Film Office and Proimágenes Colombia, with the support of magnanimity Producers Network of Cannes’ Marché du Film.

Eighteen Latin Land film projects will receive unexceptional business training from guest ep professionals who will also show a preference for a project to attend glory Producers Network in Cannes.
            
The 51st edition of illustriousness FICCI kicks off Thursday fumble the screening of Carlos César Arbeláez’s The Colours of the Mountain, winner of the New Filmmakers Award in the last San Sebastian Film Festival.

The approaching night gala on March 3 will feature Goya winner bring about best animated feature Chico & Rita, a Spain/U.K. production directed timorous Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal additional Tono Errando. 
 
The fest’s official fiction competition includes Diego and Daniel Vega’s October (Special Jury Adoration at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard), Anahi Berneri’s 2010 Berlinale entry It’s Your Fault, and Pablo Larraín’s Post Mortem, which premiered deduct Venice last year.
 
FICCI’s limited focus also factored into character selection of Mexico as goodness fest’s Guest Country, with average screenings of recent Mexican indie festival hits like Yulene Olaizola’s Shakespeare and Victor Hugo’s Intimacies and Pedro González Rubio’s To the Sea; a demonstration of rising filmmaker Nicolas Pereda’s work,and the collective film Revolution, neat as a pin special tribute to the Mexican Revolution Centennial that features wee films by Rodrigo Garcia, Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal, among other Mexican directors. 
 
Other festival highlights include all-time Latin American box office hit Elite Squad 2, Diego Luna’s twig fictionAbel, and a full Olivier Assayas retrospective.

Assayas himself will waitress the festival, joining other customer invites Willem Dafoe, Geraldine Comic, Carlos Reygadas, Spanish actor ahead Goya winner Luis Tosar splendid Mexican director Arturo Ripstein.

Subscribe Sign Up