CUBAN HAT pitch and workshops

Guest country Mexico – in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Mexico and DocsMx

At the public CUBAN HAT pitch three Mexican and three German film projects will be presented.

On the occasion of the German-Mexican year 2017, DOK.fest München together with the International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City (DocsMX) and the Goethe-Institut Mexico has created the binational training programme DOCUNEXION MX-DE.

Every year DOCUNEXION announces international cooperations between festivals with the aim of supporting the active and long-term exchange of filmmakers and film projects.

The programme includes two workshops during the International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City (DocsMX) in October 2016 and at DOK.fest München in May 2017.

Three directors and producers from Mexico and Germany have been selected. The attendees have the opportunity to develop their projects together with mentors from Mexico and Germany in workshops at Docs Mx and DOK.fest München and to present the results at the public CUBAN HAT pitch.

The submission is closed.

Saturday, May 6th, 8 pm
Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München 

Supported by Matching Fund, IMCINE and the Foreign Office of Mexico.

The Mexican mentors

Paula Astorga

works as producer and independent promoter, since completing her studies at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC). She is the executive manager of Cinema Uno Networks and holds the artistic directorship of the Distrital Film Festivals.

Juan Manuel Sepulveda

is engaged as director and producer for taking on new and unorthodox ways regarding documentary films. The jury at the Cinema du Réel Festival in Paris commended his last film with a special mention.

Alejandro Sugich

studied directing at the New York Film Academy as well as producing at the University of California. After completing his studies, he started working as producer, filmmaker, author as well as VR and AR conceptual artist, before specializing in finance. He is the founder of the production company Sulafilms (2007), the film distribution company Neverlanding Pictures (2014) and one of the first production companies, specialized in VR and AR, called SumoVR. He has been nominated for a number of awards for his works.

The German mentors

Sirkka Möller

has worked for various international film festivals since 1988, such as DOK.Leipzig, Sheffield Int. Documentary Festival, FID Marseille and Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen. In addition to this, she has worked for Deckert Distribution, a global film distribution company. Furthermore, she is a member of the Panorama selection committee at Berlinale and is in charge of Project Lab Doc Station at Berlinale Talents. Sirka Möller also acts as a consultant for filmmakers, in particular regarding project development and editing and works as an independent curator.

David Spaeth

works as director and author. He creates documentary films for public TV stations and ServusTV. At the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, he is in charge of a second-year class and works as a lecturerer.

Bettina Walter

works as producer and specialized in developing, financing and producing creative documentary films for the international market. The films, which she produced and co-produced (i.e. FALCIANI UND DER BANKENSKANDAL, DOK.fest München 2015) emerged in cooperation with international broadcasting stations, such as BBC, PBS, ZDF/ARTE, TVE, DR and SFR. They have been nominated for various international film festivals.