Based out of Chile and Los Angeles, Quijote Films, behind Cannes 2023 Un Certain Regard Fipresci Prize winner “The Settlers,” and France’s Les Valseurs, behind Oscar-nominated “,” have tied down a powerful alliance of international partners on “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo,” the first feature of 2018 Cannes Cinéfondation top winner Diego Céspedes.
Quijote Films’ biggest budgeted title to date, said its head Giancarlo Nasi, “The Mysterious Gaze” goes into production on May 20.
An LGBTQ-themed drama, “The Mysterious Gaze” is set in a mining town where a strange illness is said to be transmitted between men who fall in love with each other.
Produced by Quijote Films and France’s Les Valseurs, “The Mysterious Gaze” has now added new partners in Germany’s Weydemann Bros Film and Wrong Men in Belgium. Further partners, Arte France Cinema and Irusoin, have already been announced.
Weydemann Bros has secured French-German mini traité funding to co-produce the film.
Quijote Films’ biggest budgeted title to date, said its head Giancarlo Nasi, “The Mysterious Gaze” goes into production on May 20.
An LGBTQ-themed drama, “The Mysterious Gaze” is set in a mining town where a strange illness is said to be transmitted between men who fall in love with each other.
Produced by Quijote Films and France’s Les Valseurs, “The Mysterious Gaze” has now added new partners in Germany’s Weydemann Bros Film and Wrong Men in Belgium. Further partners, Arte France Cinema and Irusoin, have already been announced.
Weydemann Bros has secured French-German mini traité funding to co-produce the film.
- 5/16/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
From a new Alfredo Castro movie to fresh titles by “Case 63” writer Julio Rojas and “A Fantastic Woman” scribe Gonzalo Maza — plus the debut of Cannes Cinéfondation winner Diego Céspedes — here are titles from seven Chilean production companies whose presence at Cannes is backed by Chile’s ministry of culture.
“Bitter Gold,”
In a defunct North Chilean mining community, a teenage girl battles patriarchal forces to save her family’s business in this empowering neo-Western. Lead-produced by Juntos Films in co-production with La Santé (Chile), Whisky Content (México). Intl. Sales: Patra Spanou Films.
“Después de Elena” (Shawn Garry)
Alfredo Castro stars in a dark comedy as widower Roberto, who seeks solace but faces family dysfunction and lies. Produced by Gabriela Sandoval at Cine Matriz, Magma Cine and Zoe Films.
“Epílogo para un otoño,” (David Belmar)
This Lucho Films drama follows 85-year-old Gabriel, who feels death looming. He fails in his...
“Bitter Gold,”
In a defunct North Chilean mining community, a teenage girl battles patriarchal forces to save her family’s business in this empowering neo-Western. Lead-produced by Juntos Films in co-production with La Santé (Chile), Whisky Content (México). Intl. Sales: Patra Spanou Films.
“Después de Elena” (Shawn Garry)
Alfredo Castro stars in a dark comedy as widower Roberto, who seeks solace but faces family dysfunction and lies. Produced by Gabriela Sandoval at Cine Matriz, Magma Cine and Zoe Films.
“Epílogo para un otoño,” (David Belmar)
This Lucho Films drama follows 85-year-old Gabriel, who feels death looming. He fails in his...
- 5/14/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
“The Hyperboreans,” the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight entry from Chile, defines the inventive works that have emerged from this small nation. Many of its films touch on traumatic national events of the past but play with rarely explored genres in the region. Case in point: the country’s recent Oscar submission, “The Settlers,” about Chile’s bloody colonial 1901 battle in its south, is a neo-Western.
Helmed by animation mavens Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña, “The Hyperboreans” (“Los Hiperbóreos”) combines live action and stop-motion animation in a story that also stands out for its singularity. In it, Chilean actress and psychologist Antonia Giesen films a script from her patient’s mind, leading to a reality-bending spiral when she discovers it originates from Nazi poet Miguel Serrano.
“We planned this as an exhibition of the filming process at an art gallery in Chile, so we filmed this in a single space and with only one actress,...
Helmed by animation mavens Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña, “The Hyperboreans” (“Los Hiperbóreos”) combines live action and stop-motion animation in a story that also stands out for its singularity. In it, Chilean actress and psychologist Antonia Giesen films a script from her patient’s mind, leading to a reality-bending spiral when she discovers it originates from Nazi poet Miguel Serrano.
“We planned this as an exhibition of the filming process at an art gallery in Chile, so we filmed this in a single space and with only one actress,...
- 5/14/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Three titles received €500,000.
Ildikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend is among 29 projects to receive a share of €8.1m in Eurimages’ latest round of co-production funding.
The new feature from Hungarian filmmaker Enyedi, who won Berlin’s Golden Bear for On Body And Soul in 2017, is a co-production between Germany, France and Hungary, and received €500,000 – the largest amount awarded in this round of funding. The film focuses on an ancient tree in the Botanical Gardens of the university town of Marburg to explore the relationship between man and nature.
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Two more titles received €500,000: The Captive...
Ildikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend is among 29 projects to receive a share of €8.1m in Eurimages’ latest round of co-production funding.
The new feature from Hungarian filmmaker Enyedi, who won Berlin’s Golden Bear for On Body And Soul in 2017, is a co-production between Germany, France and Hungary, and received €500,000 – the largest amount awarded in this round of funding. The film focuses on an ancient tree in the Botanical Gardens of the university town of Marburg to explore the relationship between man and nature.
Scroll down for full list of titles
Two more titles received €500,000: The Captive...
- 11/27/2023
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Fund to invest a total of €360,000 in latest funding of financing
The Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund (Wcf) is to provide a total of €360,000 in funding for 14 international projects.
In its latest funding round, the Wcf has recommended production funding for 11 projects and distribution grants for three films.
The 14 independent projects hail from Argentina, Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Mozambique, Nigeria, the Republic of Belarus, Rwanda, Senegal and Thailand.
The production funding recipients include Demba by Senegalese writer-director Mamadou Dia, whose feature debut Nafi’s Father won the best first feature prize Locarno in...
The Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund (Wcf) is to provide a total of €360,000 in funding for 14 international projects.
In its latest funding round, the Wcf has recommended production funding for 11 projects and distribution grants for three films.
The 14 independent projects hail from Argentina, Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Mozambique, Nigeria, the Republic of Belarus, Rwanda, Senegal and Thailand.
The production funding recipients include Demba by Senegalese writer-director Mamadou Dia, whose feature debut Nafi’s Father won the best first feature prize Locarno in...
- 11/24/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Charades handles international sales.
Neon’s boutique label Super has acquired US rights to Zachary Wigon’s Sanctuary starring Margaret Qualley and Christopher Abbott. following the world premiere in TIFF.
The Rumble Films production in association with Charades, Mosaic Films and Hype Studios stars Qualley (Once Upon A Time In Hollywood) as a dominatrix caught up in a battle of wills with w wealthy client over the course of one night.
Rumble’s David Lancaster and Stephanie Wilcox produced with Ilya Stewart of Hype Studios and Pavel Burian of Mosaic Films. Sanctuary screenwriter Micah Bloomberg served as executive producer with Carole Baraton,...
Neon’s boutique label Super has acquired US rights to Zachary Wigon’s Sanctuary starring Margaret Qualley and Christopher Abbott. following the world premiere in TIFF.
The Rumble Films production in association with Charades, Mosaic Films and Hype Studios stars Qualley (Once Upon A Time In Hollywood) as a dominatrix caught up in a battle of wills with w wealthy client over the course of one night.
Rumble’s David Lancaster and Stephanie Wilcox produced with Ilya Stewart of Hype Studios and Pavel Burian of Mosaic Films. Sanctuary screenwriter Micah Bloomberg served as executive producer with Carole Baraton,...
- 9/23/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Toronto International Film Festival has revealed its Short Cuts lineup, featuring 39 live-action narrative, documentary, and animated shorts films from 18 countries.
Presented by TikTok, the program represents a blend of returning filmmakers and newcomers. Alice Rohrwacher’s “Le Pupille,” co-produced by Alfonso Cuarón, will make its Canadian premiere at the festival. Honor Swinton Byrne of “The Souvenir,” which screened at TIFF in 2018, stars in Hazel McKibbin’s “She Always Wins.” Actor Kiawentiio of 2020 TIFF awardee “Beans” is back, this time in Asia Youngman’s “N’xaxaitkw.” Other TIFF alum with new shorts in the program are Sarah McCarthy, Mbithi Masya, Matthew Rankin, Carol Nguyen, Karen Chapman, and Sophy Romvari.
Award-winning animated shorts that made the cut include “The Flying Sailor” and “Ice Merchants.” On the documentary side, “Liturgy of Anti-Tank Obstacles” by Ukrainian director Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, “Anastasia” by Sarah McCarthy of the U.K., and “Quiet Minds Silent Streets” by Toronto...
Presented by TikTok, the program represents a blend of returning filmmakers and newcomers. Alice Rohrwacher’s “Le Pupille,” co-produced by Alfonso Cuarón, will make its Canadian premiere at the festival. Honor Swinton Byrne of “The Souvenir,” which screened at TIFF in 2018, stars in Hazel McKibbin’s “She Always Wins.” Actor Kiawentiio of 2020 TIFF awardee “Beans” is back, this time in Asia Youngman’s “N’xaxaitkw.” Other TIFF alum with new shorts in the program are Sarah McCarthy, Mbithi Masya, Matthew Rankin, Carol Nguyen, Karen Chapman, and Sophy Romvari.
Award-winning animated shorts that made the cut include “The Flying Sailor” and “Ice Merchants.” On the documentary side, “Liturgy of Anti-Tank Obstacles” by Ukrainian director Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, “Anastasia” by Sarah McCarthy of the U.K., and “Quiet Minds Silent Streets” by Toronto...
- 8/17/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
International projects already have at least 70 of funding in place.
The Venice Film Festival’s Gap-Financing Market has selected 33 international feature and documentary projects for its ninth edition this year, which runs from September 2-4.
The international projects nearing completion will have the chance to close their financing through one-to-one meetings at the Market, which is part of the Venice Production Bridge.
Each of the feature and documentary projects has at least 70 of its funding in place.
The countries in focus at this year’s event are France and Taiwan, with a number of projects from each country receiving a special invite to the Market.
The Venice Film Festival’s Gap-Financing Market has selected 33 international feature and documentary projects for its ninth edition this year, which runs from September 2-4.
The international projects nearing completion will have the chance to close their financing through one-to-one meetings at the Market, which is part of the Venice Production Bridge.
Each of the feature and documentary projects has at least 70 of its funding in place.
The countries in focus at this year’s event are France and Taiwan, with a number of projects from each country receiving a special invite to the Market.
- 7/1/2022
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Led by a special screening slot for celebrated documentarian Patricio Guzman’s “My Imaginary Country,” plus Directors’ Fortnights “1976” and a new short by 2018 Cinéfondation prizewinner Diego Céspedes in Critics’ Week, Chile boats the biggest presence of any Latin American country at Cannes.
“Our cinema is a living and pulsating entity, a cinema full of risky auteurist viewpoints that are capable of expressing our particular experiences in a universal way and at the same level playing field as bigger filmmaking territories, says CinemaChile executive director Constanza Arena, taking note of Chile’s strong showing.
“The directors of a new wave of Chilean cinema take on powerful themes with deep socio-historical weight, but with fresh stylistically innovation, whether it’s political trauma in ‘1976’ by Manuela Martelli, or the LGBTQ+ theme in ‘Las Criaturas que se Derriten Bajo el Sol’ by Céspedes. With their daring, they are pushing forward a new generation of Chilean and Latin American cinema,...
“Our cinema is a living and pulsating entity, a cinema full of risky auteurist viewpoints that are capable of expressing our particular experiences in a universal way and at the same level playing field as bigger filmmaking territories, says CinemaChile executive director Constanza Arena, taking note of Chile’s strong showing.
“The directors of a new wave of Chilean cinema take on powerful themes with deep socio-historical weight, but with fresh stylistically innovation, whether it’s political trauma in ‘1976’ by Manuela Martelli, or the LGBTQ+ theme in ‘Las Criaturas que se Derriten Bajo el Sol’ by Céspedes. With their daring, they are pushing forward a new generation of Chilean and Latin American cinema,...
- 5/17/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes Film Festival’s parallel sidebar Critics’ Week has unveiled the 11 features and 13 shorts that will comprise its 2022 edition. Scroll down to see the full lineup.
Opening the event will be Jesse Eisenberg’s comedy-drama When You Finish Saving the World, which premiered at Sundance this year and has its international premiere in Cannes. The film stars Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard as mother and son.
Closing the program will be Jung July’s Next Sohee, a detective drama starring Bae Doona.
This is the first selection for new Critics’ Week artistic director Ava Cahen, who becomes the second female director in the event’s history.
Cannes Critics’ Week runs May 18-26 this year.
Competition
Feature Films
Aftersun (UK / U.S.)
Dir. Charlotte Wells
Alma Viva (Portugal / France)
Dir. Cristèle Alves Meira
Dalva (Love according to Dalva) (Belgium / France)
Dir. Emmanuelle Nicot
La Jauría (Colombia / France)
Dir. Andrés Ramírez Pulido...
Opening the event will be Jesse Eisenberg’s comedy-drama When You Finish Saving the World, which premiered at Sundance this year and has its international premiere in Cannes. The film stars Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard as mother and son.
Closing the program will be Jung July’s Next Sohee, a detective drama starring Bae Doona.
This is the first selection for new Critics’ Week artistic director Ava Cahen, who becomes the second female director in the event’s history.
Cannes Critics’ Week runs May 18-26 this year.
Competition
Feature Films
Aftersun (UK / U.S.)
Dir. Charlotte Wells
Alma Viva (Portugal / France)
Dir. Cristèle Alves Meira
Dalva (Love according to Dalva) (Belgium / France)
Dir. Emmanuelle Nicot
La Jauría (Colombia / France)
Dir. Andrés Ramírez Pulido...
- 4/20/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s a new dawn for Chile’s audiovisual industry. When Gabriel Boric, Chile’s youngest (at 35) and most left-leaning president since Salvador Allende, was elected in December, his pledge to more than double the state’s contribution to the arts was greeted with great fanfare.
After all, Chile’s prodigious film output this past decade has been remarkable despite the scant public support it has received.
“If everything we have achieved in the last 10 years was done with so little money, imagine what we can achieve with an increase in audiovisual funding!” says Constanza Arena, executive director of Chile’s film promotion org, CinemaChile.
In recent years, Chile has triumphed at the Oscars, starting when Pablo Larraín’s “No” was nominated for international feature in 2012, and culminating in an Oscar win for Sebastian Lelio’s “A Fantastic Woman” in 2017. Last Academy Awards season, Maite Alberdi’s documentary “The Mole Agent...
After all, Chile’s prodigious film output this past decade has been remarkable despite the scant public support it has received.
“If everything we have achieved in the last 10 years was done with so little money, imagine what we can achieve with an increase in audiovisual funding!” says Constanza Arena, executive director of Chile’s film promotion org, CinemaChile.
In recent years, Chile has triumphed at the Oscars, starting when Pablo Larraín’s “No” was nominated for international feature in 2012, and culminating in an Oscar win for Sebastian Lelio’s “A Fantastic Woman” in 2017. Last Academy Awards season, Maite Alberdi’s documentary “The Mole Agent...
- 2/10/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Labs organised by Michelle Satter, director Ilyse McKimmie, and N. Bird Runningwater.
Sundance Institute on Monday (May 10) named the artists and projects selected for the first group of the upcoming signature summer Labs including 12 fellows for the Directors and Screenwriters Labs and nine participating in the Native Lab. One fellow will participate in both Labs.
Directors Lab (June 1-July 2) fellows and projects are: Erica Tremblay (co-writer/director) and Miciana Alise (co-writer) with Fancy Dance; Cris Gris (director) and Mary Ann Anane (Writer) with forward; Tracy Droz Tragos (writer/director) with The Macrobiotic Toker; Diego Céspedes (writer/director) with The Mysterious...
Sundance Institute on Monday (May 10) named the artists and projects selected for the first group of the upcoming signature summer Labs including 12 fellows for the Directors and Screenwriters Labs and nine participating in the Native Lab. One fellow will participate in both Labs.
Directors Lab (June 1-July 2) fellows and projects are: Erica Tremblay (co-writer/director) and Miciana Alise (co-writer) with Fancy Dance; Cris Gris (director) and Mary Ann Anane (Writer) with forward; Tracy Droz Tragos (writer/director) with The Macrobiotic Toker; Diego Céspedes (writer/director) with The Mysterious...
- 5/10/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
A year after featuring as the European Film Market’s focus country, Chile returns with a delegate of more than 20 producers who will participate in a virtual stand, backed by ProChile and the Ministry of Culture.
Bastard. The Inheritance of a Genocide
(Pepe Rovano)
In this Chilean-Italian co-production between Totoral Films and Media Lab, Rovano faces down inherited demons while researching his biological father, a war criminal convicted of crimes against humanity.
Borderline
(Oscar Godoy)
A young prosecutor arrives in the unfamiliar territory of Chile’s highlands when called to investigate crimes committed by two border police officers. Valparaiso’s Suroeste Films produces.
El Cuento del Tío
(Ignacio Guggiari)
Assembled for Christmas, a family fakes the kidnapping of their recently deceased uncle to ensure his estate is paid to them as ransom, rather than going to his wife. Sold by Feel Content.
Feverish
(Elisa Eliash)
Produced by Chile’s La...
Bastard. The Inheritance of a Genocide
(Pepe Rovano)
In this Chilean-Italian co-production between Totoral Films and Media Lab, Rovano faces down inherited demons while researching his biological father, a war criminal convicted of crimes against humanity.
Borderline
(Oscar Godoy)
A young prosecutor arrives in the unfamiliar territory of Chile’s highlands when called to investigate crimes committed by two border police officers. Valparaiso’s Suroeste Films produces.
El Cuento del Tío
(Ignacio Guggiari)
Assembled for Christmas, a family fakes the kidnapping of their recently deceased uncle to ensure his estate is paid to them as ransom, rather than going to his wife. Sold by Feel Content.
Feverish
(Elisa Eliash)
Produced by Chile’s La...
- 3/1/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Celebrated Lab graduates include Chloé Zhao, Radha Blank, Eliza Hittman.
Fifteen emerging storytellers from Chile, India, Kenya, Tunisia and the US have been selected to participate in Sundance Institute’s January Screenwriters Lab starting today (January 11).
The fellows will develop 12 original projects in collaboration with creative advisors from the industry, under the leadership of Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program founding director Michelle Satter.
The projects and fellow/s include: Black Comic-Con (USA), Natasha Rothwell (writer/director); The Catch Rishi Chandna (writer/director); Chariot (USA), Alyssa Loh; Fancy Dance (USA), Erica Tremblay (co-writer/director), Miciana Alise (co-writer) ; forward (USA), Mary Ann Anane...
Fifteen emerging storytellers from Chile, India, Kenya, Tunisia and the US have been selected to participate in Sundance Institute’s January Screenwriters Lab starting today (January 11).
The fellows will develop 12 original projects in collaboration with creative advisors from the industry, under the leadership of Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program founding director Michelle Satter.
The projects and fellow/s include: Black Comic-Con (USA), Natasha Rothwell (writer/director); The Catch Rishi Chandna (writer/director); Chariot (USA), Alyssa Loh; Fancy Dance (USA), Erica Tremblay (co-writer/director), Miciana Alise (co-writer) ; forward (USA), Mary Ann Anane...
- 1/11/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Pia Borg’s ‘Michelle Remembers’ and Lucrecia Martel’s ‘Chocobar’ among those to win awards.
Pia Borg’s “documentary horror” Michelle Remembers was among a raft of winners at TorinoFilmLab’s annual Meeting Event, which shifted entirely online this year due to the pandemic.
The co-production forum, which usually takes place in the Italian city of Turin, virtually awarded its prizes this evening, marking the end of the five-day event that ran November 16-20.
Scroll down for full list of winners
The first of two €50,000 Tfl production awards, funded by Creative Europe, went to Michelle Remembers, a documentary exploring the...
Pia Borg’s “documentary horror” Michelle Remembers was among a raft of winners at TorinoFilmLab’s annual Meeting Event, which shifted entirely online this year due to the pandemic.
The co-production forum, which usually takes place in the Italian city of Turin, virtually awarded its prizes this evening, marking the end of the five-day event that ran November 16-20.
Scroll down for full list of winners
The first of two €50,000 Tfl production awards, funded by Creative Europe, went to Michelle Remembers, a documentary exploring the...
- 11/20/2020
- ScreenDaily
Ivan Dusk’s Dusk Stone won the Wip Latam award.
Argentinian director Iván Fund’s Dusk Stone has won the prestigious Wip Latam Industry Award in San Sebastián, guaranteeing a Spanish distribution deal and post production support via sponsors Ad Hoc Studios, Deluxe Spain, Dolby Iberia, Laserfilm, Nephilim producciones, No Problem Sonido and Sherlock Films.
Dusk Stone, is an Argentina-Chile co-production between Rita Cine, Insomnia Films and Globo Rojo FIlms. It is a drama that deals with grief and loss and is about a woman who travels to a coastal town to help her friend sell her house. The friend...
Argentinian director Iván Fund’s Dusk Stone has won the prestigious Wip Latam Industry Award in San Sebastián, guaranteeing a Spanish distribution deal and post production support via sponsors Ad Hoc Studios, Deluxe Spain, Dolby Iberia, Laserfilm, Nephilim producciones, No Problem Sonido and Sherlock Films.
Dusk Stone, is an Argentina-Chile co-production between Rita Cine, Insomnia Films and Globo Rojo FIlms. It is a drama that deals with grief and loss and is about a woman who travels to a coastal town to help her friend sell her house. The friend...
- 9/25/2020
- by Elisabet Cabeza
- ScreenDaily
Manuel Nieto’s trans-Atlantic co-production “The Employer and the Employee” scooped San Sebastian’s biggest industry prize this week, the Egeda Platino Industria Award for the best Latin American work in progress. Its producers will receive $34,850 cash in kind to go towards finishing the film. Seven companies from Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and France make up the ambitious co-production.
San Sebastian’s 2020 Industry section, like so many other events this year, was forced to adapt to a streaming model. However, the timing of the festival, coinciding with relaxed travel restrictions both from within and outside of Europe, allowed for part of the section to be held in person, creating a hybrid event that could prove a model for other festivals to emulate.
From this year’s Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, several significant cash prizes were handed out, with two $23,230 cash prizes going to both the Dale! Award winner, Marcelo Martinessi’s Luxbox-sold “Who Killed Narciso?...
San Sebastian’s 2020 Industry section, like so many other events this year, was forced to adapt to a streaming model. However, the timing of the festival, coinciding with relaxed travel restrictions both from within and outside of Europe, allowed for part of the section to be held in person, creating a hybrid event that could prove a model for other festivals to emulate.
From this year’s Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, several significant cash prizes were handed out, with two $23,230 cash prizes going to both the Dale! Award winner, Marcelo Martinessi’s Luxbox-sold “Who Killed Narciso?...
- 9/25/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Teenagers struggling with sexual identity, women fighting to reconcile their multi-faceted roles in society, and men grappling with the destructive constraints of masculinity are among the themes to be explored in the 2020 edition of the TorinoFilmLab’s FeatureLab, an intensive annual workshop focused on first and second feature film projects at advanced stages of development.
The 10 projects selected to participate include seven debut features, spanning the globe from the sweltering jungles of the Amazon to the sun-soaked islands of Greece, from the mountains of Montenegro to the shores of Australia.
“We are proud to present a very diverse selection,” said TorinoFilmLab curator Vincenzo Bugno. “Ten projects with an original artistic identity coming from very different parts of the world, all of them representing somehow the complexity of this planet (and) the state of things in a challenging political-cultural situation.”
Bugno heralded a selection that features a new generation of filmmakers...
The 10 projects selected to participate include seven debut features, spanning the globe from the sweltering jungles of the Amazon to the sun-soaked islands of Greece, from the mountains of Montenegro to the shores of Australia.
“We are proud to present a very diverse selection,” said TorinoFilmLab curator Vincenzo Bugno. “Ten projects with an original artistic identity coming from very different parts of the world, all of them representing somehow the complexity of this planet (and) the state of things in a challenging political-cultural situation.”
Bugno heralded a selection that features a new generation of filmmakers...
- 4/27/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
The UK Jewish Film Festival winners have been revealed. The Best Debut Feature Award has gone to Leona, directed by Isaac Cherem. The Spanish-language Mexican film, which received its UK premiere at the event, follows a young Jewish woman from Mexico City who finds herself torn between her family and her forbidden love with a non-Jewish man. The Dorfman Best Film Award went to Polish film Dolce Fine Giornata, directed by Jacek Borcuch. Pic charts how the stable family life of a poetess begins to fall apart as she makes a controversial speech. The movie beat out other titles Flawless, Jojo Rabbit, My Polish Honeymoon, Stripped and The Unorthodox. The Best Documentary Award winner has been announced as Advocate, directed by Philippe Bellaiche and Rachel Leah Jones. The film is a look at the life and work of Jewish-Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel who has represented political prisoners for nearly 50 years.
- 11/22/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman and Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Revered French director Claire Denis is to lead the short films and Cinéfondation (student films) jury at the Cannes Film Festival this year.
Denis and her jury will award the three prizes of the Cinéfondation selected from 17 film students’ works as well as the Short Film Palme d’Or. Previous jury heads for this section include Abderrahmane Sissako, Naomi Kawase, Cristian Mungiu and Bertrand Bonello.
Last year, the jury chaired by Bonello awarded the Short Film Palme d’Or to All These Creatures, by Charles Williams. Filmmakers to start out in the Cannes short film strand include Lynne Ramsay, Xavier Giannoli, Alice Winocour, Pascale Ferran, João Salaviza, Jim Jarmusch, Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Jane Campion (who remains the only director to have received both the Short Film Palme d’Or and the Palme d’Or for a feature).
The 2018 Cinéfondation Prizes were awarded to first works by Diego Céspedes, Igor Poplauhin,...
Denis and her jury will award the three prizes of the Cinéfondation selected from 17 film students’ works as well as the Short Film Palme d’Or. Previous jury heads for this section include Abderrahmane Sissako, Naomi Kawase, Cristian Mungiu and Bertrand Bonello.
Last year, the jury chaired by Bonello awarded the Short Film Palme d’Or to All These Creatures, by Charles Williams. Filmmakers to start out in the Cannes short film strand include Lynne Ramsay, Xavier Giannoli, Alice Winocour, Pascale Ferran, João Salaviza, Jim Jarmusch, Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Jane Campion (who remains the only director to have received both the Short Film Palme d’Or and the Palme d’Or for a feature).
The 2018 Cinéfondation Prizes were awarded to first works by Diego Céspedes, Igor Poplauhin,...
- 4/5/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Santiago, Chile –- The second feature from Argentina’s Agustín Tsocano, “The Snatch Thief,” was the big winner at this year’s Santiago International Film Festival (Sanfic), snagging best picture and two best actor plaudits.
The closing ceremonies were held Saturday night at Chile’s CorpArtes Cultural Center.
The Argentina, Uruguay and France co-production, sold by The Match Factory, participated in this year’s Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, where the tale of a guilt-ridden purse snatcher received unanimous strong reviews, including one by Variety’s Jay Weissberg who described it as a “a nicely plotted, unpretentious film… exactly the type of small-scale Latin American indie product that sees significant festival play.”
Marcelo Martinessi, one of Paraguay’s most high-profile filmmakers, won best director for his latest feature “The Heiresses,” which won the Silver Bear for best picture at Berlin in February. Eliran Elya’s “Doubtful” received a special mention.
In the Chilean competition,...
The closing ceremonies were held Saturday night at Chile’s CorpArtes Cultural Center.
The Argentina, Uruguay and France co-production, sold by The Match Factory, participated in this year’s Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, where the tale of a guilt-ridden purse snatcher received unanimous strong reviews, including one by Variety’s Jay Weissberg who described it as a “a nicely plotted, unpretentious film… exactly the type of small-scale Latin American indie product that sees significant festival play.”
Marcelo Martinessi, one of Paraguay’s most high-profile filmmakers, won best director for his latest feature “The Heiresses,” which won the Silver Bear for best picture at Berlin in February. Eliran Elya’s “Doubtful” received a special mention.
In the Chilean competition,...
- 8/26/2018
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The Chilean film receives a grant of €15,000.
Chilean film The Summer Of The Electric Lion has received the top prize at Cinéfondation, the Cannes selection of short films from film school students.
Directed by Diego Céspedes from the University of Chile Icei, the 22-minute film follows Alonso as he accompanies his sister Daniela, who waits to become the seventh wife of a mysterious prophet called El Léon (The Lion).
Céspedes receives a grant of €15,000, and is guaranteed to have his first feature presented at a future Cannes Film Festival.
This year’s jury was chaired by French director and screenwriter...
Chilean film The Summer Of The Electric Lion has received the top prize at Cinéfondation, the Cannes selection of short films from film school students.
Directed by Diego Céspedes from the University of Chile Icei, the 22-minute film follows Alonso as he accompanies his sister Daniela, who waits to become the seventh wife of a mysterious prophet called El Léon (The Lion).
Céspedes receives a grant of €15,000, and is guaranteed to have his first feature presented at a future Cannes Film Festival.
This year’s jury was chaired by French director and screenwriter...
- 5/18/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
In the Cannes Film Festival’s key film school shorts awards, “El Verano del León Eléctrico” (The Summer of the Electric Lion), by Chile’s Diego Céspedes, a student at the Instituto de Comunicación e Imagen – Universidad de Chile, won the First Jury Prize at 21st Cinéfondation Selection on Thursday.
The prize was awarded by a jury headed by French director Bertrand Bonello (“Saint Laurent”). The jury also included Lebanese helmer Khalil Joreige (“The Lebanese Rocket Society”), Germany’s Valeska Grisebach (“Western”), Lithuanian filmmaker Alanté Kavaïté (“The Summer of Sangaile”), and Greek-born French actress Ariane Labed (“The Lobster”).
“The Summer of the Electric Lion” is based on the true story of the Lion, a Chilean prophet whose cult-like following believed he could electrocute others with a simple touch. The film is about a young boy who accompanies his sister on a journey to meet the prophet, who will claim her as his seventh wife.
The prize was awarded by a jury headed by French director Bertrand Bonello (“Saint Laurent”). The jury also included Lebanese helmer Khalil Joreige (“The Lebanese Rocket Society”), Germany’s Valeska Grisebach (“Western”), Lithuanian filmmaker Alanté Kavaïté (“The Summer of Sangaile”), and Greek-born French actress Ariane Labed (“The Lobster”).
“The Summer of the Electric Lion” is based on the true story of the Lion, a Chilean prophet whose cult-like following believed he could electrocute others with a simple touch. The film is about a young boy who accompanies his sister on a journey to meet the prophet, who will claim her as his seventh wife.
- 5/17/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
After the triumphant Directors’ Fortnight world premiere of his Climax, Gaspar Noé‘s latest descent into hell has taken the section’s top prize. The Cicae Art Cinema Award was presented this evening to the film which features a group of mesmerizing young dancers who fall into madness after drinking a bowl of LSD-laced sangria. Sofia Boutella stars.
Climax blew away critics and audiences here and was swiftly acquired by A24 for domestic. This is Noé’s first film to be selected in the Fortnight which is actually billed as non-competitive, though its sponsors regularly present awards.
The Argentine filmmaker who works mostly in English and French is no stranger to the Croisette, having appeared in competition with both his shocking breakthrough Irreversible in 2002 and fever dream Enter The Void in 2009. More recently, his 2015 sex-fueled Love had a Midnight berth. As with all of his films, Wild Bunch is handling international sales.
Climax blew away critics and audiences here and was swiftly acquired by A24 for domestic. This is Noé’s first film to be selected in the Fortnight which is actually billed as non-competitive, though its sponsors regularly present awards.
The Argentine filmmaker who works mostly in English and French is no stranger to the Croisette, having appeared in competition with both his shocking breakthrough Irreversible in 2002 and fever dream Enter The Void in 2009. More recently, his 2015 sex-fueled Love had a Midnight berth. As with all of his films, Wild Bunch is handling international sales.
- 5/17/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
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