11° MixLab Spcine
12 NOV (QUI) | das 14h às 15h | Instituto Cervantes
Walter Tiepelmann and Cote Romero introduce +MALA and its partnership with MixLab, discussing project development, circulation and co-production in queer Latin American cinema.
Market presentation: Walter Tiepelmann; Cote Romero.
WALTER TIEPELMANN
Walter Tiepelmann is the director of #LINK, the Ibero-American Non-Fiction Film Meeting; artistic director of FIDBA, the Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival, and FID:RIO, the International Festival of Non-Fiction Arts and Cinema in Rio de Janeiro. He is also coordinator and programmer of Málaga WIP at the Málaga Film Festival.
He is a project curator at +Mala, founder and general coordinator of BIXA:LAB, and co-director of Prisma Queer Net Works.
As a filmmaker, he directed Sin Patrón and Nublado. He is currently editing his new documentary feature, Manada, and is in pre-production on his first fiction feature, León Muerto.
As a producer, since 2008 he has worked with directors with a strong authorial vision on films with queer or political perspectives, including Son of Sodom (Cannes Official Short Film Selection, IDFA), Anhell69, Travesía Travesti (IDFA), and Carropasajero (Berlinale World Cinema Fund, 2021). His work has been presented at festivals including Visions du Réel, Cinéma du Réel, DocLisboa, Berlin, Mar del Plata, FIDMarseille, and Cannes.
COTE ROMERO
Cote Romero, Montevideo, 1979. Since childhood, he has had a strong interest in photography and cinema. In 2006, he began working professionally in the audiovisual sector. In 2012, he joined the team of Llamale H – International Film Festival on Sexual and Gender Diversity; in 2016, he became its director and general producer. Between 2017 and 2019, he organised the Festival por la Diversidad – De la Rambla al Malecón in Havana. He is currently in post-production on his first film as a director, the documentary “Kanela Leyenda del Carnaval”. In 2025, he created +MALA – Latin American LGBT+ Audiovisual Market. He has produced a range of cultural and educational projects focused on human rights in several countries.
