Tropical Films is a production company based in Belgium and Mexico. We are three strategic partners who actively participate financianly and creatively in the key decisions of the projects and the company.
Each project is carefully analyzed; different strategies are created, which change according to the project, but the three partners participate with different schemes in the project and
contribute creatively and financially. With this alliance we want to offer the best to the project and the director because we deeply believe that the only way for a project to be approached
integrally, knowledge and expertise must be combined. In seeking the best for the project, we look for transparency, clarity and dialogue with our directors, screenwriters and co-producers.
With our projects, we had participated in more than twenty festivals and markets such as, Berlin Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, FICM, Los Cabos goes to Cannes, San Sebastián Film Festival, Ventana del Cine Madrileño, San Sebastian Co-production Forum, Blood Window at Ventana Sur, among many others.
Mariana Monroy
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6941774/
Born and raised in Mexico City, the mecca of Mexican film production, she has lived and worked in Brussels, Buenos Aires and Mexico. She first graduated in Communication at the renowned Mexican university TEC de Monterrey and then moved to Buenos Aires, where she lived for three years to study film production at the Centro de Investigación Cinematográfica (CIC).
She has worked for more than fifteen years in production as executive producer, finance and head of development, production manager with producers and directors well known in Mexico worldwide such as Mantarraya Producciones (the most awarded production company in the history of Mexico, both in Cannes, Locarno, Venice and Rotterdam among others) and Catatonia Cine ("Esto no es Berlín", "Güeros", "50 ballenas", "El sueño de Lú"), Discovery Channel, among others.
In 2015 she made her first film as a producer, "Distancias cortas"; which took her to more than thirty international festivals: Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montréal (Special Mention), Rome FF, Stockholm IFF, PÖFF Tallinn Black Nights, Goa IFF, Habana IFF, Duhok Film Festival and Iraq (Audience Award). It won the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers awards from the Chinese Academy and Grand Award at Skip City International D-Cinema Festival 2016 in Japan. The film was also nominated for Best Film at the Mexican Academy.
Interested in outreach, in 2011 she founded Mil Metros Bajo Tierra, a showcase focused on Latin American Independent Cinema with more than thirty venues throughout Mexico and produced a TV series with Discovery Channel called "Planeta de las ideas" which won several awards. In 2016 she founded Tropical Films, a company with which she later premiered "Los débiles" at the Berlin Film Festival (Forum 2018 Section) and won Best Film at FICUNAM. In 2020 he premiered "Estanislao" by Alejandro Guzmán Álvarez, winner of EFICINE (fiscal stimulus) at PÖFF Black Nights Tallinn FF. In the same year she was mentioned in Variety as one of the young Latin American producers focused on the international market, and was selected in Berlinale Talents Guadalajara.
In 2018 he moved to Belgium which strengthened her experience with the European market and in turn created links with other countries in Latin America. She currently has projects in various stages: "Blurry Days" by Marie Benito (EFICINE, Malaga Co-production Forum - MAFIZ) recently premiered at Morelia IFF 2022, the film "Nomads of the 57" by Alberto Arnaut Estrada and José María Castro Ibarra (Gabriel Figueroa Film Fund) currently in post-production. She is also developing "Hacia el sur" by Camila Selser (co-production Nicaragua and Mexico), winner of the Ibermedia Development Fund and awarded a grant from the Carolina Foundation, “Veterano” which has been selected to participate in the film market Iberseries Platino Industria, “Si No Ardemos, Como Iluminar la Noche” by Kim Torres, a co-production with Costa Rica that was selected for La Fabrique Cinema, 2021, and "Delightful nightmares" by Bernardo Arellano (co-production Belgium, France and Italy).