RAMPA continues to give a voice to great audiovisual professionals, this time in film.
With this last free online session RAMPA ends the programme of the “I RAMPA Professional Meeting on the audiovisual industry 2021” which offers its 1047 users, and the general public, the possibility of free training and professional positioning through 4 sessions specialised in videogames, advertising, television and publicity.
The fourth session, with free registration and limited capacity, will take place at Zoom on March 25th from 19.30 to 21.00h and will be dedicated to professional women in CINEMA. (It will be delivered in Spanish)
This session dedicated to the seventh art will be attended by two important professionals in the sector: Valérie Delpierre, producer of successful films such as Las niñas, by Pilar Palomero, winner of 4 Goya awards, including Best Film, and the awards for Best Film at the Malaga festival and the Forqué awards, or the multi-award winning Estiu 1993, by Carla Simón; and María Luisa Gutiérrez, producer and audiovisual entrepreneur who is currently president of the Spanish State Association of Film Producers (AECine), member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, founding partner of Bowfinger International Pictures and producer of numerous national and international blockbusters.
As on previous occasions, the event will be briefly introduced by Carlota Álvarez Basso, founder and co-director of RAMPA, and by Beatriz Gimeno, Director of the Instituto de las Mujeres, the project’s sponsoring organisation.
Valérie Delpierre
As a film producer, her latest projects include Las Niñas, Pilar Palomero’s debut feature film, which premiered in February 2020 at the Berlinale, received numerous awards (Best Film at the Malaga Festival, Best Film at the Forqué Awards, Best Film, Best New Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography at the Goya Awards) as well as being a critical and public success. This same year he has also released the film Uno para todos, which premiered at the Miami festival, and has also received the Forqué award for values and education. This is the second film by the director with whom he has already produced B, de Bárcenas, David Ilundain’s debut feature, winner of the 2016 Feroz Special Award; he has previously produced Verano 1993, a film directed by debutant Carla Simón, chosen by the Film Academy to represent Spain at the 2018 Oscars and awarded at the Berlinale 2017, where it received the Best First Film Award; the short film Los desheredados, by Laura Ferrés, which won the Goya and Gaudí awards in its category, and was awarded at the Cannes Critics’ Week 2017 or GreyKey by Enric Ribes, which won the Award for Best Documentary Short Film at the Malaga Festival and Documenta Madrid 2019.
She has recently finished the documentary La flota de las Indias, by Antonio P. Molero, the short film Sine die by Camila Moreiras, is working on new projects by Alex Lora, Pilar Palomero and Enric Ribes, and has been elected president of the association of fiction production companies ProFicció.
María Luisa Gutiérrez
Dedicated to national and international production and co-production, she is also CEO of Amiguetes Entreprise and Amiguetes Entertainment. In recent years, she has produced more than 25 films, including blockbusters such as Padre no hay más que uno or Padre no hay más que dos. La llegada de la suegra, as well as titles such as Nieve negra, Ola de crímenes and Sin rodeos, among others.
Since she started as a controller in the production company Mareal Films, in charge of films such as Isla Negra, Airbag, Go for gold! or The Impostor, her career has not stopped growing. With a degree in Business Studies from the Complutense University of Madrid, specialising in Marketing and Commercialisation, and several masters, including a Master’s Degree in General Management from the IESE Business School, she joined Amiguetes Entertainment and Amiguetes Enterprises in 1999. In these companies, she combines her work as a producer, executive producer, communications director and agent for Santiago Segura, with whom she founded Bowfinger International Pictures a few years later.
She is the producer of the last four instalments of the Torrente saga, as well as the rest of the productions of the companies she directs. She has produced and co-produced internationally films such as Gabriel Nesci’s Casi leyendas, Federico Cueva’s Solo se vive una vez with Peter Lanzani and Gerard Depardieu, Gustavo Hernández’s No dormirás, Alejandro Montiel’s Perdida, starring Belén Rueda, Nicolás Gil’s Las grietas de Jara, and Animal by Oscar winner Armando Bo.
Its commitment to new talent has also led it to produce and co-produce titles such as Una de zombies, by Miguel Ángel Lamata, Promedio Rojo by Nicolás López; Jefe by Sergio Barrejón, Que te juegas?, the debut feature by Inés de León, and recently La casa del caracol directed by debutant Macarena Astorga and starring Paz Vega and Javier Rey, which is scheduled for release on 11 June.
In 2021, he will produce and co-produce Santiago Segura’s new family comedy A todo tren. Destino Asturias; La Mirada de Lucía, directed by Imanol Uribe and starring Juana Acosta, Carmelo Gómez and Karra Elejalde or the thriller Lobo Feroz, directed by Gustavo Hernández and starring Adriana Ugarte and Fernando Tejero. Her upcoming projects as executive producer also include titles such as El Refugio, De caperucita a loba en sólo 6 tíos and Mamá está en Tinder.
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