The José Ignacio International Film Festival (Jiiff) in Uruguay has launched a $50,000 fund to help encourage Ibero-American fiction films.
The ‘Pfeffer Del Sur Fund’ will be awarded to one of the projects selected at the Jiiff Lab each year, running as part of the festival’s industry programme.
Applications for the Lab will open in July. Projects must be Ibero-American feature films from first or second directors with a maximum budget of $1.5m. Funds will be awarded to the Uruguayan producer.
Festival director Fiona Pittaluga said: “It’s fantastic to be unveiling our Pfeffer Del Sur Fund which will offer...
The ‘Pfeffer Del Sur Fund’ will be awarded to one of the projects selected at the Jiiff Lab each year, running as part of the festival’s industry programme.
Applications for the Lab will open in July. Projects must be Ibero-American feature films from first or second directors with a maximum budget of $1.5m. Funds will be awarded to the Uruguayan producer.
Festival director Fiona Pittaluga said: “It’s fantastic to be unveiling our Pfeffer Del Sur Fund which will offer...
- 5/9/2024
- ScreenDaily
U.K.-based Wildstar Sales has locked its first sale of Tribeca title “The Perfect David” with specialty distributor Tla Releasing, which has secured rights to the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Ireland.
“The Perfect David” (“El Perfecto David”) world premiered at Tribeca and is described as “a probing depiction of the pressures on a high-school bodybuilder to conform to a perfect image of masculinity.”
The feature debut of Argentine commercials director Felipe Gómez Aparicio, a multiple Cannes Lions winner, who co-wrote it with Leandro Custo, “The Perfect David” turns on 16-year-old David (played by newcomer Mauricio di Yorio) whose mother (Umbra Colombo), a troubled multi-disciplinary artist, demands that he get into perfect shape by the time he turns 17. In his desperate attempt to please his mother, he spends most of his days at a gym and starts taking dangerous steroids. As he spirals further into a cycle of physical and emotional turmoil,...
“The Perfect David” (“El Perfecto David”) world premiered at Tribeca and is described as “a probing depiction of the pressures on a high-school bodybuilder to conform to a perfect image of masculinity.”
The feature debut of Argentine commercials director Felipe Gómez Aparicio, a multiple Cannes Lions winner, who co-wrote it with Leandro Custo, “The Perfect David” turns on 16-year-old David (played by newcomer Mauricio di Yorio) whose mother (Umbra Colombo), a troubled multi-disciplinary artist, demands that he get into perfect shape by the time he turns 17. In his desperate attempt to please his mother, he spends most of his days at a gym and starts taking dangerous steroids. As he spirals further into a cycle of physical and emotional turmoil,...
- 2/15/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
U.K.-based Wildstar Sales has acquired world rights to Tribeca world premiere “The Perfect David” (“El Perfecto David”), a probing depiction of the pressures on a high-school bodybuilder to conform to a perfect image of masculinity.
A standout at the 2019’s Ventana Sur, where it was screened in its Copia Final final-cut-stage showcase, “The Perfect David” reps the latest movie from Argentina’s Oh My Gómez!, which broke out to attention with its first movie, Marco Berger’s “Plan B.,” a sales hit at the 2009 inaugural Ventana Sur. Its credits also include “The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet,” Ana Katz’s 2021 Sundance World Cinema player and Rotterdam winner.
“The Perfect David” also marks the feature debut of Argentina’s commercials director Felipe Gómez Aparicio, a multiple Cannes Lions winner who became in one year the world’s 13th most awarded director, according to The Gunn Report, a comprehensive global listing of top advertising talent.
A standout at the 2019’s Ventana Sur, where it was screened in its Copia Final final-cut-stage showcase, “The Perfect David” reps the latest movie from Argentina’s Oh My Gómez!, which broke out to attention with its first movie, Marco Berger’s “Plan B.,” a sales hit at the 2009 inaugural Ventana Sur. Its credits also include “The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet,” Ana Katz’s 2021 Sundance World Cinema player and Rotterdam winner.
“The Perfect David” also marks the feature debut of Argentina’s commercials director Felipe Gómez Aparicio, a multiple Cannes Lions winner who became in one year the world’s 13th most awarded director, according to The Gunn Report, a comprehensive global listing of top advertising talent.
- 7/15/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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