The LatAm Content material Market will maintain its inaugural occasion subsequent March in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, bringing collectively regional and world stakeholders within the documentary, nonfiction, and actuality TV business.
Sunny Facet of the Doc, the biggest documentary-focused market on the earth, is partnering on the initiative and can curate the LatAm Content material Market’s pitching periods, a key characteristic of the upcoming occasion. The brand new doc market was introduced Wednesday by the Brazilian delegation at Sunny Facet, which wraps up its 35th version on Thursday in La Rochelle, France.
“Within the schedule of worldwide occasions, there’s a lack of a Latin American market dedicated to non-fiction productions,” famous Fernando Dias, founding father of the LatAm Content material Market and associate within the Brazilian manufacturing firm Grifa. “We’re speaking to numerous gamers, and several other have already indicated their curiosity in coming to Brazil as a result of they know they’ll do enterprise there.”
The LatAm Content material Market will supply pitch periods, keynotes, convention periods, workshops, one-to-one conferences and networking alternatives with an important business gamers, in accordance with a launch. Three thematic pitching periods, organized by Sunny Facet, “will likely be one of many core actions of the occasion.”
“We’re delighted to be contributing our acknowledged experience and world neighborhood to the LatAm Content material Market, with the ambition to ship top quality pitching periods, that are all the time one of many highlights of the Sunny Facet of the Doc,” commented Aurélie Reman, managing director of Sunny Facet. “You will need to assist the variety of our business past borders and foster new enterprise alternatives. This new collaboration goals to spice up and open up a co-production channel between the Americas, Europe and Africa specifically connecting new storytelling and manufacturing expertise to prime business executives. This partnership can be very well timed as Brazil and France will launch cross cultural seasons in 2025.”
The occasion will happen March 10-13, 2025, on the Othon Palace Lodge in Rio de Janeiro, on Copacabana Seaside. The market’s important sponsors will likely be Embratur (the Brazilian Vacationer Board), BRAVI (a nonprofit entity representing unbiased producers), and Go to Rio.
“Positioned at a strategic second as Brazil hosts the United Nations Convention on Local weather Change (COP 30),” a launch stated, “this inaugural version of the market will happen towards a backdrop of worldwide discussions on sustainability and a carbon-neutral financial system, in addition to up to date societal points corresponding to gender equality, racial range, Indigenous communities, and social change – completely reflecting Brazil’s dynamic cultural material.
“The objective of the LatAm Content material Market is twofold: to showcase the vibrancy of the Latin American audiovisual market and to create enterprise alternatives between Latin American business professionals and worldwide producers, distributors, and exhibitors.”
Fernando Dias will function president of the LatAm Content material Market, with Mauricio Dias as vp. In different management positions, Adriana Schwarz will function managing director; Kiko Ribeiro as programming director; Erika Araujo will head up Institutional Affairs, with Tatiana Battaglia Dias main Worldwide Technique. Carlota Carneiro will function head of operations.
