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The festival presents a range of full-length and short films from South America.

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The Latin American Film Festival aims to show recent films that give a kaleidoscopic view of the richness and diversity of the Latin American film. From magic-realism to the new Latin American and Mexican cinema to the Chilean film art. The festival accepts submissions by Latin American filmmakers and also filmmakers from other countries whose production has a Latin American (or related) theme. Feature films, short films and documentaries are welcome for the pre-selection.

The fourth edition of Latin Side of the Doc will take place in Mexico for the first time, a co-production audiovisual meeting that focuses on the documentary genre, in which filmmakers, producers, TV production companies and funds; this event will take place in Mexico City from November 7 to 9, 2012. A three-day co-production and networking event it will gather Producers and Decision Makers from both sides of the Atlantic initiate international co-production projects, share their experiences and mutual needs, and strive to build a strong international documentary filmmaking network. This initiative emerges from the collaboration between Sunny Side of the Doc, an important International co-production meeting with La Rochelle, France as its host city, and DocsDF, the International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City.

Latina Film Commission, with the contribution of the Lazio Regional Council, institutes a specific fund to promote and support initiatives of cinema and audiovisual production to be realized in the Province of Latina. The goal is to enhance the area’s resources promoting the development of the audiovisual sector, to promote awareness of the Province and to arise interest in the professionals, in order to interact with the structures and the professionals that operate in the same territory. The allocation of the fund will be carried out through the competition “Narrate the Province of Latina: its stories, its people, its territory”. The fund will be allocated to two projects, selected from those received within the deadline.

LATSFILMA was registered as a Latvian Limited Company on February 18, 2004 . Latsfilma has produced 2 feature films, Augstuma robeza (Maximum Headroom), the only Latvian feature film which was released in 2005. Maxiumum Headroom participated in the Market at the Cannes Film Festival 2005. Maximum Headroom was screened around Latvia at towns and villages during the summer 2006, meeting the audience requirements for automatic financing of a new project by the Latvian National Film Board, which was granted in early 2006. Latsfilma together with its Latvian co-producer Screen Vision finished the feature film Don’t Talk About It. Film completed at August 31, 2007. Film was nominated as best film in Latvia year 2007, nominated for the main role and the supported role. Film distributed by Baltic Cinemas in Riga and by Latsfilma ltd. In Latvia territory. More than 10 000 audience . Latsfilma has finished a documentary project, A Ticket to the Future. Another project, The head for 100 0000 USD in production. Latsfilma is in the post production period with a children’s feature film, Finding Elvis. A Ticket to The Future (documentary, 58 min., coo-production with Sweden)have been shown at schools around Latvia from May to October 2007, as it is a fitting subject – career and future educational choices by school leavers. More than 5000 audience.. This is good result for documentary film. Latsfilma has 2 projects in development. Don’t came back, feature film project and Woman and the gard, the documentary film project

The Archive was founded in 1963 on the basis of the collection of the Department of the photo-documents of Latvia State Historical Archive. The depositories of the Archive contain approximately 24 thousand films dated from 1910 till nowadays. The Archive keeps more then 508 thousand photo records, the first one being dated from 1865. The number of sound recordings exceeds a little bit more than and 30 thousand units. The collection is constantly increasing due to the close co-operation with mass media of Latvia and other producers of audio-visual records.

The Latvian Film Producers Association has as a members the biggest film production companies which produces more than half of Latvian films. Together with Latvian Filmmakers Union, it unites almost all Latvian Filmmakers. It cooperates with the National Film Centre.

Latvian Filmmakers Union is a nation-wide public organization uniting professional filmmakers and craftsmen. Its main objective is to represent and defend their professional and social interests. Almost 40 years this organization unites the Latvian filmmakers. Many of them have been awarded in domestic and international film festivals. To avoid hurting their self-respect, they are mentioned in the abstract alphabetic order: Aloizs Brencs, Hercs Franks, Talivaldis Margevics, Ivars Seleckis, Davis Simanis, Janis Streics. The late Juris Podnieks and Andris Slapins also were members of the Filmmakers Union.

LTV was established in 1954 and operates two national television channels. LTV1 is broadcast in Latvian and LTV2 in Latvian and Russian.

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A private academy that offers study courses in media-related fields: cinematography, directing, screenwriting, media design, etc.

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LCI is a cable news network, created in 1994.

Website - offers a database of French film festivals and events + database of French films produced between 1990 - 2000| includes also industry news and information.

The Giornate del Cinema Muto - Pordenone Silent Film Festival offers a wide array of classics, rediscoveries, restored films, tributes to old masters and retrospective programmes. Screenings are all accompanied by live piano, ensemble or orchestral music. The Collegium - centred on 12 young invited students - provides a unique and innovative experiment in film study. Master classes and exhibitions are also organized.

The production company Le Miroir has been created in September 2000 with a producer, two film directors, a financial director, all of them having the benefit of ten years experience behind them. Gabriel Chabanier chooses to support the production of film projects that are fully developed and written in a distinctive style, with formally innovative direction. The distinctive feature of his work as a producer is the combination of the interest he takes in established documentary makers on the one hand, on the other hand, his appreciation of working with young film makers, dedicating time to the important development of their work. He regularly succeeds in producing a first film for television or cinema. For the French and international film market, Gabriel Chabanier produces films and documentary collections in the fields of science, the arts and society. In the framework of his global activities, Gabriel Chabanier is a member of several professional organisations : the SPI, the C7, the AST (Association of scientific film producers), and an alternative member of the Procirep. He has also participated to the European training cessions EAVE in 1998 and Eurodoc 2006.