Locarno Open Doors 2022: Projects, Highlights, Trends
variety.comIn line with the massive new talent focus of many of Locarno’s industry programs – this year’s Germany First Look with five feature debuts, the Match Me!
emerging producer springboard – Open Doors will focus on Latin America’s most under-represented territories and the Caribbean, where production companies have sprung up after national cinema lift-off in more major countries in the region.
Bolivia’s Empatía Cinema, for example, was founded in 2007, but most key companies at Locarno launched significantly later: YPR Films in 2010, La Linterna Films in 2011, Paraguay’s Asociación Cultural Arraigo in 2014, Haiti’s Muska Films in 2015 and Boton Films in 2019.Six of the eight titles at Open Doors Projects Hub are debuts.Producing out of smaller territories in Latin America and the Caribbean is a tall order.
Some countries – El Salvador, Haiti – have no production funds nor film schools to drive development. But some directors and producers have already won their spurs. “Los invisibles” is set up at Guatemala’s La Danta Films, whose partners include Cannes 2019 Camera d’Or winner César Díaz (“Our Mothers”).Yanillys Pérez’s documentary “Jeffrey” scooped a Discovery Award at the Toronto Festival.
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