Cineposium
First appearance in latin america
AFCI Cineposium will be making its first appearance in Latin America! Bogota, Colombia is the host of Cineposium 2022, being held September 20-22.
Bogota has a history of hosting world-class conferences, including BAM (Bogota Audiovisual Market), an audiovisual platform for trading and business strengthening as well as high-level curated Festivals such as the BIFF – Bogota International Film Festival and BOGOSHORTS – Bogota Short Film Festival, the most important short-content event in Latin America. Participants in the AFCI Cineposium 2022 will enjoy three days of activities including education sessions presented by world-class executives, evening receptions and a taste of fine beauty and rich culture Bogota has to offer.
agenda
topics and speakers
Explore the panels and topics we will cover during Cineposium 2022.
Eco-Friendly Productions - Developing A Sustainable Program
This session will focus on eco-friendly initiatives used on recent major motion picture productions.
Confirmed panelists:
Lisa Day - Manager of Environmental Sustainability Walt Disney, Hans Dayal - Production Manager/Location Manager
Moderator: Marnie Gee - Film Commissioner and Director of Production Services, Creative BC
How Reggeaton Music Videos Boost Regional Tourism
Reggeaton is a music style that originated in Panama during the 1980s and has grown in popularity in recent years thanks to the work of artists such as JBalvin, Maluma or Karol G, managing to captivate not only international audiences, but also artists from other genres. This panel will explore how reggaeton music videos have given a boost to Medellín as a popular production destination.
Confirmed Panelists:
Harold Jimenez - 36 GRADOS
Luis Lizarralde - Sony Music Entertainment
Moderator: Natalia Barbosa Cardona - Promotion, Medellin Film Commission
Gender Initiatives In Front of and Behind the Camera
From the use of intimacy coordinators to oversee sensitive scenes with actors to helping crew work in safe conditions in the rising production landscape, this panel will focus on innovations and case studies that explore how the production environment is being kept safe for all.
Confirmed panelists:
Amanda Blumenthal - Founder, Intimacy Professionals Association, Sabrina Farji - Delegate, for Iberoamerica,, Association of Woen Filmmakers and Audio Visual Media
Moderator: Marjorie Galas, AFCI
Palpito Case Study: How Film Incentives and Laws In Colombia Enable Successful Productions With a Worldwide Reach
Pálpito, a TV series set in Colombia, reached #1 on Netflix during the thriller's first season. Producers of Pálpito (The Marked Heart), along with the Colombian Film Commissioner, will explore how film production laws and tax incentives helped bring this popular franchise (now entering its second season) from script to screen.
Confirmed panelists:
Silvia Echeverri - Film Commissioner, Colombia Film Commission, Juliana Moreno - Production manager, Netflix, Ana Pineres - CEO, CMO Producciones
Moderator: Ricardo Cantor - Director, Bogota Film Commission
Memoria Case Study/Successful International Co-productions
Memoria, directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and starring Tilda Swinton, Juan Pablo Urrego and Elkin Diaz, made its debut at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021. This case study will explore how this production was successfully co-produced in Colombia and Thailand.
Confirmed panelists:
Diana Bustamante - CEO & Founder, Burning/Producer, Memoria, Julio Chavezmontes - CEO & Co-Founder, Piano/Co-Producer, Memoria
Moderator: David Melo - Cultural Consultant, Bogota's Mayor's Office
Telenovelas: How Soap Operas Boost Local and Regional Production
Once thought of as a Latin American genre, the Telenovela has grown in popularity worldwide. Telenovelas are exported and adapted for new audiences around the globe, and new telenovelas are imported to the Latin American audiences from different countries around the world such as Turkey or India. This panel will explore the rise of the telenovelas and its impact on global production. Confirmed panelists: Dago Garcia - VP, Production and Content, Caracol Television, Rodrigo Guerrero - Producer, AG Studios, Colombia, Magdalena La Rotta - TV Producer Moderator: Diana Diaz Soto - Head of Strategic Projects, Capital Sistema de Comunicacion Publica
FILMING IN DIFFERENT JURISDICTIONS UTILIZING TAX INCENTIVE PROGRAMS (INTERNATIONAL)
How can a producer maximize the tax incentives from multiple jurisdictions when they are working on a co-production? This panel of tax incentive experts will lend advice on how to film in multiple jurisdictions and meet the benefits and challenges of combining many incentive structures.
Confirmed panelists:
Maria Fernanda Cristo - Head of Production Services, Dynamo Producciones, Brian O'Leary - Tax Consultant, Motion Picture Association (MPA), Jay Roewe - SVP, Production Planning and Incentives, HBO/HBO Max/Warner Media, Camila Wilches - VP, Business Affairs, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Moderator: Donne Dawson, Film Commissioner, Hawai'i State Film Commission
Breaking down territory Stereotypes
Popular culture, politics and misrepresentations can affect the way locations around the world are perceived and represented on screen. How can a location break through misconceptions? This panel of film commissioners will discuss the various perceptions surrounding their regions, and what they've done to break through the stereotypes and attract diverse productions and narratives.
Confirmed panelists:
Adrian Mitchell - Head, Oslo Film Commission, Timothy Owase - CEO, Kenya Film Commission, Stefanie Rauscher - Project and Deputy Manager, Vienna Film Commission
Moderator: David Cohen - Creative Director, Variety Content Studio
Animation And Film Tourism
This panel will explore how the popularity of animation, and its younger audiences, has a direct impact on Tourism.
Confirmed panelists:
Yvett Merino - Producer, Encanto, Alejandra Espinosa Uribe - Local Cultural Consultant, Encanto
Moderator: Tommaso Campione - Executive Director International, The Hollywood Reporter
presenters
incredible speakers
Rodrigo Guerrero
Partner/Producer, AG Studios
Rodrigo Guerrero is a partner and producer at AG Studios Colombia, an audiovisual development and production company founded in 2014 in Bogota. Since then, AG Studios Colombia has been in charge of the production of 12 feature films, and 10 television series, for clients such as Telemundo, Amazon Studios, Netflix, Hulu, Paramount Television, Sony Pictures, MGM, and Lionsgate, among others. Rodrigo has creative and production credits on 29 feature films and 10 series.
Ana Pineres
General Manager, Vice President and Executive Producer of CMO Producciones and CMO Internacional.
She is the current COO of CMO Producciones and CMO International, Executive and Creative Producer of successful series such as: Pálpito (#1 on Netflix), Pasión de Gavilanes 2 (NBC Universal Telemundo), La Venganza de Analía (#1 in ratings and Top 10 Netflix), La Niña (Caracol TV), among others. Also in films such as: Soñar No Cuesta Nada, Siempreviva and El Amor y Otros Demonios, among others. Former president and founding member of ASOCINDE, founder and representative of film producers on the board of directors of the Colombian Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and current representative of producers in Proimágenes Colombia. Current president of EGEDA Colombia and audiovisual union leader. With teaching experience in master’s degrees and workshops for more than 20 years.
Brian O'Leary
Tax Consultant, Motion Picture Association (MPA)
Brian O’Leary is a senior tax counsel and finance executive specializing in the media and entertainment sector, with expertise in tax and incentives policy, project management, advocacy before government authorities and tax audit and controversy resolution. Over the course of more than 27 years in practice Brian has developed a specialty working with governments to generate economic development support while minimizing tax impacts for capital projects, film, television and streaming productions and ongoing business operations. Brian has worked extensively with cross-functional teams to achieve strategic and project-specific objectives in APAC, EMEA, LATAM & North America.
Brian’s experience includes leading tax incentive processes, including planning and budgeting, government interaction and approval, structuring production, personnel and supplier agreements, audit verification and incentive monetization. Brian’s tax expertise includes settling disputes with U.S. state and local tax authorities involving corporate income and franchise as well as transaction taxes. Brian has negotiated contract terms, including tax provisions in international sporting rights agreements, global supplier contracts, production service agreements and government contracts from closing arrangements to incentive agreements. Brian has successfully negotiated incentives at virtually every level of government and project scale and served as subject matter expert/witness before various legislative and administrative bodies.
Brian’s work has earned him international recognition as an expert in tax policy, incentives, and economic development, resulting in requests for his participation on government advisory councils and panels in multiple U.S. states as well as the province of Ontario, Canada. Brian also served for more than fifteen years on the Board of the National Multistate Tax Symposium and undertakes numerous speaking engagements on matters of credits and incentives, film financing and taxation.
Dago Garcia
Social Commentator
Dago García is a Social Communicator from Externado University of Colombia. He has written and produced more than forty series and soap operas such as “Pedro El Escamoso”,
“Pecados Capitales” (written in partnership with Luis Felipe Salamanca), and “La saga, family business”, among others. He is the author and director of several plays: “Hombre con hombre, mujer con mujer”, “Pretty but complicated” and “The illustrated history of sex” (with César Betancourt), “Cepeda en tablas”, among others.
He has been awarded by several national and Latin American media. In 1995 he created the film production and distribution company Dago García Producciones.
He has been producer, screenwriter and director of more than 40 films to date, and several of them have been the highest grossing films in the history of Colombian cinema, such as the saga of “El Paseo”. His film “El Olvido que Seremos” (The Oblivion We Will Be) was on the official list at the Cannes Film Festival and won Best Ibero-American Film at the Goya and Platino Awards. He is also co-producer of films such as “Todos tus muertos”, “El valle sin sombras”, “Pájaros de verano”, “Matar a Jesús”, “Monos”, and “El abrazo de la serpiente”, which was nominated for an Oscar, among others.
Diana Bustamente
Producer, filmmaker and programmer. Diana has consistently contributed to the international recognition of Colombian cinema, producing films such as “Los Viajes del Viento” by Ciro Guerra, “El vuelco del Cangrejo” by Oscar Ruiz, (Berlín 2010), “La Sirga” by William Vega (Cannes 2012), Los Hongos by Oscar Ruiz (Locarno 2014) and “La tierra y La Sombra” by Cesar Acevedo (Golden Camera at Cannes 2015), and she was the producer of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s latest film “Memoria” – the Jury Prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival 2021. Diana was the artistic director and programmer of the Cartagena International Film Festival (2014-2018). She has curated programs for institutions such as Cinematheque of Bogotá, the French Film Festival, the Goethe Institute and the Biarritz Festival. She collaborates as an independent curator in several institutions and galleries. Her work has focused on promoting cultural exchanges through film.
Luis Lizarralde
Licensing Manger, Sony Music Entertainment
Musician and lawyer with more than 7 years of experience in the music industry as an active performer and composer, advisor to labels and independent artists, and executive in a major record company. He is currently Director of Business Development for Sony Music Entertainment Andes Region, where he is in charge of developing and executing projects between artists and repertoire of Sony Music’s cast, with brands, advertisers and content creators in general.
Harold Jimevez Giraldo
Executive Producer Worldwide, 36 Grados
Born on September 25, 1990, he is a Colombian director and producer of music videos. CEO and founder of the company 36 GRADOS. Harold at 30 years old has directed and produced around 300 music videos of the most important artists in Latin music, such as J Balvin, Maluma, Nicky Jam, Juanes, Anitta, Luis Fonsi, Karol G, among others.
In his long career he has achieved the most significant awards in Latin music such as MTV Video Music Awards with “Mi Gente” by J. Balvin, GRAMMY LATINO with “Pa ́ Dentro” by Juanes as producer, LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS with “Medicina” by Anitta, PREMIO JUVENTUD with “Sigo extrañándote” by J. Balvin and 3 HEAT awards by HTV. He has also produced some commercials for the most important brands in Colombia.
Julio Chavezmontes
Producer/Screenwriter
Julio Chavezmontes is a renowned Mexican producer and screenwriter, winner of the Best Screenplay award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and a two-time nominee for the AMACC’s Ariel Award. He has produced more than 20 films, many of which have been presented at major film festivals around the world, including Sundance, Berlin, Cannes, Venice and Toronto among others. His productions have received multiple awards, most recently the Best Director (“Annette”) and Jury Prize (“Memoria”) at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, and the Palme d’Or for “Triangle of Sadness” at the 2022 edition.
Julio is co-founder of PIANO together with Sebastian Hofmann, one of the leading art film production houses in Mexico and Latin America. Since its inception in 2011, PIANO has been a platform for original and risky projects. It has produced or co-produced films by filmmakers such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Leos Carax, Abel Ferrara, Mia ƒen-Love, Ruben Ostlünd, Lucrecia Martel and Yann González, as well as Mexican directors Sebastián Hofmann, Emiliano Rocha Minter, Nicolás Echevarría and Eugenio Polgovsky among others.
Featured productions: Halley (2012), Echo of the Mountain (2014), Tenemos la carne (2016), Tiempo compartido (2018), Acusada (2018), La daga en el corazón (2018), Siberia (2020), El prófugo (2020), Annette (2021), Memoria (2021), Bergman Island (2021), Triangle of Sadness (2022).
Jay Roewe
Senior Vice President, Incentives & Production Planning, HBO/HBO MAX/Warner Brothers Discovery
Jay Roewe is Senior Vice President, Incentives & Production Planning & at HBO/HBO MAX. He helps manage the physical production planning of films, limited series, and scripted series filmed all over the world and oversees the film & tv incentives both domestically and internationally for all productions.
Roewe joined HBO in 1994, originally serving as Vice President of Production for HBO Pictures. In 2000, he began overseeing the miniseries division until 2010 when he was promoted to Head of Physical Production for all Television scripted original productions. Roewe’s involvement with programs ranges from Real Time with Bill Maher to Game of Thrones.
Jay is a 40-plus year veteran of film and television production, with experience from news to television to feature film production. In 2019, Jay was given a Doctor of Letters Honorary Degree from Ulster University for his services to the Screen Industry in Northern Ireland for his work on Game of Thrones.
Amanda Blumenthal
Founder, Intimacy Professionals Association (IPA)
Amanda Blumenthal is the founder of Intimacy Professionals Association (IPA), which is a global leader in the training and certification of intimacy coordinators. She helped to found the field of intimacy coordination and has worked on projects such as Euphoria (HBO), The L Word (Showtime), The White Lotus (HBO), and Carnival Row (Amazon). IPA has partnered with organizations such as Amazon, Netflix, Sony, and the New Mexico Film Office to train intimacy coordinators in emerging film markets with no local IC’s. In addition, Amanda is a leader in the SAG-AFTRA Intimacy Coordinator Initiative to create standards and protocols for IC work, she consulted with the Producer’s Guild of America on developing materials for their Independent Production Safety Initiative Program, and she contributed to the Time’s Up Guide to Working in Entertainment.
David Cohen
Creative Director, Variety Content Studio
David S. Cohen is an award-winning journalist and content producer. He was a reporter, editor and producer for Variety for 25-odd years and he has covered arts, science and culture for print outlets around the world. He won SoCal Journalism awards for his Variety reporting and for producing the “Artisans” video episode: “The Dangerous Art of Aerial Cinematography.” He is the author of six books on films and filmmaking, including the acclaimed “Screen Plays: How 25 Screenplays Made It to a Theater Near You—for Better or Worse.” His entertainment credits include acting and directing in Off-Off-Broadway theater; assisting on casting for Broadway and feature films; and writing for television, including an episode of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and a documentary on Walter Matthau.
Stefanie Rauscher
Born and raised in Bavaria, Germany, Stefanie studied Theater, Film- and Media Studies as well as East Asian Studies in Vienna and Beijing. She speaks Mandarin Chinese and is specialized in Chinese film. Before joining the Vienna Film Commission as project manager in 2015 she worked for the German Goethe Institute in Beijing. Stefanie has been deputy managing director of the Vienna Film Commission since 2019. She lectured on film tourism at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and on Chinese film at the Universität Hamburg. In 2009 she published a research monograph on the work of director Zhang Yimou.
Lisa Day
Lisa Day has worked at the intersection of media and the environment for her entire career. She is currently a Manager of Environmental Sustainability at The Walt Disney Company, where her primary role is developing and overseeing sustainability on the feature films, television shows, and documentaries produced by the company’s many studios. She is also responsible for helping to ensure The Walt Disney Company meets ts 2030 Goals, including Net Zero emissions, procuring 100% zero carbon electricity, and sending zero waste to landfill.
Prior to her role at Disney, Lisa was the Director of Sustainability at 20th Century Fox, leading Fox’s sustainable efforts on production as well as at the iconic Fox Studios Lot in Los Angeles and Fox Studios Australia.
Lisa is also one of the founders of the Sustainable Production Alliance (SPA), a consortium of the world’s leading film, television and streaming companies dedicated to advancing sustainability in the industry and, in partnership. She is also a founder, in partnership with the Producers Guild of America PGA Green Committee, of GreenProductionGuide.com, a online resource for filmmakers internationally offering free tools, a vendor guide, and other resources to help shows understand and reduce their environmental impacts.
Lisa earned her B.A. from New College and her JD from the UCLA School of Law.
Hans Dayal
Production Manager/Location Manager
Natalia Barboasa
Promotion, Medellin Film Commission
Promotion at Medellín Film Commission. Audiovisual Producer, Master in Cultural Management and professor. 12 years of experience in the film and tv industry, working in local, regional and international projects (Jack Ryan S2, Documental “El Niño de Medellín”, JBalvin, EchoTeam 3). Since 2013, she has joined audiovisual training projects, where citizenship education, storytelling and social skills development converge.
Alejandra Espinosa Uribe
Colombian Tourism Expert
Writer, bookseller and painter. Studied Literature in Bogotá, Colombia where she is originally from. In 2016 she moved to Barichara, a little town at the edge of the Chicamocha Canyon in the dramatic Colombian Andes landscape. There, working as a cultural tour guide she met the Walt Disney Animation’s directors and producers and became Cultural Consultant for Disney’s Encanto contributing on Colombian history, Cultural and Rural representation for the following 4 years. In 2019 she opened Aljibe Librería, the first bookshop in the town’s history and the only one in more than 60 square miles where she hopes to help decentralize access to books in Colombia where few rural bookshops are found.
She collaborated as researcher and writer in the published history books Contracultura (Aguilar, 2016) Brújula para el Mundo Contemporáneo (Aguilar, 2018) and she is the co author of Revoluciones (Aguilar, 2020). TEDxBogotáSalon 2022 speaker, she also bikes, walks and paints watercolor landscapes and currently works on her first novel. You can find her on instagram as @aljibearte. To learn more about the bookshop visit www.aljibelibreria.com
David Melo
Economic Consultant
David is a consultant in creative economies and cultural policies. He has been Vice Minister and Director of Cinematography at the Ministry of Culture, marketing and communications manager of Invest in Bogota, deputy director of Book and Development of CERLALC, advisor to the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo, director of the International Window of the Arts of the Ibero-American Theater Festival. He is a civil engineer from the Universidad Javeriana, with a specialization in Social Evaluation of Projects from the Faculty of Economics of the Universidad de los Andes.
Donne Dawson
Film Commissioner, Hawai’i State Film Commission
Donne Dawson is the Hawai‘i Film Commissioner. She has served the State of Hawai‘i in that capacity for the past 20 years. Dawson is currently First Vice Chair on the AFCI Executive Board and was involved in the planning of this year’s Cineposium event in Bogotá. Dawson, who has earned AFCI’s certified film commission designation, has committed her career to building a strong sustainable film industry in Hawai‘i as manager of the Hawai‘i Film Office and looks for ways to continually share her knowledge, expertise and insights with her film commission colleagues around the world.
She is Kanaka Maoli and committed to educating producers on the history and culture of the Native Hawaiian people and her homeland Hawai‘i. During her tenure, Hawai‘i’s film and digital media industry has more than quadrupled in size, generating nearly $6 billion for Hawai‘i’s economy. Her most recent achievement was reopening Hawai‘i’s film industry in the midst of a global pandemic, no easy feat. As a result, Hawai‘i has been successful in attracting a record amount of production across the Hawaiian Islands and gratefully Hawai‘i
is on track for a record year in production revenue that will likely exceed $500 billion in direct spend. The Hawai‘i state film commission administers a unique consolidated statewide permitting system and a 15-year-old production tax credit program that has been a critical tool for developing her state’s film industry.
Dawson’s office also manages the Hawai‘i Film Studio on the slopes of Diamond Head, current home of NCIS Hawai‘i, the CBS television show now in its second season. Over the years, Dawson has secured nearly $15 million in capital improvement funds to renovate the Hawai‘i Film Studio, the only state owned and operated facility of its kind in the United States. Currently Dawson is working with Hawai‘i’s indigenous filmmaking community to produce a Hawaiian Handbook—comparable to the New Zealand Brown Book–a culturally based protocol guide for producers filming in Hawai‘i. Some of the more notable productions Dawson has been involved with as state film commissioner include: Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks’ Tropic Thunder; ABC’s LOST; reboots of Hawai‘i Five-0 and Magnum P.I. for CBS and NCIS: Hawai‘i; Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. for Disney+; Legendary’s Godzilla and Kong: Skull Island; NBC Universal’s Jurassic World; Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean At World’s End; and Paramount’s Raiders of the Lost Ark: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, just to name a few.
Prior to serving as state film commissioner, Dawson held positions as journalist, producer and media relations professional. She was born and raised in Honolulu and is a lifelong student of hula and Hawaiian language and history.
Juliana Moreno
Film/TV Producer
Juliana is a Colombian Film and TV Producer with wide-ranging knowledge of original projects from inception to completion, as well as the execution of production services for studios like Paramount, Skydance, Netflix, Sony, STX, among others. Currently works at Netflix as Director of Production Management for LATAM participating in tent pole projects like One hundred Years of Solitude.
Moreno served as Head of Physical Production and Producer at Dynamo, leading production company in Latinamerica in shows like The Great Heist, El Chapo, Triple Frontier, Mile 22, Loving Pablo, among others. Also worked for several years with the renowned director Sergio Cabrera and writer/producer Ramon Jimeno developing and producing documentaries, films and series such as Everybody leaves, Cinco Impulsos, Mr. Trance and the Boomerang Tv joint venture. She has also written for publications like Bacánika, Avianca, Pesquisa, Luxury y La Hoja de Bogotá as part of her journey as a journalist.
Silvia Echeverri
Film Commissioner, Colombian Film Commission
Silvia Echeverri is the head of the Colombian Film Commission at Proimágenes Colombia since 2009. She has been involved in the design and implementation of the incentive system for audiovisual production in Colombia. She´s beginning her third term as a member of the Board of Directors of the AFCI and is also part of the Board of Directors of the Latin America Film Commission Network. She is an economist from the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia and has a master’s degree in economic law from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
Ricardo Cantor
Ricardo Cantor is the National University film and television producer. He received his undergraduate diploma from the Universidad de los Andes in Market Intelligence and has a Masters in Cultural Management from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University.
His producer credits include features EL RESQUICIO (Colombia/Argentina) and LA SEED OF SILENCE (Colombia.) Prior to producing OBLIVION (Mexico/Colombia) in 2014 he led the implementation and creation of the Bogota Film Commission. From 2016-2018 he was the Advisor at the Bogota Cinematheque. From 2018-2020 he was an Advisor to the Directorate of Audiovisuals, Cinema and Interactive Media of the Ministry of Culture and, since 2021, has been the Director of Audiovisual Arts of Idartes. He’s been a jury of the Convocation of the Fund for Cinematographic Development (FDC) and the National Incentives Program of the Ministry of Culture.
The Gap, his first feature film, received national and international awards and had its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea.
Marnie Gee
Film Commissioner, Creative BC
As BC Film Commissioner and Director of Production Services, Marnie Gee leads the Provincial Film Commission team at Creative BC to deliver motion picture industry services, from locations marketing and physical production resource support, industry and community relations and overseeing Reel Green™ and Creative Pathways™. She works to sustain and grow ongoing opportunity and collaboration for the network of industry and government stakeholders who together contribute to the motion picture industry’s success in British Columbia. With 20+ years of experience in location and production support in the film and television industry, Marnie has worked throughout B.C. and brings specialized knowledge of local communities and geographical areas as well as a strong understanding of the dynamics between communities and motion picture production. She joined the AFCI Board of Directors in January 2022, and works closely with Canadian Film Commission and Film Office partners and co-created the National Reel Green Committee. Her commitment to collaboration and inclusiveness is driven by a strong belief that “we’re better together”.
Adrian Mitchell
Adrian Mitchell has a track record from the film industry ranging from production manager, location scout and manager, distribution and as a producer. Mitchell has also done startup in educational gaming, ran a craft-beer brewery, and with some friends built and ran two local bars focusing on craft spirits from Latin America.
Mitchell started The Oslo Film Commission in 2018, and is still heading the one-man-office. During his buildup of the Film Commission he also set up The Oslo Film Fund, a local investment fund which supports local audiovisual productions emphasizing and focusing on sustainability, diversity and local stories. Oslo Film Commission is a part of The Vice Mayor’s office in The City of Oslo.
Marjorie Galas
Is a freelance journalist as well as the SVP, Membership and Industry Relations for AFCI – the Association of Film Commissioners International. Prior to joining AFCI, Galas was the Editor at Variety 411 where she managed the 411 e-newsletter, web and marketing content. As a reporter, her stories have been featured in Variety, Variety 411, Below the Line News, Creative Content Wire and Tradeshow Week. Her foray in the entertainment business began in Boston where she worked as an edit tutor at Boston Neighborhood Network, an Assistant Stage Manager for the Sugan Theater and a Prop Master for Boston Conservatory. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from Emmanuel College, Boston.
Yvett Merino
YVETT MERINO (Producer) first came to Walt Disney Animation Studios more than 25 years ago, and has worked in a variety of production capacities on some of the most popular animated titles of all time. She most recently was a producer of the BAFTA and Oscar®-winning animated feature “Encanto”.
Among her other credits, she served as production manager on the Academy Award®-winning, “Big Hero 6,” as well as the Oscar®-nominated “Moana.” Launching her Disney Animation career in the Technology department, she moved into the world of Production as a supervisor on “Tangled.” She went on to work with the Stereo team on “The Lion King 3D,” and with various departments on “Wreck-It Ralph.” Merino was also a part of the team that started Voces@Disney, the Studio’s first Latinx employee resource group, where she served as co-president for two years.
Merino lives in Los Angeles, Calif., with her family. She holds an MBA from Loyola Marymount University and an undergraduate degree in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Maria Fernanda Cristo
Producer, Dynamo
Maria Fernanda graduated from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 2015. She majored in TV, Radio, and Film and completed two minors in Art History and Marketing. After graduation, Maria moved to NYC, where she started her career at Dynamo. Simultaneously, she worked on season 41 of Saturday Night Live as Script Coordinator.
Eventually Maria transferred to Dynamo’s headquarters in Bogota, where she began her production service career in projects such as Narcos Season 3 (Gaumont & Netflix), Mile 22 (STX Films), Gemini Man (Skydance & Paramount), Triple Frontier (Netflix), Echo 3 (Keshet & Apple) and Shadow Force (Lionsgate). Currently, she spearheads Dynamo’s production services department and is focused on bringing more foreign production to Colombia.
Tommasso Campione
Constanza Castro
Diana Diaz Soto
Producer/Author/Social Communicator/Educator
Diana Diaz Soto trained as a social communicator with an emphasis on educational communication from the Javeriana University as well as a educational communication specialist at the Central University before receiving her Master’s Degree in Cultural Studies from Javeriana University. After graduating, Diana directed the children’s station Colorin colorRadio (Caracol) and was a pioneer in the creation of a team of delegate producers of Senal Colombia between 2004-2010.
She was head of the Office of Content and was the Ombudsman of the Viewer of the former National Commission on TV. She was an advisor to the Directorate of Cinematography and Coordinator of the Cultural Communication and Childhood project of the Ministry of Culture. She was director of Senal Colombia, and has been a professor of television, research and communication, as well as an advisor to undergraduates working on thesis projects for Master Degree studies in Public Media, Children’s Television and Participatory Communication. She has been on juries for film festival and contests at the district, national and international scale.
Currently, Diana is responsible for strategic projects at Canal Capital and is a representative of the directors before the National Film Council (CNACC) as well as a convergent editor for Nanook’s Nightmare, a magazine published by the Colombian Documentary Association (ALADOS).
Magdalena La Rotta
Sabrina Farji
First Vice-President of the Argentine Film Academy, Delegate of Iberoamerican Audiovisual Women for CIMA (Spain)
Sabrina is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Asociación La mujer y el Cine, Member of DAC, CAPPA, Professor of Screenwriting and Audiovisual Directing, Consultant and Tutor of audiovisual projects. She regularly teaches workshops and training courses in Film and Television Scriptwriting and Film and Television Directing. She regularly serves as a jury member for festivals and development funds such as Ibermedia, Polo Audiovisual de Cordoba, among others. Project tutor and trainer. She is the founder of "Zoelle Producciones" dedicated to the production of films and miniseries.
She has directed and produced films and miniseries such as: EX CASADOS (2021), Tropico (2020), the miniseries Fronteras premiere TELEFE, El Paraíso, Martin Fierro nominated miniseries, Eva y Lola, La voz. Direction and development of the series MUJERES DE CINE and MujerCINE, both FOMECA Award, among other prestigious projects. Desmadre, fragmentos de una relación (2018), Los Felices (2019). She is currently finishing the feature film “Mariquita”.
Camila Wilches
VP, Business Affairs, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Born and raised in Popayán, Colombia, Camila has been living in the USA for the last seventeen-years, where, after obtaining a master’s degree in International Laws at Georgetown University, she has been working in the Entertainment Industry.
Since 2011, Camila has worked at Sony- Pictures-Television in the original productions’ division for Latin-America and the US-Hispanic markets. Vice-President of the Business Affairs department (leading and supervising such department’s team) and member of the Senior-executive Committee for the Latin-American Production division, roles which require her strategic advice to the leader of the operation, the heads of key areas (Content, Production, Operations/Assets, Marketing/PR) and also a wide range of responsibilities, such as structuring key projects, negotiating deals and be involved in the storytelling-process.
In 2014, the Colombian government awarded her the distinction of being one in a selection of one-hundred outstanding Colombian nationals overseas. This was designed to honor Colombian migrants with an outstanding career overseas, all deemed to be laudable ambassadors of the country. President (2010-2018) and Peace Nobel Laureate Juan- Manuel Santos handed over the award.
Selected in 2022 as a “Rockstar” up & coming top-talent at Sony by a leader in the company’s Women’s Leadership Initiative (a group of senior-executives with a mission of prioritizing the development and visibility of other women of the studio), to participate on a series of annual activities designed to have its candidates meet, network and connect.
Before working in Sony, Camila worked for five-years at Telemundo-Internacional, a division of NBCUniversal as Director of the Business and Music Affairs department.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Thursday, September 22, 2022
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Host hotel The Hilton Bogota no longer has availability for the discounted Cineposium room rate.
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