From a new Alfredo Castro movie to fresh titles by “Case 63” writer Julio Rojas and “A Fantastic Woman” scribe Gonzalo Maza — plus the debut of Cannes Cinéfondation winner Diego Céspedes — here are titles from seven Chilean production companies whose presence at Cannes is backed by Chile’s ministry of culture.
“Bitter Gold,”
In a defunct North Chilean mining community, a teenage girl battles patriarchal forces to save her family’s business in this empowering neo-Western. Lead-produced by Juntos Films in co-production with La Santé (Chile), Whisky Content (México). Intl. Sales: Patra Spanou Films.
“Después de Elena” (Shawn Garry)
Alfredo Castro stars in a dark comedy as widower Roberto, who seeks solace but faces family dysfunction and lies. Produced by Gabriela Sandoval at Cine Matriz, Magma Cine and Zoe Films.
“Epílogo para un otoño,” (David Belmar)
This Lucho Films drama follows 85-year-old Gabriel, who feels death looming. He fails in his...
“Bitter Gold,”
In a defunct North Chilean mining community, a teenage girl battles patriarchal forces to save her family’s business in this empowering neo-Western. Lead-produced by Juntos Films in co-production with La Santé (Chile), Whisky Content (México). Intl. Sales: Patra Spanou Films.
“Después de Elena” (Shawn Garry)
Alfredo Castro stars in a dark comedy as widower Roberto, who seeks solace but faces family dysfunction and lies. Produced by Gabriela Sandoval at Cine Matriz, Magma Cine and Zoe Films.
“Epílogo para un otoño,” (David Belmar)
This Lucho Films drama follows 85-year-old Gabriel, who feels death looming. He fails in his...
- 5/14/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) has unveiled the five projects it will showcase to sales agents and distributors at this year’s Cannes market.
This is the fourth year PÖFF has participated in the Goes to Cannes programme, which aims to spotlight work-in-progress projects by promising talent. The projects will be presented on 18 May. The films are without sales agents and aiming for a festival premiere.
Three of the films are by directors whose previous films premiered at PÖFF. Eeva Mägi is presenting Estonian drama Mo Papa. Her previous film Mo Mamma won the jury prize in the first...
This is the fourth year PÖFF has participated in the Goes to Cannes programme, which aims to spotlight work-in-progress projects by promising talent. The projects will be presented on 18 May. The films are without sales agents and aiming for a festival premiere.
Three of the films are by directors whose previous films premiered at PÖFF. Eeva Mägi is presenting Estonian drama Mo Papa. Her previous film Mo Mamma won the jury prize in the first...
- 4/12/2024
- ScreenDaily
Cannes Cinéfondation winner Michael Labarca will hit Locarno’s Open Doors next week with his feature debut project, “Kids Swimming in the Lake,” produced by Venezuela’s Todos Los Ríos, France’s Ticket Shoot Films and Chile’s Oro Films.
For Venezuelan movie projects, such international co-productions are not only a virtue but a necessity, “due to the crisis of our public funding for production, our limitation of access to the Ibermedia fund and the complex situation of our country,” said “Kids” producer Patricia Ramírez Arévalo at Todos los Rios.
Set in contemporary Venezuela, “Kids Swimming in the Lake” deals with emigration, but from the point of view of those left behind.
During constant blackouts, 11-year-old Dayana and her little siblings dream of leaving Venezuela and reuniting with their father, who migrated fleeing the crisis. As they anxiously wait for this day, the kids watch as other families and their friends leave first.
For Venezuelan movie projects, such international co-productions are not only a virtue but a necessity, “due to the crisis of our public funding for production, our limitation of access to the Ibermedia fund and the complex situation of our country,” said “Kids” producer Patricia Ramírez Arévalo at Todos los Rios.
Set in contemporary Venezuela, “Kids Swimming in the Lake” deals with emigration, but from the point of view of those left behind.
During constant blackouts, 11-year-old Dayana and her little siblings dream of leaving Venezuela and reuniting with their father, who migrated fleeing the crisis. As they anxiously wait for this day, the kids watch as other families and their friends leave first.
- 8/1/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Suggesting an appreciable recovery in the dynamism of international film markets, Madrid-based Latido Films has unveiled a raft of deals on its Cannes line-up, led by standout sales for Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Cannes Premiere player “The Beasts.”
The Spain-set rural thriller was acquired by Movies Inspired in Italy and Imagine in Benelux.
Co-produced by Spain’s Arcadia Motion Pictures and Sorogoyen’s Caballo Films with France’s Le Pacte, “The Beasts” has also been taken by Kino Mediteran in former Yugoslavia territories and Transilvania Film in Romania.
Meanwhile, fruit of Latido’s strengthening of its remake rights sales strategies, the company has optioned Mexican movie adaptation rights on Nicolás Postiglione’s drama “Immersion” to Paloma Negra Films and Whisky, as a French redo of Gastón Duprat’s Spanish-Argentine drama “Masterpiece” is moving into production.
Also, Latido is in advanced negotiations on further remake rights deals in France, Italy and Mexico,...
The Spain-set rural thriller was acquired by Movies Inspired in Italy and Imagine in Benelux.
Co-produced by Spain’s Arcadia Motion Pictures and Sorogoyen’s Caballo Films with France’s Le Pacte, “The Beasts” has also been taken by Kino Mediteran in former Yugoslavia territories and Transilvania Film in Romania.
Meanwhile, fruit of Latido’s strengthening of its remake rights sales strategies, the company has optioned Mexican movie adaptation rights on Nicolás Postiglione’s drama “Immersion” to Paloma Negra Films and Whisky, as a French redo of Gastón Duprat’s Spanish-Argentine drama “Masterpiece” is moving into production.
Also, Latido is in advanced negotiations on further remake rights deals in France, Italy and Mexico,...
- 6/16/2022
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
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