Info Focus @MIFA 2021

Animation! Ventana Sur, together with the Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards (Spain) and Pixelatl Festival (Mexico), joined forces to create La Liga de la Animación Iberoamericana (the Ibero-American Animation League) with the shared objective of promoting the creation and development of audiovisual projects across the region.

In special alliance with the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and Market (MIFA), Ibero-American feature films and TV series projects were selected to be pitched in the special program La Liga Focus @MIFA.

During the virtual pitching session, the awarded projects of Animation! Pitching Sessions 2020 and the short film project granted with La Liga de la Animación Iberoamericana award at Shortway / Pixelatl were showcased.

 

Contact:
animation@ventana-sur.com

FEATURE FILMS

DESECHABLE

Animated film project that reflects the crudeness of Latin America’s great cities, a story that offers a brutal and poetic panorama of contemporary societies from a pre-apocalyptic perspective. It is a project that makes us think deeper about inequality and violence in our societies.

Project Details and Contact

COUNTRY: Colombia
COMPANY: Nocroma
DIR: Carlos Gómez Salamanca
PROD: Juan Pablo Gómez Salamanca
TECHNIQUE: Digital and analog animation, 4K digital photography
GENRE: Adventure, Action
TARGET: 16+
LENGTH: 70 min.
BUDGET: USD 1.188.000

Contact
Juan Pablo Gómez Salamanca
nocroma@gmail.com
57 31 44 30 12 60
www.nocroma.com

OLIVIA AND THE SHADOWS

Olivia and her father must move into their grandmother’s house in Little Caledonia, a small island where rain doesn’t ever seem to stop. During “The Night of the Shadows”, she will discover that a mysterious enemy is haunting the island: fear itself.

Project Details and Contact

LOOKING FOR: To showcase the project internationally and to get the interest of potential co-producers, in order to achieve the financial and technical objectives of the film.
COUNTRY: Uruguay
COMPANY: Chucho.tv
DIR / PROD: Juan Carve
TECHNIQUE: 2D
GENRE: Animation, Children, Adventure, Drama
TARGET: Kids 6 to 12
LENGTH: 85 min.
BUDGET: USD 500.000

Contact
Juan Carve
juancarvejuancarve@gmail.com
59 8 98 74 69 95
www.chucho.tv

TV SERIES

GHOST BROS

Two orphan brothers die but invoke a secret clause of the Infraworld to get back to life and get adopted. Firehead, warden of the hereafter, will do the impossible to ruin their happy life on earth and recover the two souls who escaped from her domain.

Project Details and Contact

LOOKING FOR: To strengthen the project development and pitching folder.
COUNTRY: Argentina
COMPANY: Yellow Kingdom
DIR: Jorge Edelstein
PROD: Martín Blasi
TECHNIQUE: 2D
GENRE: Comedy, Adventure
TARGET: Kids 7 to 11
FORMAT: 52 x 11 min
BUDGET: USD 3.120.000

Contact
Martin Blasi
martin@yellowkingdom.com
54 9 11 32 74 24 93
www.yellowkingdom.com

BRING ON THE REVOLUTION!

Bring on the Revolution! is an animated documentary series that brings to life major revolutions led by men and women whose importance was diminished from History. The series’ protagonists are forgotten heroes who fought back against their oppressors.

Project Details and Contact

LOOKING FOR: To find co-producing partners and expose the series to international sales.
COUNTRY: Brazil
COMPANIES: Lupa Filmes, Buraco de Bala / Jetto TV
DIR: Aleixo Leite
PROD: André Pereira
TECHNIQUE: Cell Animation / 3D
GENRE: Animation, Documentary
TARGET: Young adults
FORMAT: 6 x 26 min
BUDGET: USD 1.200.000

Contacto
Mariana Muniz
mariana@lupafilmes.com
55 2 19 80 95 43 21
www.lupafilmes.com
www.jetto.tv

SHORT FILM PROJECT

WHERE IS MY ESPRESSO

Oniria leads a hectic life between her two jobs and the virtual classes she takes, the level of stress and insomnia is such that her mental health is affected dissociating her reality, strange hybrids between objects and animals begin to threaten her goals and purposes but perhaps bordering on madness is the best thing that can happen to her.

Project Details and Contact

LOOKING FOR: Co-Producers, Investors
COUNTRY: Colombia
COMPANY: Caballo Loco Studio
DIR: Sebastián García Martínez, Andrés Felipe Rodríguez Rodríguez
PROD: Luisa Fernanda Velásquez Carrera
TECHNIQUE: 2D
GENRE: Surreal Comedy
TARGET: Young adults
LENGTH: 5 min.
BUDGET: € 37.500

Contact
Luisa Fernanda Velásquez
luisivlz.20@gmail.com
57 31 03 13 93 60
www.caballolo.co