Debora Reis Totton

Second Workshop and Co-production Meeting of Latin American Cinema Schools in Quito from May 1st to 8th.

The IBERGENTERS

The IBERGENTERS

IBERGENTE 2011

Second Workshop and Co-production Meeting of Latin American Cinema Schools in Quito, Ecuador from May 1st to 8th of 2011, organized by INCINE. In the event, there were long feature film projects and Cinema schools representatives from 10 Latin American countries: ENER/Argentina, LA FÁBRICA/Bolivia, FAP/Brazil, UNITEC/Colombia, EICTV/Cuba, PUCP/Peru, ECU/ Uruguay, INCINE/ Ecuador, and also Invited schools such INSAS from Belgium & UCLA from USA.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Huge Responsibility

Regardless my Brazilian heritage, it has been a unique experience of learning, networking and developing a strategy for my professional career. The most interesting was to observe the other side of the equation -- How Latin American filmmakers & producers are dealing with new modes of film production, co- production and consumption and its inherent hegemonic dominance of Hollywood or if I can extend, to Europe in movie theaters. Also, interesting to learn how their governments have subsidized their film industries.

I felt doubled honored, first for being a true defendant of independent & Latin American Cinema and second for representing UCLA-TFT – one of the most reputable cinema schools in the US. I endorse here, the advantages of participating in a program like this both as a graduate student of film criticism and filmmaker. Our active participation in sessions and workshops, film screenings, bright ideas from experts have been of great contribution.

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