Industry Academy Latin America The Industry Academy Latin America is an initiative of the Locarno Film Festival, which has organized seven editions within the FICM. It was established as an intensive training program to train and support young professionals in the film industry working in distribution, sales, marketing, exhibition, curation, and programming. The aim is to help them comprehend and tackle the challenges of the independent audiovisual industry in Latin America and globally.Between 2015 and 2022, the Morelia Film Festival had 56 participants from different Latin American countries. In the various editions of the workshop held in Morelia, there was the collaboration of institutions such as IMCINE, Ibermedia Program, Projeto Paradiso, BrLab, LatAm cinema.com.2022Alexandra Zamora – DOC:CO Agencia de Promoción y Distribución, ColombiaBenjamín Romero Salinas – Escuela Nacional de Artes Cinematográficas, UNAM, MéxicoDahlia Sosa Hernández – Muestra Mínima/UNAM, MéxicoDiego Renato Palomino Zea – Festival de Cine de Áncash, PerúFabiola Quintero – La Corriente del Golfo, MéxicoFarid Rodríguez Rivero – Lima Alterna Festival Internacional de Cine, PerúJuan Pedro Agurcia – Tercer Cine, HondurasMauricio Rosas Hernández – Artegios Distribución, MéxicoRichard Nieto Fernández – Habitantes del Cine, Venezuela2021Irene Beatriz Franco – Ciclo Independiente, ArgentinaZulema Sánchez – Productora independiente, MéxicoIsabel Moncada Kerlow – Freelancer, MéxicoRoberto Barrios Bueno – Nocine Films / Bolivia Lab, BoliviaCarlos Salvatierra – Al Este Film Festival / El Ekran, PerúAna Patricia Ventura González - Machete Cine, MéxicoTamara Ganhito – Vitrine Filmes, BrasilAlfredo Ruiz Arias – ESCINE, México2019Alejandro Gómez Marín – Centro Colombo Americano de Medellín, ColombiaAna Pía Quintana Enciso – Festival Puy ta Kuxlejaltic, Foro Kinoki, MéxicoErnesto Martínez Agraz – Cine Tonalá, MéxicoMaria Beatriz Estevão de Oliveira Vilela – Imovision, BrasilMaría Fernanda Carvajal Alpízar – Cinetitlán, GuatemalaMiriam García – Human Rights Watch FF, Hamptons International FF, MéxicoPaloma Isabel Cabrera Yáñez – Nort Films, Pimienta Films, Cinema 23, MéxicoVirginia Rico Meneses – Ojo Libre, México2018Alejandra Villalba García – Salón de belleza, MéxicoFacundo Lema – BAL, ArgentinaIsabel Rojas – OaxacaCine, MéxicoLeslie Alejandra Borsani Fernández – Cine La Mina, MéxicoLouise Riousse – IMCINE, MéxicoMiguel Ángel Mendoza Barrón – Ecocinema, MéxicoPaula Amor – La Corriente del Golfo, MéxicoPriscila Andrade – Mutante Cine / ICAU, Uruguay2017Angela Guerrero Arias – Canana, MéxicoAndrés Jiménez Suárez – FICCI, ColombiaTomás Astudillo – Vaivem, EcuadorAdriana Agudelo Moreno – Mutokino, ColombiaLariza Melo Preciado – Floox Media Planning, MéxicoEdher Campos – Machete, MéxicoDiego Alfonso Torres Méndez – Cine Móvil Toto, MéxicoRegina Serratos Varela – Piano Distribución, México2016Paola Arriaga Guerrero – ND Mantarraya, MéxicoDolores Díaz-González García – La Casa del Cine, MéxicoRita Falcón – Kino Bureau, ArgentinaDavid Herrera – Fahrenheit Distribución, ColombiaMaría Josefina Parra Acuña – FICBAQ, ColombiaTalía Pedraza Ávila – Artegios Distribución, MéxicoMaría Fernanda Rio Armesilla – Sala Nueve, MéxicoLuis Miguel Sánchez Cruz – Cinépolis Klic, MéxicoBruno Adrián Zárate Castillo – Cine Tonalá, México2015Abraham González Ruiz – ND Mantarraya, MéxicoAndrea Castex – Piano Distribución, MéxicoJosé Luis Mejía Razo – Cinépolis, MéxicoJuan Patricio Riveroll – Artegios Distribución, MéxicoLarissa Vega Gil – Filmin Latino, MéxicoPedro Segura Bernal – La Ola, México
