The Ministry of Culture and Youth (MCJ), through the Costa Rican Center for Cinema and Audiovisual (Centro de Cine), announces the projects selected in the tenth edition of the Fund for Audiovisual and Cinematographic Promotion El Fauno.
“We enthusiastically celebrate this tenth edition of the El Fauno Fund, which reaffirms the Costa Rican State’s commitment—through the Ministry of Culture and Youth—to developing national audiovisual and cinematographic talent. In 2025, besides strengthening the development and production phases of audiovisual works, for the first time in this fund’s history we consolidate support for the video game industry, a creative sector in constant growth. El Fauno not only fuels ideas but builds bridges toward a stronger, more diverse, creative, and innovative cultural ecosystem. We congratulate all the awarded creators and reaffirm our support for those who, through vision and effort, enrich Costa Rica’s cultural imagination,” stated Carmen Campos Ramírez, Vice Minister of Culture and President of the Council on Cinematography and Audiovisual.
The projects were evaluated by a judging panel consisting of nine professionals from the international audiovisual industry, three per category (development, video games, and production). Among them were experts in film production and direction, scriptwriting and consultancy, audiovisual distribution and circulation, as well as digital animation and video game development: Cristina Gallego (Colombia), Talita Arruda (Brazil), Angélica Lares (Mexico), Natalia Agudelo Campillo (Colombia), Ivette Liang (Cuba), Iana Cossoy Paro (Brazil), Julio César Marambio Rodríguez (Chile), Mauricio Navajas (Argentina), and Carlos Andrés Rocha Silva (Colombia).
Legal representatives of each awarded company will be contacted via email to formalize the agreement with Centro de Cine.
DEVELOPMENT SECTION
Each project will receive ₡6 million colones. The jury notes:
“This aims to ensure full execution of funds and to allow greater investment during writing, rewriting, and overall development stages.”
Selected projects:
- Hermosa no es como antes – Productora Cultural Josefina SRL
- Latidos del bosque – Producciones y Servicios Micelio Once Veintidos SRL
- La muerte del arquitecto – Arado Comunicación Alternativa S.A.
- La dama cucaracha – Central de Guion S.A.
- El Seco – Flexipark cincuenta y nueve pigmalion S.A.
- Pillos – Histeria Colectivo SRL
- Haymo – Ocho y medio audiovisual
- Hasta que la vida nos vuelva a encontrar – Gata Lola SRL
- El ojo de Luisa – Paraguas trece SRL
- Cinco años después – Soma Films S.A.
- Tu mundo, mi mundo – Dynamic Advance S.A.
- No culpen a la bestia – Paramo Films SRL
- Mamba Brava – Misifús Producciones S.A.
The jury stated:
“We celebrate that this fund finances development stages so projects can invest in writing, rewriting, script consulting, and in some cases co-writing. We also emphasize the importance of assessing viability, funding strategies, and well-prepared development dossiers with clear aesthetic-narrative proposals and audience plans from the start.”
PRODUCTION SECTION
- Amor insolente – Biofilms S.A. – ₡44,500,000
- Equina – EQV Enterprises Mnge Limitada – ₡15,000,000
- Dilemas – Mindgames S.A. – ₡38,369,643
VIDEO GAMES SECTION
Development:
- Sistema universal de distribución de gatos – Estudio Shout S.A. – ₡6,000,000
Production:
- Mix it – Teampo S.A. – ₡60,000,000
- The E Collector – Frogbyte SRL – ₡58,130,357
The video game jury commented:
“We consider it extremely valuable that El Fauno has added video games as a category. It’s essential that this initiative continue over time to track the evolution and professionalization of the Costa Rican video game industry.”
El Fauno is a competitive fund created in 2015 to finance audiovisual and cinematographic productions. By 2024, it had supported 82 national projects with ₡2.186 billion. With this tenth edition, the Fund reaches 101 audiovisual projects (including video games), totaling ₡2.486 billion.
Minutes from the juries are available for:
- Production
- Development
- Video Games
