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Ventana Sur is a must on the agenda of international industry distributors and buyers. Organized by the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA) and the Marché du Film - Cannes Film Festival, it brings together film industry players to promote co-production, financing, and international distribution of Latin American content. Each year it receives 3,000 accredited participants, including more than 250 buyers and sellers from all continents and representatives of the most important international networks and platforms.

Primer Corte, a section promoting Latin American fiction feature films in their post-production stage, includes Films in Progress. This component grants greater visibility to the films in the event by exhibiting them through the market's video library. La Suprema by Felipe Holguín Caro, produced by María Teresa Gaviria of Cumbia Films, and Memento mori by Fernando López Cardona, produced by Juan Diego Villegas of Fidelio Films, were part of it. Both films were also part of Films Projects of the Bogotá Audiovisual Market - BAM in 2022 and 2017, respectively.
 
Malta by Natalia Santa, produced by Perro de monte's Kiran Fernandes, was included in Final Copy. This is a selection of six recently completed Latin American fiction feature films, unreleased, not premiered in or outside their production countries, and in search of sales agents, distributors, and international festival programmers, who Primer Corte curators invite.

In Blood Window, the section specializing in horror and fantasy films, two Colombian projects participated in Blood Window LAB. The two films were El secreto del mal by David Valencia and Juan Camilo Cuervo and Anómico by Andrés Beltrán Nossa (BAMMER 2015), produced by Marco Vélez Esquivia and Lynch Anima. The latter won the dossier development award for the project with the most potential in genre markets granted by APIMA (Association of Independent Audiovisual Media Producers).

Three Colombian feature film projects participated in the Pitching Sessions section of Animation!, a dedicated space for animation movies that gives producers from the region and professionals from the rest of the world the opportunity to connect with Latin America. The first film was Mi papá el camión by María Cristina Pérez and produced by Mauricio Cuervo and Pez Dorado Animaciones. Next was Teke uneka (No te entiendo) (Teke Uneka, I don't understand you), directed by Marcelo Dematei and produced by Piaggiodematei Wapisa (Argentina) and the Colombian company Hierroanimación. The third film was Chocó: la tierra y los monstruos (Chocó: the land and the monsters), directed by Estefanía Piñeres Duque and produced by Alejandro Zapata Munevar. These three projects previously received a Special Mention from MIFA / Annecy, which granted them accreditation while selecting them to be part of the pitch Animation! Focus @MIFA 2023.Chocó: la tierra y los monstruos also received the Ibero-American Animation League award, which covered the costs of participating in the Quirino Awards 2023 (Spain) and the Pixelatl Festival 2023 (Mexico).

Animation! also held Colombian producer Andrea Cataño Pulgarin as a special guest this year. Three projects were part of the call for entries in conjunction with Señal Pakapaka: Al y En by Matías Sinay, produced by Sebastian Escobar of Mero Studio; Emilia, directed and produced by Cristian Arcos of Mono Dorado Animation Studio; and León el camaleón (Leon the chameleon) by María Cristina López and Carolina Montes, produced by  Maritza Rincón and Marcela Rincón, a co-production between Fosfenos Media (Colombia) and Guiqui Toqui Sas (Chile). The teams behind these films pitched to channel executives with the possibility of being incorporated into the Señal Pakapaka.

The co-productions Noviembre (Colombia, Mexico, France) by Tomás Corredor, produced by Burning; Maneki Neko, directed by Sarahi Echeverría; and La casa de la playa (Costa Rica, Colombia) by Kim Elizondo, produced by Bocha Cine SRL, were part of Proyecta.  La casa de la playa received the Proyecta Award, which included 5,000 euros and an invitation for two representatives (director/screenwriter and producer) to the annual Fulgor Lab 2023 workshop. Proyecta was created by Ventana Sur, the Marché du Film, and the San Sebastian Festival in 2018 to promote co-productions in Latin America and Europe.

Two projects in the post-production stage participated in DocSur, a section for presenting Latin American documentary films and projects to reach sales agents, creative producers, aid funds, and international programmers. The first was El nombrador de plantas (The plant namer) by Simón Hernández Estrada, produced by Beatriz López and Liliana Andrade of the company La Popular, and the second, Partes de una casa (Parts of a house) by David Correa Franco, produced by Jaime Guerrero from Rara Colectivo Audiovisual.

Underdogs by María Camila Daza Jiménez was part of the Netflix - SoloSerieS Pitching Sessions in SoloSerieS, a marketplace bringing together the most outstanding series and micro series projects in Latin America.

El Principio del Film is an initiative created in 2020 to give a diverse regional selection of scripts a chance to access international markets. It helps producers and professionals from the rest of the world to directly connect with Latin American creativity. Edwin Restrepo's Madre (Mother) and Luis Merino's Okoro participated in this space. Madre won the award from Final Draft, the industry standard in screenwriting software.