Buenos Aires-based Boutique sales agency Compañía de Cine has snagged “Pirópolis,” Chilean Nicolás Molina’s docu selected as part of Ventana Sur’s Doc Sur sidebar.
Compañía de Cine’s deal with its producers Funky Films and Pequén Prods. caps a triumphant festival trajectory for “Pirópolis,” which has played in a number of film events, including Docs in Progress at Fidocs + Conecta 2022, where it was awarded with the Best Project prize, as well as Visions Du Réel 2023 were it earned the VdR- Work-in-Progress Award.
“We are genuinely excited about this acquisition and the opportunity to bring ‘Pirópolis’ to a broader audience,” said Compañía de Cine’s Paulina Portela.
“Pirópolis” plunges us into the volatile Valparaíso city-port through the “Pompe France,” a fire brigade with French ties. The captain and crew receive Baptista, a French firefighter addressing eucalyptus-related fires. Amidst social upheaval, the company faces protests and strives for the...
Compañía de Cine’s deal with its producers Funky Films and Pequén Prods. caps a triumphant festival trajectory for “Pirópolis,” which has played in a number of film events, including Docs in Progress at Fidocs + Conecta 2022, where it was awarded with the Best Project prize, as well as Visions Du Réel 2023 were it earned the VdR- Work-in-Progress Award.
“We are genuinely excited about this acquisition and the opportunity to bring ‘Pirópolis’ to a broader audience,” said Compañía de Cine’s Paulina Portela.
“Pirópolis” plunges us into the volatile Valparaíso city-port through the “Pompe France,” a fire brigade with French ties. The captain and crew receive Baptista, a French firefighter addressing eucalyptus-related fires. Amidst social upheaval, the company faces protests and strives for the...
- 12/2/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Buenos Aires — Paris-based sales agency MPM Premium has has closed its second major territory deal on “On the Go,” toplining “Elite” star Omar Ayuso in an Andalusia-set road movie with lashings of sun, sex and sensuality.
Directed by Maria Gisèle Royo and Julia de Castro, and one of Spain’s most memorable feature debuts, “On the Go” has been licensed to Outplay Films which plans a theatrical release in Sumer 2024 after the film’s French premiere in premiere in Chéries Chéris.
MPM Premium has already clinched its first major sales, selling to Salzgeber for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and to Cineplex for Taiwan. Spain, the U.K. and U.S are in advanced talks, said Quentin Worthington, MPM Premium head of sales and acquisitions.
The deal in one of Europe’s key arthouse and queer cinema markets marks further recognition for an immersive movie in which Milagros (De Castro), set on motherhood but unemployed,...
Directed by Maria Gisèle Royo and Julia de Castro, and one of Spain’s most memorable feature debuts, “On the Go” has been licensed to Outplay Films which plans a theatrical release in Sumer 2024 after the film’s French premiere in premiere in Chéries Chéris.
MPM Premium has already clinched its first major sales, selling to Salzgeber for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and to Cineplex for Taiwan. Spain, the U.K. and U.S are in advanced talks, said Quentin Worthington, MPM Premium head of sales and acquisitions.
The deal in one of Europe’s key arthouse and queer cinema markets marks further recognition for an immersive movie in which Milagros (De Castro), set on motherhood but unemployed,...
- 11/28/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The episode features:Rodrigo Sepúlveda (Chile), a writer, director and producer. Sepúlveda directed successful television productions in the ’80s and ’90s, but it wasn’t until 2002 that he made his feature-film debut. Since then, he has cultivated a humanist filmography that examines love and family ties, as well as the prejudices of Chilean society. In 2020, his film My Tender Matador (Tengo miedo, torero) premiered in Venice's parallel section, Giornate degli Autori. A successful adaptation of Pedro Lemebel's novel, the film stars Alfredo Castro in one of his most brilliant and memorable performances. Julieta Zylberberg (Argentina), an actress who has worked for over twenty years in film, series, television and theater. She made her film debut in The Holy Girl (La niña santa), Lucrecia Martel's second feature film.With sobriety and forcefulness, Zylberberg has played characters that reflect great ambiguity. She has starred in films such as Ana Katz...
- 8/24/2023
- MUBI
The 18th Santiago Int’l Film Festival (Sanfic) is paying tribute to Chile’s most internationally renowned and arguably hardest working actor, the peripatetic Alfredo Castro who will attend Sanfic’s inauguration Aug. 14 to receive his lifetime achievement award and kick off a retrospective of his films.
Also a playwright and theater director, Castro has worked across Europe and Latin America, acting in French, Spanish, Portuguese and a number of accents and dialects from Latin America, including neutral Spanish. “I haven’t worked in English but I certainly hope to one day,” he says. Meanwhile, he has won a boatload of awards from festivals and award events across the world.
Yet, he would also be high up the order of figures who have helped shape Chile’s post-Pinochet film, theater and now TV scene into one of the most vibrant, surprising and constantly questioning of any country in Latin America.
Also a playwright and theater director, Castro has worked across Europe and Latin America, acting in French, Spanish, Portuguese and a number of accents and dialects from Latin America, including neutral Spanish. “I haven’t worked in English but I certainly hope to one day,” he says. Meanwhile, he has won a boatload of awards from festivals and award events across the world.
Yet, he would also be high up the order of figures who have helped shape Chile’s post-Pinochet film, theater and now TV scene into one of the most vibrant, surprising and constantly questioning of any country in Latin America.
- 8/11/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Slate includes 7th & Union, upcoming Cam Gigandet thriller Righteous Thieves.
Grandave International has picked up world sales rights for EFM on upcoming action thriller The Channel and Fantasia selection Fugitive Dreams.
The Channel is in post-production and follows a desperate criminal, his wild brother and their motley crew of former Marines who, after their bank heist goes wrong, must escape New Orleans and the FBI.
William Kaufman directs and Andrew and Isaac Lewis, Jon Wroblewski and Paul Reichelt are producing. Max Martini and Clayne Crawford lead the cast.
April Matthis and Robbie Tann star in Jason Neulander’s Fantasia 2020 entry Fugitive Dreams,...
Grandave International has picked up world sales rights for EFM on upcoming action thriller The Channel and Fantasia selection Fugitive Dreams.
The Channel is in post-production and follows a desperate criminal, his wild brother and their motley crew of former Marines who, after their bank heist goes wrong, must escape New Orleans and the FBI.
William Kaufman directs and Andrew and Isaac Lewis, Jon Wroblewski and Paul Reichelt are producing. Max Martini and Clayne Crawford lead the cast.
April Matthis and Robbie Tann star in Jason Neulander’s Fantasia 2020 entry Fugitive Dreams,...
- 2/10/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Slate includes 7th & Union, upcoming Cam Gigandet thriller Righteous Thieves.
Grandave International has picked up world sales rights for EFM on upcoming action thriller The Channel and Jason Neulander’ Fantasia selection Fugitive Dreams.
The Channel is in post-production and follows a desperate criminal, his wild brother and their motley crew of former Marines who, after their bank heist goes wrong, must escape New Orleans and the FBI.
William Kaufman directs and Andrew and Isaac Lewis, Jon Wroblewski and Paul Reichelt are producing and Max Martini and Clayne Crawford lead the cast.
April Matthis and Robbie Tann star in Jason Neulander’s Fantasia 2020 entry Fugitive Dreams,...
Grandave International has picked up world sales rights for EFM on upcoming action thriller The Channel and Jason Neulander’ Fantasia selection Fugitive Dreams.
The Channel is in post-production and follows a desperate criminal, his wild brother and their motley crew of former Marines who, after their bank heist goes wrong, must escape New Orleans and the FBI.
William Kaufman directs and Andrew and Isaac Lewis, Jon Wroblewski and Paul Reichelt are producing and Max Martini and Clayne Crawford lead the cast.
April Matthis and Robbie Tann star in Jason Neulander’s Fantasia 2020 entry Fugitive Dreams,...
- 2/10/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Amazon Prime Video has acquired the North American and Latin American rights to Anthony Nardolillo’s “7th & Union,” starring Mexican actor/comedian Omar Chaparro. Grandave Intl. is handling world sales, and will be presenting the movie to buyers at the virtual European Film Market.
“7th & Union” is the story of an unlikely ally, a broken promise and an improbable chance that inspires two down-and-out men from opposite sides of the track to find a way to use their old passions to pursue their dream of connecting with their family and providing an opportunity for a brighter future.
The movie features Edy Ganem (“Devious Maids”), Gregg Daniel (“Truth Or Dare”) and Erinn Westbrook.
The deal was brokered by Tamara Nagahiro of Grandave Intl. for the production company, Broken English Productions. “We are thrilled to have Amazon as a partner for ‘7th & Union’ in North and Latin Americas and are looking forward...
“7th & Union” is the story of an unlikely ally, a broken promise and an improbable chance that inspires two down-and-out men from opposite sides of the track to find a way to use their old passions to pursue their dream of connecting with their family and providing an opportunity for a brighter future.
The movie features Edy Ganem (“Devious Maids”), Gregg Daniel (“Truth Or Dare”) and Erinn Westbrook.
The deal was brokered by Tamara Nagahiro of Grandave Intl. for the production company, Broken English Productions. “We are thrilled to have Amazon as a partner for ‘7th & Union’ in North and Latin Americas and are looking forward...
- 2/3/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Chile’s Zapik Films, co-producer of “My Tender Matador” starring Alfredo Castro, has boarded the Bolivian political thriller “Family” (“Familia”) by Marcelo Landaeta, which participates in Sanfic Industria’s Santiago Fiction Lab.
Landaeta describes his debut feature as a thriller set in the late ‘70s when Bolivia is in the grip of a military dictatorship.
“It is precisely in this universe, plagued by terror and violence, when the lives of four people intersect on the eve of a coup,” Landaeta explained, who likens his script’s structure to that of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s seminal “Amores Perros” where four seemingly disparate stories are linked to one incident. He also draws on the aesthetics of Argentina’s Gaspar Noe and his irreverent and fantastical vision in “Enter the Void” as well as Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Boogie Nights” as a visual reference for the production design of “Family.”
Prior to Sanfic Industria,...
Landaeta describes his debut feature as a thriller set in the late ‘70s when Bolivia is in the grip of a military dictatorship.
“It is precisely in this universe, plagued by terror and violence, when the lives of four people intersect on the eve of a coup,” Landaeta explained, who likens his script’s structure to that of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s seminal “Amores Perros” where four seemingly disparate stories are linked to one incident. He also draws on the aesthetics of Argentina’s Gaspar Noe and his irreverent and fantastical vision in “Enter the Void” as well as Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Boogie Nights” as a visual reference for the production design of “Family.”
Prior to Sanfic Industria,...
- 11/2/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
After a multi-year hiatus, Pablo Stoll, who broke out with directing partner Juan Pablo Rebella on such hits as “25 Watts” and “Whisky,” is back in the director’s seat, albeit on his own, with “Summer Hit” (“El Tema del Verano”), a zombie pic now shooting on the beaches of Uruguay.
Presented at last year’s Cannes Producers Network, film is co-produced by Temperamento Films (Uruguay), Ice End Content (Chile) and La Unión de los Ríos (Argentina) in association with Nadador Cine (Uruguay).
Ice End Content is the new production shingle formed by Chile’s Florencia Larrea, producer of “My Tender Matador,” and Rodrigo Susarte, director of “The Monster Within,” who are pitching their dark comedy series, “Frankie,” at Sanfic Industria.
Stoll’s fifth feature film starts out as a post-pandemic summer romantic comedy but transforms into a scam film and finally one about the living dead. “Is it possible to...
Presented at last year’s Cannes Producers Network, film is co-produced by Temperamento Films (Uruguay), Ice End Content (Chile) and La Unión de los Ríos (Argentina) in association with Nadador Cine (Uruguay).
Ice End Content is the new production shingle formed by Chile’s Florencia Larrea, producer of “My Tender Matador,” and Rodrigo Susarte, director of “The Monster Within,” who are pitching their dark comedy series, “Frankie,” at Sanfic Industria.
Stoll’s fifth feature film starts out as a post-pandemic summer romantic comedy but transforms into a scam film and finally one about the living dead. “Is it possible to...
- 10/27/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Alberto Belli (The House Of Flowers) has been set to direct Latinx dance movie The Way You Move, which Tamara Nagahiro of Grandave International is selling at the Cannes virtual market.
The movie follows an inner-city teenager who gets in trouble at school and is forced to serve detention in the ballroom dance club. To his surprise he discovers that he loves to dance, but he must overcome a family tragedy and the ridicule of his friends before he can bring the rhythms of the street into the ballroom and express his own unique style.
Belli, a commercials and music video director, recently directed multiple episodes of Netflix’s Spanish-language series The House of Flowers. His debut feature, Gatlopp, is currently in post-production for Tea Shop Productions and Signature, and he is currently co-creating drama series Loteria which is in development with Sony Pictures Television for IMDb TV, with...
The movie follows an inner-city teenager who gets in trouble at school and is forced to serve detention in the ballroom dance club. To his surprise he discovers that he loves to dance, but he must overcome a family tragedy and the ridicule of his friends before he can bring the rhythms of the street into the ballroom and express his own unique style.
Belli, a commercials and music video director, recently directed multiple episodes of Netflix’s Spanish-language series The House of Flowers. His debut feature, Gatlopp, is currently in post-production for Tea Shop Productions and Signature, and he is currently co-creating drama series Loteria which is in development with Sony Pictures Television for IMDb TV, with...
- 6/29/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Pray Away the Pinochet: Sepulveda Cruises Castro with Striking Adaptation
While there’s a bounty of burgeoning directors who have grown out of the New Chilean Cinema (aka Chilean Cinema of the Democracy), the most notable face to be featured across last decade’s films has to be Alfredo Castro, mostly thanks to his continual appearance in the works of Pablo Larrain. But Castro has headlined a variety of Latin American cinema offerings from a variety of different countries, including several remarkable queer films.
The second feature from Chile’s Rodrigo Sepulveda, My Tender Matador, finds Castro returning to Chile, this time as a tattered transvestite struggling to survive the last several years of Pinochet’s violent dictatorship.…...
While there’s a bounty of burgeoning directors who have grown out of the New Chilean Cinema (aka Chilean Cinema of the Democracy), the most notable face to be featured across last decade’s films has to be Alfredo Castro, mostly thanks to his continual appearance in the works of Pablo Larrain. But Castro has headlined a variety of Latin American cinema offerings from a variety of different countries, including several remarkable queer films.
The second feature from Chile’s Rodrigo Sepulveda, My Tender Matador, finds Castro returning to Chile, this time as a tattered transvestite struggling to survive the last several years of Pinochet’s violent dictatorship.…...
- 5/31/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
"He's going to break your heart, but that's what friend are for." Freestyle Digital Media has debuted a new US trailer for a Chilean indie film titled My Tender Matador, also known as Tengo Miedo Torero in Spanish. This originally premiered in the Venice Days sidebar at the Venice Film Festival last year. Amid the political turmoil during 1980s in Chile, a lonely transvestite engages in a risky clandestine operation after falling in love with a guerrilla who asks her to hide dangerous secrets of the revolution at home. Based on the groundbreaking novel by queer icon Pedro Lemebel, the film received positive reviews praising the lead performances: "Castro and Ortizgris work wonderfully together, their rapport an easy one, the truth of their potential relationship less important than the bonhomie they share." Starring Alfredo Castro, Leonardo Ortizgris, and Julieta Zylberberg. This looks quite unique, capturing the intricacies of Chile in the 80s.
- 5/28/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Kino Lorber has acquired distributor Artsploitation Films from its owner and president Ray Murray. Murray and his team will remain with the business as a Kino Lorber brand and division. The deal for Artsploitation, which releases international genre and cutting-edge specialty films, adds 100 titles to Kino Lorber’s library that now has more than 4,000.
Kino Lorber said its new Artsploitation division will acquire rights to 6-8 future theatrical titles per year to bring to market under the banner “Artsploitation, A Kino Lorber Company,” as well as direct to digital and home entertainment releases. It will take over exclusive distribution of all previous Artsploitation titles for all digital media, home video, educational and repertory theatrical markets.
Previously, Kino Lorber handled ancillary media distribution for Artsploitation as a third-party label, as it continues to do for the likes of Zeitgeist Films, Cohen Media Group, Greenwich Entertainment, Palisades Tartan, Virgil Films, Menemsha, Raro Video and others.
Kino Lorber said its new Artsploitation division will acquire rights to 6-8 future theatrical titles per year to bring to market under the banner “Artsploitation, A Kino Lorber Company,” as well as direct to digital and home entertainment releases. It will take over exclusive distribution of all previous Artsploitation titles for all digital media, home video, educational and repertory theatrical markets.
Previously, Kino Lorber handled ancillary media distribution for Artsploitation as a third-party label, as it continues to do for the likes of Zeitgeist Films, Cohen Media Group, Greenwich Entertainment, Palisades Tartan, Virgil Films, Menemsha, Raro Video and others.
- 5/21/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Spain’s Black Panther Films and Chile’s Invercine Prods. (“Dignidad”) have joined forces to co-produce a gangster thriller series based on the eponymous bestseller “Matadero Franklin” (“Slaughterhouse Franklin”) by Simon Soto.
The first season, starring Chile’s most bankable star, Alfredo Castro (“My Tender Matador”), comprises six episodes while a second season is already in the works.
“Matadero Franklin” follows a young Mario “Cabro” Leiva whose life is upended when the powerful gangster Felipe Cortina, aka “the Spaniard,” returns to the Franklin Slaughterhouse. Cabro, who has enjoyed the protection of respected butcher “Lobo” Mardones, will have to decide whether to remain loyal to Mardones, or to embrace the life of crime, passion and obscene wealth offered by “the Spaniard.”
“If we could combine “Fargo,” “The Sopranos,” “Gangs of New York” and set them in Chile of the last century, the end result would not be as surprising,” noted Soto,...
The first season, starring Chile’s most bankable star, Alfredo Castro (“My Tender Matador”), comprises six episodes while a second season is already in the works.
“Matadero Franklin” follows a young Mario “Cabro” Leiva whose life is upended when the powerful gangster Felipe Cortina, aka “the Spaniard,” returns to the Franklin Slaughterhouse. Cabro, who has enjoyed the protection of respected butcher “Lobo” Mardones, will have to decide whether to remain loyal to Mardones, or to embrace the life of crime, passion and obscene wealth offered by “the Spaniard.”
“If we could combine “Fargo,” “The Sopranos,” “Gangs of New York” and set them in Chile of the last century, the end result would not be as surprising,” noted Soto,...
- 4/13/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Amazon Prime Video has swooped on the critically acclaimed Chilean LGBTQ+ drama My Tender Matador for Latin America.
The film — which first bowed in the Venice Days sidebar of the 2020 Venice Film Festival — won the audience award in the Open Horizons section of the 2020 Thessaloniki Film Festival. Meanwhile, its lead actor Alfredo Castro won two major awards at the 35th Guadalajara International Film Festival: Mexican Premio Mezcal best actor and Premio Maguey best performance.
Based on the novel of the same name by noted LGBTQ+ activist and writer Pedro Lemebel and written and directed by award-winning director Rodrigo Sepúlveda ...
The film — which first bowed in the Venice Days sidebar of the 2020 Venice Film Festival — won the audience award in the Open Horizons section of the 2020 Thessaloniki Film Festival. Meanwhile, its lead actor Alfredo Castro won two major awards at the 35th Guadalajara International Film Festival: Mexican Premio Mezcal best actor and Premio Maguey best performance.
Based on the novel of the same name by noted LGBTQ+ activist and writer Pedro Lemebel and written and directed by award-winning director Rodrigo Sepúlveda ...
Amazon Prime Video has swooped on the critically acclaimed Chilean LGBTQ+ drama My Tender Matador for Latin America.
The film — which first bowed in the Venice Days sidebar of the 2020 Venice Film Festival — won the audience award in the Open Horizons section of the 2020 Thessaloniki Film Festival. Meanwhile, its lead actor Alfredo Castro won two major awards at the 35th Guadalajara International Film Festival: Mexican Premio Mezcal best actor and Premio Maguey best performance.
Based on the novel of the same name by noted LGBTQ+ activist and writer Pedro Lemebel and written and directed by award-winning director Rodrigo Sepúlveda ...
The film — which first bowed in the Venice Days sidebar of the 2020 Venice Film Festival — won the audience award in the Open Horizons section of the 2020 Thessaloniki Film Festival. Meanwhile, its lead actor Alfredo Castro won two major awards at the 35th Guadalajara International Film Festival: Mexican Premio Mezcal best actor and Premio Maguey best performance.
Based on the novel of the same name by noted LGBTQ+ activist and writer Pedro Lemebel and written and directed by award-winning director Rodrigo Sepúlveda ...
Multi-hyphenate Roselyn Sanchez is set to film her directorial feature debut, “Diario: Mujer y Cafe,” in Puerto Rico this summer, said producer Jolene Rodriguez, president of Broken English Prods. The Latinx company’s sister sales division, Grandave Intl., will be presenting the comedy at EFM, along with Broken English’s maiden production, Omar Chaparro’s “7th & Union,” and Venice 2020 pickup “My Tender Matador” from Chile’s Rodrigo Sepulveda.
Best-known for her turns in ABC series “Grand Hotel” and “Devious Maids,” the Puerto Rican-born actress-model-singer has directed the award-winning short “Satos” and stars in the upcoming dramedy, “Gringa.”
Written by Sanchez, the female-centric “Diario: Mujer y Cafe” follows four best friends, once known as the Fab Four in high school, as they reunite for an adventure-packed staycation in Puerto Rico.
Equitas Puerto Rico will be the production company on site. Stanley Preschutti of Grandave Capital and Frank Mayor of Cinevision Global serve as executive producers.
Best-known for her turns in ABC series “Grand Hotel” and “Devious Maids,” the Puerto Rican-born actress-model-singer has directed the award-winning short “Satos” and stars in the upcoming dramedy, “Gringa.”
Written by Sanchez, the female-centric “Diario: Mujer y Cafe” follows four best friends, once known as the Fab Four in high school, as they reunite for an adventure-packed staycation in Puerto Rico.
Equitas Puerto Rico will be the production company on site. Stanley Preschutti of Grandave Capital and Frank Mayor of Cinevision Global serve as executive producers.
- 3/1/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Gerardo Naranjo’s “Kokoloko” took home the Premio Mezcal for best Mexican film at the hybrid 35th Guadalajara Film Festival (Ficg), which wrapped Friday, Nov. 27.
The love triangle drama signals a return to the big screen for Naranjo who has spent nearly a decade after his 2011 hit “Miss Bala” directing episodes of such high-profile series as “Narcos,” “The Bridge” and “Fear the Walking Dead.”
Shot in 16 mm, Naranjo’s drama about a woman caught between two men, one a violent cousin holding her captive, first debuted at Tribeca where lead Noe Hernandez won the Best Actor prize. The Match Factory handles international sales.
Chilean film and TV writer-director-producer Andres Wood won the Best Ibero-American film prize with his political thriller “Spider,” that tracks the disparate fates of right-wing radicals in the early ‘70s, prior to the coup d’état that heralds the military regime of Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Drama...
The love triangle drama signals a return to the big screen for Naranjo who has spent nearly a decade after his 2011 hit “Miss Bala” directing episodes of such high-profile series as “Narcos,” “The Bridge” and “Fear the Walking Dead.”
Shot in 16 mm, Naranjo’s drama about a woman caught between two men, one a violent cousin holding her captive, first debuted at Tribeca where lead Noe Hernandez won the Best Actor prize. The Match Factory handles international sales.
Chilean film and TV writer-director-producer Andres Wood won the Best Ibero-American film prize with his political thriller “Spider,” that tracks the disparate fates of right-wing radicals in the early ‘70s, prior to the coup d’état that heralds the military regime of Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Drama...
- 11/29/2020
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
If there’s been one constant about Latino representation in Hollywood, it’s been the abysmal representation that has barely shifted in decades.
Despite some gains in recent years, a 2019 study from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative revealed that underrepresentation and stereotypical roles for U.S.-based Latinx talent are, sadly, still the norm.
Enter Broken English Prods., a fledgling Latinx production company, which hopes to “change the narrative,” in the words of its CEO Christopher Acebo. The new shingle joins Lionsgate’s Pantelion and other companies in addressing the paucity of Latinx films.
Broken English forms part of new entertainment finance company Grandave Capital (Gc), launched by film financier Stanley Preschutti in June, which has boarded projects as a third-party equity investor but has also plowed considerable funding to its new Latinx production arm.
Gc aims to invest some $20 million in up to four Broken English projects a year...
Despite some gains in recent years, a 2019 study from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative revealed that underrepresentation and stereotypical roles for U.S.-based Latinx talent are, sadly, still the norm.
Enter Broken English Prods., a fledgling Latinx production company, which hopes to “change the narrative,” in the words of its CEO Christopher Acebo. The new shingle joins Lionsgate’s Pantelion and other companies in addressing the paucity of Latinx films.
Broken English forms part of new entertainment finance company Grandave Capital (Gc), launched by film financier Stanley Preschutti in June, which has boarded projects as a third-party equity investor but has also plowed considerable funding to its new Latinx production arm.
Gc aims to invest some $20 million in up to four Broken English projects a year...
- 11/13/2020
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
“Panama,” an action-thriller with Mel Gibson and Cole Hauser attached to star, has received financing from Grandave Capital as a third-party investor, Variety has learned exclusively.
Hauser will portray a rugged and decorated ex-marine who is sent undercover by his former commander, played by Gibson in a supporting role, to execute a high-value deal with untrustworthy adversaries. The film is currently in pre-production with Mark Neveldine directing from a script by Daniel Adams and William R. Barber.
Producers are Jordan Beckerman and Jordan Yale Levine of Yale Productions with Chydzik Sowa and Michelle Reihel. Barber, Richard Switzer, Ian Niles and Anne Clements are the executive producers. Producers plan to shoot in Puerto Rico in December.
Grandave Capital has also provided funding for Paul Schrader’s “The Card Counter,” starring Oscar Isaac and Willem Dafoe, and Michael Polish’s “Force of Nature,” starring Gibson and Emile Hirsch.
“I am proud we...
Hauser will portray a rugged and decorated ex-marine who is sent undercover by his former commander, played by Gibson in a supporting role, to execute a high-value deal with untrustworthy adversaries. The film is currently in pre-production with Mark Neveldine directing from a script by Daniel Adams and William R. Barber.
Producers are Jordan Beckerman and Jordan Yale Levine of Yale Productions with Chydzik Sowa and Michelle Reihel. Barber, Richard Switzer, Ian Niles and Anne Clements are the executive producers. Producers plan to shoot in Puerto Rico in December.
Grandave Capital has also provided funding for Paul Schrader’s “The Card Counter,” starring Oscar Isaac and Willem Dafoe, and Michael Polish’s “Force of Nature,” starring Gibson and Emile Hirsch.
“I am proud we...
- 11/10/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Broken English Productions, the Latinx production arm of financier Grandave Capital, is boarding “The Monster Within,” the elevated genre film from Chile’s Forastero.
The move follows the worldwide sales rights pick up of Forastero’s “My Tender Matador” by Grandave Capital’s sales arm, Grandave Int’l, at the Venice Film Festival.
“As we want to finance high quality projects, it was an easy decision to continue to do business with Forastero,” said Grandave Capital president Stanley Preschutti, adding: “When you see the additional production companies involved with ‘The Monster Within’ and the projects they have done, that decision was even easier.”
Broken English Productions joins a team of European, North American and Latin American co-producers that apart from Forastero include Denmark’s Space Rocket Nation, the label of Lene Børglum and Nicolas Winding Refn; Canada’s 1976 Productions and Argentina’s Tornado Cine, founded by producers Alejandro Israel and Ezequiel Borovinsky.
The move follows the worldwide sales rights pick up of Forastero’s “My Tender Matador” by Grandave Capital’s sales arm, Grandave Int’l, at the Venice Film Festival.
“As we want to finance high quality projects, it was an easy decision to continue to do business with Forastero,” said Grandave Capital president Stanley Preschutti, adding: “When you see the additional production companies involved with ‘The Monster Within’ and the projects they have done, that decision was even easier.”
Broken English Productions joins a team of European, North American and Latin American co-producers that apart from Forastero include Denmark’s Space Rocket Nation, the label of Lene Børglum and Nicolas Winding Refn; Canada’s 1976 Productions and Argentina’s Tornado Cine, founded by producers Alejandro Israel and Ezequiel Borovinsky.
- 11/9/2020
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Chilean director Rodrigo Sepúlveda Urzúa, whose latest film “My Tender Matador” world premiered in Venice Days at the Venice Film Festival, is developing a story inspired by his parental nightmares. Variety spoke to him at the El Gouna Film Festival, where he is serving on the Feature Narrative Competition jury, as well as presenting “My Tender Matador” out of competition.
In his new project, which has the working title “Bomb Girl,” a doctor working in a public hospital finds out her child has planted a bomb and hurt another person as a result. But here is the twist: it was all according to what she has taught him over the years.
“I am a left-leaning person and I have told my children what I think about capitalism, for example,” says Sepúlveda Urzúa. “But what if one of my sons had planted a bomb in a bank, only to say: ‘That’s what you taught me.
In his new project, which has the working title “Bomb Girl,” a doctor working in a public hospital finds out her child has planted a bomb and hurt another person as a result. But here is the twist: it was all according to what she has taught him over the years.
“I am a left-leaning person and I have told my children what I think about capitalism, for example,” says Sepúlveda Urzúa. “But what if one of my sons had planted a bomb in a bank, only to say: ‘That’s what you taught me.
- 10/29/2020
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Among the many praiseworthy qualities of “My Tender Matador,” the most notable is its honesty. It would have been so easy for the film, about a transgender woman in Pinochet’s Chile and her relationship with a straight political activist, to have overplayed its hand with ill-judged sentiment or sensationalism, but instead director Rodrigo Sepúlveda Urzúa guides everything just right, from the refusal to treat anyone with less than full respect to the superb ensemble, and from Sergio Armstrong’s carefully calibrated camerawork to the thoughtful understanding of how daylight changes a person who’s lived fullest under the protection of the night. Based on the groundbreaking novel by queer icon Pedro Lemebel, the film deserves better treatment than most international gay-themed dramas get.
Alfredo Castro’s versatility shouldn’t be taken for granted, but how can we not when he keeps delivering one fully rounded performance after another? Here...
Alfredo Castro’s versatility shouldn’t be taken for granted, but how can we not when he keeps delivering one fully rounded performance after another? Here...
- 9/16/2020
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
Grandave Capital launched in June on the eve of the Cannes Marche, with Tamara Nagahiro as head of acquisitions and sales. As a third-party equity investor, Grandave is involved with Paul Schrader’s “The Card Counter,” starring Tiffany Haddish, Oscar Isaac, Tye Sheridan and Willem Defoe, with Martin Scorsese serving as executive producer. It also has world sales rights on Venice Days film “My Tender Matador,” from Rodrigo Sepúlveda Urzúa, based on the queer classic novel by celebrated Chilean writer Pedro Lemebel.
Grandave’s production arm Broken English Prods. focuses on Latinx movie and TV projects, and announced its first project this summer, “7th & Union,” starring actor/comedian Omar Chaparro. At Toronto, Grandave is introducing Broken English’s “Like It Used to Be,” starring Gina Rodriguez.
What types of projects appeal to you?
I’ve always seen it as a benefit because I feel like I can relate to multiple...
Grandave’s production arm Broken English Prods. focuses on Latinx movie and TV projects, and announced its first project this summer, “7th & Union,” starring actor/comedian Omar Chaparro. At Toronto, Grandave is introducing Broken English’s “Like It Used to Be,” starring Gina Rodriguez.
What types of projects appeal to you?
I’ve always seen it as a benefit because I feel like I can relate to multiple...
- 9/11/2020
- by Carole Horst
- Variety Film + TV
When Pedro Lemebel’s novel “My Tender Matador” debuted in 2001, it was instantly hailed as an insightful exploration of passion amid revolution, weaving broader political observations into a trans love story. The film adaptation by director Rodrigo Sepúlveda keeps the core romance at the center of the story intact, yet it seems to have come at the expense of the novel’s broader social, political, and historical context: all of them M.I.A.
Continue reading ‘My Tender Matador’ Is A Beautiful Film Betrayed By Its Lack Of Historical Context [Venice Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘My Tender Matador’ Is A Beautiful Film Betrayed By Its Lack Of Historical Context [Venice Review] at The Playlist.
- 9/4/2020
- by Warren Cantrell
- The Playlist
An aging drag queen and a guerilla fighter become unlikely bedfellows in the Chilean drama My Tender Matador (Tengo miedo torero). This adaptation of Pedro Lemebel’s essential novel has been mostly turned into an atmospheric chamber piece by writer-director Rodrigo Sepulveda (Aurora), who directs Chilean acting great Alfredo Castro (Tony Manero) in a finely limned performance as the nameless protagonist (referred to as “Queen of the Corner” in the book).
After Castro’s turn in last year’s prison fantasy drama The Prince, which bowed in the Critics’ Week sidebar in Venice, My Tender Matador, which premieres in the festival’s Giornate degli autori section, marks Castro’s ...
After Castro’s turn in last year’s prison fantasy drama The Prince, which bowed in the Critics’ Week sidebar in Venice, My Tender Matador, which premieres in the festival’s Giornate degli autori section, marks Castro’s ...
An aging drag queen and a guerilla fighter become unlikely bedfellows in the Chilean drama My Tender Matador (Tengo miedo torero). This adaptation of Pedro Lemebel’s essential novel has been mostly turned into an atmospheric chamber piece by writer-director Rodrigo Sepulveda (Aurora), who directs Chilean acting great Alfredo Castro (Tony Manero) in a finely limned performance as the nameless protagonist (referred to as “Queen of the Corner” in the book).
After Castro’s turn in last year’s prison fantasy drama The Prince, which bowed in the Critics’ Week sidebar in Venice, My Tender Matador, which premieres in the festival’s Giornate degli autori section, marks Castro’s ...
After Castro’s turn in last year’s prison fantasy drama The Prince, which bowed in the Critics’ Week sidebar in Venice, My Tender Matador, which premieres in the festival’s Giornate degli autori section, marks Castro’s ...
Exclusive: San Diego and LA-based based financier Grandave Capital has struck a three-film finance deal with Patrick Perez Vidauri and Christina Nava’s independent production company Lux III Pictures.
The Lux III deal got underway with low-budget romance pic In Other Words, which is being sold by Grandave’s sales arm Grandave International. Grandave will also finance and sell Lux III feature Like. Share. Kill, which will be helmed by Vidauri (Lola’s Love Shack) who wrote the script with Nava. The film is currently casting.
As we previously revealed, Grandave launched this summer with an early investment in Paul Schrader’s Oscar Isaac thriller The Card Counter. The company’s Latinx-oriented production arm is Broken English Productions.
Grandave’s investments also include Omar Chaparro starrer 7th And Union while Grandave International has picked up Venice Days title My Tender Matador for wold sales. The company will be prioritising a...
The Lux III deal got underway with low-budget romance pic In Other Words, which is being sold by Grandave’s sales arm Grandave International. Grandave will also finance and sell Lux III feature Like. Share. Kill, which will be helmed by Vidauri (Lola’s Love Shack) who wrote the script with Nava. The film is currently casting.
As we previously revealed, Grandave launched this summer with an early investment in Paul Schrader’s Oscar Isaac thriller The Card Counter. The company’s Latinx-oriented production arm is Broken English Productions.
Grandave’s investments also include Omar Chaparro starrer 7th And Union while Grandave International has picked up Venice Days title My Tender Matador for wold sales. The company will be prioritising a...
- 8/17/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Titles include the feature debut of Palme d’Or winner Ely Dagher.
The feature debut of Palme d’Or winner Ely Dagher is one of six titles from Africa and the Middle East selected for works-in-progress initiative Final Cut in Venice.
The three-day workshop, run by the Venice Production Bridge of the Venice Film Festival, runs from September 7-9 and will wholly take place online this year due to the virus crisis. All six selected titles are in production, and will be presented to industry to create co-production and post-production opportunities.
Dagher’s feature is titled Harvest and centres on...
The feature debut of Palme d’Or winner Ely Dagher is one of six titles from Africa and the Middle East selected for works-in-progress initiative Final Cut in Venice.
The three-day workshop, run by the Venice Production Bridge of the Venice Film Festival, runs from September 7-9 and will wholly take place online this year due to the virus crisis. All six selected titles are in production, and will be presented to industry to create co-production and post-production opportunities.
Dagher’s feature is titled Harvest and centres on...
- 8/5/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Rodrigo Sepulveda’s pan-Latin American drama will be offered to buyers during the Toronto market.
Grandave International has acquired worldwide rights My Tender Matador, writer-director Rodrigo Sepúlveda Urzúa’s Latin American drama set to get its world premiere in the Venice Days independent sidebar to this September’s Venice Film Festival.
The film will be introduced to buyers during the virtual market portion of the Toronto International Film Festival, also in September.
A pan-Latin American co-production, My Tender Matador is based on the novel by LGBTQ+ activist Pedro Lemebel. Alfredo Castro stars as an elderly cross-dresser in 1980s Chile. Producers are Lucas Engel,...
Grandave International has acquired worldwide rights My Tender Matador, writer-director Rodrigo Sepúlveda Urzúa’s Latin American drama set to get its world premiere in the Venice Days independent sidebar to this September’s Venice Film Festival.
The film will be introduced to buyers during the virtual market portion of the Toronto International Film Festival, also in September.
A pan-Latin American co-production, My Tender Matador is based on the novel by LGBTQ+ activist Pedro Lemebel. Alfredo Castro stars as an elderly cross-dresser in 1980s Chile. Producers are Lucas Engel,...
- 8/4/2020
- by 31¦John Hazelton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Wife of a SpyThe programme for the 2020 edition of the Venice Film Festival has been unveiled, and includes new films from Gia Coppola, Lav Diaz, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Alice Rohrwacher, Gianfranco Rosi, Frederick Wiseman, Chloé Zhao, and more.COMPETITIONIn Between Dying (Hilal Baydarov)Le sorelle Macluso (Emma Dante)The World to Come (Mona Fastvold)Nuevo Orden (Michel Franco)Lovers (Nicole Garcia)Laila in Haifa (Amos Gitai)Dear Comrades (Andrei Konchalovsky)Wife of a Spy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)Sun Children (Majid Majidi)Pieces of a Woman (Kornél Mundruczó)Miss Marx (Susanna Nicchiarelli)Padrenostro (Claudio Noce)Notturno (Gianfranco Rosi)Never Gonna Snow AgainThe Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane)And Tomorrow The Entire World (Julia Von Heinz)Quo Vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Zbanic)Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)Out Of COMPETITIONFeaturesThe Ties (Daniele Luchetti)Lasciami Andare (Stefano Mordini)Mandibules (Quentin Dupieux)Love After Love (Ann Hui)Assandria (Salvatore Mereu)The Duke (Roger Michell)Night in Paradise (Park Hoon-jung)Mosquito...
- 8/3/2020
- MUBI
While the coronavirus pandemic has canceled major festivals such as Cannes and Telluride, the 2020 Venice Film Festival is moving ahead as planned and will be the world’s first major film festival since Sundance and Berlin at the start of the year. Venice 2020’s main selection will be split into three sections: Venezia 77 (aka the main competition), Out of Competition, and Horizons. The titles selected for the main competition will compete for the Golden Lion, which was awarded last year to Todd Phillips’ “Joker.”
As previously announced, Daniele Luchetti’s drama “Lacci” will open the 77th Venice Film Festival on September 2. The movie is the first Italian title to open Venice in 11 years. The last Italian opener was Giuseppe Tornatore’s “Baarìa” at the 2009 festival. “Lacci” is included in this year’s Out of Competition section. Chloe Zhao’s “The Rider” follow-up “Nomadland” was also confirmed for a world premiere...
As previously announced, Daniele Luchetti’s drama “Lacci” will open the 77th Venice Film Festival on September 2. The movie is the first Italian title to open Venice in 11 years. The last Italian opener was Giuseppe Tornatore’s “Baarìa” at the 2009 festival. “Lacci” is included in this year’s Out of Competition section. Chloe Zhao’s “The Rider” follow-up “Nomadland” was also confirmed for a world premiere...
- 7/28/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
When Pablo Larraín started out, he arrived at the Berlinale in 2008 with extracts from his second feature, “Tony Manero,” starring Chilean actor, playwright and theater director Alfredo Castro as an off-the-rails, impoverished, over-the-hill imitator of John Travolta’s character in “Saturday Night Fever.”
A symbol of cultural alienation, Castro’s character practices his disco moves as Augusto Pinochet’s tanks rumble through the streets of Santiago de Chile, clamping down on any opposition.
For the next near decade from that breakthrough through to 2015’s “The Club,” Larraín’s passport to English-language filmmaking – Natalie Portman watched it, accepted “Jackie” – the filmmaker pinned his colors to Castro’s mast, casting him in leading role in “Post Mortem,” and a co-star in “No” and “The Club.”
As an actor, Castro’s transformative powers are evident, from his turn as a coroner’s assistant in “Post Mortem” to Gael Garcia Bernal’s casual chic...
A symbol of cultural alienation, Castro’s character practices his disco moves as Augusto Pinochet’s tanks rumble through the streets of Santiago de Chile, clamping down on any opposition.
For the next near decade from that breakthrough through to 2015’s “The Club,” Larraín’s passport to English-language filmmaking – Natalie Portman watched it, accepted “Jackie” – the filmmaker pinned his colors to Castro’s mast, casting him in leading role in “Post Mortem,” and a co-star in “No” and “The Club.”
As an actor, Castro’s transformative powers are evident, from his turn as a coroner’s assistant in “Post Mortem” to Gael Garcia Bernal’s casual chic...
- 6/24/2020
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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