Bogotá Audiovisual Market Highlights, Trends and New Talent

Class war bloodbath “The Eastman,” Latino procedural “Rookies,” queer drama “Mesopotamia” and the exquisite 2D tyke parable “The March of the Sunflowers” look like potential highlights at a 16th Bogotá Audiovisual Market which looks set to underscore Colombia’s status not only as a big shoot location but one of Latin America’s still building production powers. 

This year’s BAM runs July 6-10. 

Fresh off an Urban Factory pick-up, announced at Cannes, “The Eastman,” the latest movie from Mauricio Leiva-Cock weighs in as one of the potentially standout genre movies in Latin America’s hopper, a Sanfic Mórbido Lab which snagged 13 awards at last year’s BAM Production Meetings.

One of BAM’s notable TV plays, “Rookies” is headed by “Narcos” star Damián Alcazar and Christian Tappán (“La Reina del Sur”) and directed by José Luis Rugeles, at Cannes Un Certain Regard with “Alias María,” and set up at top Colombian production house Rhayuela Films (“Rebellion,” “Páramo”). 

Brazil’s Druzina Content, behind BAM project “Mesopotamia” made “Five Types of Fear,” a best film winner at Gramado Fest, which was boarded by Viola Davis’ Ashé as executive producers.

Of the 10 fiction movie projects at BAM, eight are first features. 75% of the 16 production companies which gave Variety their dates of creation launched in the last decade.

Buzz fiction debuts takes in “Eighteen,” the awaited fiction feature debut of multi-prized Benítez, helmer of notable doc feature “El Pantera,” produced by Diana C. Patiño Martínez, behind Cannes Palme d’Or winning short “Leidi,” and Venice Horizons best short winner “Between You and Milagros.” There’s also good word on “The Internal Enemy,” Claudia Pedraza’s solo feature debut after helming 120 episodes of smash hit “La Reina del Sur,” starring Kate del Castillo, and “Killing My Mother,” which…