Things got personal at Cannes Market’s Fantastic 7 showcase this year, highlighting upcoming genre projects selected by seven festivals including Spain’s Sitges, Bucheon in South Korea, Cairo, Guadalajara in Mexico, SXSW and Toronto, as well as Whanau Marama New Zealand Intl. Film Festival.
“I think it’s my most personal film ever,” said director Jaume Balagueró, also behind “[Rec],” co-directed with Paco Plaza.
In his latest film “Venus,” presented by Sitges, he will combine elements of survival drama and modern witchery. Starring Ester Expósito, it’s produced by Álex de la Iglesia and Carolina Bang.
“Why? Because it combines many elements I am personally interested in,” he told Variety.
“It’s a horror, but it’s also a very moving film about love and revenge. It’s very special to me.”
In “La mala madre” (“The Bad Mother”), director Alicia Albares will also draw from her own experiences, moving along...
“I think it’s my most personal film ever,” said director Jaume Balagueró, also behind “[Rec],” co-directed with Paco Plaza.
In his latest film “Venus,” presented by Sitges, he will combine elements of survival drama and modern witchery. Starring Ester Expósito, it’s produced by Álex de la Iglesia and Carolina Bang.
“Why? Because it combines many elements I am personally interested in,” he told Variety.
“It’s a horror, but it’s also a very moving film about love and revenge. It’s very special to me.”
In “La mala madre” (“The Bad Mother”), director Alicia Albares will also draw from her own experiences, moving along...
- 5/23/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Before a crowd of filmmakers and journalists, Mexico’s Guadalajara Festival reached an industry crescendo on Tuesday with the presentation of prizes for its Co-Production Meetings which brought producers and directors face to face with potential partners as well as giving opportunities to filmmakers to pitch their projects to industry service companies sponsoring in-kind awards.
It was difficult to discern any strong trends among favored projects as prize winners ranged from documentaries to features, though fatherless or deteriorating families seemed to be at the core of many of the titles. Recipients hailed from across Central and South America and were about equally divided between men and woman, with some prizes going to teams comprising just female filmmakers a sign perhaps that the legendary machismo of Latin America may be subsiding, at least, in the film industry.
Top winner was the documentary project “Jirafas,” an Ecuador/Chile co-production in early development,...
It was difficult to discern any strong trends among favored projects as prize winners ranged from documentaries to features, though fatherless or deteriorating families seemed to be at the core of many of the titles. Recipients hailed from across Central and South America and were about equally divided between men and woman, with some prizes going to teams comprising just female filmmakers a sign perhaps that the legendary machismo of Latin America may be subsiding, at least, in the film industry.
Top winner was the documentary project “Jirafas,” an Ecuador/Chile co-production in early development,...
- 10/7/2021
- by Jeffrey Sipe
- Variety Film + TV
With the horrible specter of Covid still hanging over the world, the folks at the Frontières co-production market were a little concerned that their genre submissions would be heavily virus-centric.
However, they needn’t have worried. The lineup for the 2021 market, organized by the Fantasia International Film Festival in collaboration with Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes, features a wildly creative array of projects, including one about a telepathic serial killer cat, another about deportation and a deadly virus which kills white people, and yet another which puts a horrifying twist on the often harrowing experience of coming out.
“I am very happy that our lineup is not about Covid,” says Frontières executive director Annick Mahnert. “We did have a couple submissions on that theme, but overall people said no, we don’t have to write about this. It’s happening in real life, but we’ll find something else to talk about.
However, they needn’t have worried. The lineup for the 2021 market, organized by the Fantasia International Film Festival in collaboration with Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes, features a wildly creative array of projects, including one about a telepathic serial killer cat, another about deportation and a deadly virus which kills white people, and yet another which puts a horrifying twist on the often harrowing experience of coming out.
“I am very happy that our lineup is not about Covid,” says Frontières executive director Annick Mahnert. “We did have a couple submissions on that theme, but overall people said no, we don’t have to write about this. It’s happening in real life, but we’ll find something else to talk about.
- 6/17/2021
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
From a twisty cabin-in-the-woods to a brutal Basque fairytale and a musical combining flamenco and vampires, Ventana Sur’s “Window Within the Blood Window” has unveiled a broad church of genre projects from Spain.
Designed to flag up five of the top Spanish projects in development, the new Bloody Cinema session was curated by the Icaa’s marketing director Tito Rodriguez, Sitges festival general manager Mónica Garcia Massagué and Javier Fernandez, head of Ventana Sur’s Blood Window program.
Rapidly gaining buzz is Daniel Hernadez Torrado’s “Virtual: The Hologames,” a 90-minute post-apocalyptic tale set in a world dominated by technology, in which a gamer is forced to take part in a dangerous virtual tournament.
So far this year the project has received a special mention at the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival and was submitted for Blood Window’s international section on the recommendation of the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival.
Designed to flag up five of the top Spanish projects in development, the new Bloody Cinema session was curated by the Icaa’s marketing director Tito Rodriguez, Sitges festival general manager Mónica Garcia Massagué and Javier Fernandez, head of Ventana Sur’s Blood Window program.
Rapidly gaining buzz is Daniel Hernadez Torrado’s “Virtual: The Hologames,” a 90-minute post-apocalyptic tale set in a world dominated by technology, in which a gamer is forced to take part in a dangerous virtual tournament.
So far this year the project has received a special mention at the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival and was submitted for Blood Window’s international section on the recommendation of the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival.
- 12/2/2020
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
Prior to ending its 24th edition with a closing night screening of Park Hoon-jung’s action thriller The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion, the Lund Fantastic Film Festival announced the winners of both its short and feature film competitions. The Méliès d’Argent competition saw six European shorts and six European feature films go head to head with Madres De Luna and Blue My Mind emerging victoriously in their respective categories. The former, told from the perspective of unborn children, is a meditation on the lives of women who suffered violence at the hands of men. The latter is a subversive fairy tale that filters a young woman's coming-of-age through symbolical metamorphosis and body horror imagery. As winners of...
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- 10/9/2018
- Screen Anarchy
The 14th annual Screamfest La film festival kicks off on October 14th, and they've now announced their "Shorts to Die For" lineup of 40 short films from all across the globe. Read on for the details!
Screamfest 2014 takes place in Los Angeles on October 14-23 at the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres, 6801 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028.
For more info visit the Screamfest website, "like" Screamfest on Facebook, and follow Screamfest on Twitter.
Alone (Seule) (France) - Directed by Didier Philippe - Claire, a young woman, lives alone in a large apartment. Her fear of the outside world stops her from going out and letting people in. One day, she discovers evidence revealing that a man lives in her home. The presence of that man becomes more and more apparent and eventually threatening…
3 Versos (Us) - Directed by Antonio Yee - After a violent encounter with an abusive spirit, two sisters seek the help...
Screamfest 2014 takes place in Los Angeles on October 14-23 at the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres, 6801 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028.
For more info visit the Screamfest website, "like" Screamfest on Facebook, and follow Screamfest on Twitter.
Alone (Seule) (France) - Directed by Didier Philippe - Claire, a young woman, lives alone in a large apartment. Her fear of the outside world stops her from going out and letting people in. One day, she discovers evidence revealing that a man lives in her home. The presence of that man becomes more and more apparent and eventually threatening…
3 Versos (Us) - Directed by Antonio Yee - After a violent encounter with an abusive spirit, two sisters seek the help...
- 9/4/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
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