Sanfic Industria’s 2024 Work in Progress Offers Arresting Emerging Talents, Affecting Portraits of Latin America’s Challenges (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comSanfic Industria Ibero-American Work In Progress, one of the industry centerpieces at the 20th Santiago Intl. Film Festival in Chile.
Usually eight entries, titles were increased to 10 this year, Gabriela Sandoval, Sanfic Industry told Variety, given that submissions were up 50% on 2023.
That reflects the post-pandemic recovery of production in Latin America, plus the ever larger appeal of profile at Sanfic Industria, the key summer film industry event in the region.
With Sanfic Industria’s Sanfic Morbido Lab showcasing the powerful build in genre across Spain and Latin America, including this year new projects from Caye Casas and Guillermo Amoedo, Sanfic Ibero-American WIP has genre movies, whether sci-fi “The Clearing” or the movie shot in “Criminal Body.” Featuring five women directors, the Ibero-American WIP underscores the last-decade build in gender parity in Latin American filmmaking, still a work in progress, especially in the directors of movies.
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