Rv: Issue 017 - December - A blockbuster country

--- El dom, 12/12/10, Location Colombia <lc@locationcolombia.com> escribió: De: Location Colombia <lc@locationcolombia.com> Asunto: Issue 017 - December - A blockbuster country Para: jorgealbertobaron@yahoo.es Fecha: domingo, 12 de diciembre, 2010 20:02 Jacob Edgar, Artistic Director of Putumayo World Music, Visits Colombia Musicologist travels around the country recording for his program Music Voyager Jacob Edgar, Artistic Director of Putumayo, the planet's most popular world music label, and Cumbancha Records, is traveling through Colombia. The researcher will visit six Colombian cities to record outstanding Colombian musicians for his TV program Music Voyager, broadcast in 133 countries on cable, internet, cell phones and even closed-circuit airline channels. It's "a dream come true," he told the Colombian media. Interviews include La 33, Bomba Estéreo, Grupo Niche, Fonseca, Los Niños Vallenatos, La Mojarra Eléctrica, Aterciopelados, J Balvin and Joe Arroyo, who Edgar admires especially. See more >> Bollywood Choreographer Sunny Singh Visits Colombia Film industry executives from India including director Amol Palekar recently visited the country December 3-5, Sunny Singh, one of Bollywood's best known choreographers with more than 50 films under his belt, presented in Bogotá his "Let's Dance Bollywood, Colombia" show in which 60 artists participated in a fusion of traditional Indian rhythms such as bhangra, gidda and kathak with hits from Colombian blockbusters. The 29-year-old artist also presented a dance workshop sponsored by the Friends of India in Colombia Association to introduce Colombians to the film and culture of his country. The choreographer's presentation is another in a series of visits, including a delegation of business executives from over 120 companies and media brokers that took place in October and welcomed celebrities such as actor/director Amol Palekar, known for his films Parallel Folds (Sammantar), And once again, The Square Circle (Daayaraa) and many others. This visit was sponsored by the Colombian Ambassador in India, Juan Alfredo Pinto. These visits suggest the possibility that the Asian film industry might transfer their focus from places like Switzerland and New York to Colombia and try producing on different locations in our country during the first half of 2011. See more >> International Celebrity Critics Present at Film Festival Directed by Victor Gaviria The 11th Santa Fe de Antioquia Film and Video Festival Focuses on French New Wave The Santa Fe de Antioquia Film and Video Festival, unique in Colombia, is scheduled for Dec. 8-12, 2010. Directed by world-class Colombian filmmaker Victor Gaviria, director of The Rose Seller and Sumas y restas, the festival is one of the country's most important, offering hundreds of outdoor screenings in this tiny village high in the mountains of Antioquia, a location featured in countless Colombian productions. In 2011, international guests will include Argentine Eduardo Russo; Harvard University's Haden Guest; and French film critic Nicolás Azalbert (Cahiers du Cinemá). See more >> Colombian Film Commission at the Filmmaker Forum and American Film Market Both events featured a presentation of tax benefits offered by Colombia's international co-production legislation Director of the Colombian Film Commission, Silvia Echeverri, was among the presenters at the recent Film Independent's 2010 Filmmaker Forum in the city of Los Angeles. Colombian representative worked with panelists such as Hans Fraikin of the Quebec Film & Television Council, Sten Iversen of the Montana Film Office, Splinter producer Ted Kroeber, and Aaron Syrett from the North Carolina Film Office, along with moderator Larry Brownell, Executive Director of the Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI), during a presentation entitled "Take Advantage of Domestic and Foreign Tax Incentives", focusing on how government subsidies, tax credits, and discounts are key parts of many productions. Also, for the second year in a row, the CFC attended the American Film Market (AFM) where it set up a stand and participated in the conference organized by Film Production Capital. See more >> Victor Gaviria, Director of the Santa Fe de Antioquia Film and Video Festival Director, screenwriter, poet and author born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. One of the country's best-known directors internationally. His films deal with the difficult social problems of his native city through the construction of stories based on testimonies from the people who lived them first-hand and using these same people as "natural actors". For ten years now, as part of the crew known as the Corporación Festival de Cine de Santa Fe de Antioquia, he has helped organize the festival of the same name as well as the Colombian Film Festival in Medellin. From 1979 to 1985, Gaviria produced a short or feature film every year, many of which won international awards, including Buscando tréboles (1979), La lupa del fin del mundo (1980), Sueño sobre un mantel vacío (1981), El vagón rojo (1982), Los habitantes de la noche (1983), Primavera sobre José Asunción Silva (1983), La vieja guardia (1984), Que pase el aserrador (1985), El tren de las niñas (1985) and Los músicos (1986). In 1986, his film Rodrigo D, No Future was selected for the Cannes Film Festival, and he went on to write the screenplay for the documentary film Historias de Aranjuez and direct Simón el mago (1992) and La vendedora de rosas (1996-1998), one of the most successful Colombian films of all time, which led to another Cannes selection. His next film, Sumas y restas, (2001-2004) won the Garza de Oro for Best Picture and Best Actor at the IX Annual Miami Film Festival and the Best Ibero-American Film award from the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences (ALMA), to name only a few. Johnnie Walker Commercial Shot in Colombia Commercial from the latest global campaign "Walk with Giants" for the Johnnie Walker brand of whisky, inviting you to walk with Colombian businessman Mario Hernández, who "turned leather production into a world-class art". The spot was filmed on the high plains along the highway from Bogotá to Choachí, a small town less than an hour's drive from the Colombian capital, and was produced using strictly Red One technology by Laberinto Producciones (Colombia) on commission from the Latin American affiliate of the British agency Neogama BBH, whose headquarters are located in Sao Paulo. >> Colombian Group Chocquibtown Wins Latin Grammy and is Nominated for Anglo Grammy in 2011 After winning a Latin Grammy for their song 'De donde vengo yo' (Where I'm From), Colombia's Chocquibtown, fusing traditional rhythms from Colombia's Pacific coast with rap and hip hop, was nominated for a 2011 Grammy award. CQT is nominated for Best Latin Rock, Alternative or Urban Album for their CD "Oro" and is up against Robi Draco Rosa's 'Amor Vincit Omnia', 'El Existential' by Grupo Fantasma, 'Bulevar 2000' by Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich+Fussible and '197'7 by Ana Tijoux. "Family! What a blessing! We've been nominated for an Anglo Grammy. Thanks to God," wrote members of the group in their Twitter page. See more >> We've been trying to educate the Swiss about the incredible things happening in the Colombian filmmaking world: in the past 8-10 years, the Colombian film industry has blossomed with support from legislation few people know about but that seems to be having pretty good results. Certain directors who used to work almost exclusively in television have returned to filmmaking. Filmmaking in Colombia, like in most Latin American countries, is, financially speaking, a losing proposition. As one director friend put it: "When I work for TV I get paid; when I make a film, I foot the bill…" Gradually this has changed, incredibly so in Colombia. Of the 23 films we selected, 15 are fiction and of these 15, half were made in less than 14 months… Colombia is well known for its literature, for Botero's paintings, but only the Spaniards seem to have realized that Bogotá is a city with a lot of culture and many intellectuals, and filmmakers too, several of whom, like Sergio Cabrera, have returned to the country and manage to get financing from European producers, which together with Colombian funding, produces films with a particular charm, beloved by audiences and with a very human quality. Jean-Pierre Gontard, Director of Geneva, Switzerland's Filmar en América Latina Festival, speaking on Radio Switzerland International during the festival, which took place Nov. 5-21 and dedicated a special section to Colombian films Emotion Digital Arts Manizales Address: Carrera 25 # 55 b- 150 Phone: (+57) 6 8854858 msalazar@emotion-cd.com www.emotion-cd.com Emotion is a company dedicated to the conception and development of IP transmedia. 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