Category: Lau Haizetara 2022

A broad and outstanding panel of Commissioning Editors will be present at the forthcoming edition of the San Sebastián Lau Haizetara Documentary Co-Production Forum

One week before the 18th edition of the LAU HAIZETARA Documentary Co-Production Forum of San Sebastián gets under way, we can reveal some of the Commissioning Editors who will be present at this event which, year after year, welcomes more and more professionals from the cinema industry linked to the documentary genre. (more…)

THE LAU HAIZETARA DOCUMENTARY FORUM OF SAN SEBASTIAN CONFIRMS CATHERINE ULMER AND VENTURA DURALL AS TUTORS FOR THE FORTHCOMING EDITION

Both of them will once again be responsible for the pitching preparation workshops, a training activity prior to the forum which will be held on 19th and 20th September in the Kutxa rooms located inside Tabakalera (International Centre for Contemporary Culture in San Sebastián). The thematic and narrative diversity that characterises documentaries will be reflected in the projects taking part in said workshops. (more…)

DOCSBARCELONA, THE BIARRITZ FIPADOC FESTIVAL and PIAF [Federated Independent Audiovisual Producers] MAINTAIN THEIR COLLABORATION AGREEMENTS WITH THE LAU HAIZETARA FORUM OF SAN SEBASTIÁN

These alliances, which have shared and/or complementary aims, are intended to boost the presence of projects in different specialised markets for the documentary genre, thus enabling the completion of their development and financing. As the result of these agreements, both the Biarritz FIPADOC festival and DocsBarcelona will select a project from among the projects participating in the forthcoming LAU HAIZETARA Forum of San Sebastián to participate in the project pitching sessions and the speed meetings held in January and May 2023, respectively. Also, once again, PIAF (Productores Independientes Audiovisuales Federados) , in collaboration with EGEDA (Entidad de Gestión…

IBAIA RECEIVES THE SUPPORT OF ELKARGI AND BOTH INSTITUTIONS WILL INTENSIFY THEIR COLLABORATION

Thanks to this agreement and alongside other measures, the San Sebastian LAU HAIZETARA Documentary Co-Production Forum will increase its prize for the best project to €5,000. (IBAIA-ELKARGI Award).  This collaboration agreed between IBAIA (Association of Independent Audio-Visual Producers of the Basque Country), organiser of the Forum, and ELKARGI, strengthens and underlines the commitment of the financial entity with the Basque audiovisual sector. Over the years, ELKARGI has participated in the financing of a large number of cinema productions with the participation of Basque companies. It has now intensified its efforts and is prepared to offer audiovisual companies financial services…

The documentary co-production Forum Lau Haizetara will include an environmental consultancy prize

IBAIA – Asociación de Productores Audiovisuales Independientes del País Vasco/Association of Independent Audiovisual Producers of the Basque Country, as organiser of the Forum, is aware of the necessary ecological transition in which we find ourselves, and that the audiovisual sector is an inherent part of it, so it has decided it is advantageous to collaborate actively in the unavoidable journey our audiovisual companies must make to achieve that transformation. Bilibin Circular is a circular economy consultancy involved in the transformation process of companies towards sustainability. In the field of the audiovisual sector, it is responsible for the Technical…