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Documentary Pitching Selection

1982

by Lucas Isidro Gallo.

Argentina.

Politics, Creation Documentary, History.

01:20:00

1982, the Argentine military government invades the Malvinas Islands. Using only television footage generated by the official media of the time, the film tries to reflect on the need for power to create epic conflicts and how it manages to manipulate society. The film only shows one side of the story, and there lies the provocative intent of the film.

Director: Lucas Isidro Gallo / Producer: Patricio Cummins / Production company: LSD Live SA / Country: Argentina / Genre: Politics, Creation Documentary, History / Duration: 01:20:00 / Language: Spanish

4K: The Invisible Border

by Alejandro Quijano.

Colombia.

Creation Documentary, Human Rights, Social affairs.

01:15:00

Poncho is a barber, an assassin, and the leader of the ‘Los 13’ gang. He lives in a community immersed in a cycle of violence. After a murder attempt where he was shot 7 times, he depends on crutches for walking. Faced with the impossibility of surviving in this new condition, he is forced to look for a new way of living for the first time and try to cross the invisible border. Will he be able to give up crime and its power??

Director: Alejandro Quijano / Producer: Nicolas Van Hemelryck, Clare Weiskopf / Production company: Casatarántula / Country: Colombia / Genre: Creation Documentary, Human Rights, Social affairs / Duration: 01:15:00 / Format: FullHD / Language: Spanish

Comala

by Gian Cassini.

Mexico, United States.

Current Affairs, Social affairs, Biographies.

01:30:00

Inspired in the classic of Mexican literature “Pedro Páramo”, “COMALA” tells a man’s journey for knowing his absent father story, a failed hitman killed some years ago.

Director: Gian Cassini / Producer: Gabriel Guzmán / Production company: IMAGYX Entertainment / Country: Mexico, United States / Genre: Current Affairs, Social affairs, Biographies / Duration: 01:30:00 / Format: HD / Language: Spanish, English.

Awards and festivals:
-Premio IMCINE-DocsDF 2012 para Proyectos en Desarrollo. -DocuLab.8 Guadalajara 2016 * Ganador del Premio IMCINE-Doculatente a Mejor Documental Mexicano and del Premio AO Sonido para su Post-producción. -Fondo de Coinversión 2015 del Fondo Nacional para la Culture and las Artes. -Invitado al IDFA Academy en Noviembre 2016. -Residencia del Logan Nonfiction Program en el Carey Institute for Global Good en New York, para trabajar en su edición.

Delia

by María Victoria Pena.

Uruguay.

Creation Documentary.

01:25:00

Delia kept Jorge, her husband alive, sending him a letter each week to the prison where he was imprisoned, while keeping herself writing poems that only she read. But those poems and letters look like two different women, One that promised hope and another that did not know if after everything she was living, she could be happy at some point in her life.

Director: María Victoria Pena / Producer: Eugenia Olascuaga / Production company: Libélula Cine / Country: Uruguay / Genre: Creation Documentary / Duration: 01:25:00 / Format: 2K / Language: Spanish.

Awards and festivals:
Junio 2016 Obtención del Fondo de Desarrollo del ICAU Marzo 2016 Participación en el Taller de Desarrollo del DocsBarcelona 2015 Taller de Producción Ejecutiva dictado por Micaela Sole en el marco del Festival Internacional de Human Rights de Uruguay: Tenemos que ver. 2015 Laboratorio de cine documental del Festival Detour (Uruguay) dictado por Juan Álvarez Neme. AtlantiDoc 2015 con Christian Pauls de tutor de los proyectos.

Dopamine

by Natalia Imery Almario.

Colombia.

Creation Documentary, Youth, Current Affairs.

01:10:00

When Natalia was 18 years old, told her parents about her female sexual preferences. She is now 27 and rebuilds all what it has meant for her and her family. Her mother doesn´t accept it. Her father who belonged to leftist groups is now ill and swims everyday to keep his mobility. The swimming pool becomes the slot for conversation, reflexion and fight along with his daughter.

Director: Natalia Imery Almario / Producer: Oscar Ruiz Navia, Ángela Trejos Collazos / Production companies: Contravía Films / Oh my Gómez Films / Guazú Media / Country: Colombia / Genre: Creation Documentary, Youth, Current Affairs / Duration: 01:10:00 / Format: FullHD – 4k, HD, 28mm, 2K / Language: Spanish.

Awards and festivals:
Ganador de beca FDC para el VI Diplomado en Creation Documentary de la Universidad del Valle, con asesorías de Catalina Villar and Marta Andreu (2015). Hizo parte de los talleres: Taller de Desarrollo de Proyectos del Talents Buenos Aires (2014), Miradas Doc Market, en Islas Canarias, Spain (2015), Bogotá Audiovisual Market, BAM Projects (2016), Cine en Desarrollo, Festival Cinélatino, 29a Recontres de Toulouse, France.

The Champion Of The World

by Federico Borgia, Guillermo Madeiro.

Uruguay.

Creation Documentary.

01:15:00

Antonio Osta, 43 years old, ex bodybuilding world champion, trains hard and dreams with winning again before his retirement. But in a visit to the doctor he is diagnosed severe kidney damage that threatens his life. Urged to abandon bodybuilding competition and radically change his daily habits he still claims: “there is no plan B, plan B is an open door for failure”.

Director: Federico Borgia, Guillermo Madeiro / Producer: Pancho Magnou Arnábal / Production company: Montelona Cine / Country: Uruguay / Genre: Creation Documentary / Duration: 01:15:00 / Format: HD / Language: Spanish

The Trees Tell Us

by Carlos David Sepúlveda González.

Chile.

Environment, Social affairs, Creation Documentary.

01:10:00

Countryside and industrial parks, home and factory, the daily life and the apocalyptic, give testimony of the town of Ventanas, through a team of soundmen that walk trying to capture diferents kind of noises. During their journey, they know MARÍA (70) a jovial agricultorist afflicted by a pulmonary disease produced by chemical pollution. She, who offers to be a guide, will immerse us into magical spaces where the trees and her past come to life.

Director: Carlos David Sepúlveda González / Producer: Macarena Cristina Monrós Núñez / Production company: Buena Cosecha Producciones / Country: Chile / Genre: Environment, Social affairs, Creation Documentary / Duration: 01:10:00 / Format: Full HD / Language: Spanish.

Awards and festivals:
- Este proyecto obtuvo una financiación a través del fondo de fomento audiovisual del Consejo de la Culture and las Artes en Chile por un monto de 23.103 USD. - Recientemente seleccionado en el Latin Pitch de DocsBarcelona 2017.

My father’s dreams

by Juan Ignacio Fernandez Hoppe.

Uruguay.

Creation Documentary, Social affairs, History.

01:30:00

When I was eight years old my father commited suicide, and the subject of his life was barely ever discussed in my family. The discovery of a box containing his belongings starts me off on a journey to reconstruct his image. As I learn more about him, I come closer to discovering the ultimate bond between us –perhaps a common fate.

Director: Juan Ignacio Fernandez Hoppe / Producer: Carolina Campo Lupo / Production company: Hoppe films / Country: Uruguay / Genre: Creation Documentary, Social affairs, History / Duration: 01:30:00 / Format: 4K / Language: Spanish.

Awards and festivals:
En 2014, el proyecto obtuvo el premio de Desarrollo de ICAU, and luego la Beca de Formación del Ministerio de Culture. En 2016 el proyecto recibe el premio FONA para producción de largometraje documental. En 2017 el proyecto obtiene los fondos de producción Fomento de ICAU and Montevideo Filma de la IMM.

Miserere

by Francisco Ríos Flores.

Argentina.

Creation Documentary, Social affairs, Current Affairs.

01:10:00

It is a sweltering day in Buenos Aires, Miserere square and the railway station are packed. Almost unnoticed, a group of guys prostitute themselves for very little money. Their thoughts emerge, deadening the oppressive hustle and bustle of the square and the station.

Director: Francisco Ríos Flores / Producer: Lucía Rey / Production company: LumaDoc / Country: Argentina / Genre: Creation Documentary, Social affairs, Current Affairs / Duration: 01:10:00 / Format: Full HD / Language: Spanish.

Awards and festivals:
Subsidio del INCAA. Acuerdo de producción con LumaDoc, and con el estudio de sonido Caja de Ruidos. Selección del Talents Buenos Aires 2014, organizado por el Festival de Berlin and el Festival BAFICI. Participante seleccionado del Taller de Pitching del VII Atlantidoc, de Uruguay. Finalista del Tribeca Latin America Fund 2017.

Sam

by Paula Gomes, Haroldo Borges.

Brazil.

Creation Documentary, Youth, Human Rights.

01:20:00

Samuel is 14 years old. Like most boys of his age, he goes to school, flirts, confronts his parents, writes and draws, to externalize what he feels. But Samuel has a not so common goal: he wants to be recognized as a man, even though physically and biologically, he has a woman’s body. As he struggles for that, he will cross the frontier of adolescence, leading us to confront our own fragmented identities.

Director: Paula Gomes, Haroldo Borges / Producer: Marcos Bautista, Ernesto Molinero / Production company: Plano 3 Filmes / Country: Brazil / Genre: Creation Documentary, Youth, Human Rights / Duration: 01:20:00 / Format: 2K / Language: Portuguese


Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/plano3filmes

Sugar Island

by Johanné Gómez Terrero.

Dominican Republic.

Creation Documentary, Social affairs, Human Rights.

02:05:00

Ana Ingrid’s pregnancy occurs parallel to the time of zafra. Her teenage body is growing, while the machete cuts the long fields of sugar cane. The harvest ends and a sugar cane worker is born. The newborn’s bawl joins the sugar cane blossoms.

Director: Johanné Gómez Terrero / Producer: Johanné Gómez Terrero / Production company: Mackandal / Country: Dominican Republic / Genre: Creation Documentary, Social affairs, Human Rights / Duration: 02:05:00 / Format: 4K / Language: Spanish, Creole.

Awards and festivals:
Sugar Island participó en el taller Campus Latino, en Abril de 2017. En el marco del IFF Panamá.

Termodieletric

by Ana Costa Ribeiro.

Brazil.

Science and Technology, Creation Documentary, Environment.

01:30:00

The documentary investigates mysteries of the world through the scientific trajectory of Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro, my grandfather and one of the fathers of experimental physics in Brazil, when discovering the thermodielectric phenomenon. The film takes us to landscapes as a carnauba palm plantation in Ceará, an experimental physics laboratory in São Paulo, a mineral extraction field in Minas Gerais, and an astrophysical observatory, in the Andes.

Director: Ana Costa Ribeiro / Producer: Alice Lanari / Production company: Gaivota Studio / Country: Brazil / Genre: Science and Technology, Creation Documentary, Environment / Duration: 01:30:00 / Format: 4K / Language: Portuguese, French

Maiden’s Tower

by Susanna Lira.

Brazil.

Human Rights, Politics, History.

01:11:00

The documentary Maiden’s Tower tackles the years in which Brazil was ruled by a military dictatorship, specifically addressing the resistance of female political prisoners who occupied a single cell, commonly dubbed Maiden’s Tower, in the Tiradentes penitentiary in São Paulo, among the prisoners was Brazil’s former President Dilma Rousseff. The stories of the women who were imprisoned in this cell are the film’s main narrative thread.

Director: Susanna Lira / Producer: Nuno Godolphim / Production company: Modo Operante Produções / Country: Brazil / Genre: Human Rights, Politics, History / Duration: 01:11:00 / Format: HD / Language: Português.

Awards and festivals:
Torre das Donzelas partició de pitchings con las siguientes instituciones: GLOBOSAT, FUNDAÇÃO FORD, CORREIOS and FUNDO SETORIAL DO AUDIOVISUAL, recibiendo distintos premios.

Series Pitching Selection

80 Destinies

by Alice de Andrade.

Brazil, Cuba.

Culture, Creation Documentary, History.

13 episodes.

26'

The transformations of Cuban society through the prism of 40 couples’ love stories, revisited 20 years after an extraordinary casting.

Director: Alice de Andrade / Producer: Patrick Leblanc / Production company: Cinematográfica Superfilmes / Country: Brazil, Cuba / Genre: Culture, Creation Documentary, History / Duration: 26' / episodes: 13 / Format: Digital HD/4K / Language: Portuguese, Spanish


Facebook: https://pt-br.facebook.com/80destinos/

Latin Wars, the series

by Alice Lanari, Pedro Asbeg.

Brazil.

Creation Documentary, Social affairs, Human Rights.

6 episodes.

45'

América Armada is an original series showing the different forms of violence in Latin American. Whether it is for the deaths that we count, for the weapons that invade our countries, for the news we read or the songs we listen to, violence is today part of the daily lives of millions of people living with it in a trivial way. Our series will tackle the complexity of the tools people use to resist and survive.

Director: Alice Lanari, Pedro Asbeg / Producer: Tereza Alvarez / Production companies: Palmares Produções / Gaivota Studio / Country: Brazil / Genre: Creation Documentary, Social affairs, Human Rights / Duration: 45' / episodes: 6 / Format: 4K / Language: Spanish, Portuguese, English

The Beat

by Carolina del Mar Fernández, Irene Lema.

Colombia.

Music, Culture, Creation Documentary.

7 episodes.

52'

“The Beat” stages the best of contemporary colombian music. In each chapter, an urban band and a traditional master, meet together to vindicate the latinoamerican identity in a musical phenomenon that is conquering the world. “The Beat” is an immersion in the creative moment behind the origins of music.

Director: Carolina del Mar Fernández, Irene Lema / Producer: Consuelo Castillo / Production company: Ojo De Pez Digital / Country: Colombia / Genre: Music, Culture, Creation Documentary / Duration: 52' / episodes: 7 / Format: HD / Language: Spanish

Los Angeles Expedition

by Diego de Godoy, Facundo Cantelmi.

Uruguay, Brazil.

Music, Social affairs, Culture.

6 episodes.

00:29:00

“Los Angeles Expedition” is a unique and exclusive documentary that will bring to the public an inspiring and relevant story. The series deals with contextual issues that legitimize the reasons and reasons for which the music taught in the Jesuit missions of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay was in fact the most flourishing art, A brand in a new generation of musicians and apprentices.

Director: Diego de Godoy, Facundo Cantelmi / Producer: Adriana Copetti / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Adriana Copetti, Nelson Wainstein / Production company: Bardot Films / Country: Uruguay, Brazil / Genre: Music, Social affairs, Culture / Duration: 00:29:00 / episodes: 6 / Format: HD / Language: Portuguese

Horizons – South America

by Rubens Crispim.

Brazil.

Current Affairs, Environment, Social affairs.

13 episodes.

26'

After riding his bike around the world, Arthur Simões goes on a new trip, this time to learn about different ways in which people relate to nature, culture, technology and to each other. He will discover alternative policies, techniques and life styles than can serve as inspiration to a more collaborative and sustainable world. His bike ride starts on South America, showing how the region is setting examples through cutting-edge initiatives.

Director: Rubens Crispim / Producer: Priscila Andrade, Raphael Bicesto / Production company: RB6 Produções Ltda - ME / Country: Brazil / Genre: Current Affairs, Environment, Social affairs / Duration: 26' / episodes: 13 / Format: HD / Language: Portuguese, Spanish

Web: https://www.rb6producoes.com.br/horizontes

Women Across Borders

by Clarisa Navas.

Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay.

Social affairs, Culture, Education.

8 episodes.

26'

Women Across Borders is a series of eight chapters addressing the issue of border relations in the area of the region of northeastern Argentina and its links with the countries of Paraguay and Brazil. Women as protagonists recount their everyday experiences exchange between neighboring countries , and from their realities shaped in such contexts of cultural hybridity , we rethink the concept of borders and their.

Director: Clarisa Navas / Producer: Maria Laura Buslemen / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Maria Laura Buslemen / Production company: Yagua Piru Cine / Country: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay / Genre: Social affairs, Culture, Education / Duration: 26' / episodes: 8 / Format: Full HD / Language: Spanish, Portuguese, Guaraní

New World, Street Art in Latin America

by Juan Luis Tamayo Rubio.

Chile.

Culture, Social affairs, Youth.

8 episodes.

52'

Where there is a wall, there is a territory. Where there is a territory, there is a dispute over its use and control. “New World” is a documentary tv series, which explore and tries to understand Latin America through its street art, rediscovering episodes of the continent´s history that have determined their street´s memories and had filled of colors the walls of its present.

Director: Juan Luis Tamayo Rubio / Producer: Guillermo Migrik Villa / Production company: Tercermundo Producciones / Country: Chile / Genre: Culture, Social affairs, Youth / Duration: 52' / episodes: 8 / Format: AVC4K / Language: Spanish

I’m a boy

by Lorena Zilleruelo Jorquera.

Chile, France.

Human Rights, Social affairs, Youth.

6 episodes.

45'

An enormous commotion racks to my family, when with only 13 years, my cousin Andrea decides to change her genre. An intense and painful process of comprehension, duel and acceptance starts, which little by little allows the birth and consolidation of David, a happy and selfconfident teenager.

Director: Lorena Zilleruelo Jorquera / Producer: Amalric De Pontcharra, Elisa Sepúlveda Ruddoff / Production companies: Capicúa Films / Amalric de Pontcharra / Country: Chile, France / Genre: Human Rights, Social affairs, Youth / Duration: 45' / episodes: 6 / Format: HD 1.66 / Language: Spanish

Web: http://www.lorenazilleruelo.com

Backyard

by Ismael Egui Saad.

Colombia.

Creation Documentary, Human Rights, Social affairs.

12 episodes.

11'

Backyard is a transmedia project in which an intimate journey is made across different stories of sexual and gender diversity that become visible in different latin American Cities.

Director: Ismael Egui Saad / Producer: Ismael Egui Saad / Production company: Icaro Films / Country: Colombia / Genre: Creation Documentary, Human Rights, Social affairs / Duration: 11' / episodes: 12 / Format: Digital / Language: Spanish

Meetings selection

The Soul’s Dark Night

by Henrique Dantas.

Brazil.

Creation Documentary, Human Rights, History.

01:33:00

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This experimental documentary talks about the military dictatorship that happened in Bahia(Brazil). The interviews were shot in Forte do Barbalho, a torture center where the people who tell us this history were tortured.

Director: Henrique Dantas / Producer: Henrique Dantas, Reinofy Duarte, Karina Paz / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Henrique Dantas / Production company: Hamaca Produções Artísticas / Country: Brazil / Genre: Creation Documentary, Human Rights, History / Duration: 01:33:00 / Format: Full HD, DCP / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2016.

Awards and festivals:
Awards: - Special Jury Prize at FICIP (International Political Film Festival in Argentina) 2016. -Best documentary award at the Victoria Film Festival. Festivals: Tiradentes Show 2016. Shows Tiradentes São Paulo 2016. FAM 2016. International panorama Thing of Cinema 2016. Festival of Cinema of Vitória 2016. FICIP 2016. Atlântidoc - Uruguay 2016

Isolated

by Marcela Lizcano.

Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador.

Creation Documentary, Social affairs, Environment.

73 min & 52 min

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540 people inhabit the most densely populated artificial island in the Colombian Caribbean. Santa Cruz del Islote is an island the size of a football pitch. There are no police here; no priests, or doctors, or armed conflict. Through a look at life on the island, the islanders’ daily struggles and interactions, ‘Isolated’ reflects on man’s role as an inhabitant of a larger universe, making this island a metaphor for our world.

Director: Marcela Lizcano / Producer: Marcela Lizcano, Juan Pablo Solano, Simón Beltrán, Sarahi Echeverría / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Marcela Lizcano / Production companies: Viceversa Cine / Proyección Films / Country: Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador / Genre: Creation Documentary, Social affairs, Environment / Duration: 73 min & 52 min / Format: HD - DCP, Blu Ray, DVD / Language: Spanish / Year: 2015.

Awards and festivals:
Prizes: • Prize in BAM screenings as best feature documentary. • Award for best documentary in the category: Our America 2015 in Docsdf. • Award for best documentary in the Caribbean category of Ficbaq 2016. • Best documentary award at the Colombian film festival in New York. Festivals: • Bogotá international film festival. • Warsaw film festival: documentary competition 2015. • Dokleipzig 58th: panorama section 2015. • Docsmx: category of our America 2015. • Midbo: international docum5. • Midbo: muestra internacional de cine documental de Bogotá, selección oficial. • Filmar en América Latina 2015, Suiza. • Festival Transcinema, Perú. • Ficbaq - Barranquilla, Colombia. • The Colombian Film Festival NY. • Festival de Cine de Malta. • Mostra Ecofalante, Brazil.

Lava Files

by Felipe Chimicatti.

Brazil.

History, Creation Documentary, Environment.

01:10:00

The documentary addresses the various visual manifestations that represent the eruptions of the Fogo volcano, from the images produced by a Portuguese research board in the 1950s to the vertiginous independent coverage of the neighboring community in the year 2014. In this game of forces, the image and the personal reports prevail as the only way to retain the spaces submerged by the lava.

Director: Felipe Chimicatti / Producer: André Hallak / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: André Hallak / Production company: Trem Chic / Country: Brazil / Genre: History, Creation Documentary, Environment / Duration: 01:10:00 / Format: 4K / Language: Portuguese

Authors Live

by AGADU - Asociación General de Autores del Uruguay.

Uruguay.

Music, Culture.

185 episodes, 15 seasons episodes.

01:00:00

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The Autores En Vivo cycle is an initiative carried out by AGADU that was born with the idea of ​​collaborating with the development of national artists and authors. Proud of having been the first national film filmed entirely in HD, it is an opportunity to know the talent of these authors in an intimate environment, but at the same time of strong impact by the intensity of the proposal.

Director: AGADU - Asociación General de Autores del Uruguay / Producer: Unidad de Contenidos // AGADU / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Maxi Suárez - Alejandro Ferradás - UNIDAD DE CONTENIDOS / Production company: AGADU - Asociación General de Autores del Uruguay / Country: Uruguay / Genre: Music, Culture / Duration: 01:00:00 / episodes: 185 episodes, 15 seasons / Format: HD / Language: Spanish / Year: 2016

Web: https://www.autoresenvivo.com.uy/

Capoeira, inside the game

by Jorge Itapuã.

Brazil.

Creation Documentary, Culture.

01:15:00

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In this hybrid road movie, Ella and Itapuã, two traveling capoeira practitioners, disciple and master, go on a world tour teaching capoeira and documenting their experiences along the way. Together, they travel across Europe and visit Israel, India, USA, Japan and Indonesia. However, as she becomes an increasingly experienced capoeira practitioner, he loses his loyal disciple.

Director: Jorge Itapuã / Producer: Carolina Benjamin and Danielle Villanova / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Jorge Itapuã / Production company: Daza Filmes / Country: Brazil / Genre: Creation Documentary, Culture / Duration: 01:15:00 / Format: HD - DCP, DVD, Bluray / Language: Portuguese and English / Year: 2016

Web: http://dazafilmes.com.br/project/capoeira-um-passo-a-dois/

CARRASCA

by Alejandro Cortés Calahorra.

Spain.

Creation Documentary, Biographies, Current Affairs.

01:11:53

An auteurist documentary feature about artistic life through the personal experience and constant evolution of the painter Teresa Ramón. An audiovisual tale at the inter- section of the arts that transports the spectator to the heart of the creative process through the abnegation, personal drive and daring of the veteran artist.

Director: Alejandro Cortés Calahorra / Producer: Alejandro Cortés Calahorra / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Alejandro Cortés Calahorra / Production company: Alejandro Cortés P.C. / Country: Spain / Genre: Creation Documentary, Biographies, Current Affairs / Duration: 01:11:53 / Format: DCP / Language: Spanish / Year: 2017

Lovely Letters

by Alejandro Rocchi / Marco Bentancor.

Uruguay.

Children, Current Affairs.

00:52:00

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Lovely Letters is the whirlwind in the stomach that we felt when we saw that person that we liked so much. It is the love of the school, casual and absurd; are the sheets of notebook that travel screaming what is felt by that person so special, are friends running with messages and games that end in kisses.

Director: Alejandro Rocchi / Marco Bentancor / Producer: Alejandro Rocchi / Marco Bentancor / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Alejandro Rocchi / Marco Bentancor / Production company: Polisemia Pictures / Country: Uruguay / Genre: Children, Current Affairs / Duration: 00:52:00 / Format: Full HD / Language: Spanish / Year: 2017.

Awards and festivals:
Prizes: Cartitas had its version SHORT FILM, which was a cut for jury. That court allowed us to win the FONA and also, the Montevideo Film Festival (Best Short Film) and the San Diego Latino Film Festival (Best DocuShort). Festivals: (SHORT VERSION, its version TeleFilm has not had premiere). Montevideo Film Festival. San Diego Latino Film Festival. Detour. Becine Latino. Bogoshorts

Celina

by Gabriel Szollosy.

Uruguay, Colombia and Argentina.

Culture, Social affairs.

01:10:00

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Each year Celina (80) crosses the Argentinean Pampa in her car to visit her daughter Fernanda (38). Among hundreds of disappearances, they were the only two who made it out alive and together from a delivery room of dictatorship’s clandestine detention center. For mother and daughter the only possible truth and justice is to move forward with their lives.

Director: Gabriel Szollosy / Producer: Diana Kuellar - Gabriel Szollosy - Dalmira Clario / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Gabriel Szollosy, Diana Kuellar, Sebastian Prieto / Production companies: Making Docs / Librecine / Country: Uruguay, Colombia and Argentina / Genre: Culture, Social affairs / Duration: 01:10:00 / Format: HD / Language: Spanish.

Awards and festivals:
Project: BoliviaLab. FICCALI

Web: https://makingdocs.org/2016/03/07/celina/

CENTRAL

by Tatiana Sager.

Brazil.

Current Affairs.

01:40:00

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Central is a faithful portrayal of the harsh reality of the Brazilian prison system, important for understanding the recent wave of massacres in several prisons in the country.

Director: Tatiana Sager / Producer: Beto Rodrigues , Tatiana Sager , Raquel Sager / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Promovere/ Denise Jancar / Production company: Panda Filmes / Country: Brazil / Genre: Current Affairs / Duration: 01:40:00 / Format: HD / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2017.

Awards and festivals:
-Festin 2016 Festival de Cinema Itinerante da Língua Portuguesa / Award Best Documentary - XXXIII Prêmio Direitos Humanos de Jornalismo - Award Best Documentary

Web: https://www.centralofilme.com.br/

Scientist for a day

by Juan Camilo Villarreal.

Colombia.

Science and Technology, Education, Youth.

12 episodes.

00:15:00

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Three friends who are facing some everyday troubles, decide to seek answers within the Colombian scientific community. By meeting the scientists, as ordinary people open to share their methods, they understand that science is present everywhere, and that it is much more interesting and amusing than usually thought.

Director: Juan Camilo Villarreal / Producer: Colciencias, La Buena Estrella S.A.S / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Juan Fernando López / Production company: Colciencias / Country: Colombia / Genre: Science and Technology, Education, Youth / Duration: 00:15:00 / episodes: 12 / Format: FullHD, 2K / Language: Spanish / Year: 2016

Web: http://todoesciencia.gov.co/todo_es_ciencia/cientifico_dia

Colombia Bio

by Oscar Ruíz Navia, Nicolás Ordoñez, Juan Pablo Mendez, Carlos A. Ramirez, Patricia Ayala, Clare Weiskopf.

Colombia.

Science and Technology, Creation Documentary, Environment.

6 episodes.

00:55:00

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COLOMBIA BIO is a series of documentaries on the scientific expeditions carried out under a Colciencias project by the same name. The project intends to document the biodiversity of regions that have remained so far unexplored for several reasons, mostly related to the country’s armed conflict. Every chapter will record a journey, of high scientific value.

Director: Oscar Ruíz Navia, Nicolás Ordoñez, Juan Pablo Mendez, Carlos A. Ramirez, Patricia Ayala, Clare Weiskopf / Producer: Colciencias, Cábala Producciones, Endemica Studios, Negrita Films / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Juan Fernando López / Production company: Colciencias / Country: Colombia / Genre: Science and Technology, Creation Documentary, Environment / Duration: 00:55:00 / episodes: 6 / Format: FullHd, Web, 2k / Language: Spanish / Year: 2017

Web: http://todoesciencia.gov.co/todo_es_ciencia/colombia_bio

Body of crime

by Pedro Rcha.

Brazil.

Creation Documentary, Culture, Youth.

01:13:32

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Ivan got out of jail, but still attached to an electronic anklet.

Director: Pedro Rcha / Producer: Pedro Rocha and Diego Hoefel / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Pedro Rocha de Oliveira / Production company: Corpo Aberto / Country: Brazil / Genre: Creation Documentary, Culture, Youth / Duration: 01:13:32 / Format: DCP / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2017.

Awards and festivals:
Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes

When they awake

by P.J. Marcellino and Hermon Farahi.

Canada, United States.

Music, Social affairs, Human Rights.

01:31:27

“My people will sleep for 100 years, but when they awake, it will be the artists that give them their spirit back”, said Louis Riel, 100+ years ago. The moment is now. Witness the awakening – it’s nothing short of a music revolution. Following on the footsteps oftrailblazers like Buffy Sainte-Marie, Indigenous musicians in North America are carving paths into mainstream, and reclaiming their rightful place in contemporary cultural fabric.

Director: P.J. Marcellino and Hermon Farahi / Producer: P.J. Marcellino and Stuart Henderson / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: P.J. Marcellino / Production companies: Longyearbyen Media / Cause Affects Films / 90th Parallel Productions / Raindance Canada / Western Arctic Moving Pictures / Country: Canada, United States / Genre: Music, Social affairs, Human Rights / Duration: 01:31:27 / Format: Unitario, especial de 2 horas, especial de 3 horas / Language: English / Year: 2017.

Awards and festivals:
Intern. Independent Film Award: 2017 Platinum Winners

Web: http://www.awakedoc.com

Of Life And Death, Testimonials Of Condor Operation

by Pedro Chaskel.

Chile.

Social affairs, Human Rights.

00:42:00

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The documentary investigates in the Files of Horror of the dictatorship of General Alfredo Stroessner, discovered in Paraguay in 1992, in the documentation of Operation Condor found there, reveals who were responsible, what their objectives, their strategies, their prisons, Their accomplices, their murders.

Director: Pedro Chaskel / Producer: Marco Díaz / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Marco Díaz / Production company: El Grito Producciones / Country: Chile / Genre: Social affairs, Human Rights / Duration: 00:42:00 / Format: bluray, apple pro res / Language: Spanish / Year: 2015.

Awards and festivals:
Awards: Second prize at the Santiago Alvarez documentary festival in Santiago de Cuba, 2017. Festivals: Shows at the Valdivia Film Festival, Chile, 2015. Shows at the Films Film Festival of Santiago de Chile FIDOCS, 2016. Latin American Competition of Documentary in Havana Film Festival 2015. Competition in Documentary Film Festival Santiago Alvarez de Santiago de Cuba, 2017.


Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/devidaydemuerte/

The Relative East

by Sofía Casanova, Sofía Córdoba.

Uruguay.

Music, Culture, Creation Documentary.

01:10:00

Dos Orientales is a duo that joins together the musicianship of “two Easterners”:Tomohiro Yahiro (Japan) and Hugo Fattoruso (República Oriental del Uruguay). As dawns in the land of the rising sun -an ancient, fast and disciplined Japan- the sun sets in in the southernmost capital of America, a contemporary, slow and disorderly Uruguay. These differences gracefully result in the synergistic friendship of Tomohiro and Hugo

Director: Sofía Casanova, Sofía Córdoba / Producer: Sofía Casanova, Inés Vázquez Messano, Sofía Córdoba / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Sofía Casanova, Inés Vázquez Messano / Production company: SADHU / Country: Uruguay / Genre: Music, Culture, Creation Documentary / Duration: 01:10:00 / Language: Spanish / Year: 2017.

Awards and festivals:
Awards: Declaration of interest of the Ministry of Tourism, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay. Festivals: Special presentation in the framework of Phono-Cinema UY, International Film and Music Exhibition (October 11, 2016)

Web: http://dosorientalesdoc.com/es/

The Mathematics Cuco

by Marco Caltieri.

Uruguay.

Education, Children.

8 episodes.

00:26:00

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Olivia – a 9 year-old girl- has just moved into a new building with her mom. In the basement she finds an upside down world, where monsters (or “Cucos”) live. By regulations, “Cucos” shall eat children, and in order to avoid this, “The Cuco” will throw a riddle for Olivia to solve every episode.

Director: Marco Caltieri / Producer: Clara Charlo, Pablo Figueroa / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Clara Charlo / Production company: La Jolla Films / Country: Uruguay / Genre: Education, Children / Duration: 00:26:00 / episodes: 8 / Format: 4K / Language: Spanish / Year: 2017.

Awards and festivals:
Cartoons on the bay (Torino, Italia)

Web: http://www.lajollafilms.com

The Dread

by Pablo Aparo and Martín Benchimol.

Argentina.

Creation Documentary.

01:04:00

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In a godforsaken town in Argentina, homemade remedies have replaced traditional medicine. “The Dread”, a rare disease that is only cured by an old man, whom no one is encouraged to visit.

Director: Pablo Aparo and Martín Benchimol / Producer: Mayra Bottero and Gema Juarez Allen / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Mayra Bottero / Production company: Mayra Bottero / Country: Argentina / Genre: Creation Documentary / Duration: 01:04:00 / Format: DCP, BLURAY, DVD / Language: Spanish / Year: 2017.

Awards and festivals:
BAFICI (19) 2017, ARGENTINE COMPETITION. Docu Lab Guadalajara 2017

Web: http://www.machita.com.ar

When the Guns Go Silent

by Natalia Orozco.

Colombia, France.

Human Rights, Politics, Current Affairs.

02:00:00

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After half a century of war and 8 million victims, the FARC, the oldest guerrilla in the world, agree to start a peace dialogue with its historic enemy: the Colombian State. Together they fight the toughest battle, the final one: the battle for peace.

Director: Natalia Orozco / Producer: Natalia Orozco, Christine Camdessus, Serge Gordey, Julián Giraldo / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Natalia Orozco / Production companies: Pulso Mundo SAS / Alegria Productions / RCNTV / Country: Colombia, France / Genre: Human Rights, Politics, Current Affairs / Duration: 02:00:00 / Format: HD / Language: Spanish / Year: 2017.

Awards and festivals:
Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival, Cinéatatino Rencontres de Toulouse, Colombian Film Festival Berlin: “Panorama Colombia”, DocsBarcelona

The German Neighbor

by Rosario Cervio and Martin Liji.

Argentina.

History, Human Rights, Social affairs.

01:33:00

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In 1960 Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped in Argentina and taken to Israel for a trial. In 2015, Renate –a young German translator who lives in Buenos Aires- is hired to translate it. Her work shows the unusual life and remarkable trial defense of Eichmann.

Director: Rosario Cervio and Martin Liji / Producer: Nana Cine / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Mario E. Levit / Production company: Nana Cine / Country: Argentina / Genre: History, Human Rights, Social affairs / Duration: 01:33:00 / Format: DCP/BLURAY / Language: Castellano, Alemán, English and Hebreo / Year: 2016.

Awards and festivals:
Mar del Plata International Film Festival 2016

Family Shaka

by Maximiliano Ezzaoui and Natalia Bacallini.

Argentina.

Culture, Social affairs, Current Affairs.

8 episodes.

00:26:00

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We will tell the story of an unusual family who chose a different path to fulfill. The dream of living in a tropical paradise. The series will show different situations of family life. We will accompany you in your daily life reflecting the fun, conflicts and interaction with society visualizing the contrasts that occur in the ways of living More traditional.

Director: Maximiliano Ezzaoui and Natalia Bacallini / Producer: María Eugenia Ferrer and Diego Miembro / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: María Eugenia Ferrer / Production companies: El zócalo / La Ventana Cine Itinerante / Country: Argentina / Genre: Culture, Social affairs, Current Affairs / Duration: 00:26:00 / episodes: 8 / Language: Spanish / Year: 2016

Formulas For Change

by Juan Fernando López.

Colombia.

Science and Technology, Biographies.

27 episodes.

00:07:00

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This is a series of micro-documentaries on individuals whose life stories have been impacted by science, technology, and innovation. It features a journey through Colombia’s different geographic areas in search of persons who have transformed their communities, and whose lives were themselves transformed by science. Above all, the series provides an inside look into some of the country’s most talented and inquisitive minds.

Director: Juan Fernando López / Producer: Colciencias / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Juan Fernando López / Production company: Colciencias / Country: Colombia / Genre: Science and Technology, Biographies / Duration: 00:07:00 / episodes: 27 / Format: FullHD / Language: Spanish / Year: 2017

Web: http://todoesciencia.gov.co/todo_es_ciencia/formulas_cambio

Guardianes de la Lengua

by Juan Pablo Tobal Claria.

Argentina.

Culture,Social affairs, Environment.

8 episodes.

00:26:00

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In the world there are more than 7,000 languages, and if statistics are maintained, in 15 days, there will be one less. “Guardianes de la Lengua”, is a documentary series that mixes the adventure, adventure and cultural diffusion journey, to accompany the journey of a boyfriend in native languages ​​(Argentine) by the most remote communities of Latin America in the adventure of documenting the last speakers of diferents languages ​​.

Director: Juan Pablo Tobal Claria / Producer: Pepe Tobal / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Pepe Tobal / Production companies: Canal Encuentro / Atrox, Fca de Imagenes- Cholula Film / Country: Argentina / Genre: Culture,Social affairs, Environment / Duration: 00:26:00 / episodes: 8 / Language: Spanish / Year: 2017.

Awards and festivals:
Award for best project Documentary Series DocMontevideo 2015. Selected for Pitching in Rio Content Market. Selected for Pitching in DocMontevideo. Participation in MIPTV and MIPCOM, Cannes.

Jaar, the last place

by Paula Rodríguez.

Chile.

Culture, Social affairs, Creation Documentary.

01:13:00

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“JAAR, the last place” observes Alfredo Jaar’s creative process, he’s one of the most relevant contemporary artists. His works address big issues such as immigration at the Mexico and USA border, genocide in Rwanda o the military coup in Chile. Jaar believes that art is “the last place” of freedom in our society and from that trench, he displays his work as an act of resistance.

Director: Paula Rodríguez / Producer: Paola Castillo / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Paola Castillo / Production company: Errante Producciones / Country: Chile / Genre: Culture, Social affairs, Creation Documentary / Duration: 01:13:00 / Format: HD-DCP- otros formatos digitales / Language: Spanish, English / Year: 2017

Web: http://www.errante.cl

Locura al aire

by Alicia Cano and Leticia Cuba.

Uruguay, Mexico.

Human Rights, Creation Documentary, Social affairs.

01:10:00

In a deteriorated psychiatric hospital of Montevideo has worked for 20 years Radio Vilardevoz, conducted by a diverse group of patients and psychologists. When invited to participate in a meeting of “crazy radios” in Mexico, the excuse of the trip opens a window on the dreams, expectations and feelings of a collective that, through affection, asks us about how tightly our way of dealing with madness.

Director: Alicia Cano and Leticia Cuba / Producer: Agustina Chiarino and Fernando Epstein - Coproductor Inti Cordera / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Agustina Chiarino and Fernando Epstein / Production companies: Mutante Cine / La Maroma Porducciones / Country: Uruguay, Mexico / Genre: Human Rights, Creation Documentary, Social affairs / Duration: 01:10:00 / Format: AppleProRess / DCP / Language: Spanish / Year: 2017

The Grown-Ups

by Maite Alberdi.

Chile, France, Netherlands and Colombia.

Social affairs, Human Rights.

01:22:00

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A group of friends with Down syndrome have attended the same school for over 40 years, they’re aging and they have not been allowed to live adulthood on their own.

Director: Maite Alberdi / Producer: Maite Alberdi / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Preciosa Media / Production company: Micromundo Producciones / Country: Chile, France, Netherlands and Colombia / Genre: Social affairs, Human Rights / Duration: 01:22:00 / Format: DCP / Language: Spanish / Year: 2016.

Awards and festivals:
EDA Award Best Female Director Film – IDFA 2016, Zeno Mountain Award – Miami International Film Festival 2017, Best Latin American Film – É Tudo Verdade 2017, TV3 Best Film Award – DocsBarcelona 2017; Sydney Film Festival, DocvilleFonk, Hot Docs, Doc Lounge Scandinavia, Time Documentary Festival, Visions du Réel, Edinburgh Film Festival, London Film Festival, Sheffield Doc / Fest, Cleveland Film Festival, Full Frame Documentary, False, Cartagena Film Festival, FICG Guadalajara, Cinélatino Rencde Cine de Cartagena , FICG Guadalajara, Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse, BAFICI.

Web: http://thegrown-ups.com

Bad Steps

by Sebastián Arriagada.

Argentina, Chile and Colombia.

Youth, Social affairs.

13 episodes.

00:30:00

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Bad Steps is a series of documentary shorts that portrays different extreme Latin American athletes. Stories of those who have changed their lives for the sport, inviting us to know the fears, the frustrations and the passion that behind each personage to break their own limits, having as scene the socio-cultural diversity of Latin America.

Director: Sebastián Arriagada / Producer: Javier Hechenleitner, Elías Fuentes, Pablo Giles, Maite Echave, Pablo Destito / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: María Teresa Osorio S / Production company: Mulata Films | RECMOBIL / Country: Argentina, Chile and Colombia / Genre: Youth, Social affairs / Duration: 00:30:00 / episodes: 13 / Format: HD / Language: Spanish / Year: 2017

My body is political

by Alice Riff.

Brazil.

Human Rights, Current Affairs, Creation Documentary.

01:12:00

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My Body is Political talks about the everyday life of four transgender people who live in poor neighborhoods in São Paulo. The narrative is developed with a mix of their intimate lives and broader social context, raising questions about the brazilian transgender community and their political disputes.

Director: Alice Riff / Producer: Thaisa Valadão / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Alice Riff / Production companies: Studio Riff / Paideia Filmes / Country: Brazil / Genre: Human Rights, Current Affairs, Creation Documentary / Duration: 01:12:00 / Format: mov, dcp, pro res / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2017.

Awards and festivals:
Visions du Reel - Regard Neud Competition, Suíca. BAFICI - Human Rights Competition. Olhar do Cinema de Curitiba - Novos Olhares. Torino LGBT Film Festival


Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/meucorpoepolitico

Women of the Mine

by Loreley Unamuno and Malena Bystrowicz.

Argentina, Bolivia.

Social affairs, Human Rights, Creation Documentary.

01:00:00

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Portrait of three women who live and work on the mines of Cerro Rico de Potosí, Bolivia, the emblem of colonial plunder. The work in the mine is only for men and women are the most precarious, perverse and damned link of that system. Three women open their privacy to show us their stories of struggle and resistance.

Director: Loreley Unamuno and Malena Bystrowicz / Producer: Loreley Unamuno and Malena Bystrowicz / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Loreley Unamuno / Production company: Loreley Unamuno / Country: Argentina, Bolivia / Genre: Social affairs, Human Rights, Creation Documentary / Duration: 01:00:00 / Format: Dcp, dvd, mp4 / Language: Spanish / Year: 2015.

Awards and festivals:
Winner of 13 International Prizes, some of them are: Best documentary Film Festival dddhh of sucre, bolivia, Best documentary Film Festival and ddhh of BsAs, Argentina. Santiago Alvarez Grand Prix, Best Direction and EITCV Prize at the Santiago Alvarez Festival in Cuba. Special mention of the Jury at the NOIDA India Festival. Rest of the prize can be seen on the documentary website.

Web: https://mujeresdelamina.wordpress.com/

Wounded Night

by Nicolás Rincón.

Colombia.

Human Rights, Education, Creation Documentary.

01:27:00

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Blanca and three of her grandchildren live on the borders of Bogota, where they have been displaced by violence. Didier, the eldest, decides to leave her. Blanca does what she can to protect him in the distance and to take care of the two youngest grandchildren, to avoid that they are also lost. In order to do so, it adheres to faith in blessed souls and to the strength of its traditions. Night Wound narrates the struggle of the grandmother who watches over the future of her own.

Director: Nicolás Rincón / Producer: Manuel Ruiz Montealegre / Hector Ulloque Franco / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Manuel Ruiz Montealegre / Production company: Medio de Contencion Producciones / Country: Colombia / Genre: Human Rights, Education, Creation Documentary / Duration: 01:27:00 / Format: DCP / Language: Spanish / Year: 2015.

Awards and festivals:
Mention of the jury in Cinéma du Réel. Bronze Heart at International Film Festival The Heart of Slavonia. First Prize MARFICI. Mention of the RISC jury, Marseille. Documentary prize 2015, SCAM. Best Colombian film FICCI 2016. Departure to halls in Colombia March 30 2017.

Web: http://www.campohablado.net

The Desert of the Desert

by Samir Abujamra and Tito Gonzalez Garcia.

Brazil.

History, Social affairs, Human Rights.

01:26:53

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“The Desert of the Desert” is a feature documentary about one of the longest-running and least-known colonial conflicts and the plight of the Saharawi desert nomads of Western Sahara since Morocco’s 1975 invasion. Shot in the Saharawi Liberated Territories of Western Sahara, and in the Saharawi Refugee Camps in Tindouf, Algeria, the film shows the saga of the Sahrawis.

Director: Samir Abujamra and Tito Gonzalez Garcia / Producer: Samir Abujamra Filho / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Paula Tupinambá da Silva / Production company: Ouidah Films / Country: Brazil / Genre: History, Social affairs, Human Rights / Duration: 01:26:53 / Format: DCP / Language: Spanish, Hassanya, Portuguese, Arabe Clássico, English / Year: 2016.

Awards and festivals:
21st edition of É Tudo Tudo - International Documentary Festival / It's All True (2016). 13th edition of FiSahara - International Festival of Western Sahara (2016)

Opera Prima

by Marcos Banina.

Uruguay.

Creation Documentary.

01:20:00

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A journey that walks through parts of the world and its different periods in order to understand my ideological heritage and how to handle it. “Opera Prima“ is my first look at the world that becomes a mirror in which recognize oneself.

Director: Marcos Banina / Producer: Valentina Baracco / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Valentina Baracco, Marcos Banina / Production companies: Monarca Films / Crepitar / Country: Uruguay / Genre: Creation Documentary / Duration: 01:20:00 / Format: Mov, DCP, BluRay / Language: Spanish, French, Croatian / Year: 2017

Whom will speak my name for the last time

by Guillermo González Stambuk.

Chile.

Music, Culture, Creation Documentary.

00:56:00

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Carmelo Bustos, founder of the Orchestra Huambaly and precursor in teaching jazz, yet teaches children lacking opportunities. With the help of his former students who today dedicate their lives to music and who daily live with the teachings of this great teacher and musician, Carmelo to 90 years old, will enter record again in one of the most important studies of Latinoamerica.

Director: Guillermo González Stambuk / Producer: Claudio Leiva Araos / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Claudio Leiva Araos / Production company: dereojo comunicaciones / Country: Chile / Genre: Music, Culture, Creation Documentary / Duration: 00:56:00 / Format: Apple ProRes, Bluray / Language: Spanish / Year: 2017.

Awards and festivals:
WIP Labs AntofaDOCS 2015 Award

Web: http://www.dereojo.cl/es/file/quien-pronunciara-por-ultima-vez-mi-nombre/

Samba & Jazz: Rio de Janeiro – New Orleans

by Jefferson Mello.

Brazil.

Music.

01:26:00

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The synergy between samba & jazz,Rio de Janeiro & New Orleans.The similarity of musical and behavioral aspects of two cities, interview with samba & jazz musicians.A portrait of popular festivals with testimonials, artistic manifestation of people, with a feeling in common: a passion for music

Director: Jefferson Mello / Producer: Jefferson Mello / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Denise Jancar Country: Brazil / Genre: Music / Duration: 01:26:00 / Format: HD / Language: Portuguese e English / Year: 2015.

Awards and festivals:
Awards: Best Documentary at: Cinema on the Bayou -21 - January 25, 2015 - Best Documentary. (Lafayette - Louisiana - USA). Capital City Black Film Festival August 21-23, 2014 - Best Documentary. (Austin, Texas, USA). Festivals: 1.Victoria FilmFest 2.Richmond FilmFest 3. Fest Cinéma Brésilien Paris 4.Boston Int Film Fest 5.Cine Fest Brasil Montevideo 6.Cine Fest Brasil BSAires 7.IN EDIT São Paulo 8.Brazilian Film Fest NewYork 9.FestFilm BrésilienMontréal 10.Brazil FilmFestToronto 11.MandelaIntFironto 11.MandelaIntFilm Fest 12.SanDiegoBlackFilm Fest13.Multicine InfantaHavana 14.CentroCulturelBrazilAngola 15.Brazilica FilFestLiverpool 16.MostraWashington 17.MostraBrazilian FilmChicago

Web: http://www.documentariosambaejazz.com.br

Saru. The Scenographer

by Alejandra Isler.

Argentina.

Creation Documentary, Biographies, Culture.

01:14:00

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The movie explores production designer, scenographer, and designer, Jorge Saudiansky’s particular outlook and work. He left his mark in Argentine art and culture, beginning with the 60’s avant-garde until his death, in 2009.

Director: Alejandra Isler / Producer: Alejandra Isler / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Alejandra Isler / Production companies: Alejandra isler / Habitación 1520 / Country: Argentina / Genre: Creation Documentary, Biographies, Culture / Duration: 01:14:00 / Format: Blue Ray / Language: Spanish / Year: 2016.

Awards and festivals:
(Buenos Aires, 2016) - International Festival of Latin American Cinema, Havana (2016) - International Film Festival of the Heights, Jujuy (2016) - International Chamber of Light (Bogotá, 2016) - Vissions du Reel / Media Library (Nyon 2017)


Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Saru-La-película-149053638803875/

Miss María, skirting the mountain

by Rubén Mendoza.

Colombia.

Creation Documentary,Human Rights, Current Affairs.

01:30:09

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In one of the most conservative villages in Colombia lives Miss Maria. She’s 45 years old and was born a boy. It’s the life of a person who, having suffered the horrors of rural life in this country with all its morality knew how to use her strength to stand tall, like a stalk of wheat, impervious even to earthquakes. She has known much sorrow but there is none powerful enough to exhaust her tears or wipe away her smile

Director: Rubén Mendoza / Producer: Amanda Sarmiento / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Amanda Sarmiento / Production company: Amanda Sarmiento / Country: Colombia / Genre: Creation Documentary,Human Rights, Current Affairs / Duration: 01:30:09 / Format: DCP, Bluray, Apple Pro Res / Language: Spanish / Year: 2017.

Awards and festivals:
Awards: Cartagena International Film Festival 2017: Best Colombian director. Festivals: Cartagena International Film Festival 2017: Colombian Film Competition, Ibero-American Documentary Competition

If i die first

by Rodolfo Muñoz.

Ecuador, Venezuela.

Music, Biographies, Culture.

01:47:00

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A portrait of Julio Jaramillo, Ecuadorian musician, who before being an idol in his country gave himself the luxury of conquering all America with his voice

Director: Rodolfo Muñoz / Producer: Laura Egas / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Juan Pablo Urgilés / Production companies: Gallito Films / La Tina Films / Country: Ecuador, Venezuela / Genre: Music, Biographies, Culture / Duration: 01:47:00 / Format: DCP, Blu ray, .Mov, Dvd. / Language: Spanish / Year: 2017.

Awards and festivals:
- EDOC. Encuentros del Otro Cine. Quito-Ecuador. 2017. -EFFNY. Ecuadorian Film Festival in New York. 2017.

Web: https://siyomueroprimero.com/

The golden log, folk stories from Neuquén

by Diego Lumerman.

Argentina.

Culture, History, Environment.

00:25:34

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A portrait of the people and their folk stories from Neuquén, a territory in northern Argentinian Patagonia. Through the peaks and valleys of the impressive Cordillera del Viento, we meet some of its indigenous inhabitants, cattle herders, and gold prospectors. They will take us on a journey through their stories and experiences, sharing the history, myths, and rituals of these lands.

Director: Diego Lumerman / Producer: Diego Lumerman / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Diego Lumerman / Production company: Diego Lumerman / Country: Argentina / Genre: Culture, History, Environment / Duration: 00:25:34 / Format: Datos Full HD and 4 k / Language: Spanish / Year: 2016.

Awards and festivals:
Awards: Best photography Audiovisual Festival Bariloche. Best Sound Audiovisual Festival Bariloche. Best Documentary National Independent Film Competition of Cipolletti. Best Documentary Tlanchana Fest. Festivales: It's all true 2017, Brazil. International Festival of New Latin American Cinema of Havana 2016, Cuba. FicViña 2016, Chile. Audiovisual Festival of Bariloche 2016, Argentina. National Independent Film Competition of Cipolletti 2016, Argentina. Fesaalp 2016, La Plata Argentina. Lapachoina. Festival de Cine Lapacho 2016, Chaco Argentina. Oberá en cortos 2016, Argentina. Tlanchana Fest 2016, Mexico


Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Territorios-Extraordinarios-1703967046546233/

By the yoke

by Sofía Betarte.

Uruguay.

Human Rights, Social affairs.

01:03:07

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“By the yoke” shows us two families of waste recyclers trying to move on after losing their working tools, which they use for picking up garbage: their horses. Consigned to the margins of Montevideo city, in the intimacy of their homes and through their daily struggle, we meet this moving people, that push their lives uphill, with dignity, a profound optimism and perseverance.

Director: Sofía Betarte / Producer: Pancho Magnou Arnábal / Sofía Betarte / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Pancho Magnou Arnábal / Production companies: Montelona Cine / Sofía Betarte / Country: Uruguay / Genre: Human Rights, Social affairs / Duration: 01:03:07 / Format: Full HD / DCP / Language: Spanish / Year: 2017.

Awards and festivals:
Executive Production Workshop, at the International Film Festival and DD HH, We Have to See, 2015

Web: http://montelonacine.com

A Secret in the Box

by Javier Izquierdo.

Ecuador.

Biographies, Culture, Creation Documentary.

01:10:00

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“A secret in the box” explores the life of Marcelo Chiriboga, mythical figure of the boom generation, the Latin American literary phenomenon of the sixties. Through interviews, visits to numerous cities, archival footage, and the author´s most famous book, “The imaginary Line”, a puzzle is created that blurs the limits between reality and fiction.

Director: Javier Izquierdo / Producer: Isabella Parra, Javier Izquierdo / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Víctor Palacios / Production company: Caleidoscopio Cine / Country: Ecuador / Genre: Biographies, Culture, Creation Documentary / Duration: 01:10:00 / Format: HD, .MOV, DCP / Language: Spanish / Year: 2016.

Awards and festivals:
World Premiere: April 2016 - Chicago Latino FIlm Festival. FILM FESTIVAL OF LIMA. FILM FESTIVAL OF QUITO. BOLIVIA LAB. ECUADORIAN FILM FESTIVAL NY. THE FILM FESTIVAL. THE CINEMA FEST HOUSE

Web: http://unsecretoenlacaja.com/

Not Enough with Protest

by Hernán Saavedra.

Chile.

Social affairs, Culture, Current Affairs.

01:10:52

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Documentary film that portrays the student movement of 2011, when the Chilean educational conflict explodes. This moment was characterized by a new way of manifestation, where the students made different urban interventions link to the art. Dance, Theatre, performance and music burst into the streets transforming the protest into carnival

Director: Hernán Saavedra / Producer: Pilar Díaz / Commercial contact for DocMontevideo: Maria Pilar Gajardo Bastías / Production company: Kitral / Country: Chile / Genre: Social affairs, Culture, Current Affairs / Duration: 01:10:52 / Format: DCP - Bluray - Archivo digital / Language: Spanish / Year: 2016.

Awards and festivals:
-Premiere in FICVIÑA 2016. -International stage in the 2016 version of the -Fully International Film Festival of León, -Showed in the 2016 version of the Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana. - Demonstrates the documentary in the 2016 version of FECISO - Shows in the 7th Film Festival of the National Cineteca - Official Selection IV Censored Film Festival (Peru)


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