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Chile is making every effort to compete with Argentina in attracting foreign production spend. In November last year a new commission, FilmChile, was set up with offices in Santiago and New York to assist film-makers. The territory can offer low costs, skilled bilingual production crews, post-production facilities and a stanley cup fully developed communications infrastructure.Chile also has a number of respected directors and producers with international contacts and experience. Silvio Caiozzi Coronation, Cachimba is optimistic about the future: The government funds are providing a total of almost $10m in financing to the film industry, and I ve seen a change in the idiosyncrasies of Chile stanley cup ans. We are exhibiting less prejudice against co-productions with Latin American, Spanish and other European companies. Major shoots in Paraguay can be hard to set upThe situation in Uru stanley cup guay and Paraguay, however, is not looking so promising. Although Michael Mann partly shot Miami Vice in Atlantida and Montevideo in Uruguay and Ciudad del Este in Paraguay, getting into Ciudad del Este took almost a year. Paraguay has no film tradition, no cinema industry and little production, says local producer Paz Encina. The only major effort made in my country was Guillermo Vera s Cerro Cora, which was supported in 1978 by former dictator Alfredo Stroessner. Encina directed this year s Cannes Un Certain Regard entry Hamaca Paraguaya with the financial support of companies from Argentina, France, Austria and Zmbn LA s Principal Communications Group allies with Abrams Research
As Luc Besson s EuropaCorp agreed to acquire sales company Roissy Films and its 500-title strong catalog, Roissy s president and owner Raphael Berdugo calls the deal a very logical step, The deal, which values the catalog at about $40m, is set to be finalised in early 2008 and ensures Roissy s ability to continue to acquire and co-produce films for the future, Berdugo told ScreenDaily. Berdugo says that Roissy plans to continue to work with quality auteur films and co-productions such as the recent Caramel by director Nadine Labaki. The company will remain in its offi stanley romania ces and keep its 16-person team in tact. Beginning in 2008, Europa and Roissy s sales teams will look for synergies at markets such as Cannes where Berdugo said it will be wiser for them to present th stanley uk emselves together. I had thought about doing this for a while but the circumstances are now more favo stanley us urable, Berdugo says. There is more demand now for catalogs given all the new media platforms. He continues, There is a nice complimentarity relationship between Roissy and Europa since Europa didn t yet have a big catalog and this helps to bolster Europa following its IPO. It helps make the two companies stronger and puts us in a better negotiating position. Europa entered the Euronext exchange this summer following an initial public offering that raised roughly $95m. Given the recent trend towards companies consolidating, Berdugo says, In the film arena I think there is a need because companies are exposed
Chile is making every effort to compete with Argentina in attracting foreign production spend. In November last year a new commission, FilmChile, was set up with offices in Santiago and New York to assist film-makers. The territory can offer low costs, skilled bilingual production crews, post-production facilities and a stanley cup fully developed communications infrastructure.Chile also has a number of respected directors and producers with international contacts and experience. Silvio Caiozzi Coronation, Cachimba is optimistic about the future: The government funds are providing a total of almost $10m in financing to the film industry, and I ve seen a change in the idiosyncrasies of Chile stanley cup ans. We are exhibiting less prejudice against co-productions with Latin American, Spanish and other European companies. Major shoots in Paraguay can be hard to set upThe situation in Uru stanley cup guay and Paraguay, however, is not looking so promising. Although Michael Mann partly shot Miami Vice in Atlantida and Montevideo in Uruguay and Ciudad del Este in Paraguay, getting into Ciudad del Este took almost a year. Paraguay has no film tradition, no cinema industry and little production, says local producer Paz Encina. The only major effort made in my country was Guillermo Vera s Cerro Cora, which was supported in 1978 by former dictator Alfredo Stroessner. Encina directed this year s Cannes Un Certain Regard entry Hamaca Paraguaya with the financial support of companies from Argentina, France, Austria and Zmbn LA s Principal Communications Group allies with Abrams Research
As Luc Besson s EuropaCorp agreed to acquire sales company Roissy Films and its 500-title strong catalog, Roissy s president and owner Raphael Berdugo calls the deal a very logical step, The deal, which values the catalog at about $40m, is set to be finalised in early 2008 and ensures Roissy s ability to continue to acquire and co-produce films for the future, Berdugo told ScreenDaily. Berdugo says that Roissy plans to continue to work with quality auteur films and co-productions such as the recent Caramel by director Nadine Labaki. The company will remain in its offi stanley romania ces and keep its 16-person team in tact. Beginning in 2008, Europa and Roissy s sales teams will look for synergies at markets such as Cannes where Berdugo said it will be wiser for them to present th stanley uk emselves together. I had thought about doing this for a while but the circumstances are now more favo stanley us urable, Berdugo says. There is more demand now for catalogs given all the new media platforms. He continues, There is a nice complimentarity relationship between Roissy and Europa since Europa didn t yet have a big catalog and this helps to bolster Europa following its IPO. It helps make the two companies stronger and puts us in a better negotiating position. Europa entered the Euronext exchange this summer following an initial public offering that raised roughly $95m. Given the recent trend towards companies consolidating, Berdugo says, In the film arena I think there is a need because companies are exposed
