The Malaga Festival selects the projects for Latin American Focus, dedicated to Brazil

This meeting is part of MAFIZ, the new industry zone that the Malaga event debuts in its 21st edition from April 13 to 22.

Brazil and its cinematography will be the focus of attention in the 21º Malaga Festival as a guest country Latin American Focus, one of the events of MAFIZ (Málaga Festival IndustryZone), the new industry zone that the event will debut in its 21st edition from April 13 to 22.

Since 2010, Festival de Málaga has been celebrating a Coproduction Meeting with Latin America in which a country in this territory becomes the protagonist. This initiative was born with the aim of being a meeting point between Latin American producers, distributors and investors from Spain and the rest of Europe with the aim of promoting the co-production of Latin American projects destined for the international market.

In 2018, Festival de Málaga is very proud to have Brazil, a country that houses one of the most important cinematography in Latin America. To achieve this, the Malaga competition has the essential support of various institutions from the guest country: Cinema do Brasil, Apex Brasil, Ancine, Brazilian Embassy in Spain and the Hispanic Brazilian Cultural Foundation.

Latin American Focus will be held on April 18 and 19 and wants to offer Brazilian projects a useful co-production meeting that focuses on the editorial line of each of the projects participating, with a selection of guests related to the productions presented.

Four projects from Brazil participate in this event and a committee of experts selects the group of European producers related to the productions. The selected projects are: and produced by F64 Filmes; The pregnant ones, by Pedro Wallace with production by Kinopus Audiovisual; Body present, by Leonardo Barcelos and produced by Trem Chic; Matte paraisoblack, by Samuel Carro with Clario Filmes in production.

This forum seeks to become a useful tool for participating projects. To this end, they will be facilitated with access to and knowledge of the different financing channels, the search for international co-production for their film projects, and networking among companies in the audiovisual sector of the guest country will be encouraged.

La nueva zona de industria MAFIZ (Málaga Festival IndustryZone) nace con el objetivo de favorecer la difusión y promoción de la cinematografía Iberoamericana. Para ello, Festival de Málaga ha creado seis eventos diseñados para que profesionales de la industria cinematográfica de Iberoamérica y europea desarrollen nuevas redes de negocios: MAFF – Málaga Festival Fund&CoproductionEvent; Spanish Screenings; Latin American Focus; Málaga Docs, Málaga Work in Progress y Málaga Talent.