The search of my grandfather Allende, the other side of La Moneda

Country: Chile
Length: 80’
Director: Marcia Tambutti Allende
Producer: Paola Castillo
Production Company: Errante – www.errante.cl
Support of Ibermedia Fund / co-production with Mexican company production Fragua Cine y Martfilms / Support from the Chilean Audiovisual Fund and contributions from CORFO (Chilean Film Development Award), the Salvador Allende Foundation and the production
company. Tevé Ciudad Prize and selection to DocsBarcelona in the DocMontevideo Pitching 2011

Marcia, granddaughter of Salvador Allende, wants to recover the personal side of her grandfather, buried by his mythical and historical person. During her quest, she decides to rebuild the family picture albums, stolen during the 1973 coup in Chile.

Lan – Box of hopes

Country: Brazil
Length: 75’
Budget: USD 400.000
Obtained funding: USD 10.000
Director: Susanna Lira
Producer: Mara Lobão & Luciana Freitas
Contact: mara@panoramica.tv – luciana@modooperante.com.br
Production Company: Panorâmica & Modo Operante www.panoramica.tv / www.modooperante.com.br
Selected for the International Program for Documentary Training, PIC DOC – Independent Producers Association Brazil, Brazil Communication Company/TV Brasil and Apex Brazil / RealScreen, Washington, USA. Uruguay’s Ministry of Tourism Prize in DocMontevideo Pitching 2011

Lan House – Box of Hopes is a 75 minute documentary that will show the transforming and overcoming potential of new technologies in a developing country. 50% of all internet access in Brazil happens in these popular internet cafes locally known as “lan houses”. There are more than 90.000 lan houses in Brazil, most of them located in low-income communities. They are usually a modest home business, full of computers and crowded with youngsters who pay US$ 0,50 to access the internet and get fun, education, dates, games, social services and new careeer opportunities. The richness of this reality
will be portrayed by the lives of characters who attend the same lan house in the City of God, the neighborhood where Fernando Meirelles shot his award winning movie.

Looking for

Country: Colombia
Length: 52’
Director: Andrea Said Camargo
Producer: Aseneth Suarez Ruiz
TV Cultura Brazil coproduction Prize in DocMontevideo Pitching 2011

I’m Andrea Said. My mom is Leonor Camargo from Colombia. My father is Shahid Said from Pakistan. I was born in London, but I never live there. Now I am 34 years old and I have been looking for my father for about eight years. In London, in Pakistan, in Colombia, I couldn’t find him yet, not in land not in the spiritual world. I don’t know who is he. I need to get rid of the feeling of not having a father, I have an obsession with knowing where I come from, if I let it go, it would not end. I have to turn that page, I have to find him, find me.

Perón, Perón

Country: Argentina
Length: 80’
Director: Blas Eloy Martínez & Cecilia Priego
Producer: Blas Eloy Martínez
Production Company: Micromundos – www.micromundosmedia.com.ar
Finantial support from INCAA (Argentina) / Award ‘Odisea, Spain (granted by Chello Multicanal)’ Doc Buenos Aires-Latin Side of the DOC.

Perón, Perón is a documentary film, which emerges when the director, Blas Eloy Martínez, the son of the writer and journalist Tomás Eloy Martínez, recovers the unpublished audios of the outstanding interviews that his father had with Juan Domingo Perón in Puerta de Hierro (Madrid) in 1969. From there, and with the continued presence of Perón’s voice accompanying the voice of the director, the film explores different keys of the General’s life and his legacy in order to find answers to a question as elusive as perfect: what is Peronism.

Pitimini

Country: Argentina
Length: 80’
Director: Luciana Terribili
Producer: Gema Juarez Allen & Mayra Bottero
Production Company: Gemafilms – www.gemafilms.com
Support from the Argentina National Film Institute / Dinalist for the 2010 Gucci
Tribeca Documentary Fund. Selected to DocsBarcelona in the DocMontevideo Pitching 2011

Carmen is a young gypsy woman living in Almanjáyar, a feared suburb of the city of Granada. Carmen keeps a secret that affronts her community and family – her intense relationship with her girlfriend Sheila, a love that allows her to survive a hostile reality.
Shot with a heart-breaking intimacy, the documentary “Pitiminí” portrays a dream of freedom and a love story marked by an adverse reality and follows its protagonists Carmen and Sheila over one year – a crucial period with important turns in their lives.

Borrowed memory

Country: Brazil
Length: 90’
Director: María Clara Escobar
Producer: Paula Pripas
Production Company: Filmes de abril – www.filmesdeabril.com.br
The project has been in development since the beginning of 2011 and is now being applied to many film funds. Maria Clara Escobar was selected to participate at the Talent Campus BAFICI, in Argentina.

A young filmmaker plunges into the unknown past of her father. He, a leading Brazilian intellectual, imprisoned and tortured during the military dictatorship, is silent since that time.

Roslik. Suspiciously Russian

Country: Uruguay
Length: 80’
Director: Julián Goyoaga
Producer: Germán Tejeira
Production Company: Rain Dogs Cine – www.raindogscine.com
Uruguay Film Institute Production Fund 2011 for documentary feature / Uruguay Film Institute Development Fund 2010 / Ibermedia Programme’s support for Development Projects / A co-production agreement with El Camino Cine (Argentina). ANTEL Prize in tne DocMontevideo Pitching 2011

Valery Roslik and his mother Mary Zabalkin visit San Javier, founded by Russian immigrants on the banks of the Uruguay river, the day the village celebrates a new anniversary of its foundation. 27 years ago, when Valery was 4 months old, his father Dr. Vladimir Roslik was murdered by torture in a military facility. It was the last assassination of the military dictatorship. Dr. Roslik was born and raised in San Javier and got his degree as physician in Moscow in the late 60s. After his graduation he decided to return to his small village to work, gaining the love and respect of his community.
Today, Valery and Mary make an intimate journey through these events that changed their lives and that of the village of San Javier, victimized by an irrational political and ethnic persecution whose consequences last until today.

Life on board

Country: Uruguay
Length: 70’
Director: Emiliano Mazza
Producer: Emiliano Mazza y Florencia Chao
Production Company: Passaparola Films – www.passaparolafilms.tv
Filmed in may 2010 / MVD Socio Audiovisual National Fund for post production / Selected to the Work in progress – Punta del Este Film Festival 2011 / Ventana Sur Co production Market 2010, Argentina. Uruguayan National Television Prize and selection to the DocMeetings Argentina Pitching Forum, in DocMontevideo Pitching 2011

Vida a Bordo (Life on Board) is a documentary film, a costumbrist story that will discover the human relationships, the routines, friendship, work and the management of free time on board of a Paraguayan ship during its trip through the De la Plata River, the Paraná River and Paraguay River.

Broken lives

Country: Mexico
Length: 70’
Director: Yanet Pantoja Nery
Producer: Patricia Maldonado Toral & Fernanda Rivero Gutierrez
Production Company: El Observador del Entretenimiento
Screenplay winner of Young Artists Film Incentive granted by the Mexican Institute of Cinematography. Al Jazeera Prize in the DocMontevideo Pitching 2011

In El Alberto, a remote community in Hidalgo state (México), every weekend is being held a unique tourist attraction: a night-time chase that simulates the illegal cross-border journey at the Mexico- U.S.A. borderline. Visitors from all over the world come to feel for a few hours, the despair and anguish of being undocumented fighting for their life in the desert. A migrant who has lost everything, an abandoned woman and a masked leader, will tell the story behind an abandoned community that found in these simulations the only way to survive.