L.A.-based Outsider Pictures, a U.S. distribution hub for emerging Spanish-language cinema, has secured North American rights to 2020 Ventana Sur Primer Corte title “Fogaréu,” the debut feature from burgeoning Brazilian director Flávia Neves.
The deal, brokered between Outsider (“Blanquita”) and France’s MPM Premium New Visions arm (“The Pink Cloud”), follows the film’s world premiere at Berlinale’s Panorama in 2022, where it snagged the third place Audience Award.
“Fogaréu” was a selection at the Neufchâtel International Film Festival and further competed at the Guadalajara Film Festival, Vancouver Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival and the Mons Love International Festival, where it won the 400 Coups Competition Prize.”
“We’re happy to work with Outsider Pictures again, they’re a great supporter, carrying Latin American voices into North American homes,” Quentin Worthington, head of sales and acquisitions at MPM Premium, told Variety.“
“Infusing fantasy and thriller elements while creating a...
The deal, brokered between Outsider (“Blanquita”) and France’s MPM Premium New Visions arm (“The Pink Cloud”), follows the film’s world premiere at Berlinale’s Panorama in 2022, where it snagged the third place Audience Award.
“Fogaréu” was a selection at the Neufchâtel International Film Festival and further competed at the Guadalajara Film Festival, Vancouver Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival and the Mons Love International Festival, where it won the 400 Coups Competition Prize.”
“We’re happy to work with Outsider Pictures again, they’re a great supporter, carrying Latin American voices into North American homes,” Quentin Worthington, head of sales and acquisitions at MPM Premium, told Variety.“
“Infusing fantasy and thriller elements while creating a...
- 4/12/2023
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
In her debut feature, “Fogaréu,” director Flávia Neves interweaves the broader impact of colonialism in Brazil with a close-up tale of insidious goings on in Goiás, her home town in central Brazil. Having gained support from the Cnc’s Aide Aux Cinemas du Monde, “Fogaréu” is an accomplished first film that offers a nuanced critique of power dynamics within a bold, cinematic thriller framework. The film screens in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival.
Named after the Catholic Procession of the Fogaréu at Easter, a tradition introduced by the Spanish in the mid-18th century that re-enacts the arrest of Jesus, the film follows the return of prodigal daughter Fernanda (Bárbara Colen) to Goiás having lived in more progressive and liberal environments since she left with her adoptive mother. Back in the town, she discovers its open secret—that many neurodiverse children put up for adoption have been...
Named after the Catholic Procession of the Fogaréu at Easter, a tradition introduced by the Spanish in the mid-18th century that re-enacts the arrest of Jesus, the film follows the return of prodigal daughter Fernanda (Bárbara Colen) to Goiás having lived in more progressive and liberal environments since she left with her adoptive mother. Back in the town, she discovers its open secret—that many neurodiverse children put up for adoption have been...
- 2/16/2022
- by Caitlin Quinlan
- Variety Film + TV
Adding to its notable lineup in Latin American movies, Paris-based sales agent MPM Premium has taken international sales rights to “Fogaréu,” from writer-director Flávia Neves, part of Brazil’s new wave of female filmmakers, which is one of the most exciting developments the country’s cinema currently has going for it.
MPM Premium is introducing the film at this week’s Berlin Festival, where it world premieres in Panorama on Feb. 15.
First glimpsed at 2020’s Ventana Sur project market, “Fogaréu” shares a sense of attitude and a feminist agenda and a visual verve with fellow Brazilian Ventana Sur titles “The Pink Cloud,” Iuli Gerbase’s a sci-fi character-driven thriller, and “The Joy of Things,” Thais Fujinaga’s portrait of motherhood, also playing at the same market.
It begins, for example, with menacing shots of the Klu Klux Klan, marching towards the Brazilian colonial town of Goiás, or so it seems...
MPM Premium is introducing the film at this week’s Berlin Festival, where it world premieres in Panorama on Feb. 15.
First glimpsed at 2020’s Ventana Sur project market, “Fogaréu” shares a sense of attitude and a feminist agenda and a visual verve with fellow Brazilian Ventana Sur titles “The Pink Cloud,” Iuli Gerbase’s a sci-fi character-driven thriller, and “The Joy of Things,” Thais Fujinaga’s portrait of motherhood, also playing at the same market.
It begins, for example, with menacing shots of the Klu Klux Klan, marching towards the Brazilian colonial town of Goiás, or so it seems...
- 2/13/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Written and directed by Lucrecia Martel, the Argentine auteur behind La Cineaga and The Headless Woman, Zama is the long-awaited adaptation of Antonio Di Benedetto’s classic of Latin American modernism.
Zama transports us to a remote corner of 18th-century South America where Zama, a servant of the Spanish crown, slowly loses his grip on reality. Zama brings a 21st century perspective to bear on the history of colonial catastrophe in the Americas. Marooned in an a colonial outpost, the titular Don Diego De Zama (a soulful yet funny Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Bad Education, Y Tu Mama narrator, Arrancame la vida) waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious post.
Martel, in a perfect coupling of literary source material and cinematic sensibility, renders Zama’s world as both absurd and mysterious as he succumbs more and more to lust, paranoia and a creeping disorientation. A fever dream, the...
Zama transports us to a remote corner of 18th-century South America where Zama, a servant of the Spanish crown, slowly loses his grip on reality. Zama brings a 21st century perspective to bear on the history of colonial catastrophe in the Americas. Marooned in an a colonial outpost, the titular Don Diego De Zama (a soulful yet funny Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Bad Education, Y Tu Mama narrator, Arrancame la vida) waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious post.
Martel, in a perfect coupling of literary source material and cinematic sensibility, renders Zama’s world as both absurd and mysterious as he succumbs more and more to lust, paranoia and a creeping disorientation. A fever dream, the...
- 12/6/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Zama
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Writer: Lucrecia Martel
Argentinean director Lucrecia Martel has become one of her country’s most prolific filmmakers with three outstanding titles to her name, beginning with 2001’s La Cienega (where she won the Alfred Bauer film award in Berlin, and the title recently became part of the Criterion selection), 2004’s The Holy Girl, and the coolly received The Headless Woman in 2008, which has been critically recuperated since. Her latest, Zama, is a parody, according to Martel and is based on the highly regarded 1956 novel by Antonio di Benedetto focusing on Diego de Zama, an officer of the Spanish crown. While endlessly waiting for a transfer to Buenos Aires, he joins a party of soldiers hunting down a bandit before absconding to less regulated realms where he is allowed to live freely. The project is one of the most ambitious Us-Latin America-Euro co-productions in the country’s history.
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Writer: Lucrecia Martel
Argentinean director Lucrecia Martel has become one of her country’s most prolific filmmakers with three outstanding titles to her name, beginning with 2001’s La Cienega (where she won the Alfred Bauer film award in Berlin, and the title recently became part of the Criterion selection), 2004’s The Holy Girl, and the coolly received The Headless Woman in 2008, which has been critically recuperated since. Her latest, Zama, is a parody, according to Martel and is based on the highly regarded 1956 novel by Antonio di Benedetto focusing on Diego de Zama, an officer of the Spanish crown. While endlessly waiting for a transfer to Buenos Aires, he joins a party of soldiers hunting down a bandit before absconding to less regulated realms where he is allowed to live freely. The project is one of the most ambitious Us-Latin America-Euro co-productions in the country’s history.
- 1/14/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The premiere post-tiff destination (September 20-25th) in the film community and a major leg up for narrative and non-fiction films in development, the Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) announced a whopping 140 projects selected for the Project Forum at the upcoming Ifp Independent Film Week. Made up of several sections (Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers program, No Borders International Co-Production Market and Spotlight on Documentaries), we find latest updates from the likes of docu-helmers Doug Block (112 Weddings) and Lana Wilson (After Tiller), and among the narrative items we find headliners in Andrew Haigh (coming off the well received 45 Years), Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls and Madame Bovary), Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty), Lawrence Michael Levine (Wild Canaries), Jorge Michel Grau (We Are What We Are), Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal (Stranger Things) and new faces in Sundance’s large family in Charles Poekel (Christmas, Again) and Olivia Newman (First Match). Here...
- 7/22/2015
- by admin
- IONCINEMA.com
TV + Film Finance Forum Latin America
August 13, 2014 at The Copacabana Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Winston Baker inaugural event last year was a great success with over 200 high-level financiers, filmmakers, agents, distributors, and industry advisers in attendance. The goal at this year’s event is to bring together pioneers who are paving the way for the audiovisual industry of Latin America for both the TV and Film sectors through innovative corporate partnerships, financing, production, brand integration, and distribution avenues. This conference will consist of insightful panel discussions, interactive sessions, and featured case studies on exploring new financing strategies, bridging the gap between independents and majors, successfully navigating through co-production deals, and pay TV/VOD opportunities within Latin America, among other crucial topics.
This year's speaking faculty will include experts from Brazil, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, the Us and more:
Elie Wahba - 20th Century Fox
Gary Pearl - Aquarius Television
Vania Catani-Bananeira Filmes
Pablo Cruz- Canana Films
Fabio de Sa Cesnik - Cesnik, Quintino & Salinas
David Zannoni- Fintage House
Daniela Busoli-FremantleMedia Brazil
Steve Solot - Latin American Training Center
Marisa Fernandez Armenteros - MediaPro
Cristina Garza - Mundial
Gabriel Mena - Paradigm
Sergio Sá Leitão - RioFilme
Rodrigo Texeira - Rt Features
Fabio Lima - Sofa Digital
Jose Mauricio Fittipaldi - Televisa Internacional
Register Now Here
Save R$50 Brl off the current rate when using code WEB50 when you register by August 9, 2014.
About Winston Baker
Founded by Katherine Winston and Amy Baker, Winston Baker produces events globally for the filmed entertainment and media industries addressing strategies for investment and growth. In particular, Winston Baker is the leading producer of film finance conferences, successfully creating and producing the Film Finance Forum ® Series and hosting sold out conferences across the Us, Europe, Pacific Asia, China, and Latin America. At each event, Winston Baker brings together the most seasoned and influential entertainment executives and financiers to address changing trends. For more information: www.WinstonBaker.com .
About RioFilme
RioFilme is an equity and P&A investment company owned by the City of Rio. Founded in 1992, its task is to promote the development of Rio's growing audiovisual industry. For the past 20 years, RioFilme invested in more than 300 Brazilian films, such as "Central Station," by Walter Salles Jr., and "Elite Squad 2," by José Padilha, among others. In 2012, 9 films in the Brazilian top 10 Bo hits were co-produced and/or co-distributed by RioFilme. Nowadays, Rio is Latin America's main center for film and TV production and distribution.
August 13, 2014 at The Copacabana Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Winston Baker inaugural event last year was a great success with over 200 high-level financiers, filmmakers, agents, distributors, and industry advisers in attendance. The goal at this year’s event is to bring together pioneers who are paving the way for the audiovisual industry of Latin America for both the TV and Film sectors through innovative corporate partnerships, financing, production, brand integration, and distribution avenues. This conference will consist of insightful panel discussions, interactive sessions, and featured case studies on exploring new financing strategies, bridging the gap between independents and majors, successfully navigating through co-production deals, and pay TV/VOD opportunities within Latin America, among other crucial topics.
This year's speaking faculty will include experts from Brazil, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, the Us and more:
Elie Wahba - 20th Century Fox
Gary Pearl - Aquarius Television
Vania Catani-Bananeira Filmes
Pablo Cruz- Canana Films
Fabio de Sa Cesnik - Cesnik, Quintino & Salinas
David Zannoni- Fintage House
Daniela Busoli-FremantleMedia Brazil
Steve Solot - Latin American Training Center
Marisa Fernandez Armenteros - MediaPro
Cristina Garza - Mundial
Gabriel Mena - Paradigm
Sergio Sá Leitão - RioFilme
Rodrigo Texeira - Rt Features
Fabio Lima - Sofa Digital
Jose Mauricio Fittipaldi - Televisa Internacional
Register Now Here
Save R$50 Brl off the current rate when using code WEB50 when you register by August 9, 2014.
About Winston Baker
Founded by Katherine Winston and Amy Baker, Winston Baker produces events globally for the filmed entertainment and media industries addressing strategies for investment and growth. In particular, Winston Baker is the leading producer of film finance conferences, successfully creating and producing the Film Finance Forum ® Series and hosting sold out conferences across the Us, Europe, Pacific Asia, China, and Latin America. At each event, Winston Baker brings together the most seasoned and influential entertainment executives and financiers to address changing trends. For more information: www.WinstonBaker.com .
About RioFilme
RioFilme is an equity and P&A investment company owned by the City of Rio. Founded in 1992, its task is to promote the development of Rio's growing audiovisual industry. For the past 20 years, RioFilme invested in more than 300 Brazilian films, such as "Central Station," by Walter Salles Jr., and "Elite Squad 2," by José Padilha, among others. In 2012, 9 films in the Brazilian top 10 Bo hits were co-produced and/or co-distributed by RioFilme. Nowadays, Rio is Latin America's main center for film and TV production and distribution.
- 7/31/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Exclusive: Among the deals, Mexico’s In Films We Trust will buy a package of eight Russian films from Timur Bekmambetov’s Bazelevs.
Moscow Business Square’s Latin American focus has already borne its first fruits less than a week after the event closed.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily, consultant Diana Karklin revealed that Russian producer Vlad Ketkovich will serve as the executive producer on the Mexican documentary Torre about the tragic story of Mexico’s greatest ever chess player Carlos Torre, which was pitched in Moscow by director Juan Obregon and co-director/producer Roberto Garza.
In addition, Mexico’s facilities house Studio 5 de mayo plans to finance the post-production of Maria Gavrilova´s Brazilian-Russian documentary project Close Your Eyes by Marx Films, as well as for the Colombian project Revolution which was pitched at Mbs by the producer-director-screenwriter team of Camilo Molano Parra, Felipe Cano Ibanez and Santiago Ardilla Reyes.
Karklin also noted...
Moscow Business Square’s Latin American focus has already borne its first fruits less than a week after the event closed.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily, consultant Diana Karklin revealed that Russian producer Vlad Ketkovich will serve as the executive producer on the Mexican documentary Torre about the tragic story of Mexico’s greatest ever chess player Carlos Torre, which was pitched in Moscow by director Juan Obregon and co-director/producer Roberto Garza.
In addition, Mexico’s facilities house Studio 5 de mayo plans to finance the post-production of Maria Gavrilova´s Brazilian-Russian documentary project Close Your Eyes by Marx Films, as well as for the Colombian project Revolution which was pitched at Mbs by the producer-director-screenwriter team of Camilo Molano Parra, Felipe Cano Ibanez and Santiago Ardilla Reyes.
Karklin also noted...
- 6/30/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The Match Factory has boarded Lucrecia Martel’s new feature Zama and will begin pre-sales on the period drama in Cannes.
The film will be shot in Northern Argentina and Brazil during early 2015.
The Rotterdam CineMart-winning project is based on the novel by Argentinian writer Antonio Di Benedetto.
Zama takes place in the late 18th century. Diego de Zama, a South-American-born functionary of the colonial government, awaits a ship that should bring a royal missive avowing his promotion and transfer: the possibility to return to where his wife and children live, whom he has not seen in several years.
The producers are:
Benjamin Domenech and Santiago Gallelli from Rei Cine, the team behind Historia del Miedo by Benjamin Naishtat (Berlinale Competition 2014);
Vania Catani’s Bananeira Filmes, the producer of El Ardor by Pablo Fendrik (Cannes 2014, Official Selection, Special Screening);
Pedro and Agustin Almodovar’s El Deseo who also collaborated on Martel ́s previous film, La Mujer Sin Cabeza;
and...
The film will be shot in Northern Argentina and Brazil during early 2015.
The Rotterdam CineMart-winning project is based on the novel by Argentinian writer Antonio Di Benedetto.
Zama takes place in the late 18th century. Diego de Zama, a South-American-born functionary of the colonial government, awaits a ship that should bring a royal missive avowing his promotion and transfer: the possibility to return to where his wife and children live, whom he has not seen in several years.
The producers are:
Benjamin Domenech and Santiago Gallelli from Rei Cine, the team behind Historia del Miedo by Benjamin Naishtat (Berlinale Competition 2014);
Vania Catani’s Bananeira Filmes, the producer of El Ardor by Pablo Fendrik (Cannes 2014, Official Selection, Special Screening);
Pedro and Agustin Almodovar’s El Deseo who also collaborated on Martel ́s previous film, La Mujer Sin Cabeza;
and...
- 5/14/2014
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
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