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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.

2022

  1. Alexandra Zamora – DOC:CO Agencia de Promoción y Distribución, Colombia
  2. Benjamín Romero Salinas – Escuela Nacional de Artes Cinematográficas, UNAM, México
  3. Dahlia Sosa Hernández – Muestra Mínima/UNAM, México
  4. Diego Renato Palomino Zea – Festival de Cine de Áncash, Perú
  5. Fabiola Quintero – La Corriente del Golfo, México
  6. Farid Rodríguez Rivero – Lima Alterna Festival Internacional de Cine, Perú
  7. Juan Pedro Agurcia – Tercer Cine, Honduras
  8. Mauricio Rosas Hernández – Artegios Distribución, México
  9. Richard Nieto Fernández – Habitantes del Cine, Venezuela

2021

  1. Irene Beatriz Franco – Ciclo Independiente, Argentina
  2. Zulema Sánchez – Productora independiente, México
  3. Isabel Moncada Kerlow – Freelancer, México
  4. Roberto Barrios Bueno – Nocine Films / Bolivia Lab, Bolivia
  5. Carlos Salvatierra – Al Este Film Festival / El Ekran, Perú
  6. Ana Patricia Ventura González - Machete Cine, México
  7. Tamara Ganhito – Vitrine Filmes, Brasil
  8. Alfredo Ruiz Arias – ESCINE, México

2019

  1. Alejandro Gómez Marín – Centro Colombo Americano de Medellín, Colombia
  2. Ana Pía Quintana Enciso – Festival Puy ta Kuxlejaltic, Foro Kinoki, México
  3. Ernesto Martínez Agraz – Cine Tonalá, México
  4. Maria Beatriz Estevão de Oliveira Vilela –  Imovision, Brasil
  5. María Fernanda Carvajal Alpízar – Cinetitlán, Guatemala
  6. Miriam García – Human Rights Watch FF, Hamptons International FF, México
  7. Paloma Isabel Cabrera Yáñez – Nort Films, Pimienta Films, Cinema 23, México
  8. Virginia Rico Meneses – Ojo Libre, México

2018

  1. Alejandra Villalba García – Salón de belleza, México
  2. Facundo Lema – BAL, Argentina
  3. Isabel Rojas – OaxacaCine, México
  4. Leslie Alejandra Borsani Fernández – Cine La Mina, México
  5. Louise Riousse – IMCINE, México
  6. Miguel Ángel Mendoza Barrón – Ecocinema, México
  7. Paula Amor – La Corriente del Golfo, México
  8. Priscila Andrade – Mutante Cine / ICAU, Uruguay

2017

  1. Angela Guerrero Arias – Canana, México
  2. Andrés Jiménez Suárez – FICCI, Colombia
  3. Tomás Astudillo – Vaivem, Ecuador
  4. Adriana Agudelo Moreno – Mutokino, Colombia
  5. Lariza Melo Preciado – Floox Media Planning, México
  6. Edher Campos – Machete, México
  7. Diego Alfonso Torres Méndez – Cine Móvil Toto, México
  8. Regina Serratos Varela – Piano Distribución, México

2016

  1. Paola Arriaga Guerrero – ND Mantarraya, México
  2. Dolores Díaz-González García – La Casa del Cine, México
  3. Rita Falcón – Kino Bureau, Argentina
  4. David Herrera – Fahrenheit Distribución, Colombia
  5. María Josefina Parra Acuña – FICBAQ, Colombia
  6. Talía Pedraza Ávila – Artegios Distribución, México
  7. María Fernanda Rio Armesilla – Sala Nueve, México
  8. Luis Miguel Sánchez Cruz – Cinépolis Klic, México
  9. Bruno Adrián Zárate Castillo – Cine Tonalá, México

2015

  1. Abraham González Ruiz – ND Mantarraya, México
  2. Andrea Castex – Piano Distribución, México
  3. José Luis Mejía Razo – Cinépolis, México
  4. Juan Patricio Riveroll – Artegios Distribución, México
  5. Larissa Vega Gil – Filmin Latino, México
  6. Pedro Segura Bernal – La Ola, México