Through Rocks And Clouds tells the story of the son of a family of alpaca herders. Feliciano (Alberth Merma is beyond excited at the prospect that Peru could qualify for the football World Cup. But there is trouble brewing closer to home thanks to the dirty tricks of a local mining company. Director Franco García Becerra mixing a fantastical element of a lake spirit Auki Tayta in with his naturalistic drama in this family-friendly film. We caught up with Becerra and Annemarie Gunkel, who co-wrote the script with Alicia Quispe, to talk about blending the real and the imagined while keeping a child's viewpoint.
What made you want to tell this story?
Franco García Becerra: The script was written by Annemarie Gunkel and Alicia Quispe, and it's interesting because this story started with an image Anna...
What made you want to tell this story?
Franco García Becerra: The script was written by Annemarie Gunkel and Alicia Quispe, and it's interesting because this story started with an image Anna...
- 3/20/2024
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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Paris-based Luxbox, one of Europe’s most prominent sales agents and an occasional producer of Spanish-language art house titles, has snagged worldwide rights to Peru’s “Through Rocks and Clouds” (“Raiz”) ahead of its world premiere at Berlinale’s Generation Kplus sidebar.
Set against stunning vistas of a snowcapped Andes mountain range, the film revolves around Feliciano, an eight-year-old alpaca herder and avid soccer fan who is giddy about Peru’s increasing chances at qualifying for the World Cup.
But a mining company’s exploits threatens his mountaintop village’s way of life, tarnishing his dreams.
“At Luxbox, we are always looking for Latin-American talents, so we are extremely happy to represent this Peruvian pearl directed by Franco Garcia Becerra,” said Luxbox CEO Fiorella Moretti, adding: “The film invites us to see the world through the gaze of a young alpaca herder full of dreams.”
García Becerra hails from Cusco...
Set against stunning vistas of a snowcapped Andes mountain range, the film revolves around Feliciano, an eight-year-old alpaca herder and avid soccer fan who is giddy about Peru’s increasing chances at qualifying for the World Cup.
But a mining company’s exploits threatens his mountaintop village’s way of life, tarnishing his dreams.
“At Luxbox, we are always looking for Latin-American talents, so we are extremely happy to represent this Peruvian pearl directed by Franco Garcia Becerra,” said Luxbox CEO Fiorella Moretti, adding: “The film invites us to see the world through the gaze of a young alpaca herder full of dreams.”
García Becerra hails from Cusco...
- 1/30/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
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Santiago Fiction Lab participant “The Force of the Land”, the sophomore feature of Peruvian filmmaker Franco Garcia, has won the support of Peru’s production fund, which awards a mere 10 to 15 projects a year.
The drama is co-produced by Desfase Films and HDPeru, which have re-teamed after jointly producing a number of docs, including 2017 docudrama “Green River, The Time of the Yakurunas,” that screened at the 67th Berlinale, followed by New York’s MoMA Doc Fortnight and a slew of festivals across the world.
A poetic exploration of the concept of time in three remote Amazon villages, “Green River..” marked the directorial feature debut of brothers Alvaro and Diego Sarmiento, founders of HDPeru, an indigenous film collective that mainly produces documentaries on the defense of native peoples’ rights and the conservation of the Andes and the Amazon of Peru.
“We hope to find another co-producer in the región or perhaps even a European territory,...
The drama is co-produced by Desfase Films and HDPeru, which have re-teamed after jointly producing a number of docs, including 2017 docudrama “Green River, The Time of the Yakurunas,” that screened at the 67th Berlinale, followed by New York’s MoMA Doc Fortnight and a slew of festivals across the world.
A poetic exploration of the concept of time in three remote Amazon villages, “Green River..” marked the directorial feature debut of brothers Alvaro and Diego Sarmiento, founders of HDPeru, an indigenous film collective that mainly produces documentaries on the defense of native peoples’ rights and the conservation of the Andes and the Amazon of Peru.
“We hope to find another co-producer in the región or perhaps even a European territory,...
- 11/4/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
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