March 8 – 9 , 2008

As a contribution to the development of Mexican and Ibero-American cinema, Guadalajara International Film Festival, together with the Sociedad General de Escritores de México (SOGEM), the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE) and the Fondo de Inversión y Estímulos al Cine (FIDECINE) organizes since 2005 the Ibero-American Co-production Meeting.

The idea behind initiative is to create a platform to offer Ibero-American filmmakers the opportunity to launch their ideas to the international film industry and to find the right connections to get their projects financed.

Every year, a select number of directors/producers are invited to Guadalajara to present their film projects to international co-producers, bankers, funds, sales agents, distributors, TV stations and other potential financiers interested in Ibero-American talent.

For the fourth edition of this two-day event, which will take place on March 8 and 9, we have extended the scope of the projects admitted in order to include feature-length documentaries. Among the more than 100 submitted projects (both fiction and documentary) 25 have been selected to participate in the Meeting.

All meetings between director/producers and potential co-producers are organized and scheduled prior to the event in order to guarantee a highly productive yet informal atmosphere.

To complement this event, the agenda also includes a special presentation by representatives of international film funding agencies and organizations that provides grants and/or support to remarkable cinema projects in various stages of completion.

The XXIII Guadalajara Film Festival is pleased to announce that for the second year on a row, a special jury will award the best project presented at the Coproduction Meeting with the TVE Award. The Prize consists of the broadcast rights acquired by TVE, Spanish Television, for a minimum of €150,000 (and up to €250,000, depending on the scale of the project).

Members of the 2008 TVE Jury:

ELISEO ALBERTO ARROYO NARANJO. Cuba
Studied Journalism at the University of Havana. He was editor-in-chief of the literary gazette El Caimán Barbudo and assistant director of the magazine Cine Cubano. He has published the poetry books Las cosas que yo amo and Un instante cada cosa; the novel La fogata roja (Premio Nacional de Crítica/Critic’s National Award, 1983); Informe contra mí mismo; La eternidad por fin comienza un lunes, Caracol Beach (Primer Premio Internacional de Novela Alfaguara/First International Award of Alfagaura Novel, 1998); and La fábula de José. He is also screenwriter (Guantanamera, Cartas del parque, El elefante y la bicicleta, Mascaró) and has lectured at the Escuela Internacional de Cine de San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica de México, and the Sundance Institute in the US.

HUGO VILLA. Producer. Mexico
He began working in the film industry at the age of twelve in dubbing, and has been involved in the production of several projects that include documentaries, fiction and educationals. In 2000, Villa founded the producing company Hartos Indios, which made posible the documentary Atrás de las sombras, directed by Ozcar Ramírez. It also produced the film Club Eutanasia, directed by Agustín “Oso” Tapia. Villa has worked as a unit production manager in films such as High Crimes (2002) for 20th Century Fox and In the Time of the Butterflies (2001) for Showtime network; Man on fire (2003) for Paramount; Troy (2003) for Warner Bros., and The Legend of Zorro (2004) for Sony pictures. Since February 2005, he has worked in the Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE), as assistant director for film production and, since July 2007, he is in charge of the Dirección de Apoyo a la Producción Cinematográfica.

JAIME BOIX MARTÍNEZ. Producer TVE. Spain
He was born in Madrid in 1955 andbegan his career at TVE in 1984 where he worked in series, programs, and feature films. In 1987, he was appointed production delegate of the Dirección de Producción Externa and, recently, of Producciones Cinematográficas. He was director of TVE’s Acquisitions Department until March 2008. He has been jury at the Mostra de Cine Latinoamericano of Lleida; the Films in Progress section of the San Sebastian Festival; Huelva Film Festival and Havana Film Festival.

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