2023 edition has received a record number of applications.
Italy’s TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) has selected 10 projects for the 2023 edition of its FeatureLab training programme, for first or second film projects at an advanced development stage.
The 2023 iteration received a record 172 applications, from which one animation, one documentary and eight fiction projects have been chosen. Seven of the projects are debut feature, with three second films.
Scroll down for the selected projects
Two of the projects have previously participated in Tfl programmes: Irene Moray’s debut Sealskin, a Spanish feature set in a world where women are vanishing; and Francesco Romano’s debut The White House,...
Italy’s TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) has selected 10 projects for the 2023 edition of its FeatureLab training programme, for first or second film projects at an advanced development stage.
The 2023 iteration received a record 172 applications, from which one animation, one documentary and eight fiction projects have been chosen. Seven of the projects are debut feature, with three second films.
Scroll down for the selected projects
Two of the projects have previously participated in Tfl programmes: Irene Moray’s debut Sealskin, a Spanish feature set in a world where women are vanishing; and Francesco Romano’s debut The White House,...
- 5/5/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Ventana Sur’s Proyecta Ramps Up Projects from ‘Memoria,’ ‘90 Minutes,’ ‘The Cow Who Sang…’ Producers
Aeden O’Connor’s “Sun Falls,” Manuela Martelli’s “The Meltdown” and Tomás Corredor’s “November” feature among 15 projects to be presented at Ventana Sur’s 5th Proyecta co-production forum, a wide-ranging showcase of emerging and already consolidated filmmakers plus new talents to track from Latin America and Europe.
Producer Ana Isabel Martins at Honduras’ Pulsar Cine is re-teaming with director Aeden O’Connor, whose feature debut “90 Minutes” won the Audience Award at the 37th Miami Film Festival. Their new project, “Sun Falls,” follows a passionate young man dreams of making films to denounce the corruption, poverty and violence in Honduras that succumbs to the support of the leader of a local gang.
Chile’s Manuela Martelli, director of 2022 Cannes Director’s Fortnight premiere “1976,” returns with “The Meltdown,” produced by Wood Producciones’ Alejandra García, of Sundance player “The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future.”
Burning’s Diana Bustamante, the...
Producer Ana Isabel Martins at Honduras’ Pulsar Cine is re-teaming with director Aeden O’Connor, whose feature debut “90 Minutes” won the Audience Award at the 37th Miami Film Festival. Their new project, “Sun Falls,” follows a passionate young man dreams of making films to denounce the corruption, poverty and violence in Honduras that succumbs to the support of the leader of a local gang.
Chile’s Manuela Martelli, director of 2022 Cannes Director’s Fortnight premiere “1976,” returns with “The Meltdown,” produced by Wood Producciones’ Alejandra García, of Sundance player “The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future.”
Burning’s Diana Bustamante, the...
- 11/29/2022
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
As we impatiently await to see which film will represent Chile for the upcoming Oscars, we learn that Manuela Martelli (who could be that person with her breakthrough Directors’ Fortnight selected gem 1976) is moving steadily towards her sophomore feature. One of the fifteen projects selected for the upcoming Ventana Sur’s sidebar Proyecta (bringing together Latin America and Europe producers), Martelli’s El deshielo (The Meltdown) will be produced by Wood Producciones’ Alejandra García. As we know, Martelli got her start in acting (appearing on the Croisette on a couple of occasions).
Set in 1992′ Chile, 10 year-old Inés is spending time at her grandparents’ hotel, at the foot of a ski resort.…...
Set in 1992′ Chile, 10 year-old Inés is spending time at her grandparents’ hotel, at the foot of a ski resort.…...
- 10/6/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
A theatrical release is planned for the end of the year or early 2023.
New Wave Films has picked up Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title 1976 for UK-Ireland distribution from Paris-based sales agent Luxbox.
The drama is the directorial debut of Chilean actor Manuela Martelli. An upper middle-class woman has a secret awakening during the early years of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s regime, and gets drawn into the political opposition when she is asked by the family priest to take care of an injured man who is in hiding.
A theatrical release is planned for the end of 2022/early 2023.
Chilean writer-directors Omar Zuniga...
New Wave Films has picked up Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title 1976 for UK-Ireland distribution from Paris-based sales agent Luxbox.
The drama is the directorial debut of Chilean actor Manuela Martelli. An upper middle-class woman has a secret awakening during the early years of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s regime, and gets drawn into the political opposition when she is asked by the family priest to take care of an injured man who is in hiding.
A theatrical release is planned for the end of 2022/early 2023.
Chilean writer-directors Omar Zuniga...
- 7/4/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Distributor plans theatrical release next winter.
Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights from Luxbox Films to Manuela Martelli’s Chilean drama and Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection 1976, which has been renamed Chile 1976.
‘1976’: Cannes Review
Actor Martelli’s directorial debut takes place in the early years of the Augusto Pinochet regime as an upper middle-class woman gets drawn into the political opposition when she is asked by the family priest to take care of an injured man who is in hiding.
Aline Kuppenheim stars alongside Nicolás Sepúlveda, Hugo Medina and Alejandro Goic and acted with Martelli in Machuca. Martelli co-wrote the screenplay with Alejandra Moffat.
Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights from Luxbox Films to Manuela Martelli’s Chilean drama and Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection 1976, which has been renamed Chile 1976.
‘1976’: Cannes Review
Actor Martelli’s directorial debut takes place in the early years of the Augusto Pinochet regime as an upper middle-class woman gets drawn into the political opposition when she is asked by the family priest to take care of an injured man who is in hiding.
Aline Kuppenheim stars alongside Nicolás Sepúlveda, Hugo Medina and Alejandro Goic and acted with Martelli in Machuca. Martelli co-wrote the screenplay with Alejandra Moffat.
- 6/15/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Following its world debut at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight this May, Kino Lorber has snagged North American distribution rights to “1976,” a gripping Pinochet-era drama directed by Manuela Martelli.
The film is the first feature for Martelli, produced by Chilean writer-directors Omar Zuniga (“The Strong Ones”) and Dominga Sotomayor (“Too Late to Die Young”) for Cinestación, Alejandra Garcia and writer-director Andres Wood (“Violeta Went to Heaven”) for Wood Producciones, and co-produced by Nathalia Videla Peña and Juan Pablo Gugliotta for Argentina’s Magma Cine.
“1976” takes place in a small seaside town where Carmen (Aline Kuppenheim) reflects on her life as she transforms from a side-lined housewife into an integral caretaker. Putting her sanity and the values of her peers on the line, she steps further into uncertainty by aiding a weary and wounded opponent to Pinochet’s regime, Elías (Nicolás Sepúlvda), at her priest’s request.
“As the tone of Manuela Martelli...
The film is the first feature for Martelli, produced by Chilean writer-directors Omar Zuniga (“The Strong Ones”) and Dominga Sotomayor (“Too Late to Die Young”) for Cinestación, Alejandra Garcia and writer-director Andres Wood (“Violeta Went to Heaven”) for Wood Producciones, and co-produced by Nathalia Videla Peña and Juan Pablo Gugliotta for Argentina’s Magma Cine.
“1976” takes place in a small seaside town where Carmen (Aline Kuppenheim) reflects on her life as she transforms from a side-lined housewife into an integral caretaker. Putting her sanity and the values of her peers on the line, she steps further into uncertainty by aiding a weary and wounded opponent to Pinochet’s regime, Elías (Nicolás Sepúlvda), at her priest’s request.
“As the tone of Manuela Martelli...
- 6/15/2022
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
The Chilean fable had its world premiere at Sundance.
Exclusive: Kino Lorber has acquired North American distribution rights to environmental fable The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future, which had its world premiere in the World Cinema Competition at this year’s Sundance festival.
Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical release later this year for the film, the feature debut of Chilean director Francisca Alegría, who won the Sundance Short Film Jury Award for international fiction in 2017 with And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow’s Eye.
Written by Alegría, Fernanda Urrejola and Manuela Infante, The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future...
Exclusive: Kino Lorber has acquired North American distribution rights to environmental fable The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future, which had its world premiere in the World Cinema Competition at this year’s Sundance festival.
Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical release later this year for the film, the feature debut of Chilean director Francisca Alegría, who won the Sundance Short Film Jury Award for international fiction in 2017 with And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow’s Eye.
Written by Alegría, Fernanda Urrejola and Manuela Infante, The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future...
- 5/25/2022
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Chile is starting its own big restart. Few national industries will have a larger online presence at this year’s Cannes Film Market. Big name news has broken in early market plays as well.
After features with Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams (“Disobedience”) and Julianne Moore (“Gloria Bell”), Academy Award winner Sebastián Lelio, (“A Fantastic Woman”) will associate produce “El Porvenir de la Mirada,” a doc feature that captures the trauma of some of the 460 protesters shot in the eyes by Chilean police during massive demonstrations that erupted in October 2019.
Set up at Storyboard Media, “Porvenir” is directed by distinguished Chilean doc filmmaker Cristián Leighton.
Even while gearing up to direct Joaquin Phoenix in A24’s “Disappointment Blvd.,” Ari Aster has signed on to executive produce Chilean stop-motion short “The Bones,” directed by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña (“The Wolf House”) with a soundtrack composed by acclaimed U.S. violinist Tim Fain,...
After features with Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams (“Disobedience”) and Julianne Moore (“Gloria Bell”), Academy Award winner Sebastián Lelio, (“A Fantastic Woman”) will associate produce “El Porvenir de la Mirada,” a doc feature that captures the trauma of some of the 460 protesters shot in the eyes by Chilean police during massive demonstrations that erupted in October 2019.
Set up at Storyboard Media, “Porvenir” is directed by distinguished Chilean doc filmmaker Cristián Leighton.
Even while gearing up to direct Joaquin Phoenix in A24’s “Disappointment Blvd.,” Ari Aster has signed on to executive produce Chilean stop-motion short “The Bones,” directed by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña (“The Wolf House”) with a soundtrack composed by acclaimed U.S. violinist Tim Fain,...
- 7/8/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Buenos Aires — Vicente Canales’ Film Factory Entertainment has boarded “Araña,” directed by one of Chile’s foremost filmmakers, Andrés Wood, and distributed in North and Latin America by 20th Century Fox.
Produced by Alejandra García at Santiago de Chile’s Wood Producciones, “Araña” is co-produced by Brazil’s BossaNovaFilms and Argentina’s Magma Cine, two of Southern America’s most ambitious co-production players.
BossaNovaFilms already teamed on Wood’s Sundance winner, “Violeta Went to Heaven.”
Written by Wood and Guillermo Calderón, co-writer of Pablo Larrain’s “The Club” and writer of his “Neruda,” regarded by some as his finest film to date, “Araña,” a political thriller, also joins a lineage of Latin American movies which in their multi-lateral co-production structure, stars – such as Mercedes Morán, who plays Inés, more mainstream tropes, and above norm budget, set out to score audiences outside their country of origin.
Wood’s credits include “Sundance winner “Violeta Went to Heaven,...
Produced by Alejandra García at Santiago de Chile’s Wood Producciones, “Araña” is co-produced by Brazil’s BossaNovaFilms and Argentina’s Magma Cine, two of Southern America’s most ambitious co-production players.
BossaNovaFilms already teamed on Wood’s Sundance winner, “Violeta Went to Heaven.”
Written by Wood and Guillermo Calderón, co-writer of Pablo Larrain’s “The Club” and writer of his “Neruda,” regarded by some as his finest film to date, “Araña,” a political thriller, also joins a lineage of Latin American movies which in their multi-lateral co-production structure, stars – such as Mercedes Morán, who plays Inés, more mainstream tropes, and above norm budget, set out to score audiences outside their country of origin.
Wood’s credits include “Sundance winner “Violeta Went to Heaven,...
- 12/10/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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