Oh My Gómez! Films’ Ramiro Pavón, producer of Ana Katz’s Sundance title “El perro que no calla,” and Rocío Romero Quintana, behind 2016 Berlinale Generation 14+ winner “Las Plantas,” will both pitch their latest doc projects at this month’s Sanfic Industria, one of the biggest industry forums in South America.
Another project at its Documentary Lab is sourced from Paula Zyngierman at Argentina’s MaravillaCine, which backed “That Weekend” and “Marilyn.”
“This year we received a large number of applications from both directors and producers with large experience as well as projects by new talents,” Gabriela Sandoval, head of Sanfic Industria, told Variety, noting that some projects have been sourced from allied international industry platforms such as Industria Guadalajara, DocsMx, Fidba, Taller de productores de Panamá, Arca Residencia.
The 10 Documentary Lab projects will be presented in Santiago de Chile over August 23-26 with the final pitch on Aug. 26 before a live and online jury.
Another project at its Documentary Lab is sourced from Paula Zyngierman at Argentina’s MaravillaCine, which backed “That Weekend” and “Marilyn.”
“This year we received a large number of applications from both directors and producers with large experience as well as projects by new talents,” Gabriela Sandoval, head of Sanfic Industria, told Variety, noting that some projects have been sourced from allied international industry platforms such as Industria Guadalajara, DocsMx, Fidba, Taller de productores de Panamá, Arca Residencia.
The 10 Documentary Lab projects will be presented in Santiago de Chile over August 23-26 with the final pitch on Aug. 26 before a live and online jury.
- 8/8/2023
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
Category A festival in Argentina ran November 3-13.
Brazilian Haroldo Borges’ exploration of thorny adolescence in Bittersweet Rain took the best film award at the 37th Mar del Plata International Film Festival (Mdpiff) which wrapped Saturday.
Also a winner of industry prizes at Guadalajara and Ventana Sur and Málaga’s work-in-progress sections, Bittersweet Rain follows fatherless 15-year-old Bruno from a small town as he faces a degenerative eye disease.
Moreover, the drama claimed the audience award and received a special mention for the entire cast. Shot with non-professional actors, it is Borges’ first solo directorial outing after Son Of Ox and Noches desveladas.
Brazilian Haroldo Borges’ exploration of thorny adolescence in Bittersweet Rain took the best film award at the 37th Mar del Plata International Film Festival (Mdpiff) which wrapped Saturday.
Also a winner of industry prizes at Guadalajara and Ventana Sur and Málaga’s work-in-progress sections, Bittersweet Rain follows fatherless 15-year-old Bruno from a small town as he faces a degenerative eye disease.
Moreover, the drama claimed the audience award and received a special mention for the entire cast. Shot with non-professional actors, it is Borges’ first solo directorial outing after Son Of Ox and Noches desveladas.
- 11/13/2022
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
Category A festival in Argentina ran November 3-13.
Brazilian Haroldo Borges’ exploration of thorny adolescence in Bittersweet Rain took the best film award at the 37th Mar del Plata International Film Festival (Mdpiff) which wrapped Saturday.
Also a winner of industry prizes at Guadalajara and Ventana Sur and Málaga’s work-in-progress sections, Bittersweet Rain follows fatherless 15-year-old Bruno from a small town as he faces a degenerative eye disease.
Moreover, the drama claimed the audience award and received a special mention for the entire cast. Shot with non-professional actors, it is Borges’ first solo directorial outing after Son Of Ox and Noches desveladas.
Brazilian Haroldo Borges’ exploration of thorny adolescence in Bittersweet Rain took the best film award at the 37th Mar del Plata International Film Festival (Mdpiff) which wrapped Saturday.
Also a winner of industry prizes at Guadalajara and Ventana Sur and Málaga’s work-in-progress sections, Bittersweet Rain follows fatherless 15-year-old Bruno from a small town as he faces a degenerative eye disease.
Moreover, the drama claimed the audience award and received a special mention for the entire cast. Shot with non-professional actors, it is Borges’ first solo directorial outing after Son Of Ox and Noches desveladas.
- 11/13/2022
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
Feature projects range from eco-thrillers to animation and sci-fi.
Ten Latin American feature projects have been pitched to potential partners at Iberseries & Platino Industria’s first co-production forum which took place in Madrid on September 28 and was organised in collaboration with the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Ssiff).
The Forum ran as part of the second Iberseries & Platino Industria event, which took place from September 27-29.
The projects ranged from eco-thrillers to animation and sci-fi. Two of the projects, by Clarisa Navas and Ulysses Porra, were given the opportunity to pitch in Madrid having previously garnered a strong response at...
Ten Latin American feature projects have been pitched to potential partners at Iberseries & Platino Industria’s first co-production forum which took place in Madrid on September 28 and was organised in collaboration with the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Ssiff).
The Forum ran as part of the second Iberseries & Platino Industria event, which took place from September 27-29.
The projects ranged from eco-thrillers to animation and sci-fi. Two of the projects, by Clarisa Navas and Ulysses Porra, were given the opportunity to pitch in Madrid having previously garnered a strong response at...
- 10/1/2022
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
Feature projects range from eco-thrillers to animation and sci-fi.
Ten Latin American feature projects have been pitched to potential partners at Iberseries & Platino Industria’s first co-production forum which took place in Madrid on September 28 and was organised in collaboration with the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Ssiff).
The Forum ran as part of the second Iberseries & Platino Industria event, which took place from September 27-29.
The projects ranged from eco-thrillers to animation and sci-fi. Two of the projects, by Clarisa Navas and Ulysses Porra, were given the opportunity to pitch in Madrid having previously garnered a strong response at...
Ten Latin American feature projects have been pitched to potential partners at Iberseries & Platino Industria’s first co-production forum which took place in Madrid on September 28 and was organised in collaboration with the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Ssiff).
The Forum ran as part of the second Iberseries & Platino Industria event, which took place from September 27-29.
The projects ranged from eco-thrillers to animation and sci-fi. Two of the projects, by Clarisa Navas and Ulysses Porra, were given the opportunity to pitch in Madrid having previously garnered a strong response at...
- 10/1/2022
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
The festival runs September 16-24.
Glenn Close has been named president of the official selection jury for the 70th San Sebastian International Film Festival.
Close will be joined by French director and casting director Antoinette Boulat; Danish filmmaker Tea Lindeburg; Argentinian producer Matías Mosteirín; Spanish writer Rosa Montero; Mosotho filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese and the Icelandic director and screenwriter Hlynur Pálmason.
Wang Chao’s A Woman has also been added to Ssiff’s official selection, becoming the 16th title eligible for the Golden Shell.
The Chinese film is based on Zhang Xiu Zhen’s autobiography Dream and follows an aspiring...
Glenn Close has been named president of the official selection jury for the 70th San Sebastian International Film Festival.
Close will be joined by French director and casting director Antoinette Boulat; Danish filmmaker Tea Lindeburg; Argentinian producer Matías Mosteirín; Spanish writer Rosa Montero; Mosotho filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese and the Icelandic director and screenwriter Hlynur Pálmason.
Wang Chao’s A Woman has also been added to Ssiff’s official selection, becoming the 16th title eligible for the Golden Shell.
The Chinese film is based on Zhang Xiu Zhen’s autobiography Dream and follows an aspiring...
- 9/2/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Argentina’s Gentil Cine and El Borde, Brazil’s Vitrine and Punta Colorada, Spain’s Doxa and French company 4a4 Productions have teamed for Albertina Carri’s seventh feature “White Roses, Fall!,” a gender-themed road-trip where the main characters include a porn filmmaker, a trans grandmother, non-binary grandchildren and lesbian clairvoyant vampires.
“White Roses, Fall!” centers on Violeta, a young film director who once made an exultant lesbian porn movie and is now hired to make a mainstream and ecological porn feature. She struggles with her ideas about genre and gender, which prevent her from shooting. Then she goes on the run with her feature debut’s actresses, finds a singular island and is struck by a new idea–she now wants to make a documentary about new formulas to express love.
Conceived as a collective project, this feature “requires multiple wills and resources. It will be shot in Argentina and Brazil,...
“White Roses, Fall!” centers on Violeta, a young film director who once made an exultant lesbian porn movie and is now hired to make a mainstream and ecological porn feature. She struggles with her ideas about genre and gender, which prevent her from shooting. Then she goes on the run with her feature debut’s actresses, finds a singular island and is struck by a new idea–she now wants to make a documentary about new formulas to express love.
Conceived as a collective project, this feature “requires multiple wills and resources. It will be shot in Argentina and Brazil,...
- 2/16/2022
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Bertrand Mandico's After Blue (Paradis sale).The lineup for the 2021 Locarno International Film Festival includes Piazza Grande screenings of Michael Mann's Heat and Gaspar Noé's Vortex, and the latest by by Bertrand Mandico, Axelle Ropert, Abel Ferrara, Salomé Lamas and more.The great filmmaker and actor Robert Downey Sr. has passed on at age 85. His incredible filmography includes Babo 73 (1964), Sweet Smell of Sex (1965), Chafed Elbows (1966), No More Excuses (1968), Putney Swope (1969), Pound (1970), and Greaser's Palace (1972).In an interview on the Armchair Expert podcast, Quentin Tarantino announced that he has purchased Los Angeles' Vista Theatre, emphasizing that though the theatre will screen both new and old movies, it will be "only film [...] the best prints." Screenwriter and filmmaker Clare Peploe has died. Though best known for her screenplays for Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged and La Luna,...
- 7/7/2021
- MUBI
Cannes Titles To Stream Online
A pair of documentaries selected for this year’s Cannes Classics program will screen for free on the festival’s website and on the Cine+ Dailymotion platform as of this evening (July 2) from 7pm local time. The two films, both just shy of one hour in length, are Daphné Baiwir’s The Rebellious Olivia de Havilland, a portrait of the famed actress who was the first female president of the Cannes jury in 1965, and Emmanuel Barnault’s Pieces Of Cannes, a look at the French festival’s 74-year history. The films will be available until July 4 at 10pm local time.
Venice Gap Financing Projects
Venice Film Festival has revealed the 30 projects that will take part in its Gap-Financing Market during this year’s industry-focused Production Bridge, running September 1-11. The event will offer filmmaking teams one-on-one meetings with international decision-makers. Among the selected titles are The Secret Of Places,...
A pair of documentaries selected for this year’s Cannes Classics program will screen for free on the festival’s website and on the Cine+ Dailymotion platform as of this evening (July 2) from 7pm local time. The two films, both just shy of one hour in length, are Daphné Baiwir’s The Rebellious Olivia de Havilland, a portrait of the famed actress who was the first female president of the Cannes jury in 1965, and Emmanuel Barnault’s Pieces Of Cannes, a look at the French festival’s 74-year history. The films will be available until July 4 at 10pm local time.
Venice Gap Financing Projects
Venice Film Festival has revealed the 30 projects that will take part in its Gap-Financing Market during this year’s industry-focused Production Bridge, running September 1-11. The event will offer filmmaking teams one-on-one meetings with international decision-makers. Among the selected titles are The Secret Of Places,...
- 7/2/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Mexican virtual lab offers Usd 30,000 in cash prizes.
Spanish multiple Cannes award winner Olivier Laxe and Argentina’s Lisandro Alonso are among participants in the expanded third Mexican project lab Catapulta set to run as an entirely virtual event from March 24-27.
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Laxe, whose Fire Will Come won the Cannes Un Certain Regard jury prize in 2019 and followed a 2016 Critics’ Week grand prize for Mimosas and the 2010 Fipresci award for Directors’ Fortnight selection You Are All Captains, takes part in the new development programme.
His project After (France) follows a man and...
Spanish multiple Cannes award winner Olivier Laxe and Argentina’s Lisandro Alonso are among participants in the expanded third Mexican project lab Catapulta set to run as an entirely virtual event from March 24-27.
Scroll to bottom to see all lab participants
Laxe, whose Fire Will Come won the Cannes Un Certain Regard jury prize in 2019 and followed a 2016 Critics’ Week grand prize for Mimosas and the 2010 Fipresci award for Directors’ Fortnight selection You Are All Captains, takes part in the new development programme.
His project After (France) follows a man and...
- 3/22/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Mexican virtual lab offers Usd 30,000 in cash prizes.
Spanish multiple Cannes award winner Olivier Laxe, US auteur Rick Alverson and Argentina’s Lisandro Alonso are among participants in the expanded third Mexican project lab Catapulta set to run as an entirely virtual event from March 24-27.
Scroll to bottom to see all lab participants
Laxe, whose Fire Will Come won the Cannes Un Certain Regard jury prize in 2019 and followed a 2016 Critics’ Week grand prize for Mimosas and the 2010 Fipresci award for Directors’ Fortnight selection You Are All Captains, takes part in the new development programme.
His project After (France...
Spanish multiple Cannes award winner Olivier Laxe, US auteur Rick Alverson and Argentina’s Lisandro Alonso are among participants in the expanded third Mexican project lab Catapulta set to run as an entirely virtual event from March 24-27.
Scroll to bottom to see all lab participants
Laxe, whose Fire Will Come won the Cannes Un Certain Regard jury prize in 2019 and followed a 2016 Critics’ Week grand prize for Mimosas and the 2010 Fipresci award for Directors’ Fortnight selection You Are All Captains, takes part in the new development programme.
His project After (France...
- 3/22/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Albertina Carri's The Daughters of Fire is exclusively showing March 23 - April 21, 2020 in Mubi's Undiscovered series.Dating back to making shorts in the late 1990s, Albertina Carri has become a significant iconoclast in Argentine cinema in both realms of fiction and non-fiction films. Film and politics run in her blood and have long informed her confrontational and subversive sensibilities. As a queer woman, sex and gender amid homophobia, sexism, maschismo culture, and the male gaze also inform her work and career, which in addition to filmmaking also has her working within Argentine film culture as a major creative force behind Argentina’s Lgbtq film festival, Asterisco. Her most recent feature, The Daughters of Fire, is provocative in its explicit scenes among a group of queer women in which sex is presented in shockingly honest and upfront detail in fully pornographic splendor.
- 4/3/2020
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe Cannes Film Festival in 2019, by Jean-Paul PelissierThe Cannes Film Festival has officially announced its indefinite postponement, with one potential option being to hold the festival during the end of June through the beginning of July. In an interview with Variety, Spike Lee says, "This is no joke. It’s not some movie. People are dying.”Recommended Viewinga breathtaking trailer for Mondo Macabro's Blu-ray debut of Shinya Tsukamoto's Gemini (1999), a haunting, timely horror film about a Meiji-era doctor who treats plague victims who encounters a mysterious doppelgänger. Recommended Reading A Horse is Not a Hammer by Barbara Hammer (2008)"Barbara Hammer’s cinema is a talking cinema in its most disarming sense: talking about cinema, talking with cinema, learning how to talk." An obituary for the late Barbara Hammer by Gabriella Beckhurst of Another Gaze.
- 3/25/2020
- MUBI
After 37 years as the nation’s premier Lgbtq film festival, Outfest shows no signs of slowing down. The 2019 festival, scheduled to take place in Los Angeles from July 18-28, has just announced its full schedule. The lineup features a combination of festival favorites and rarely-seen foreign films, placing Lgbtq cinema in a truly global context.
The festival opens on July 18 with “Circus of Books,” the Tribeca hit about a daughter’s learning about her parents’ groundbreaking gay porn shop. It closes out with Sundance breakout “Before You Know It,” and will feature 28 world premieres during its run.
From features and documentaries to shorts and episodic content, this is truly an all-inclusive launching pad for Lgbtq filmmakers. The festival continues to push the boundaries of progress, with a majority of this year’s films directed by filmmakers from groups underrepresented in queer film.
“As my tenure comes to an end I...
The festival opens on July 18 with “Circus of Books,” the Tribeca hit about a daughter’s learning about her parents’ groundbreaking gay porn shop. It closes out with Sundance breakout “Before You Know It,” and will feature 28 world premieres during its run.
From features and documentaries to shorts and episodic content, this is truly an all-inclusive launching pad for Lgbtq filmmakers. The festival continues to push the boundaries of progress, with a majority of this year’s films directed by filmmakers from groups underrepresented in queer film.
“As my tenure comes to an end I...
- 6/12/2019
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Now in its 37th year, Outfest serves up an inclusive and intersectional slate of programming, two-thirds of which includes content directed by women, people of color and trans filmmakers. The fest, which will be held July 18-28 in Los Angeles, will open with Rachel Mason’s documentary Circus of Books which spotlights L.A.’s iconic brick-and-mortar gay erotica emporium and bookstore. Sundance favorite Before You Know It directed, co-written and starring Hannah Pearl Utt, as well as Judith Light, Alec Baldwin and Mandy Patinkin, will serve as the festival’s closing night film.
The fest will have films from 33 countries and in 26 languages and will include appearances from Kathy Griffin, RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars winner Trixie Mattel, Pose actress Angelica Ross, horror icon Robert Englund, musician and actor Sam Harris and others.
“As my tenure comes to an end I am most proud of Outfest’s increased...
The fest will have films from 33 countries and in 26 languages and will include appearances from Kathy Griffin, RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars winner Trixie Mattel, Pose actress Angelica Ross, horror icon Robert Englund, musician and actor Sam Harris and others.
“As my tenure comes to an end I am most proud of Outfest’s increased...
- 6/12/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Ela Bittencourt's column explores South America’s key festivals and notable screenings of Latin films in North America and Europe.In The Heart of the World“Our cinema is maximalist,” Gabriel Martins and Maurílio Martins told me at the 48th edition of the International Film Festival of Rotterdam (Iffr). The two (unrelated) Martins hail from the periphery of Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, which these days boasts a booming film industry. In addition to the two, André Novais de Oliveira, also present at the festival with a short, Quintal (2015), and a new feature, Temporada (2018), and in the past, filmmakers such as Affonso Uchoa of Araby (2017) and Juliana Antunes of Baronesa (2018), all have come from Minas. In the case of Gabriel and Maurílio, their intense cinefilia, which encompasses the love for fluid camerawork of James Gray, for Sergio Leone’s westerns, for comedy and the 1970s and ‘80s American movies,...
- 2/20/2019
- MUBI
Berlin-based M-Appeal has closed a flurry of deals across its slate, including Ash Mayfair’s “The Third Wife” and Michal Aviad’s “Working Woman,” which were launched at Toronto.
“The Third Wife” sold to Potential Films for Australia/New Zealand and Crest International for Japan. Potential Films is planning a theatrical release next summer, while Crest International plans a rollout next fall.
The movie, which had its world premiere in Toronto’s Discovery section, is set in 19th-century rural Vietnam and follows 14-year-old May, who becomes the third wife of wealthy landowner Hung. May soon learns that she can only gain status by asserting herself as a woman who can give birth to a male child.
M-Appeal previously sold “The Third Wife” to North America, the U.K., Ireland, Taiwan, Singapore, Mexico, South Korea, Hong Kong and Spain.
“I was truly impressed by the beauty of the picture, by its authenticity and,...
“The Third Wife” sold to Potential Films for Australia/New Zealand and Crest International for Japan. Potential Films is planning a theatrical release next summer, while Crest International plans a rollout next fall.
The movie, which had its world premiere in Toronto’s Discovery section, is set in 19th-century rural Vietnam and follows 14-year-old May, who becomes the third wife of wealthy landowner Hung. May soon learns that she can only gain status by asserting herself as a woman who can give birth to a male child.
M-Appeal previously sold “The Third Wife” to North America, the U.K., Ireland, Taiwan, Singapore, Mexico, South Korea, Hong Kong and Spain.
“I was truly impressed by the beauty of the picture, by its authenticity and,...
- 12/20/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Buenos Aires — Four venerable professionals from the cinema world joined on Monday evening for Queer Cinema In Latin America, a frank discussion on Latin America’s role within the queer filmscape for Ventana Sur’s Industry conference series held at the Uca campus in Buenos Aires. Touching on advancements in character arc and notable achievements in recent years, the panel spoke to the ongoing trend of giving a voice to marginalized communities and just how far cinema has come in regards to showcasing queer stories, admitting there’s progress to be made.
Leading the panel was Diego Trerotola, local film critic and director of Festival Asterisco. Trerotola spoke to fellow panelist, Argentine film director Albertina Carri, about the progression of her films “Barbie También Puede Estar Triste,” “Pets,” and “Las Hijas del Fuego.”
“18 years ago you made films with dolls, ten years ago with found porn footage, and now you...
Leading the panel was Diego Trerotola, local film critic and director of Festival Asterisco. Trerotola spoke to fellow panelist, Argentine film director Albertina Carri, about the progression of her films “Barbie También Puede Estar Triste,” “Pets,” and “Las Hijas del Fuego.”
“18 years ago you made films with dolls, ten years ago with found porn footage, and now you...
- 12/13/2018
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
San Sebastian — Berlin-based M-appeal has secured additional sales deals for two titles, Toronto’s Netpac winner “The Third Wife”; Bafici’s best Argentine picture winner “The Daughters of Fire,” both screening at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
Ash Mayfair’s debut feature, “The Third Wife” is the 19th century tale of May, a girl of just 14 years old who is married off as the third wife of a wealthy land owner. Although just a child, May quickly realizes that her place in her new life can be elevated if she is able to bare a male child for her husband. On her journey, May comes to a stark realization; that the choices available to her are meager and scarce.
The film’s European premiere will be on Sept. 24 in San Sebastian before heading to Busan for its Asian premiere the first week of October. Having previously sold to the U.
Ash Mayfair’s debut feature, “The Third Wife” is the 19th century tale of May, a girl of just 14 years old who is married off as the third wife of a wealthy land owner. Although just a child, May quickly realizes that her place in her new life can be elevated if she is able to bare a male child for her husband. On her journey, May comes to a stark realization; that the choices available to her are meager and scarce.
The film’s European premiere will be on Sept. 24 in San Sebastian before heading to Busan for its Asian premiere the first week of October. Having previously sold to the U.
- 9/24/2018
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The seventh edition received 223 submissions, a 34% rise.
The Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum (September 23-26), hosted by San Sebastian Film Festival, has selected 17 projects for its seventh edition.
Sixteen projects from eleven countries will compete for four awards, including the best project award which comes with a €10,000 prize for the majority producer.
Lony Welter’s La Lluvia, the film selected at Ibermedia’s Workshop to Develop Film Projects from Central America and the Caribbean, will also participate out of competition in the forum.
Countries with projects in the selection include Argentina, Brazil, Chile, France, Italy and Spain.
Amongst the projects is La Llorona from Jayro Bustamante,...
The Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum (September 23-26), hosted by San Sebastian Film Festival, has selected 17 projects for its seventh edition.
Sixteen projects from eleven countries will compete for four awards, including the best project award which comes with a €10,000 prize for the majority producer.
Lony Welter’s La Lluvia, the film selected at Ibermedia’s Workshop to Develop Film Projects from Central America and the Caribbean, will also participate out of competition in the forum.
Countries with projects in the selection include Argentina, Brazil, Chile, France, Italy and Spain.
Amongst the projects is La Llorona from Jayro Bustamante,...
- 8/9/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Carri is a key figure in the New Argentinean Cinema movement.
Berlin-based M-Appeal has taken on international sales rights to Argentinian filmmaker Albertina Carri’s The Daughters Of Fire. The film revolves around three women who meet by chance and start a life-changing polyamorous journey.
The film premiered in Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, winning best film in the Argentinian competition. “We are very happy to work with Albertina Carri, one of the icons of New Argentine cinema,” said Maren Kroymann, M-Appeal’s managing Director. “There are few films that show female sexuality in such a poetic and sensual way.
Berlin-based M-Appeal has taken on international sales rights to Argentinian filmmaker Albertina Carri’s The Daughters Of Fire. The film revolves around three women who meet by chance and start a life-changing polyamorous journey.
The film premiered in Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, winning best film in the Argentinian competition. “We are very happy to work with Albertina Carri, one of the icons of New Argentine cinema,” said Maren Kroymann, M-Appeal’s managing Director. “There are few films that show female sexuality in such a poetic and sensual way.
- 5/9/2018
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
A total of 36 projects will be in Berlin.
Source: X-Filme
Run Lola Run
The Berlinale co-production market (February 17 – 21, 2018) will welcome 36 new feature film projects that are looking for co-producers. In addition, five production companies will be introduced in the ‘company matching’ programme.
Projects include new films by Todd Solondz, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Aisling Walsh and Franka Potente.
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Hundreds of movies have resulted from the previous fifteen editions of the event. Two films to emerge from recent editions confirmed for this year’s Competition section of the Berlinale are Figlia mia (Daughter of Mine) directed by Laura Bispuri and Mein Bruder heißt Robert und ist ein Idiot by Philip Gröning.
For the 2018 market, 21 feature film projects with budgets ranging from €750,000 to €6m, were selected from 326 submissions. The projects, which will be presented by their producers already have either production support from their home countries, or financing of at least 30 percent in place.
Two additional film projects...
Source: X-Filme
Run Lola Run
The Berlinale co-production market (February 17 – 21, 2018) will welcome 36 new feature film projects that are looking for co-producers. In addition, five production companies will be introduced in the ‘company matching’ programme.
Projects include new films by Todd Solondz, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Aisling Walsh and Franka Potente.
Scroll down for lineup
Hundreds of movies have resulted from the previous fifteen editions of the event. Two films to emerge from recent editions confirmed for this year’s Competition section of the Berlinale are Figlia mia (Daughter of Mine) directed by Laura Bispuri and Mein Bruder heißt Robert und ist ein Idiot by Philip Gröning.
For the 2018 market, 21 feature film projects with budgets ranging from €750,000 to €6m, were selected from 326 submissions. The projects, which will be presented by their producers already have either production support from their home countries, or financing of at least 30 percent in place.
Two additional film projects...
- 1/12/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- ScreenDaily
Mubi's retrospective New Argentine Cinema is playing from August 7 - September 28, 2017 in most countries around the world. La CiénagaBeginning in the mid-1990s, young directors, the majority of whom had graduated from one of many film schools in Argentina, began producing low-budget, independent films in a style that earned this group the classification of the New Independent Argentine Cinema.Part of this upsurge had to do with a small grants program that was initiated by the National Film Institute (Incaa) in the mid-1990s. These recent graduates have made short films (cortometrajes), and then have gone on to raise funds through co-production funding (Hubert Bals Fund at the Rotterdam film festival, the Visions Sud Est program from Switzerland, among others). They have relied on their own networks of like-minded young people rather than depend on the traditional film sector structure (the film union, established director’s associations, and the few...
- 9/6/2017
- MUBI
World premieres include Barrage, starring Isabelle Huppert and her daughter Lolita Chammah.Scroll down for full list
This year’s Forum programme at the Berlin Film Festival (Feb 9-19), which highlights avant garde and experimental works, will feature 47 films, including 29 world premieres.
These include the premiere of Laura Schroeder’s Barrage, which stars Isabelle Huppert alongside her daughter Lolita Chammah in the story of a young woman who returns to Luxembourg after a 10-year absence to spend time with her estranged child. Huppert plays the grandmother, who has fostered the young girl during that absence.
Read: ‘Barrage’, starring Isabelle Huppert and daughter Lolita, finds sales home
Having its international premiere at Forum this year will be Golden Exits, the new feature from American filmmaker Alex Ross Perry. His previous credits include Queen Of Earth, which premiered at Berlin in 2015. His latest tells the story of a young Australian woman who comes to New York for a few months...
This year’s Forum programme at the Berlin Film Festival (Feb 9-19), which highlights avant garde and experimental works, will feature 47 films, including 29 world premieres.
These include the premiere of Laura Schroeder’s Barrage, which stars Isabelle Huppert alongside her daughter Lolita Chammah in the story of a young woman who returns to Luxembourg after a 10-year absence to spend time with her estranged child. Huppert plays the grandmother, who has fostered the young girl during that absence.
Read: ‘Barrage’, starring Isabelle Huppert and daughter Lolita, finds sales home
Having its international premiere at Forum this year will be Golden Exits, the new feature from American filmmaker Alex Ross Perry. His previous credits include Queen Of Earth, which premiered at Berlin in 2015. His latest tells the story of a young Australian woman who comes to New York for a few months...
- 1/19/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
The 67th Berlin International Film Festival announced 43 additions to its 2017 roster today, including Alex Ross Perry’s “Golden Exits,” Joshua Z. Weinstein’s “Menashe,” and Amman Abbasi’s “Dayveon,” and rounding out much of the festival’s main line-up.
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Known for its robust variety of programming, the festival previously announced new films from Aki Kaurismaki, Oren Moverman, Sally Potter, Agnieszka Holland, and Sebastian Lelio. More commercial fare includes the international premiere of Danny Boyle’s “Trainspotting” sequel, and the world premiere of James Mangold’s addition to the Wolverine franchise, “Logan.”
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The films of the 47th Forum are:
2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet] by Heinz Emigholz, Germany – Wp
Adiós entusiasmo (So Long Enthusiasm) of Vladimir Durán, Argentina / Colombia – Wp
At Elske Pia (Pia Loving) by Daniel Joseph Borgmann, Denmark – Wp...
Read More: Berlinale 2017 Will Premiere ‘Logan,’ ‘Trainspotting: T2,’ and Hong Sangsoo’s Latest
Known for its robust variety of programming, the festival previously announced new films from Aki Kaurismaki, Oren Moverman, Sally Potter, Agnieszka Holland, and Sebastian Lelio. More commercial fare includes the international premiere of Danny Boyle’s “Trainspotting” sequel, and the world premiere of James Mangold’s addition to the Wolverine franchise, “Logan.”
Read More: 5 Exciting Films in the 2017 Berlin Film Festival Competition Lineup
The films of the 47th Forum are:
2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet] by Heinz Emigholz, Germany – Wp
Adiós entusiasmo (So Long Enthusiasm) of Vladimir Durán, Argentina / Colombia – Wp
At Elske Pia (Pia Loving) by Daniel Joseph Borgmann, Denmark – Wp...
- 1/18/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Festival organisers presented the three inaugural awards on Monday (October 6) at Rio’s Ccbb cultural centre to films that tackled Lgbt themes.
The Felix winners at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival selected from 43 films were:
Best Fiction Film
Xenia, (Greece-France-Belgium), dir Panos H Koutras;
Best Documentary
Tie And Red Nail (De Gravata E Unha Vermelha) (Brazil), dir Miriam Chnaiderman; and
Special Jury Prize
52 Tuesdays (Australia), dir Sophie Hyde.
In previous editions of Festival do Rio, gay-themed films screened in the Gay World strand. This year organisers chose to screen films across the entire programme.
Wieland Speck, director of Berlin’s Panorama section and co-creator of the Teddy Award, served as jury president alongside Central Station screenwriter João Emanuel Carmeiro, Albertina Carri, the artistic director of *Asterisco – International Lgbtiq Film Festival of Buenos Aires, and Margaret Mee e a Flor Da Lua director Malu de Martino.
Presenting the awards were, among others...
The Felix winners at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival selected from 43 films were:
Best Fiction Film
Xenia, (Greece-France-Belgium), dir Panos H Koutras;
Best Documentary
Tie And Red Nail (De Gravata E Unha Vermelha) (Brazil), dir Miriam Chnaiderman; and
Special Jury Prize
52 Tuesdays (Australia), dir Sophie Hyde.
In previous editions of Festival do Rio, gay-themed films screened in the Gay World strand. This year organisers chose to screen films across the entire programme.
Wieland Speck, director of Berlin’s Panorama section and co-creator of the Teddy Award, served as jury president alongside Central Station screenwriter João Emanuel Carmeiro, Albertina Carri, the artistic director of *Asterisco – International Lgbtiq Film Festival of Buenos Aires, and Margaret Mee e a Flor Da Lua director Malu de Martino.
Presenting the awards were, among others...
- 10/7/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Madrid -- Roman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer" will be honored with the Fipresci best film award at the opening ceremony and Gilles Paquet-Brenner's "Sarah's Key" will close the Official Section of the 58th San Sebastian International Film Festival, organizers announced Friday.
In addition to "Sarah's Key," which will run out of competition, organizers have added Chang-dong Lee's "Poetry" and Richard J. Lewis' "Barney's Version" as the bookends for the Zabaltegi-Pearls showcase. Diego Luna will open the Latin Horizons section with his directorial debut "Abel."
Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland will chair the New Directors jury. Directors Elisabet Cabeza and Albertina Carri, author Marc Levy and musician Fermin Muguruza make up the rest of the jury.
The festival, which runs Sept. 17-25 in Spain's northern Basque region, has yet to announce the main competition's jury.
In addition to "Sarah's Key," which will run out of competition, organizers have added Chang-dong Lee's "Poetry" and Richard J. Lewis' "Barney's Version" as the bookends for the Zabaltegi-Pearls showcase. Diego Luna will open the Latin Horizons section with his directorial debut "Abel."
Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland will chair the New Directors jury. Directors Elisabet Cabeza and Albertina Carri, author Marc Levy and musician Fermin Muguruza make up the rest of the jury.
The festival, which runs Sept. 17-25 in Spain's northern Basque region, has yet to announce the main competition's jury.
- 9/3/2010
- by By Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Madrid -- The 58th San Sebastian Festival will showcase contemporary non-fiction cinema in its thematic sidebar called .doc, organizers announced Monday as they unveiled this year's official poster.
Festival organizers said the retrospective will reflect "on the growing importance of the documentary genre throughout the world movie scene in recent years, the cycle will include some of the most representative examples of non-fiction cinema: auto-documentaries on individual and private subjects, essay cinema, fake documentaries, contributions from video-artists and moviemakers."
San Sebastian poster The showcase will include films like: My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, 2007), "The Five Obstructions" (Lars von Trier and Jorgen Leth, 2003), "Le souvenir d'un avenir" (Chris Marker and Yannick Bellon, 2001), "Auge/Maschine"-Parts 1, 2, 3 (Harun Farocki, 2002), "Los Rubios" (Albertina Carri, 2003) and "The Wild Blue Yonder" (Werner Herzog, 2005).
Organizers said the Official Section will run 15 features this year.
The festival's poster was revealed at an event in the city's Science Kutxaespacio Museum.
Festival organizers said the retrospective will reflect "on the growing importance of the documentary genre throughout the world movie scene in recent years, the cycle will include some of the most representative examples of non-fiction cinema: auto-documentaries on individual and private subjects, essay cinema, fake documentaries, contributions from video-artists and moviemakers."
San Sebastian poster The showcase will include films like: My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, 2007), "The Five Obstructions" (Lars von Trier and Jorgen Leth, 2003), "Le souvenir d'un avenir" (Chris Marker and Yannick Bellon, 2001), "Auge/Maschine"-Parts 1, 2, 3 (Harun Farocki, 2002), "Los Rubios" (Albertina Carri, 2003) and "The Wild Blue Yonder" (Werner Herzog, 2005).
Organizers said the Official Section will run 15 features this year.
The festival's poster was revealed at an event in the city's Science Kutxaespacio Museum.
- 5/10/2010
- by By Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- Themes of war and political turmoil dominate the documentary lineup unveiled Tuesday for the Toronto International Film Festival. The Real to Reel documentary sidebar will include the North American premieres of Errol Morris' "The Fog of War", a portrait of Vietnam War-era Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara; Jonathan Demme's "The Agronomist", a profile of Haitian political activist Jean Dominique; and the Canadian premiere of Rithy Panh's "S21, the Khmer Rouge Machine of Death," an account of genocide carried out by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Also on tap is "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," a look at the failed 2002 coup in Venezuela from Irish filmmakers Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain, and "The Blonds", a film by Albertina Carri about Argentina's military dictatorship.
- 8/12/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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