Ana the frog is an animated multimedia show about the relationship between children and also with their parents. In this series we encourage values and respect on childrens rights. Also is a tool to make easy learning the multiplication tables, among other subjects. This series is aired in Public Television in Uruguay, and also offers its contents through the web.
Director: Diego Fernández Pujol / Producer: Diego Fernández Pujol - Gabriel Richieri / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Diego Fernández Pujol / Production company: Transparente Films / Country: Uruguay / Duration: 10 x 2'20'' y 15 x 1'20'' / Episodes: 25 / Format: HD / Language: Español / Year: 2012
Awards and festivals:
Fondos de Incentivo Cultural 2010, Premio a Mejor Producción Nacional infantil en Divercine 2011.
Seleccionado en el Prix Jeunesse Iberoamericano 2009 en la categoría contenido web.
Web: http://www.analarana.comDocumentary about a scientific research on the penalty kick in soccer. Includes interviews to coaches, players and journalists (Pablo Bengoechea, Jorge “Toto” Da Silveira, Diego Forlán, Pablo Forlán, Jorge Seré, Fernando Morena and Juan Martín Mujica), real penalty kicks and computerised animation. Presented by the researchers themselves.
Director: Richard Fariña / Producer: Horacio Portal / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Horacio Portal / Production company: América del Sur TV / Country: Uruguay / Duration: 44' / Format: DVD, Avid / Language: Español / Year: 2010
Desert cowboys of Cuates de Australia face death every year, avoiding the drought that threatens the ranch. While the community is forced into an exodus, the Ejido is abandoned and eventually the desert animals take over the place. They wait for the first drops of rain in order to return.
Director: Everardo González / Producer: Martha Orozco / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Martha Orozco / Production company: Martfilms / Cienegadocs / Country: México / Duration: 84’ / Format: 35mm / HDCAM/BETACAM /BLUERAY / Language: Español / Year: 2011
Awards and festivals:
Mejor documental mexicano FICG 2012, Premio del jurado Cartagena.
Festivales: IDFA, Cartagena, Ficg, Visons du Reel, Hotdocs.
Mr. Ca’s family comes from illustrious and controversial characters: the first colombian president, intellectuals seeking independence and slavers. Destined for success and glory, he ended up living amongst afro communities along Colombia’s Pacific region fighting as best they can the scourge of violence and poverty. Mr. Ca educates the adolescents in town who follow his light like a beacon in the storm.
Director: Patricia Ayala / Producer: Ricardo Restrepo / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Patricia Ayala / Production company: Pathos Audiovisual / Country: Colombia / Duration: 90' / Format: 35mm-Dcp-DigiBeta NTSC-HDCam NTSC-BluRay NTSC / Language: Español / Year: 2012
Awards and festivals:
Fondo para el Desarrollo Cinematográfico de Colombia 2011
Web: http://www.doncaeldocumental.comThe film tells the story of Julia Brian, an uruguayan transsexual and Ignacio González, a former construction worker. It is a story of love and friendship. They met on Christmas Eve twenty one years ago in a square, both feeling lonely. They have been inseparable ever since. This is the story of The Marriage. It is a simple story of ordinary people who, through a stroke of luck, found each other at a public square.
Director: Aldo Garay / Producer: Ivonne Ruocco / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Ivonne Ruocco / Production company: Guazú Media / Country: Uruguay / Duration: 71' / Format: HDCam / DVCam PAL / Language: Español / Year: 2011
Awards and festivals:
Fondos obtenidos: Ibermedia - Apoyo al Desarrollo
MiradasDoc / España seleccionado para el Pitching
Premios: Biznaga de Plata- Premio especial del Jurado en el Festival de Málaga, España 2011; Mención en la competencia "Derechos Humanos" del Bafici, Argentina 2011; Mención especial del jurado en el Festival de Cine de Lima, Peru 2011; Círculo Precolombino de Oro en el Festival de Cine de Bogotá-Bogocine, Colombia 2011; Premio a la Mejor Película en el Festival de Cine Latino Americano de Triestre, Italia 2011; Mención especial del Jurado del Premio “Malvinas” en el Festival de Cine Latinoamericano de Triestre, Italia 2011; Mención especial en el Festival Realidad Latina Festival de Cine Latinoamericano, Bélgica 2011; Mención especial en el Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano Havanna 2011, Cuba
Festivales: Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara 2011, México, Festival de Málaga de Cine Español 2011, España, Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente (Bafici) 2011, Argentina, Festival de Cinema de Gramado 2011, Brasil, Santiago International Film Festival 2011, Chile, Festival de Cine de Lima 2011, Perú, DocsDF 2011, México, World Film Festival Montreal 2011, Canadá, Festival de Cine de Bogotá (Bogocine) 2011, Colombia, Festival de Cine Latinoamericano Trieste 2011, Italia, Realidad Latina - Festival de Cine Latinoamericano 2011, Bélgica, Festival Internacional de Cine Documental - MiradasDoc 2011, España, Festival Internacional de Cine de Derechos Humanos 2011, Austria, Mix Brasil 2011, Brasil, Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano Havanna 2011, Cuba Muestra de Cine latinoamericano Lleida 2012, España, Torino GLBT Film Festival 2012, Italia, Chicago LAFF 2012, EE.UU., Pink Appel Film Festival Zürich 2012, Suiza
A father decides to take a trip around the world on board an old mini van, with two sons joining him for the journey. It was two trips in one. Between engine tune-ups and exotic landscapes, the series shows how with the accumulated mileage and numerous boundaries crossed the relationship between this man and his sons becomes stronger. A really daring experience, the most part of which was filmed by the travelers themselves, in an adventure that will remain a milestone in their lives.
Director: Leonardo García / Producer: Patricia Trochón / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Hernán Rodríguez / Production company: Aceituna Films / Country: Uruguay / Duration: 45' / Episodes: 13 / Format: HD y DV / Language: Español
A river, a little village and a lonely childhood, the breeding ground of a fertile imagination. Such are grandma Ñata´s memories, as told to her grandson: memories from the past, images from the present and a testimony for eternity.
Director: Andrés Boero Madrid / Producer: Clarissa Guarilha / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Clarissa Guarilha / Production company: Arissas Multimídia / Country: Brasil y Uruguay / Duration: 20’35’’ / Format: DVD (Pal/Ntsc), HDcam, Blu-Ray / Language: Español / Year: 2011
Awards and festivals:
Premios: Mejor Corto Uruguayo en Festival Internacional Cinematográfico de Uruguay 2012
Festivales: Atlantidoc Uruguay 2011; Festival Internacional Cinematográfico de Uruguay 2012; Visions du Réel Suiza 2012.
The yellow loud speaker is a website aimed to Latin American young people, whose intention is to offer good and fun information about music, entertainment and culture through short videos. After more than 700 original videos, we designed a television project. The yellow loud speaker TV offers a selection of our better contents in a magazine format. Every season has 26 chapters each with 24 min per episode. In the program, our hostess take the audience to a musical and cultural quality tour.
Director: Liliana Andrade / Producer: Liliana Andrade / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Liliana Andrade / Production company: Velouria TV / Country: Colombia / Duration: 24' / Episodes: 52 (26 por temporada) / Format: DV 50 / Language: Español / Year: Temporada 1 – 2011 y Temporada 2 - 2012
Awards and festivals:
Premios: Proyecto ganador de la Convocatoria para la creación de empresas innovadoras de base tecnológica a través del sistema nacional de Incubación Conciencias en el 2008 y el 2011. Acreedor de un Premio India Catalina como Mejor Nuevo Formato 2009 y 2 nominaciones en el 2012 a Mejor Programa de Entretenimiento y Mejor Presentadora de Entretenimiento María Cecilia Sánchez. Distinción YCE Young Creative Entrepeneur del British Council 2011 y el premio a Mejores Estrategias Web con contenido Cultural del Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia 2011.
Web: http://elparlanteamarillo.comMauricio is a lifeguard who tries to steer clear from getting in the water, he believes that a good professional applies preventive measures to stop people from drowning. The problem is that those who come to the beach in the summer want to forget that during the year someone tells them what to do. Nobody wants to do what they’re told and he doesn’t want to risk his life for them.
Director: Maite Alberdi / Producer: Paola Castillo / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Maite Alberdi / Production company: Errante Producciones / Country: Chile / Duration: 65' / Format: HD/ Blue Ray/ Betacam Digital / Language: Español / Year: 2011
Awards and festivals:
Premio del público categoría nacional e internacional, Festival
Internacional de cine de Valdivia. Premio especial del jurado
Festival de Guadalajara.
Facebook: http://facebook.com/elsavavidasIn the north of the Argentinian mountain range, there was an important industrial sulfur mine that gave rise to a town. This was so until the military dictatorship of 1976 decided to close it down. The Silence investigates the reasons why it was closed and the impact of the economic plan the deindustrialized the country. It also reveals how the thousands of men and women involved experienced this forced exodus.
Director: Federico Dada / Producer: Maru Rocha Alfaro / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Federico Dada / Production company: Comunicación Inteligente Producciones / Country: Argentina / Duration: 26' / Format: Full HD (1920 x 1080 y otras), Blue Ray, DVD. / Language: Español / Year: 2011
Awards and festivals:
Premios: Proyecto ganador de los Concursos Federales 2010, Unitarios - Categoría Nosotros, organizados por el INCAA y Televisión Digital Abierta, de Argentina.
Festivales: Admisión al DocsDF 2012 (México). Admisión a la Muestra del Audiovisual Iberoamericano de la Fiesta de la Cultura Iberoamericana – Holguín, Cuba, 2012.
Web: http://elsilenciodocumental.blogspot.com.ar/
The film Evita, another look has the quality to show one of the most important Argentine characters of the twentieth century with international significance from the perspective of one of her personal photographers. The purpose of the film is to show a woman who managed to face a male-chauvinist society and make her way against all odds to finally make her wishes come true.
Director: José Manuel Gómez y María Teresa Mazzorotolo / Producer: María Teresa Mazzorotolo / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: María Nazarena Mattera / Production company: Latin Docs / Country: Argentina / Duration: 52' / Format: Betacam, disco duro / Language: Español / Year: 2005
Web: http://www.australfilms.com/peliculas/evita-otra-mirada/Ten Haitians, having resumed the thread of their lives in a setting worthy of Dante, bear witness and provide intimate insights into an existence turned upside down by death and chaos. The film explores how people, in the aftermath of the unthinkable, grieve, struggle to regain a semblance of everyday normality and aspire to new dreams and hope.
Director: Fabrizio Scapin y Pieter Van Eecke / Producer: Ellen Meiresonne / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Pieter Van Eecke / Production company: Polymorfilms / Country: Bélgica / Duration: 55' / Format: Digibeta, HDcam, Bluray, Mov / Language: Creolo Haitiano / Year: 2011
Awards and festivals:
Fondos obtenidos: VAF (Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds) - www.vaf.be
Festivales: 30th Festival Cinematográfico del Uruguay
Web: http://www.goudougoudoufilm.netMother and daughter who cross Chile in search of a relative they both don’t know. The mother hopes to find her sister while the daughter expects to find her real father. Daughter is a journey where lies become reality and where the reality takes the shape of a film: that of a documentary road movie based on imaginary facts.
Director: María Paz González / Producer: Flor Rubina / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Flor Rubina / Production company: Blume Producciones / Country: Chile / Duration: 83' / Format: DCP – HDcam – Bluray / Language: Español / Year: 2011
Awards and festivals:
Premios: Mejor documental, FIDOCS. Mejor documental, FICIANT
Festivales: Fidocs, Ficiant, Festival de Cartagena de Indias, Thessaloniki, Edoc
Small stories. Extraordinary characters. This documentary series shows us the personal experiences of generally unknown citizens. For a day we will share their lives and let ourselves amaze by their extraordinay stories.
Director: Cecilia González Spátola / Producer: Cecilia González Spátola / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Cecilia González Spátola / Production company: Ombú Media / Country: Uruguay / Duration: 27' / Episodes: 18 / Format: HD / Language: Español / Year: 2011 y 2012
At a children’s cancer ward the young boy Tobias meets the hospital clown Angus. In this fragile situation we witness the development of a friendship. This is a story about electric guitars, magic and cancer – about being all alone and having someone to be alone with.
Director: Ida Grøn / Producer: Signe Byrge Sørensen y Anne Köhncke / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Diana Karklin / Production company: Final Cut For Real / Country: Dinamarca / Duration: 53' / Format: HDcam, DigiBeta, HDcam-SR, DVD, Digital file / Language: Danés / Year: 2011
Awards and festivals:
Premios: Silver Horn for Best mid-lenght Documentary Krakow Film Festival
Festivales: Idfa, Hot Docs, Krakow Film Festival
Web: http://www.final-cut.dkHow fair is it for the government to control its citizens? Four Puerto Ricans confront their past when they open their files, the records obtained of the illegal surveillance and persecution that the Puerto Rican government held against citizens and organizations that disagreed with the establishment. Through their daily life, they will tell us their stories and intimate feelings of the persecution they suffered.
Director: Maite Rivera Carbonell / Producer: Margarita Aponte, Jose Alayón / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Margarita Aponte / Production company: Producciones Lente Roto, Inc. / Country: Puerto Rico / Duration: 75' / Format: DVD, Bluray, HDCam, Digibeta, BetaSP / Language: Español / Year: 2011
Awards and festivals:
Premios: 2do premio documental en el 33 Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano.
Festivales: 33 Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano – Selección oficial (Cuba), Festival E Tudo Verdade (Brasil), Muestra Cinescopia (Costa Rica), Festival Internacional de Cine Las Palmas de Gran Canaria – Selección Oficial, Havana Film Festival in New York – Selección Oficial
90-year-old Nivia faces an unexpected change. Her daughter Alicia, whom Nivia has lived with for ages, has found a new husband after years of widowhood and understandably wants to move in with him. Nivia disapprove of the relationship and accuses her daughter of abandoning her. Both women embark on a profound and revealing journey where the longing for a new love and the fear of growing old alone inevitably lead to a clash between mother and daughter.
Director: Juan Ignacio Fernández Hoppe / Producer: Juan Ignacio Fernández Hoppe, Carolina Campo Lupo, Javier Palleiro, Guillermo Rocamora / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: uan Ignacio Fernández Hoppe / Production company: Hoppefilms, Lobo Hombre, Séacuático / Country: Uruguay / Duration: 75' / Format: HD / Language: Español / Year: 2012
Awards and festivals:
WIP Ficpe 2010, FONA 2007, MVD Socio Audiovisual 2010,
Fidocs 2012, 14 Bafici 2012, Festival Cinematográfico del Uruguay
2012, FICPE 2012, Selección Latinoamericana Primera
Copia Festival de la Habana 2010
Facebook: http://facebook/lasfloresdemifamiliaMeanders is a visual and narrative journey along the Guaviare, a social and cultural mosaic, a stage on which the armed conflict and the drug trade unfold, revealing the perception of the indigenous and farming communities residing in the Colombian Amazon regarding their own territory. Meanders is a metaphor that relates the social conflict and the war with the territory of the communities.
Director: Hèctor Ulloque Franco y Manuel Ruiz Montealegre / Producer: Manuel Ruiz Montealegre / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Manuel Ruiz Montealegre / Production company: Medio de Contención Producciones / Country: Colombia / Duration: 93' / Format: DCP / Language: Español / Year: 2012
Awards and festivals:
Fondos obtenidos: Ganador de la Convocatoria del Fondo de Desarrollo Cinematográfico para la realización de documentales 2008. Proimagenes Colombia, Ministerio de Cultura, Colombia.
Festivales, Idfa, Ficci 2011, Coe – Milán 2011, Vision du Réel 2011, DOK.fest München 2011, Nuremberg Human Rights Film Festival 2011, Docsdf 2011
Web: http://www.meandrosdoc.comTrough 3D animation and hosted by scientists, this documentary teach about big animals that inhabited America ten thousands of years ago.
Director: Horacio Portal / Producer: Horacio Portal / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Horacio Portal / Production company: América del sur TV / Country: Uruguay / Duration: 24' / Episodes: 4 / Format: DVD, AVID / Language: Español / Year: 2010
Awards and festivals:
Premio Habana Cuba Festival de Video Ciencia de La Habana
Documentary about men and women who were part of the political and social history of Santa Fe. They will tell us about four facts occurred in the province: the attempt to take the 11th Regiment in Rosario (1956), the Railway’s Strike in Laguna Paiva (1961) and the First and Second Rosariazos (1969). Political militants is a collective story in which the history is built with the memories of those who lived it.
Director: Francisco Matiozzi / Producer: Francisco Matiozzi – Luciana Lacorazza / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Luciana Lacorazza / Production company: Avi Films / Country: Argentina / Duration: 26' / Episodes: 4 / Language: Español / Year: 2011
Awards and festivals:
Premios: Concurso Series Documentales Federales (INCAA-TDA)
Festivales: Festival Internacional de Cine Político Argentina (Ficip), VENTV
Every day, in the maternity rooms of the public hospitals of Bogota, hundreds of women give birth. The medical institution is saturated, immersed in its routines and cannot pay attention to the needs of the families. The mothers are almost always alone, lacking of affection and comprehension. Birth is the representation of this theatrical scene, an old conflict between two antagonistic characters, the human being and the mechanics. At the hinge of these two realities, that´s where we are.
Director: Jorge Caballero / Producer: Rosa M. Ramos / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Jorge Caballero / Production company: GusanoFilms / Country: Colombia / Duration: 80' / Format: BluRay, BetaSP, DigiBeta / Language: Español / Year: 2012
Awards and festivals:
En estapa de desarrollo: Pitching DocMontevideo, DocMeeting Argentina, Latin Side of the Doc, “Doc in Progress” de Visions du Réel (Suiza) y “Latin Corner” de DocsBarcelona (España).
Secciones oficiales: Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de Indias, Visions du Réel y DocBsAs.
Web: http://www.nacerdocumental.comThis film covers the historical process that leadsEcuadorto the Constitutional National Assembly. Two visions of the world collide: the one who’s God is the “market and another who considers human solidarity as the motor for wellbeing” and man as integral part of nature. Social organizations of all kinds throughout the country worked on developing proposals to be considered by the National Assembly.
Director: José Yépez López / Producer: María Rosa Anchundia y Fabricio Egas / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: José Yépez López / Production company: Fundación Memoria Ciudadana / Country: Ecuador / Duration: 93' / Format: Dvcam (ntsc), Blueray / Language: Español / Year: 2012
Awards and festivals:
Fondos obtenidos: Fondo de Fomento al Cine Nacional del Consejo Nacional de Cine (categorías: Producción de largo documental y Postproducción de largometraje)
Festivales: Encuentros del otro cine (EDoc 11), Ecuador
The Brazilian military presence in Haiti, the football, the religiousness, the music showing that the two countries are not that different. On 2010 an earthquake affected the country. Much more than an account of the tragedy the film showing the life of the haitian people from an outside view. A cry for hope for the first black republic in the world.
Director: Henrique Maffei / Producer: Henrique Maffei / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Sabrina Nudeliman / Production company: HS Maffei Produções / Country: Brasil / Duration: 62' / Format: HD, DVD / Language: Creolo Haitiano y portugués / Year: 2011
Awards and festivals:
Festivales: 7º Festival Internacional del Filme Negro de Montreal (categoría largometraje), 2º Festival Internacional de Cine Político – Buenos Aires.
Children of memory tells the story of the search for children who disappeared during the Salvadoran civil war. Told through the eyes of Margarita Zamora, Jamie Harvey and Salvador Garcia, three survivors of the war, the film reveals their search for family, identity and justice and asks the larger question: how does a post-conflict society right the wrongs of the past?
Director: María Teresa Rodríguez / Producer: Sally Jo Fifer (ITVS) Sandie Viquez Pedlow, Luis Ortiz (LBP) / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: María Teresa Rodríguez / Production company: Pata de perro productions / Country: Estados Unidos / Duration: 64' y 56'40'' (dos versiones disponibles) / Format: HDcam, Digibeta, Blu-Ray, DVD / Language: Español e inglés / Year: 2012
Awards and festivals:
Premios: Award of Merit en el Festival de Cine Lasa (Latin American Studies Association), 2012 San Francisco, EE.UU.
Festivales: Ambulante (El Salvador y Nicaragua) y Festival de cine LASA (San Francisco).
In Pelotas, in the south part of Brazil, there’s a bar called Liberdade: an extremely simple place where a band, named Avendano Jr. e o Regional, has been dedicated to playing chorinho music for almost 40 years. The Liberdade tells the story of this place through the testimonials of the people who represent its soul, a bar where the passion for music is the bond that ties regular customers and extraordinary musicians.
Director: Cíntia Langie y Rafael Andreazza / Producer: Rafael Andreazza / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Cíntia Langie y Rafael Andreazza / Production company: Moviola Filmes / Country: Brasil / Duration: 60' / Format: MPG2 dvd – MPG2 bluray – Avi DV NTSC / Language: Portugués / Year: 2011
Awards and festivals:
Fondos obtenidos: Fundo Municipal de Cultura de Pelotas/RS
Festivales: Rencontres du Cinema Sud Americain de Marseille, Francia.
CinePunta, Festival Internacional de Cinema de Punta del Este. Conexão Vivo Movida, Brasil, San Pablo, Belo Horizinte, Goiânia, Salvador y João Pessoa.
Alfer deindustrialization, the dictatorship, and the Berlin wall, a profound gaze on the worker. Proletarians in their personal lives, their work, their relationship with the employer, the union, collective and individual struggles, work relations and relations with life. The (posible) class-struggle, detailed and heartfelt.
Director: Mario Handler / Producer: Ronald Melzer / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Ronald Melzer / Production company: Buen Cine / Country: Uruguay / Duration: 85' / Language: Español
Awards and festivals:
Fondos obtenidos: ICAU, Fondos de Fomento: Largometraje Documental (2011); Montevideo Socio Audiovisual, Largometraje Documental Montevideo Filma (2012)
Basem, a Palestinian baker who fled Iraq after the US invasion, arrives in La Calera, a small province in Chile where Palestinian descendants are numerous and powerful. Assisted by Mónica, a Chilean, palestinian social worker eager to reconnect with her roots, Basem begins a long struggle to start a new life and to rescue his elderly parents from the conflict zone.
Director: Ana María Hurtado / Producer: Ana María Hurtado / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Ana María Hurtado / Production company: Antipoder Producciones / Country: Chile / Duration: 52' / Format: DVD, bluray, Digibeta, HDcam / Language: Español y árabe / Year: 2011
Awards and festivals:
Fondos obtenidos: Ganadora del Fondo de Fomento Audiovisual (Chile) 2010
Premios: Mejor documental en la sección New Horizons del VIII Festival de Cine de Al Jazzeera, en Doha, Qatar, 2012
Festivales: Al Jazeera Film Festival (Qatar), London Palestine Film Festival (UK), Refugee Film Festival (Hong Kong), Arabisches Film Festival (Tubinger, Alemania), Festival de Cine Social de Concordia (Argentina), Surdocs, Festival de Cine de Puerto Varas, Chile, Resistencia Film Festival (Tomé, Chile)
Ramin Lomsadze, a 75-years old Georgian wrestler who once won seven matches in 55 seconds, is getting ready for the fight with his last and most formidable opponent – Loneliness. He gets on the train and sets off for a remote Georgian village to seek out the girl he loved and lost fifty years ago
Director: Audrius Stonys / Producer: Uldis Cekulis / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Audrius Stonys / Production company: VFS FILMS / Country: Lituania / Duration: 58' / Format: HDCAM / Language: Georgiano / Year: 2011
Awards and festivals:
Visions du Reel (Suiza), Moscow IFF Free Thoughts (Rusia),
Vilnius Documentary Film Festival (Lituania), RIDM (Canadá),
Festival dei Popoli (Italia), Black Nights Film Festival
(Estonia),Trento Film Festival (Italia), DOK Munich (Alemania),
DocAviv Film Festival (Israel).
In 1971, in Montevideo´s boardwalk, an anxious crowd awaited, eager to catch sight of the maneuvers of the Sikorsky helicopters. In a matter of seconds, the quiet weekend scenario turned into a nightmare. Two helicopters crashed against each other, projecting their blades to the audience of thousands, massively hurting many and causing the death of several spectators. This is the first time a uruguayan documentary deals with this story, kept in hiding for more than 30 years.
Director: Adrián Barrera Serván y Maxi Contenti / Producer: Mariana Secco / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Mariana Secco / Production company: Salado / Country: Uruguay / Duration: 52' / Format: HD / Language: Español / Year: 2012
Awards and festivals:
Premios: Ley de cine, Fondos de incentivo cultural y Doc Buenos Aires.
Web: http://sikorskydoc.com/The documentary records Sofia’s daily life in the months prior to her birthday number 100. She goes to the theater, goes shopping, cooks for her grandchildren and participates in succulent family meals. Sofia goes to the doctor, knits for her great grandchildren and drinks tea with her 94-year old sister, Rebecca. This is Sofia’s story, one of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, as she approaches to her 100th birthday. A woman full of love, humor, wisdom and passion for life.
Director: Hernán Belón / Producer: María Teresa Mazzorotolo / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: María Nazarena Mattera / Country: Argentina / Duration: 82' / Format: Bigibeta, HD cam, disco duro / Language: Español / Year: 2010
Web: http://www.documentalsofiacumple100.blogspot.com.ar/Dramatic art keeps vital for humans. Who and why they do it? Why do actors exist? Actors here are exposing themselves bring closer the art of creating characters, to understand how they transit between several realities. In this series we will meet their fears, their origins, their creative concerns, their working tools.
Director: Leticia Venzor y Jose Ramón Mikelajauregui / Producer: Jorge Arturo Contreras Pérez / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Jorge Arturo Contreras Pérez / Production company: Producciones Escarabajo / Country: México / Duration: 52' / Episodes: 13 / Format: HD / Language: Español / Year: 2012
Web: http://oncetv-ipn.net/tap/Tierra Fértil (Stages of growing) is a seven-part documentary series that features campesinos who have decided to rediscover the agricultural techniques of their ancestors and are striving for a sustainable way of production. Each episode takes place in a different American country and gives a voice to an individual or a group in a particular stage of their lives, from birth to after-death. It is a mosaique of stories about people who have found resilience and empowerment in their own history.
Director: Anabel Rodríguez Ríos / Producer: Carmen Rivas / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Anabel Rodríguez Ríos / Production company: Sancocho Público A.C. / Country: Venezuela / Duration: 55' / Episodes: 8 / Format: HD / Language: Español e inglés
Awards and festivals:
Fondo de Responsabilidad Social de Venezuela.
From grandma’s recipe to the chef’s recommendation. From our own kitchen to sophisticated bakery. There are dishes that belong to everybody. On the road of flavor is an adventure on search of the stories y secrets that hide the traditional recipes of our country.
Director: Cecilia González Spátola / Producer: Andrea Pozzolo / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Cecilia González Spátola / Production company: Ombú Media / Country: Uruguay / Duration: 24' / Episodes: 13 / Format: HD / Language: Español / Year: 2011 (4 capítulos de la primera temporada)
Awards and festivals:
Premios: Proyecto premiado por la Comisión del Bicentenario de Uruguay, MEC.
Shows the conflict for land in a very secluded area of the state of Mato Grosso, where violence and fire stand for the interests of opponent groups: indians, squatters, land grabbers, the Landless Workers Movement and the ranchers. A chronicle about the innate desire of the human being to own a piece of land, a portrait of life in the Amazon, a film that tells the story of a piece of Brazil, at war against itself.
Director: Maria Raduan / Producer: Eliane Ferreira / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Sabrina Nudeliman / Production company: Tucura Filmes y RT Features / Country: Brasil / Duration: 72' / Format: HD 720p, BetaCam, HDcam / Language: Portugués / Year: 2011
Awards and festivals:
Fondos obtenidos: Ancine y Governo de São Paulo. Patrocinio: Sabesp, Oi, CBC, Columbia
Festivales: Selección oficial de Chicago International Film Festival, Festival do Rio 2011, Official Selection HotDocs 2011, It’s All True Festival 2011
Web: http://valedosesquecidos.com.br/A cold and fascinating observation about the removal of boundaries in the workplace. Man, as the most important motor of growth in our highly skilled Western service society, has become the focus of modern management practices. By following these different procedures, the film explores companies’ efforts to motivate their employees so that they give their maximum performance.
Director: Carmen Losmann / Producer: Erik Winker / Production company: Hupe Film / Country: Alemania / Duration: 90'/52' / Language: Alemán / Year: 2011
Awards and festivals:
Premios: Fipresci Award DOK Leipzig 2011, Award of the Ecumenical Jury DOK Leipzig 2011, Healthy Workplaces Award DOK Leipzig 2011, Golden Key Award Kassel Documentary Festival 2011, Special Mention Documentary Edge New Zealand 2012
Festivales: World Premiere DOK Leipzig 2011 (International Competition), Healthy Workplaces Award - DOK Leipzig 2011, It's All True 2012, Special Mention - Documentary Edge New Zealand 2012, Visions du Reel 2012, Crossing Europe 2012, World Pulse - Indie Lisboa 2012, Main competition for Millenium award - Planete Doc Film Festival 2012, Jerusalem International Film Festival 2012
Web: http://www.taskovskifilmss.com/film/work-hard-play-hard/This is an anthropological program where Mexico is travelled around collecting gastronomic and human experiences. From the street stand to the most avant-garde restaurant, and from the sea deck to the familiar vineyard; we discover taste to taste their story and the story of the people who prepare them.
Director: Jorge Sigler / Producer: Jorge Arturo Contreras Pérez / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Jorge Arturo Contreras Pérez / Production company: Jorge Arturo Contreras Pérez / Country: México / Duration: 26' / Episodes: 13 / Format: HD / Language: Español / Year: 2012
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