Locarno’s Open Doors: Paz Encina, Ernesto Bautista Triumph at Awards Ceremony as Showcase Preps 2025-28 Focus on Africa 

LOCARNO, Switzerland — Paraguay’s Paz Encina (“Eami”) and three first time fiction feature directors – El Salvador’s Enrique Bautista, Cuba’s Rosa María Rodríguez Pupo, Peru’s Fernando Mendoza – split the big prize on offer at this year’s Locarno Open Doors with Encina and Bautista taking the lion’s share of a CHF50,000 ($58,000) cash prize. The […]