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Endeavor Colombia company Dynamo has joined Participant Media’s PanAmerican Film Initiative, a five-year agreement to produce 10-12 Spanish-language films in Latin America. Dynamo will be joined in the Initiative by two other premier Latin American production companies, Canana (Mexico) and Fabula (Chile).

Participant Media, founded in 2004 by eBay’s first employee Jeff Skoll, finances and develops media campaigns for movies with a social message. Notable titles include “An Inconvenient Truth” (2006), “The Help” (2011), and “Lincoln” (2012).  According to Participant’s website, the company is currently in discussions with Dynamo to finance the supernatural thriller “Aguas Rojas,” to be co-produced by Spanish firm Apaches.

Dynamo was founded by four Endeavor Entrepreneurs, Andrés Calderón Rodríguez, Cristian Conti Walli, Rodrigo Guerrero Rojas, and Diego Ramírez Schrempp, in 2006. The company has two distinct arms: Dynamo Capital, the only private equity fund for film financing in Latin America; and Dynamo Productions, a screenwriting, production, and distribution business. DynamoProductions’ film “The Undertow (Contracorriente)” won the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Audience Award in 2010.

Dynamo executive Cristian Conti Walli said that the company is excited to begin its work with the PanAmerica Film Initiative. “For Dynamo this alliance presents a superb framework to create, improve and bring to life our projects,” Conti Walli said. “We look forward to growing with and learning from great partners and friends like Canana, Fabula and Participant.”