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Violeta Bava

Producers Lab Advisor

Violeta Bava was born in Argentina and holds a double degree in Theory, Aesthetics, and History of Cinema and Drama from the University of Buenos Aires.

Violeta Bava was born in Argentina and holds a double degree in Theory, Aesthetics, and History of Cinema and Drama from the University of Buenos Aires.

She was a programmer of the Buenos Aires International Film Festival and Co-Director of BAL, a leading co-production market for Latin American films, for almost twenty years. Since 2012, she has been the Latin American delegate for the Venice International Film Festival. She is Head of Studies of Torino Film Lab FeatureLab. Bava is Programme and Industry Advisor at Visions du Réel (Nyon) and Programme Advisor for the New York Film Festival. Founder of Ruda Cine, a company based in Argentina, in recent years she has produced feature films by filmmakers such as Martín Rejtman, Milagros Mumenthaler, Eduardo Williams, Andreas Fontana, and Dominga Sotomayor.