Sanfic Productoras Lab welcomes emerging female producers from Latin America (EXCLUSIVE)

"FAN" from Argentina, "Gloria and the Dragon" from Colombia and "Laureano" from Peru are among the seven titles of Sanfic Industria's Productoras Lab, a new pitching program and training center for emerging female producers , first or second feature film in Latin America . The three titles carry a good word of mouth.

Producers will attend tutorials on how to think early in development about financing, distributing and increasing the international reach of their productions.

“We received many very distinctive projects from all over Latin America. It was complex to select only seven producers through their projects which include both fiction feature films and documentaries,” said Gabriela Sandoval, director of Sanfic Industria, at Variety.

Below is the final edit and some details about the projects and their producers, when known:

"FAN" (Mariela di Naro, Argentina)

Debut feature from director-producer di Naro, a documentary portrait of Euge Cabral (48), a die-hard fan of singer Luis Miguel who discovers he will be touring Argentina in 2023. Euge and his friends have decided to get tickets as close to the stage as possible, braving tensions with partners and family.

"Gloria and the Dragon" ("Gloria y el Dragón, Daniela Echeverri, Colombia)

Based in Gatoencerrado, Colombia and led by Carlos Heredia Cruz, Gloria, a little girl from the Colombian Pacific region, embarks on a journey through the jungle to find her father, confronting realities she never knew. never experienced before. Echeverri product.

“His Ocean”, (“El Mar, la Mar”, María Paz Barragán, Peru)

Ray, a teenager, gay, helps local fishermen until, drunk at a party, he puts on make-up and a dress. Repudiated by his family and his village, he fled to Iquitos, reunited with friends and participated in the Miss Amazonas trans beauty pageant, until the pandemic forced him to return to his village to face his friends and family. . Written and directed by Julián Amaru Estrada and produced by Barragán, who has directed web series and short films, as well as written and directed short films. She calls “Her Ocean” an “LGBTQ coming-of-age drama and a story of love and courage.”

Her Ocean Credit: Maria Paz Barragan

"Los Invisibles" (Heidy Bacá, Guatemala)

Also at Locarno's Open Doors, a social realism tale directed by Andrés Rodríguez about internal migration in Guatemala. Alejandro, 17, an indigenous mobile phone vendor in Guatemala City. He returns to his hometown to help his AIDS-stricken mother seek treatment from the state, as "this invisible person seeks to find his place in a society that excludes him," Rodriguez says. Bacá is an assistant executive producer at La Danta Films, a growing talent center based in Guatemala and co-founded by 2019 Cannes Camera d'Or winner César Díaz ("Our Mothers").

"Laureano" (Jaisia ​​Figueroa Idrogo, Peru)

Set in Norcinema in northern Peru and directed by Claudia Capatinta, a portrait of a man with mental health issues, to be shot, if a teaser if any, with panoramic aerial views of the high Andes. An animated documentary, produced by Figueroa and Carlos Guerrero.

"Pupos y Coronas" (Mariuxi Alemán, Ecuador)

Documentary delves into the world of non-professional LGBTQ soccer in rural Ecuador, where trans women face job insecurity by day and compete for the local indoor soccer championship the night. Gay and trans women, says director Byron Sánchez, can play football, being themselves, with complete freedom. Produced by Alemán, producer and cultural manager currently working on the feature documentary "From the center of the world to Cali.",

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