The Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum in San Sebastián will dedicate its 'Focus on' to the Baltic countries

A delegation of fifteen producers from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will go to San Sebastián to see the Festival first-hand and participate in the Co-production Forum and the rest of the Industry activities.

Since 2014, the Department of Industry of the San Sebastian Film Festival organizes Focus on, an industry initiative in which a group of professionals from a country, region or territory goes to the San Sebastián Festival to extend their network of professional contacts and participate in Industry activities.

In 2014, in collaboration with Telefilm Canada and coinciding with the III Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum, the first Focus was organized: Focus on Canada, in which eleven professionals participated. Due to the success of this initiative, Canada was once again the leading territory in 2015. In 2016, in collaboration with the film institutes of Denmark, Iceland and Norway, the Focus on Nordic Glocal was held, which served as the starting point for the Glocal in Progress activity, the first edition of which took place in 2017.

This year, thanks to the collaboration of Estonian Film Institute, he National Film Centre of Latvia and the Lithuanian Film Centre, fifteen producers with projects from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will be able to find partners for their projects in San Sebastián and expand co-production opportunities with other European and Latin American regions.

In recent years, Baltic cinemas have increased their film productions, promoting co-productions with other countries.

The Baltic presence at the Festival includes this year Lithuania as a co-producing country of the films Serdtse Mira / Core of the World by Nataliia Meshchaninova, selected in New Directors, and co-produced by Dagne Vildziunaite of the production company Just a Moment; and Trot by Xacio Baño, a project selected in the first edition of Ikusmira Berriak, co-produced by Marija Razgute of M-Films of Lithuania and which can be seen in Zabaltegi – Tabakalera.

For its part, the film Invisible / Invisible by Ignas Jonynas, selected in Glocal in Progress, is produced by Kristina Ramanauskaite of Magic Films of Lithuania and co-produced by Roberts Vinovskis of Locomotive Productions, Latvia, and Vladimir Yatsenko of Limelite, Ukraine.