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Costa Rica’s Media Market and Film Festival Mark New Milestones: Main Takeaways
Costa Rica’s inaugural Media Market and its Film Festival, now on its 13th edition, result in promising partnerships, signal a united continent.
The Costa Rica Media Market(CRMM) not only met its targets but surpassed them while the film festival celebrated its first female director with filmmaker Patricia Velásquez at the helm, who fostered more parity in its programming. This very philosophy, which at first can seem counterintuitive when talking about highly-stressful film productions, makes the country such a great contender to host them: Local business owners and crews are clear-headed, highly adaptable and eager to help to the best of their ability. For L.A.-based producers Tom Donahue of Creative Chaos (“Mafia Spies”) and Arnon Manor of Chemical Soup (“Quarter”), visiting the resorts in the Guanacaste region inspired them to team up on a project set in one of them.
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