Brazilian auteur Carolina Markowicz will head to Bucharest to hone her third feature, “The Funeral.” In development, the film was selected for the 2024 Pop Up Residency, pairing Markowicz with multi-prized Romanian producer Ada Solomon for a three-week consultancy.
“It’s truly a privilege to be able to dialogue with an industry professional like Ada, a producer who has made some films I truly admire. Daring, original and different. I love the artists who still dare to take risks, this is so rare nowadays. I’m looking forward to hearing her take on my film, and very honored to have it selected by her,” Markowicz told Variety.
The residency is part of an exclusive development initiative from Projeto Paradiso, which additionally awarded Markowicz a Paradiso Scholarship this year to attend the Tfl ScriptLab for the budding concept. It’s the fifth consecutive year that the partner program has offered the residency to a Brazilian filmmaker.
“It’s truly a privilege to be able to dialogue with an industry professional like Ada, a producer who has made some films I truly admire. Daring, original and different. I love the artists who still dare to take risks, this is so rare nowadays. I’m looking forward to hearing her take on my film, and very honored to have it selected by her,” Markowicz told Variety.
The residency is part of an exclusive development initiative from Projeto Paradiso, which additionally awarded Markowicz a Paradiso Scholarship this year to attend the Tfl ScriptLab for the budding concept. It’s the fifth consecutive year that the partner program has offered the residency to a Brazilian filmmaker.
- 5/21/2024
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
Paris-based outfit Luxbox – one of Europe’s biggest sales agents and sometimes producers – of higher-profile Spanish-language art house fare, has swooped on international rights to “Reas,” a prison musical in which ex female cons process their experiences, which was confirmed last week as one of the first eight films selected for Berlin’s Forum section.
The second film by Argentine playwright and writer Lola Arias (“Theater of War”), and winner of the Head Pitchings du Réel Award at Visions du Réel in 2020, “Reas” was also selected by San Sebastian Film Festival for its 2023 Wip Latam.
It will world premiere at the Forum, a section focusing on boundary-breaking titles that challenge aesthetic and narrative norms.
“We feel extremely honored to represent the second feature by artist and filmmaker Lola Arias, whom we discovered at San Sebastian Work In Progress,” Luxbox CEO Fiorella Moretti told Variety.
An international co-production between Gema Juárez and Clarisa Oliveri,...
The second film by Argentine playwright and writer Lola Arias (“Theater of War”), and winner of the Head Pitchings du Réel Award at Visions du Réel in 2020, “Reas” was also selected by San Sebastian Film Festival for its 2023 Wip Latam.
It will world premiere at the Forum, a section focusing on boundary-breaking titles that challenge aesthetic and narrative norms.
“We feel extremely honored to represent the second feature by artist and filmmaker Lola Arias, whom we discovered at San Sebastian Work In Progress,” Luxbox CEO Fiorella Moretti told Variety.
An international co-production between Gema Juárez and Clarisa Oliveri,...
- 12/19/2023
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
When East Meets West (Wemw), is the co-production forum of January’s Trieste Film Festival in Italy.
Fresh projects from Czeck director Barbora Chalupová, Greece’s Asimina Proedrou and Brazil’s Caru Alves de Souza are among the 18 features to be showcased at When East Meets West (Wemw), the Italian co-production forum of the Trieste Film Festival, taking place from January 21-24.
First-time feature directors Anna Llargués Lala Aliyeva, and Leo Černic will also be presenting projects at what will be the 14th edition of Wemw, to some 500 industry professionals.
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“This year, we received an exceptional number of submissions,...
Fresh projects from Czeck director Barbora Chalupová, Greece’s Asimina Proedrou and Brazil’s Caru Alves de Souza are among the 18 features to be showcased at When East Meets West (Wemw), the Italian co-production forum of the Trieste Film Festival, taking place from January 21-24.
First-time feature directors Anna Llargués Lala Aliyeva, and Leo Černic will also be presenting projects at what will be the 14th edition of Wemw, to some 500 industry professionals.
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“This year, we received an exceptional number of submissions,...
- 12/18/2023
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
“Lonely Hearts,” the highly-anticipated third feature from Brazil’s Berlinale-winner Caru Alves de Souza (“My Name Is Baghdad”), named among 10 Next Gen Talents to Track from the country by Variety in February, and a pair of additional homecoming narratives from burgeoning creatives, Uruguayan director Paula Botana’s“The Burned Women” and Dora Gomez’s “Blanca” out of Paraguay, are among the titles selected for Ventana Sur’s 2023 Punto Genero pitching sessions.
Histories unearthed and intimate interpersonal relationships are dominant themes in the remaining selections with films like Argentina-Spain co-production “Brücher. Unaudited Botanical Chronicle,” from Mariana Guzzante and Camila Menéndez,Natalia Solórzano title “She Was Covered In Sequins” and Marta María Borrás’s “The Passengers For The Last Trip.”
“This year, the juries wanted the projects to represent Latin America. We selected eight projects from Latin America, excluding the four projects from Argentina, and the juries decided on one project per country,...
Histories unearthed and intimate interpersonal relationships are dominant themes in the remaining selections with films like Argentina-Spain co-production “Brücher. Unaudited Botanical Chronicle,” from Mariana Guzzante and Camila Menéndez,Natalia Solórzano title “She Was Covered In Sequins” and Marta María Borrás’s “The Passengers For The Last Trip.”
“This year, the juries wanted the projects to represent Latin America. We selected eight projects from Latin America, excluding the four projects from Argentina, and the juries decided on one project per country,...
- 11/30/2023
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
Projeto Paradiso has announced in Cannes that Daniel Bandeira has won the Pop Up Film Residency Paradiso. The program is created exclusively for Brazilian professionals.
Bandeira, currently developing “Red Express,” is also behind “Property”, which premiered at the Berlinale’s Panorama back in February. Born in Pernambuco, he has been a filmmaker since 2001, making his feature debut with “Peer Pressure.”
The three-week Pop Up Film Residency – carried out in partnership with Matthieu Darras of Tatino Films – will take place in the Faroe Islands in Denmark, with Jón Hammer of Kyk Pictures joining as local partner.
“In so many ways, this project will be a step up for me. In terms of production, but also creatively. It’s a complex story,” Bandeira told Variety.
“I really want to think about my potential audience this time. Who are they? It’s the kind of concern I didn’t have in the past,...
Bandeira, currently developing “Red Express,” is also behind “Property”, which premiered at the Berlinale’s Panorama back in February. Born in Pernambuco, he has been a filmmaker since 2001, making his feature debut with “Peer Pressure.”
The three-week Pop Up Film Residency – carried out in partnership with Matthieu Darras of Tatino Films – will take place in the Faroe Islands in Denmark, with Jón Hammer of Kyk Pictures joining as local partner.
“In so many ways, this project will be a step up for me. In terms of production, but also creatively. It’s a complex story,” Bandeira told Variety.
“I really want to think about my potential audience this time. Who are they? It’s the kind of concern I didn’t have in the past,...
- 5/25/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
L.A.-based Outsider Pictures, a U.S. distribution hub for emerging Spanish-language cinema, has secured North American rights to 2020 Ventana Sur Primer Corte title “Fogaréu,” the debut feature from burgeoning Brazilian director Flávia Neves.
The deal, brokered between Outsider (“Blanquita”) and France’s MPM Premium New Visions arm (“The Pink Cloud”), follows the film’s world premiere at Berlinale’s Panorama in 2022, where it snagged the third place Audience Award.
“Fogaréu” was a selection at the Neufchâtel International Film Festival and further competed at the Guadalajara Film Festival, Vancouver Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival and the Mons Love International Festival, where it won the 400 Coups Competition Prize.”
“We’re happy to work with Outsider Pictures again, they’re a great supporter, carrying Latin American voices into North American homes,” Quentin Worthington, head of sales and acquisitions at MPM Premium, told Variety.“
“Infusing fantasy and thriller elements while creating a...
The deal, brokered between Outsider (“Blanquita”) and France’s MPM Premium New Visions arm (“The Pink Cloud”), follows the film’s world premiere at Berlinale’s Panorama in 2022, where it snagged the third place Audience Award.
“Fogaréu” was a selection at the Neufchâtel International Film Festival and further competed at the Guadalajara Film Festival, Vancouver Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival and the Mons Love International Festival, where it won the 400 Coups Competition Prize.”
“We’re happy to work with Outsider Pictures again, they’re a great supporter, carrying Latin American voices into North American homes,” Quentin Worthington, head of sales and acquisitions at MPM Premium, told Variety.“
“Infusing fantasy and thriller elements while creating a...
- 4/12/2023
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
Breaking out of traditional, male, Rio de Janeiro/São Paulo strongholds to finally embrace regional, Black and Indigenous writer-directors, Brazil’s next generation of cinematic talent tackles a huge gamut of themes, styles and concern about social issues. Variety profiles 10 figures who look set to help shape the future of Brazilian filmmaking.
Caru Alves de Souza
Alves de Souza has such films as 2020 Berlin Generation winner “My Name Is Baghdad,” a plucky tale of adolescence on the fringes of society, and 2013’s San Sebastian Horizontes Latinos debut “Underage,” a riveting look at juvenile justice under her belt. She shreds ignorance with her belief “in the power of a cinema that questions established norms but also offers some alternative.”
At this year’s Berlin Co-Production Market, her “Lonely Hearts” deals with the fate of a family porn theater business, its characters “contradictory, flawed, idiosyncratic, and on the other hand, extremely empathetic,...
Caru Alves de Souza
Alves de Souza has such films as 2020 Berlin Generation winner “My Name Is Baghdad,” a plucky tale of adolescence on the fringes of society, and 2013’s San Sebastian Horizontes Latinos debut “Underage,” a riveting look at juvenile justice under her belt. She shreds ignorance with her belief “in the power of a cinema that questions established norms but also offers some alternative.”
At this year’s Berlin Co-Production Market, her “Lonely Hearts” deals with the fate of a family porn theater business, its characters “contradictory, flawed, idiosyncratic, and on the other hand, extremely empathetic,...
- 2/18/2023
- by John Hopewell, Callum McLennan, Anna Marie de la Fuente and Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
For the 20th edition 33 films projects from 26 countries will take part.
New features from Palestinian filmmaker Muayad Alayan and German director Leonie Krippendorff are among those to be presented at the 20th Berliane Co-production Market (February 18 to 22), the first in-person edition since 2020.
The market will provide the opportunity for 33 projects from 26 countries to secure financing and get fired up as international co-productions in the next few years, with sales agents, broadcasters, funding bodies, streaming platforms, film distributors and other financing partners in attendance.
For the official project selection, 17 fiction feature projects with budgets between €600,000 and €5m and chosen from among 302 submissions will take part.
New features from Palestinian filmmaker Muayad Alayan and German director Leonie Krippendorff are among those to be presented at the 20th Berliane Co-production Market (February 18 to 22), the first in-person edition since 2020.
The market will provide the opportunity for 33 projects from 26 countries to secure financing and get fired up as international co-productions in the next few years, with sales agents, broadcasters, funding bodies, streaming platforms, film distributors and other financing partners in attendance.
For the official project selection, 17 fiction feature projects with budgets between €600,000 and €5m and chosen from among 302 submissions will take part.
- 1/9/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The Berlin Film Festival has revealed a raft of titles across strands and also 33 film projects vying for coin at the coproduction market.
Selections for the topical Perspektive Deutsches Kino strand from emerging German talent include “Seven Winters in Tehran” by Steffi Niederzoll, “Elaha” by Milena Aboyan, “Ararat” by Engin Kundag, “The Kidnapping of the Bride” by Sophia Mocorrea, Fabian Stumm’s “Bones and Names,” “Long Long Kiss” by Lukas Röder, Tanja Egen’s “On Mothers and Daughters,” “Ash Wednesday,” by João Pedro Prado and Bárbara Santos, “Nuclear Nomads” by Kilian Armando Friedrich and Tizian Stromp Zargari and “Lonely Oaks” by Fabiana Fragale, Kilian Kuhlendahl and Jens Mühlhoff.
All the selected films in the strand will compete for the Heiner Carow Prize and the Compass-Perspektive-Award, both of which are endowed with €5,000.
A 4K restoration of David Cronenberg’s “Naked Lunch” will open the Berlinale Classics section, which also includes Oliver Schmitz’ “Mapantsula,...
Selections for the topical Perspektive Deutsches Kino strand from emerging German talent include “Seven Winters in Tehran” by Steffi Niederzoll, “Elaha” by Milena Aboyan, “Ararat” by Engin Kundag, “The Kidnapping of the Bride” by Sophia Mocorrea, Fabian Stumm’s “Bones and Names,” “Long Long Kiss” by Lukas Röder, Tanja Egen’s “On Mothers and Daughters,” “Ash Wednesday,” by João Pedro Prado and Bárbara Santos, “Nuclear Nomads” by Kilian Armando Friedrich and Tizian Stromp Zargari and “Lonely Oaks” by Fabiana Fragale, Kilian Kuhlendahl and Jens Mühlhoff.
All the selected films in the strand will compete for the Heiner Carow Prize and the Compass-Perspektive-Award, both of which are endowed with €5,000.
A 4K restoration of David Cronenberg’s “Naked Lunch” will open the Berlinale Classics section, which also includes Oliver Schmitz’ “Mapantsula,...
- 1/9/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The Berlin Film Festival today unveiled the titles selected for its retrospective section chosen by a collection of international directors and actors, including Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, Nadine Labaki, and Tilda Swinton.
This year the theme of the retrospective sidebar is “Coming of Age at the Movies,” and each invited artist was tasked with submitting their personal favorite film that either deals with “being young and growing up” or had a “decisive role in the evolution or development” of their own artistic practice. The retrospective section will also exclusively screen films that have been newly restored.
The full list of invited artists includes Maren Ade, Pedro Almodóvar, Wes Anderson, Juliette Binoche, Lav Diaz, Alice Diop, Ava DuVernay, Nora Fingscheidt, Luca Guadagnino, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, Ethan Hawke, Karoline Herfurth, Niki Karimi, Nadine Labaki, Nadav Lapid, Sergei Loznitsa, Mohammad Rasoulof, Céline Sciamma, Martin Scorsese, Aparna Sen, M. Night Shyamalan, Carla Simón, Abderrahmane Sissako,...
This year the theme of the retrospective sidebar is “Coming of Age at the Movies,” and each invited artist was tasked with submitting their personal favorite film that either deals with “being young and growing up” or had a “decisive role in the evolution or development” of their own artistic practice. The retrospective section will also exclusively screen films that have been newly restored.
The full list of invited artists includes Maren Ade, Pedro Almodóvar, Wes Anderson, Juliette Binoche, Lav Diaz, Alice Diop, Ava DuVernay, Nora Fingscheidt, Luca Guadagnino, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, Ethan Hawke, Karoline Herfurth, Niki Karimi, Nadine Labaki, Nadav Lapid, Sergei Loznitsa, Mohammad Rasoulof, Céline Sciamma, Martin Scorsese, Aparna Sen, M. Night Shyamalan, Carla Simón, Abderrahmane Sissako,...
- 1/9/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The Europe-based Pop Up Film Residency mentorship program has unveiled the filmmakers and mentors who will participate in its summer 2022 edition.
The program, which is among a number of feature development initiatives spearheaded by former TorinoFilmLab artistic director Matthieu Darras, consists of three-week residences focused on one project only in different locations across Europe.
Mentors for the upcoming edition include French director Lucile Hadžihalilović, who won San Sebastian’s Special Jury Prize last year for gothic psychological horror Earwig; Paraguayan filmmaker Marcelo Martinessi, whose debut film The Heiresses broke out with a Berlinale Silver Bear victory in 2018, and Marie Amachoukeli, a Caméra d’Or winner in 2014 for first film Party Girl, who is currently completing her first solo feature.
Confirmed feature directors joining the programme include Brazil’s Caru Alves de Souza, whose joint work with Raffaella Costa, My Name Is Baghdad won best film in the Berlinale...
The program, which is among a number of feature development initiatives spearheaded by former TorinoFilmLab artistic director Matthieu Darras, consists of three-week residences focused on one project only in different locations across Europe.
Mentors for the upcoming edition include French director Lucile Hadžihalilović, who won San Sebastian’s Special Jury Prize last year for gothic psychological horror Earwig; Paraguayan filmmaker Marcelo Martinessi, whose debut film The Heiresses broke out with a Berlinale Silver Bear victory in 2018, and Marie Amachoukeli, a Caméra d’Or winner in 2014 for first film Party Girl, who is currently completing her first solo feature.
Confirmed feature directors joining the programme include Brazil’s Caru Alves de Souza, whose joint work with Raffaella Costa, My Name Is Baghdad won best film in the Berlinale...
- 7/11/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Brazilian writer-director Caru Alves de Souza, whose second feature, “My Name Is Baghdad,” won the Crystal Bear for best film at Berlin’s 2020 Generation 14plus sidebar, has been selected for the Pop Up Film Residency 2022 program.
Alves de Souza will use the Residency to develop “Lonely Hearts,” her new fiction feature.
The award was announced Saturday at Cannes Marché du Film by Josephine Bourgois and Rachel do Valle, executive director and program director at Brazil’s Projeto Paradiso, which is backing the prize, and former Cannes Critics’ Week programmer Matthieu Darras, creator of Pop Up.
Alves de Souza will participate in the mentoring program for the development of a fiction feature, which runs over three weeks, in August, in Vilnius, Lithuania. She will receive a Paradiso Scholarship and travel support in the amount of Reais 5,000, in addition to becoming part of the Paradiso Talent Network.
Alves de Souza impressed with “My Name is Baghdad,...
Alves de Souza will use the Residency to develop “Lonely Hearts,” her new fiction feature.
The award was announced Saturday at Cannes Marché du Film by Josephine Bourgois and Rachel do Valle, executive director and program director at Brazil’s Projeto Paradiso, which is backing the prize, and former Cannes Critics’ Week programmer Matthieu Darras, creator of Pop Up.
Alves de Souza will participate in the mentoring program for the development of a fiction feature, which runs over three weeks, in August, in Vilnius, Lithuania. She will receive a Paradiso Scholarship and travel support in the amount of Reais 5,000, in addition to becoming part of the Paradiso Talent Network.
Alves de Souza impressed with “My Name is Baghdad,...
- 5/21/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Brussels-based sales agency Best Friend Forever has closed a deal for France with ambitious distributor Wayna Pitch on Anita Rocha da Silveira’s “Medusa,” which plays in Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.
The drama, set in contemporary Brazil, centers on 21-year-old Mariana, who belongs to a world where she must do her utmost to keep up the appearance of a perfect woman. In order to resist temptation, she and her girlfriends try their best to control everything and everyone around them, including those they see as sinners. At night, their girl squad put on masks, hunt and beat up women who they believe have deviated from the righteous path.
Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Rocha da Silveira has written, directed and edited three short films: “The Noon Vampire” (2008), “Handball”, and “The Living Dead”.
Her first feature “Mate-Me Por Favor” (Kill Me Please) (2015) was screened in the...
The drama, set in contemporary Brazil, centers on 21-year-old Mariana, who belongs to a world where she must do her utmost to keep up the appearance of a perfect woman. In order to resist temptation, she and her girlfriends try their best to control everything and everyone around them, including those they see as sinners. At night, their girl squad put on masks, hunt and beat up women who they believe have deviated from the righteous path.
Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Rocha da Silveira has written, directed and edited three short films: “The Noon Vampire” (2008), “Handball”, and “The Living Dead”.
Her first feature “Mate-Me Por Favor” (Kill Me Please) (2015) was screened in the...
- 7/14/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Chile’s Santiago International Film Festival (Sanfic), which is preparing for its rescheduled, entirely digital industry section which will run March 18-25, ahead of its traditional in-person festival, scheduled for August, has revealed the projects’ lineup for its Santiago Lab Fiction, Documentary and Series sections.
Sanfic’s brand new Series Lab, headed by Agustina Lumi and Alejandra Marano, has selected six Chilean productions or co-productions representative of the region’s impressive push into original TV production with the legs to travel to international broadcasters and platforms – see Fabula’s Amazon Prime Video pickup “La Jauria” or Germany-Chile co-production “Dignity” for German platform Joyn.
Santiago Series Lab is highlighted by Kathy Harder’s “Silver Bridges,” from “Invisible Heroes” producers Parox. The series was first announced at MipCancun 2018 and dramatizes the origins of Chile’s cocaine trade. Another standout can be found in International Emmy winner Hernán Caffiero’s “Anonymous Voices,” produced by Btf Media.
Sanfic’s brand new Series Lab, headed by Agustina Lumi and Alejandra Marano, has selected six Chilean productions or co-productions representative of the region’s impressive push into original TV production with the legs to travel to international broadcasters and platforms – see Fabula’s Amazon Prime Video pickup “La Jauria” or Germany-Chile co-production “Dignity” for German platform Joyn.
Santiago Series Lab is highlighted by Kathy Harder’s “Silver Bridges,” from “Invisible Heroes” producers Parox. The series was first announced at MipCancun 2018 and dramatizes the origins of Chile’s cocaine trade. Another standout can be found in International Emmy winner Hernán Caffiero’s “Anonymous Voices,” produced by Btf Media.
- 3/5/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Intensely personal projects speak to socio-political situation in Latin America, forces that shaped the region.
Ventana Sur and San Sebastian Film Festival have announced this year’s slate of 17 Proyecta selections looking to promote co-production partnerships between Latin American and Europe.
The annual market in Buenos Aires has gone virtual this year due to the pandemic, and Proyecta participants have recorded video pitches that will be assessed by a panel of producers, programmers and sales agents from December 1-3.
The third annual Proyecta line-up comprises 12 Latin American projects chosen by Paulo Roberto de Carvalho (Autentika Films), Esperanza Luffiego (San Sebastian...
Ventana Sur and San Sebastian Film Festival have announced this year’s slate of 17 Proyecta selections looking to promote co-production partnerships between Latin American and Europe.
The annual market in Buenos Aires has gone virtual this year due to the pandemic, and Proyecta participants have recorded video pitches that will be assessed by a panel of producers, programmers and sales agents from December 1-3.
The third annual Proyecta line-up comprises 12 Latin American projects chosen by Paulo Roberto de Carvalho (Autentika Films), Esperanza Luffiego (San Sebastian...
- 11/13/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Caru Alves de Souza's My Name Is Baghdad, a coming-of-age tale about 17-year-old female skater living in a working-class neighborhood in Sao Paulo, Brazil, won the top prize, the Crystal Bear for best film, in the Generation 14plus sidebar of the 70th Berlin International Film Festival.
Reel Suspects boarded international sales on My Name Is Baghdad ahead of its world premiere in Berlin.
The Generation 14plus international jury gave a special mention to Nobuhiro Suwa's Voices in the Wind. The Japanese drama is based on a real non-functioning phone in the coastal town of Otsuchi that allows people to "call" deceased ...
Reel Suspects boarded international sales on My Name Is Baghdad ahead of its world premiere in Berlin.
The Generation 14plus international jury gave a special mention to Nobuhiro Suwa's Voices in the Wind. The Japanese drama is based on a real non-functioning phone in the coastal town of Otsuchi that allows people to "call" deceased ...
Caru Alves de Souza's My Name Is Baghdad, a coming-of-age tale about 17-year-old female skater living in a working-class neighborhood in Sao Paulo, Brazil, won the top prize, the Crystal Bear for best film, in the Generation 14plus sidebar of the 70th Berlin International Film Festival.
Reel Suspects boarded international sales on My Name Is Baghdad ahead of its world premiere in Berlin.
The Generation 14plus international jury gave a special mention to Nobuhiro Suwa's Voices in the Wind. The Japanese drama is based on a real non-functioning phone in the coastal town of Otsuchi that allows people to "call" deceased ...
Reel Suspects boarded international sales on My Name Is Baghdad ahead of its world premiere in Berlin.
The Generation 14plus international jury gave a special mention to Nobuhiro Suwa's Voices in the Wind. The Japanese drama is based on a real non-functioning phone in the coastal town of Otsuchi that allows people to "call" deceased ...
Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s “There Is No Evil,” a drama about the impact of capital punishment on society and the human condition, won the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival on Saturday.
The seven-person festival jury, headed by Jeremy Irons, spread the prizes far and wide, with no single filmmaker dominating the awards.
American writer-director Eliza Hittman won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize for “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” a drama about teen pregnancy, while the Silver Bear for best director went to South Korea’s Hong Sang Soo for his Seoul-set drama “The Woman Who Ran.”
Rasoulof, who is unable to leave Iran due to a travel ban, faces a one-year prison sentence for “spreading propaganda.” The filmmaker released a statement on Friday expressing his sorrow at missing the premiere of “There Is No Evil”: “I am sorry that I will not be able...
The seven-person festival jury, headed by Jeremy Irons, spread the prizes far and wide, with no single filmmaker dominating the awards.
American writer-director Eliza Hittman won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize for “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” a drama about teen pregnancy, while the Silver Bear for best director went to South Korea’s Hong Sang Soo for his Seoul-set drama “The Woman Who Ran.”
Rasoulof, who is unable to leave Iran due to a travel ban, faces a one-year prison sentence for “spreading propaganda.” The filmmaker released a statement on Friday expressing his sorrow at missing the premiere of “There Is No Evil”: “I am sorry that I will not be able...
- 2/29/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Berlinale 2020: My Name Is Baghdad received the Grand Prix of the international jury in the 14plus section, while The Wolves won it in the Kplus section. The awards for the Generation 14plus section of the 70th Berlin Film Festival have been unveiled. The members of the Youth Jury Generation 14plus have awarded the Crystal Bear for the Best Film to French-Belgian-Rwandan co-production Our Lady of the Nile, helmed by French-Afghan director Atiq Rahimi, already world-premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last September. A Special Mention was given to British documentary White Riot by Rubika Shah, world-premiered at the London Film Festival last October. The Grand Prix for the Best Film from the Generation 14plus International Jury went to Brazilian film My Name Is Baghdad, directed by Caru Alves de Souza, and a special mention was given to Voices in the Wind by Japanese master Nobuhiro Suwa. On the other.
Competition
“All the Dead Ones”
Caetano Godardo, Marco Dutra
Following up on their Locarno-prized “Good Manners,” genre auteur Dutra and Gotardo deliver a lushly turned-out family drama that converts ghostliness into political metaphor, conflating 1899 Sao Paulo with its high-rise present, asking if the uneasy relationship between Brazil’s white elite and black majority has essentially changed.
Sales: Indie Sales
Encounters
“Los Conductos”
Camilo Restrepo
Pinky, on the run from a sect, takes to squatting, making T-shirts for a living, taking drugs and spinning images of the Apocalypse, damnation, revenge. A spectral, crazed allegory of Colombian post-civil conflict reinsertion that won Mar del Plata’s 2019 Works in Progress.
Sales: Best Friend Forever
Panorama
“A Common Crime”
Francisco Márquez
Set in class-riven Argentina and packing, reportedly, a great finale and commanding performance from lead Elisa Carricajo as an Argentine university teacher who fails to help her maid’s son, with literally haunting consequences.
“All the Dead Ones”
Caetano Godardo, Marco Dutra
Following up on their Locarno-prized “Good Manners,” genre auteur Dutra and Gotardo deliver a lushly turned-out family drama that converts ghostliness into political metaphor, conflating 1899 Sao Paulo with its high-rise present, asking if the uneasy relationship between Brazil’s white elite and black majority has essentially changed.
Sales: Indie Sales
Encounters
“Los Conductos”
Camilo Restrepo
Pinky, on the run from a sect, takes to squatting, making T-shirts for a living, taking drugs and spinning images of the Apocalypse, damnation, revenge. A spectral, crazed allegory of Colombian post-civil conflict reinsertion that won Mar del Plata’s 2019 Works in Progress.
Sales: Best Friend Forever
Panorama
“A Common Crime”
Francisco Márquez
Set in class-riven Argentina and packing, reportedly, a great finale and commanding performance from lead Elisa Carricajo as an Argentine university teacher who fails to help her maid’s son, with literally haunting consequences.
- 2/21/2020
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Reel Suspects has acquired international sales rights to Caru Alves de Souza’s coming-of-age tale “My Name is Baghdad,” which will world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in the Generation 14 section.
The film was produced by Manjericão Filmes and Tangerina Entretenimento. It follows a 17-year-old female skater named Baghdad who lives in a working-class neighborhood in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. When she meets a group of female skateboarders, her life suddenly changes. The film is loosely based on the book “Bagda, o Skatista” by Toni Brandão.
De Souza said the film came from her “desire to work with stories and everyday situations lived by characters from a working class neighborhood on the outskirts of the city of São Paulo, seeking the poetry that exists in prosaic situations.” She said she was also drawn to the idea of portraying “strong and unusual female characters.”
“We have been following...
The film was produced by Manjericão Filmes and Tangerina Entretenimento. It follows a 17-year-old female skater named Baghdad who lives in a working-class neighborhood in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. When she meets a group of female skateboarders, her life suddenly changes. The film is loosely based on the book “Bagda, o Skatista” by Toni Brandão.
De Souza said the film came from her “desire to work with stories and everyday situations lived by characters from a working class neighborhood on the outskirts of the city of São Paulo, seeking the poetry that exists in prosaic situations.” She said she was also drawn to the idea of portraying “strong and unusual female characters.”
“We have been following...
- 1/24/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Matteo Garrone to present ‘Pinocchio’ as the first Berlinale Special Gala.
The Berlinale has revealed the first films set to be screened at the 70th edition of the festival.
They include the live-action adaptation of Pinocchio, from Italian director Matteo Garrone, which is the first Berlinale Special Gala to be announced – a category that replaces ‘out of competition’. It will mark the international premiere of the film, starring Roberto Benigni, which is released in Italy this weekend.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The first 18 films selected for the Panorama strand have also been named, including 11 world premieres.
Among...
The Berlinale has revealed the first films set to be screened at the 70th edition of the festival.
They include the live-action adaptation of Pinocchio, from Italian director Matteo Garrone, which is the first Berlinale Special Gala to be announced – a category that replaces ‘out of competition’. It will mark the international premiere of the film, starring Roberto Benigni, which is released in Italy this weekend.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The first 18 films selected for the Panorama strand have also been named, including 11 world premieres.
Among...
- 12/17/2019
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Matteo Garrone to present ‘Pinocchio’ as the first Berlinale Special Gala.
The Berlinale has revealed the first films set to be screened at the 70th edition of the festival.
They include the live-action adaptation of Pinocchio, from Italian director Matteo Garrone, which is the first Berlinale Special Gala to be announced – a category that replaces ‘out of competition’. It will mark the international premiere of the film, starring Roberto Benigni, which is released in Italy this weekend.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The first 18 films selected for the Panorama strand have also been named, including 11 world premieres.
Among...
The Berlinale has revealed the first films set to be screened at the 70th edition of the festival.
They include the live-action adaptation of Pinocchio, from Italian director Matteo Garrone, which is the first Berlinale Special Gala to be announced – a category that replaces ‘out of competition’. It will mark the international premiere of the film, starring Roberto Benigni, which is released in Italy this weekend.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The first 18 films selected for the Panorama strand have also been named, including 11 world premieres.
Among...
- 12/17/2019
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
The 2020 Berlin Film Festival, the first edition under new artistic director Carlo Chatrian, has unveiled its first wave of titles.
Matteo Garrone’s Pinocchio, starring Roberto Benigni, will have its international premiere at the festival as a Berlinale Special Gala. The team have removed the ‘out of competition’ classification this year and those films will now play as Special Galas. Pinocchio is released theatrically in Italy this weekend and Berlin will mark its festival premiere.
“Garrone succeeds in re-telling the well-known story with his very own world of images. Although he is faithful to Carlo Collodi’s ideas, he has nevertheless created a very personal Pinocchio that is much more cheerful than we’ve experienced before,” commented Carlo Chatrian on the selection.
Also announced today were four films in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino program, which presents debut features. The section will open with Kids Run from Barbara Ott, whose graduation...
Matteo Garrone’s Pinocchio, starring Roberto Benigni, will have its international premiere at the festival as a Berlinale Special Gala. The team have removed the ‘out of competition’ classification this year and those films will now play as Special Galas. Pinocchio is released theatrically in Italy this weekend and Berlin will mark its festival premiere.
“Garrone succeeds in re-telling the well-known story with his very own world of images. Although he is faithful to Carlo Collodi’s ideas, he has nevertheless created a very personal Pinocchio that is much more cheerful than we’ve experienced before,” commented Carlo Chatrian on the selection.
Also announced today were four films in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino program, which presents debut features. The section will open with Kids Run from Barbara Ott, whose graduation...
- 12/17/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
17 projects will receive support from the American institute.
Tribeca Film Institute (Tfi) announced on Tuesday its support for a broad group of projects from Latin America and the Caribbean.
Through support from Bloomberg Philanthropies and Canacine, mentoring, workshops and more, Tfi aims to help more stories from the region’s filmmaking community reach and engage with new audiences.
This support is both monetary, including the more than $700,000 the Tfi Latin America Fund has awarded to more than 60 filmmakers from 15 Latin American countries, and through hands-on mentoring. Tfi will be traveling many of this year’s supported projects to take meetings at its annual market for filmmakers, Tfi Network, which runs during the Tribeca Film Festival (April 19-30).
Tfi also sponsors film festivals like DocsMX in Mexico City, supports mentoring projects at regional events like Nuevas Miradas Filmmaker Retreat in Cuba, to participating in workshops at gatherings such as the Cartagena Film Festival in Colombia.
The films chosen...
Tribeca Film Institute (Tfi) announced on Tuesday its support for a broad group of projects from Latin America and the Caribbean.
Through support from Bloomberg Philanthropies and Canacine, mentoring, workshops and more, Tfi aims to help more stories from the region’s filmmaking community reach and engage with new audiences.
This support is both monetary, including the more than $700,000 the Tfi Latin America Fund has awarded to more than 60 filmmakers from 15 Latin American countries, and through hands-on mentoring. Tfi will be traveling many of this year’s supported projects to take meetings at its annual market for filmmakers, Tfi Network, which runs during the Tribeca Film Festival (April 19-30).
Tfi also sponsors film festivals like DocsMX in Mexico City, supports mentoring projects at regional events like Nuevas Miradas Filmmaker Retreat in Cuba, to participating in workshops at gatherings such as the Cartagena Film Festival in Colombia.
The films chosen...
- 3/29/2017
- ScreenDaily
Top brass at the festival, set to run from September 24-October 8, have announced the line-up for the sidebar of 41 features and 28 shorts.
This year sees the introduction of new prizes for best direction of a documentary and a special jury prize for New Trends.
Last year the Premiere Brasil award for best fiction was shared for the first time between two films – Caru Alves de Souza’s De Menor (Underage) and Fernando Coimbra’s O Lobo Atrás Da Porta (Wolf At The Door (pictured).
Première Brasil 2014 fiction competition entries are: Ausência; Casa Grande; Love Film Festival; O Fim De Uma Era; O Fim E Os Meios; O Outro Lado Do Paraíso; Último Cine Drive-in; Obra; Prometo Um Dia Deixar Essa Cidade; and Sangue Azul.
Première Brasil documentary competition entries are: À Queima Roupa; A Vida Privada Dos Hipopótamos; Campo De Jogo; Esse Viver Ninguém Me Tira; Favela Gay; Meia Hora E As Manchetes Que Viram Manchete; My Name...
This year sees the introduction of new prizes for best direction of a documentary and a special jury prize for New Trends.
Last year the Premiere Brasil award for best fiction was shared for the first time between two films – Caru Alves de Souza’s De Menor (Underage) and Fernando Coimbra’s O Lobo Atrás Da Porta (Wolf At The Door (pictured).
Première Brasil 2014 fiction competition entries are: Ausência; Casa Grande; Love Film Festival; O Fim De Uma Era; O Fim E Os Meios; O Outro Lado Do Paraíso; Último Cine Drive-in; Obra; Prometo Um Dia Deixar Essa Cidade; and Sangue Azul.
Première Brasil documentary competition entries are: À Queima Roupa; A Vida Privada Dos Hipopótamos; Campo De Jogo; Esse Viver Ninguém Me Tira; Favela Gay; Meia Hora E As Manchetes Que Viram Manchete; My Name...
- 9/3/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Top brass at the festival, set to run from September 24-October 8, have announced 41 features and 28 shorts from the strand.
This year sees the introduction of new prizes for best direction of a documentary and a special jury prize for New Trends.
Last year the Premiere Brasil award for best fiction was shared for the first time between two films – Caru Alves de Souza’s De Menor (Underage) and Fernando Coimbra’s O Lobo Atrás Da Porta (Wolf At The Door, pictured).
Première Brasil 2014 fiction competition entries are: Ausência; Casa Grande; Love Film Festival; O Fim De Uma Era; O Fim E Os Meios; O Outro Lado Do Paraíso; Último Cine Drive-in; Obra; Prometo Um Dia Deixar Essa Cidade; and Sangue Azul.
Première Brasil documentary competition entries are: À Queima Roupa; A Vida Privada Dos Hipopótamos; Campo De Jogo; Esse Viver Ninguém Me Tira; Favela Gay; Meia Hora E As Manchetes Que Viram Manchete; My Name Is Now...
This year sees the introduction of new prizes for best direction of a documentary and a special jury prize for New Trends.
Last year the Premiere Brasil award for best fiction was shared for the first time between two films – Caru Alves de Souza’s De Menor (Underage) and Fernando Coimbra’s O Lobo Atrás Da Porta (Wolf At The Door, pictured).
Première Brasil 2014 fiction competition entries are: Ausência; Casa Grande; Love Film Festival; O Fim De Uma Era; O Fim E Os Meios; O Outro Lado Do Paraíso; Último Cine Drive-in; Obra; Prometo Um Dia Deixar Essa Cidade; and Sangue Azul.
Première Brasil documentary competition entries are: À Queima Roupa; A Vida Privada Dos Hipopótamos; Campo De Jogo; Esse Viver Ninguém Me Tira; Favela Gay; Meia Hora E As Manchetes Que Viram Manchete; My Name Is Now...
- 9/2/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Echo of the Mountain also scoops a top prize at the film festival in Mexico.Scroll down for full list of winners
Matias Lucchesi’s debut feature Natural Sciences (Ciencias naturales) scooped a top prize, the Golden Mayahuel and €14,700 ($20,000) in cash, in the Ibero-American competition of the 29th Guadalajara Film Festival (Ficg), March 21-30.
The Argentinian production follows an adolescent girl’s quest to reconnect with her estranged father and was launched last month at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Generation Kplus Grand Prix.
Sold by Urban Distribution, it beat competition from 18 other titles to take the top prize and also received the best screenplay award and the Feisal (Latin American Film Schools) trophy.
Lead stars Paula Herzog and Paola Barrientos shared the best actress prize.
Echo of the Mountain (Eco de la Montana), a documentary directed by veteran Nicolas Echevarria, won the prize for best Mexican film, which included...
Matias Lucchesi’s debut feature Natural Sciences (Ciencias naturales) scooped a top prize, the Golden Mayahuel and €14,700 ($20,000) in cash, in the Ibero-American competition of the 29th Guadalajara Film Festival (Ficg), March 21-30.
The Argentinian production follows an adolescent girl’s quest to reconnect with her estranged father and was launched last month at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Generation Kplus Grand Prix.
Sold by Urban Distribution, it beat competition from 18 other titles to take the top prize and also received the best screenplay award and the Feisal (Latin American Film Schools) trophy.
Lead stars Paula Herzog and Paola Barrientos shared the best actress prize.
Echo of the Mountain (Eco de la Montana), a documentary directed by veteran Nicolas Echevarria, won the prize for best Mexican film, which included...
- 3/30/2014
- by alexisgrivas@yahoo.com (Alexis Grivas)
- ScreenDaily
The 15th annual Rio International Film Festival winners were announced on October 10 at an awards ceremony held at the festival’s downtown Armazem 6 dockland pavilion.Scroll down for full list of winners
As in every year, the awards were exclusively for domestic films that screened in the Premiere Brasil section, dedicated to new work from local directors.
For the first time in festival history the most prestigious prize, the Redentor award presented to the Best Fiction Feature, was shared between two films, both from first-time directors: Caru Alves de Souza’s Underage (De Menor) and Fernando Coimbra’s Wolf At The Door (O Lobo Atrás da Porta).
Underage touches on a topical subject that divides Brazilian society about reducing the age of criminal responsibility for heinous crimes.
It follows the steps of a young woman, Helena (Rita Batata), a recently graduated attorney who works as a public defender of children and adolescents and also takes care of...
As in every year, the awards were exclusively for domestic films that screened in the Premiere Brasil section, dedicated to new work from local directors.
For the first time in festival history the most prestigious prize, the Redentor award presented to the Best Fiction Feature, was shared between two films, both from first-time directors: Caru Alves de Souza’s Underage (De Menor) and Fernando Coimbra’s Wolf At The Door (O Lobo Atrás da Porta).
Underage touches on a topical subject that divides Brazilian society about reducing the age of criminal responsibility for heinous crimes.
It follows the steps of a young woman, Helena (Rita Batata), a recently graduated attorney who works as a public defender of children and adolescents and also takes care of...
- 10/11/2013
- by elaineguerini@terra.com.br (Elaine Guerini)
- ScreenDaily
Top brass at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival have revealed the 11 features and eight documentaries that will compete for the Redentor prizes.
The selection sees a healthy mix of first-time filmmakers up against established industry names from more than a dozen states including Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Pernambuco, Maranhão, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Bahia, Ceará, Paraíba and Santa Catarina.
Last year’s top Redentor prize went to first-time filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho’s O Som Ao Redor (Neighbouring Sounds), which earned the best film and screenplay honours.
Premiere Brazil 2013 full competition selection:
Fiction
De Menor (Underage), dir Caru Alves de Souza (São Paulo);
Entre Nós (Sheep’s Clothing), dir Paulo Morelli (Sao Paulo);
Estrada 47 - A Montanha (Road 47 - The Mountain), dir Vicente Ferraz (São Paulo) – world premiere;
O Homem Das Multidões (The Man Of The Crowd), dir Marcelo Gomes & Cao Guimarães (Minas Gerais) – world premiere;
Jogo Das Decapitações (Beheadings Game), dir Sérgio...
The selection sees a healthy mix of first-time filmmakers up against established industry names from more than a dozen states including Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Pernambuco, Maranhão, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Bahia, Ceará, Paraíba and Santa Catarina.
Last year’s top Redentor prize went to first-time filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho’s O Som Ao Redor (Neighbouring Sounds), which earned the best film and screenplay honours.
Premiere Brazil 2013 full competition selection:
Fiction
De Menor (Underage), dir Caru Alves de Souza (São Paulo);
Entre Nós (Sheep’s Clothing), dir Paulo Morelli (Sao Paulo);
Estrada 47 - A Montanha (Road 47 - The Mountain), dir Vicente Ferraz (São Paulo) – world premiere;
O Homem Das Multidões (The Man Of The Crowd), dir Marcelo Gomes & Cao Guimarães (Minas Gerais) – world premiere;
Jogo Das Decapitações (Beheadings Game), dir Sérgio...
- 9/3/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Cannes titles including Heli and La jaula de oro among titles to compete in Horizontes Latinos at the 61st San Sebastian Festival
The programme of Horizontes Latinos at the 61st San Sebastian Festival has been revealed, including 11 productions from Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Brazil and Uruguay. All have either competed or been presented at major international festivals, but have not yet been screened released in Spain.
Diego Quemada-Díez’s La Jaula De Oro will open the section.
The selected films will compete for the Horizontes Award, to be decided by a specific jury and carrying $47,000 (€35,000), of which $13,000 (€10,000) will go to the director of the winning film and the remaining amount to the distributor in Spain.
Horizontes Latinos
Anina
Alfredo Soderguit (Uruguay-Colombia)
First work from the illustrator and animator Alfredo Soderguit, starring the 10-year-old Anina, whose palindromic name brings mockery from her schoolmates, and particularly Yisel, a girl she calls “the elephant”. Anina loses her patience and the two...
The programme of Horizontes Latinos at the 61st San Sebastian Festival has been revealed, including 11 productions from Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Brazil and Uruguay. All have either competed or been presented at major international festivals, but have not yet been screened released in Spain.
Diego Quemada-Díez’s La Jaula De Oro will open the section.
The selected films will compete for the Horizontes Award, to be decided by a specific jury and carrying $47,000 (€35,000), of which $13,000 (€10,000) will go to the director of the winning film and the remaining amount to the distributor in Spain.
Horizontes Latinos
Anina
Alfredo Soderguit (Uruguay-Colombia)
First work from the illustrator and animator Alfredo Soderguit, starring the 10-year-old Anina, whose palindromic name brings mockery from her schoolmates, and particularly Yisel, a girl she calls “the elephant”. Anina loses her patience and the two...
- 8/27/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Films in Progress is a program of aid to Latin American film running twice yearly, organized by the San Sebastian International Film Festival and the Rencontres Cinémas d'Amérique Latine in Toulouse. This edition a total of 94 film entries were received from 16 countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela. Six films have been selected to participate in Films in Progress 22 on September 25 and 26 at the 60th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival.
This year's titles are: Asalto a la Fábrica de Caloventores (Argentina) by Estanislao Buisel; De Menor(Brazil) by Caru Alves de Souza; Gloria (Chile) by Sebastián Lelio, who already participated at the San Sebastian Festival with the film La Sagrada Familia (2005) in the Horizontes Latinos section; Las Horas Muertas (Mexico - Spain - France) by Aarón Fernández; Las Niñas Quispe (Chile - France - Argentina) by Sebastián Sepúlveda; and Tanta Agua (Uruguay) by Ana Guevara and Leticia Jorge, a film also selected for the last edition of Films in Progress 21 at the Rencontres Cinémas d'Amérique Latine in Toulouse.
The following awards will be granted at Films in Progress 22:
Films in Progress Industry Award: the companies Daniel Goldstein S.L., Deluxe Spain, Dolby Iberia, Imasblue, Kodak (División de Cine Profesional), Laserfilm Cine y Video, Nephilim Producciones, No Problem Sonido and Vértigo Films will assume the post-production of a film until obtaining a 35mm copy subtitled in English and its distribution in Spain.
Norteado-Films in Progress Award: The production companies Film Tank, Tiburón Producciones, Imcine Conaculta, McCormick de México and Idn, will present Usd 5,000 to one of the films selected for Films in Progress 22 by way of acknowledgement for the awards granted to Norteando in 2008, thanks to which they were able to complete and distribute the film. In addition, the Films in Progress movies will have the option to international diffusion in the Instituto Cervantes world network.
Films in Progress enjoys the support of the following companies and institutions: Cine Sin Fronteras (Csf), Daniel Goldstein S.L., Deluxe Spain, Dolby Iberia, Film Tank, Idn, Imasblue, Imcine Conaculta, Instituto Cervantes, Kodak (División de Cine Profesional), Laserfilm Cine y Video, McCormick de México, Media Mundus, Nephilim Producciones, No Problem Sonido, Programa Ibermedia, Tiburón Films, Vértigo Films, and the collaboration of Caisse Centrale D'Activités Sociales (Ccas), Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée (Cnc), CinÉ +, Cinéfondation, Commune Image, Confédération Internationale des Cinémas d'Art et Essai (Cicae), Conseil Général de la Haute Garonne, Conseil Régional Midi-Pyrénées, Crous de Toulouse, Eaux Vives, École Supérieure d'Audiovisuel (Esav), EP2C - Postproduction Training Programme, Europa Distribution, Firefly, La Trame, Mactari, Mairie de Toulouse, Marché du Film, Signis and Titra Tvs
Selection
Asalto A La FÁBrica De Caloventores
Estanislao Buisel Quintana (Argentina) All sorts of new things are happening to Julio: a love affair, a new job and a project with an old friend. His project is to make a photonovel; watching him, we closely follow the development of an audiovisual narration process. Love is love, and his new job sales assistant in a bookshop. Julio soon realises that it's very easy to steal there and he starts taking whatever he can. This complicates the relationship with his girlfriend, with his project and with his job.
De Menor / Underage (Underage)
Caru Alves de Souza (Brazil) Helena, a young attorney, has the custody of her teenage brother, Caio. Her daily routine is now about raising her brother and doing her job in the Juvenile Court at Santos, Brazil, where she works as a public defender for children and adolescents who have broken the law. The harmony of their relationship is put to the test when Caio commits a serious crime and Helena is landed with the responsibility of defending him from the accusations.
Gloria
Sebastián Lelio (Chile) Gloria is a lively, attractive 58 year-old Chilean woman about to enter a new phase of her life; old age. She is a great talker, lots of fun and always stands out from the others. Her days revolve around her work, an active social life, and doing what she can for her two children from a failed marriage. She pines for another chance at love, but her relationships never prosper. On this journey, she will find the courage to confront the challenge of aging and the advantages of doing so alone, proudly, with her head held high and without losing the smile that defines her as a woman.
Las Horas Muertas / The Empty Hours (The Empty Hours)
Aarón Fernández (Mexico-spain-france) Sebastian, 17, takes over his uncle's motel on the desolate tropical coast of Veracruz single-handed. Miranda, 35, a local estate agent, occasionally uses the motel to meet Mario, her lover. Mario is always late for their amorous escapades, and Miranda has to wait for him. During these intervals, Sebastian and Miranda gradually grow closer to one another, even if they know that at the end of the day whatever happens between them can never last.
Las NiÑAs Quispe
Sebastián Sepúlveda (Chile-france-argentina) Based on a true story occurring in 1974, the film tells the tale of the sisters Justa, Lucia and Luciana Quispe, shepherds from the altiplano who lead a lonely life. Their recent mourning for the death of a sister and news arriving from the outside plague them with existential doubts that will relentlessly drive them to a tragic end.
Tanta Agua / So Much Water (So Much Water)
Ana Guevara, Leticia Jorge (Uruguay-mexico-the Netherlands) Lucia is 14, but looks younger. She's thin and has the body of a child. Her parents are divorced; she and her brother live with their mother. Their father Alberto, a chiropractor, only sees his kids occasionally. He rents a cabin at the hot springs. The holiday is going to be short and it looks as if it's about to rain. Their hearts sink on arrival. It's forbidden to use the pools because of an electric storm. Alberto tries to keep them amused and make good of their disastrous family break, but the harder he tries the worse it gets.
This year's titles are: Asalto a la Fábrica de Caloventores (Argentina) by Estanislao Buisel; De Menor(Brazil) by Caru Alves de Souza; Gloria (Chile) by Sebastián Lelio, who already participated at the San Sebastian Festival with the film La Sagrada Familia (2005) in the Horizontes Latinos section; Las Horas Muertas (Mexico - Spain - France) by Aarón Fernández; Las Niñas Quispe (Chile - France - Argentina) by Sebastián Sepúlveda; and Tanta Agua (Uruguay) by Ana Guevara and Leticia Jorge, a film also selected for the last edition of Films in Progress 21 at the Rencontres Cinémas d'Amérique Latine in Toulouse.
The following awards will be granted at Films in Progress 22:
Films in Progress Industry Award: the companies Daniel Goldstein S.L., Deluxe Spain, Dolby Iberia, Imasblue, Kodak (División de Cine Profesional), Laserfilm Cine y Video, Nephilim Producciones, No Problem Sonido and Vértigo Films will assume the post-production of a film until obtaining a 35mm copy subtitled in English and its distribution in Spain.
Norteado-Films in Progress Award: The production companies Film Tank, Tiburón Producciones, Imcine Conaculta, McCormick de México and Idn, will present Usd 5,000 to one of the films selected for Films in Progress 22 by way of acknowledgement for the awards granted to Norteando in 2008, thanks to which they were able to complete and distribute the film. In addition, the Films in Progress movies will have the option to international diffusion in the Instituto Cervantes world network.
Films in Progress enjoys the support of the following companies and institutions: Cine Sin Fronteras (Csf), Daniel Goldstein S.L., Deluxe Spain, Dolby Iberia, Film Tank, Idn, Imasblue, Imcine Conaculta, Instituto Cervantes, Kodak (División de Cine Profesional), Laserfilm Cine y Video, McCormick de México, Media Mundus, Nephilim Producciones, No Problem Sonido, Programa Ibermedia, Tiburón Films, Vértigo Films, and the collaboration of Caisse Centrale D'Activités Sociales (Ccas), Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée (Cnc), CinÉ +, Cinéfondation, Commune Image, Confédération Internationale des Cinémas d'Art et Essai (Cicae), Conseil Général de la Haute Garonne, Conseil Régional Midi-Pyrénées, Crous de Toulouse, Eaux Vives, École Supérieure d'Audiovisuel (Esav), EP2C - Postproduction Training Programme, Europa Distribution, Firefly, La Trame, Mactari, Mairie de Toulouse, Marché du Film, Signis and Titra Tvs
Selection
Asalto A La FÁBrica De Caloventores
Estanislao Buisel Quintana (Argentina) All sorts of new things are happening to Julio: a love affair, a new job and a project with an old friend. His project is to make a photonovel; watching him, we closely follow the development of an audiovisual narration process. Love is love, and his new job sales assistant in a bookshop. Julio soon realises that it's very easy to steal there and he starts taking whatever he can. This complicates the relationship with his girlfriend, with his project and with his job.
De Menor / Underage (Underage)
Caru Alves de Souza (Brazil) Helena, a young attorney, has the custody of her teenage brother, Caio. Her daily routine is now about raising her brother and doing her job in the Juvenile Court at Santos, Brazil, where she works as a public defender for children and adolescents who have broken the law. The harmony of their relationship is put to the test when Caio commits a serious crime and Helena is landed with the responsibility of defending him from the accusations.
Gloria
Sebastián Lelio (Chile) Gloria is a lively, attractive 58 year-old Chilean woman about to enter a new phase of her life; old age. She is a great talker, lots of fun and always stands out from the others. Her days revolve around her work, an active social life, and doing what she can for her two children from a failed marriage. She pines for another chance at love, but her relationships never prosper. On this journey, she will find the courage to confront the challenge of aging and the advantages of doing so alone, proudly, with her head held high and without losing the smile that defines her as a woman.
Las Horas Muertas / The Empty Hours (The Empty Hours)
Aarón Fernández (Mexico-spain-france) Sebastian, 17, takes over his uncle's motel on the desolate tropical coast of Veracruz single-handed. Miranda, 35, a local estate agent, occasionally uses the motel to meet Mario, her lover. Mario is always late for their amorous escapades, and Miranda has to wait for him. During these intervals, Sebastian and Miranda gradually grow closer to one another, even if they know that at the end of the day whatever happens between them can never last.
Las NiÑAs Quispe
Sebastián Sepúlveda (Chile-france-argentina) Based on a true story occurring in 1974, the film tells the tale of the sisters Justa, Lucia and Luciana Quispe, shepherds from the altiplano who lead a lonely life. Their recent mourning for the death of a sister and news arriving from the outside plague them with existential doubts that will relentlessly drive them to a tragic end.
Tanta Agua / So Much Water (So Much Water)
Ana Guevara, Leticia Jorge (Uruguay-mexico-the Netherlands) Lucia is 14, but looks younger. She's thin and has the body of a child. Her parents are divorced; she and her brother live with their mother. Their father Alberto, a chiropractor, only sees his kids occasionally. He rents a cabin at the hot springs. The holiday is going to be short and it looks as if it's about to rain. Their hearts sink on arrival. It's forbidden to use the pools because of an electric storm. Alberto tries to keep them amused and make good of their disastrous family break, but the harder he tries the worse it gets.
- 8/29/2012
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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