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Tribeca, Guadalajara, Tallinn, Rio, Sanfic Execs Map Out How Festivals Are Evolving in a Post-Pandemic Context (EXCLUSIVE)
Among key issues: Ever-shifting fest goalposts, connecting with local industries, hiking films’ visibility and reaching out to new audiences.
Decimated in many cases by public-sector cuts or COVID-19, they haven’t stopped evolving after the pandemic as they hone new priorities, react to both a sometimes volatile political context and the state of cinemagoing worldwide if a round table at Chile’s Sanfic Industria last week, titled Film Festivals’ Present and Future, was anything to go by. Now, and in part because of increasing co-production, Rio can “see the possibility of attracting young audiences who attend to see Latin American films,” added Santiago, in Chile for the first time to catch movies. Meanwhile, with more ambitious productions often still whammied by the pandemic, local pic market shares in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico stood in 2023 at 7.6%, 3.2%, 3.1%, 1.2% and 4%, according to “Focus.” Hardly surprisingly, one of the biggest imperatives of all three Latin American events is to showcase homegrown fare.
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