27 – 29 April 2018
Lisbon, Portugal
In partnership with IndieLisboa Film Festival industry activities.
SELECTED PROJECTS / FILMMAKERS
(RO) BLUE MOON, Alina Grigore (working title: The Bears and The Bees)
(IT) MY BEST FRIEND, Andrea Garello & Daniele Esposito
(DE/IT) PICCOLO PARADISO, Hannes Lang & Mareike Wegener
(BR) RESERVOIR, Diego Hoefel, Ticiana Lima & Aline Portugal
(SE) MAYA NILO (LAURA), Lovisa Siren (working title: Sagres)
(BR) JUNGLE’S HELL, Leandro Franz
MENTORS
JON RAYMOND
Jon Raymond is the author of the novels Freebird, Rain Dragon and The Half-Life, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2004, and the short-story collection Livability, a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and winner of the Oregon Book Award. He is also the screenwriter of the film Meek’s Cutoff and cowriter of the films Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy, both based on his short fiction, and the film Night Moves. He also cowrote the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce, winner of five Emmy Awards. Raymond’s writing has appeared in Tin House, the Village Voice, Bookforum, Artforum, Playboy, Zoetrope, and other publications. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
ANA SANZ-MAGALLÓN
With more than 20 years of professional experience as script analyst, story editor and script coordinator, Ana Sanz-Magallón has collaborated in several award winning Spanish films. Among them are Félix Viscarret’s Bajo las Estrellas (Goya 2008 for best adapted screenplay), Santiago Zannou’s El Troco del Manco (Goya 2009 for Best New Director), Patricia Ferreira’s Los Niños Salvajes and the most recent Spanish breakthrough Verano 1993 by Carla Simón (Berlinale winner and official Spanish submission for the Oscars in 2017).
LUIS CAMPOS
Starter and main producer of the company Squatter Factory in 2014, Luis had the chance to develop an exchange program at Savage Film in Belgium with Bart van Langendonck (“The Land of The Enlightened”, “D’Ardennes”, “Bullhead”) and another one in São Paulo at RT Features in 2015 with Rodrigo Teixeira (“The Witch” / “Frances Ha” / “Night Moves” / “Love 3D”). He is the founder, main promoter & creative director of GUIÕES – Portuguese Language Screenplay Festival, PLOT – Professional Script Lab and DRAMA.pt. Luis’ first professional films are currently being developed, produced & released.
MASTERCLASSES
LUCRECIA MARTEL
Born in 1966 in Salta in the North of Argentina, Lucrecia Martel settled down in Buenos Aires where she attended the ENERC (National Film School). She started by directing a few shorts among which Historias Breves I: Rey muerto (1995), which garnered several awards in the international film festival circuit. From 1995 to 1998, she made a series of documentaries for TV as well as a children’s TV programme, hailed by the Argentinian press for its unusual dark humor. From 2001 until today, Lucrecia Martel has managed to make very personal feature films, La Ciénaga (2001), La Niña Santa (2004) and La Mujer Sin Cabeza (2008), in which she explores her favorite theme, troubled minds. Zama (2017), her most recent film, has been praised in top festivals and best-films-of-the-year lists worldwide.
DUSTIN GUY DEFA
Dustin Guy Defa is an American director and actor. He has directed six shorts that were already the subject of a retrospective at The Film Society of Lincoln Center and shown at festivals such as Sundance, Berlinale, SXSW and HotDocs. He directed his first feature Bad Fever in 2011, named one of the best films of 2012 by New Yorker. His latest film, Person to Person, starring Michael Cera, Tavi Gevinson and Abbi Jacobson is being distributed by Magnolia Pictures.
MARIKA KOZLOVSKA
Marika Kozlovska is a consultant in across the film industry‘s various platforms. She is film market strategy advisor to production companies and institutions. Throughout the last eight years her career has focused on the international film industry, working as a strategic financing consultant and (trainer) for renowned companies like Cinema do Brasil and Peacefulfish.