Locarno, Switzerland — Paraguay’s Paz Encina (“Eami”) and three first time fiction feature directors – El Salvador’s Enrique Bautista, Cuba’s Rosa María Rodríguez Pupo, Peru’s Fernando Mendoza – split the big prize on offer at this year’s Locarno Open Doors with Encina and Bautista taking the lion’s share of a CHF50,000 cash prize.
The grant was sponsored by Visions Sud Est and the City of Bellinzona. Its winners – Encina’s “The Unique Time,” Bautista’s “Salvation,” Rodriguez’s “Her Lightness” and Mendoza’s “The Return of the Last Mochica Warrior” – were announced Tuesday at the Swiss Festival as Open Doors’ arresting three-year focus on smaller markets in Latin America and the Caribbean came to a close.
Open Doors main partner, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (Sdc), announced Monday that the co-production and talent development program will now throw its focus for the next four years on underrepresented communities in Africa.
The grant was sponsored by Visions Sud Est and the City of Bellinzona. Its winners – Encina’s “The Unique Time,” Bautista’s “Salvation,” Rodriguez’s “Her Lightness” and Mendoza’s “The Return of the Last Mochica Warrior” – were announced Tuesday at the Swiss Festival as Open Doors’ arresting three-year focus on smaller markets in Latin America and the Caribbean came to a close.
Open Doors main partner, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (Sdc), announced Monday that the co-production and talent development program will now throw its focus for the next four years on underrepresented communities in Africa.
- 8/13/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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