Variety has been given an exclusive clip from crime drama “Acusada” (The Accused), which plays in competition at the Venice Film Festival. The Argentinian film, which is also screening at the Toronto Film Festival, stars Lali Esposito and Leonardo Sbaraglia, with Gael Garcia Bernal in a supporting role.
The film, directed by Gonzalo Tobal, centers on Dolores, a beautiful young woman who is charged with the murder of her best friend. As her loved ones fight to prove her innocence and the trial is about to begin, Dolores puts the entire strategy at risk.
Tobal says that he has been “captivated” by true crime stories. “I imagine obsessively how these stories are lived behind the scenes: what happens to a person when going through such an experience in which private and public affairs are mixed with so much violence,” he says.
The film is simultaneously a crime film and “a portrait of this question,...
The film, directed by Gonzalo Tobal, centers on Dolores, a beautiful young woman who is charged with the murder of her best friend. As her loved ones fight to prove her innocence and the trial is about to begin, Dolores puts the entire strategy at risk.
Tobal says that he has been “captivated” by true crime stories. “I imagine obsessively how these stories are lived behind the scenes: what happens to a person when going through such an experience in which private and public affairs are mixed with so much violence,” he says.
The film is simultaneously a crime film and “a portrait of this question,...
- 8/27/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Despondent and lashing out after the recent death of his mother, teenager Nahuel (Lautaro Bettoni) is sent to stay for a while with his estranged biological father, Ernesto (Germán Palacios), who lives and works as a hunting guide in the Patagonia Region with a whole new family. It’s here where the two men will get to know each other and hopefully find some common ground. By now you’re probably thinking that Hunting Season (Temporada de Caza) sounds awfully familiar, and you’re not wrong; father-and-son-bonding stories have been told in movies time and time again. But it’s the details that matter, and first-time filmmaker/writer Natalia Garagiola gets a lot of them right, starting with her picturesque setting. The gorgeously photographed Patagonian wilderness is the type of...
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- 8/6/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Exclusive: The Sopranos star Jamie-Lynn Sigler is to topline horror film Hunting Season.
I hear Sigler, who played Meadow Sopranos in the hit HBO mob drama, is to play Abby, a street-smart social worker in the thriller, directed by Rebound and The Ice Cream Truck director Megan Freels Johnston.
She will work alongside Being Human and Knight Rider actress Deanna Russo, who plays desperate single woman Piper. When Piper goes away for a romantic weekend in a hunting lodge with her dashing new boyfriend James, played by Firefly’s Sean Maher, things don’t go according to plan. Abby must track down her roommate before it’s too late. However, she isn’t being chased by a psycho killer in the woods but the 1%. X-Men and Insidious star Bruce Davison plays James’ father, a wealthy “hunter”, whose desires have gone beyond big game.
Harold and Kumar’s Paula Garces and...
I hear Sigler, who played Meadow Sopranos in the hit HBO mob drama, is to play Abby, a street-smart social worker in the thriller, directed by Rebound and The Ice Cream Truck director Megan Freels Johnston.
She will work alongside Being Human and Knight Rider actress Deanna Russo, who plays desperate single woman Piper. When Piper goes away for a romantic weekend in a hunting lodge with her dashing new boyfriend James, played by Firefly’s Sean Maher, things don’t go according to plan. Abby must track down her roommate before it’s too late. However, she isn’t being chased by a psycho killer in the woods but the 1%. X-Men and Insidious star Bruce Davison plays James’ father, a wealthy “hunter”, whose desires have gone beyond big game.
Harold and Kumar’s Paula Garces and...
- 8/1/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Norma Desmond's famous line in Sunset Boulevard about silent movies not needing dialogue because "we had faces!" comes to mind during Natalia Garagiola's moodily downbeat drama Hunting Season (Temporada de Caza), which relies on the characterful visages of its male leads for much of its impact. A well-crafted if fundamentally familiar tale of a hot-head belatedly coming of age with tough-love help from his crusty old man, the Argentinian production made a buzzy debut in Venice, winning the audience award in the Critics' Week sidebar.
Bowing stateside at the Chicago Film Festival later this month, it is assured of a...
Bowing stateside at the Chicago Film Festival later this month, it is assured of a...
- 10/3/2017
- by Neil Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The first awards of the Venice Film Festival were announced Friday, with several female directors winning top prizes. In the critics' week section, Natalia Garagiola was honored with the audience award for her film Hunting Season.
Hunting Season tells the story of a hunting guide in Patagonia who must raise his delinquent son after he is expelled from school and has been praised for its intimate portrait of a violent father-son relationship.
Critics’ week, now in its 32nd year, is an independent sidebar which focuses on the work of new directors. This year, five of the seven films represented female directors.
Denmark’s Annika Berg...
Hunting Season tells the story of a hunting guide in Patagonia who must raise his delinquent son after he is expelled from school and has been praised for its intimate portrait of a violent father-son relationship.
Critics’ week, now in its 32nd year, is an independent sidebar which focuses on the work of new directors. This year, five of the seven films represented female directors.
Denmark’s Annika Berg...
- 9/8/2017
- by Ariston Anderson
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Argentinian filmmaker Natalia Garagiola makes feature directorial debut on Rei Cine drama.
The first-look international trailer for Rei Cine’s upcoming Venice Critics’ Week and San Sebastin Horizontes Latinos selection Hunting Season (Temporada De Caza) is now live.
Hunting Season
Argentinian filmmaker Natalia Garagiola makes her feature directorial debut on the Argentina-us-Germany-France-Qatar co-production from Rei Cine, Gamechanger Films, Augenschein Filmproduktion, and Les Films de l’Étranger.
Hunting Season marks the first time New York-based Gamechanger Films has co-financed a film outside the Us. Lautaro Bettoni, Germán Palacios, Boy Olmi, and Rita Pauls star in the story about a respected hunting guide whose life with his new family in Patagonia changes when he is forced to take in his estranged teenage son following the death of his first wife.
The man struggles to get along with his son, who displays violent outbursts. Without any sympathy from his new family, the hunter and teenager move towards forgiveness in the...
The first-look international trailer for Rei Cine’s upcoming Venice Critics’ Week and San Sebastin Horizontes Latinos selection Hunting Season (Temporada De Caza) is now live.
Hunting Season
Argentinian filmmaker Natalia Garagiola makes her feature directorial debut on the Argentina-us-Germany-France-Qatar co-production from Rei Cine, Gamechanger Films, Augenschein Filmproduktion, and Les Films de l’Étranger.
Hunting Season marks the first time New York-based Gamechanger Films has co-financed a film outside the Us. Lautaro Bettoni, Germán Palacios, Boy Olmi, and Rita Pauls star in the story about a respected hunting guide whose life with his new family in Patagonia changes when he is forced to take in his estranged teenage son following the death of his first wife.
The man struggles to get along with his son, who displays violent outbursts. Without any sympathy from his new family, the hunter and teenager move towards forgiveness in the...
- 8/21/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Cannes titles The Desert Bride and April’s Daughters among 12 titles.
The 65th San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 22-30) has revealed the 12 titles in its Horizontes Latinos programme, featuring some of the best Latin American films of the year to date.
This year’s selection includes Cannes Un Certain Regard title The Desert Bride (pictured) directed by Cecilia Atán and Valeria Pivato, and Gustavo Rondón’s debut La Familia, which was screened at Cannes Critics’ Week.
Another Un Certain Regard title, Michel Franco’s April’s Daughters, has also been selected. His film After Lucia won the Prize Un Certain Regard in 2012, and his follow-up, Chronic competed for the Palme d’Or and won the best screenplay award at Cannes in 2015.
All 12 feature films compete for the Horizontes Award and its €35,000 ($40,958) prize. The six first and second films in the selection (La Educación De Rey, La Familia, Medea, Arábia, La Novia Del Desierto and Temporada De Caza) are also...
The 65th San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 22-30) has revealed the 12 titles in its Horizontes Latinos programme, featuring some of the best Latin American films of the year to date.
This year’s selection includes Cannes Un Certain Regard title The Desert Bride (pictured) directed by Cecilia Atán and Valeria Pivato, and Gustavo Rondón’s debut La Familia, which was screened at Cannes Critics’ Week.
Another Un Certain Regard title, Michel Franco’s April’s Daughters, has also been selected. His film After Lucia won the Prize Un Certain Regard in 2012, and his follow-up, Chronic competed for the Palme d’Or and won the best screenplay award at Cannes in 2015.
All 12 feature films compete for the Horizontes Award and its €35,000 ($40,958) prize. The six first and second films in the selection (La Educación De Rey, La Familia, Medea, Arábia, La Novia Del Desierto and Temporada De Caza) are also...
- 8/16/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
Independent festival strand unveils 2017 line-up.
The line-up for the 2017 edition of the Venice Film Festival’s independent parallel strand Critics’ Week (Aug 30 – Sept 9) has been revealed.
Organised by the National Union of Italian Film Critics, the selection is curated by the general delegate of the Venice Critics’ Week Giona A. Nazzaro with the selection committee comprised of Luigi Abiusi, Alberto Anile, Beatrice Fiorentino and Massimo Tria.
Following last year, when UK filmmaker Alice Lowe’s directorial debut Prevenge opened Venice Critics’ Week, this year’s opener is again a feature debut from a UK female director.
Writer-director Deborah Haywood’s Pin Cushion will screen out of competition as the strand’s opening film. Starring Lily Newmark and Joanna Scanlan, the film is produced by Gavin Humphries with Maggie Monteith of Dignity Film Finance. Executive producers are Josephine Rose, Chis Reed, and Lizzie Francke for the British Film Institute (BFI).
Pin Cushion is an all-girl gothic fairy tale set...
The line-up for the 2017 edition of the Venice Film Festival’s independent parallel strand Critics’ Week (Aug 30 – Sept 9) has been revealed.
Organised by the National Union of Italian Film Critics, the selection is curated by the general delegate of the Venice Critics’ Week Giona A. Nazzaro with the selection committee comprised of Luigi Abiusi, Alberto Anile, Beatrice Fiorentino and Massimo Tria.
Following last year, when UK filmmaker Alice Lowe’s directorial debut Prevenge opened Venice Critics’ Week, this year’s opener is again a feature debut from a UK female director.
Writer-director Deborah Haywood’s Pin Cushion will screen out of competition as the strand’s opening film. Starring Lily Newmark and Joanna Scanlan, the film is produced by Gavin Humphries with Maggie Monteith of Dignity Film Finance. Executive producers are Josephine Rose, Chis Reed, and Lizzie Francke for the British Film Institute (BFI).
Pin Cushion is an all-girl gothic fairy tale set...
- 7/24/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Joint initiative between San Sebastián and Cinélatino-Rencontres de Toulouse has selected six films from 198 applications.
Six films have been selected for the 31st edition of Films in Progress (March 23-24), the works in progress initiative between Cinélatino-Rencontres de Toulouse and the San Sebastián Film Festival.
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The selection includes Los Perros, by Chilean director Marcela Said whose fiction debut The Summer of the Flying Fish [pictured] premiered in Cannes Director’s Fortnight in 2013.
A Latin American and European co-production (Chile-France-Argentina-Portugal-Germany), Los Perros stars Pablo Larraín regulars Alfredo Castro and Antonia Zegers. The story revolves around a bourgeois married woman who feels attracted to her horse-riding instructor, a former military man with a dark past who was involved with Chile’s Pinochet regime.
Alongside Marcela Said, a number of other women directors are involved in this year selection.
Making their feature debut are Argentinian filmmakers Cecilia Atán and Valeria Pivato, who will co-direct...
Six films have been selected for the 31st edition of Films in Progress (March 23-24), the works in progress initiative between Cinélatino-Rencontres de Toulouse and the San Sebastián Film Festival.
Scroll down for selection
The selection includes Los Perros, by Chilean director Marcela Said whose fiction debut The Summer of the Flying Fish [pictured] premiered in Cannes Director’s Fortnight in 2013.
A Latin American and European co-production (Chile-France-Argentina-Portugal-Germany), Los Perros stars Pablo Larraín regulars Alfredo Castro and Antonia Zegers. The story revolves around a bourgeois married woman who feels attracted to her horse-riding instructor, a former military man with a dark past who was involved with Chile’s Pinochet regime.
Alongside Marcela Said, a number of other women directors are involved in this year selection.
Making their feature debut are Argentinian filmmakers Cecilia Atán and Valeria Pivato, who will co-direct...
- 3/7/2017
- ScreenDaily
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