BUENOS AIRES — Memorable for its mass attendance of around 3,200 delegates, Ventana Sur , Latin America’s biggest film-TV market, closed its doors at the extraordinary Palacio de Libertad in central Buenos Aires on Dec. 5 underscoring both the region’s large high-energy talent and the considerable headwinds racking the international film-TV business.

10 takeaways from this year’s mart-meet.

First, the Big News: Netflix Buys Warner Bros for $82.7 billion

Though hardly a Ventana Sur deal, naturally enough, it dominated Friday’s breakfast tittle-tattle in Buenos Aires. The major take is that it will close more doors than it opens for the international independent industry. “That’s difficult to judge,” Ampere Analysis’ Guy Bisson told Variety . “For the independent production sector, I’

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