Uruguayan authorities have created a new Uruguay Audiovisual Fund that offers cash rebates for international productions shooting in Uruguay, as well as extra grants for Uruguayan productions.
Announced last week in Montevideo, and part of a new roadmap for Uruguay’s create industries, news of the new Fund comes days after Matías Ganz’s “Los Indefensos,” an idiosyncratic genre blender, won Le Film Français prize, one of the major awards at Ventana Sur’s Primer Corte pix-in-post strand.
That sums up the current contradiction of Uruguay’s industry. Despite its small size, with a population of just 3.4 million, Uruguay punches above its weight in film terms. It boasts exceptional upscale directors – Federico Veiroj, Alvaro Brechner and Gustavo Hernández are just three – and has seen Uruguayan Fede Alvarez direct two U.S. chart toppers – 2013’s “Evil Dead” and 2016’s “Don’t Breath.”
But Uruguay’s movie industry also suffers from acute under-capitalization: Alvarez works in Hollywood,...
Announced last week in Montevideo, and part of a new roadmap for Uruguay’s create industries, news of the new Fund comes days after Matías Ganz’s “Los Indefensos,” an idiosyncratic genre blender, won Le Film Français prize, one of the major awards at Ventana Sur’s Primer Corte pix-in-post strand.
That sums up the current contradiction of Uruguay’s industry. Despite its small size, with a population of just 3.4 million, Uruguay punches above its weight in film terms. It boasts exceptional upscale directors – Federico Veiroj, Alvaro Brechner and Gustavo Hernández are just three – and has seen Uruguayan Fede Alvarez direct two U.S. chart toppers – 2013’s “Evil Dead” and 2016’s “Don’t Breath.”
But Uruguay’s movie industry also suffers from acute under-capitalization: Alvarez works in Hollywood,...
- 12/28/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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