Ketchup Entertainment announced today that they have acquired North American rights to the critically-acclaimed and award-winning Memory, written and directed by the internationally acclaimed filmmaker Michel Franco. The film stars Academy Award ® winner Jessica Chastain, Peter Sarsgaard, Brooke Timber, Merritt Wever, Elsie Fisher, Jessica Harper and Josh Charles. It premiered in Competition at the 80th Venice Film Festival earning an eight-minute standing ovation, with Sarsgaard going on to receive the Volpi Cup for Best Actor from the Jury. It also screened to great acclaim at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film is screening at AFI this Saturday, October 28th with Franco and Sarsgaard in attendance and will open theatrically this December.
Memory follows Sylvia (Jessica Chastain) a social worker who leads a simple and structured life until Saul (Peter Sarsgaard) follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as they...
Memory follows Sylvia (Jessica Chastain) a social worker who leads a simple and structured life until Saul (Peter Sarsgaard) follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as they...
- 10/30/2023
- by Kristyn Clarke
- Age of the Nerd
Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard have both officially entered the Oscar race for their extraordinary performances in Michel Franco’s “Memory.” However, the awards campaign has announced that Sarsgaard’s riveting turn as a man suffering from Alzheimer’s disease will be submitted for supporting actor consideration at the major ceremonies, including the Golden Globes, SAG and Academy Awards. His Oscar-winning co-star Chastain (“The Eyes of Tammy Faye”) will vie for lead actress.
Written and directed by Franco, the film was recently acquired by Ketchup Entertainment for North American distribution and will receive an Oscar-qualifying run in December. It premiered at the 80th Venice Film Festival, where Sarsgaard received the Volpi Cup for best actor from the Jury, joining the ranks of past honorees such as Brad Pitt (“The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”) and River Phoenix (“My Own Private Idaho”). It was later screened at the Toronto,...
Written and directed by Franco, the film was recently acquired by Ketchup Entertainment for North American distribution and will receive an Oscar-qualifying run in December. It premiered at the 80th Venice Film Festival, where Sarsgaard received the Volpi Cup for best actor from the Jury, joining the ranks of past honorees such as Brad Pitt (“The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”) and River Phoenix (“My Own Private Idaho”). It was later screened at the Toronto,...
- 10/28/2023
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
The Fund is run by the former Chile Film Commissioner and the former heads of Chile’s development fund and Argentina’s Incaa.
Chilean private investment fund Screen Capital has activated its second $20m fund, Screen Two, to support Latin American projects including Guillermo Rocamora’s eight-part series Amia, and an untitled feature co-produced by Mexico’s Alazraki Films and Chile’s 7395 Media.
Amia is produced by Israel’s Dori Media Productions and Cimarrón Cine, the Argentina and Uruguay-based company recently acquired by the Spanish film and TV group Mediapro.
Screen Two is also backing an international feature to be...
Chilean private investment fund Screen Capital has activated its second $20m fund, Screen Two, to support Latin American projects including Guillermo Rocamora’s eight-part series Amia, and an untitled feature co-produced by Mexico’s Alazraki Films and Chile’s 7395 Media.
Amia is produced by Israel’s Dori Media Productions and Cimarrón Cine, the Argentina and Uruguay-based company recently acquired by the Spanish film and TV group Mediapro.
Screen Two is also backing an international feature to be...
- 10/2/2023
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
Three years after it unveiled a 20 million venture capital fund aimed at bolstering film and TV series, Chile-based Screen Capital has introduced a second investment fund, Screen II, which will support projects in the digital entertainment arena: Video games, Virtual Reality, Ott platforms, Extended Reality (Xr), apps etc.
Screen Capital is co-founded by former Chile Film Commissioner Joyce Zylberberg and Tatiana Emden, who once headed Chile’s Development Fund, and has among its key partners, Edgar Spielmann, ex-vp and COO of Fox Networks Group Latin America.
The Screen II investment fund is backed by a mix of public and private sector investors, the latter led by Mexican producer Alex Garcia of Ag Studios, who has invested in a slew of film, TV, music and tech projects in the past years.
“It was a natural step for me given all that I have worked on in the past,” he told Variety.
Screen Capital is co-founded by former Chile Film Commissioner Joyce Zylberberg and Tatiana Emden, who once headed Chile’s Development Fund, and has among its key partners, Edgar Spielmann, ex-vp and COO of Fox Networks Group Latin America.
The Screen II investment fund is backed by a mix of public and private sector investors, the latter led by Mexican producer Alex Garcia of Ag Studios, who has invested in a slew of film, TV, music and tech projects in the past years.
“It was a natural step for me given all that I have worked on in the past,” he told Variety.
- 1/24/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
In a groundbreaking move for the film-tv scene in the U.S. Hispanic, Latin America and Spain, ex-nbc Universal Telemundo honcho Marcos Santana is launching Mas Ros Media, a new venture with offices in Barcelona and Miami whose productions target gaming and esports communities and their families.
Currently developing 16 projects ranging from 6-8 episode fiction series to documentaries, reality shows and movies, Mas Ros Media also aims to ensure sustainability at every stage of the production process. It will use the services of Madrid-based Mrs. Greenfilm, Spain’s leading – and fast growing – sustainability consultancy firm for the film-tv industry.
Focusing on the U.S. Latino market, Latin America, Spain and Portugal, tapping into venture capital fund backing, Mas Ros Media will self-finance its productions, Santana told Variety.
Forging first strategic alliances, the Santana-founded startup has bought an equity position in FireSports, founded and headed by creative innovator Rodrigo Figueroa Reyes,...
Currently developing 16 projects ranging from 6-8 episode fiction series to documentaries, reality shows and movies, Mas Ros Media also aims to ensure sustainability at every stage of the production process. It will use the services of Madrid-based Mrs. Greenfilm, Spain’s leading – and fast growing – sustainability consultancy firm for the film-tv industry.
Focusing on the U.S. Latino market, Latin America, Spain and Portugal, tapping into venture capital fund backing, Mas Ros Media will self-finance its productions, Santana told Variety.
Forging first strategic alliances, the Santana-founded startup has bought an equity position in FireSports, founded and headed by creative innovator Rodrigo Figueroa Reyes,...
- 1/17/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: WWE Superstar Liv Morgan will make her film debut in Yale Entertainment’s darkly comic thriller, The Kill Room. She joins an ensemble that also includes Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Joe Manganiello, Maya Hawke, Debi Mazar, Larry Pine, Dree Hemingway and Leah McSweeney, as previously announced.
The film centers on hitman Reggie (Manganiello), his boss (Jackson), an art dealer (Thurman) and their money laundering scheme that accidentally turns the hitman into an overnight Avant-Garde sensation, forcing the dealer to play the art world against the underworld. Morgan will play an art purist who bemoans the vapidness of art dealers.
Nicol Paone is directing from Jonathan Jacobson’s script. Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, and Jon Keeyes are producing under their Yale Productions banner alongside Anne Clements of Idiot Savant Pictures, Paone, Thurman, Dannielle Thomas and Jason Weinberg from Untitled Entertainment, William Rosenfeld of Such Content, and Bill Kenwright of Bk Studios.
The film centers on hitman Reggie (Manganiello), his boss (Jackson), an art dealer (Thurman) and their money laundering scheme that accidentally turns the hitman into an overnight Avant-Garde sensation, forcing the dealer to play the art world against the underworld. Morgan will play an art purist who bemoans the vapidness of art dealers.
Nicol Paone is directing from Jonathan Jacobson’s script. Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, and Jon Keeyes are producing under their Yale Productions banner alongside Anne Clements of Idiot Savant Pictures, Paone, Thurman, Dannielle Thomas and Jason Weinberg from Untitled Entertainment, William Rosenfeld of Such Content, and Bill Kenwright of Bk Studios.
- 6/2/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Marking her first feature since she won a Best Actress Oscar for The Eyes Of Tammy Faye, Jessica Chastain and Dopesick and The Batman star Peter Sarsgaard have just wrapped on Michel Franco’s (New Order) new film, which we can reveal is called Memory.
Plot details are being kept under lock and key but the English-language project is rumoured to revolve around a New York City staycation. Also starring are Merritt Wever (Birdman), Josh Charles (Dead Poets Society), Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade), and Jessica Harper (Suspiria).
The project marks Franco’s second American-set film after 2015’s Chronic, and marks the fifth collaboration between the filmmaker and cinematographer Yves Cape. Pic wrapped shooting in New York last Friday.
Franco, a festival-favourite, won the Venice Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize for recent feature New Order. Four of his films have played at Cannes, three winning prizes.
The film is produced...
Plot details are being kept under lock and key but the English-language project is rumoured to revolve around a New York City staycation. Also starring are Merritt Wever (Birdman), Josh Charles (Dead Poets Society), Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade), and Jessica Harper (Suspiria).
The project marks Franco’s second American-set film after 2015’s Chronic, and marks the fifth collaboration between the filmmaker and cinematographer Yves Cape. Pic wrapped shooting in New York last Friday.
Franco, a festival-favourite, won the Venice Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize for recent feature New Order. Four of his films have played at Cannes, three winning prizes.
The film is produced...
- 5/23/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Buenos Aires — The last few years have caught Ventana Sur – Cannes Festival and Market’s biggest initiative outside France – taking place as the industry debated radical change. This year saw the Latin American industries in a state of transformation themselves, wracked by headwinds – Jair Bolsonaro’s government in Brazil – or looking to take advantage of negative scenarios, such as the Argentine peso plunge against the dollar.
But Ventana Sur is weathering these storms. Expanding from its film base into growth areas for the film industry – genre, animation, and now drama series and social media via a bolstered conference focus under co-director Ralph Haiek – Ventana Sur has evolved into an invaluable fixture in a round-the-year sales and co-production movie business, accelerating trading and expanding companies’ contact bases. Here are 12 Takeaways from a robust 2019 edition:
1.The Double Model
The rise of global platforms played out throughout Ventana Sur, in sales and announced strategic moves,...
But Ventana Sur is weathering these storms. Expanding from its film base into growth areas for the film industry – genre, animation, and now drama series and social media via a bolstered conference focus under co-director Ralph Haiek – Ventana Sur has evolved into an invaluable fixture in a round-the-year sales and co-production movie business, accelerating trading and expanding companies’ contact bases. Here are 12 Takeaways from a robust 2019 edition:
1.The Double Model
The rise of global platforms played out throughout Ventana Sur, in sales and announced strategic moves,...
- 12/7/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The Cannes Festival and Film Market’s boldest international initiative outside France, as well as Latin America’s biggest movie mart-meet, Buenos Aires’ Ventana Sur runs Dec. 2-6. Co-organized by Argentina’s Incaa film-tv agency, it provides a telling window into Latin American market trends. Here are five takes for 2019:
1. Latin American Headwinds
For most of the past decade, Ventana Sur channeled the energies of the region’s expanding film industries. That era is now over. “Latin America is the world’s worst performing region in terms of economic output,” the Financial Times proclaimed in October. That downturn, and its sluggish growth, plays out throughout the region. Two of Latin America’s three biggest national film industries — Argentina and Brazil — have just hit rather hard walls: The plunging Argentine peso lost 37% of its value against the dollar in just 12 months; and in Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro has envisaged a...
1. Latin American Headwinds
For most of the past decade, Ventana Sur channeled the energies of the region’s expanding film industries. That era is now over. “Latin America is the world’s worst performing region in terms of economic output,” the Financial Times proclaimed in October. That downturn, and its sluggish growth, plays out throughout the region. Two of Latin America’s three biggest national film industries — Argentina and Brazil — have just hit rather hard walls: The plunging Argentine peso lost 37% of its value against the dollar in just 12 months; and in Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro has envisaged a...
- 11/28/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Argentina’s Instituto Nacional de Cinematografia y las Artes Audiovisuals (Incaa) and the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires will partner to build Argentina’s first laboratory of film preservation.
Minister of Culture Enrique Avogadro and Incaa president Ralph Haiek signed the agreement which will see Buenos Aires’ Pablo Ducrós Hicken Film Museum in collaboration with the Cinemateca del Archivo y de la Imagen Nacional – Cinain (National Film Archives and Cinematheque) finance the completion of the laboratory.
Construction has already begun on the low-profile laboratory, which will work to assure the conservation of the film collection of the museum as well as the national audiovisual archives.
The laboratory will employ the very latest in film processing and restoration technologies to restore the archives to international quality standards, assuring an autonomy in the treatment and restoration process of Argentina’s rich audiovisual heritage.
The laboratory will include facilities...
Minister of Culture Enrique Avogadro and Incaa president Ralph Haiek signed the agreement which will see Buenos Aires’ Pablo Ducrós Hicken Film Museum in collaboration with the Cinemateca del Archivo y de la Imagen Nacional – Cinain (National Film Archives and Cinematheque) finance the completion of the laboratory.
Construction has already begun on the low-profile laboratory, which will work to assure the conservation of the film collection of the museum as well as the national audiovisual archives.
The laboratory will employ the very latest in film processing and restoration technologies to restore the archives to international quality standards, assuring an autonomy in the treatment and restoration process of Argentina’s rich audiovisual heritage.
The laboratory will include facilities...
- 10/14/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes – Argentina will join the European Council’s co-production fund Eurimages as an associate member starting on October 1 2019, it was officially announced Monday at the Cannes Film Market.
The agreement was unveiled by Ralph Haiek, president of Argentine agency Incaa, Eurimages executive director Roberto Olla and the president of global producers assn. Fiapf, Luis Alberto Scalella, who was recently renewed for another four-year mandate.
Founded in 1989, Eurimages takes in 38 of the 47 member states of the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe, plus Canada. Eurimages’ annual budget is set at €25 million ($27.9 million).
A key basis for building co-productions across Europe, Eurimages kicked off its intercontinental expansion in 2015 with the inclusion of Canada.
Two new countries, one European and one non-European, are preparing a request for membership to Eurimages over the coming months, Variety learned.
Argentine producers will now be able to apply for co-production funding from the call for applications on Oct. 22, 2019.
“Fortunately,...
The agreement was unveiled by Ralph Haiek, president of Argentine agency Incaa, Eurimages executive director Roberto Olla and the president of global producers assn. Fiapf, Luis Alberto Scalella, who was recently renewed for another four-year mandate.
Founded in 1989, Eurimages takes in 38 of the 47 member states of the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe, plus Canada. Eurimages’ annual budget is set at €25 million ($27.9 million).
A key basis for building co-productions across Europe, Eurimages kicked off its intercontinental expansion in 2015 with the inclusion of Canada.
Two new countries, one European and one non-European, are preparing a request for membership to Eurimages over the coming months, Variety learned.
Argentine producers will now be able to apply for co-production funding from the call for applications on Oct. 22, 2019.
“Fortunately,...
- 5/21/2019
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
’The government understands audiovisual is a growth sector,’ - Incaa chief Ralph Haiek.
Ventana Sur market chief Jerome Paillard and Incaa president Ralph Haiek announced a new attendance record of more than 4,000 at the event’s 10th anniversary edition that wrapped in Buenos Aires on December 14.
Unsurprisingly, Argentine delegates represented the lion’s share of industry attendees, climbing 20% on 2017 to around 2,600. Paillard noted that international attendance outside Argentina climbed by 12% this year to more than 1,000 attendees.
Paillard attributed the increase to the fact that buyers keen to invest early in content appreciated the significant amount of works in progress at the market,...
Ventana Sur market chief Jerome Paillard and Incaa president Ralph Haiek announced a new attendance record of more than 4,000 at the event’s 10th anniversary edition that wrapped in Buenos Aires on December 14.
Unsurprisingly, Argentine delegates represented the lion’s share of industry attendees, climbing 20% on 2017 to around 2,600. Paillard noted that international attendance outside Argentina climbed by 12% this year to more than 1,000 attendees.
Paillard attributed the increase to the fact that buyers keen to invest early in content appreciated the significant amount of works in progress at the market,...
- 12/17/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
’The government understands audiovisual is a growth sector,’ - Incaa chief Ralph Haiek.
Ventana Sur market chief Jerome Paillard and Incaa chief Ralph Haiek announced a new attendance record of more than 4,000 at the 10th anniversary edition that wrapped in Buenos Aires on December 14.
Unsurprisingly, Argentinean delegates represented the lion’s share of industry attendees, climbing 20% on 2017 to around 2,600. Paillard noted that international attendance outside Argentina climbed by 12% this year to more than 1,000 attendees.
Paillard attributed the increase to the fact that buyers see an opportunity to invest early in content through the significant amount of works in progress at the market,...
Ventana Sur market chief Jerome Paillard and Incaa chief Ralph Haiek announced a new attendance record of more than 4,000 at the 10th anniversary edition that wrapped in Buenos Aires on December 14.
Unsurprisingly, Argentinean delegates represented the lion’s share of industry attendees, climbing 20% on 2017 to around 2,600. Paillard noted that international attendance outside Argentina climbed by 12% this year to more than 1,000 attendees.
Paillard attributed the increase to the fact that buyers see an opportunity to invest early in content through the significant amount of works in progress at the market,...
- 12/17/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Buenos Aires — Celebrating its 10th anniversary with a huge hike in attendance to over 4,000 accredited delegates, the 2018 Ventana Sur will go down in history on multiple counts: Sales and pick-ups on movies which combined social comment and entertainment value, increasingly the new foreign-language movie standard; new sections, led by a Proyecta co-production forum and in-house doc Incubadora; and a reinvigorated conference strand.
Thierry Fremaux’s Cannes Festival Cinema Week also sold out, some sessions in just two hours, a sign he said in his opening keynote to Ventana Sur of a resilient theatrical audience for films.
With three Netflix executives in attendance, plus Amazon’s Pablo Lacoviello, 2018’s Ventana Sur suggested how the function of major film events is expanding in an Ott age. The battle for Ott supremacy will be fought over talent.
Much of the real industry dealing at Ventana Sur was and will be in the future...
Thierry Fremaux’s Cannes Festival Cinema Week also sold out, some sessions in just two hours, a sign he said in his opening keynote to Ventana Sur of a resilient theatrical audience for films.
With three Netflix executives in attendance, plus Amazon’s Pablo Lacoviello, 2018’s Ventana Sur suggested how the function of major film events is expanding in an Ott age. The battle for Ott supremacy will be fought over talent.
Much of the real industry dealing at Ventana Sur was and will be in the future...
- 12/15/2018
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Argentina’s Ventana Sur, certainly one of Latin America’s most important meet-marts, announced today that its Blood Window sidebar will collaborate with Incaa – the country’s national film-tv body, which co-runs Ventana Sur with Cannes – and the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifff) on the B2 Genre TV project, the first such program aimed at the promotion of genre TV content.
The Bifff Market will play host to the B2 event from April 10-12. There, TV industry professionals will take part in pitching sessions, presentations and one-on-one meetings with creatives looking to produce content specializing in horror, science fiction, thriller and fantasy, made for TV.
The agreement will be signed by Incaa president Ralph Haiek and Bifff director Guy Delmote as the Ventana Sur market kicks off on Monday Dec. 10.
“The final aim of this agreement is to promote genre films, and especially genre TV series,” said Delmote and Romain Roll,...
The Bifff Market will play host to the B2 event from April 10-12. There, TV industry professionals will take part in pitching sessions, presentations and one-on-one meetings with creatives looking to produce content specializing in horror, science fiction, thriller and fantasy, made for TV.
The agreement will be signed by Incaa president Ralph Haiek and Bifff director Guy Delmote as the Ventana Sur market kicks off on Monday Dec. 10.
“The final aim of this agreement is to promote genre films, and especially genre TV series,” said Delmote and Romain Roll,...
- 12/10/2018
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Collaboration to launch at Biff Market in Brussels in April 2019.
Buenos Aires film market Ventana Sur kicks off on Monday (10) with the signing of a pact between genre sidebar Blood Window and the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifff) to fortify production ties between Latin America and Europe.
Ralph Haiek, president of Argentina’s national film body Incaa, will sign the agreement with Bifff director Guy Delmote.
The arrangement will see Biff Market launch the B2 Genre TV Project in collaboration with Blood Window and Incaa, marking the first programme aimed at promoting and fostering genre TV content.
“The final...
Buenos Aires film market Ventana Sur kicks off on Monday (10) with the signing of a pact between genre sidebar Blood Window and the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifff) to fortify production ties between Latin America and Europe.
Ralph Haiek, president of Argentina’s national film body Incaa, will sign the agreement with Bifff director Guy Delmote.
The arrangement will see Biff Market launch the B2 Genre TV Project in collaboration with Blood Window and Incaa, marking the first programme aimed at promoting and fostering genre TV content.
“The final...
- 12/9/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Incaa, Argentina’s public-sector film-tv agency which partners the Cannes Film Festival and Market on Ventana Sur, is talking up the results of its freemium VOD platform, cine.ar, one of a clutch of pioneering attempt at digital distribution by a national film institute.
The site hosts Argentine films, documentaries, series and shorts in order to promote their work and to seek out new audiences that might otherwise not have access to such content, both domestically and abroad.
Originally called Orion, in its three short years of existence, the service has proved a real success for Incaa, said Ralph Haiek, Incaa president. who presented the service at last month’s Malaga Festival.
The service currently boasts one-million total subscribers with high usability; more than five-million films have been streamed. Added up, those numbers make Cine.ar the largest native VOD platform in Argentina.
“We did this by making the platform accessible,...
The site hosts Argentine films, documentaries, series and shorts in order to promote their work and to seek out new audiences that might otherwise not have access to such content, both domestically and abroad.
Originally called Orion, in its three short years of existence, the service has proved a real success for Incaa, said Ralph Haiek, Incaa president. who presented the service at last month’s Malaga Festival.
The service currently boasts one-million total subscribers with high usability; more than five-million films have been streamed. Added up, those numbers make Cine.ar the largest native VOD platform in Argentina.
“We did this by making the platform accessible,...
- 5/2/2018
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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