BAL PROJECTS

After 10 years of enormous growth and dynamism, we are very pleased to present a revamped BAL.

Year after year, we strive to actively respond to the question about the purpose and meaning of the BAL. The world changes around us, and so do the ways and possibilities of filmmaking. Always keeping current with the latest industry trends, BAL offers, in this new edition, a back-to-basics program focused on the discovery and earliest stages of film projects and on meeting filmmakers that are still looking for a way to produce their films, who may find participation in this program highly beneficial. Moreover, the projects selected will be – without a doubt – groundbreaking and thus stimulating for the international industry.

We will sharpen the meaning of lab to explore, reflect on and experiment with the possibilities of making an independent film in Latin America nowadays. The BAL, in this sense, is a pioneering center for original and innovative projects, meant to encourage filmmakers and with no intention of teaching any formula on how to make a movie, because we believe that the particularities of each project lead to develop a unique way of producing films. Without a doubt, this new BAL will serve as a great complement to more formal and structured programs in which some of the participants may continue to further their career.

In view of the above, we invite Latin American filmmakers, with a project or an idea of a full-length film, with or without a producer, to apply to participate in the Production Lab.

For those who have productions in a more advanced stage – films currently in the shooting or post-production stage – we will continue again this year with Work in Progress (WIP), which calls for the submission of Latin American full-length film projects that are now in production.

BAL 2012 Dates

The BAL will be held over April 13, 14 and 15, 2012 and will include the following sections:

Production Lab: Workshop activities and round tables with professionals, for Latin American full-length film projects. April 14 and 15.
Work in progress: Screening of excerpts of Latin American films currently in the shooting or completion stage. Screening session on April 13.

Registration for the BAL Projects selection process ended on February 15, 2012.

Thank you.

For general questions, please contact:

Violeta Bava or Ilse Hughan
Buenos Aires Lab Directors

Denise Mora
Buenos Aires Lab Coordinator

bal@bafici.gob.ar
Tel. + 54 11 43 28 34 54