Spanish drama played in competition at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
Leading Italian sales outfit The Open Reel has boarded international sales rights to Liliana Torres’ romantic drama What Went Wrong.
The Spanish feature recently screened in competition at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, following its premiere at the Seville European Film Festival earlier this month.
It marks the second film by Spanish writer/director Torres, whose debut Family Tour premiered at San Sebastian in 2013.
The filmmaker steps in front of the camera for What Went Wrong, which blurs fiction and documentary to explore her own romantic history and attempts...
Leading Italian sales outfit The Open Reel has boarded international sales rights to Liliana Torres’ romantic drama What Went Wrong.
The Spanish feature recently screened in competition at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, following its premiere at the Seville European Film Festival earlier this month.
It marks the second film by Spanish writer/director Torres, whose debut Family Tour premiered at San Sebastian in 2013.
The filmmaker steps in front of the camera for What Went Wrong, which blurs fiction and documentary to explore her own romantic history and attempts...
- 11/29/2021
- by Gabriele Niola
- ScreenDaily
As the 2021 Locarno Film Festival rounds its final bend, sales deals were still coming through.
In one such pact, San Sebastian New Directors title “That Weekend” has been snapped up by leading Italian sales-production shingle The Open Reel. A debut feature from director Mara Pescio, the film tells the story of Julia who returns to the neighborhood she left years ago to recover money she hid in her home. The reunion prompts a life-changing confrontation with her daughter.
The film is an Argentina-Brazil co-production hailing from Maravillacine, Murillo Cine, Santiago Carabante and Persona Non Grata Pictures. Variety previously spoke with Pescio about her making her directorial bow.
In other late Locarno dealing, Compañia de Cine, a Buenos Aires-based boutique sales operation, announced it had taken world rights to “Mostro,” which world premiered Aug. 11 in Locarno Cineasti del Presente.
Also, Mad Solutions signed all sales and distribution rights for Arab-speaking countries...
In one such pact, San Sebastian New Directors title “That Weekend” has been snapped up by leading Italian sales-production shingle The Open Reel. A debut feature from director Mara Pescio, the film tells the story of Julia who returns to the neighborhood she left years ago to recover money she hid in her home. The reunion prompts a life-changing confrontation with her daughter.
The film is an Argentina-Brazil co-production hailing from Maravillacine, Murillo Cine, Santiago Carabante and Persona Non Grata Pictures. Variety previously spoke with Pescio about her making her directorial bow.
In other late Locarno dealing, Compañia de Cine, a Buenos Aires-based boutique sales operation, announced it had taken world rights to “Mostro,” which world premiered Aug. 11 in Locarno Cineasti del Presente.
Also, Mad Solutions signed all sales and distribution rights for Arab-speaking countries...
- 8/12/2021
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
This year’s Ssiff will run as an in-person event from September 17-25.
A total of 13 first and second features will compete for the New Directors award at this year’s San Sebastian International Film Festival.Â
The winning film is awarded €50,000 to be shared by the director and the Spanish distributor.
This year’s selection includes Philippe Grégoire’s The Noise Of Engines, inspired by his experiences as a customs officer, a job he took to pay for his film studies; Selmar Nacar’s Between Two Dawns, which won the Wip Europe Industry award in San Sebastian last year; Darko Sinko’s Inventory,...
A total of 13 first and second features will compete for the New Directors award at this year’s San Sebastian International Film Festival.Â
The winning film is awarded €50,000 to be shared by the director and the Spanish distributor.
This year’s selection includes Philippe Grégoire’s The Noise Of Engines, inspired by his experiences as a customs officer, a job he took to pay for his film studies; Selmar Nacar’s Between Two Dawns, which won the Wip Europe Industry award in San Sebastian last year; Darko Sinko’s Inventory,...
- 7/28/2021
- by Elisabet Cabeza
- ScreenDaily
Spain’s San Sebastian Festival, the most important film meet in the Spanish-speaking world, has unveiled the 13 title lineup of its 2021 New Directors lineup, which includes awaited debuts such as Argentine Mara Pescio’s “That Weekend” and Spaniard Javier Marco’s “Josephine” plus Jeonju Fest double winner “Aloners.”
Here are the titles and some descriptions. More details to come:
“Aloners”
Winner at May’s Jeonju Intl. Film Festival of the best actor prize for Gong Seung-yeon who plays a loner woman working at a customer call center who discourages any social contact. A psychological study in solitariness, “Aloners” also scooped the Cgv Arthouse award.
“Between Two Dawns”
A standout and eventual double winner at San Sebastian’s 2020 Wip Europa, Nacar’s debut, about a man struggling to do the right thing following an accident in his family’s business.
“Carajita”
Set in the Dominican Republic and the Argentine directorial duo’s follow-up to 2017 “Tigre,...
Here are the titles and some descriptions. More details to come:
“Aloners”
Winner at May’s Jeonju Intl. Film Festival of the best actor prize for Gong Seung-yeon who plays a loner woman working at a customer call center who discourages any social contact. A psychological study in solitariness, “Aloners” also scooped the Cgv Arthouse award.
“Between Two Dawns”
A standout and eventual double winner at San Sebastian’s 2020 Wip Europa, Nacar’s debut, about a man struggling to do the right thing following an accident in his family’s business.
“Carajita”
Set in the Dominican Republic and the Argentine directorial duo’s follow-up to 2017 “Tigre,...
- 7/28/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The 2021 San Sebastian Film Festival (September 17-25) has revealed the 13 features that will compete in its New Directors showcase.
Of the pics selected, nine are debuts while the remainder are second features. Directors include Canada’s Philippe Grégoire, who has been at more than 100 festivals with his short films, Fran Kranz from the U.S., and Turkish filmmaker Selman Nacar, whose project Between Two Dawns won two industry prizes at San Seb last year.
The filmmakers will compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award, which comes with a $60,000 prize that is split between the director and Spanish distributor of the movie.
Here’s the full New Directors lineup:
Carajita
Directors: Silvina Schnicer (Argentina), Ulises Porra (Argentina)
Country(ies) of production: Dominican Republic – Argentina
Ese Fin De Semana / That Weekend
Director: Mara Pescio (Argentina)
Country(Ies) Of Production: Argentina – Brazil
Hon-Ja Sa-Neun Sa-Ram-Deul / Aloners
Director: Hong Sung-Eun (South Korea)
Country...
Of the pics selected, nine are debuts while the remainder are second features. Directors include Canada’s Philippe Grégoire, who has been at more than 100 festivals with his short films, Fran Kranz from the U.S., and Turkish filmmaker Selman Nacar, whose project Between Two Dawns won two industry prizes at San Seb last year.
The filmmakers will compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award, which comes with a $60,000 prize that is split between the director and Spanish distributor of the movie.
Here’s the full New Directors lineup:
Carajita
Directors: Silvina Schnicer (Argentina), Ulises Porra (Argentina)
Country(ies) of production: Dominican Republic – Argentina
Ese Fin De Semana / That Weekend
Director: Mara Pescio (Argentina)
Country(Ies) Of Production: Argentina – Brazil
Hon-Ja Sa-Neun Sa-Ram-Deul / Aloners
Director: Hong Sung-Eun (South Korea)
Country...
- 7/28/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Brazil’s “The Life That’s Left,” Costa Rica’s “Crono-Capsulas” and Chilean drama series “Silver Bridge” and “La Vida de Nosotros” ran out as four of the big winners at a vibrant and packed online 2021 Sanfic Industria that also underscored the depth of new talent in Latin America.
Running March 18-25, Sanfic Industria, the constantly expanding industry arm climaxed a day later with the announcement of a huge haul in industry prizes, the largest from Mexico’s genre powerhouse Mórbido, plus the lineup for Sanfic Goes to Cannes, a new Cannes Film Market project event, and notification that the two biggest winners at Santiago Series Lab, another new initiative, had scored pitching berths at Series Mania and Conecta Fiction.
Gearing up for its 17th edition this August, Sanfic is still expanding, bidding to become the biggest film festival in industry terms in Latin America. It is also well placed,...
Running March 18-25, Sanfic Industria, the constantly expanding industry arm climaxed a day later with the announcement of a huge haul in industry prizes, the largest from Mexico’s genre powerhouse Mórbido, plus the lineup for Sanfic Goes to Cannes, a new Cannes Film Market project event, and notification that the two biggest winners at Santiago Series Lab, another new initiative, had scored pitching berths at Series Mania and Conecta Fiction.
Gearing up for its 17th edition this August, Sanfic is still expanding, bidding to become the biggest film festival in industry terms in Latin America. It is also well placed,...
- 3/26/2021
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Threatened that she has to pay off the money she owes or face the consequences, Julia, a singer, leaves the restaurant where she’s performed and drives to her former home in a leafy working class tenement block in Posadas, northern Argentina, on the sweeping Paraná river.
There she plans to reclaim the stash of money she’s made from a scam she pulled off years before in her district as well as sign a document to allow her near-17-year old daughter Clara to move from Argentina to Paraguay to live with her father.
Yet, during Julia’s years of absence, Clara has grown up, has a passion, music, friends and a stable relationship with a girlfriend and doesn’t want to move at all. But Clara will need Julia’s hidden cash if she wants to stay in Posadas….
Argentina’s Mara Pescio, a screenwriter whose credits include...
There she plans to reclaim the stash of money she’s made from a scam she pulled off years before in her district as well as sign a document to allow her near-17-year old daughter Clara to move from Argentina to Paraguay to live with her father.
Yet, during Julia’s years of absence, Clara has grown up, has a passion, music, friends and a stable relationship with a girlfriend and doesn’t want to move at all. But Clara will need Julia’s hidden cash if she wants to stay in Posadas….
Argentina’s Mara Pescio, a screenwriter whose credits include...
- 3/23/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Pushed back from last August and now held online as Covid-19 still rages in Chile, Sanfic Industria, the high-energy industry part of Santiago de Chile’s Sanfic festival, runs March 18-26. Given its context, it bids to play an even more crucial role in Latin America’s industry re-set after experiencing a more punishing pandemic impact than any other part of the world.
Sanfic Industria: More Growth, Despite Covid-19
Over the last 12 months, film and TV events, whether virtual or on-site, have almost all slimmed. Sanfic Industria, in contrast, is expanding, adding a much-awaited Series Lab showcase. Santiago Lab has already evolved massively over the last two-to-three years, blossoming from a tight-knit niche launchpad for promising titles to a can’t-miss event for many of the region’s most ambitious projects.
Further growth, and a move into drama series, looked inevitable. Over the last five years, high-end drama series production...
Sanfic Industria: More Growth, Despite Covid-19
Over the last 12 months, film and TV events, whether virtual or on-site, have almost all slimmed. Sanfic Industria, in contrast, is expanding, adding a much-awaited Series Lab showcase. Santiago Lab has already evolved massively over the last two-to-three years, blossoming from a tight-knit niche launchpad for promising titles to a can’t-miss event for many of the region’s most ambitious projects.
Further growth, and a move into drama series, looked inevitable. Over the last five years, high-end drama series production...
- 3/18/2021
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Co-writer/director Martin Rodriguez Redondo's reflective and probing Argentine Lgbtq coming-of-age tale Marilyn incorporates all the circulating doubts, personalized strife, and overall contemplation about youth-oriented uncertainty, experimental sexuality, and loss of self-identity. Indeed, Marilyn has its saggy moments in orchestrated sentimentality but the film's gripping essence in conveying the pressures of a gay teen tormented by directional signs of angst-ridden burden does have its affecting, dramatic impact. Redondo's creative heart is in the right place in terms of delving into the tortured soul of a confused homosexual youth wallowing in his daily turmoil. Based on true accounts, Redondo and fellow screenwriters Mariana Docampo and Mara Pescio tell the sordid story of rural farm boy Marcos (played with conviction by Walter Rodriguez) residing on dry cattle farming land with his family....
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- 4/28/2019
- Screen Anarchy
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