For the first time this year, the festival played host to Meets, a film market aimed at fostering networks for co-production, sales and distribution of Latin American projects. Panama City was also chosen by EGEDA and FIPCA as the venue for their first Premios Platino awards, also during the week of the festival.
A Mexican project, The Darkness, won the Meets cash prize of $25,000. The same day, the Dream About the City team learned they had won the film commission’s top production grant of $750,000, around half of their projected $1.5m budget.
Theirs was . . .
