Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks has snagged comedy “The Unexpected Joker” (“El Metodo Tangalanga”) by Mateo Bendesky, a buzzy comedy produced by prominent Argentine producer Diego Dubcovsky under his production banner, Varsovia Films.
Disney’s new theatrical distribution banner, Star Distribution, will release the film in Latin America in January 2023.
Comedy had its world premiere at Argentina’s Mar del Plata Film Festival where it first sparked interest among various sales agencies. Deal is one of many to emerge from Ventana Sur, now back in full force as an in-person event after made to go online by the pandemic.
Dubcovsky and FilmSharks have previously collaborated on Berlinale Panorama title, “The Tenth Man” (“El Rey del Once”) and “The Mystery of Happiness,” both directed by Dubcovsky’s former Bd Cine partner Daniel Burman. His extensive producing career includes leading Latin directors such as Anahi Berneri, Walter Salles and Burman, whose “Lost Embrace” clinched...
Disney’s new theatrical distribution banner, Star Distribution, will release the film in Latin America in January 2023.
Comedy had its world premiere at Argentina’s Mar del Plata Film Festival where it first sparked interest among various sales agencies. Deal is one of many to emerge from Ventana Sur, now back in full force as an in-person event after made to go online by the pandemic.
Dubcovsky and FilmSharks have previously collaborated on Berlinale Panorama title, “The Tenth Man” (“El Rey del Once”) and “The Mystery of Happiness,” both directed by Dubcovsky’s former Bd Cine partner Daniel Burman. His extensive producing career includes leading Latin directors such as Anahi Berneri, Walter Salles and Burman, whose “Lost Embrace” clinched...
- 12/2/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Argentina’s Aleph Cine, led by Fernando Sokolowicz, one of the country’s most established film producers, has taken an undisclosed co-production stake in Romina Paula’s project “Gente de noche” (“People by Night”), produced by New Argentine Cinema icon Diego Dubcovsky at Varsovia Films.
Selected for San Sebastian Festival’s 9th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, “Gente” marks Paula’s return to the Spanish festival after winning the 2019 Horizontes Award with her feature debut “Again Once Again” and co-directing 2020 Official Section omnibus player “Unlimited Edition.”
Toplining Agustina Muñoz (“Viola”) and Margarita Molfino (“Wild Tales”), the project follows Agustina, a woman who travels with her newborn baby to Selva Misionera to meet her wife’s family.
Selva Misionera owes its name to the Jesuit missions that began in the 17th Century in Guaraní territory -comprising current northeastern Argentina plus Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil- by the Society of Jesus to evangelize the region.
Selected for San Sebastian Festival’s 9th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, “Gente” marks Paula’s return to the Spanish festival after winning the 2019 Horizontes Award with her feature debut “Again Once Again” and co-directing 2020 Official Section omnibus player “Unlimited Edition.”
Toplining Agustina Muñoz (“Viola”) and Margarita Molfino (“Wild Tales”), the project follows Agustina, a woman who travels with her newborn baby to Selva Misionera to meet her wife’s family.
Selva Misionera owes its name to the Jesuit missions that began in the 17th Century in Guaraní territory -comprising current northeastern Argentina plus Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil- by the Society of Jesus to evangelize the region.
- 9/9/2021
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Paula Hernández’s “El Viento Que Arrasa,”Cristian Leighton’s “El Porvenir de la Mirada” and Johnny Ma’s “Chin-Gone” feature among 14 projects selected for San Sebastian’s 9th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, the Spanish festival’s industry centerpiece.
Many projects come with high-caliber Latin American arthouse backing.
“El Viento Que Arrasa” was talked up by producer Hernán Musaluppi at Cannes; “El Porvenir de la Mirada” is associate produced by Academy Award winner Sebastián Lelio, (“A Fantastic Woman”); Ma’s “Chin Gone” is produced by Rachel Daisy Ellis’ Desvia Produçoes in Brazil, whose credits include “Divine Love,” “Rojo” and “Prayers for the Stolen.”
Of two feature debuts, “Alemania” is backed by Tarea Fina (“The Sleepwalkers”), and “La Sucesión” by Pasto, which had “The Employer and the Employee” at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, and Gema Films (“Soldado”). New Argentine Cinema icon Diego Dubcovsky produces Romina Paula’s “People by Night.” Multi-prized Spanish...
Many projects come with high-caliber Latin American arthouse backing.
“El Viento Que Arrasa” was talked up by producer Hernán Musaluppi at Cannes; “El Porvenir de la Mirada” is associate produced by Academy Award winner Sebastián Lelio, (“A Fantastic Woman”); Ma’s “Chin Gone” is produced by Rachel Daisy Ellis’ Desvia Produçoes in Brazil, whose credits include “Divine Love,” “Rojo” and “Prayers for the Stolen.”
Of two feature debuts, “Alemania” is backed by Tarea Fina (“The Sleepwalkers”), and “La Sucesión” by Pasto, which had “The Employer and the Employee” at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, and Gema Films (“Soldado”). New Argentine Cinema icon Diego Dubcovsky produces Romina Paula’s “People by Night.” Multi-prized Spanish...
- 8/12/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The miraculous prospects of international funding initiatives and the opportunities and pitfalls offered by streaming platforms were among the topics discussed by leading Argentine producers during an online Ventana Sur panel on Thursday.
Diego Dubcovsky of Varsovia Films, Santiago Gallelli of Rei Cine and Paula Zyngierman of Maravillacine also looked back at the dynamic New Argentine Cinema wave that characterized the 1990s, and addressed the role of state funding for the sector, and the silver lining of the Covid-19 crisis.
Already racked by crippling inflation and a plunging peso, the Argentine film industry has been hit hard by the pandemic, which has led to a sharp decline in the cinema admissions and TV advertising that fund the country’s Instituto Nacional de Cinematografia y las Artes Audiovisuals (Incaa).
Dubcovsky, whose credits include “The Motorcycle Diaries,” Daniel Burman films like “Lost Embrace” and “Empty Nest,” as well as such recent pics...
Diego Dubcovsky of Varsovia Films, Santiago Gallelli of Rei Cine and Paula Zyngierman of Maravillacine also looked back at the dynamic New Argentine Cinema wave that characterized the 1990s, and addressed the role of state funding for the sector, and the silver lining of the Covid-19 crisis.
Already racked by crippling inflation and a plunging peso, the Argentine film industry has been hit hard by the pandemic, which has led to a sharp decline in the cinema admissions and TV advertising that fund the country’s Instituto Nacional de Cinematografia y las Artes Audiovisuals (Incaa).
Dubcovsky, whose credits include “The Motorcycle Diaries,” Daniel Burman films like “Lost Embrace” and “Empty Nest,” as well as such recent pics...
- 12/4/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Peliculas Nobles, a filmmaker-led VOD platform for Argentine films, is launching Nov. 16. Argentina’s Gema Juarez Allen of Gema Films and Diego Dubcovsky of Bd Cine and Varsovia Cine have kicked off the new initiative in response to the dearth of platforms for homegrown titles.
The idea first arose from observing that a great number of Argentine catalog films couldn’t find spaces or platforms, said Juarez Allen. Classics like the 2003 gem by Albertina Carri, “Los Rubios,” were left in limbo.
“Many filmmakers whose films are not programmed or acquired by platforms — or whose contracts were discontinued — were forced to hire Vimeo on Demand individually or just open their links for free,” she explained.
“We decided to start organizing this platform and offer a very generous deal that would allow them to receive the same amount per transaction as if they, for instance, hired Vimeo on Demand themselves,” she said.
The idea first arose from observing that a great number of Argentine catalog films couldn’t find spaces or platforms, said Juarez Allen. Classics like the 2003 gem by Albertina Carri, “Los Rubios,” were left in limbo.
“Many filmmakers whose films are not programmed or acquired by platforms — or whose contracts were discontinued — were forced to hire Vimeo on Demand individually or just open their links for free,” she explained.
“We decided to start organizing this platform and offer a very generous deal that would allow them to receive the same amount per transaction as if they, for instance, hired Vimeo on Demand themselves,” she said.
- 11/12/2020
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Romina Paula's Again Once Again is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, showing from July 29 – August 27, 2020 in Mubi's Debuts series.For a long time, even before I became a mother, I had this image in my mind of a young woman coming back to her mother's house, as a mother herself, with her child. As usual in my life, I write ideas that later on become true, and so I end up having an autobiographical work when in fact, it's life that insists on being literal and acting out what I had written. So, long before having a kid, two audiovisual ideas, as I liked to call them, followed me. One was this, of a middle-aged woman going back to the house in which she grew up, to live with her kid and her mom in the only place on earth where she can still be a daughter.
- 7/28/2020
- MUBI
Madrid — Berlin-based Pluto Film has acquired international sales rights to “Las Mil y Una” (“One in a Thousand”), the second feature by Argentina’s Clarisa Navas and one of the first titles ti be announced for the Panorama section of this year’s Berlinale.
A world premiere at the Berlinale, “One in a Thousand” marks the latest production by Diego Dubcovsky, whose credits take in foundation movies of the so-called New Argentine Cinema (“Garaje Olimpo”) to multiple hits from Daniel Burman such as Berlin double Silver Bear winner “The Lost Embrace,” and features by Walter Salles (“The Motorcycle Diaries”), Cesc Gay (“Truman”), Benjamín Naishtat (“The Movement”) and Diego Lerman (“Meanwhile”).
Also written by Navas, “One in a Thousand” marks the director’s follow-up to debut feature “Today Match at 3,” about a feisty girls’ soccer team from a village outside Navas’ native Corrientes, northern Argentina. It already underscored the director’s...
A world premiere at the Berlinale, “One in a Thousand” marks the latest production by Diego Dubcovsky, whose credits take in foundation movies of the so-called New Argentine Cinema (“Garaje Olimpo”) to multiple hits from Daniel Burman such as Berlin double Silver Bear winner “The Lost Embrace,” and features by Walter Salles (“The Motorcycle Diaries”), Cesc Gay (“Truman”), Benjamín Naishtat (“The Movement”) and Diego Lerman (“Meanwhile”).
Also written by Navas, “One in a Thousand” marks the director’s follow-up to debut feature “Today Match at 3,” about a feisty girls’ soccer team from a village outside Navas’ native Corrientes, northern Argentina. It already underscored the director’s...
- 1/9/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event titles revealed.
The projects selected for Tallinn Black Nights’ industry showcase have been revealed, including a drama executive produced by Tim Roth and a new category for youth films.
Scroll down for full list of projects
This year’s Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event will spotlight 18 films seeking sales agents or festivals for international premieres during works in progress sessions in the Estonian capital from November 26-27.
Both the Baltic Event, showcasing Baltic and Finnish projects, and International Works in Progress will compete for the same awards this year: the Post Production Award worth €10,000 and...
The projects selected for Tallinn Black Nights’ industry showcase have been revealed, including a drama executive produced by Tim Roth and a new category for youth films.
Scroll down for full list of projects
This year’s Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event will spotlight 18 films seeking sales agents or festivals for international premieres during works in progress sessions in the Estonian capital from November 26-27.
Both the Baltic Event, showcasing Baltic and Finnish projects, and International Works in Progress will compete for the same awards this year: the Post Production Award worth €10,000 and...
- 11/6/2019
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Cannes — Programmed by France’s Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema, Cannes’ Acid section turned its spotlight this year on Argentine cinema.
As access to talent – creative and crews – becomes a predominant challenge for producers worldwide, given the huge production demand driven by global platforms, the radar can hardly be spread too wide in search of young emerging writer-directors Rich in talent and benefiting from a distinguished national cinema heritage, Argentina’s independent sector faces, however, the immediate challenge of finding an audience in and outside its domestic market. Acid, a parallel section at Cannes, provided an invaluable international platform.
One of three features in its Argentine focus, “Sangre blanca” (“White Blood”) marks the sophomore feature of Barbara Sarasola-Day (“Belayed”). It also underscores how much upscale foreign-language cinema is developing a genre edge.
A drug trade-thriller and father-daughter drama, it turns on Martina (Eva De Dominici) who becomes a drug mule,...
As access to talent – creative and crews – becomes a predominant challenge for producers worldwide, given the huge production demand driven by global platforms, the radar can hardly be spread too wide in search of young emerging writer-directors Rich in talent and benefiting from a distinguished national cinema heritage, Argentina’s independent sector faces, however, the immediate challenge of finding an audience in and outside its domestic market. Acid, a parallel section at Cannes, provided an invaluable international platform.
One of three features in its Argentine focus, “Sangre blanca” (“White Blood”) marks the sophomore feature of Barbara Sarasola-Day (“Belayed”). It also underscores how much upscale foreign-language cinema is developing a genre edge.
A drug trade-thriller and father-daughter drama, it turns on Martina (Eva De Dominici) who becomes a drug mule,...
- 5/28/2019
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Variety published December 3rd an interview with Argentine producer/writer/director Daniel Burman regarding his new romantic comedy movie The Mystery of Happiness (El misterio de la felicidad), starring Guillermo Francella and Inés Estévez, and the international co-production team behind it. “It was a great experience," said the filmmaker in the interview. "Without a doubt, today Brazil is a natural ally for Argentina in film production".
Burman , along with partner Diego Dubcovsky, are the founders of production company Bd Cine and the Agentine half of the creative team behind The Mystery of Happiness. Together with Brazilian Total Filmes, Bd Cine continues to broaden the horizons of the Argentine film market through second-screen technology investment and its full commitment to Latin American content production.
“We believe that the development of new technologies driving the convergence of the different ways of telling stories,” said Burman, “and expressing ideas and emotions has tremendous potential”. Regarding the evolution of film market over the past few years, Burman said “ As directors, we need to dominate our egos and accept the fact that we no longer decide how our movies are to be watched. We only decide what they tell .”
The Mystery of Happiness is scheduled for release on January 16th, 2014 in Argentina.
You can read the original Variety article here: http://variety.com/2013/film/international/daniel-burman-today-brazil-is-a-natural-ally-for-argentina-in-film-production-1200916568/...
Burman , along with partner Diego Dubcovsky, are the founders of production company Bd Cine and the Agentine half of the creative team behind The Mystery of Happiness. Together with Brazilian Total Filmes, Bd Cine continues to broaden the horizons of the Argentine film market through second-screen technology investment and its full commitment to Latin American content production.
“We believe that the development of new technologies driving the convergence of the different ways of telling stories,” said Burman, “and expressing ideas and emotions has tremendous potential”. Regarding the evolution of film market over the past few years, Burman said “ As directors, we need to dominate our egos and accept the fact that we no longer decide how our movies are to be watched. We only decide what they tell .”
The Mystery of Happiness is scheduled for release on January 16th, 2014 in Argentina.
You can read the original Variety article here: http://variety.com/2013/film/international/daniel-burman-today-brazil-is-a-natural-ally-for-argentina-in-film-production-1200916568/...
- 12/18/2013
- by Benjamín Harguindey
- Sydney's Buzz
Often referred to as the South American Woody Allen, Daniel Burman usually directs talkative dramedies of the Jewish experience in exile. Brother and Sister is a change of pacing for the director, apart from one "Lechaim!" scene, there's no trace of Judaism in the film adaptation of Diego Dubcovsky's novel, which basically tells the story of an elderly pair of siblings via the point of view of Susana (Graciela Borges), the bossy one who gets around, and Marcos (Antonio Gasalla), the quiet greyish man, who hands over the control to his sister. - Often referred to as the South American Woody Allen, Daniel Burman usually directs talkative dramedies of the Jewish experience in exile. Brother and Sister is a change of pacing for the director, apart from one "Lechaim!" scene, there's no trace of Judaism in the film adaptation of Diego Dubcovsky's novel, which basically tells the story...
- 7/6/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Often referred to as the South American Woody Allen, Daniel Burman usually directs talkative dramedies of the Jewish experience in exile. Brother and Sister is a change of pacing for the director, apart from one "Lechaim!" scene, there's no trace of Judaism in the film adaptation of Diego Dubcovsky's novel, which basically tells the story of an elderly pair of siblings via the point of view of Susana (Graciela Borges), the bossy one who gets around, and Marcos (Antonio Gasalla), the quiet greyish man, who hands over the control to his sister. There isn't much character development, and suffice to say that a lot of “non-events” that occur in this film. Burman has always had an ear for dialogue, so most of this film flows pleasantly, but the parting taste that one keeps from the film is that this is tasty like a Junior Mint – nice, refreshing but unnutritious.
- 7/5/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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