Anna Marie de la Fuente Chile’s Santiago International Film Festival (Sanfic) celebrates its 19th edition with a vibrant lineup packed with works from first-time Chilean filmmakers, with six debut features out of nine contenders in the fully in-person festival running August 20-27. “It was tough. We had at least 30 submissions to the Chilean film selection, which we narrowed down to these nine,” said artistic director Carlos Nuñez, who added that three of them are world premieres. The selection touts five documentaries – a reflection of the boom in non-fiction filmmaking in recent years. Among them is the poetic “A Brief Space in Time” (“Breve espacio de un tiempo”), which world premieres at Sanfic and turns on a Mapuche couple living off their ancestral Wallmapu land.
Polish Producers Talk A Way Forward: IP Ownership, International Co-Production
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Julie Vincent Guest Contributor Poland, renown for its production value and one of Europe¡s biggest markets outside its Top 5, enjoyed some limelight at Conecta Fiction whee it received a country focus. Six of its top independent producers – including Dariusz Jablonski at Apple Film, Anna Rózalska, co-founder and producer of Match and Spark), Telemark’s Maciej Kubicki, a producer-writer and Ryszard Sibilski, head of EndemolShine Polska, debated key issues, of which the hottest is IP ownership. Producer-director Lukasz Bluszcz a co-owner of Vision House, and Agnieszka Knysak-Sandecka, head of production at Viaplay-owned Paprika Studios, also spoke at the panel whose expertise ranged from premium TV series like Telemark’s “The Pact” and the Polish adaptation of “In Treatment,” to factual shows, which is Vision House speciality.
Panel moderator Alicja Grawon-Jaksik, at Maxfilm explained that many of Poland’s 150-200 production companies produce both feature films and series. Most series are modestly priced, at around €300,000-€400,000 ($327,000-$436,000) for a 40-minute episode, rising to $545,000-$872,000) for premium series. Netflix dominates the streaming market, and invests significantly in Polish series, Grawon-Jaksik said. Currently, Poland is facing an 18% inflation rate. Independent producers obsession, however, is IP. When streaming platforms entered the market, there were hopes of shaking up the traditional market, Dariusz Jablonski observed. “I think that the Polish market is a little bit traditional, a little bit remote. Streaming platforms coming to the same level all together can change that. My hope is that if platforms offer producers the chance to create premium series and give them the chance to
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