In times of anger, love is a beehive... And with this theme embracing its seventeenth edition, Talents Guadalajara, part of Industry and Market of the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG), kicked off its activities in which 43 selected participants and six projects will learn, develop and strengthen their specialties in film through this mentoring program.
This seventeenth edition of Talents Guadalajara, designed to promote emerging film professionals from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, will take place from June 8 to 11 and will be immersed in classes with industry specialists such as Eugenio Caballero, Mónica Vértiz, Ean McNamara, Erick Estrada and Alejandra Márquez Abella.
Ximena Urrutia, director of Industry and Market at FICG, extended a warm welcome to the selected participants and the mentors who will accompany them in their training process, emphasizing how this program, as well as the different activities at the Festival, provide a unique opportunity to strengthen ties in the filmmaking process.
"Enjoy yourselves, have fun and get to know each other, because one thing that always happens at Talents is that you start to generate work teams for the future. And that is very important because, besides, here there are creators from all this part of Latin America and that generates the possibility of forming a 'braid' that can be fundamental for new stories," he said.
Talents Guadalajara is a collaboration with Berlinale Talents, an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival. It is also supported by the International Film and Television School (EICTV) of San Antonio de los Baños and the International Federation of Film Press (FIPRESCI).
In this 40th edition of FICG, the "beehive" of Talents Guadalajara arises at a time when messages of hate are everywhere and the only way to resist them is through love, especially communal and fraternal love, such as that produced in cinema.
MENTORS
Acting | Directing Studio
Alejandra Márquez Abella
Michel Franco
Camera Studio
Enrique Chediak
Manuel Huitrón
Production | Distribution Studio
Eréndira Núñez
Mónica Vértiz
Elena Fortes
Ester Bernal
Talent Press
Erick Estrada
Diego Faraone
Müge Turan
Talent Motion
Leon Fernandez
Ean McNamara
Production Design Studio
Eugenio Caballero
Barbara Enriquez