Ventana Sur’s Blood Window to showcase eight Latin American genre films at Cannes Market (exclusive)
Six Argentinian titles among the selection.
Blood Window, the Latin American horror and fantasy film platform of Buenos Aires’ audiovisual market Ventana Sur, is to showcase eight features at the Cannes market this year.
Six of the eight features, which are at various stages of production, hail from Argentina.
They include Demian Rugna’s When Evil Lurks which won the Blood Window Screenings Award at Ventana Sur in December 2022. The first Spanish-language production for horror streamer Shudder in co-production with Aramos Cine and Machaco Films, it follows a group of small town residents who learn that a demon is about to be born,...
Blood Window, the Latin American horror and fantasy film platform of Buenos Aires’ audiovisual market Ventana Sur, is to showcase eight features at the Cannes market this year.
Six of the eight features, which are at various stages of production, hail from Argentina.
They include Demian Rugna’s When Evil Lurks which won the Blood Window Screenings Award at Ventana Sur in December 2022. The first Spanish-language production for horror streamer Shudder in co-production with Aramos Cine and Machaco Films, it follows a group of small town residents who learn that a demon is about to be born,...
- 5/11/2023
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
Projects details emerge at Ventana Sur market in Buenos Aires.
Newly established Barcelona-based producer Funicular has boarded ‘Amazon noir’ The Sugar Girl directed by Javi Velasquez Varela, it emerged in the final days of Ventana Sur in Buenos Aires.
Funicular, run by Marta Baldó, Jan Andreu and actor siblings Marc and Aina Clotet, presented an effervescent line-up at the market which includes Bienvenido Mr. Hollywood to be directed by Mar Coll (Three Days With The Family) and Aina Calleja, which took part in Spanish Screenings on Tour.
The Sugar Girl follows an environmental issues reporter who has moved into an apartment building in Iquitos,...
Newly established Barcelona-based producer Funicular has boarded ‘Amazon noir’ The Sugar Girl directed by Javi Velasquez Varela, it emerged in the final days of Ventana Sur in Buenos Aires.
Funicular, run by Marta Baldó, Jan Andreu and actor siblings Marc and Aina Clotet, presented an effervescent line-up at the market which includes Bienvenido Mr. Hollywood to be directed by Mar Coll (Three Days With The Family) and Aina Calleja, which took part in Spanish Screenings on Tour.
The Sugar Girl follows an environmental issues reporter who has moved into an apartment building in Iquitos,...
- 12/5/2022
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
Blood Window, Ventana Sur’s Latin American horror and fantasy film platform, returns to the Cannes Film Market this year with a selection of works in progress and completed films, including titles from Brazil and Mexico.
This year’s Blood Window Showcase screens Brazilian director Sabrina Greve’s film debut — still a work in progress — “The Basement of Scream Street” (“O porão da rua do grito”). The pic won Blood Window’s best work-in-progress competition at Ventana Sur last year, an honor that also granted it a world premiere at this year’s Sitges Film Festival in Spain.
“The Basement of Scream Street” centers on siblings Jonas and Rebeca, who, haunted by guilt over their parents’ death, have developed an obsessive dependency on each other as they care for their grandmother and a child trapped in the basement. Coração da Selva is handling sales for the film.
Likewise unspooling in...
This year’s Blood Window Showcase screens Brazilian director Sabrina Greve’s film debut — still a work in progress — “The Basement of Scream Street” (“O porão da rua do grito”). The pic won Blood Window’s best work-in-progress competition at Ventana Sur last year, an honor that also granted it a world premiere at this year’s Sitges Film Festival in Spain.
“The Basement of Scream Street” centers on siblings Jonas and Rebeca, who, haunted by guilt over their parents’ death, have developed an obsessive dependency on each other as they care for their grandmother and a child trapped in the basement. Coração da Selva is handling sales for the film.
Likewise unspooling in...
- 5/11/2022
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Online market ran from November 30-December 3.
Nico Manzano’s Venezuelan entry Me And The Beasts picked up three out of the six Primer Corte awards at Friday’s (December 4) online awards ceremony marking the conclusion of 2020 Ventana Sur.
Beasts took home the Sofia Films Award, Nmf Y Color Front Award, and La Mayor Cine Award offering various post-production services.
Juan Carve’s Uruguayan project Olivia And The Shadows triumphed in the Animación sidebar, picking up The MIFA / Annecy Award and La Liga de la Animactón Iberoamericana Award.
Sebastian Perillo’s The Nights Belong To The Monsters from Argentina won three...
Nico Manzano’s Venezuelan entry Me And The Beasts picked up three out of the six Primer Corte awards at Friday’s (December 4) online awards ceremony marking the conclusion of 2020 Ventana Sur.
Beasts took home the Sofia Films Award, Nmf Y Color Front Award, and La Mayor Cine Award offering various post-production services.
Juan Carve’s Uruguayan project Olivia And The Shadows triumphed in the Animación sidebar, picking up The MIFA / Annecy Award and La Liga de la Animactón Iberoamericana Award.
Sebastian Perillo’s The Nights Belong To The Monsters from Argentina won three...
- 12/4/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Blood Window wraps up today down in Buenos Aires and while we are in the home stretch of completing our report on the pitch session, Blood Window Lab, the awards were dished out today. The first five categories come directly out of the Lab. The other five come from the market screenings held during the market. Out of the Lab Diego Ortuño will be very happy with two awards he won. His project, Chuzalongo, a story about a priest who will do anything to save a small boy won awards from Sitges and Cine Qua Non. The Sitges award is an invitation to participate in Sitges Pitchbox next year. The Cine Qua Non award is script or treatment consultancy. My friend Sandra...
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- 12/4/2020
- Screen Anarchy
Taking place on site in five cities – Madrid, São Paulo, Mexico City, Bogotá and Santiago de Chile – and online for the rest of the world, Ventana Sur, Latin America’s biggest film market, climaxed Friday with a virtual awards ceremony for its major industry competitions hosted out of Buenos Aires.
Awards went to some buzzed up titles from major production houses, as well as others – “Me & The Beasts,” for example, which came from seemingly nowhere to take multiple industry sponsors by storm.
Following, the prize winners:
Primer Corte
Venezuelan Nico Manzano’s “Me & The Beasts” – an original, fantasy-tinged drama turning on a singer seeking inspiration as Venezuela’s crisis roils – won three of the six prizes on offer at Ventana Sur’s 2020 Primer Corte, its art film pix-in-post competition. Post-production prizes took in a Dcp copy (Nmf/Colorfront), color correction and Vxf supervision (Sofia Films) and a final mix check (La Mayor.
Awards went to some buzzed up titles from major production houses, as well as others – “Me & The Beasts,” for example, which came from seemingly nowhere to take multiple industry sponsors by storm.
Following, the prize winners:
Primer Corte
Venezuelan Nico Manzano’s “Me & The Beasts” – an original, fantasy-tinged drama turning on a singer seeking inspiration as Venezuela’s crisis roils – won three of the six prizes on offer at Ventana Sur’s 2020 Primer Corte, its art film pix-in-post competition. Post-production prizes took in a Dcp copy (Nmf/Colorfront), color correction and Vxf supervision (Sofia Films) and a final mix check (La Mayor.
- 12/4/2020
- by John Hopewell, Emilio Mayorga and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
“Matria,” with “A Fantastic Woman” star Daniela Vega, and Raul Camarena’s “The Bus,” with Meraquí Pradis from “Dani Who?,” have both made the cut for December’s Blood Window Lab, the feature project competition at Latin America’s biggest genre movie market.
Part of Ventana Sur, a film-tv market-meet run by the Cannes Festival and Market and Argentina’s Incaa film-tv agency, the Blood Window Lab will be held online for the first time, running Nov. 30-Dec. 4. As state film funding plunges in Brazil and Argentina, 2020’s edition received a record 214 project submissions.
2020’s lineup shows Latin American fantasy genre at least holding up, despite the economic battering taken by many Latin American countries before and during Covid-19.
“Producers and directors are developing strategies to tell stories which are shaped to production realities but still maintain a freshness and do not ignore their social context,” Javier Fernández, head of the Blood Window program,...
Part of Ventana Sur, a film-tv market-meet run by the Cannes Festival and Market and Argentina’s Incaa film-tv agency, the Blood Window Lab will be held online for the first time, running Nov. 30-Dec. 4. As state film funding plunges in Brazil and Argentina, 2020’s edition received a record 214 project submissions.
2020’s lineup shows Latin American fantasy genre at least holding up, despite the economic battering taken by many Latin American countries before and during Covid-19.
“Producers and directors are developing strategies to tell stories which are shaped to production realities but still maintain a freshness and do not ignore their social context,” Javier Fernández, head of the Blood Window program,...
- 10/19/2020
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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