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Particular Crowd, the fledgling U.S.-based film division from WarnerMedia’s Turner Latin America, has nabbed all Latin American rights to Argentine filmmaker Marcos Carnevale’s latest film, the dramedy “El Cuartito.”
Shot and produced entirely in Puerto Rico, “El Cuartito” refers to the security screening room that five Latinos are confined in when they run afoul of U.S. immigration authorities at Puerto Rico’s San Juan airport. Donald J. Trump was still president when film was made so his portrait hangs on the wall of the tiny room and is a key prop in the dramedy. Carnevale even incorporated the tremors of the 6.8-magnitude earthquake and the multiple aftershocks which struck Puerto Rico while they were filming.
Spain’s Mario de la Rosa, whose credits include Netflix hit “Money Heist” (“La Casa de Papel”), BBC’s “The Night Manager” and the latest James Cameron production “Terminator: Dark Fate,...
Shot and produced entirely in Puerto Rico, “El Cuartito” refers to the security screening room that five Latinos are confined in when they run afoul of U.S. immigration authorities at Puerto Rico’s San Juan airport. Donald J. Trump was still president when film was made so his portrait hangs on the wall of the tiny room and is a key prop in the dramedy. Carnevale even incorporated the tremors of the 6.8-magnitude earthquake and the multiple aftershocks which struck Puerto Rico while they were filming.
Spain’s Mario de la Rosa, whose credits include Netflix hit “Money Heist” (“La Casa de Papel”), BBC’s “The Night Manager” and the latest James Cameron production “Terminator: Dark Fate,...
- 1/30/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
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While the coronavirus pandemic has shut down productions around the world, forced cinemas to shutter and film festivals to cancel their gatherings, folks in the worldwide film industry are stilll pushing forward with their art, ideas and hopes for creations after the pandemic has eased. Variety talked to a handful of international directors about their latest works, partnerships and collaborations, how they’re coping with the current situation, and even what they are watching right now. Most have films that were headed to major spring and summer film festivals, while others saw their works being pulled from screens and sent to VOD. Still others have hopes that their productions will make it to fall and winter festivals. But all the filmmakers see hope for the future of cinema.
Marcos Carnevale
Helmer-scribe Marcos Carnevale, best-known for his international hits “Corazon de Leon” and “Elsa y Fred,” has so far emerged unscathed from natural disasters.
Marcos Carnevale
Helmer-scribe Marcos Carnevale, best-known for his international hits “Corazon de Leon” and “Elsa y Fred,” has so far emerged unscathed from natural disasters.
- 5/28/2020
- by Carole Horst
- Variety Film + TV
Former Match Factory executive Brigitte Suarez is launching world sales at Efm.
Former Match Factory executive Brigitte Suarez is launching world sales at Efm alongside Puerto Rican producer-distributor Cynthia Wiesner on the comedy drama El Cuartito directed by Argentina’s Marcos Carnevale (Elsa & Fred).
The project (English working title Border Control) is in post-production after shooting on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico last month and is scheduled for delivery in autumn.
The high-stakes story centres on five tourists detained by immigration officers in a small room at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, who must...
Former Match Factory executive Brigitte Suarez is launching world sales at Efm alongside Puerto Rican producer-distributor Cynthia Wiesner on the comedy drama El Cuartito directed by Argentina’s Marcos Carnevale (Elsa & Fred).
The project (English working title Border Control) is in post-production after shooting on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico last month and is scheduled for delivery in autumn.
The high-stakes story centres on five tourists detained by immigration officers in a small room at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, who must...
- 2/23/2020
- by 158¦Martin Blaney¦40¦
- ScreenDaily
Former Match Factory executive Brigitte Suarez is launching world sales at Efm.
Former Match Factory executive Brigitte Suarez is launching world sales at Efm alongside Puerto Rican producer-distributor Cynthia Wiesner on the comedy drama El Cuartitodirected by Argentina’s Marcos Carnevale (Elsa & Fred).
The project (English working title Border Control) is in post-production after shooting on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico last month and is scheduled for delivery in autumn.
The high-stakes story centres on five tourists detained by immigration officers in a small room at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, who must find...
Former Match Factory executive Brigitte Suarez is launching world sales at Efm alongside Puerto Rican producer-distributor Cynthia Wiesner on the comedy drama El Cuartitodirected by Argentina’s Marcos Carnevale (Elsa & Fred).
The project (English working title Border Control) is in post-production after shooting on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico last month and is scheduled for delivery in autumn.
The high-stakes story centres on five tourists detained by immigration officers in a small room at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, who must find...
- 2/23/2020
- by 158¦Martin Blaney¦40¦
- ScreenDaily
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Latin American event ran April 4-10.
This year’s eighth Iff Panama ran from April 4-10 and kicked off with the well received Ricardo Darin drama An Unexpected Love (El Amor Menos Pensado).
Programmers scheduled industry talks, masterclasses, a Work in Progress section, and the announcement of a fund for women to launch this summer. Festival director Pituka Ortega reflects on the past few days.
Tell us about the women’s fund that you announced this week
Since we have become a platform for central American and Caribbean cinema and we have seen the calibre of work by women making films,...
This year’s eighth Iff Panama ran from April 4-10 and kicked off with the well received Ricardo Darin drama An Unexpected Love (El Amor Menos Pensado).
Programmers scheduled industry talks, masterclasses, a Work in Progress section, and the announcement of a fund for women to launch this summer. Festival director Pituka Ortega reflects on the past few days.
Tell us about the women’s fund that you announced this week
Since we have become a platform for central American and Caribbean cinema and we have seen the calibre of work by women making films,...
- 4/11/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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Central American event ran April 4-10.
This year’s eighth Iff Panama ran from April 4-10 and kicked off with the well received Ricardo Darin drama An Unexpected Love (El Amor Menos Pensado).
Programmers scheduled industry talks, masterclasses, a Work in Progress section, and the announcement of a fund for women to launch this summer. Festival director Pituka Ortega reflects on the past few days.
Tell us about the women’s fund that you announced this week
Since we have become a platform for central American and Caribbean cinema and we have seen the calibre of work by women making films,...
This year’s eighth Iff Panama ran from April 4-10 and kicked off with the well received Ricardo Darin drama An Unexpected Love (El Amor Menos Pensado).
Programmers scheduled industry talks, masterclasses, a Work in Progress section, and the announcement of a fund for women to launch this summer. Festival director Pituka Ortega reflects on the past few days.
Tell us about the women’s fund that you announced this week
Since we have become a platform for central American and Caribbean cinema and we have seen the calibre of work by women making films,...
- 4/11/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Panama City — The 8th Iff Panama has further reinforced its industry dimension, with a record number of submissions to the Primera Mirada pix-in-post sidebar and more sales agents and festival programmers attending the event, which this year includes the Locarno Industry Academy and a new Fipresci Award for the 12-pic Stories from Central America and the Caribbean competition.
2019 boasts a record number of guests and, according to the organizers, advance ticket sales are higher than ever.
23 films were submitted to Primera Mirada, covering different genres from Costa Rica, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, and Panama.
“The selection is powerful and has strong voices,” says Karla Quintero, co-ordinator of Iff Panama’s Industry and Educational Programs. “The films have a consolidated discourse and pay testimony to incredibly sensitive filmmakers in whose films the region’s identity definitely shines through.
She added: “These are exactly the voices this award is meant to amplify and empower.
2019 boasts a record number of guests and, according to the organizers, advance ticket sales are higher than ever.
23 films were submitted to Primera Mirada, covering different genres from Costa Rica, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, and Panama.
“The selection is powerful and has strong voices,” says Karla Quintero, co-ordinator of Iff Panama’s Industry and Educational Programs. “The films have a consolidated discourse and pay testimony to incredibly sensitive filmmakers in whose films the region’s identity definitely shines through.
She added: “These are exactly the voices this award is meant to amplify and empower.
- 4/5/2019
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
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Panama City — One of the biggest challenges facing filmmakers from Central America and the Caribbean is how to release their films in neighboring countries.
This is a problem facing Latin American cinema as a whole, but in larger countries such as Mexico, Argentina or Portuguese-speaking Brazil, the home territory is sufficiently large to achieve significant box office revenues.
In Central America, the countries have small populations and limited domestic funding opportunities, which can be asphyxiating for local filmmakers.
Two Panamanian features are planning multi-territory releases in 2018 – Abner Benaim’s “Ruben Blades is Not my Name” and Arturo Montenegro’s “Frozen in Russia.” This year’s Primera Mirada pix-in-post sidebar also included the omnibus film “Days of Light” which involves six Central American countries, and will be released across the region.
Iff Panama’s industry events attract an increasing number of festivals, distributors and sales agents, which this year included the Tribeca Film Institute,...
This is a problem facing Latin American cinema as a whole, but in larger countries such as Mexico, Argentina or Portuguese-speaking Brazil, the home territory is sufficiently large to achieve significant box office revenues.
In Central America, the countries have small populations and limited domestic funding opportunities, which can be asphyxiating for local filmmakers.
Two Panamanian features are planning multi-territory releases in 2018 – Abner Benaim’s “Ruben Blades is Not my Name” and Arturo Montenegro’s “Frozen in Russia.” This year’s Primera Mirada pix-in-post sidebar also included the omnibus film “Days of Light” which involves six Central American countries, and will be released across the region.
Iff Panama’s industry events attract an increasing number of festivals, distributors and sales agents, which this year included the Tribeca Film Institute,...
- 4/12/2018
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
Kyzza Terrazas’ Somos Lengua and Rodrigo Cervantes’ Los Paisajes each took home post-production services worth $52,000 at the Mexican festival on Friday night.
Imcine director and Gabriel Figueroa Film Fund promoter Jorge Sánchez Sosa presented the awards at the Los Cabos International Film Festival gala event.
A jury comprised of Cristina Garza from Mundial, Santiago de la Paz of Nómadas and Cynthia Wiesner of Wiesner Distribution selected the first prize recipients.
The Fund honours outstanding cinematographers, offers support every year for projects in development and, in collaboration with Labodigital, supports films in post.
A jury comprised of Molly O’Keefe from the Tribeca Film Institute, Ségolène Roederer of Québec Cinéma and Mirsad Purivatra of the Sarajevo Film Festival awarded second prizes in the amount of $5,000 to seven development projects.
The recipients were: Marcelino Islas’ History Lessons; Gustavo Gamou’s F.B.I.; Pau Ortiz’ Outside Of Prison; Luciana Kaplan’s Rush Hour; Andrea Pallaoro’s Beauty Salon; [link...
Imcine director and Gabriel Figueroa Film Fund promoter Jorge Sánchez Sosa presented the awards at the Los Cabos International Film Festival gala event.
A jury comprised of Cristina Garza from Mundial, Santiago de la Paz of Nómadas and Cynthia Wiesner of Wiesner Distribution selected the first prize recipients.
The Fund honours outstanding cinematographers, offers support every year for projects in development and, in collaboration with Labodigital, supports films in post.
A jury comprised of Molly O’Keefe from the Tribeca Film Institute, Ségolène Roederer of Québec Cinéma and Mirsad Purivatra of the Sarajevo Film Festival awarded second prizes in the amount of $5,000 to seven development projects.
The recipients were: Marcelino Islas’ History Lessons; Gustavo Gamou’s F.B.I.; Pau Ortiz’ Outside Of Prison; Luciana Kaplan’s Rush Hour; Andrea Pallaoro’s Beauty Salon; [link...
- 11/13/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Last year in Toronto the Dominican film La Soga caused some buzz. It now has chosen its release patterns with Mj Pekos of Mitropoulos Films ♀and Steven Raphael of Required Viewing consulting on all marketing and distribution elements in its North American release which will be done, along with international sales, by 7-57 Releasing and its partner Markedia Worldwide. Its platform release in August will be simultaneous with its rollout in the Dominican Republic by Antena Latina Films and in Puerto Rico by nm3089654 autoCynthia Wiesner[/link]'s Wiesner Distribution ♀. Karina Korenblum ♀ is handling international sales for 7-57. It was produced…...
- 8/17/2010
- Sydney's Buzz
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Distributor 7-57 Releasing has picked up rights to Manny Perez and Josh Crook’s Dominican action thriller "La Soga" from its producers. Antena Latina Films will be handling distribution in the Dominican Republic with Cynthia Wiesner of Wiesner Distribution handling Puerto Rico where it will open August 12th. 7-57 will open the film the following day in the States in what it called an "aggressive platform release." Specialized Independent veterans Steven Raphael ...
- 6/28/2010
- Indiewire
7-57 Releasing and partner Markedia Worldwide have picked up U.S. distribution and world sales rights to Josh Crook's action thriller "La Soga."
Written by Manny Perez, the film stars Perez and Denise Quinones in the Domican Republic-set tale about a cop seeking justice.
It was produced by Perez, Josh Crook and Jeff Crook. Exec producers are Patrick Pope, Jose Miguel Bonetti, Henry Mu, Celines Toribio, Jesse Scolaro, Allen Bain, Patrick R. Morris, Kate White Morris, Robert G. Morris and Michael Bassick.
A platform theatrical release in the top ten U.S. markets is set for August, along with its rollout in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
Antena Latina Films will be handling distribution in the Dominican Republic with Cynthia Wiesner of Wiesner Distribution handling Puerto Rico.
Steven Raphael of Required Viewing and Mj Peckos of Mitropoulos Films will consult on all marketing and distribution elements for the North American theatrical release.
Written by Manny Perez, the film stars Perez and Denise Quinones in the Domican Republic-set tale about a cop seeking justice.
It was produced by Perez, Josh Crook and Jeff Crook. Exec producers are Patrick Pope, Jose Miguel Bonetti, Henry Mu, Celines Toribio, Jesse Scolaro, Allen Bain, Patrick R. Morris, Kate White Morris, Robert G. Morris and Michael Bassick.
A platform theatrical release in the top ten U.S. markets is set for August, along with its rollout in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
Antena Latina Films will be handling distribution in the Dominican Republic with Cynthia Wiesner of Wiesner Distribution handling Puerto Rico.
Steven Raphael of Required Viewing and Mj Peckos of Mitropoulos Films will consult on all marketing and distribution elements for the North American theatrical release.
- 6/28/2010
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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