Sanfic 2024: More Festival and Industry Growth, Chile’s Film Prowess and This Year’s Highlights and Deals
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International Correspondent SANTIAGO, Chile — Climaxing Saturday night with an awards, ceremony, where Santiago Maza and Diego Luna passion project “State of Siege” took top honors, Santiago de Chile’s Sanfic and industry arm Sanfic Industria delivered a vibrant edition, confirming the joint event as one of the three key festival-markets in South America.
This year’s double event also reflects larger change at work coursing through industries in Latin America and much of international.
Following, seven takeaways and highlights from the 2024 event, which runs Aug. 18-25 in Santiago de Chile. Sanfic Still Grows Other key festivals around Latin America have seen their budgets slashed by governments, though the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival this October and Mexico’s Guadalajara Festival next June could be staging a comeback.
Meanwhile, Sanfic and Sanfic Industria have held and indeed grown, recuperating pre-pandemic levels of 40,000 ticket sales by 2023.
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