The Guadalajara Film Festival’s industry centerpiece, its Encuentro de Co-produccion, a springboard for Latin American feature film projects, unspools this week online, as directors and producers look to catch the eye of the international marketplace and secure key sales, distribution and production partners.
Guadalajara has long rejected the idea that gender-based quotas are needed when programming a festival while demonstrating an organic level of inclusion in its industry sections that should make some European festivals blush. The 2020 Meeting is no exception. More than half of the projects set to pitch this week are directed by women, with just as many featuring female producers or co-producers.
As important as any statistics though, the kinds of films that women are pitching at Guadalajara break moulds as well. Gone are the days when the industry expected women directors to tell women’s stories. Now, the women pitching at Guadalajara can present horror,...
Guadalajara has long rejected the idea that gender-based quotas are needed when programming a festival while demonstrating an organic level of inclusion in its industry sections that should make some European festivals blush. The 2020 Meeting is no exception. More than half of the projects set to pitch this week are directed by women, with just as many featuring female producers or co-producers.
As important as any statistics though, the kinds of films that women are pitching at Guadalajara break moulds as well. Gone are the days when the industry expected women directors to tell women’s stories. Now, the women pitching at Guadalajara can present horror,...
- 11/22/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Gustavo Rosa, Carolina Denegri roduced tragicomedy.
Shoreline Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights excluding Peruvian theatrical to Alonso Llosa’s tragicomedy and Santa Barbara International Film Festival premiere The Restoration (La Restauración) and will introduce to buyers at the Efm in Berlin next month.
Llosa’s directorial debut centres on Tato, a 51-year-old man-child who lives with his difficult mother and decides to sell the family mansion in a desperate bid for financial independence.
Paul Vega stars alongside Attilia Boschetti, Delfina Paredes, Fernando Añanos, Muki Sabogal, Pietro Sibille, and Malili Dib.
Gustavo Rosa and Carolina Denegri produced and Gill Holland...
Shoreline Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights excluding Peruvian theatrical to Alonso Llosa’s tragicomedy and Santa Barbara International Film Festival premiere The Restoration (La Restauración) and will introduce to buyers at the Efm in Berlin next month.
Llosa’s directorial debut centres on Tato, a 51-year-old man-child who lives with his difficult mother and decides to sell the family mansion in a desperate bid for financial independence.
Paul Vega stars alongside Attilia Boschetti, Delfina Paredes, Fernando Añanos, Muki Sabogal, Pietro Sibille, and Malili Dib.
Gustavo Rosa and Carolina Denegri produced and Gill Holland...
- 1/16/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
In surprising move the Peruvian Ministry of Culture has selected Héctor Gálvez' "Nn" as the country's Oscar submission to compete for a nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
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Rather than selecting one of the two larger local productions released within AMPAS time frame, Javier Fuentes-León's "The Vanished Elephant" and Salvador del Solar's "Magallanes," the country's selection committee decided to go with a more cerebral art house title. Del Solar's film will instead represent the country at the Spanish Goya Awards
Gálvez'"Nn," which stands for "No Nombre" or "No Name," follows, Fidel (Paul Vega), a forensic specialists who leads a team in charge of recovering and identifying bodies found in mass graves. When a particular male body arrives with nothing but the clothes it had on and a photo of a woman, Fidel embarks on a mission to help a grieving widow who's been searching for her husband for several years. Although for the bureaucracy that controls Fidel's department a dead body is just that, for him those remains carry much more emotional weight.
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Th film has played a handful of international festival including the Rome Film Festival, Palm Springs, Cartagena, and Miami. "Nn" will also screen as part of AFI's Latin American Film Festival later this month.
In 2009 "The Milk of Sorrow" (La Teta Asustada) by Claudia Llosa became the first Peruvian film to be nominated for an Academy Award.
"Nn" will open in Peru on September 17. International rights are being handled by Habanero. U.S. Rights are still available.
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Rather than selecting one of the two larger local productions released within AMPAS time frame, Javier Fuentes-León's "The Vanished Elephant" and Salvador del Solar's "Magallanes," the country's selection committee decided to go with a more cerebral art house title. Del Solar's film will instead represent the country at the Spanish Goya Awards
Gálvez'"Nn," which stands for "No Nombre" or "No Name," follows, Fidel (Paul Vega), a forensic specialists who leads a team in charge of recovering and identifying bodies found in mass graves. When a particular male body arrives with nothing but the clothes it had on and a photo of a woman, Fidel embarks on a mission to help a grieving widow who's been searching for her husband for several years. Although for the bureaucracy that controls Fidel's department a dead body is just that, for him those remains carry much more emotional weight.
Read More: Spain Shortlists Three Films as Potential Oscar Submissions
Th film has played a handful of international festival including the Rome Film Festival, Palm Springs, Cartagena, and Miami. "Nn" will also screen as part of AFI's Latin American Film Festival later this month.
In 2009 "The Milk of Sorrow" (La Teta Asustada) by Claudia Llosa became the first Peruvian film to be nominated for an Academy Award.
"Nn" will open in Peru on September 17. International rights are being handled by Habanero. U.S. Rights are still available.
- 9/10/2015
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
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