11° MixLab Spcine
12 NOV (QUI) | das 15h às 17h30 | Instituto Cervantes
Ten queer/LGBTQIA+ projects — five short films and five features — are presented to the MixBrasil+MALA pitching panel. The session includes presentations, discussions of development and circulation, and awards.
Session led by: Walter Tiepelmann; Cote Romero.
Pitching panel: Malila Ohki — International Coordinator at Spcine; Vito Rodríguez — project selection panel participant.
Featuring the selected projects.
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.
VITO RODRÍGUEZ
Victoria Rodríguez holds a degree in Cultural Management and has more than thirty years of experience in the design, production, development and internationalization of cultural projects in Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and Spain. Her career spans the performing arts, music and audiovisual production. Since 2005, she has worked on the internationalization of the creative industries, covering executive production, project management, fundraising, international partnerships, field production and location scouting. In audiovisual production, she has developed projects in partnership with Spain, Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Italy.
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.
MALILA OHKI
Malila Ohki is a cultural manager specializing in the internationalization of the audiovisual industry. She is currently International Coordinator at Spcine, where she works on strategic partnerships, international cooperation, and connecting audiovisual professionals with global markets. Her work includes contributing to the development of funding initiatives supporting project development and work-in-progress stages, including the partnership between the Hubert Bals Fund and Brazil, as well as a collaboration with South Africa’s National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF). She previously worked as an executive producer at DOCSP and has also contributed to cultural and social impact initiatives. She holds a degree in Public Administration from FGV-EAESP and a specialization in Sales Management and Negotiation from FIA-USP.
