This year, Visionary Campus Guadalajara (VCG), in collaboration with the Berlinale Talent Campus, aspires to create a new space for filmmakers that are seeking the distribution, production, and filming of their documentary film projects.

On the first day of activities at VCG, a roundtable took place chaired by José Carlos Avelar. Fernando Solanas, Fernando Birri, Nicolás Echavarría, and Lourdes Portillo participated and Brian de Palma as guest. They discussed La realidad ficcionada y la poesía documentada. For the second part of the session, Miguel Littin presented his lecture El documental que cambió mi vida in which he analyses the documentary A Valparaíso, by Joris Ivens, including his personal and professional creativity of the documentary.

Jorge Sánchez, the director of the Festival, introduced with Tröstrum (Berlinale Talent Campus), Christian Lüffe (Goethe Institute), and Vincenzo Bugno (World Cinema Fund) this initiative to train and support young documentary filmmakers. Visionary Campus Guadalajara was created at the Guadalajara International Film Festival with the aim to become a reference in the hope of universality and dialogue among cultures and countries with less developed economies.

Last year, Berlinale Talent Campus received more than 700 projects, 50 percent of them from Latin America. It has offices in India, South Africa, Buenos Aires, Sarajevo, and starting this year in Guadalajara.

Following this introduction, Vicenzo and the Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke, one of the first participants at the Berlinale Talent Campus de 2003, held a conversation. Eimbcke was able to complete his first feature film thanks to the Berlinale Talent Campus. Eimbcke shared some of his experiences of the process for Lake Tahoe, film that competes this year in the official section. He also shared his proposal to develop Latin American cinema. He recommended “seeking funds in Europe since they are more feasible than in Latin America”.

Cynthia Kane (USA), president of the Television Independent Voice (ITVS), was presented during the second part of the event. Kane presented an audiovisual regarding her job and social work with documentaries that seek to make society aware of poverty, marginalization, famine, and discrimination. Her program also provides financial support to underdeveloped countries to film independent productions without the need of leaving their location. Cynthia highlighted that the only requirement is to have a touching story for people’s hearts.

The Argentinean producer Hernán Musaluppi also dialogued and highlighted his film El custodio (2006), which was presented at the Festival two years ago. He talked about his fund-raising experience and the financial support of World Cinema Fund to produce this film. He talked about the importance of mass media to create film productions due to the fact that the State does not provide the needed means to produce films. He said that the most important market to obtain funds is the European market where he located the World Cinema Fund in Germany.

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