SELECTION Adiós, amor Fiction, First FilmDir. Indra Villaseñor AmadorProduction: Guillermo Pérez de la Mora, Manuel Elías López MonroyProduction Companies: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE).After living 10 years as an illegal immigrant, Chuy is deported and has to return to his origins, the little fishing camp in Sinaloa. Drugs and drug trafficking have become the normality and everyone back home lead their lives surrounded by violence. Chano, his first love, is now a respected drug lord. Within this hostile environment, their romance resurfaces and Chuy has to choose between Chano and the life he really wants to have. Buen salvaje FictionDir. Santiago Mohar VolkowProduction: Jonathan Davis ArakelianProduction Company: Edge FilmsTired of the monotony and the lack of adventure in their lives, Jesse and Maggie decide to leave New York and move to a town in northern Mexico, hoping to find the artistic inspiration they long for. Maggie resumes writing her next novel and Jesse hangs out with the locals in town for his next movie. It is there where the fictions that Maggie and Jesse build begin to mix with reality resulting in an inter-cultural cinematographic adventure. La montaña DocumentaryDir. Diego Enrique OsornoProduction: Sandra Godínez, Arturo Sampson, Adán PérezProduction Companies: Detective, Exile ContentMore than 500 years after Columbus voyaged to America, seven indigenous Mayan members of the EZLN sailed the Atlantic Ocean to share the memory of their resistance in the mountains of Chiapas in a search for an awakening of the pandemic-dormant European social movement. A camera aboard the boat documents the sea crossing against the ocean's current. Lluvia Fiction, First FilmDir. Rodrigo García SaizProduction: Paola Cortés, Araceli Velázquez, Alberto MüffelmannProduction Company: Central FilmsRain tells six stories of interrelated characters who transit around Mexico City chased by a never-ending rain, drowned in misery by the hopelessness of life. Each character faces an unexpected encounter that makes them glimpse their own souls. They experience a unique, absurd, luminous, or awkward moment that reveals who they truly are. After these brief events, they lose themselves in the gloom of their daily life. Mi Benjamín DocumentaryDir. Victoria Clay MendozaProduction: Marion d’OrnanoProduction Company: CIMAThis is the story of Benjamin Pech, Etoile dancer of the Paris Opera, and the last year of his career. It is a story about the decay of his body and the end of his career as a dancer. It is the elegant way in which he says goodbye to the stage and in a certain way to his athletic body as he is injured and will never be able to jump again. Sueño mexicano FictionDir. Laura PlancarteProduction: Laura Plancarte, Iván TrujilloProduction Companies: LP Films, TV UNAMMalena had her tubes tied after an abusive relationship. She fled to Mexico City seeking a better life but lost custody of her children. Today she has a new partner and is finishing her house where she dreams of living with her children and a new baby. She needs IVF if she is to get a second chance. If she gets a second chance, she is determined to quit her job as a domestic worker and return home to set up a business and have the family she always dreamt of. Tzofo Documentary, First FilmDir. Salvador MartínezProduction: Salvador MartínezProduction Company: Películas EnramadaAmid countless personal battles, Juliana, an Otomí farmer and cook, in deep introspection obtains one of the best harvests of her life: the triumph of herself. PANEL OF EXPERTS Laurent Cantet After studying photography at the University of Provence in Marseille, Laurent studied film at the IDHEC (Institut Des Hautes Études Cinématographiques) and directed two short films: Tous à la manif (1994) and Jeux de plage (1995), as well as a telefilm for ARTE, Les sanguinaires, in the series 2000 vu par…(1998).Since then, he has directed nine long features films: Ressources humaines (2000 – César award to first film), L’Emploi du temps (2001 – Golden Lion, Cinema of the Present, Venice film festival), Vers le sud (2005), Entre les murs (2008 – Palme d’Or, Cannes film festival), La Fuente (segment of the film 7 días en La Habana), Foxfire, confessions d’un gang de filles (2013), Retour à Ithaque (2014- HUG for Best Deature, The Biarritz Festival Latin America), L’Atelier (2017- Un certain regard, Cannes Film Festival), and Arthur Rambo (2021). Daniela Alatorre Daniela is an award-winning producer and filmmaker with nineteen years of experience in documentary filmmaking and programming. She worked as a producer and programmer for the Morelia International Film Festival for more than 10 years and has been part of the advisory boards of the Ambulante Festival and the Flaherty Film Seminar in New York. Her production credits include 20 short and feature films, including the award-winning feature documentaries El General and Users (d. Natalia Almada), Midnight Family (d. Luke Lorentzen), Vivos (d. Ai Weiwei), and, most recently, A Cop Movie (d. Alonso Ruizpalacios), which premiered at the 2021 Berlinale and received a Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution. Retreat, her first feature documentary as a director, received a special mention and the Ambulante Film Festival prize at the XVII Morelia International Film Festival. In 2017, she co-founded the Mexico City-based production company No Ficción with Elena Fortes and the support of Cinepolis, which she currently co-directs and is dedicated to producing content for multiple platforms, with a focus on documentary and hybrid forms. Claudia G. Covarrubias Mexican filmmaker graduated from the National School of Film Arts (formerly CUEC) and a BA in Communication Sciences. Currently, she is pursuing a master's degree in Documentary Film at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). With German filmmaker Doris Dörrie, she studied at the Creative Writing Workshop in Berlin and actor's direction with Argentinean director Natalia Smirnoff. Furthermore, she completed a specialization in documentary film at the Filmart Center in Serbia and in Content Development at the Universidad Javeriana in Colombia.Claudia has directed and produced feature films, documentary series, short films, and advertising. Her projects were exhibited at festivals in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, the United States, Germany, and the UK. During her career as a filmmaker, she has participated in screenwriting and project development workshops at the Mexican Institute of Cinematography, and DocsMx Documentary Film Festival. She won first place in the Escribe Cine A.C. Screenwriting Tournament and was a finalist in the Guanajuato International Film Festival's screenwriting contest. She was awarded three times by the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA).She is a founder member of Cine Bajo el Cielo, a civil organization that promotes the creation and exhibition of films with social and gender perspective in rural and urban communities in Mexico. She is currently Director of Production and Marketing at the Estudios Churubusco Azteca, a prestigious company in film industry with more than seventy years of experience. Mathilde Henrot CEO and Co-founder of Festival Scope & Festival Scope Pro. Born in 1975, with a diploma from HEC Business School, INALCO (B.A. in Chinese), Paris X (B.A in Philosophy) and Paris II (LLM in Literary and Artistic Copyright Law), Mathilde worked 8 years for MK2 as Director of Sales, also handling acquisitions.In 2010, together with Alessandro Raja, she founded Festival Scope Pro ( pro.festivalscope.com ),the benchmark online service for film professionals allowing them to watch on-demandthe films frommore than 150 of the most prestigious international film festivals and markets. Festival Scope( www.festivalscope.com ), launched by the duo in 2016, focuses on festival's catch up screeningsfor an audience of film lovers worldwide.She founded also Maharaja Films, production company which lineup includes The Strife of Love in a Dream directed by Camille Henrot, recipient of the Biennale Silver Lion in 2013 for Grosse Fatigue; Smuggler's Songs directed by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Jean Vigo Prize in 2011, Locarno Official Competition 2011; Alps, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, Venice Official Competition 2011 - Best Screenplay and Saturday, directed by Camille Henrot (Palais de Tokyo Carte Blanche October 2017).Since 2012 she has curated the Kinoscope program of the Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Since 2018 she has been a member of the Selection Committee of the Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland). She has been a member of the Selection Committee of the Villa Medici Film Festival (Italy) since 2022. Alessandro Raja CEO and co-founder of Festival Scope & Festival Scope Pro. After completing a degree at Bocconi University in Milan, he went on to work within various segments of the film industry, ranging from international sales and acquisitions –Celluloid Dreams (Paris, 2005-2009), Coproduction Office (Paris, 2004), distribution – Artificial Eye (London, 2000-2003) to exhibition – The Everyman (London, 1999-2000).In 2010, together with Mathilde Henrot, he founded Festival Scope Pro ( pro.festivalscope.com ), the benchmark online service for film professionals allowing them to watch on-demand films from more than 150 of the most prestigious international film festivals and markets. Festival Scope ( www.festivalscope.com ), launched by the duo in 2016, focuses on the festival's catch up screenings for an audience of film lovers worldwide.Alessandro Raja is also a festival programmer, notably for the Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia and Herzegovina) since 2012. Patricia Riggen Patricia Riggen, a native of Guadalajara, Jalisco, has developed her successful career in film and television mainly in the United States, where she works for the largest film studios and television platforms. She is considered the number one Latina director in the US due to the box office success of her films. Her most recent television work can be seen in the limited series Dopesick, starring Michael Keaton, which she directed alongside Barry Levinson and which garnered 14 Emmy nominations in 2022. She also directed three episodes of the acclaimed Amazon Prime action series, Jack Ryan. She has directed pilots and episodes for Fox, CBS, Blumhouse, Disney, and Apple.Riggen has directed several feature films, including The 33, about the trapped Chilean miners, starring Antonio Banderas and Juliette Binoche; Miracles from Heaven, with Jennifer Garner and Queen Latifah, and the teen musical Lemonade Mouth, for which she received a nomination from the Director's Guild of America. Her first feature film, Under the Same Moon, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, broke box office records for a film in Spanish in the United States and is considered a classic for Latino audiences in the US.Riggen started her career precisely at the Sundance Film Festival, where her documentary Family Portrait won the Jury Prize. Her first narrative short film The Cornfield won the Student Oscar and the Mexican Academy Award. Riggen studied film directing at Columbia University in NY. Before that she worked as an executive for the Mexican Film Institute’s Short Film Department. She currently resides in Los Angeles. Kyzza Terrazas Writer and filmmaker, Kyzza Terrazas was born in Nairobi, Kenia, in 1977, of Mexican parents and has lived in Mexico most of his life. He holds an undergraduate degree in philosophy from UNAM and an MFA in film from Columbia University, where he graduated with Matapájaros, a short film shot in NYC with Mexican immigrants. He was published two books of short stories: El primer ojo (1997) and Cumbia y desaparecer (2010). He was head of development for Canana Films and has executive produced several features including Drama/Mex, Cochochi, Voy-a-explotar, She doesn´t Want to Sleep Alone and Los adioses (The Eternal Feminine). From 2010 to 2011 he was head of Archivo Memoria of Cineteca Nacional, an archive of orphan, amateur, and family films. For such project, he did Carta al ingeniero, a short made with footage from his grandfather´s film archive. El lenguaje de los machetes (Machete Language), his first feature film as writer/ director, premiered in 2011 at the Critic’s Week of the Venice Film Festival. It screened in festivals worldwide, and won, among others, the New Horizons award at the Whistler International Film Festival, in Canada, and the prize of the jury at the Cartagena Film Festival. His second feature Somos lengua is a documentary about hip-hop in Mexico, which premiered at FICUNAM in 2016, where it won two awards, and was released commercially in Mexico. Bayoneta, his third feature, is a film set in the boxing world; it is a co-production between Mexico and Finland and premiered at the Rome Film Festival in 2018; it won a best directing award at the Málaga Film Festival and was nominated for 6 Ariel awards. Alongside Gael García Bernal and Jorge Dorantes, he is created, wrote and producer for Aquí en la tierra (seasons 1 and 2). He was the head writer and executive producer for Todo va a estar bien (Netflix), created and directed by Diego Luna, and is the executive producer for Pan y circo (Amazon). He is currently head of development and creative production at La Corriente del Golfo. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The José María Riba Award bestowed by Cinépolis Distribución and Profest 2022 consists in a cash incentive of $300,000 MXN ($150,000 from each contributor) destined to post-production services and/or promotion. This incentive will be awarded to one selected project by the international experts’ panel. The amount offered by Cinépolis Distribution will be delivered no later than June 2023.The José María Riba Award winner will also receive from the specialized information web portal LatAm cinema.com a promotional campaign, which includes an advertising page in one of the magazine’s numbers, as well as a communication strategies counseling with an approximate value of USD$1,500. To the same project, Icunacury Acosta & Co. offers three months of accompaniment in public relations, with an approximate cost of $75,000 MXN. This period will be established with the production team and must be previous to any distribution commitment deal.Estudios Churubusco will award one project with $1,000,000 MXN in post-production and TXH sound services. The support does not include materials, operators and Dolby license. It is valid for two years, starting from the date granted. This award will be awarded by the international experts’ panel.The post-production studio Splendor Omnia will give an award consisting in one week of sound mix and another one of color correction, with an approximated value of $283,000 MXN. The support does not include technician’s fees ($650 per hour), accommodation expenses and the operating expenses related to the use of rooms, which will be defined at the time.
SELECTION Adiós, amor Fiction, First FilmDir. Indra Villaseñor AmadorProduction: Guillermo Pérez de la Mora, Manuel Elías López MonroyProduction Companies: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE).After living 10 years as an illegal immigrant, Chuy is deported and has to return to his origins, the little fishing camp in Sinaloa. Drugs and drug trafficking have become the normality and everyone back home lead their lives surrounded by violence. Chano, his first love, is now a respected drug lord. Within this hostile environment, their romance resurfaces and Chuy has to choose between Chano and the life he really wants to have. Buen salvaje FictionDir. Santiago Mohar VolkowProduction: Jonathan Davis ArakelianProduction Company: Edge FilmsTired of the monotony and the lack of adventure in their lives, Jesse and Maggie decide to leave New York and move to a town in northern Mexico, hoping to find the artistic inspiration they long for. Maggie resumes writing her next novel and Jesse hangs out with the locals in town for his next movie. It is there where the fictions that Maggie and Jesse build begin to mix with reality resulting in an inter-cultural cinematographic adventure. La montaña DocumentaryDir. Diego Enrique OsornoProduction: Sandra Godínez, Arturo Sampson, Adán PérezProduction Companies: Detective, Exile ContentMore than 500 years after Columbus voyaged to America, seven indigenous Mayan members of the EZLN sailed the Atlantic Ocean to share the memory of their resistance in the mountains of Chiapas in a search for an awakening of the pandemic-dormant European social movement. A camera aboard the boat documents the sea crossing against the ocean's current. Lluvia Fiction, First FilmDir. Rodrigo García SaizProduction: Paola Cortés, Araceli Velázquez, Alberto MüffelmannProduction Company: Central FilmsRain tells six stories of interrelated characters who transit around Mexico City chased by a never-ending rain, drowned in misery by the hopelessness of life. Each character faces an unexpected encounter that makes them glimpse their own souls. They experience a unique, absurd, luminous, or awkward moment that reveals who they truly are. After these brief events, they lose themselves in the gloom of their daily life. Mi Benjamín DocumentaryDir. Victoria Clay MendozaProduction: Marion d’OrnanoProduction Company: CIMAThis is the story of Benjamin Pech, Etoile dancer of the Paris Opera, and the last year of his career. It is a story about the decay of his body and the end of his career as a dancer. It is the elegant way in which he says goodbye to the stage and in a certain way to his athletic body as he is injured and will never be able to jump again. Sueño mexicano FictionDir. Laura PlancarteProduction: Laura Plancarte, Iván TrujilloProduction Companies: LP Films, TV UNAMMalena had her tubes tied after an abusive relationship. She fled to Mexico City seeking a better life but lost custody of her children. Today she has a new partner and is finishing her house where she dreams of living with her children and a new baby. She needs IVF if she is to get a second chance. If she gets a second chance, she is determined to quit her job as a domestic worker and return home to set up a business and have the family she always dreamt of. Tzofo Documentary, First FilmDir. Salvador MartínezProduction: Salvador MartínezProduction Company: Películas EnramadaAmid countless personal battles, Juliana, an Otomí farmer and cook, in deep introspection obtains one of the best harvests of her life: the triumph of herself.
Adiós, amor Fiction, First FilmDir. Indra Villaseñor AmadorProduction: Guillermo Pérez de la Mora, Manuel Elías López MonroyProduction Companies: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE).After living 10 years as an illegal immigrant, Chuy is deported and has to return to his origins, the little fishing camp in Sinaloa. Drugs and drug trafficking have become the normality and everyone back home lead their lives surrounded by violence. Chano, his first love, is now a respected drug lord. Within this hostile environment, their romance resurfaces and Chuy has to choose between Chano and the life he really wants to have.
Buen salvaje FictionDir. Santiago Mohar VolkowProduction: Jonathan Davis ArakelianProduction Company: Edge FilmsTired of the monotony and the lack of adventure in their lives, Jesse and Maggie decide to leave New York and move to a town in northern Mexico, hoping to find the artistic inspiration they long for. Maggie resumes writing her next novel and Jesse hangs out with the locals in town for his next movie. It is there where the fictions that Maggie and Jesse build begin to mix with reality resulting in an inter-cultural cinematographic adventure.
La montaña DocumentaryDir. Diego Enrique OsornoProduction: Sandra Godínez, Arturo Sampson, Adán PérezProduction Companies: Detective, Exile ContentMore than 500 years after Columbus voyaged to America, seven indigenous Mayan members of the EZLN sailed the Atlantic Ocean to share the memory of their resistance in the mountains of Chiapas in a search for an awakening of the pandemic-dormant European social movement. A camera aboard the boat documents the sea crossing against the ocean's current.
Lluvia Fiction, First FilmDir. Rodrigo García SaizProduction: Paola Cortés, Araceli Velázquez, Alberto MüffelmannProduction Company: Central FilmsRain tells six stories of interrelated characters who transit around Mexico City chased by a never-ending rain, drowned in misery by the hopelessness of life. Each character faces an unexpected encounter that makes them glimpse their own souls. They experience a unique, absurd, luminous, or awkward moment that reveals who they truly are. After these brief events, they lose themselves in the gloom of their daily life.
Mi Benjamín DocumentaryDir. Victoria Clay MendozaProduction: Marion d’OrnanoProduction Company: CIMAThis is the story of Benjamin Pech, Etoile dancer of the Paris Opera, and the last year of his career. It is a story about the decay of his body and the end of his career as a dancer. It is the elegant way in which he says goodbye to the stage and in a certain way to his athletic body as he is injured and will never be able to jump again.
Sueño mexicano FictionDir. Laura PlancarteProduction: Laura Plancarte, Iván TrujilloProduction Companies: LP Films, TV UNAMMalena had her tubes tied after an abusive relationship. She fled to Mexico City seeking a better life but lost custody of her children. Today she has a new partner and is finishing her house where she dreams of living with her children and a new baby. She needs IVF if she is to get a second chance. If she gets a second chance, she is determined to quit her job as a domestic worker and return home to set up a business and have the family she always dreamt of.
Tzofo Documentary, First FilmDir. Salvador MartínezProduction: Salvador MartínezProduction Company: Películas EnramadaAmid countless personal battles, Juliana, an Otomí farmer and cook, in deep introspection obtains one of the best harvests of her life: the triumph of herself.
PANEL OF EXPERTS Laurent Cantet After studying photography at the University of Provence in Marseille, Laurent studied film at the IDHEC (Institut Des Hautes Études Cinématographiques) and directed two short films: Tous à la manif (1994) and Jeux de plage (1995), as well as a telefilm for ARTE, Les sanguinaires, in the series 2000 vu par…(1998).Since then, he has directed nine long features films: Ressources humaines (2000 – César award to first film), L’Emploi du temps (2001 – Golden Lion, Cinema of the Present, Venice film festival), Vers le sud (2005), Entre les murs (2008 – Palme d’Or, Cannes film festival), La Fuente (segment of the film 7 días en La Habana), Foxfire, confessions d’un gang de filles (2013), Retour à Ithaque (2014- HUG for Best Deature, The Biarritz Festival Latin America), L’Atelier (2017- Un certain regard, Cannes Film Festival), and Arthur Rambo (2021). Daniela Alatorre Daniela is an award-winning producer and filmmaker with nineteen years of experience in documentary filmmaking and programming. She worked as a producer and programmer for the Morelia International Film Festival for more than 10 years and has been part of the advisory boards of the Ambulante Festival and the Flaherty Film Seminar in New York. Her production credits include 20 short and feature films, including the award-winning feature documentaries El General and Users (d. Natalia Almada), Midnight Family (d. Luke Lorentzen), Vivos (d. Ai Weiwei), and, most recently, A Cop Movie (d. Alonso Ruizpalacios), which premiered at the 2021 Berlinale and received a Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution. Retreat, her first feature documentary as a director, received a special mention and the Ambulante Film Festival prize at the XVII Morelia International Film Festival. In 2017, she co-founded the Mexico City-based production company No Ficción with Elena Fortes and the support of Cinepolis, which she currently co-directs and is dedicated to producing content for multiple platforms, with a focus on documentary and hybrid forms. Claudia G. Covarrubias Mexican filmmaker graduated from the National School of Film Arts (formerly CUEC) and a BA in Communication Sciences. Currently, she is pursuing a master's degree in Documentary Film at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). With German filmmaker Doris Dörrie, she studied at the Creative Writing Workshop in Berlin and actor's direction with Argentinean director Natalia Smirnoff. Furthermore, she completed a specialization in documentary film at the Filmart Center in Serbia and in Content Development at the Universidad Javeriana in Colombia.Claudia has directed and produced feature films, documentary series, short films, and advertising. Her projects were exhibited at festivals in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, the United States, Germany, and the UK. During her career as a filmmaker, she has participated in screenwriting and project development workshops at the Mexican Institute of Cinematography, and DocsMx Documentary Film Festival. She won first place in the Escribe Cine A.C. Screenwriting Tournament and was a finalist in the Guanajuato International Film Festival's screenwriting contest. She was awarded three times by the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA).She is a founder member of Cine Bajo el Cielo, a civil organization that promotes the creation and exhibition of films with social and gender perspective in rural and urban communities in Mexico. She is currently Director of Production and Marketing at the Estudios Churubusco Azteca, a prestigious company in film industry with more than seventy years of experience. Mathilde Henrot CEO and Co-founder of Festival Scope & Festival Scope Pro. Born in 1975, with a diploma from HEC Business School, INALCO (B.A. in Chinese), Paris X (B.A in Philosophy) and Paris II (LLM in Literary and Artistic Copyright Law), Mathilde worked 8 years for MK2 as Director of Sales, also handling acquisitions.In 2010, together with Alessandro Raja, she founded Festival Scope Pro ( pro.festivalscope.com ),the benchmark online service for film professionals allowing them to watch on-demandthe films frommore than 150 of the most prestigious international film festivals and markets. Festival Scope( www.festivalscope.com ), launched by the duo in 2016, focuses on festival's catch up screeningsfor an audience of film lovers worldwide.She founded also Maharaja Films, production company which lineup includes The Strife of Love in a Dream directed by Camille Henrot, recipient of the Biennale Silver Lion in 2013 for Grosse Fatigue; Smuggler's Songs directed by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Jean Vigo Prize in 2011, Locarno Official Competition 2011; Alps, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, Venice Official Competition 2011 - Best Screenplay and Saturday, directed by Camille Henrot (Palais de Tokyo Carte Blanche October 2017).Since 2012 she has curated the Kinoscope program of the Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Since 2018 she has been a member of the Selection Committee of the Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland). She has been a member of the Selection Committee of the Villa Medici Film Festival (Italy) since 2022. Alessandro Raja CEO and co-founder of Festival Scope & Festival Scope Pro. After completing a degree at Bocconi University in Milan, he went on to work within various segments of the film industry, ranging from international sales and acquisitions –Celluloid Dreams (Paris, 2005-2009), Coproduction Office (Paris, 2004), distribution – Artificial Eye (London, 2000-2003) to exhibition – The Everyman (London, 1999-2000).In 2010, together with Mathilde Henrot, he founded Festival Scope Pro ( pro.festivalscope.com ), the benchmark online service for film professionals allowing them to watch on-demand films from more than 150 of the most prestigious international film festivals and markets. Festival Scope ( www.festivalscope.com ), launched by the duo in 2016, focuses on the festival's catch up screenings for an audience of film lovers worldwide.Alessandro Raja is also a festival programmer, notably for the Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia and Herzegovina) since 2012. Patricia Riggen Patricia Riggen, a native of Guadalajara, Jalisco, has developed her successful career in film and television mainly in the United States, where she works for the largest film studios and television platforms. She is considered the number one Latina director in the US due to the box office success of her films. Her most recent television work can be seen in the limited series Dopesick, starring Michael Keaton, which she directed alongside Barry Levinson and which garnered 14 Emmy nominations in 2022. She also directed three episodes of the acclaimed Amazon Prime action series, Jack Ryan. She has directed pilots and episodes for Fox, CBS, Blumhouse, Disney, and Apple.Riggen has directed several feature films, including The 33, about the trapped Chilean miners, starring Antonio Banderas and Juliette Binoche; Miracles from Heaven, with Jennifer Garner and Queen Latifah, and the teen musical Lemonade Mouth, for which she received a nomination from the Director's Guild of America. Her first feature film, Under the Same Moon, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, broke box office records for a film in Spanish in the United States and is considered a classic for Latino audiences in the US.Riggen started her career precisely at the Sundance Film Festival, where her documentary Family Portrait won the Jury Prize. Her first narrative short film The Cornfield won the Student Oscar and the Mexican Academy Award. Riggen studied film directing at Columbia University in NY. Before that she worked as an executive for the Mexican Film Institute’s Short Film Department. She currently resides in Los Angeles. Kyzza Terrazas Writer and filmmaker, Kyzza Terrazas was born in Nairobi, Kenia, in 1977, of Mexican parents and has lived in Mexico most of his life. He holds an undergraduate degree in philosophy from UNAM and an MFA in film from Columbia University, where he graduated with Matapájaros, a short film shot in NYC with Mexican immigrants. He was published two books of short stories: El primer ojo (1997) and Cumbia y desaparecer (2010). He was head of development for Canana Films and has executive produced several features including Drama/Mex, Cochochi, Voy-a-explotar, She doesn´t Want to Sleep Alone and Los adioses (The Eternal Feminine). From 2010 to 2011 he was head of Archivo Memoria of Cineteca Nacional, an archive of orphan, amateur, and family films. For such project, he did Carta al ingeniero, a short made with footage from his grandfather´s film archive. El lenguaje de los machetes (Machete Language), his first feature film as writer/ director, premiered in 2011 at the Critic’s Week of the Venice Film Festival. It screened in festivals worldwide, and won, among others, the New Horizons award at the Whistler International Film Festival, in Canada, and the prize of the jury at the Cartagena Film Festival. His second feature Somos lengua is a documentary about hip-hop in Mexico, which premiered at FICUNAM in 2016, where it won two awards, and was released commercially in Mexico. Bayoneta, his third feature, is a film set in the boxing world; it is a co-production between Mexico and Finland and premiered at the Rome Film Festival in 2018; it won a best directing award at the Málaga Film Festival and was nominated for 6 Ariel awards. Alongside Gael García Bernal and Jorge Dorantes, he is created, wrote and producer for Aquí en la tierra (seasons 1 and 2). He was the head writer and executive producer for Todo va a estar bien (Netflix), created and directed by Diego Luna, and is the executive producer for Pan y circo (Amazon). He is currently head of development and creative production at La Corriente del Golfo.
Laurent Cantet After studying photography at the University of Provence in Marseille, Laurent studied film at the IDHEC (Institut Des Hautes Études Cinématographiques) and directed two short films: Tous à la manif (1994) and Jeux de plage (1995), as well as a telefilm for ARTE, Les sanguinaires, in the series 2000 vu par…(1998).Since then, he has directed nine long features films: Ressources humaines (2000 – César award to first film), L’Emploi du temps (2001 – Golden Lion, Cinema of the Present, Venice film festival), Vers le sud (2005), Entre les murs (2008 – Palme d’Or, Cannes film festival), La Fuente (segment of the film 7 días en La Habana), Foxfire, confessions d’un gang de filles (2013), Retour à Ithaque (2014- HUG for Best Deature, The Biarritz Festival Latin America), L’Atelier (2017- Un certain regard, Cannes Film Festival), and Arthur Rambo (2021).
Daniela Alatorre Daniela is an award-winning producer and filmmaker with nineteen years of experience in documentary filmmaking and programming. She worked as a producer and programmer for the Morelia International Film Festival for more than 10 years and has been part of the advisory boards of the Ambulante Festival and the Flaherty Film Seminar in New York. Her production credits include 20 short and feature films, including the award-winning feature documentaries El General and Users (d. Natalia Almada), Midnight Family (d. Luke Lorentzen), Vivos (d. Ai Weiwei), and, most recently, A Cop Movie (d. Alonso Ruizpalacios), which premiered at the 2021 Berlinale and received a Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution. Retreat, her first feature documentary as a director, received a special mention and the Ambulante Film Festival prize at the XVII Morelia International Film Festival. In 2017, she co-founded the Mexico City-based production company No Ficción with Elena Fortes and the support of Cinepolis, which she currently co-directs and is dedicated to producing content for multiple platforms, with a focus on documentary and hybrid forms.
Claudia G. Covarrubias Mexican filmmaker graduated from the National School of Film Arts (formerly CUEC) and a BA in Communication Sciences. Currently, she is pursuing a master's degree in Documentary Film at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). With German filmmaker Doris Dörrie, she studied at the Creative Writing Workshop in Berlin and actor's direction with Argentinean director Natalia Smirnoff. Furthermore, she completed a specialization in documentary film at the Filmart Center in Serbia and in Content Development at the Universidad Javeriana in Colombia.Claudia has directed and produced feature films, documentary series, short films, and advertising. Her projects were exhibited at festivals in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, the United States, Germany, and the UK. During her career as a filmmaker, she has participated in screenwriting and project development workshops at the Mexican Institute of Cinematography, and DocsMx Documentary Film Festival. She won first place in the Escribe Cine A.C. Screenwriting Tournament and was a finalist in the Guanajuato International Film Festival's screenwriting contest. She was awarded three times by the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA).She is a founder member of Cine Bajo el Cielo, a civil organization that promotes the creation and exhibition of films with social and gender perspective in rural and urban communities in Mexico. She is currently Director of Production and Marketing at the Estudios Churubusco Azteca, a prestigious company in film industry with more than seventy years of experience.
Mathilde Henrot CEO and Co-founder of Festival Scope & Festival Scope Pro. Born in 1975, with a diploma from HEC Business School, INALCO (B.A. in Chinese), Paris X (B.A in Philosophy) and Paris II (LLM in Literary and Artistic Copyright Law), Mathilde worked 8 years for MK2 as Director of Sales, also handling acquisitions.In 2010, together with Alessandro Raja, she founded Festival Scope Pro ( pro.festivalscope.com ),the benchmark online service for film professionals allowing them to watch on-demandthe films frommore than 150 of the most prestigious international film festivals and markets. Festival Scope( www.festivalscope.com ), launched by the duo in 2016, focuses on festival's catch up screeningsfor an audience of film lovers worldwide.She founded also Maharaja Films, production company which lineup includes The Strife of Love in a Dream directed by Camille Henrot, recipient of the Biennale Silver Lion in 2013 for Grosse Fatigue; Smuggler's Songs directed by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Jean Vigo Prize in 2011, Locarno Official Competition 2011; Alps, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, Venice Official Competition 2011 - Best Screenplay and Saturday, directed by Camille Henrot (Palais de Tokyo Carte Blanche October 2017).Since 2012 she has curated the Kinoscope program of the Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Since 2018 she has been a member of the Selection Committee of the Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland). She has been a member of the Selection Committee of the Villa Medici Film Festival (Italy) since 2022.
Alessandro Raja CEO and co-founder of Festival Scope & Festival Scope Pro. After completing a degree at Bocconi University in Milan, he went on to work within various segments of the film industry, ranging from international sales and acquisitions –Celluloid Dreams (Paris, 2005-2009), Coproduction Office (Paris, 2004), distribution – Artificial Eye (London, 2000-2003) to exhibition – The Everyman (London, 1999-2000).In 2010, together with Mathilde Henrot, he founded Festival Scope Pro ( pro.festivalscope.com ), the benchmark online service for film professionals allowing them to watch on-demand films from more than 150 of the most prestigious international film festivals and markets. Festival Scope ( www.festivalscope.com ), launched by the duo in 2016, focuses on the festival's catch up screenings for an audience of film lovers worldwide.Alessandro Raja is also a festival programmer, notably for the Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia and Herzegovina) since 2012.
Patricia Riggen Patricia Riggen, a native of Guadalajara, Jalisco, has developed her successful career in film and television mainly in the United States, where she works for the largest film studios and television platforms. She is considered the number one Latina director in the US due to the box office success of her films. Her most recent television work can be seen in the limited series Dopesick, starring Michael Keaton, which she directed alongside Barry Levinson and which garnered 14 Emmy nominations in 2022. She also directed three episodes of the acclaimed Amazon Prime action series, Jack Ryan. She has directed pilots and episodes for Fox, CBS, Blumhouse, Disney, and Apple.Riggen has directed several feature films, including The 33, about the trapped Chilean miners, starring Antonio Banderas and Juliette Binoche; Miracles from Heaven, with Jennifer Garner and Queen Latifah, and the teen musical Lemonade Mouth, for which she received a nomination from the Director's Guild of America. Her first feature film, Under the Same Moon, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, broke box office records for a film in Spanish in the United States and is considered a classic for Latino audiences in the US.Riggen started her career precisely at the Sundance Film Festival, where her documentary Family Portrait won the Jury Prize. Her first narrative short film The Cornfield won the Student Oscar and the Mexican Academy Award. Riggen studied film directing at Columbia University in NY. Before that she worked as an executive for the Mexican Film Institute’s Short Film Department. She currently resides in Los Angeles.
Kyzza Terrazas Writer and filmmaker, Kyzza Terrazas was born in Nairobi, Kenia, in 1977, of Mexican parents and has lived in Mexico most of his life. He holds an undergraduate degree in philosophy from UNAM and an MFA in film from Columbia University, where he graduated with Matapájaros, a short film shot in NYC with Mexican immigrants. He was published two books of short stories: El primer ojo (1997) and Cumbia y desaparecer (2010). He was head of development for Canana Films and has executive produced several features including Drama/Mex, Cochochi, Voy-a-explotar, She doesn´t Want to Sleep Alone and Los adioses (The Eternal Feminine). From 2010 to 2011 he was head of Archivo Memoria of Cineteca Nacional, an archive of orphan, amateur, and family films. For such project, he did Carta al ingeniero, a short made with footage from his grandfather´s film archive. El lenguaje de los machetes (Machete Language), his first feature film as writer/ director, premiered in 2011 at the Critic’s Week of the Venice Film Festival. It screened in festivals worldwide, and won, among others, the New Horizons award at the Whistler International Film Festival, in Canada, and the prize of the jury at the Cartagena Film Festival. His second feature Somos lengua is a documentary about hip-hop in Mexico, which premiered at FICUNAM in 2016, where it won two awards, and was released commercially in Mexico. Bayoneta, his third feature, is a film set in the boxing world; it is a co-production between Mexico and Finland and premiered at the Rome Film Festival in 2018; it won a best directing award at the Málaga Film Festival and was nominated for 6 Ariel awards. Alongside Gael García Bernal and Jorge Dorantes, he is created, wrote and producer for Aquí en la tierra (seasons 1 and 2). He was the head writer and executive producer for Todo va a estar bien (Netflix), created and directed by Diego Luna, and is the executive producer for Pan y circo (Amazon). He is currently head of development and creative production at La Corriente del Golfo.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The José María Riba Award bestowed by Cinépolis Distribución and Profest 2022 consists in a cash incentive of $300,000 MXN ($150,000 from each contributor) destined to post-production services and/or promotion. This incentive will be awarded to one selected project by the international experts’ panel. The amount offered by Cinépolis Distribution will be delivered no later than June 2023.The José María Riba Award winner will also receive from the specialized information web portal LatAm cinema.com a promotional campaign, which includes an advertising page in one of the magazine’s numbers, as well as a communication strategies counseling with an approximate value of USD$1,500. To the same project, Icunacury Acosta & Co. offers three months of accompaniment in public relations, with an approximate cost of $75,000 MXN. This period will be established with the production team and must be previous to any distribution commitment deal.Estudios Churubusco will award one project with $1,000,000 MXN in post-production and TXH sound services. The support does not include materials, operators and Dolby license. It is valid for two years, starting from the date granted. This award will be awarded by the international experts’ panel.The post-production studio Splendor Omnia will give an award consisting in one week of sound mix and another one of color correction, with an approximated value of $283,000 MXN. The support does not include technician’s fees ($650 per hour), accommodation expenses and the operating expenses related to the use of rooms, which will be defined at the time.
