10 Films Vie for WIP LatAm, Europa Awards at San Sebastián — SkimNews
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- San Sebastián Film Festival selected 10 projects for its WIP Latam (6) and WIP Europa (4) showcases, with winners receiving post-production services, English-Spanish DCP subtitling and distribution in Spain.
- Tatiana Huezo's "Galerna" and Juan Sebastián Mesa's multi-country co-production "Lovers Go Home!" headline the Latam slate alongside debuts from Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, and Argentina.
- Val Jashari (Kosovo/Montenegro) and Mónica Lima (Portugal) anchor the Europa competition, joined by titles from Turkey and Croatia-Poland.
- Selection committee member Javier Martin disclosed that only 30% of submissions came from women directors, and singled out Mexico, Brazil and Colombia as countries in a "remarkable creative moment."
- The EGEDA Platino Industria Award of €30,000 ($34,466) goes to the lead producer of the winning Latam film, with WIP Latam sponsors including Dolby, A Contracorriente Films and Deluxe Content Services Spain.
- Argentine projects are increasingly reliant on collaborative co-production models as filmmakers "scale back" ambitions amid the country's current circumstances, Martin noted.
- WIP Latam, created in 2020, has previously propelled films to New Directors, the Berlinale and San Sebastián's own competition sections.
Why it matters: These awards package the full finishing fund a small film needs—post-production, subtitling, Spanish distribution—to cross the finish line, making them a real career catalyst: prior winners premiered at the Berlinale and New Directors. With only 30% of submissions from women directors, the Latam slate's gender skew remains a structural pipeline problem the festival has yet to solve.
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