It’s been four years since the Locarno Academy added an industry section to its curriculum, and in that time the event has not only grown in its native Switzerland, but spread out across Europe, the Americas and the Middle East.
Alice Miller, film programmer at the Leeds IFF in the U.K., Emilie Moor, distributor and producer at Adok Films in Switzerland; Joyce Newrzella, festival assistant at Germany’s The Match Factory; Chloe Tai, marketing and business operations manager for Films Constellation in the U.K.; “I think it’s common in Latin America that young professionals interested or working in distribution, exhibition or programming are creative and many times doing multiple roles at the same time,” Gómez said of the Latin American markets represented between the two Academies in which she participates.