Mantícora Distribución has acquired the vampire story “While the Masters Sleep” by Santiago Alvarado Ilarri for international sales.
The film – which will also mark the debut of Spain’s La Mala Compañia, the result of a partnership between Magno Entertainment and Msp –will be presented in Cannes as one of the Gala Screenings at the Fantastic Pavilion, a brand new hub for the genre community at the Marché du Film. Sula Entertainment and Morbido TV are also on board.
“We want ‘While the Masters Sleep’ to introduce this new label. [It will be] focusing on genre films with a big audience potential, but trying to achieve this goal without losing the ideas and virtues of independent films. All the while shaking up the codes of classic horror films,” producer Joaquim Vivas said of La Mala Compañía.
In the film, Samuel and Lourdes are a humble married couple, going out of their way to...
The film – which will also mark the debut of Spain’s La Mala Compañia, the result of a partnership between Magno Entertainment and Msp –will be presented in Cannes as one of the Gala Screenings at the Fantastic Pavilion, a brand new hub for the genre community at the Marché du Film. Sula Entertainment and Morbido TV are also on board.
“We want ‘While the Masters Sleep’ to introduce this new label. [It will be] focusing on genre films with a big audience potential, but trying to achieve this goal without losing the ideas and virtues of independent films. All the while shaking up the codes of classic horror films,” producer Joaquim Vivas said of La Mala Compañía.
In the film, Samuel and Lourdes are a humble married couple, going out of their way to...
- 5/9/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Telenovelas rock. They just seem to be so much more soapy and operatic than U.S. serials. Even though I don’t speak much Spanish, I love the over-the-top drama of it all.
That’s why I’m looking forward to seeing Casi Divas, a Mexican film about four women vying to become the next big telenovela star.
Casi Divas is the story of four young women competing for the lead in the movie version of a popular telenovela. The women are from very different backgrounds and each satirizes a stereotype of Mexican society.
Francisca (Maya Zapata) is a shy Indian from Oaxaca.
Ximena (Ana Layevska) is a formerly pudgy rich girl who now is thin but miserable – and really hungry.
Catalina (Diana Garcia) is a troubled factory worker from Ciudad Juárez, where young women disappear with alarming regularity.
Yesenia (Daniela Schmidt) is a flamboyant hairstylist from a poor section of Mexico City.
That’s why I’m looking forward to seeing Casi Divas, a Mexican film about four women vying to become the next big telenovela star.
Casi Divas is the story of four young women competing for the lead in the movie version of a popular telenovela. The women are from very different backgrounds and each satirizes a stereotype of Mexican society.
Francisca (Maya Zapata) is a shy Indian from Oaxaca.
Ximena (Ana Layevska) is a formerly pudgy rich girl who now is thin but miserable – and really hungry.
Catalina (Diana Garcia) is a troubled factory worker from Ciudad Juárez, where young women disappear with alarming regularity.
Yesenia (Daniela Schmidt) is a flamboyant hairstylist from a poor section of Mexico City.
- 9/3/2009
- by thelinster
- AfterEllen.com
Casi Divas (Almost Divas), is a Mexican-produced feature from director Issa Lopez, starring actresses Julio Bracho, Patricia Llaca, Maya Zapata, Ana Layevska, Daniela Schmidt, Diana Garcia, Mónica Huarte and Keiko Durán. The musical comedy, featuring compositions from Hans "The Dark Knight" Zimmer follows four women from different regions of Mexico vying for the lead role in a new film by 'Alejandro Mateos', the largest film producer in the country, amidst numerous social, ethnic and gender conflicts. Sneak Peek the trailer from Casi Divas...
- 8/21/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
Casi Divas tells the story of four very different women vying in a contest to become the next big telenovela star. It is a story infused with dreams of changing your life and desires for celebrity and success but if you think it is all gloss you will miss the real point of the film. This film manages to do what so many others miss — it manages to tell important stories and be entertaining. Francisca (Maya Zapata) is a poor Indian woman from Oaxaca who deals with race issues in the Mexican culture; Ximena Lizarraga (Ana Layevska) is a rich girl who has remade her body to fit into the culture but is miserable and really, really hungry; Catalina (Diana Garcia) works in the factories of Ciudad Juarez and uses her platform to raise awareness about young girls who continue to go missing in her community; and Yesenia (Daniela Schmidt) is struggling.
- 8/21/2009
- by Melissa Silverstein
- Huffington Post
Here is the poster for Maya Entertainment film “Casi Divas”. The comedy is set to open in theaters August 21, 2009. Casi Divas is directed by Issa Lopez , starring Patricia Llaca, Julio Bracho, Maya Zapata, Ana Layeska, Diana Garcia, and Daniela Schmidt. Four beautiful and spirited young Mexican women from very different backgrounds join the national frenzy of a contest to determine the next film actress superstar. Fired by ambition, pride and desperate desire for overnight fame, they all face insurmountable odds, outrageous manipulation and fierce media hype, yet each learns in her own way that true victory [...]...
- 7/30/2009
- by The Critic
- SmartCine.com
Chicago – “Sin Nombre” is not only one of the few great films released so far this year, it heralds the arrival of a confident, stunning new voice on the filmmaking scene in Cary Fukunaga.
Fukunaga has already won awards (including Best Director and Best Cinematography at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival) and been signed to a development deal by one of the best studios making movies today in Focus Features and his first film just came out. He sat down with us a few weeks ago to discuss the technical challenges of shooting on a train, finding his cast, and his advice for young filmmakers.
“Sin Nombre” tells the interweaving stories of a gang member in Tapachulas, Chiapas, Mexico and a Honduran girl trying to make it from her country to the United States by riding the rails for weeks at a time. The gangster, Casper (Edgar Flores), is a brother in the Mara Salvatrucha gang,...
Fukunaga has already won awards (including Best Director and Best Cinematography at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival) and been signed to a development deal by one of the best studios making movies today in Focus Features and his first film just came out. He sat down with us a few weeks ago to discuss the technical challenges of shooting on a train, finding his cast, and his advice for young filmmakers.
“Sin Nombre” tells the interweaving stories of a gang member in Tapachulas, Chiapas, Mexico and a Honduran girl trying to make it from her country to the United States by riding the rails for weeks at a time. The gangster, Casper (Edgar Flores), is a brother in the Mara Salvatrucha gang,...
- 4/3/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
See the trailer for Focus Features' "Sin Nombre," starring Edgar Flores, Paulina Gaitan, Kristyan Ferrer, Tenoch Huerta Mejia and Diana Garcia. Opening on March 20th, the foreign drama is helmed by Cary Joji Fukunaga who makes his feature-length directorial debut on the project. This is a 2009 Sundance Film Festival winner of the Directing Award as well as the Excellence in Cinematography Award. Focus releases this in limited theatres on March 20th. See the trailer in High Def, iPod and other versions now. Sin Nombre is an epic dramatic thriller written and directed by Student Academy Award winner Cary Joji Fukunaga in his feature debut. The filmmaker’s firsthand experiences with Central American immigrants seeking the promise of the U.S. form the basis of the Spanish-language movie. Sin Nombre tells the story of Sayra (Paulina Gaitan), a teenager living in Honduras, and hungering for a brighter future. A reunion...
- 2/17/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See the trailer for Focus Features' "Sin Nombre," starring Edgar Flores, Paulina Gaitan, Kristyan Ferrer, Tenoch Huerta Mejia and Diana Garcia. Opening on March 20th, the foreign drama is helmed by Cary Joji Fukunaga who makes his feature-length directorial debut on the project. This is a 2009 Sundance Film Festival winner of the Directing Award as well as the Excellence in Cinematography Award. Focus releases this in limited theatres on March 20th. Sin Nombre is an epic dramatic thriller written and directed by Student Academy Award winner Cary Joji Fukunaga in his feature debut. The filmmaker’s firsthand experiences with Central American immigrants seeking the promise of the U.S. form the basis of the Spanish-language movie...
- 2/17/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See the trailer for Focus Features' "Sin Nombre," starring Edgar Flores, Paulina Gaitan, Kristyan Ferrer, Tenoch Huerta Mejia and Diana Garcia. Opening on March 20th, the foreign drama is helmed by Cary Joji Fukunaga who makes his feature-length directorial debut on the project. This is a 2009 Sundance Film Festival winner of the Directing Award as well as the Excellence in Cinematography Award. Focus releases this in limited theatres on March 20th. Sin Nombre is an epic dramatic thriller written and directed by Student Academy Award winner Cary Joji Fukunaga in his feature debut. The filmmaker’s firsthand experiences with Central American immigrants seeking the promise of the U.S. form the basis of the Spanish-language movie...
- 2/17/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
After winning the directing award for Focus Features' "Sin Nombre" at Sundance, Cary Fukunaga is getting a writing-directing deal at Focus and a writing deal at Universal. The Focus deal comes into play first. "Sin Nombre" is a thriller which tells of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. and stars Karl Braun, Paula Gaitan, Diana Garcia, Damayanti Quintanar and Guillermo Villegas. "It probably won't be a sociopolitical thriller," he said.
- 1/27/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
After winning the directing award for Focus Features' "Sin Nombre" at Sundance, Cary Fukunaga is getting a writing-directing deal at Focus and a writing deal at Universal. The Focus deal comes into play first. "Sin Nombre" is a thriller which tells of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. and stars Karl Braun, Paula Gaitan, Diana Garcia, Damayanti Quintanar and Guillermo Villegas. "It probably won't be a sociopolitical thriller," he said.
- 1/27/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
After winning the directing award for Focus Features' "Sin Nombre" at Sundance, Cary Fukunaga is getting a writing-directing deal at Focus and a writing deal at Universal. The Focus deal comes into play first. "Sin Nombre" is a thriller which tells of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. and stars Karl Braun, Paula Gaitan, Diana Garcia, Damayanti Quintanar and Guillermo Villegas."It probably won't be a sociopolitical thriller," he said. He added that he was hoping to make the film smaller after the complex road aspects of "Nombre." "I want to focus on a personal or emotional journey," he said. ...
- 1/27/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
After winning the directing award for Focus Features' "Sin Nombre" at Sundance, Cary Fukunaga is getting a writing-directing deal at Focus and a writing deal at Universal. The Focus deal comes into play first. "Sin Nombre" is a thriller which tells of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. and stars Karl Braun, Paula Gaitan, Diana Garcia, Damayanti Quintanar and Guillermo Villegas. "It probably won't be a sociopolitical thriller," he said.
- 1/27/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
U.S. Dramatic Competition
This year's 16 films were selected from 1,026 submissions. Each film is a world premiere.
Adam (Director-screenwriter: Max Mayer)
A strange and lyrical love story between a somewhat socially dysfunctional young man and the woman of his dreams. Cast: Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving, Frankie Faison.
Amreeka (Director-screenwriter: Cherien Dabis)
When a divorced Palestinian woman and her teenage son move to rural Illinois at the outset of the Iraq war, they find their new lives replete with challenges. Cast: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Alia Shawkat.
Big Fan (Director-screenwriter: Robert Siegel)
The world of a parking garage attendant who happens to be the New York Giants' biggest fan is turned upside down after an altercation with his favorite player. Cast: Patton Oswalt, Michael Rapaport, Kevin Corrigan, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Matt Servitto.
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (Director-screenwriter: John Krasinski)
When her boyfriend leaves with little explanation,...
This year's 16 films were selected from 1,026 submissions. Each film is a world premiere.
Adam (Director-screenwriter: Max Mayer)
A strange and lyrical love story between a somewhat socially dysfunctional young man and the woman of his dreams. Cast: Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving, Frankie Faison.
Amreeka (Director-screenwriter: Cherien Dabis)
When a divorced Palestinian woman and her teenage son move to rural Illinois at the outset of the Iraq war, they find their new lives replete with challenges. Cast: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Alia Shawkat.
Big Fan (Director-screenwriter: Robert Siegel)
The world of a parking garage attendant who happens to be the New York Giants' biggest fan is turned upside down after an altercation with his favorite player. Cast: Patton Oswalt, Michael Rapaport, Kevin Corrigan, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Matt Servitto.
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (Director-screenwriter: John Krasinski)
When her boyfriend leaves with little explanation,...
- 12/3/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Director Issa Lopez (Efectos Secundarios) will helm Casi Divas (Road to Fame) for Columbia Pictures Producciones Mexico, the local production arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment. The film, which stars Patricia Llaca, Julio Bracho, Maya Zapata, Ana Layevska, Diana Garcia and Daniela Schmidt, will be produced by Luz Maria Rojas (Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Mask of Zorro). Divas, which is based on an idea and story by SPRI executive vp creative advertising Ignacio Darnaude, marks the fledgling production division's second feature. The first was the acquisition El Crimen Del Padre Amaro, which became the biggest Mexican film of all time.
- 6/11/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
IFC Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to Canana Films' Spanish-language drama Drama/Mex, which it will release as part of its IFC First Take banner, bowing it simultaneously in theaters and as a cable video-on-demand offering.
Written and directed by Gerardo Naranjo, "Drama/Mex" stars Fernando Becerril, Juan Pablo Castaneda, Diana Garcia, Miriana Moro and Emilio Valdes. Its producers are Gabriel Garcia, Santiago Paredes and Moro. Garcia, Renato Ornelas, Yibran Assuad, Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal, Pablo Cruz and Kyzza Terrazas are the exec producers.
The film, which premiered last year in the Critics Week sidebar at the Festival de Cannes before playing the Toronto International Film Festival and the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles, is set in Acapulco and tells the interwoven stories of a suicidal old man, a 15-year-old runaway girl and a young couple.
" 'Drama/Mex' is a beautifully told story explored with fresh and provocative style," IFC Entertainment president Jonathan Sehring said.
Written and directed by Gerardo Naranjo, "Drama/Mex" stars Fernando Becerril, Juan Pablo Castaneda, Diana Garcia, Miriana Moro and Emilio Valdes. Its producers are Gabriel Garcia, Santiago Paredes and Moro. Garcia, Renato Ornelas, Yibran Assuad, Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal, Pablo Cruz and Kyzza Terrazas are the exec producers.
The film, which premiered last year in the Critics Week sidebar at the Festival de Cannes before playing the Toronto International Film Festival and the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles, is set in Acapulco and tells the interwoven stories of a suicidal old man, a 15-year-old runaway girl and a young couple.
" 'Drama/Mex' is a beautifully told story explored with fresh and provocative style," IFC Entertainment president Jonathan Sehring said.
- 1/19/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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