Open Doors 2022-2024: Focus on LAC countries

Open Doors is starting a new cycle, dedicating its professional and public initiatives to Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) until the edition 2024.  

The section will be championing film projects and talents from the continent and more specifically from the following regions and countries:  

• Central America (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua) 
• the Caribbean Islands (Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) 
• and South America (Bolivia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela) 

Discover more about Open Doors’ initiatives at the bottom of the page, such as the ToolBox, accessible to professional of the whole LAC region.

Official selection for Open Doors Projects' Hub and Producers' Lab 2022

Locarno Film Festival is proud to put the following projects and emerging producers from Latin America and the Caribbean in the spotlight of its professional activities taking place in  the framework of the 75th Locarno Film Festival.
 

Details of all selected projects will be available upon request by contacting the Open Doors team at opendoors@locarnofestival.ch or for industry accredited of Locarno 75, by logging into the reserved area of the website. 

Projects' Hub

A platform for feature-length projects looking for international collaborations 

Cuando cae la lluvia (When Rain Falls) by Yanillys Pérez – produced Yanillys Pérez, YPR Films – Dominican Republic 

Diamante (Diamond) by Yashira Jordán – produced by Alvaro Olmos Torrico, Empatia Cinema – Bolivia 

Kokue by Miguel Agüero – produced by Cynthia García Calvo, Asociación Cultural Arraigo, CYAN prods – Paraguay, Chile

Los hombres morimos antes (Men Die Sooner) by Federico Montero – produced by Alexandra Latishev, La Linterna Films – Costa Rica, Uruguay

MOA by Marcel Beltrán – produced by Paula Gastaud, Mediocielo Films – Cuba, Brazil

Muchachos bañándose en el lago (Kids Swimming in the Lake) by Michael Labarca – produced by Patricia Ramírez Arévalo, Todos Los Ríos – Venezuela, Chile, France

Los invisibles by Andres Rodríguez – produced by Mauricio Escobar, La Danta Films – Guatemala 

Sopor y ave (Sopor and Bird) by Ana Cristina Barragán – produced by Joe Houlberg, Boton Films – Ecuador, Argentina, Spain

Producers’ Lab 

A training workshop for creative producers with feature projects

Ricardo B'atz', Cayaguanca Films – El Salvador 

María Félix Morales Lotz, Asertiva – Nicaragua  

Daniela Fuentes Moncada, Epopeya S.A. – Ecuador 

Karolina Hernandez Chaves, Dos Sentidos – Costa Rica 

Gilbert Mirambeau Jr., Muska Films – Haiti

Illari Orccottoma, Maldeojos – Peru 

Nadean Rawlins, RAW Management – Jamaica 

Michelle Serieux, Imagine Caribbean – Saint Lucia  

Camila Urrutia, Camaleon Films – Guatemala 

20 years of Open Doors

Today, Open Doors is one of the cornerstones of the Festival. The section is recognized as a laboratory where new forms of support for cinema from all latitudes can be experimented with, cultural boundaries broken down, new talents discovered, films completed and shown.

Open Doors creates a space for encounters and collaboration, during the Locarno Film Festival and online for 365 days a year, and is committed to artistic freedom, diversity and inclusion, as well as to the renewal and future of independent filmmaking. It also provides a venue for reflection on new forms and opportunities of distribution. In the targeted regions, the program contributes to creating a fertile ground for productive structures and authentic forms of artistic expression.