The non-fiction focuses on the Gualeguaychú carnival in Argentina.
UK-based sales firm Wildstar International has boarded international sales on The Carnival, the first non-fiction film from Argentinian director Marco Berger.
Wildstar will introduce the title to buyers at next week’s online European Film Market.
The film has completed production and will have a festival premiere in 2021.
It centres on two men who grew up in the town of Gualeguaychú, in the east of Argentina near the border with Uruguay. Every summer they participate in the town’s traditional carnival, which transforms the men of the community into Dionysiac figures via costumes,...
UK-based sales firm Wildstar International has boarded international sales on The Carnival, the first non-fiction film from Argentinian director Marco Berger.
Wildstar will introduce the title to buyers at next week’s online European Film Market.
The film has completed production and will have a festival premiere in 2021.
It centres on two men who grew up in the town of Gualeguaychú, in the east of Argentina near the border with Uruguay. Every summer they participate in the town’s traditional carnival, which transforms the men of the community into Dionysiac figures via costumes,...
- 2/26/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Film is now playing on some 1,000 screens across France.
Paris-based Memento Distribution’s high-risk decision to reboot the stalled theatrical release of comedy-drama How To Be A Good Wife in unison with the reopening of French cinemas on June 22, after a 14-week Covid-19 closure, appears to have paid off.
Company chief Alexandre Mallet-Guy confirmed to Screen on Wednesday (July 1) that the film had drawn 209,000 spectators over nine days from June 22-30, for a gross of around $1.6m
Total spectators for the feature, which was in cinemas for just four days before French cinemas closed on March 14, now stands at 380,000. The running total stands at $2.9m.
Paris-based Memento Distribution’s high-risk decision to reboot the stalled theatrical release of comedy-drama How To Be A Good Wife in unison with the reopening of French cinemas on June 22, after a 14-week Covid-19 closure, appears to have paid off.
Company chief Alexandre Mallet-Guy confirmed to Screen on Wednesday (July 1) that the film had drawn 209,000 spectators over nine days from June 22-30, for a gross of around $1.6m
Total spectators for the feature, which was in cinemas for just four days before French cinemas closed on March 14, now stands at 380,000. The running total stands at $2.9m.
- 7/1/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦69¦
- ScreenDaily
The company has also acquired Lucas Santa Ana’s ‘Memories Of A Teenager’.
Wildstar International, the UK-based sales company launched last year by former Fusion Media Sales executive Murray Dibbs, has acquired worldwide sales rights to Argentinian director Marco Berger’s Young Hunter.
Berger’s feature is making its world premiere in the Big Screen Competition in the Voices strand at International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr).
The film follows the sexual awakening of a 15-year-old boy, which lands him in a moral dilemma when a video surfaces of him having sex with a handsome skater.
Berger, who is one of...
Wildstar International, the UK-based sales company launched last year by former Fusion Media Sales executive Murray Dibbs, has acquired worldwide sales rights to Argentinian director Marco Berger’s Young Hunter.
Berger’s feature is making its world premiere in the Big Screen Competition in the Voices strand at International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr).
The film follows the sexual awakening of a 15-year-old boy, which lands him in a moral dilemma when a video surfaces of him having sex with a handsome skater.
Berger, who is one of...
- 1/26/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Argentinian Lgbt drama premiered in Rotterdam’s Deep Focus strand.
London and Philadelphia-based distributor Tla Releasing has picked up mutliple territories to José Celestino Campusano’s Argentinian drama Men Of Hard Skin (Hombres De Piel Dura) from Compañia De Cine.
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The film premiered at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) and is set to have its European premiere at BFI Flare in London later this month.
Tla has taken UK, North America, German-speaking territories, French-speaking territories, and south-east Asia on the film, and is planning some theatrical play.
The company specialises in releasing Lgbt entertainment. Men...
London and Philadelphia-based distributor Tla Releasing has picked up mutliple territories to José Celestino Campusano’s Argentinian drama Men Of Hard Skin (Hombres De Piel Dura) from Compañia De Cine.
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The film premiered at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) and is set to have its European premiere at BFI Flare in London later this month.
Tla has taken UK, North America, German-speaking territories, French-speaking territories, and south-east Asia on the film, and is planning some theatrical play.
The company specialises in releasing Lgbt entertainment. Men...
- 3/20/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
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