Sumercé
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SUMERCÉ follows veteran activist Don Eduardo, rising political leader César Pachón and agricultural educator Rosita as they fight their government’s decision to allow mining companies to carve up their birthright in rural Colombia. As tensions rise, a battle unfolds for the future security of over twelve million Colombian campesinos and the country’s access to fresh water.
Victoria Solano
Director, Producer
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Victoria Solano is an award winning filmmaker who has lived in Argentina since 2010. She studied journalism at the University of San An- dres and filmmaking at Politecnico Gran Colombiano. Her first documentary, 9.70, was a mid-length film selected for GoodPitch Argentina, the first event of its type in the region, and has been watched by over 2M people around the world. After the release, Victoria received the Simon Bolivar, one of Colombia’s most coveted journalism awards. Previously she had worked as a director for various TV channels including Telesur, RCN and Canal Capital. She is the co-founder of Clementina Films, a production company based in Colombia where she is currently developing several projects including Antequera, a film about the assassinated leader of the UP party in Colombia and The Presidents who didn’t happen, a docudrama series on the various Colombian presidents who weren’t able to govern the country. Sumercé, currently in post-production, is her first long feature documentary co-produced by Pinball London (UK) and Clementina Films (Colombia) with support from Bertha Foundation, IDFA and ProImagenes.
Marco Cartolano
Producer
Marco Cartolano is an Argentine filmmaker who has also lived in Colombia. He is the co-founder of Clementina Films, a production company focused on issue-driven documentaries based in Bogotá. After co-producing 9.70, he joined the team of Sumercé as a producer and line producer. He is currently studying documentary cinema at the University of San Martin after a stint at the University of Buenos Aires studying Literature. Within Clementine Films, he is currently developing the long feature documentary Antequera and the series The Presidents who didn’t happen, also with Victoria Solano as the director as well as various other projects yet to be announced.
Paula Vaccaro
Producer
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Paula Vaccaro is an award winning British-Italian executive producer, creative producer and screenwriter based in the United King- dom since 2000. With more than two decades of experience, she has worked in TV, radio, newspapers, magazines and cinema both in Spanish and English speaking territories. She has worked for various independent production companies and TV channels, including the BBC until 2009 when she founded Pinball London, a production company specialising in films with an author stamp for international audiences such as On the Milky Road (Venice Film Festival 2016), directed by Emir Kusturica and starring Monica Bellucci. In addition to Kusturica, with whom she had already worked producing the documentary Maradona (Cannes, 2008) and in the collective film Words with Gods (Venice 2014), her work stands out in various ca- pacities alongside other renowned filmmakers such as Sally Potter, Sara Driver, Jim Jarmusch, Guillermo Arriaga, Amos Gitai, Bahman Ghobadi, Warwick Thorn- ton, Mira Nair, Hideo Nakata, Álex de la Iglesia, Héctor Babenco, and a solid new generation of filmmakers including Aaron Brookner (Uncle Howard, Sundance 2016, Burroughs NYFF 2014), Edoardo de Angelis (Indivisibili, Mozzarella Stories), and Victoria Solano (9.70, Sumercé). In the past decade she has worked advising and training on pitching, production matters, outreach, audience engagement and festival strategy for over 100 films. She has been a mentor, speaker and a workshop facilitator at over a dozen in- ternational film festivals and events including Thessaloniki, GoodPitch, DocMontevideo, DocsSP, Sheffield DocFest, Jilhava film festival and Docs Buenos Aires, Tri- este FF. She was an Emmy Juror between 2009 and 2014, and Official Jury at San Sebastian Film festival in 2017, a Jury at Focal Awards for Archive excellency since 2010 and a professor at Kingston University 2015-2020.
Agustina Covián
Executive Producer
Agustina Covián is a Spanish creative producer who has lived and worked in the US, France and Spain for over two decades. A 1997 Berklee graduate, she studied Film Scoring after obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Film and Media from Boston University in 1992. She began her professional career in Los Angeles, followed by Paris working for renowned directors such as Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, and Oliver Stone. In 2003 she opened her own production company in Spain focusing on art and music documentaries, short films, music videos and corporate communications. She then moved on to the music industry where she worked for Live Nation producing a wide range of concerts of large scale including Madonna, Elton John, AC/DC, Queen, and Rock in Rio, among many others. In 2011, she joined the Berklee Music Institute in Boston to create and launch the Mediterranean Music Institute in Spain where she is in charge of producing events, concerts, films and albums. She has worked alongside artistic director, music producer and composer Javier Limón. In 2018 she joined Pinball London’s team to lead the company’s new office in Continental Europe based in Madrid, Spain.