A place where the new Colombian cinema is born…
The Laboratory is a consolidated academic event that is renewed every year. It has a panel of national and international experts, aimed at strengthening the development of projects, from an accurate professional and updated vision of cinematographic reality.
Every year FICTION FEATURE FEATURE FEATURE FEATURE PROJECTS are selected to provide screenwriters, directors and producers with a vital and enriching experience that will strengthen their projects and motivate them to carry them out.
The group of participants will have all the bases to argue their project, present an excellent pitch to the jury, and function properly in similar scenarios, at a national and international level.
They are days of concentrated work, group workshops and personalized tutoring, with experts in development, script, production, pitch, exhibition and distribution.
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Script Pitch - Ópera Leiva
The call targets Chilean projects that have the following formats, genre or technique: Virtual Reality Projects; Augmented Reality Projects; Mixed Reality Projects; 360° videos; Convergent projects; Mixture of traditional artistic genres and digital formats; Fiction, non-fiction and interactive experimentation; Fiction, non-fiction and transmedia experimentation; Immersive theater + digital arts; Mapping; Videogame.
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Pitch XR - Mediamorfosis
LABORATORY OF PRIMARY FICTION OPERAS
Dialogue meeting around construction and production for first and foremost projects
second films in the fiction genre, which are in the development stage.
REGIONAL DOCUMENTARY LABORATORY
Introduction workshop to free creation (short films, feature films, episodic series, u
others) of the documentary genre aimed mainly at the audiovisual sector of the regions
of Ñuble, Maule and Biobío.
NEW MEDIA LABORATORY
Experimentation workshop for the development of New Media projects.
The objective is for the participating artists to find solutions and improvements.
technological for the development of their projects, analyze the possibilities within the
market they face and test prototypes of their works before groups of people, to
draw results and conclusions that help improve the user experience.
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Industry Meeting and XR experiences in Ñuble
ESTELAB is a laboratory that seeks to generate a space for work, training and development of film projects from Latin America and Europe, with potential for international co-production whether for financial, technical or creative reasons.
The fifth edition of ESTELAB will take place in a mixed way (online and in person) and will offer training and consulting spaces for film projects from Latin America and Europe, with special interest in Colombia and Peru. The objective of the laboratory is to prepare and develop film projects in the development phase to enhance their possibilities of having international co-producers, presenting themselves in international markets and applying for various funds.
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ESTELAB
Open Doors 2022-2024: Focus on Latin America and the Caribbean
For three years, Open Doors is dedicated to film projects and talents from the following regions and countries:
Central America (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua)
the Caribbean Islands (Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
and South America (Bolivia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela)
The professional and public programs of Open Doors take place during the Locarno Film Festival and year-round, onsite and online. Read more about them here below.
For more information regarding the submission proces, please have a look at our FAQs page or contact the Open Doors team at opendoors@locarnofestival.ch and follow us on Facebook and Instagram.
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Locarno Open Doors
