Quality and diversity are notable in the selection of projects in the forthcoming 13th edition of the Lau Haizetara Documentary Co-Production Forum

The large number of projects received and their diversity show the strength of this forum, which reaches its thirteenth edition this year.

After the committee’s evaluation, 12 projects have been chosen to participate in the forthcoming edition on the 26th, 27th and 28th September 2017, within the framework of the 65th San Sebastian Film Festival. 
There will be seven countries represented in twelve feature-length projects this year:

BREAKPOINT, A COUNTER HISTORY OF PROGRESS
Producer: Cinephage
Director: Jean-Robert Viallet
Nationality:  France
PANAMA AL BROWN, A MYSTERIOUS FORCE
Producer: Bachibouzouk
Director: Jacques Goldstein
Nationality: France
EL SONIDO DEL “CRACK”
Producer: Irusoin S.L-Mirokutana.Koop
Director: Ander Iriarte Alvarez
Nationality: Spain
PHOTOGRAPH-WOMEN
Producer: Tiresias Films-Kino Produzioni
Director: Ester Sparatore
Nationality: France-Italy
GET SETTLED!
Producer: Karin Wegsjö Produktion
Director: Karin Wegsjö
Nationality: Sweden
ROL&ROL
Producer: Turanga Films S.L.U.-Revolution Films S.L.
Director: Chus Gutiérrez
Nationality: Spain
Mr. RIPLEY, EL ARTE DE LA ESTAFA
Producer: Marmoka Films
Director: Gentzane Martínez de Osaba – Alejandro García de Vicuña
Nationality: Spain
TOLYATTI ADRIFT
Producer: BoogalooFilms
Director: Laura Sisteró
Nationality: Spain
NOMBRE EN CLAVE: MAVERICK
Producer: Contrasentido PC – Zinema Varietes
Director: Patxi Basabe
Nationality: Spain
PRISONERS WITHOUT PRISON (*)
Producer: Mov(i)e ON
Director: Verjana Abazaj
Nationality: Albania
NOODLE DREAM
Producer: 24 images – Dynamic Communication Company
Director: HOU Ning
Nationality: France-China
 I AM NOT YOUR SLAVE (*)
Producer: Contramedia Films-AlemDoc
Director: Fátima Subeh – Edu Marín
Nationality: Spain

(*) This project has participated in the last FIPA’s edition (Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels, Biarritz-France)

The selected projects will participate in the workshops that will take place in two intensive days before the forum (26th and 27th September) and in which Catherine Ulmer and Ventura Durall will once again be the tutors entrusted with providing the appropriate tools to perfect both pitching and one-to-one meetings which the producers will have on 28th September in the Kursaal Congress Centre in San Sebastián.

In addition, the panel of Commissioning Editors, more international in its scope than ever, already has the earliest confirmed attendees and will be made up of television companies, sales agents and international distributors such as EITB – Aintzane Pérez del Palomar (Co-production Commissioning Editor) // SVT – Axel Arnö (Commissioning Editor) // TREELINE DISTRIBUTION – Elena Mera Dios (International Business) // RADIO CANADA – Jean Pelletier (Senior Director-TV News Information) // LINK TV – Lorraine Hess (Programming Consultant), among others.

Over the next few weeks the parallel activities will be announced. These will take place within the same framework and will aim to bring the audience closer to the cinematographic and cultural reality of Europe. Likewise, inscriptions are open until 22nd September to attend as a member of the audience for the presentation of the projects and to meet accredited professionals from the audiovisual and cinematographic sector.

More information is available on our website: www.lauhaizetara.eu