Chief International Correspondent
Best of Open Doors 2022
LOCARNO, Switzerland — Paraguay's Paz Encina (“Eami”) and three first-time feature film directors – El Salvador's Enrique Bautista, Cuba's Rosa María Rodríguez Pupo, Peru's Fernando Mendoza – shared the top prize at this year's Locarno Open Doors, with Encina and Bautista taking home the lion's share of the CHF50,000 ($58,000) in cash prizes.
The grant was sponsored by Visions Sud Est and the city of Bellinzona. The winners – Encina’s “The Unique Time,” Bautista’s “Salvation,” Rodriguez’s “Her Lightness” and Mendoza’s “The Return of the Last Mochica Warrior” – were announced Tuesday at the Swiss Festival, as Open Doors’s remarkable three-year focus on smaller markets in Latin America and the Caribbean came to a close.
Open Doors' lead partner, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), announced on Monday that the co-production and talent development programme will focus on underrepresented communities in Africa over the next four years.
