Madrid — Pol-ka’s banner titles straddle telenovelas and international-length series. Here are highlights, projects, productions and shows now screening packing one of the most ambitious slates of any Latin American company:
‘Argentina, Land Of Passion And Revenge’ (Pol-ka)
The big one, at least for free-to-air. A period piece, so far more expensive to shoot, so rarer as a production, and a potential event series. A portrait of Spain’s diaspora to Argentina after its Civil War, the tawdry ethics of the new (and old) homeland, betrayal, passion, poverty and ill-gotten gains. A big play by Pol-ka to snatch Telefe’s ratings crown for El Trece. Overseas co-production potential.
“The Bronze Garden 2” (HBO Latin America, Pol-ka)
A HBO Latin America original, and directed by Pablo Fendrik (“Ardor”) and Hernán Goldfrid (“Thesis on a Homicide”), a missing daughter thriller. Elevating the father of the child into a tragic hero via meticulous character development and cinema-standard direction,...
‘Argentina, Land Of Passion And Revenge’ (Pol-ka)
The big one, at least for free-to-air. A period piece, so far more expensive to shoot, so rarer as a production, and a potential event series. A portrait of Spain’s diaspora to Argentina after its Civil War, the tawdry ethics of the new (and old) homeland, betrayal, passion, poverty and ill-gotten gains. A big play by Pol-ka to snatch Telefe’s ratings crown for El Trece. Overseas co-production potential.
“The Bronze Garden 2” (HBO Latin America, Pol-ka)
A HBO Latin America original, and directed by Pablo Fendrik (“Ardor”) and Hernán Goldfrid (“Thesis on a Homicide”), a missing daughter thriller. Elevating the father of the child into a tragic hero via meticulous character development and cinema-standard direction,...
- 1/23/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid — Driving ever more into originals in Latin America, Netflix has placed an order for “Puerta 7,” the U.S. platform’s third Argentine original series, which is created by “Ozark” and “Narcos” writer Martin Zimmerman and produced by leading Argentine production house Pol-ka.
“Puerta 7” is written by Patricio Vega, whose credits include crime-fighting commando thriller “Los Simuladores,” created by “Wild Tales’” Damián Szifrón, which broke out to large international success.
The series is described by Neflix as an “unflinching exploration of Argentina’s infamous (and world famous) soccer “barra bravas,” bare torso-ed soccer fans feared by the public and even police responsible for fatalities at soccer matches.
One narrative line follows “a woman’s attempt to cut through this male-dominated world and cleanse one club of its corruption and criminal element in order to redeem her family name,” Netflix announced.
Another charts one young man’s transformation into a “barra...
“Puerta 7” is written by Patricio Vega, whose credits include crime-fighting commando thriller “Los Simuladores,” created by “Wild Tales’” Damián Szifrón, which broke out to large international success.
The series is described by Neflix as an “unflinching exploration of Argentina’s infamous (and world famous) soccer “barra bravas,” bare torso-ed soccer fans feared by the public and even police responsible for fatalities at soccer matches.
One narrative line follows “a woman’s attempt to cut through this male-dominated world and cleanse one club of its corruption and criminal element in order to redeem her family name,” Netflix announced.
Another charts one young man’s transformation into a “barra...
- 7/12/2018
- by John Hopewell and Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
My First Wedding
Directed by Ariel Winograd
Written by Patricio Vega
Argentina, 2011
Grooms on their wedding day usually consider themselves the luckiest man in the world, but in Ariel Winograd’s My First Wedding, nothing can be further from the truth. Filled with humour, heart, cynicism, and misadventure, My First Wedding’s whirlwind narrative culminates into a perfect storm of marriage clichés.
The betrothed in question are Adrián (Daniel Hendler), a non-practicing Jew, and Leonora (Natalia Oreiro), a quasi-practicing Catholic. With the ceremony already balancing a precarious equilibrium (see previous sentence), Adrián inadvertently knocks it off kilter when he accidently loses the wedding rings, and as the wedding comes crashing down around him, Adrián must try to remedy the situation without furthering the ire of his wife-to-be.
My First Wedding initially feels formulaic, presenting itself as the marital equivalent of Death at a Funeral. The catalyst for the initial comedy...
Directed by Ariel Winograd
Written by Patricio Vega
Argentina, 2011
Grooms on their wedding day usually consider themselves the luckiest man in the world, but in Ariel Winograd’s My First Wedding, nothing can be further from the truth. Filled with humour, heart, cynicism, and misadventure, My First Wedding’s whirlwind narrative culminates into a perfect storm of marriage clichés.
The betrothed in question are Adrián (Daniel Hendler), a non-practicing Jew, and Leonora (Natalia Oreiro), a quasi-practicing Catholic. With the ceremony already balancing a precarious equilibrium (see previous sentence), Adrián inadvertently knocks it off kilter when he accidently loses the wedding rings, and as the wedding comes crashing down around him, Adrián must try to remedy the situation without furthering the ire of his wife-to-be.
My First Wedding initially feels formulaic, presenting itself as the marital equivalent of Death at a Funeral. The catalyst for the initial comedy...
- 5/11/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
Ariel Winograd's My First Wedding (Mi primera boda), goes to Seventh Art in N. America The deal was made at the Ventana Sur by Udy Epstein and Ricardo Freixas of Seventh Art, for a limited release in the U.S. sometime in the middle to the late part of next year, reports Variety. Patricio Vega, scribe of The Pretenders, Fratelli Detective, Hermanos y detectives (a.k.a. Brothers and Detectives) wrote the screenplay for the film which stars Natalia Oreiro, Daniel Hendler, Imanol Arias, Martín Piroyansky, Muriel Santa Ana and Gabriela Acher. Juan Jose Campanella produced My First Wedding with Nathalie Cabiron of Tresplanos and Axel Kuschevatzky of Telefe.
- 12/5/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Ariel Winograd's My First Wedding (Mi primera boda), goes to Seventh Art in N. America The deal was made at the Ventana Sur by Udy Epstein and Ricardo Freixas of Seventh Art, for a limited release in the U.S. sometime in the middle to the late part of next year, reports Variety. Patricio Vega, scribe of The Pretenders, Fratelli Detective, Hermanos y detectives (a.k.a. Brothers and Detectives) wrote the screenplay for the film which stars Natalia Oreiro, Daniel Hendler, Imanol Arias, Martín Piroyansky, Muriel Santa Ana and Gabriela Acher. Juan Jose Campanella produced My First Wedding with Nathalie Cabiron of Tresplanos and Axel Kuschevatzky of Telefe.
- 12/5/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Ariel Winograd's My First Wedding (Mi primera boda), goes to Seventh Art in N. America The deal was made at the Ventana Sur by Udy Epstein and Ricardo Freixas of Seventh Art, for a limited release in the U.S. sometime in the middle to the late part of next year, reports Variety. Patricio Vega, scribe of The Pretenders, Fratelli Detective, Hermanos y detectives (a.k.a. Brothers and Detectives) wrote the screenplay for the film which stars Natalia Oreiro, Daniel Hendler, Imanol Arias, Martín Piroyansky, Muriel Santa Ana and Gabriela Acher. Juan Jose Campanella produced My First Wedding with Nathalie Cabiron of Tresplanos and Axel Kuschevatzky of Telefe.
- 12/5/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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