For the first time at Conecta, in collaboration with CNTV, this section will be held, where five documentary series projects will have a space for collective development with the participation of Sergio Nakasone as tutor, vice president of unscripted content production at Warner Bros Discovery.
The projects selected for the Connect with Your Roots Workshop section are:
FOREMOTHERS
Country: Chile
Dir: Eva Vera Cuadra
Prod: Daniela Olivares Herrera
Storyline: FOREMOTHERS is a series that reviews Chilean history from the perspective of Chilean women’s political and social processes. Five actresses guided by research, expert testimony, and archival material, immerse us in the lives of pioneering women who challenged norms and built a path toward equality.
Bombs
Country: Chile
Dir: Bárbara Barrera
Prod: Felipe Egaña, Daniel Castell
Storyline: Six real explosive attacks. Six mysteries without a single truth. BOMBS reconstructs, with tension and depth, high-profile crimes that marked Chile’s recent history.
Saving Patagonia
Country: Chile
Dir: Katherina Harder
Prod: Ignacia Imboden, Diego Rojas
Storyline: In Patagonia’s Torres del Paine, one of the planet’s last wild frontiers, humans and nature confront each other in a fragile balance. Instinto de Conservación reveals the scientific, emotional, and cultural battles to preserve a paradise at risk.
The Braves
Country: Chile
Dir: Pamela Pequeño
Prod: Macarena Denisse
Storyline: Orietta, Anielle, Cecilia y Natalia fight for the latin women rights to a non violence life. They face major obstacles including threats to their lives, but nothing stops them in their rebellion against a system that attacks them and leaves them unprotected, as it does also to all woman in this continent.
VERTICAL HEARTBEAT
Country: Colombia, Bolivia and Nepal
Dir: Adriana Bernal Mor
Prod: Diana Narvaez , María José Bermudez
Storyline: The climb to the summit of Mount Manaslu in Nepal will be an immense challenge for Ana Lia and Agustín, who are seeking to conquer their first eight-thousander and rewrite the history of indigenous and Aymara mountaineering in Latin America.
Nature of Color
Country: Brazil and Chile
Dir: Walter Carvalho
Prod: Gonzalo Argandoña y João Roni Jardim Garcia
Storyline: Nature of Color travels across Latin America to reveal the natural pigments that still endure in the face of modernity. Through the eyes of ancestral guardians, artists, and scientists, each episode explores a color and a territory, unveiling its symbolic, cultural, and spiritual power in times of environmental crisis and loss of diversity.
SAVAGE
Country: Chile
Dir: Pablo Mantilla
Prod: Patricio Ochoa
Storyline: A journey into the wild heart of Roberto Bolaño. Filmmaker Pablo Mantilla travels between life and fiction to meet the real “Savage Detectives” and uncover what it means to live — and write — wildly in a world that has forgotten poetry.
Víctor Saldaño vs US
Country: Argentina
Dir: Carlos Bruno Cejas
Prod: Mario Jorge Stecher
Storyline: A renowned YouTuber and a team of podcasters investigate the death sentence imposed on Argentine immigrant Víctor Saldaño, who has been awaiting execution for three decades in Texas.
At the same time, someone plays him in a speculative documentary about racism and justice, imagining the freedom he will never have.
About Conecta
Conecta is an international documentary industry event aimed at Latin American producers and filmmakers with documentary projects in development, editing, post-production, or completed but not yet premiered.
The meeting brings together national and international industry professionals, including representatives from funds, markets, and festivals; distributors, sales agents, exhibitors; as well as platform and television programmers, and producers.
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