The Lau Haizetara Documentary Coproduction Forum of San Sebastian and the Preciosa Media distribution company have renewed their collaboration agreement with the aim of continuing to boost and consolidate their backing of the documentary industry. For the second consecutive year, the distribution company will grant the Distribution, Festival Route and Screen consultancy prize consisting of 4 hours of online consultancy.
The aim of this initiative is to offer the best commercial distribution strategy and to define the best internationalization route for the winning project.
Claudia Rodríguez, representing Preciosa Media, will attend the pitching sessions which will take place on 25 September in Tabakalera (San Sebastián). She will assess the project’s state (advanced development, pre-production or production state), its narrative structure and the audience at which it is aimed. Preciosa Media considers it important that the project has an international approach which is of interest to Latin American audiences.
PRECIOSA MEDIA is a company devoted to the distribution, alliances and financing of co-productions and media consultancy. It establishes connections and alliances between independent producers, channels and platforms in Latin America and Europe, especially in the documentary and animation genres. Preciosa Media believes in audiovisual projects with a social, educational and entertaining approach, which are original and have a creative and enriching point of view.
The project “IF I DIE” by Esther Vital and Ana Fernández Saiz (Spain-Brazil) won the prize at the last edition of the forum. It is a documentary about the true-life case of Inés, an opponent of the Brazilian dictatorship who was kidnapped and tortured for 96 days in 1971 in the so-called “House of Death”, one of the Brazilian dictatorship’s harshest clandestine torture centres. She was the only prisoner who was able to get out alive and tell her story. She spent years publicising the abuses, with the help of her sisters, journalists, friends and lawyers.
The winner of this edition will be made known during the prize-giving held on Wednesday 25 September 2024 at the Kursaal Congress Centre.
More information: www.lauhaizetara.eu
