Transnational Film Financing in the Hispanic World
This one-day symposium, organised by the Department of Spanish, Portuguese
and Latin American Studies of the University of Leeds, will take place on
Monday 29 June 2009 at the Leeds Humanities Research Institute of the
University of Leeds. It will take as its focus the wide number of film financing
initiatives that are available to so-called Hispanic countries (Spain, Portugal
and Latin America) and the impact that such initiatives are having on the
regions' film industries. It will bring together for the first time scholars working
on, among other financing strategies, IBERMEDIA and Cine en Construcción,
and it will include "Case Studies" of the use made of such initiatives by
national cinemas and their outcomes.
As well as shedding light on how such financing strategies work in a practical
sense, the symposium will address the following questions:
. What place do initiatives such as IBERMEDIA and Cine en
Construcción have within national film industries, many of which have their
own, albeit limited local sources of support?
. What is the impact (perceived or otherwise) on the scripts, choices
of cast and film aesthetics of films supported by such initiatives?
. Have such initiatives helped to forge a cinema that is instantly
recognisable as "Hispanic"?
Schedule
9:30-10 Welcome and Introduction (Stephanie Dennison)
10am -1pm Panel One: Unpacking the strategies
Libia Villazana, Economics and Ideologies: Imperatives in Latin American
International Film Co-operations
Tamara Falicov, Programa Ibermedia: Co-productions and the Cultural Politics
of Constructing an Ibero-American Audio-Visual Space
Mar Binimelis, The geopolitics of Spanish co-productions with Latin America:
an analysis of their presence in international film festivals.
Nuria Triana-Toribio, Cine en construcción: Building Latin American Cinema in
Europe
1pm-2pm lunch (sandwich lunch provided in LHRI)
2pm-5pm Panel Two: Case Studies
Deborah Shaw, The Three Amigos: (Trans)national Identities, Auteurism and
the Marketplace
Sarah Barrow, Film Financing in Peru: the Case of Josué Méndez
Alessandra Meleiro, Brazil: Notes on Finance and Co-productions
Paulo Filipe Monteiro, International Film Financing in Portugal: When, How and
With What Results?
5pm Closing Comments (Stephanie Dennison) followed by wine reception
(Event sponsored by the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, the
Instituto Cervantes and the Instituto Camoes)
For further information, contact [log in to unmask]
Dr Stephanie Dennison
Reader in Brazilian Studies
Dept Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies/ School of Modern
Languages and Cultures University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT England tel ++ 44
113 3433523 fax ++ 44 113 3433523
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