Fondosa Foundation, Projeto Paradiso Launch Argentine-Brazilian Women Scriptwriter Initiative (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Argentina’s newly created Fondosa Foundation, launched by lawyer-producer Virginia Juárez, is teaming with Brazilian philanthropic org Projeto Paradiso, a mover and shaker on Brazil’s young talent scene, to launch a new program aimed at providing world-class mentorship to women screenwriters.

The program will back the development of one screenplay from Brazil and another from Argentina. The program aims to enrol as screenplay mentors some of Argentina’s foremost writers or writer-directors.

Lucrecia Martel, one of the world’s great filmmakers (“The Swamp,” “The Holy Girl,” “The Headless Woman,” “Zama” ), looks set to become the program’s first mentor.

The Fondosa Foundation’s call for applications looks set to run next February with the two winning screenwriters announced May 2025 and the mentorship initiating in June.