Chile’s Latente Films is teaming with Argentine outfit HD Argentina and Germany’s Orinokia to produce Chilean writer-director Sergio Castro San Martin’s project “Mil pedazos” (“A Thousand Pieces”), selected for the San Sebastian Festival’s Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum this September.
A creator and co-director of TV series such as Amazon Original “La Jauria” and Disney+’s “Llévame al cielo” – both produced by Pablo and Juan de Dios Larraín’s Fábula – Castro San Martín’s feature debut, “The Mud Woman,” had its world premiere at the 2015 Berlinale.
“A Thousand Pieces” marks Castro San Martín’s return to the San Sebastian co-production forum after attending in the 2017 edition with “The Saddest Goal.”
In development, and scheduled to shoot first half 2024 in the Chilean region of Coquimbo, “A Thousand Pieces” is produced from Chile by Eduardo Pizarro at Latente, a company based in La Serena, Coquimbo’s capital city, alongside...
A creator and co-director of TV series such as Amazon Original “La Jauria” and Disney+’s “Llévame al cielo” – both produced by Pablo and Juan de Dios Larraín’s Fábula – Castro San Martín’s feature debut, “The Mud Woman,” had its world premiere at the 2015 Berlinale.
“A Thousand Pieces” marks Castro San Martín’s return to the San Sebastian co-production forum after attending in the 2017 edition with “The Saddest Goal.”
In development, and scheduled to shoot first half 2024 in the Chilean region of Coquimbo, “A Thousand Pieces” is produced from Chile by Eduardo Pizarro at Latente, a company based in La Serena, Coquimbo’s capital city, alongside...
- 8/23/2023
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Sales talks to commence at EFM later this month.
Berlin-based sales company Pluto Film Distribution Network has acquired worldwide sales rights to Panamanian-Costa Rican director Kattia G. Zúñiga’s feature directorial debut Sister & Sister (Las Hijas), which gets its world premiere at SXSW next month.
Pluto Film will launch sales at EFM later this month on the story, which stars newcomers Ariana Chaves Gavilán and Cala Rossel Campos as sisters who travel from Costa Rica to Panama during the summer holidays in search of their absent father.
As the girls deal with tensions that arise between them, they find space to explore their desires,...
Berlin-based sales company Pluto Film Distribution Network has acquired worldwide sales rights to Panamanian-Costa Rican director Kattia G. Zúñiga’s feature directorial debut Sister & Sister (Las Hijas), which gets its world premiere at SXSW next month.
Pluto Film will launch sales at EFM later this month on the story, which stars newcomers Ariana Chaves Gavilán and Cala Rossel Campos as sisters who travel from Costa Rica to Panama during the summer holidays in search of their absent father.
As the girls deal with tensions that arise between them, they find space to explore their desires,...
- 2/1/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- 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
Spanish fest has more Latin American films and projects than ever before.
This year’s San Sebastian InternationaI Film Festival has the highest number of Latin American films across its official selection and marketplaces than ever before, according to festival director José Luis Rebordinos.
The line-up includes three titles in official selection: two from Argentinian directors - Manuel Abramovich’s Pornomelancolia and Diego Lerman’s The Substitute – and The Wonder from Chilean director Sebastian Lelio.
“It’s a very good moment for Latin America cinema for both quantity and the high quality of the proposals,” says Rebordinos.
Argentina in focus...
This year’s San Sebastian InternationaI Film Festival has the highest number of Latin American films across its official selection and marketplaces than ever before, according to festival director José Luis Rebordinos.
The line-up includes three titles in official selection: two from Argentinian directors - Manuel Abramovich’s Pornomelancolia and Diego Lerman’s The Substitute – and The Wonder from Chilean director Sebastian Lelio.
“It’s a very good moment for Latin America cinema for both quantity and the high quality of the proposals,” says Rebordinos.
Argentina in focus...
- 9/21/2022
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
The aim is to match European partners to Latam projects.
San Sebastian’s Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, (September 19-21) has become a key part of the festival’s industry programme.
Together with the Horizontes Latinos sidebar, the Wip Latam platform and the extensive Latin American presence in the festival’s other sections, the Forum has helped to cement San Sebastian’s reputation as an important bridge to Europe for Latin American industry filmmakers and executives.
This year, there are 14 projects taking part, among them features by Ulises Porra, Beatriz Seigner and Rodrigo Ruiz Patterson.
The aim is for European producers...
San Sebastian’s Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, (September 19-21) has become a key part of the festival’s industry programme.
Together with the Horizontes Latinos sidebar, the Wip Latam platform and the extensive Latin American presence in the festival’s other sections, the Forum has helped to cement San Sebastian’s reputation as an important bridge to Europe for Latin American industry filmmakers and executives.
This year, there are 14 projects taking part, among them features by Ulises Porra, Beatriz Seigner and Rodrigo Ruiz Patterson.
The aim is for European producers...
- 9/16/2022
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
Festival’s Europe-Latin America forum is set to run from September 19-21.
New projects from Ulises Porra and Beatriz Seigner are among the 14 taking part in this year’s San Sebastian Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum, now in its 11th edition.
Spanish filmmaker Porra returns to San Sebastian after Carajita, co-written and co-directed with Silvina Schnicer, received a special mention from last year’s New Directors jury. Porra’s new project Bajo El Mismo Sol is produced by Dominican Republic’s Wooden Boat Productions, a company founded by Ulla Prida, who also produced Carajita.
The feature is set in 1820, and tells...
New projects from Ulises Porra and Beatriz Seigner are among the 14 taking part in this year’s San Sebastian Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum, now in its 11th edition.
Spanish filmmaker Porra returns to San Sebastian after Carajita, co-written and co-directed with Silvina Schnicer, received a special mention from last year’s New Directors jury. Porra’s new project Bajo El Mismo Sol is produced by Dominican Republic’s Wooden Boat Productions, a company founded by Ulla Prida, who also produced Carajita.
The feature is set in 1820, and tells...
- 8/12/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Full list of winners revealed at the festival in South Korea.
Canadian documentary Geographies Of Solitude and Korean drama Jeong-sun were awarded the top prizes at South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival on Wednesday (May 4).
At the 23rd edition of the festival, which returned as a fully-fledged physical event for the first time since 2019, Jacquelyn Mill’s Geographies Of Solitude received the grand prize in the international competition and a KW20m cash prize.
A jury comprising director Chang, critic Joo Jin-sook, actress Park Haseon, curator Andrei Tanasescu and director Clarisa Navas unanimously decided on the nature documentary because...
Canadian documentary Geographies Of Solitude and Korean drama Jeong-sun were awarded the top prizes at South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival on Wednesday (May 4).
At the 23rd edition of the festival, which returned as a fully-fledged physical event for the first time since 2019, Jacquelyn Mill’s Geographies Of Solitude received the grand prize in the international competition and a KW20m cash prize.
A jury comprising director Chang, critic Joo Jin-sook, actress Park Haseon, curator Andrei Tanasescu and director Clarisa Navas unanimously decided on the nature documentary because...
- 5/4/2022
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
More than 200 films selected for first in-person festival since the start of the pandemic.
South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival (April 28-May 7) has unveiled a line-up of 217 films from 56 countries for its first fully-fledged physical edition since start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
A special programme curated by Train To Busan director Yeon Sang-ho is among the selection for the festival’s 23rd edition, which was announced at back-to-back press conferences in Jeonju and Seoul today (March 31).
The 10-day event will include an awards ceremony on May 4 while the Jeonju Project industry programme will run May 1-3.
This year’s...
South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival (April 28-May 7) has unveiled a line-up of 217 films from 56 countries for its first fully-fledged physical edition since start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
A special programme curated by Train To Busan director Yeon Sang-ho is among the selection for the festival’s 23rd edition, which was announced at back-to-back press conferences in Jeonju and Seoul today (March 31).
The 10-day event will include an awards ceremony on May 4 while the Jeonju Project industry programme will run May 1-3.
This year’s...
- 3/31/2022
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
For a film that spends so much of its runtime capturing its subjects in crowded medium shots and discomforting closeups, “One in a Thousand” (“Las mil y una”) feels very much like a cartographic exploration. Its assured sense of place comes not from establishing shots nor helpful geographical markers but from the specificity of its stories and the authenticity of its performers.
Writer-director Clarisa Navas has set her film in “Las Mil,” a housing project in the Corrientes province of Argentina where she grew up. Built in the 1970s, the now-dilapidated buildings serve as a stark reminder of the kind of populations that are left behind to rot. Yet amid such dour conditions, the film sketches a vision of marginality that’s as hopeful as it is bleak, that finds flowers among the weeds, as if it were intent on pushing back against the narratives about those who try to...
Writer-director Clarisa Navas has set her film in “Las Mil,” a housing project in the Corrientes province of Argentina where she grew up. Built in the 1970s, the now-dilapidated buildings serve as a stark reminder of the kind of populations that are left behind to rot. Yet amid such dour conditions, the film sketches a vision of marginality that’s as hopeful as it is bleak, that finds flowers among the weeds, as if it were intent on pushing back against the narratives about those who try to...
- 12/2/2021
- by Manuel Betancourt
- Variety Film + TV
Taking place inside a cool, concrete extension of the San Telmo Museum, a dedicated Basque cultural hub, the challenges facing Lgbtqi+ cinema in Latin America was the subject an industry panel at San Sebastian International Film Festival.
Participants included Patra Spanou of the eponymous German sales outfit, which handled sales for the homoerotic feature “El Príncipe;” festival programmer and producer Hebe Tabachnik, producer of “Valentina;” Clarisa Navas, director and scriptwriter of Berlin hit “One in a Thousand,” a lesbian love story set on the working class outskirts of Argentina’s Corrientes; and Gabriela Sandoval, a multi-hyphenate producer and distributor at Chile’s Storyboard Media, head of Sanfic Industria and executive director of the Amor LGBT + Film Festival. Moderator Rolando Salazar of Festival Outfest Peru led the discussion.
Spanou spoke about the nuances of reaching distributors.
“We deal with arthouse films, and our first concern is with the film and arthouse...
Participants included Patra Spanou of the eponymous German sales outfit, which handled sales for the homoerotic feature “El Príncipe;” festival programmer and producer Hebe Tabachnik, producer of “Valentina;” Clarisa Navas, director and scriptwriter of Berlin hit “One in a Thousand,” a lesbian love story set on the working class outskirts of Argentina’s Corrientes; and Gabriela Sandoval, a multi-hyphenate producer and distributor at Chile’s Storyboard Media, head of Sanfic Industria and executive director of the Amor LGBT + Film Festival. Moderator Rolando Salazar of Festival Outfest Peru led the discussion.
Spanou spoke about the nuances of reaching distributors.
“We deal with arthouse films, and our first concern is with the film and arthouse...
- 9/23/2021
- by Liza Foreman
- Variety Film + TV
Clarisa Navas's One in a Thousand is exclusively showing on Mubi starting June 18, 2021 in many countries in The New Auteurs series."Las Mil," located in Corrientes, a province at Argentina’s northeast, is the name of the neighbourhood where I grew up and where I experienced many of the situations that happen in the film. But these are not only my own personal stories, they are also experiences of the people who made the film with me.When I was a teenager and I wrote in a notebook the things that happened to me, making fiction worked to illuminate a context that was otherwise very sad.At that time, The World seemed to squeeze my heart and say that many things would not be possible. Sometimes an encounter with another person saves your life, changes the way you think and feel. Between those aisles and faint lights, one of...
- 6/16/2021
- MUBI
Clarisa Navas’s film is a confident, visually engaging romance conjuring a world of teenage waiting and wanting
This is an LGBT urban pastoral from film-maker Clarisa Navas, set in a tough barrio in Corrientes province, north-eastern Argentina. Sofia Cabrera plays Iris, a teenage girl who appears to have been excluded from school – although that doesn’t make her lifestyle any more obviously aimless than all the people she’s hanging out with. Iris is obsessed with basketball and spends most of her days loafing around, shooting hoops, talking with her brother and cousins, and chatting with the neighbourhood kids, gay and straight. Then she chances across a charismatic older woman called Renata (Ana Carolina García), who has an elegantly wasted image; Renata has mysteriously been abroad for a while and apparently dances at a local club called Traumatic, where she appears to be on the fringe of sex work.
This is an LGBT urban pastoral from film-maker Clarisa Navas, set in a tough barrio in Corrientes province, north-eastern Argentina. Sofia Cabrera plays Iris, a teenage girl who appears to have been excluded from school – although that doesn’t make her lifestyle any more obviously aimless than all the people she’s hanging out with. Iris is obsessed with basketball and spends most of her days loafing around, shooting hoops, talking with her brother and cousins, and chatting with the neighbourhood kids, gay and straight. Then she chances across a charismatic older woman called Renata (Ana Carolina García), who has an elegantly wasted image; Renata has mysteriously been abroad for a while and apparently dances at a local club called Traumatic, where she appears to be on the fringe of sex work.
- 6/15/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Documentary film festival Visions du Réel, which runs April 15-25, has unveiled the 29 projects that will be presented in its industry program, VdR-Industry.
The project will participate in the three key forums in the industry section: VdR-Pitching, VdR-Work in Progress and VdR-Rough Cut Lab. Industry activities will take place from April 14-22, both online and on site in Nyon, Switzerland – if sanitary measures permit.
The VdR-Industry Awards, including three new cash awards, will be granted by an international jury gathering Eurimage’s executive director Roberto Olla, Italian film director Roberto Minervini and Rasha Salti, independent film and visual arts curator, as well as commissioning editor for La Lucarne, Arte France.
“This year’s selection depicts not only the incredible diversity of contemporary documentary filmmaking, but also its ever wider ranging influence,” said Madeline Robert, new head of industry and artistic advisor of Visions du Réel.
VdR-Industry is designed as a springboard for projects,...
The project will participate in the three key forums in the industry section: VdR-Pitching, VdR-Work in Progress and VdR-Rough Cut Lab. Industry activities will take place from April 14-22, both online and on site in Nyon, Switzerland – if sanitary measures permit.
The VdR-Industry Awards, including three new cash awards, will be granted by an international jury gathering Eurimage’s executive director Roberto Olla, Italian film director Roberto Minervini and Rasha Salti, independent film and visual arts curator, as well as commissioning editor for La Lucarne, Arte France.
“This year’s selection depicts not only the incredible diversity of contemporary documentary filmmaking, but also its ever wider ranging influence,” said Madeline Robert, new head of industry and artistic advisor of Visions du Réel.
VdR-Industry is designed as a springboard for projects,...
- 3/19/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Georgian-French drama Beginning (Dasatskisi) was the big winner at the San Sebastian Film Festival, winning the top prize Golden Shell at last night’s awards ceremony.
The buzzed-about arthouse film from first-timer Dea Kulumbegashvili also won Best Director, Best Actress and Best Screenplay awards. We debuted first footage for the film earlier this month.
Kulumbegashvili wrote the script with Rati Oneli. Starring are Ia sukhitashvili (best actress winner), Rati Oneli and Kakha Kintsurashvili. Producers are Ilan Amouyal, Rati Oneli and David Zerat. Music comes from Dheepan and Ema composer Nicolas Jaar. Wild Bunch handles sales.
The film charts the story of a persecuted family of Jehovah’s Witness missionaries from the perspective of a wife and mother. Following a shocking act of arson on the place of worship she and her husband have established in a remote village outside of Tbilisi, Yana (Sukhitashvili) finds herself descending into a spiral of confusion and doubt,...
The buzzed-about arthouse film from first-timer Dea Kulumbegashvili also won Best Director, Best Actress and Best Screenplay awards. We debuted first footage for the film earlier this month.
Kulumbegashvili wrote the script with Rati Oneli. Starring are Ia sukhitashvili (best actress winner), Rati Oneli and Kakha Kintsurashvili. Producers are Ilan Amouyal, Rati Oneli and David Zerat. Music comes from Dheepan and Ema composer Nicolas Jaar. Wild Bunch handles sales.
The film charts the story of a persecuted family of Jehovah’s Witness missionaries from the perspective of a wife and mother. Following a shocking act of arson on the place of worship she and her husband have established in a remote village outside of Tbilisi, Yana (Sukhitashvili) finds herself descending into a spiral of confusion and doubt,...
- 9/27/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The 68th San Sebastián Film Festival helped revive the global festival circuit this season with a physical event held September 18-26 in Spain. The lineup, which kicked off with Woody Allen’s “Rifkin’s Festival,” concluded with the annual awards September 26.
The festival’s big winner was Georgian writer/director Dea Kulumbegashvili’s debut feature “Beginning,” taking four of the jury prizes including Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Actress, and the Golden Shell for Best Film. A psychological portrait of the effects of an extremist attack on a rural place of worship, “Beginning” was originally slotted for a Cannes competition premiere, and also played the Toronto International Film Festival. Next, it will head to the ongoing New York Film Festival.
Other highlights included Florian Zeller’s Oscar hopeful “The Father,” winner of the Audience Award — and a likely Best Actor nominee next year for Anthony Hopkins’ devastating turn as a man wrestling with dementia.
The festival’s big winner was Georgian writer/director Dea Kulumbegashvili’s debut feature “Beginning,” taking four of the jury prizes including Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Actress, and the Golden Shell for Best Film. A psychological portrait of the effects of an extremist attack on a rural place of worship, “Beginning” was originally slotted for a Cannes competition premiere, and also played the Toronto International Film Festival. Next, it will head to the ongoing New York Film Festival.
Other highlights included Florian Zeller’s Oscar hopeful “The Father,” winner of the Audience Award — and a likely Best Actor nominee next year for Anthony Hopkins’ devastating turn as a man wrestling with dementia.
- 9/26/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
The film also won best director, best actress and best screenplay.
Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Beginning has won the Golden Shell for best film at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. The film has also been awarded the prizes for best director, best actress for Ia Sukhitashvili, and best screenplay for Kulumbegashvili and co-writer Rati Oneli by a competition jury headed by Luca Guadagnino.
It is the first time a Georgian film has won the Golden Shell.
The Silver Shell for best actor was shared by the four stars of Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round - Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen,...
Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Beginning has won the Golden Shell for best film at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. The film has also been awarded the prizes for best director, best actress for Ia Sukhitashvili, and best screenplay for Kulumbegashvili and co-writer Rati Oneli by a competition jury headed by Luca Guadagnino.
It is the first time a Georgian film has won the Golden Shell.
The Silver Shell for best actor was shared by the four stars of Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round - Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen,...
- 9/26/2020
- by Elisabet Cabeza
- ScreenDaily
The film also won best director, best actress and best screenplay.
Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Beginning has won the Golden Shell for best film at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. The film has also been awarded the prizes for best director, best actress for Ia Sukhitashvili, and best screenplay for Kulumbegashvili and co-writer Rati Oneli by a competition jury headed by Luca Guadagnino.
It is the first time a Georgian film has won the Golden Shell.
The Silver Shell for best actor was shared by the four stars of Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round - Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen,...
Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Beginning has won the Golden Shell for best film at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. The film has also been awarded the prizes for best director, best actress for Ia Sukhitashvili, and best screenplay for Kulumbegashvili and co-writer Rati Oneli by a competition jury headed by Luca Guadagnino.
It is the first time a Georgian film has won the Golden Shell.
The Silver Shell for best actor was shared by the four stars of Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round - Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen,...
- 9/26/2020
- by Elisabet Cabeza
- ScreenDaily
Yulene Olaizola’s “Tragic Jungle,” Natalia Meta’s “The Intruder” and Clarisa Navas’ “One in a Thousand” will compete in the San Sebastian Film Festival’s Latinos Horizontes, a showcase of standout recent movies from Latin America that this year underscores the emergence or consolidation of a new generation of female filmmakers in Latin America.
In all, women direct or co-direct seven of the nine features in Horizontes Latinos, a section which also features two world premieres: “La Verónica,” from Chile’s Leonardo Medel; and “Unlimited Edition,” co-directed by Virginia Cosín, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Santiago Loza and Romina Paula.
Certainly, this year’s San Sebastian makes no claim via its selection to women having suddenly taken over the Latin American industry: Four of the five titles from the region in other sections, including main competition (Argentine Eduardo Crespo’s “Nosotros Nunca Moriremos”) and New Directors (Brazilian João Paulo Miranda’s “Memory House”) are made by men.
In all, women direct or co-direct seven of the nine features in Horizontes Latinos, a section which also features two world premieres: “La Verónica,” from Chile’s Leonardo Medel; and “Unlimited Edition,” co-directed by Virginia Cosín, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Santiago Loza and Romina Paula.
Certainly, this year’s San Sebastian makes no claim via its selection to women having suddenly taken over the Latin American industry: Four of the five titles from the region in other sections, including main competition (Argentine Eduardo Crespo’s “Nosotros Nunca Moriremos”) and New Directors (Brazilian João Paulo Miranda’s “Memory House”) are made by men.
- 8/21/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Competition screenings were held with only jury members and limited domestic guests in attendance.
South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival has awarded its Grand Prize to Chinese film Damp Season, directed by Gao Ming, in its first Covid-19 pandemic edition with closed-door and online screenings only.
The festival held its awards ceremony at Cgv Jeonjugosa yesterday (June 1) with 80 people in attendance, including organising committee chairman Kim Seung-su, festival director Lee Joondong, jury members and directors and actors with films in the Korean competition. Its opening ceremony was broadcast online May 28 with guests wearing masks.
With a mandatory two-week quarantine...
South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival has awarded its Grand Prize to Chinese film Damp Season, directed by Gao Ming, in its first Covid-19 pandemic edition with closed-door and online screenings only.
The festival held its awards ceremony at Cgv Jeonjugosa yesterday (June 1) with 80 people in attendance, including organising committee chairman Kim Seung-su, festival director Lee Joondong, jury members and directors and actors with films in the Korean competition. Its opening ceremony was broadcast online May 28 with guests wearing masks.
With a mandatory two-week quarantine...
- 6/2/2020
- by 134¦Jean Noh¦516¦
- ScreenDaily
Festival will hold physical screenings of competition titles from May 28 to June 6 exclusively for competition filmmakers and jury members.
South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival has unveiled the eight films selected for its International Competition section of first and second-time directors.
As previously announced, the festival will hold physical screenings of its competition titles from May 28 to June 6 exclusively for competition filmmakers and jury members. Online screenings will also be held for public audiences during those dates.
The line-up includes Chinese director Gao Ming’s Damp Season, about a young couple striving to make a living in the southern...
South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival has unveiled the eight films selected for its International Competition section of first and second-time directors.
As previously announced, the festival will hold physical screenings of its competition titles from May 28 to June 6 exclusively for competition filmmakers and jury members. Online screenings will also be held for public audiences during those dates.
The line-up includes Chinese director Gao Ming’s Damp Season, about a young couple striving to make a living in the southern...
- 5/18/2020
- by 134¦Jean Noh¦516¦
- ScreenDaily
Berlin — If there’s one thing that marks the Berlinale apart from most of the world’s biggest festivals, it’s the warmth and sophistication of the relation between visiting filmmakers and the Berlin Festival’s huge festival-going public.
This year’s Panorama opening, marked by the world premiere of Argentine Clarisa Navas’ queer drama “One in a Thousand,” was a case in point. As often, the questions asked by the audience were every bit as observant as this at many press conferences. One spectator at the traditional, brief Q & A after the screening, praised the actors’ “incredible” performances, and asked indeed if they were professionals. and Luis Molina, who plays one of the heroine’s cousin’s, is finishing up at the Enerc, the Incaa Argentine film institute film school. When an actor who is starting out becomes a professional is indeed a moot question, Molina reflected.)
As much...
This year’s Panorama opening, marked by the world premiere of Argentine Clarisa Navas’ queer drama “One in a Thousand,” was a case in point. As often, the questions asked by the audience were every bit as observant as this at many press conferences. One spectator at the traditional, brief Q & A after the screening, praised the actors’ “incredible” performances, and asked indeed if they were professionals. and Luis Molina, who plays one of the heroine’s cousin’s, is finishing up at the Enerc, the Incaa Argentine film institute film school. When an actor who is starting out becomes a professional is indeed a moot question, Molina reflected.)
As much...
- 2/22/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
A basketball-loving queer teen living in the projects in a nondescript town in northern Argentina ambles through life and her own movie in One in a Thousand (Las mil y una). This second feature from Clarisa Navas (Today, Match at 3) should be a welcome addition to the roster of Lgbtq festivals looking for films about and directed by women. But it has practically zero crossover appeal and aesthetically feels derivative, making it a curious choice as the opener of the Panorama section at this year’s Berlinale.
The first thing that Iris (Sofia Cabrera) hears in the film is ...
The first thing that Iris (Sofia Cabrera) hears in the film is ...
- 2/21/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A basketball-loving queer teen living in the projects in a nondescript town in northern Argentina ambles through life and her own movie in One in a Thousand (Las mil y una). This second feature from Clarisa Navas (Today, Match at 3) should be a welcome addition to the roster of Lgbtq festivals looking for films about and directed by women. But it has practically zero crossover appeal and aesthetically feels derivative, making it a curious choice as the opener of the Panorama section at this year’s Berlinale.
The first thing that Iris (Sofia Cabrera) hears in the film is ...
The first thing that Iris (Sofia Cabrera) hears in the film is ...
- 2/21/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Madrid — Berlin-based Pluto Film has acquired international sales rights to “Las Mil y Una” (“One in a Thousand”), the second feature by Argentina’s Clarisa Navas and one of the first titles ti be announced for the Panorama section of this year’s Berlinale.
A world premiere at the Berlinale, “One in a Thousand” marks the latest production by Diego Dubcovsky, whose credits take in foundation movies of the so-called New Argentine Cinema (“Garaje Olimpo”) to multiple hits from Daniel Burman such as Berlin double Silver Bear winner “The Lost Embrace,” and features by Walter Salles (“The Motorcycle Diaries”), Cesc Gay (“Truman”), Benjamín Naishtat (“The Movement”) and Diego Lerman (“Meanwhile”).
Also written by Navas, “One in a Thousand” marks the director’s follow-up to debut feature “Today Match at 3,” about a feisty girls’ soccer team from a village outside Navas’ native Corrientes, northern Argentina. It already underscored the director’s...
A world premiere at the Berlinale, “One in a Thousand” marks the latest production by Diego Dubcovsky, whose credits take in foundation movies of the so-called New Argentine Cinema (“Garaje Olimpo”) to multiple hits from Daniel Burman such as Berlin double Silver Bear winner “The Lost Embrace,” and features by Walter Salles (“The Motorcycle Diaries”), Cesc Gay (“Truman”), Benjamín Naishtat (“The Movement”) and Diego Lerman (“Meanwhile”).
Also written by Navas, “One in a Thousand” marks the director’s follow-up to debut feature “Today Match at 3,” about a feisty girls’ soccer team from a village outside Navas’ native Corrientes, northern Argentina. It already underscored the director’s...
- 1/9/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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.
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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
Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event titles revealed.
The projects selected for Tallinn Black Nights’ industry showcase have been revealed, including a drama executive produced by Tim Roth and a new category for youth films.
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This year’s Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event will spotlight 18 films seeking sales agents or festivals for international premieres during works in progress sessions in the Estonian capital from November 26-27.
Both the Baltic Event, showcasing Baltic and Finnish projects, and International Works in Progress will compete for the same awards this year: the Post Production Award worth €10,000 and...
The projects selected for Tallinn Black Nights’ industry showcase have been revealed, including a drama executive produced by Tim Roth and a new category for youth films.
Scroll down for full list of projects
This year’s Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event will spotlight 18 films seeking sales agents or festivals for international premieres during works in progress sessions in the Estonian capital from November 26-27.
Both the Baltic Event, showcasing Baltic and Finnish projects, and International Works in Progress will compete for the same awards this year: the Post Production Award worth €10,000 and...
- 11/6/2019
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
The Fund has awarded production and distribution funding of €386,400 to 13 films.
Thirteen projects from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Iran, Nigeria, the Philippines, Senegal and South Africa have received production or distribution support from the latest funding round of the Berlinale World Cinema Fund (Wcf).
The Fund is run by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Berlin International Film Festival, in cooperation with the German Federal Foreign Office, with further support from the Goethe-Institut, Creative Europe - Media programme and the German Federal Foreign Office.
The 30th session jury was composed of curator Anna Hoffmann (Germany), documentary producer Marta Andreu...
Thirteen projects from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Iran, Nigeria, the Philippines, Senegal and South Africa have received production or distribution support from the latest funding round of the Berlinale World Cinema Fund (Wcf).
The Fund is run by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Berlin International Film Festival, in cooperation with the German Federal Foreign Office, with further support from the Goethe-Institut, Creative Europe - Media programme and the German Federal Foreign Office.
The 30th session jury was composed of curator Anna Hoffmann (Germany), documentary producer Marta Andreu...
- 7/12/2019
- by Tofe Ayeni
- ScreenDaily
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
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
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