Producers from Disney hit Encanto and 2021 Cannes premiere Memoria are among speakers at the Association of Film Commissioners International’s (AFCI) Cineposium in Bogota later ths month – the first gathering of the group in Latin America.
Encanto producer Yvett Merino and Memoria producer Diana Bustamente will join executives like HBO SVP of production Jay Roewe at the September 20-22 event, which is centred on the three core themes of sustainable production, gender initiatives, and film tourism.
Merino will lead a session on how her film helped present Colombia’s culture to a global audience. Bustamante and Memoria co-producer Julio Chavezmontes will discuss the challenges involved in producing internationally during the pandemic.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s 2021 Cannes premiere stars Tilda Swinton and is a co-production between Colombia, Thailand, France, Mexico, China and Germany. Neon holds North American rights.
HBO’s Roewe will join Brian O’Leary (external counsel for the Motion Picture Association), Camila Winches (VP of business affairs at Sony Pictures Classics) and Maria Fernanda Cristo (head of production services at Dynamo) to discuss optimising tax incentives while producing a project in multiple territories across the globe.
Other confirmed speakers include Lisa Day (manager of environmental sustainability at The Walt Disney Company), location manager Hans Dayal (Supergirl, Minority Report, Robocop) and veteran telenovela producer-director Magdalana La Rotta.
Cineposium sessions will also cover Colombia’s recent success in hosting large-scale productions for international audiences such as Netflix’s Palpito, which reached top spot on the streamer’s viewership charts. Producer Ana Piñeres and Netflix production manager Juliana Moreno will address the impact of Colombia’s tax incentives.
Cineposium 2022 is produced by a committee led by the Bogota Film Commission of the District Institute of Arts – Idartes – together with Bogota Chamber of Commerce.
Ricardo Cantor, audiovisual arts manager at Idartes, said, “Hosting Cineposium for the first time in Bogota and Latin America is a vote of confidence from AFCI and the audiovisual industries internationally.”
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