10/25/2021

Have you applied yet to Conecta? Check here the selected projects of its 6th edition

Attention everybody! The selection of series and film projects that will participate in the VI International Documentary Industry Meeting event Conecta is now available! Take a look in the Connected section, the Connect with the Roots Workshop, the Boost your Project in Development Workshop, and the Docs in Progress FIDOCS + Conecta.

Check the list of the selected productions by section, workshop and work in progress:

Women taking the lead on various projects

A total of 23 projects were selected to participate in Connected, a section for documentary projects and non-fiction series in the development stage, which will result in the participation of project representatives in round tables and individual meetings with some of the professional guests, as well as panels, talks and other networking activities. More than 20 production companies and 9 directors stand out in both feature films and non-fiction series.

1. Agricultores del asfalto
Director: Paulina Ferretti
Producer: Guillermo Migrik
Chile / Serie

2. Carmela y los caminantes
Directors: Esteban Coloma, Luis Herrera
Producer: Esteban Coloma
Ecuador / Feature film


Agricultores del asfalto

3. Chilepolis
Director: Simón Vargas
Producers: Magdalena Hurtado, Ignacia Merino
Chile / Serie

4. Documental Misión Antártica
Director: Jota Loyola Crovetto
Producers: Juan Ramírez, Carola Fuentes, Rafael Valdeavellano
Chile / Feature film

5. El ciclista de Odessa
Director: Alejandro Venturini
Producer: Maia Menta
Argentina / Feature film

6. Fabián
Director: Elvira Durango
Producers: Esteban Coloma, Gabriela Calvache
Ecuador / Feature film

7. La doble memoria y sus repeticiones
Directors: Nicolás Cornejo, Galo Pérez
Producer: Andrea Galarza
Ecuador / Feature film


La reja abierta

8. La fábula de la tortuga y la flor
Director: Carolina Campo Lupo
Producer: Valentina Baracco Pena
Uruguay / Feature film

9. La pampa
Director: Andrés Di Tella
Producers: Gema Juárez Allen, Clarisa Oliveri, Paola Castillo
Argentina – Chile / Feature film

10. La reja abierta
Director: Alejandra Puebla
Producer: Carolina Pulgar
Chile / Feature film

11. Las bravas
Director: Diana Ojeda
Producers: Mariana Vega, Diana Ojeda
Colombia / Feature film

12. Luchadores de la villa
Director: Mónica Taboada-Tapia
Producer: Beto Rosero
Colombia / Feature film

13. Muchachita Chilapa
Director: Juana Lotero
Producer: Daniel Sánchez
Colombia / Feature film

14. Niñas Escarlata
Director: Paula Cury Melo
Producers: Cristian Mojica, Paula Cury Melo
República Dominicana / Feature film

15. Rota
Director: Stefany Escobar
Producers: Adriana Morán, Alejandra Ospina
El Salvador – Colombia / Feature film

16. Secreto ancestral (2da Temporada)
Director: Jota Loyola Crovetto
Producers: Juan Ramirez, Carola Fuentes, Rafael Valdeavellano
Chile / Serie


Chilepolis

17. The sound of water (Aunque seamos pocos)
Director: Romina Coronel
Producer: Nacho Aguirre
Argentina / Feature film

18. Un pedazo de paz
Directors: Jacobo Alban, Beltrán Pérez
Producers: Carlos Zerpa, Benoit Ayraud, Juan Pablo Salamanca
Venezuela – Colombia – Francia / Serie

19. Una historia porfiada
Director: Rafael Valdeavellano
Producer: Carola Fuentes
Chile / Feature film

20. Yawar Shunku
Director: Antonio Romero-Zurita
Producer: Erika Archaga
Ecuador / Feature film

21. Ciudad de México
Director: Juan Carlos Rulfo
Producer: Juan Carlos Rulfo, Mariana Castro
México / Feature film

22. Nguerpun Folil (Viaje a las raíces)
Director: Jota Loyola Crovetto
Producer: Juan Ramírez
Chile / Feature film

23. Sonidos híbridos
Director: Andrés Pereáñez
Producer: Diana Solórzano
Colombia / Serie

The Indigenous cinema flourishes in Conecta

The Connect with the Roots Workshop has selected 5 feature film projects from Central America and the Andean areas. The training instance, which looks to empower indigenous filmmakers from the region with documentary projects in the development stage or in the initial state of production, will be led by the Sundance Institute and the Chilean Documentary Corporation CCDoc.

1. Boca vieja
Director: Yovegami Ascona Mora
Producer: Mónica Cruz Arcos
México

2. El último siringuero
Director: Adro Leonardo Molina Álvarez
Producer: Roberto Barrios Bueno
Bolivia

3. Estoy buscando a mi familia
Director: Viviana Mamani Cori
Producer: Erick Gary Maldonado Rojas
Bolivia

4. Q´eros: Descendientes de los Incas
Director and producer: Róger Neira Luzuriaga
Perú

5. Tún Tún
Director: Daniela Sagone
Producers: Pamela Guinea, Gustavo Sánchez
Guatemala, Costa Rica


Amantes en el cielo

Raising projects to their full potential

6 projects from Argentina, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Peru, Ecuador and Chile were selected to participate in the Boost your Project in Development Workshop. The workshop will focus on the development of feature films with themes related to freedom of expression and memory, among others.

1. Amantes en el cielo
Director: Fermin de la Serna
Producer: Pablo Grandinetti
Argentina

2. Cuerpos en tránsito
Director: Victoria Giménez
Producer: Margarita Brum
Uruguay

3. IXCHEL
Director: Wanda López Trelles
Producer: Carolina Arias Ortiz
Argentina, Costa Rica

4. Lítica
Director: Romina Ortega
Producer: Claudia Chávez
Perú


Ixchel

5. Mi familia es un cuento de otra memoria
Director: Gonzalo Rodríguez Varas, Francisca Peró Gubler
Producer: Alejandra Díaz Scharager, Daniel Miranda Acuña
Chile

6. Pájaros en la cabeza
Director: Samanta Yépez
Producer: Christophe Kenderian
Ecuador

Stories from the past and present

14 Latin American projects were selected for the Connect with Distribution Workshop. Stories that come from different countries in the region, such as Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador and Chile, as well as Cuba and Mexico. The selected projects will participate virtually in round tables and individual meetings with the guests of Conecta, in addition to talks, panels and networking activities.

1. Abrazos del Fin del Mundo
Directors: Paula Gomes, Haroldo Borges, Ernesto Molinero, Marcos Bautista
Producers: Paula Gomes, Haroldo Borges, Ernesto Molinero, Marcos Bautista
Brasil

2. Albertina y los muertos
Director: César Borie
Producer: Rocío Romero
Chile

3. Apuntes para una utopía
Director: Francisco Martín
Producer: Verónica Benegas
Argentina

4. El Arte del Tiempo
Director: Emilia Simonetti
Producer: Michelle Aburto
Chile


Home is somewhere else

5. Esu y el Universo
Director: Thiago Zanato
Producers: Adriana Barbosa, Carla Osorio, Luciana Druzina
Brasil, EE.UU.

6. Fiesta Nacional
Director: Augusto De Alba
Producers: Augusto De Alba, Alexandra Delgado
México

7. Home Is Somewhere Else
Director: Carlos Hagerman, Jorge Villalobos
Producers: Carlos Hagerman, Martha Sosa, Carolina Coppel, Andrew Houchens
México, EE.UU.

8. La mar A marla
Director: Ángel Pajares
Productor: Ángel Pajares
Perú

9. MAFIFA
Director: Daniela Muñoz Barroso
Producer: Leila Montero Hernández
Cuba

10. Más Allá
Directors: Enrico Meloni y Esteban Coloma
Producer: Esteban Coloma
Ecuador


Apuntes para una utopía

11. Nidal
Director: Josefina Pérez-García, Felipe Sigala
Producers: Josefina Pérez-García, Felipe Sigala
Chile

12. Ouvidor
Director: Matias Borgström
Producer: Paula Pripas
Brasil

13. Punto de encuentro
Director: Roberto Baeza
Producer: Paulina Costa, Alfredo García, Roberto Baeza
Chile

14. Soñar Robots
Director: Pablo Casacuberta
Producer: Laura Gutman
Uruguay


Fiesta nacional

Thematic and cultural richness

8 feature documentary projects were selected to participate in the first edition of DOCS IN PROGRESS FIDOCS + CONECTA, a collaboration between the Conecta WIP and the FIDOCS Latin American First Cut Competition. Family and personal life stories, new gender perspectives, search for indigenous roots and social inequality are some of the topics addressed by the selected projects and that will participate in the event to be held at the end of this year.

1. Altamar
Director: Ernesto Jara Vargas
Producer: Giulia Clerici
Costa Rica, Colombia

2. Amando a Martha
Director: Daniela López Osorio
Producer: Sara Nanclares Sánchez
Colombia, Argentina


Amando a Martha

3. Cuentos para no dormir
Director: Lila Penagos
Producer: Tomás Astudillo
Ecuador


Cuentos para no dormir

4. Disco de piedra
Director: Geraldine Ovando
Producer: Harold Céspedes
Bolivia

5. Jorge
Director: Nicolás Pavie
Producers: Nicolás Pavie, Jorge Catoni
Chile


Jorge

6. Mujer Gorila
Director: Fernanda Roth Faya
Producer: Michael Wahrmann
Brasil

7. Pibas superpoderosas
Director: Leonora Kievsky
Producer: Leonora Kievsky
Argentina

8. Todo documento de civilización
Director: Tatiana Mazú González
Producer: Nacho Losada
Argentina


Pibas superpoderosas