Chilean editor-turned-filmmaker Diego Figueroa (“Los Vecinos”) is set to unveil his debut feature “Patio de Chacales”(“A Yard Of Jackals”) at Sanfic Industria’s prestige Works In Progress strand, offering a suspense-addled mindbender that pivots and retreats through the depths of its protagonists’ minds as atrocities unfurl close-to-home.
Produced by Alejandro Ugarte at Santiago-based Infractor, which co-produced the Juan Cáceres Malaga-winning title “Perro Bomba” alongside Chile’s Pejeperro Films and France’s Promenades Films, “Patio de Chacales” toys with the medium to present a singular take on clandestine crime networks.
“When Diego contacted me and proposed this subject, I found it very interesting. It’s a common and recursive theme in Chilean cinematography, but his point of view was fresh, interesting, something different from what was being done,” Ugarte told Variety. “To deal with these themes from this genre with an auteur’s vision, it’s very engaging, I think...
Produced by Alejandro Ugarte at Santiago-based Infractor, which co-produced the Juan Cáceres Malaga-winning title “Perro Bomba” alongside Chile’s Pejeperro Films and France’s Promenades Films, “Patio de Chacales” toys with the medium to present a singular take on clandestine crime networks.
“When Diego contacted me and proposed this subject, I found it very interesting. It’s a common and recursive theme in Chilean cinematography, but his point of view was fresh, interesting, something different from what was being done,” Ugarte told Variety. “To deal with these themes from this genre with an auteur’s vision, it’s very engaging, I think...
- 8/18/2023
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
The Málaga Festival has never been bigger. To help navigate it, as well as Spain’s burgeoning production output, here’s a breakdown of its main section titles.
2022 Malaga Festival Lineup:
Main Competition
“Emperor Code,”
The Malaga Fest opener, a noirish crime thriller with special services operative Luis Tosar moonlighting for the elite, here trying to dig up the dirt on a young politico. Segueing rapidly to Netflix after an A Contracorriente release in Spain.
“A Mae,”
The latest from the prolific Brazilian narrative and doc director, maker of euthanasia-themed “Antes do fim,” and 2015’s “Hunger.” In it, a humble street vendor mother searches desperately for her missing son, claiming the right to at least bury his body.
“Almost in Love,”
A father-daughter relationship drama from notable Argentine auteur Brzezicki (“Noche”), backed by top-notch Latin American outfits – Argentina’s Ruda Films, Brazil’s Rt Features, Chile’s Quijote- plus Spain’s Vertigo Films,...
2022 Malaga Festival Lineup:
Main Competition
“Emperor Code,”
The Malaga Fest opener, a noirish crime thriller with special services operative Luis Tosar moonlighting for the elite, here trying to dig up the dirt on a young politico. Segueing rapidly to Netflix after an A Contracorriente release in Spain.
“A Mae,”
The latest from the prolific Brazilian narrative and doc director, maker of euthanasia-themed “Antes do fim,” and 2015’s “Hunger.” In it, a humble street vendor mother searches desperately for her missing son, claiming the right to at least bury his body.
“Almost in Love,”
A father-daughter relationship drama from notable Argentine auteur Brzezicki (“Noche”), backed by top-notch Latin American outfits – Argentina’s Ruda Films, Brazil’s Rt Features, Chile’s Quijote- plus Spain’s Vertigo Films,...
- 3/21/2022
- by John Hopewell and Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
A horror and fantasy film festival that brings together both Chilean and international filmmakers, the first-ever Santiago Horror Film Festival will take place in Santiago, Chile starting on October 4th:
"We already know that Chilean films can have international success. But what about the fantasy and horror films made in Chile? This is what the Santiago Horror Film Festival (Shff) seeks to answer, an event that brings together, for the first time, national and foreign directors to show their work and discuss this film genre.
To be held in Santiago, Chile, from 4th to 6th October 2018, Santiago Horror will offer a varied agenda of activities. One of the milestones will be the forum "Women in Genre Films", which will feature the participation of actresses Carolina Arredondo and Blanca Lewin, film director Andrea Ozuljevich and writer Francisca Solar. The space will be moderated by journalist and film critic Daniel Olave.
In addition,...
"We already know that Chilean films can have international success. But what about the fantasy and horror films made in Chile? This is what the Santiago Horror Film Festival (Shff) seeks to answer, an event that brings together, for the first time, national and foreign directors to show their work and discuss this film genre.
To be held in Santiago, Chile, from 4th to 6th October 2018, Santiago Horror will offer a varied agenda of activities. One of the milestones will be the forum "Women in Genre Films", which will feature the participation of actresses Carolina Arredondo and Blanca Lewin, film director Andrea Ozuljevich and writer Francisca Solar. The space will be moderated by journalist and film critic Daniel Olave.
In addition,...
- 8/21/2018
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Exclusive: Ryan Kampe arrives at the Efm with a sales roster that includes Sundance premieres Family Life and Columbus, Rotterdam entries X500 and Rat Film, and Oscar-nominated Tanna.
Kevin Ford, Smriti Keshari, and Eric Schlosser’s Berlinale Special selection documentary the bomb screens on Friday and explores the power and fascination of nuclear weapons. the bomb premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year as a multimedia installation.
Amman Abbasi’s feature directorial debut Dayveon premiered at Sundance last month and screens in Forum on Friday. Newcomer Devin Blackmon plays the eponymous 13-year-old grieving the loss of his older brother who falls in with a local gang. FilmRise acquired North American rights after the premiere in Park City.
Alicia Scherson and Cristián Jiménez’s Family Life premiered at Sundance before going to the Rotterdam Film Festival. Jorge Becker, Gabriela Arancibia, Blanca Lewin and Cristián Carvajal star in the story of a lonely fabulist who concocts a tale...
Kevin Ford, Smriti Keshari, and Eric Schlosser’s Berlinale Special selection documentary the bomb screens on Friday and explores the power and fascination of nuclear weapons. the bomb premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year as a multimedia installation.
Amman Abbasi’s feature directorial debut Dayveon premiered at Sundance last month and screens in Forum on Friday. Newcomer Devin Blackmon plays the eponymous 13-year-old grieving the loss of his older brother who falls in with a local gang. FilmRise acquired North American rights after the premiere in Park City.
Alicia Scherson and Cristián Jiménez’s Family Life premiered at Sundance before going to the Rotterdam Film Festival. Jorge Becker, Gabriela Arancibia, Blanca Lewin and Cristián Carvajal star in the story of a lonely fabulist who concocts a tale...
- 2/8/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Families bring together people from different backgrounds, with different stories, all forming into a cohesive unit. But what happens when one person has built their new life around a series of lies? That’s the basis of the Chilean film “Family Life,” which heads to the Sundance Film Festival for its World Premiere.
Directed by Alicia Scherson and Cristián Jiménez, and starring Jorge Becker, Gabriela Arancibia, Cristián Carvajal, and Blanca Lewin, the story revolves around the aimless Martin, who is asked to housesit for his cousin who is taking his family to France for a few months.
Continue reading Sundance Exclusive: Domestic Bliss Gets Complicated In Trailer For ‘Family Life’ at The Playlist.
Directed by Alicia Scherson and Cristián Jiménez, and starring Jorge Becker, Gabriela Arancibia, Cristián Carvajal, and Blanca Lewin, the story revolves around the aimless Martin, who is asked to housesit for his cousin who is taking his family to France for a few months.
Continue reading Sundance Exclusive: Domestic Bliss Gets Complicated In Trailer For ‘Family Life’ at The Playlist.
- 1/18/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Director: Matías Bize Writers: Matías Bize, Julio Rojas Starring: Santiago Cabrera, Blanca Lewin Andrés (Santiago Cabrera) is a 30-something Chilean-born travel writer who now finds himself based in Berlin. Back in Santiago after being away for 10 years, Andrés has returned to the city of his youth long enough to take care of some personal business, including dropping by a birthday party. While his friends are all married with children, they attack (if not partially out of jealousy) Andrés’ free-wheeling bachelorhood. A constant analogy that other characters make is that Andrés has lived his entire life like a tourist or day-tripper, never becoming too attached to his surroundings; but other than his career's inherent allusion of freedom, Andrés does not seem too keen on living his life in airports, airplanes and hotels. It soon becomes apparent that Andrés left something -- specifically someone -- behind when he moved away from Santiago 10 years ago.
- 5/3/2011
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
If you'd like to read about the now official Oscar submissions for Best Foreign Language Film, click away. But because you -- make that we -- can't see most of the films, due to the hideous state of international distribution, let us use this Academy press release as an excuse to take a different view, a sexytime view... a Beauty Break if you will. Let's gawk at the actors and actresses who are in the submitted films. We'll pretend it's like a Miss Universe pageant (how do you say "shallow" in Finnish?). Randomly selected hotties follow (it's not easy to find info/photos.) whether you're into the men, the women or other. Don't judge!
Beauty Knows No Borders
I presume you'll let me know your very favorites in the comments. Do I presume too much?
Handsome Guys...
Left: Bill Skarsgård a.k.a. Alexander's lil brö (20) for Sweden's Simple Simon.
Beauty Knows No Borders
I presume you'll let me know your very favorites in the comments. Do I presume too much?
Handsome Guys...
Left: Bill Skarsgård a.k.a. Alexander's lil brö (20) for Sweden's Simple Simon.
- 10/15/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Here's the press release for the Venice Days selections folks: lots of names we know! Official Selection World Premiere La Vida De Los Peces/The Life Of Fish by Matias Bize with Santiago Cabrera, Blanca Lewin Chile - Production co.: Cenecca Producciones A young Chilean returns to Santiago after 10 years in Europe and ponders his past and future over a long night of encounters with old friends and his great love. This sentimental, urban comedy depicts a South America far from the stereotypes and folklore. International Premiere - Opening film Le Bruit Des Glacons/The Clink Of Ice by Bertrand Blier with Jean Dujardin, Albert Dupontel, Anne Alvaro, Myriam Boyer France, Sales co.: Wild Bunch An alcoholic writer is confronted by an incarnation of his own cancer in this no-holds-barred, black comedy on illness and death. Nothing is spared politically incorrect derision - except for the desire to live and love.
- 7/27/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Guillermo Del Toro's "Pan's Labyrinth" was voted the FIPRESCI Award for best foreign-language film by a jury of international critics at the 18th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival, which wrapped Sunday. The film also took home the fest's International Filmmaker Award.
The fest, which began Jan. 4, screened 255 films from 73 countries, including 79 premieres and 55 of the 61 foreign-language film entries for this year's Academy Awards. A record 120,000 attendees are estimated to have taken part in the fest.
Mads Mikkelsen recieved the FIPRESCI best actor award for his performance in Susanne Bier's "After the Wedding", while Blanca Lewin was named best actress for Matias Bize's "In Bed".
In the New Voices New Visions category, featuring films from 12 new international directors, Rafi Pitts recevied an award for his humanism and elegant filmmaking for "It's Winter".
A Special Jury Prize was awarded to Veronica Chen's "Agua" for its original storytelling.
John Jeffcoat received the John Schlesinger Award for outstanding first feature (narrative or documentary) for "Outsourced", which screened as the opening-night film.
The fest, which began Jan. 4, screened 255 films from 73 countries, including 79 premieres and 55 of the 61 foreign-language film entries for this year's Academy Awards. A record 120,000 attendees are estimated to have taken part in the fest.
Mads Mikkelsen recieved the FIPRESCI best actor award for his performance in Susanne Bier's "After the Wedding", while Blanca Lewin was named best actress for Matias Bize's "In Bed".
In the New Voices New Visions category, featuring films from 12 new international directors, Rafi Pitts recevied an award for his humanism and elegant filmmaking for "It's Winter".
A Special Jury Prize was awarded to Veronica Chen's "Agua" for its original storytelling.
John Jeffcoat received the John Schlesinger Award for outstanding first feature (narrative or documentary) for "Outsourced", which screened as the opening-night film.
- 1/15/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
To be honest, a foreign-language feature set entirely in a single motel room with extensive hand-held camerawork isn't the most intriguing of propositions, but "In Bed" (En la cama) defies expectations.
A Chilean-German co-production that had its North American premiere at AFI Fest, this appropriately intimate, keenly observed two-hander plays like a naughtier version of Richard Linklater's "Before Sunrise", achieving that rare feat of combining steamy sex with refreshingly realistic conversation, minus all the stagey self-consciousness that usually goes with the territory.
This sophomore effort by director Matias Bize, working from a script by Julio Rojas, should have no problem getting in bed with a domestic distributor and should score especially strongly with female audiences.
With its two leads already well into the throes of passion, the film introduces the viewer to Daniela (Blanca Lewin) and Bruno (Gonzalo Valenzuela), the young lovers who met at a party just hours earlier.
Between bouts of achieving their prime objective, they spend the fleeting nocturnal hours sharing jokes, dreams and aspirations, revealing darker secrets and hiding others.
Given the solitary set and limited technical opportunities, this is the kind of scenario that often paints itself into a restrictive theatrical corner, but Bize, Rojas and especially the game actors keep things fresh and involving.
Logging extensive credits working primarily in Latin American television, Lewin and Valenzuela are appealing without looking like models and convey an uncommon naturalness and vulnerability that heightens the scenario's high relatability factor.
Although a bit of intrusive dramatic license sneaks its way into the final minutes, ultimately robbing the film of the complete illusion of authenticity that was carried off so successfully in Linklater's companion films, "In Bed" still turns out to be a surprisingly agreeable way to pass the time.
A Chilean-German co-production that had its North American premiere at AFI Fest, this appropriately intimate, keenly observed two-hander plays like a naughtier version of Richard Linklater's "Before Sunrise", achieving that rare feat of combining steamy sex with refreshingly realistic conversation, minus all the stagey self-consciousness that usually goes with the territory.
This sophomore effort by director Matias Bize, working from a script by Julio Rojas, should have no problem getting in bed with a domestic distributor and should score especially strongly with female audiences.
With its two leads already well into the throes of passion, the film introduces the viewer to Daniela (Blanca Lewin) and Bruno (Gonzalo Valenzuela), the young lovers who met at a party just hours earlier.
Between bouts of achieving their prime objective, they spend the fleeting nocturnal hours sharing jokes, dreams and aspirations, revealing darker secrets and hiding others.
Given the solitary set and limited technical opportunities, this is the kind of scenario that often paints itself into a restrictive theatrical corner, but Bize, Rojas and especially the game actors keep things fresh and involving.
Logging extensive credits working primarily in Latin American television, Lewin and Valenzuela are appealing without looking like models and convey an uncommon naturalness and vulnerability that heightens the scenario's high relatability factor.
Although a bit of intrusive dramatic license sneaks its way into the final minutes, ultimately robbing the film of the complete illusion of authenticity that was carried off so successfully in Linklater's companion films, "In Bed" still turns out to be a surprisingly agreeable way to pass the time.
- 11/8/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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