Jamie Lang Spain’s top independent sales agents are prepped and ready for this year’s online American Film Market, however most are eagerly awaiting the return of in-person events, seen as a more productive platform for selling independent cinema abroad.
The optimism is cautious, however, with theatrical prospects for international independent films in a post-COVID world still hard to predict.Traditionally, AFM has been a popular launchpad for Spanish films to find distribution in the non-Spanish-speaking world but, while most of the regular faces will be attending digitally, many are holding back their bigger titles for Berlin, where they can be pitched in person and meetings can be held face-to-face.
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