• By For the first time, the BAM opens its calls to filmmakers from outside Colombia. With the help of Netflix, the BAMMERS call will receive 20 in Bogotá international filmmakers and creators, who will join the 20 filmmakers Colombians selected in this category, marking a milestone in the vocation Latin American market.

• This year the market incorporates three new focuses: emerging formats, archive audiovisual, and allocates a special space to peace narratives in commemoration of ten years of the Peace Agreement.

Bogotá, June 9, 2026. After an edition that put in the center Latin American narratives and included the presence of figures such as Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel, the Bogotá Audiovisual Market – BAM comes to its seventeenth edition with a renewed commitment: to consolidate Bogotá as the meeting point of the region's audiovisual industry.

To the usual spaces of the market, the Headquarters Industry at the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce of Chapinero and the Experience Headquarters in the Modern Gym where the activities and talks that take place take place. bring together the sector, this edition the CEFE and the Cinemateca of Bogotá join with activities open to the public, bringing the audiovisual industry closer to the citizenship and turning the BAM into an event that transcends the scope professional.

SELECTED BAMMERS

One of the most anticipated moments will be the meeting with the first international Bammers, selected by a jury with extensive experience that will also accompany them in their selection process. training towards the market. The Cali producer Rodrigo Guerrero, with productions for Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and HBO; the Panamanian producer Isabella Gálvez, behind award-winning films such as Kenke and Querido Trópico; the Argentine producer Santiago Gallelli, with presence in Berlin, Venice, Cannes and Sundance; and the Mexican Juliana Flores, executive producer and Country Mexico Manager at Dynamo, who currently leads the production of the seasons of One Hundred Years of Solitude for Netflix, make up a team that combines creative vision, executive management and international reach. To them Other specialized profiles will be added to the strengthening route that precedes the BAM.

After a call he received 105 applications from 13 countries, including Colombia, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Republic Dominican Republic and Venezuela, the 40 Bammers selected for this edition: 20 international filmmakers and 20 Colombians, of which 10 are from Bogotá and 10 from the rest of the country.

Those selected will have a training agenda that ranges from creative sustainability and development from projects to Latin American co-production and access to platforms global, with sessions such as Co-pro LATAM: a practical guide to give your first steps and From your own project to the global market: platforms, among other activities.

NEWS IN PROGRAMMING

As for programming, will have three new focuses that enrich the conversation about the industry audiovisual from different angles.

People programming Convergent, initiative of the Mayor's Office of Bogotá through the Secretariat of Culture, Recreation and Sports with the support of Proimágenes Colombia, will explore content about animation, video games and immersive experiences, formats that occupy more and more place in audiovisual production contemporary. For this space, BAM will have first-class guests as Michele Ziegler, director and founder of NewImages, a platform key to immersive content; Natasha Faria, director of the Museum of Image and Sound from Ceará;Ollie Green, from Adult Swim, who has worked in series like Rick and Morty; Jay Powell, founder of IndieGameBusiness, specialized in commercial development of the gaming industry video games, among others.

The focus on Archive, developed with the accompaniment of Juana Suárez, director of Moving Image NYU's Archiving and Preservation Program, the BAM recognizes a practice fundamental for Colombian and regional cinematography. The space will bring together agents linked to the circulation of recovered and restored cinema, and will offer tools to access the files available in processes of audiovisual creation.

Narratives of Peace arrive in commemoration of ten years since the signing of the Peace Agreement in Colombia. From the audiovisual point of view, the space will review the cinematographic practices that have contributed to constructing stories about history, memory, justice and repair, and will address ethical and artistic questions about working with victims and communities affected by the armed conflict.

Accreditations For industry professionals, they are available until June 30 on the website www.bogotamarket.com