Sundance prize winner Sujo and the latest films by José Luis Torres Leiva and Celina Murga have joined San Sebastian’s Horizontes Latinos strand, which spotlights Latin American films that have not yet screened in Spain.
Mexican directors and producers Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez won the grand jury prize in the world cinema dramatic competition at Sundance for Sujo, the story of a boy’s survival after the murder of his father, a hired killer.
It’s joined by Chilean filmmaker Torres Leiva’s When Clouds Hide The Shadow, which premiered at Jeonju Festival, and will open the strand.
Mexican directors and producers Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez won the grand jury prize in the world cinema dramatic competition at Sundance for Sujo, the story of a boy’s survival after the murder of his father, a hired killer.
It’s joined by Chilean filmmaker Torres Leiva’s When Clouds Hide The Shadow, which premiered at Jeonju Festival, and will open the strand.
- 8/8/2024
- ScreenDaily
San Sebastian will host its annual Wip Latam program this Sept. 23-25. The program will feature six of the hottest upcoming titles from across Central and South America.
A frequent stop for titles between San Sebastian’s Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum and one of the event’s finished film sidebars, Wip Latam has hosted several standout titles over the years, including Yennifer Uribe Alzate’s “Skin in Spring” and Lola Arias’ “Reas,” which premiered in the Berlinale Forum earlier this year. Other past participants include Sofía Paloma Gómez and Camilo Becerra’s “Maybe It’s True What They Say About Us” and “Most People Die on Sundays,” which will screen in this year’s Horizontes Latinos lineup at San Sebastian.
Awards available to this year’s titles include the Wip Latam Industry Award, which includes the post-production services and Spanish distribution, and the Egeda Platino Industria Award of €30,000.
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A frequent stop for titles between San Sebastian’s Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum and one of the event’s finished film sidebars, Wip Latam has hosted several standout titles over the years, including Yennifer Uribe Alzate’s “Skin in Spring” and Lola Arias’ “Reas,” which premiered in the Berlinale Forum earlier this year. Other past participants include Sofía Paloma Gómez and Camilo Becerra’s “Maybe It’s True What They Say About Us” and “Most People Die on Sundays,” which will screen in this year’s Horizontes Latinos lineup at San Sebastian.
Awards available to this year’s titles include the Wip Latam Industry Award, which includes the post-production services and Spanish distribution, and the Egeda Platino Industria Award of €30,000.
Below, a...
- 8/7/2024
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Projects from Albert Serra and Iciar Bollain are among the 12 Spanish features selected for the 2024 San Sebastian International Film Festival (Ssiff), taking place from September 20-28.
Serra will compete for the first time in San Sebastian’s official section with bullfighting documentary Tardes De Soledad. His previous films include Locarno winner The Story Of My Death and 2022 Cannes premiere Pacifiction.
Competing in the main section for the fifth time is Iciar Bollain with I’m Nevenka, about a town councillor who reports abuse by the major. Mireia Oriol and Urko Olazabal star.
Also selected are Pedro Martín-Calero’s directorial debut The Wailing,...
Serra will compete for the first time in San Sebastian’s official section with bullfighting documentary Tardes De Soledad. His previous films include Locarno winner The Story Of My Death and 2022 Cannes premiere Pacifiction.
Competing in the main section for the fifth time is Iciar Bollain with I’m Nevenka, about a town councillor who reports abuse by the major. Mireia Oriol and Urko Olazabal star.
Also selected are Pedro Martín-Calero’s directorial debut The Wailing,...
- 7/12/2024
- ScreenDaily
Yasuo Nakajima and Mariona Carrera’s Barcelona and Tokyo-based b-mount have boarded “Maybe It’s True What They Say About Us,’ (“Quizás Es Cierto Lo Que Dicen De Nosotras”) from Chilean filmmaking duo Camilo Becerra (“El último sacramento”) and Sofía Paloma Gómez (“Quiero morirme dentro de un tiburón”), seen at San Sebastian’s San Sebastián Wip Latam competition.
b-mount join a co-production between Carlos Núñez and Gabriela Sandoval at Chile’s Storyboard Media (“The Sky Is Red”), Cecilia Salim at Argentina’s Murillo Cine (“Chaco”) and Lucía van Gelderen at Argentina’s Morocha Films (“El Cinco”) alongside Becerra’s production venture La Jauría Comunicaciones.
Emilio Mayorga serves as executive producer. International sales for the film are handled by Lucia and Julia Meik’s Meikincine (“Los Fuertes”).
“This project is extraordinary for us since it’s our first involvement in fiction production; formerly, we’ve provided shooting services to international productions,...
b-mount join a co-production between Carlos Núñez and Gabriela Sandoval at Chile’s Storyboard Media (“The Sky Is Red”), Cecilia Salim at Argentina’s Murillo Cine (“Chaco”) and Lucía van Gelderen at Argentina’s Morocha Films (“El Cinco”) alongside Becerra’s production venture La Jauría Comunicaciones.
Emilio Mayorga serves as executive producer. International sales for the film are handled by Lucia and Julia Meik’s Meikincine (“Los Fuertes”).
“This project is extraordinary for us since it’s our first involvement in fiction production; formerly, we’ve provided shooting services to international productions,...
- 2/19/2024
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
As it plays in competition at San Sebastian’s Works In Progress Latam strand, Buenos Aires-based sales agency Meikincine has swooped on international sales rights for mother-daughter relationship drama “Maybe It’s True What They Say About Us” (“Quizás Es Cierto Lo Que Dicen De Nosotras”).
Produced by Storyboard Media, the film is directed by Chilean filmmaking duo Camilo Becerra (“El último sacramento”) and Sofía Paloma Gómez (“Quiero morirme dentro de un tiburón”).
“We’re very happy to work with Storyboard Media again, this time in the company of Murillo Cine and Morocha Films, and excited to accompany the film’s international journey,” Julia Meik of Meikincine told Variety. “It’s important for us to be able to bring this very strong story, inspired by a brutal real case, to audiences around the world. The dynamics of family ties, especially those of women, take on great relevance,” she added.
“It...
Produced by Storyboard Media, the film is directed by Chilean filmmaking duo Camilo Becerra (“El último sacramento”) and Sofía Paloma Gómez (“Quiero morirme dentro de un tiburón”).
“We’re very happy to work with Storyboard Media again, this time in the company of Murillo Cine and Morocha Films, and excited to accompany the film’s international journey,” Julia Meik of Meikincine told Variety. “It’s important for us to be able to bring this very strong story, inspired by a brutal real case, to audiences around the world. The dynamics of family ties, especially those of women, take on great relevance,” she added.
“It...
- 9/27/2023
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
San Sebastian’s pix-in-post showcases have often launched standout movies, such as Sebastian Lelio’s “Gloria,” winner of the Films in Progress Award at the 2012 edition, plus notable directors, such as Jayro Bustamante, whose praised debut “Ixcanul” played at the festival in rough cut in 2015 before winning the Alfred Bauer prize for innovation at 2016’s Berlinale, breaking out handsome sales.
San Sebastian’s 2023 Co-Production Forum registers two trends: Films that are genre pics or enrol genre tropes or genre blend; an exploration of identity.
Thus year’s San Sebastian Wip Latam skews in another direction. “The films and stories are very grounded in reality, either by there hybrid formal move between fiction and non-fiction, their singular take on daily matters or the very social issues they address,” Javier Martín, San Sebastian Latin American delegate, told LatAmCinema.com.
Yet genre surfaces in disparate ways: the mix of coming of age, apocalypse...
San Sebastian’s 2023 Co-Production Forum registers two trends: Films that are genre pics or enrol genre tropes or genre blend; an exploration of identity.
Thus year’s San Sebastian Wip Latam skews in another direction. “The films and stories are very grounded in reality, either by there hybrid formal move between fiction and non-fiction, their singular take on daily matters or the very social issues they address,” Javier Martín, San Sebastian Latin American delegate, told LatAmCinema.com.
Yet genre surfaces in disparate ways: the mix of coming of age, apocalypse...
- 9/23/2023
- by Emiliano De Pablos and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The six projects are all Latin American Films in post-production.
Argentinian directors Lola Arias and Maximiliano Schonfeld will present their films as part of San Sebastian’s Wip Latam which supports six Latin American films in their post-production stages.
Arias presents her second feature Reas about former women and transgender prisoners who reconstruct their reality in the shape of a musical. The director’s debut feature Prisoner Of War screened at Jerusalem, SXSW, London, San Sebastian and Berlin Forum – picking up the Ciace award at the latter.
Schonfeld also returns to the festival, after premiering Jesus Lopez in Horizontes in...
Argentinian directors Lola Arias and Maximiliano Schonfeld will present their films as part of San Sebastian’s Wip Latam which supports six Latin American films in their post-production stages.
Arias presents her second feature Reas about former women and transgender prisoners who reconstruct their reality in the shape of a musical. The director’s debut feature Prisoner Of War screened at Jerusalem, SXSW, London, San Sebastian and Berlin Forum – picking up the Ciace award at the latter.
Schonfeld also returns to the festival, after premiering Jesus Lopez in Horizontes in...
- 8/10/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
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