Pedigreed Argentine helmer Milagros Mumenthaler, a Golden Leopardo winner in Locarno for her debut “Back to Stay,” and Rodrigo Teixeira of RT Photos, producer of James Grey’s “Palme d’Or entry “Paper Tigers,” will take centre stage on the third ECAM Forum co-production market, as a result of run June 9/11 at Madrid Matadero.
The whole retrospective devoted to Mumenthaler will kick-start along with her newest and third function “The Currents,” which bowed at Toronto, San Sebastian, the place it gained the RTVE Otra Miranda Award), and begins a US theatrical run Could 29 by way of Kino Lorber. The movie can even open the 12th Filmadrid, the primary coordinator of the tribute, along with Cineteca Madrid, DAMA, Atalante and the embassies of Switzerland, Spain and Andorra.
“This year we wanted to place at the centre an auteur who may be less obvious to wider audiences but who is fundamental to understanding contemporary cinema of the last decade,” mentioned ECAM Discussion board coordinator Alberto Valverde.
Apart from Mumenthaler, heavyweight Brazilian producer Rodrigo Teixeira will ship a masterclass June 10, in regards to the position of the producer as a key driving drive behind indie cinema. The a number of Oscar and Bafta-winning mogul – behind Luca Guadagnino’s “Call Me By Your Name,” Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here,” Rober Eggers’ “The Lighthouse,” Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig’s “Frances Ha” – will take inventory of the filmmaking course of from improvement to distribution, and talk about his 20 years on the helm of RT Options, certainly one of Latin America’s main audiovisual banners, and his relationship with internationally acknowledged auteurs.
The subject of filmmaking between business and imaginative and prescient’ and the present tensions between creation, business and authorship will likely be additional expanded at ECAM Discussion board’s The State of Issues convention strand organized by the business arm of Madrid’s prestigious ECAM movie college.
Three of Spain’s most acclaimed up to date filmmakers will share their visions on the topic: this 12 months’s Palme d’Or nominee Rodrigo Sorogoyen (“The Beloved,” “Madre”), Alauda Ruiz de Azúa (“Los Domingos,” the sequence “Querer”) and Sandra Romero (“As Silence Passes By”).
Elsewhere, filmmaker Celia Rico (“The Good Manners,” “Journey to a Mother’s Room”) and performer-writer Violeta Gill will speak ‘Rediscovering the Image,’ artist-essayist Joan Fontcuberta ‘the evolution of the picture from analogue to streaming and the impression of AI on the session I Ought to Have Taken Extra Pictures.
Beatriz Navas, former head of ICAA and curator of Europalia, will discover with filmmaker Jorge Juárez, The Fable of the Future or the position of cultural establishment in shaping the up to date imaginaries of the longer term.
In one other dynamic session – the second at ECAM Discussion board – author Johanna Koljonen will current the findings of the influential business Nostradamus Report from the Göteborg Movie Competition, recent from its Cannes launch.
Commenting on ECAM Discussion board’s third State of Issues program, Valverde mentioned: “As the 2025 edition drew to a close, one set of images came to dominate public attention. Disturbing scenes prompted renewed reflection on the boundaries between photography, journalism, images of violence, and the role of witnessing events as they unfold. At that moment, it became clear to us that this year’s theme could only be to reflect on the image itself. Not from a pessimistic standpoint, but from a more humanistic one that places artistic creation and cinema in particular, in a crucial position for contributing new realities amid this over-saturation of images.”
The inspirational State of Issues talks come as an add-on to ECAM Discussion board’s centerpiece pitching program the place greater than 50 movies in improvement or post-production, plus shorts and TV sequence, will likely be in search of co-financing, co-production and distribution.
As already reported, the Madrid occasion which in solely three years has secured its place as a go-to co-production market and networking occasion bridging Spain with the remainder of the world, will likely be broadening its worldwide attain this June, with tasks spanning Europe, Latin America, and the Center East.
