Rotterdam Tiger Award Winner Paz Fábrega Sets ‘To the Future’ With Spain’s Edna Cinema and Uruguay’s La Mayor Cine Ahead of ECAM Forum (EXCLUSIVE)

A Rotterdam winner for ‘Cold Water of the Sea’, in ‘To the Future’ Fábrega turns the camera on herself and her children to question motherhood

By Annika Pham

Annika Pham

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Paz Fábrega, the first Costa Rican filmmaker to scoop a VPRO Tiger Award in Rotterdam, for her debut “Cold Water of the Sea (“Agua fria de mar”) in 2010, has secure further funding for her fourth feature “To the Future” (“Al Futuro”) from PUA-the Uruguayan Audiovisual Program, via co-producer Federico Moreira of La Mayor Cine (“Utama,” “Aurora”).

The hybrid doc in post, produced by Fábrega’s Temporal Films in Costa-Rica, will be pitched at the curated Last Push session of ECAM Forum co-production market unspooling June 9-11 at Madrid Matadero. Joining the strong Latin American partners is Guatemalan producer Pamela Guinea (“Tesoros”), as well as Spain’s Carla Sospedra Salvadó of Edna Cinema attached to award-winning pics such as SXSW’s “Mamífera” by Liliana Torres, “Correspondences” by Carla Simón and Dominga Sotomayor and the upcoming “Memorial” by Sergi Lopez which scooped a Filmin Award at ECAM Forum 2024. 

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