{"id":22086,"date":"2022-05-18T10:36:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T15:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bpacshgkn2.wpdns.site\/?p=22086"},"modified":"2022-05-18T10:39:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T15:39:55","slug":"colombia-at-cannes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comisionfilmicacolombia.com\/en\/colombia-at-cannes\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia plans to fly high at Cannes with its offer of audiovisual productions"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The country will have a stand to showcase the best of its talent and will participate in the commercial space of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marchedufilm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March\u00e9 du Film<\/a>, with 10 production companies seeking to captivate international clients, supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.proimagenescolombia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proim\u00e1genes<\/a> and through the agreement signed between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintic.gov.co\/portal\/inicio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colombian Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/procolombia.co\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ProColombia<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, two Colombian first feature films, beneficiaries of the Film Development Fund, will participate in the festival.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is worth noting that Colombia&#8217;s audiovisual production exports closed in 2021 with US$184 million, three times more than what was sold abroad during 2020.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 75th edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.festival-cannes.com\/es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cannes Film Festival<\/a>, one of the most important film festivals in the world, will take place from May 17 to 28, where Colombia is present annually with a stand representing the country and a delegation from Proim\u00e1genes Colombia, ProColombia and the Colombian Ministry of Information Technology and Communications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, and thanks to the support of the previously mentioned agreement, 10 Colombian production companies: Dynamo, Jaguar Bite, Candelaria Cine, Hecho en Lienzo, Ferviente Films, Arje Film, Rhayuela, Perrenque Media Lab, UMYK VR and Producci\u00f3n Valiente, will participate and offer their production services at the March\u00e9 du Film at the Cannes Film Festival, a commercial space where nearly 12.500 film industry professionals present and discover nearly 4,000 films and projects in development at 33 screening venues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The Cannes Film Festival is a vital showcase for the positioning of Colombian audiovisual production companies, a key sector in exports of knowledge-based services and one that had a great 2021 in international sales. We are demonstrating, with the Ministries of Commerce, ICT and Proim\u00e1genes, that we can contribute to the good image of the Colombian audiovisual industry abroad, highlighting its talent, creative potential, technical capacity of developments and high quality,&#8221; said Flavia Santoro, president of ProColombia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exports of audiovisual production, reported by entrepreneurs to ProColombia, closed in 2021 with US$184 million, more than triple compared to 2020 when they totaled US$43 million. In 2021, the countries that bought these services the most were the United States, Chile, Spain, Israel, Canada and Mexico, among others. Between January and the beginning of May 2022, international sales figures are positive, reaching US$103 million, 20% more than in the same period of 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other hand, the country stand serves as a meeting point between agents of the national industry and international distributors and production companies that may be interested in learning about Colombia and the advantages offered by law in terms of incentives, as well as the advantages of choosing the country as a filming destination for their productions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This effort is managed by the Colombian Film Commission of Proim\u00e1genes, with the support of the National Government, whose purpose is to promote Colombia as a destination for the production of audiovisual projects such as films, series, video games, advertising and video clips. This is done through incentives to national and international projects with cash refunds (FFC) and tax certificates (CINA) for foreign audiovisual production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the introduction of the CINA incentive in the second half of 2020 and until today, 49 projects are in execution with a projected investment in the country of more than two hundred ninety million USD ($290.000.000). For these projects, CINAs have been approved for up to more than eighty-seven million USD ($87.000.000).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, since the implementation of the FFC in 2012, 43 projects have been approved, of which 6 are in execution. The 37 completed projects received reimbursements for more than fifteen million USD ($15.000.000) and made a total investment in Colombia of more than fifty-one million USD ($51.000.000).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for the 6 projects under execution, they received reimbursements up to three million six hundred thousand USD ($3.600.000) and have a total projected investment in Colombia of more than sixteen million eight hundred thousand USD ($16.800.000). <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/comisionfilmicacolombia.com\/asi-fue-la-experiencia-de-rodar-memoria-en-colombia\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Memoria<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and starring Tilda Swinton, received this benefit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Colombia continues to position itself as an audiovisual powerhouse in Latin America, thanks to the economic incentives that allow us to generate sales of services, create direct and indirect jobs and tell stories made in Colombia. To date, we have approved 92 productions, including both incentives, with series being the format most in demand. Several of these titles have been at the top spots of streaming platforms, highlighting the originality of our stories, the talent of our technical and artistic teams, the beauty and diversity of our locations and the effectiveness of the incentives offered by the country,&#8221; said Silvia Echeverri, director of the Colombian Film Commission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><b>Two first feature films, beneficiaries of the Film Development Fund &#8211; FDC &#8211; participate in Cannes 2022<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year, Colombia will be present at Cannes with two films that have benefited from the Film Development Fund. These are two first feature films that have been successful in their different stages of production: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La Jaur\u00eda<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, by Andr\u00e9s Ram\u00edrez Pulido participated in laboratories such as the Cine Qua Non Lab Residency (Mexico), the R\u00e9sidence de d\u00e9veloppement de projets artistiques LIZIERS (France), La Fabrique cin\u00e9ma de l&#8217;Institute Fran\u00e7ais &#8211; Les cin\u00e9mas du monde, Nuevas Miradas EICTV (Cuba), Sanfic Lab (Chile), and Cine en Desarrollo del Festival de Cine Latino de Toulouse (France), and was selected to participate in the Projects category of the Bogot\u00e1 Audiovisual Market, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Un var\u00f3n<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, by Fabi\u00e1n Hern\u00e1ndez, participated in Atelier at the Cannes International Film Festival 2020, in the WIP at the San Sebastian Film Festival, received the co-production award at the Torino Film Lab in Italy, 2019, was part of the Producers Salon, at the Cali International Film Festival, Colombia, won the R\u00e9gion Nouvelle Aquitaine 2020 award, and the World Cinema Fund Berlinale 2020 Award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Colombia&#8217;s historic participation in the event has been characterized by a film selection that has been relevant for national cinematography. In 2021, Colombia&#8217;s co-production with Thailand, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Memoria<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, stood out by receiving the Jury Prize; for its part with Simon Mesa&#8217;s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amparo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Sandra Melissa Torres, received the award for best actress in the Critics&#8217; Week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2019, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Litigante<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Franco Lolli, had its world premiere at the festival. In 2015, director C\u00e9sar Acevedo received the Society of Authors and Composers Award, the France 4 Visionary Award (Revelation Director Award) and Le Grand Rail D&#8217;Or (Audience Award); that same year <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alias Mar\u00eda<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Jos\u00e9 Luis Rugeles was present at Cannes in Un Certain Regard; and in La Quincena de Realizadores, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El abrazo de la serpiente<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Ciro Guerra, who was later juror in 2019; as well as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El concursante <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Carlos Osuna in L&#8217;Atelier de la Cinefondation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country will have a stand to showcase the best of its talent and will participate in the commercial space of the March\u00e9 du Film, with 10 production companies seeking to captivate international clients, supported by Proim\u00e1genes and through the agreement signed between the Colombian Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications and ProColombia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":850,"featured_media":22087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news_cat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comisionfilmicacolombia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comisionfilmicacolombia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comisionfilmicacolombia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comisionfilmicacolombia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/850"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comisionfilmicacolombia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comisionfilmicacolombia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comisionfilmicacolombia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comisionfilmicacolombia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comisionfilmicacolombia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comisionfilmicacolombia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}