The apex of the ocean’s pyramid of predators, the mystic and misunderstood animal is most renowned for its powerful bite. Sundance preemed The Sharks (Los tiburones) introduces us to a new voice in Uruguay cinema where the female gaze takes inventory of ownership (and sabotage) of a burgeoning sexuality via precarious Rosina (Romina Bentancur), who much like the locals’ rooted fear, has predatory instincts of her own. amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "ioncinema03-20"; amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; amzn_assoc_region = "Us"; amzn_assoc_design = "enhanced_links"; amzn_assoc_asins = "B07C53MXCR"; amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit"; amzn_assoc_linkid = "1f1d870a431fd69d9156297a563486ed";
Set in a beach resort type of town, Lucía Garibaldi prescribes a down to earth poeticism and strong hint for mischievousness in this coming-of-age film that reminds of the cinema we find in Hansen-Løve,...
Set in a beach resort type of town, Lucía Garibaldi prescribes a down to earth poeticism and strong hint for mischievousness in this coming-of-age film that reminds of the cinema we find in Hansen-Løve,...
- 4/14/2020
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
The world cinema festival circuit will never want for moody coming-of-age stories covering slow summers and restless desires: It takes either a harder touch or an extraordinarily delicate one to stand out amid the sultry languor of the genre. Uruguayan writer-director Lucia Garibaldi’s debut feature “The Sharks” somehow aims for both in its portrayal of a 14-year-old girl’s disturbing sexual awakening in a sleepy seaside town. At every turn, the film suggests luridly violent dangers in tranquil waters — both figuratively and, per its title, literally — whilst sketching Rosina, its introverted heroine, in light, fragile strokes. The result is intermittently striking before settling into an overly familiar drift: The film’s icy-humid atmospherics trouble the memory for longer than its remote protagonist and stagnant storytelling, just enough to pique interest in Garibaldi’s future work.
A classy acquisition for indie distributor Breaking Glass Pictures, “The Sharks” bows Stateside on VOD this week,...
A classy acquisition for indie distributor Breaking Glass Pictures, “The Sharks” bows Stateside on VOD this week,...
- 4/14/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Visit Films represents international sales.
Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired Us Rights to Uruguayan coming-of-age drama The Sharks (Los Tiburones), which won an award when it debuted at Sundance Film Festival last year.
Lucia Garibaldi directed the film from his own screenplay about a 14-year-old girl who falls for an older boy in her beach resort community where all the talk is of rumoured shark sightings.
The Sharks won the Directing Award in World Cinema – Dramatic in Park City and went on to screen at festivals such as Guadalajara, where it won the special jury award, and Buenos Aires, where...
Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired Us Rights to Uruguayan coming-of-age drama The Sharks (Los Tiburones), which won an award when it debuted at Sundance Film Festival last year.
Lucia Garibaldi directed the film from his own screenplay about a 14-year-old girl who falls for an older boy in her beach resort community where all the talk is of rumoured shark sightings.
The Sharks won the Directing Award in World Cinema – Dramatic in Park City and went on to screen at festivals such as Guadalajara, where it won the special jury award, and Buenos Aires, where...
- 1/21/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Panama City — Uruguayan helmer Lucia Garibaldi is prepping her second feature after her debut pic, “The Sharks,” which swept the 2018 San Sebastian Films in Progress awards and later premiered in Sundance, where she won best direction in the World Cinema Dramatic section.
“The Sharks” also recently won the Grand Prix Coup De Cœur at Toulouse.
Her next project is “La Última Reina” (The Last Queen), which participated in the Ibermedia Project Development Class.
Coming-of-age drama “The Sharks” features a powerful disruptive performance by first-time actress Romina Bentancur, who plays a 14-year old tearaway Rosina in a sleepy coastal town pervaded by simmering emotional and physical violence.
“She is the shark, the bad wild animal, she moves under the surface, she’s spontaneous and moves by instinct,” says Garibaldi. “I wrote the film seven years ago but it was only after I found the actress that it started to come to fruition.
“The Sharks” also recently won the Grand Prix Coup De Cœur at Toulouse.
Her next project is “La Última Reina” (The Last Queen), which participated in the Ibermedia Project Development Class.
Coming-of-age drama “The Sharks” features a powerful disruptive performance by first-time actress Romina Bentancur, who plays a 14-year old tearaway Rosina in a sleepy coastal town pervaded by simmering emotional and physical violence.
“She is the shark, the bad wild animal, she moves under the surface, she’s spontaneous and moves by instinct,” says Garibaldi. “I wrote the film seven years ago but it was only after I found the actress that it started to come to fruition.
- 4/9/2019
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
Visit Films also launching sales on Slamdance selection Lost Holiday.
Visit Films has added a handful of new titles in time for Efm and arrives in Berlin to launch sales on Sundance winner The Sharks and Rotterdam and Slamdance selection Lost Holiday.
Ryan Kampe and his team will screen neo-noir State Like Sleep starring Katherine Waterston and Michael Shannon, Toronto selections Jirga and Helmet Heads, La Film Festival selections This Teacher and Spell, and Merce Cunningham documentary If the Dancer Dances.
The Sharks earned Lucía Garibaldi the best director prize in World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance and stars newcomer...
Visit Films has added a handful of new titles in time for Efm and arrives in Berlin to launch sales on Sundance winner The Sharks and Rotterdam and Slamdance selection Lost Holiday.
Ryan Kampe and his team will screen neo-noir State Like Sleep starring Katherine Waterston and Michael Shannon, Toronto selections Jirga and Helmet Heads, La Film Festival selections This Teacher and Spell, and Merce Cunningham documentary If the Dancer Dances.
The Sharks earned Lucía Garibaldi the best director prize in World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance and stars newcomer...
- 2/7/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
There are many highlights that can come out of a well-curated international film festival, especially one as high profile as Sundance. At the top of that list is foreign films that also herald fresh voices. The Sharks, written and directed by Lucía Garibaldi, boasts a bit of both. The film follows Rosina (Romina Bentancur), a young woman who lives in a seaside town with her family. She’s growing up fast, showing signs of budding sexually and violence. While she is intrigued by Joselo (Federico Morosini), an older boy who works for her father (Fabian Arenillas), her older sister recovers from a rather heinous injury we’re told was at the hands of Rosina.
At the neighborhood beach there’s a rumor of sharks and our lead is fascinated by the possibility. She does everything in her power to get noticed, especially by Joselo. In many ways, Garibaldi’s picture...
At the neighborhood beach there’s a rumor of sharks and our lead is fascinated by the possibility. She does everything in her power to get noticed, especially by Joselo. In many ways, Garibaldi’s picture...
- 2/6/2019
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
The Sharks (Los Tiburones)
Director Lucía Garibaldi makes her debut with The Sharks (Los Tiburones), an Uruguyan-Argentinean co-production produced by Pancho Magnou Arnabal and Melanie Schapiro. Arriving in 2019 with a lot of fanfare, the winner of the Film-in-Progress Industry Award out of the San Sebastian Film Festival in 2018, the feature stars Antonella Aquistapache, Fabian Arenillas, Romina Bentancur, Valerie Lois and Federico Morosini. German Nocella lensed the feature.
Gist: Garibaldi’s script follows a teenager working at a seaside resort, and seems to be the only person in town oblivious to the fact sharks have been gathering on the coastline.…...
Director Lucía Garibaldi makes her debut with The Sharks (Los Tiburones), an Uruguyan-Argentinean co-production produced by Pancho Magnou Arnabal and Melanie Schapiro. Arriving in 2019 with a lot of fanfare, the winner of the Film-in-Progress Industry Award out of the San Sebastian Film Festival in 2018, the feature stars Antonella Aquistapache, Fabian Arenillas, Romina Bentancur, Valerie Lois and Federico Morosini. German Nocella lensed the feature.
Gist: Garibaldi’s script follows a teenager working at a seaside resort, and seems to be the only person in town oblivious to the fact sharks have been gathering on the coastline.…...
- 1/2/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
World Cinema selection marks feature directorial debut by Lucía Garibaldi.
Ryan Kampe’s Visit Films has snapped up worldwide rights excluding Uruguay, Argentina and Spain in Ventana Sur to The Sharks ahead of its world premiere in Sundance next month.
Film School of Uruguay graduate Lucía Garibaldi makes her feature directorial debut on the World Cinema selection about Rosina, a teenage inhabitant of a sleepy coastal town who thinks she may have spotted a shark while swimming in the sea.
As rumours fly and the townsfolk get spooked, Rosina remains calm, focusing her attention on a co-worker who has caught her eye.
Ryan Kampe’s Visit Films has snapped up worldwide rights excluding Uruguay, Argentina and Spain in Ventana Sur to The Sharks ahead of its world premiere in Sundance next month.
Film School of Uruguay graduate Lucía Garibaldi makes her feature directorial debut on the World Cinema selection about Rosina, a teenage inhabitant of a sleepy coastal town who thinks she may have spotted a shark while swimming in the sea.
As rumours fly and the townsfolk get spooked, Rosina remains calm, focusing her attention on a co-worker who has caught her eye.
- 12/21/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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