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Uruguayan Association of Film and Audiovisual Producers and Directors.

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In the context of the public-private coordination promoted by the Ministry of Industry, Energy, and Mining, a group of production companies , training centers and festivals in the east of the country (Rocha and Maldonado) have agreed to form an institution that brings them together to work on the promotion of the film and audiovisual industry in the eastern region. After seven years of meetings and encounters, this group decided to form itself as Este Audiovisual, a non-profit civil association for the purposes of having an organic and institutionalized way of working.

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The Canarian Locations Office, which depends on the General Direction of Culture of the Government of Canelones, has been working since the end of October 2013.
The office has become a one-stop-shop for all the formalities that involve the audiovisual sector in our department. It is in charge of advising and authorizing the filming and photographic campaigns that take place in public spaces in the Canelones.
Moreover, it supports, participates, and promotes events linked to the sector that improve the positioning of Canelones as a film location inside and outside the borders, as well as its filmmakers (either professionals or amateurs).

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Locaciones Canarias participa activamente de la Mesa Directiva de la Uruguay Film Commission desde el 2014. En 2016, la oficina de Locaciones Canarias fue incluida en la Guía de Comisiones Fílmicas Latinoamericanas de LatAm Cinema.

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Montevideo Audiovisual integrates the Department of Culture of the Municipality of Montevideo. As a management space, it assists the audiovisual sector in three well-defined areas:

Promotion: Through the management of the Montevideo Socio Audiovisual and Montevideo Filma programs, it contributes to the development of Uruguayan cinema and audiovisual. Actively participates in the development of the interinstitutional program SeriesUY, aimed at the production of fiction series for television. It also stimulates the dissemination of quality cinematographic and audiovisual content, supporting premieres of Uruguayan audiovisual productions and the development and management of festivals and national and international exhibitions in the city.
Exhibitions: It articulates at an informative and support level the programming of the different public screens of IdeM and MEC, besides developing programs and own cycles of exhibition through an itinerant projection system.
Locations: Montevideo Audiovisual is the Office in charge of processing and coordinating the filming permits for film, television and advertising shoots that are displayed throughout the department.

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ROCHA FILMA, location office, has as its fundamental premise, to promote the Department of Rocha (Uruguay) as a destination for audiovisual production, its insertion in national and international markets and consolidate the diversity of landscapes and local resources.

With the conception that the audiovisual activity results in identity products with high potential for regional transformation, ROCHA FILMA emerges as a regional powerhouse, whose management policies promote the expansion of innovative initiatives with greater added value and training throughout the Rocha territory.

ROCHA FILMA, articulates institutional and private tools that promote training, exchange and linkage within the diverse universe of creative industries, and consequently with that “traction”, enhances production, contributes to the visibility and promotes marketing in all sectors that choose the Department Rocha as a destination.

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