Buenos Aires — Mr. Miyagi Films co-founder David Matamoros, firmly established as one of Barcelona’s leading specialists in international film finance, is now in post-production on his solo feature directorial debut, “Astronaut” (“Astronauta”) as Matamoros explores novel movie financing sources as a producer while building co-productions across Europe and Latin America.
Produced by Mr. Miyagi, Sombra Cine and Mother Superior and backed by Spain’s Icaa, Argentina’s Incaa, Uruguay’s Pua and Catalan pubcaster TV3, “Astronaut” which is set for delivery in early 2024, weighs in as a queer romcom which questions classic romcom narratives, asking in a bigger picture what now form bedrock affective family relationships in a modern age.
Inspired by true events that actually happened to the director, Matamoros freely admits, “Astronaut” turns on David, an inveterate romantic film producer who organizes a trip down Route 66 with a stop in Las Vegas but is rejected by his...
Produced by Mr. Miyagi, Sombra Cine and Mother Superior and backed by Spain’s Icaa, Argentina’s Incaa, Uruguay’s Pua and Catalan pubcaster TV3, “Astronaut” which is set for delivery in early 2024, weighs in as a queer romcom which questions classic romcom narratives, asking in a bigger picture what now form bedrock affective family relationships in a modern age.
Inspired by true events that actually happened to the director, Matamoros freely admits, “Astronaut” turns on David, an inveterate romantic film producer who organizes a trip down Route 66 with a stop in Las Vegas but is rejected by his...
- 11/28/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Disney+ has picked up Latin American rights to Diego Yaker’s Argentine-Spanish revenge thriller “Una jirafa en el balcón” and is planning a theatrical release in Argentina and Uruguay.
Barcelona-based indie studio Filmax is handling Spanish distribution and international sales rights on the film.
Hitting the final straits of its shoot, “Una jirafa en el balcón” is filming in Barcelona over Nov. 14-17, after previously lensing in Argentina’s La Rioja region and Buenos Aires.
The film toplines Argentine actress Andrea Frigerio and Spain’s Diana Gómez, Artur Busquets and “Mudar la piel’s” Mingo Rafols.
Frigerio plays Lidia Muñoz (64), a retired woman living in Barcelona since 1978 who was forced into exile from Argentina after the military dictatorship ruling the country those years tried to kidnap her and make her disappear. Pregnant with her only daughter Valeria (Gómez), who is now 36, she managed to flee to Spain.
40 years later, at her home in Barcelona,...
Barcelona-based indie studio Filmax is handling Spanish distribution and international sales rights on the film.
Hitting the final straits of its shoot, “Una jirafa en el balcón” is filming in Barcelona over Nov. 14-17, after previously lensing in Argentina’s La Rioja region and Buenos Aires.
The film toplines Argentine actress Andrea Frigerio and Spain’s Diana Gómez, Artur Busquets and “Mudar la piel’s” Mingo Rafols.
Frigerio plays Lidia Muñoz (64), a retired woman living in Barcelona since 1978 who was forced into exile from Argentina after the military dictatorship ruling the country those years tried to kidnap her and make her disappear. Pregnant with her only daughter Valeria (Gómez), who is now 36, she managed to flee to Spain.
40 years later, at her home in Barcelona,...
- 11/15/2023
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
A predictably spectacular sunset spreads streaks of pink and orange across a northern Spanish late September sky, heralding the end of another packed edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival, where at the closing gala, “The Rye Horn” the second feature from Spanish director Jaione Camborda has just been handed the Golden Shell, the festival’s top award.
It is perhaps a surprising win, but does now mark the fourth consecutive year that the festival’s most prestigious prize has gone to a female director. But in another way it has to be a first: the international jury, comprising French director Claire Denis, alongside Chinese actor and producer Fan Bingbing, Colombian producer-director Cristina Gallego, French photographer Brigitte Lacombe, Spanish actor Vicky Luengo, Canadian producer and distributor Robert Lantos and German director Christian Petzold, has chosen to award not just a Spanish film, but one from a female director who was...
It is perhaps a surprising win, but does now mark the fourth consecutive year that the festival’s most prestigious prize has gone to a female director. But in another way it has to be a first: the international jury, comprising French director Claire Denis, alongside Chinese actor and producer Fan Bingbing, Colombian producer-director Cristina Gallego, French photographer Brigitte Lacombe, Spanish actor Vicky Luengo, Canadian producer and distributor Robert Lantos and German director Christian Petzold, has chosen to award not just a Spanish film, but one from a female director who was...
- 9/30/2023
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Anyone familiar with the often disquieting solo work of directors María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat may be put on high uneasiness-alert by the opening scene of “Puan,” their first co-directed feature. Despite the jaunty pop song playing, an older man going for a morning jog in a scrubby Buenos Aires park, suddenly keels over dead of a heart attack. Given the surreal griefscape of Alché’s “A Family Submerged” or the sinister tides of Naishtat’s superb “Rojo”, there’s every possibility that the music is a red herring, and the death portends what is to come. But perhaps that is “Puan”‘s first joke.
In fact, Alché and Naishtat seem to have found the experience of writing together in the captivity of lockdown a liberation of a looser, funnier storytelling mode. What transpires is a fleet-footed if sharply pointed existential-crisis comedy, shot with unobstrusive, naturalistic dynamism by Hélène Louvart,...
In fact, Alché and Naishtat seem to have found the experience of writing together in the captivity of lockdown a liberation of a looser, funnier storytelling mode. What transpires is a fleet-footed if sharply pointed existential-crisis comedy, shot with unobstrusive, naturalistic dynamism by Hélène Louvart,...
- 9/29/2023
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
San Sebastian — Paris-based Luxbox has clinched major territory pre-sales on anticipated San Sebastian competition title “Puan,” an original attempt by its writer-directors, María Alche (“A Family Submerged”) and Benjamín Naishtat (“Rojo”) to deliver a state of the nation take on Argentina – and any country in thrall of European ideas – but in a notably lighter tone than most Latin American arthouse fare.
Key first major territory buyers take in Condor for France, whose release lineup has featured major auteurs such as Kelly Reichardt, Casey Affleck, Agnieszka Holland, Paul Schrader, Denis Villeneuve, Michel Franco and Ira Sachs.
With a strong line in Spanish-language titles – “The Permanent Picture” this year, “The Rite of Spring” in 2022 – Barcelona-based La Aventura Cine has closed rights for Spain.
Releasing films by star auteurs in Brazil since 2010 and Spain from 2020, Vitrine has clinched rights for Brazil.
“Puan” – affectionate shorthand for Buenos Aires U’s Faculty of Philosophy and...
Key first major territory buyers take in Condor for France, whose release lineup has featured major auteurs such as Kelly Reichardt, Casey Affleck, Agnieszka Holland, Paul Schrader, Denis Villeneuve, Michel Franco and Ira Sachs.
With a strong line in Spanish-language titles – “The Permanent Picture” this year, “The Rite of Spring” in 2022 – Barcelona-based La Aventura Cine has closed rights for Spain.
Releasing films by star auteurs in Brazil since 2010 and Spain from 2020, Vitrine has clinched rights for Brazil.
“Puan” – affectionate shorthand for Buenos Aires U’s Faculty of Philosophy and...
- 9/22/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Headlined respectively by “Sound of Metal” lead Riz Ahmed and “Matrix” stars Jessica Henwick and Hugo Weaving, Christos Nikou’s “Fingernails” and Kitty Green’s “The Royal Hotel” figure among seven newly unveiled films which will play in main competition at September’s San Sebastian Film Festival.
Also in the running are buzz titles “A Journey in Spring,” from Taiwan’s Peng Tzu-Hui, Wang Ping-Wen, and “Kalak,” directed by Denmark’s Isabella Eklöf.
Announced Friday, the new additions are comprised by one debut (“Spring”) and five second features from emerging talent ranging from Japan’s Kei Chica-ura to France’s Xavier Legrand, nominated for an Academy Award for best live action short film for 2013’s “Just Before Losing Everything.”
The new titles confirm a 2023 main competition which, including previously announced titles, frames three feature debuts – Raven Jackson’s “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt,” Isabel Herguera’s “Sultana’s Dream...
Also in the running are buzz titles “A Journey in Spring,” from Taiwan’s Peng Tzu-Hui, Wang Ping-Wen, and “Kalak,” directed by Denmark’s Isabella Eklöf.
Announced Friday, the new additions are comprised by one debut (“Spring”) and five second features from emerging talent ranging from Japan’s Kei Chica-ura to France’s Xavier Legrand, nominated for an Academy Award for best live action short film for 2013’s “Just Before Losing Everything.”
The new titles confirm a 2023 main competition which, including previously announced titles, frames three feature debuts – Raven Jackson’s “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt,” Isabel Herguera’s “Sultana’s Dream...
- 8/25/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
A bevy of established auteurs – Joachim Lafosse, Cristi Puiu, Robin Campillo and Martín Rejtman – rub shoulders with the fast-rising figures of Maria Alche and Benjamín Naishtat and new U.S. discovery Raven Jackson among a first batch of directors contending in main competition at September’s San Sebastian Film Festival.
Also in the mix, announced Friday, is U.S. writer-director Noah Pritzker (“Quitters”) whose “Ex-Husbands” headlines “After Hours” co-stars Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette.
Always open to a broader gamut of movies than many other “A” festivals, the first features confirmed for San Sebastian on Friday include four comedies with a change of register to lighter comedy for both Naishtat and Alche, who triumphed at 2018’s San Sebastián with “Rojo” and “A Family Submerged,” best director and Horizontes winners respectively.
The biggest movie event in the Spanish-speaking world – which means ever more as Spanish-language titles hit big viewerships on streaming...
Also in the mix, announced Friday, is U.S. writer-director Noah Pritzker (“Quitters”) whose “Ex-Husbands” headlines “After Hours” co-stars Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette.
Always open to a broader gamut of movies than many other “A” festivals, the first features confirmed for San Sebastian on Friday include four comedies with a change of register to lighter comedy for both Naishtat and Alche, who triumphed at 2018’s San Sebastián with “Rojo” and “A Family Submerged,” best director and Horizontes winners respectively.
The biggest movie event in the Spanish-speaking world – which means ever more as Spanish-language titles hit big viewerships on streaming...
- 7/7/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Paris-based Luxbox has snapped up sales rights on “Puan,” the awaited new film from María Alche and Benjamín Naishtat, two of Argentina’s fastest-rising directors.
The new title co-stars Leonardo Sbaraglia.
“Puan” catches Alché after she won San Sebastian’s prestigious Horizontes Award in 2018 for her Visit Films-sold feature debut, “A Family Submerged,” before teaming on “Puan” with Naishat who, the same year at San Sebastian, won director, actor (Dario Grandinetti) and cinematography (Pedro Sotero) in main competition for “Rojo,” sparking a rave Variety review.
“Rojo” denounced the tacit collusion of many Argentineans in the violence of Argentina’s extreme right just months before the coup d’etat which brought the Junta to power.
Also written by Alché and Naishtat, “Puan” looks like another state of the nation take, delivered, however, in lighter comic terms, set at the “weirdly amazing” – Naishtat’s words – Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Buenos Aires,...
The new title co-stars Leonardo Sbaraglia.
“Puan” catches Alché after she won San Sebastian’s prestigious Horizontes Award in 2018 for her Visit Films-sold feature debut, “A Family Submerged,” before teaming on “Puan” with Naishat who, the same year at San Sebastian, won director, actor (Dario Grandinetti) and cinematography (Pedro Sotero) in main competition for “Rojo,” sparking a rave Variety review.
“Rojo” denounced the tacit collusion of many Argentineans in the violence of Argentina’s extreme right just months before the coup d’etat which brought the Junta to power.
Also written by Alché and Naishtat, “Puan” looks like another state of the nation take, delivered, however, in lighter comic terms, set at the “weirdly amazing” – Naishtat’s words – Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Buenos Aires,...
- 5/11/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Set to be unveiled at this week’s San Sebastian Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, “Bajo el Mismo Sol” has secured a first co-production deal ahead of the festival.
Argentina’ Pucará Cine has boarded the project, reteaming with lead producer Wooden Boat Productions in the Dominican Republican on director Ulises Porra’s third feature. Both production companies co-produced Porra’s most recent movie, “Carajita” (2021), co-directed by Silvina Schnicer, which won the New Directors award at last year’s San Sebastián, swept Guadalajara, and collected hardware at Argentina’s Mar del Plata and the Miami Film Festival.
Set in 1820, “‘Bajo el mismo sol’ is a historically resonant tale of three “highly contrasting characters,” says Porra – Lázaro, an entrepreneur, son of a rich trader; Mei, a young Chinese woman and expert in silk; and Baptiste, an Haitian army deserter – who battle to create a first silk factory in the Dominican Republic. But it...
Argentina’ Pucará Cine has boarded the project, reteaming with lead producer Wooden Boat Productions in the Dominican Republican on director Ulises Porra’s third feature. Both production companies co-produced Porra’s most recent movie, “Carajita” (2021), co-directed by Silvina Schnicer, which won the New Directors award at last year’s San Sebastián, swept Guadalajara, and collected hardware at Argentina’s Mar del Plata and the Miami Film Festival.
Set in 1820, “‘Bajo el mismo sol’ is a historically resonant tale of three “highly contrasting characters,” says Porra – Lázaro, an entrepreneur, son of a rich trader; Mei, a young Chinese woman and expert in silk; and Baptiste, an Haitian army deserter – who battle to create a first silk factory in the Dominican Republic. But it...
- 9/19/2022
- by Pablo Sandoval
- Variety Film + TV
Collaboration with directors Sacha Polak and animator Mascha Halberstad were crucial to Viking’s growth.
Need to know: Amsterdam-based Viking Film was set up by Marleen Slot in 2011 after she had worked as a producer at Lemming Film for many years. The company name refers to Slot’s background as the daughter of a fisherman from a community in the north of Holland, which had once been under the sway of the Vikings. Slot cites her collaboration with directors Sacha Polak and animator Mascha Halberstad as crucial to Viking’s growth. The company’s latest feature with Halberstad is animated film Oink,...
Need to know: Amsterdam-based Viking Film was set up by Marleen Slot in 2011 after she had worked as a producer at Lemming Film for many years. The company name refers to Slot’s background as the daughter of a fisherman from a community in the north of Holland, which had once been under the sway of the Vikings. Slot cites her collaboration with directors Sacha Polak and animator Mascha Halberstad as crucial to Viking’s growth. The company’s latest feature with Halberstad is animated film Oink,...
- 5/15/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Prestige French distribution house Dulac Distribution has closed rights to France on “1976,” one of the most awaited of films to come out of Chile this year, which will world premiere next month at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
The buzzed up title represents the first feature from young Chilean actor-turned-director Manuela Martelli, star of Andrés Wood’s “Machuca” and Alicia Scherson’s “Il Futuro.”
Worldwide sales rights on “1976” are represented by Paris-based Luxbox, adding to its lengthening list of high profile pick-ups from Latin America which include Nathalie Alvarez Mesén’s “Clara Sola,” Alejandra Márquez’s “The Good Girls,” Marcelo Martinessi’s “The Heiresses” and Benjamín Naishtat’s “Rojo.”
The acquisition in a key territory for non English-language art films comes just weeks after “1976” walked off with three of the biggest awards at the Toulouse Latin American Festival’s Films in Progress, including the pix-in-post competition’s Grand Prix and Cine Plus...
The buzzed up title represents the first feature from young Chilean actor-turned-director Manuela Martelli, star of Andrés Wood’s “Machuca” and Alicia Scherson’s “Il Futuro.”
Worldwide sales rights on “1976” are represented by Paris-based Luxbox, adding to its lengthening list of high profile pick-ups from Latin America which include Nathalie Alvarez Mesén’s “Clara Sola,” Alejandra Márquez’s “The Good Girls,” Marcelo Martinessi’s “The Heiresses” and Benjamín Naishtat’s “Rojo.”
The acquisition in a key territory for non English-language art films comes just weeks after “1976” walked off with three of the biggest awards at the Toulouse Latin American Festival’s Films in Progress, including the pix-in-post competition’s Grand Prix and Cine Plus...
- 4/25/2022
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
Mexico’s Sin Sitio Cine is joining forces with Brazilian company Desvia Produções and Canada’s Notable Content to co-produce Johnny Ma’s project “Chin-Gone.”
A major up and coming Chinese-Canadian helmer, Ma’s directorial debut, “Old Stone,” world-premiered at the 2016 Berlin Film Festival and won the Canadian First Feature Award at the Toronto Film Festival. His most recent film, 2019’s Chinese drama “To Live to Sing,” played at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight.
The project “Chin-Gone” will be pitched on Monday Sept. 20 at the San Sebastian Festival’s 10th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum.
The Mexican producer is Bruna Haddad at Sin Sitio Cine, a young company whose latest film “Dos Estaciones,” directed by Juan Pablo González, plays at the San Sebastian Wip Latam pix in post sidebar this year.
Ricardo Lovera (“Homemade”) and Ma both play acting roles in the film, which is scheduled to shoot in San Sebastián del Oeste,...
A major up and coming Chinese-Canadian helmer, Ma’s directorial debut, “Old Stone,” world-premiered at the 2016 Berlin Film Festival and won the Canadian First Feature Award at the Toronto Film Festival. His most recent film, 2019’s Chinese drama “To Live to Sing,” played at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight.
The project “Chin-Gone” will be pitched on Monday Sept. 20 at the San Sebastian Festival’s 10th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum.
The Mexican producer is Bruna Haddad at Sin Sitio Cine, a young company whose latest film “Dos Estaciones,” directed by Juan Pablo González, plays at the San Sebastian Wip Latam pix in post sidebar this year.
Ricardo Lovera (“Homemade”) and Ma both play acting roles in the film, which is scheduled to shoot in San Sebastián del Oeste,...
- 9/20/2021
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Paula Hernández’s “El Viento Que Arrasa,”Cristian Leighton’s “El Porvenir de la Mirada” and Johnny Ma’s “Chin-Gone” feature among 14 projects selected for San Sebastian’s 9th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, the Spanish festival’s industry centerpiece.
Many projects come with high-caliber Latin American arthouse backing.
“El Viento Que Arrasa” was talked up by producer Hernán Musaluppi at Cannes; “El Porvenir de la Mirada” is associate produced by Academy Award winner Sebastián Lelio, (“A Fantastic Woman”); Ma’s “Chin Gone” is produced by Rachel Daisy Ellis’ Desvia Produçoes in Brazil, whose credits include “Divine Love,” “Rojo” and “Prayers for the Stolen.”
Of two feature debuts, “Alemania” is backed by Tarea Fina (“The Sleepwalkers”), and “La Sucesión” by Pasto, which had “The Employer and the Employee” at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, and Gema Films (“Soldado”). New Argentine Cinema icon Diego Dubcovsky produces Romina Paula’s “People by Night.” Multi-prized Spanish...
Many projects come with high-caliber Latin American arthouse backing.
“El Viento Que Arrasa” was talked up by producer Hernán Musaluppi at Cannes; “El Porvenir de la Mirada” is associate produced by Academy Award winner Sebastián Lelio, (“A Fantastic Woman”); Ma’s “Chin Gone” is produced by Rachel Daisy Ellis’ Desvia Produçoes in Brazil, whose credits include “Divine Love,” “Rojo” and “Prayers for the Stolen.”
Of two feature debuts, “Alemania” is backed by Tarea Fina (“The Sleepwalkers”), and “La Sucesión” by Pasto, which had “The Employer and the Employee” at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, and Gema Films (“Soldado”). New Argentine Cinema icon Diego Dubcovsky produces Romina Paula’s “People by Night.” Multi-prized Spanish...
- 8/12/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.Closeup of Fay Wray from Doctor X after restoration work. Image from https://www.cinema.ucla.eduNEWSAfter working together in the film Rojo (2018), director Benjamin Naishtat and actor Alfredo Castro reunite to talk about the terror, pleasure and mystery involved in the process of creating a film. They agree that for both director and actor, the seed of creation is the irrationality of madness, and that uncertainty is an essential factor in filmmaking. Castro and Naishtat call for a subversive cinema that cannot be domesticated by current narrative paradigms and that is also capable of using the imagination as a means and a catalyst to reinterpret our history. To listen to this episode and subscribe on your favorite podcast app, click here.The great French film director Jacques Rozier is being evicted from his...
- 7/14/2021
- MUBI
Los Angeles-based 1844 Entertainment has acquired international sales rights and U.S. distribution for Jorge Cuchí’s 2020 Venice Critics’ Week player, “50 o Dos Ballenas se Encuentran En la Playa” (“50 (or Two Whales Meet on the Beach)”).
“50” stars young actors José Antonio Toledano as Félix and Karla Coronado as Elisa, two 17-year-olds who together embark on the 2016 social media phenomena Blue Whale Challenge together. In the “game,” players are assigned tasks over a 50-day period which start as trivial or innocuous activities, but eventually mutate into self-harm and, at its conclusion, suicide.
“When people decide to commit suicide it is not because they want to put an end to their lives, but because they want to put an end to their sadness,” explained Chuchí of the spark that ingnited his feature debut.
Describing his protagonists, he remembered that Felix and Elisa started as “two kids who came to life inside my...
“50” stars young actors José Antonio Toledano as Félix and Karla Coronado as Elisa, two 17-year-olds who together embark on the 2016 social media phenomena Blue Whale Challenge together. In the “game,” players are assigned tasks over a 50-day period which start as trivial or innocuous activities, but eventually mutate into self-harm and, at its conclusion, suicide.
“When people decide to commit suicide it is not because they want to put an end to their lives, but because they want to put an end to their sadness,” explained Chuchí of the spark that ingnited his feature debut.
Describing his protagonists, he remembered that Felix and Elisa started as “two kids who came to life inside my...
- 7/5/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
1844 Ent. Nabs U.S. Distribution, International to Argentina’s ‘A School in Cerro Hueso’ (Exclusive)
Los Angeles-based company 1844 Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution and international sales rights to Argentine Betania Cappato’s feature debut “Una escuela en Cerro Hueso” (“A School in Cerro Hueso”).
The autism-themed film, inspired in Cappato’s direct family events, earned a special mention at March’s Berlinale Generation Kplus sidebar.
1844 Entertainment plans to release the movie in U.S. theaters in fourth quarter 2021, supported by a virtual cinema in the case of theaters not yet running by then at a full capacity.
“A School in Cerro Hueso” narrates the inner journey of Ema, a six-year-old girl diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
When Ema reaches school age, her parents move with her from Argentina’s Santa Fe to a humble coastal town at the shore of the Paraná River, where the only school that accepted her application is located.
There, the family will begin a new life as Ema...
The autism-themed film, inspired in Cappato’s direct family events, earned a special mention at March’s Berlinale Generation Kplus sidebar.
1844 Entertainment plans to release the movie in U.S. theaters in fourth quarter 2021, supported by a virtual cinema in the case of theaters not yet running by then at a full capacity.
“A School in Cerro Hueso” narrates the inner journey of Ema, a six-year-old girl diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
When Ema reaches school age, her parents move with her from Argentina’s Santa Fe to a humble coastal town at the shore of the Paraná River, where the only school that accepted her application is located.
There, the family will begin a new life as Ema...
- 5/18/2021
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Announced on Tuesday as one of 10 films playing the 2021 Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Competition, “El Perro Que No Calla” (“The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet”), from distinguished Argentine auteur Ana Katz, has been acquired by Paris-based Luxbox.
A doyen of French sales agents of Latin American films, handling high-profile, multi-prized art titles such as Benjamín Naishtat’s “Rojo” and Marcelo Martinessi’s “The Heiresses,” Luxbox will handle international sales rights to “The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet.”
A midlife coming of age comedy-drama come political parable, “The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet” turns on Sebastian, in his 30s, devoted to his loyal dog, who haltingly initiates adulthood, navigating love, loss and fatherhood.
In a narrative that captures the current Zeitgeist, Sebastian’s turbulent life is suddenly turned upside-down by catastrophe. He spends his life battling to adjust and transform in a vertiginous world that might be coming to an end.
A doyen of French sales agents of Latin American films, handling high-profile, multi-prized art titles such as Benjamín Naishtat’s “Rojo” and Marcelo Martinessi’s “The Heiresses,” Luxbox will handle international sales rights to “The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet.”
A midlife coming of age comedy-drama come political parable, “The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet” turns on Sebastian, in his 30s, devoted to his loyal dog, who haltingly initiates adulthood, navigating love, loss and fatherhood.
In a narrative that captures the current Zeitgeist, Sebastian’s turbulent life is suddenly turned upside-down by catastrophe. He spends his life battling to adjust and transform in a vertiginous world that might be coming to an end.
- 12/16/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Presenting to the industry for the first time at Ventana Sur’s Proyecta event, “Puán,” a comedy, is a joint creative venture between Argentine directors María Alché, a 2018 San Sebastián Horizontes winner for “A Family Submerged,” and Benjamín Naishtat, who took three top main competition prizes at the same year’s San Sebastian for his third feature, “Rojo.”
Through the chaotic world of the University of Buenos Aires’ overpopulated, underfunded philosophy and literature department – affectionately known to all as ‘Puán’ – the duo’s script explores the state of their home nation.
The script tells a “coming-of-middle-age” story about a multitasking professor and father who finds himself with little time for abstract thought when a much-coveted philosophy chair arises following the death of a close mentor.
Producers of this Є800,000 budget project are Barbara Francisco’s ten-year old firm Pasto Cine – which made “Familia Sumergida” – and Federico Eibuszyc and Barbara Sarasola-Day...
Through the chaotic world of the University of Buenos Aires’ overpopulated, underfunded philosophy and literature department – affectionately known to all as ‘Puán’ – the duo’s script explores the state of their home nation.
The script tells a “coming-of-middle-age” story about a multitasking professor and father who finds himself with little time for abstract thought when a much-coveted philosophy chair arises following the death of a close mentor.
Producers of this Є800,000 budget project are Barbara Francisco’s ten-year old firm Pasto Cine – which made “Familia Sumergida” – and Federico Eibuszyc and Barbara Sarasola-Day...
- 12/3/2020
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
Miami, Nov 20 (Ians) J. Balvin and Ricky Martin are among artistes honoured at the Latin Grammy Awards 2020.
Ricky Martin won Best Pop Vocal Album for "Pausa", while Best Urban Music Album went to "Colores" by J Balvin.
"Rene" by Residente was Song of the Year while the award for Album of the Year was given to Natalia Lafourcade for "Un Canto por Mexico, Vol. 1".
The award for Record of the Year went to "Contigo" by Alejandro Sanz, at the ceremony that took place on Thursday.
The 2020 edition of the Latin Grammys also introduced a Best Reggaeton Performance cateogory for the first time. It went to Bad Bunny for "Yo Perreo Sola".
The ceremony mostly had video acceptances and a limited red carpet, but there were performers who took take the stage.
Balvin performed "Rojo" under a sculpture of two hands coming together, while Karol G. delivered "Tusa", backed by the all-female band.
Ricky Martin won Best Pop Vocal Album for "Pausa", while Best Urban Music Album went to "Colores" by J Balvin.
"Rene" by Residente was Song of the Year while the award for Album of the Year was given to Natalia Lafourcade for "Un Canto por Mexico, Vol. 1".
The award for Record of the Year went to "Contigo" by Alejandro Sanz, at the ceremony that took place on Thursday.
The 2020 edition of the Latin Grammys also introduced a Best Reggaeton Performance cateogory for the first time. It went to Bad Bunny for "Yo Perreo Sola".
The ceremony mostly had video acceptances and a limited red carpet, but there were performers who took take the stage.
Balvin performed "Rojo" under a sculpture of two hands coming together, while Karol G. delivered "Tusa", backed by the all-female band.
- 11/20/2020
- by Glamsham Editorial
- GlamSham
The Latin Grammy Awards took place on Thursday, Nov. 19 awarding the year’s top artists in Latin music. Featuring mostly video acceptances and a limited red carpet, performers did take the stage and wowed. Among the highlights: J Balvin (pictured) performing “Rojo” under a sculpture of two hands coming together (the piece weighed 2.6 tons and required two trucks to transport); Karol G delivering “Tusa” backed by al all-female band; Sebastián Yatra, joined by Guaynaa, performing “Chica Ideal” and Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds”; Bad Bunny beamed in from San Juan, Puerto Rico to sing “Bichiyal” and “Si Veo A Tu Mamá”; and Anitta putting her spin on Sergio Mendes’ “Mas Que Nada” from her home city of Río de Janeiro, followed by her own “Me Gusta.”
Winners include Spanish singer Rosalía, who took home album of the year last year, and picked up a trio of trophies on Thursday...
Winners include Spanish singer Rosalía, who took home album of the year last year, and picked up a trio of trophies on Thursday...
- 11/20/2020
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
The 21st Annual Latin Grammy Awards were presented on Thursday, November 19. They awarded the best Latin music released within the eligibility period of June 1, 2019, through May 31, 2020. So who were the big winners? Scroll down to see the complete list in all 53 categories, updated throughout the event.
J Balvin led the nominations with 13 bids including two for Album of the Year: “Colores” and “Oasis,” the latter of which was his collaboration with Bad Bunny. Balvin also had two nominations for Record of the Year, for his own “Rojo” and as a featured artist on Anuel AA‘s “China.” In the last five years J Balvin has won a total of four Latin Grammys, but he had never won in the general field.
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Bad Bunny was next in line with nine nominations. Like J Balvin, he had two chances to claim Album of the Year,...
J Balvin led the nominations with 13 bids including two for Album of the Year: “Colores” and “Oasis,” the latter of which was his collaboration with Bad Bunny. Balvin also had two nominations for Record of the Year, for his own “Rojo” and as a featured artist on Anuel AA‘s “China.” In the last five years J Balvin has won a total of four Latin Grammys, but he had never won in the general field.
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Bad Bunny was next in line with nine nominations. Like J Balvin, he had two chances to claim Album of the Year,...
- 11/20/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
J Balvin returned to the Latin Grammys stage to deliver a heart-rending performance of “Rojo.”
“My heart breaks and I pray for the world,” the Colombian superstar gently sang as he opened up the sultry club song. “Rojo” is up for several nominations, including Best Urban Song. “Our hearts are bleeding. We all need to unite,” he says in Spanish. Donning a three-piece white suit, a bleeding heart appeared on his blazer midway through the song to represent love and solidarity in a time of global struggles during the pandemic.
“My heart breaks and I pray for the world,” the Colombian superstar gently sang as he opened up the sultry club song. “Rojo” is up for several nominations, including Best Urban Song. “Our hearts are bleeding. We all need to unite,” he says in Spanish. Donning a three-piece white suit, a bleeding heart appeared on his blazer midway through the song to represent love and solidarity in a time of global struggles during the pandemic.
- 11/20/2020
- by Isabela Raygoza
- Rollingstone.com
The 21st Annual Latin Grammy Awards will be held tonight, November 19, during a ceremony broadcast on Univision and hosted by salsa singer Victor Maneulle, Oscar nominee Yalitza Aparicio (“Roma“) and actress Ana Brenda Contreras. But who will win? Scroll down for our official odds in 13 categories including the top four general field races. Nominees are listed in order of their likelihood of winning with our projected winners highlighted in gold.
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Our odds were calculated by combining the predictions of hundreds of Gold Derby users, and they expect good news for urban artists, especially Bad Bunny. The Puerto Rican rapper has nine bids overall and is predicted to win Album of the Year and Best Urban Music Album for his crossover hit “Yhlqmdlg.” His frequent collaborator J Balvin has even more nominations,...
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Our odds were calculated by combining the predictions of hundreds of Gold Derby users, and they expect good news for urban artists, especially Bad Bunny. The Puerto Rican rapper has nine bids overall and is predicted to win Album of the Year and Best Urban Music Album for his crossover hit “Yhlqmdlg.” His frequent collaborator J Balvin has even more nominations,...
- 11/19/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Cinema numbers are shrinking again as Covid-19 cases rise across Europe.
France, opening Wednesday October 14
It has been a complicated few days for French distributors and exhibitors following the introduction of a night-time curfew from Saturday night in Paris and eight other major cities, as part of measures to slow the spread of Covid-19.
The measure, which obliges people to return home by 9pm, effectively wipes out key evening screening slots although exhibitors are lobbying the government for a special dispensation for cinemagoers. A final decision was expected late Friday or over the weekend, but if the answer is ‘no...
France, opening Wednesday October 14
It has been a complicated few days for French distributors and exhibitors following the introduction of a night-time curfew from Saturday night in Paris and eight other major cities, as part of measures to slow the spread of Covid-19.
The measure, which obliges people to return home by 9pm, effectively wipes out key evening screening slots although exhibitors are lobbying the government for a special dispensation for cinemagoers. A final decision was expected late Friday or over the weekend, but if the answer is ‘no...
- 10/16/2020
- by Ben Dalton¬Melanie Goodfellow¬Martin Blaney¬Gabriele Niola
- ScreenDaily
The 2020 Latin Grammy Award nominations were unveiled on September 29 and it is a good day for J Balvin, Bad Bunny and Ozuna. This trio of talent lead the roster with 13, nine and eight bids respectively. All three contend for Record of the Year while J Balvin and Bad Bunny are nominated for Album of the Year for their collaborative project “Oasis” as well as their individual albums, “Colores” and “Yhlqmdlg.” Other artists who scored big this year were Anuel AA, Josh Gudwin and Colin Leonard, with seven bids apiece. See the full list of Latin Grammy nominations below.
Voters in the Latin Recording Academy had to consider a whopping 18,000 entries across 53 categories. The eligibility window ran from June 1, 2019 to May 31, 2020. “Over the last year, we continued engaging in discussions with our members to improve the awards process and actively encouraged diverse Latin music creators to join and participate,” said Gabriel Abaroa Jr.
Voters in the Latin Recording Academy had to consider a whopping 18,000 entries across 53 categories. The eligibility window ran from June 1, 2019 to May 31, 2020. “Over the last year, we continued engaging in discussions with our members to improve the awards process and actively encouraged diverse Latin music creators to join and participate,” said Gabriel Abaroa Jr.
- 9/29/2020
- by Kevin Jacobsen
- Gold Derby
The Latin Recording Academy has announced the nominees for the 21st Annual Latin Grammy Awards. J Balvin leads this year’s nominations with 13, followed by Bad Bunny with nine nominations and Ozuna with eight; Anuel AA, Josh Gudwin and Colin Leonard each received seven nominations.
The 2020 nominations for Album of the Year include Bad Bunny’s Yhlqmdlg, Camilo’s Por Primera Vez, Kany García’s Mesa Para Dos, J Balvin’s Colores, J Balvin & Bad Bunny’s Oasis, Jesse & Joy’s Aire (Versión Día), Natalia Lafourcade’s Un Canto Por México,...
The 2020 nominations for Album of the Year include Bad Bunny’s Yhlqmdlg, Camilo’s Por Primera Vez, Kany García’s Mesa Para Dos, J Balvin’s Colores, J Balvin & Bad Bunny’s Oasis, Jesse & Joy’s Aire (Versión Día), Natalia Lafourcade’s Un Canto Por México,...
- 9/29/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
J Balvin, Bad Bunny and Ozuna are the top nominees for the 21st Annual Latin Grammy Awards, announced Tuesday morning. The awards are voted on by The Latin Academy’s international membership body of music creators, who represent all genres and creative disciplines, including recording artists, songwriters, producers, mixers and engineers.
Artists with multiple nominations include Anuel AA, Bad Bunny, J Balvin, Camilo, Karol G, Kany García, Josh Gudwin, Colin Leonard, Jon Leone, Richi López, Ozuna, Alejandro “Sky” Ramírez, Residente, Julio Reyes Copello, Rosalía, Marco Masis “Tainy” and Carlos Vives. Balvin leads with 11 nods, while Bad Bunny and Ozuna follow with nine and eight, respectively. The full list appears below.
Winners will be revealed by The Latin Recording Academy on Nov. 19 at the 21st Annual Latin Grammy Awards’ Premiere and Telecast ceremonies, which will air live on Univision at 8 p.m. Et/Pt (7 p.m. Ct). With the theme “Music Makes Us Human,...
Artists with multiple nominations include Anuel AA, Bad Bunny, J Balvin, Camilo, Karol G, Kany García, Josh Gudwin, Colin Leonard, Jon Leone, Richi López, Ozuna, Alejandro “Sky” Ramírez, Residente, Julio Reyes Copello, Rosalía, Marco Masis “Tainy” and Carlos Vives. Balvin leads with 11 nods, while Bad Bunny and Ozuna follow with nine and eight, respectively. The full list appears below.
Winners will be revealed by The Latin Recording Academy on Nov. 19 at the 21st Annual Latin Grammy Awards’ Premiere and Telecast ceremonies, which will air live on Univision at 8 p.m. Et/Pt (7 p.m. Ct). With the theme “Music Makes Us Human,...
- 9/29/2020
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
Reggaetón, long under-represented or downright ignored in the main categories of the Latin Grammys, seems to finally be seeing its day of reckoning, with three reggaetón stars – J Balvin, Bad Bunny and Ozuna — leading the list of nominations.
Balvin’s 13 nods for the 21st annual Latin Grammys, which make him the lead nominee, reflect a genre where collaborations flourish. He is nominated twice in record of the year (for his solo track “Rojo” and as a featured artist on Anuel’s “China”); twice in album of the year and best urban album (for his own Colores and for Oasis, his joint album with Bad ...
Balvin’s 13 nods for the 21st annual Latin Grammys, which make him the lead nominee, reflect a genre where collaborations flourish. He is nominated twice in record of the year (for his solo track “Rojo” and as a featured artist on Anuel’s “China”); twice in album of the year and best urban album (for his own Colores and for Oasis, his joint album with Bad ...
- 9/29/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Reggaetón, long under-represented or downright ignored in the main categories of the Latin Grammys, seems to finally be seeing its day of reckoning, with three reggaetón stars – J Balvin, Bad Bunny and Ozuna — leading the list of nominations.
Balvin’s 13 nods for the 21st annual Latin Grammys, which make him the lead nominee, reflect a genre where collaborations flourish. He is nominated twice in record of the year (for his solo track “Rojo” and as a featured artist on Anuel’s “China”); twice in album of the year and best urban album (for his own Colores and for Oasis, his joint album with Bad ...
Balvin’s 13 nods for the 21st annual Latin Grammys, which make him the lead nominee, reflect a genre where collaborations flourish. He is nominated twice in record of the year (for his solo track “Rojo” and as a featured artist on Anuel’s “China”); twice in album of the year and best urban album (for his own Colores and for Oasis, his joint album with Bad ...
- 9/29/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Argentina’s Benjamín Naishtat, writer-director of “Rojo,” is preparing “Pobres Pibes,” a contemporary noir thriller adapting novelist Robert Arlt’s 1929 “The Seven Madmen.”
Also working off “The Flamethrowers,” Arlt’s 1931 sequel to “The Seven Madmen,” Naishtat’s fourth feature marks his first adaptation. Following up “Rojo,” a big prize winner at the 2018 San Sebastian Festival, “Pobres Pibes” weighs in as, on paper, one of the major highlights at the San Sebastian Festival’s Co-Production Forum, which takes place online from Sept. 19-21.
Depicting “contemporary mayhem from the point of view of a young man with nothing to loose,” said Naishtat, “Pobres Pibes” will be an “unnerving, fast-paced, urban tale that could make you both laugh and feel uncomfortable,” he added.
“This somewhat existential noir,” he says in a presentation, “is built on the basis of a fascination for irredeemable losers and their preferred emotion, the one that governs our time: Resent.
Also working off “The Flamethrowers,” Arlt’s 1931 sequel to “The Seven Madmen,” Naishtat’s fourth feature marks his first adaptation. Following up “Rojo,” a big prize winner at the 2018 San Sebastian Festival, “Pobres Pibes” weighs in as, on paper, one of the major highlights at the San Sebastian Festival’s Co-Production Forum, which takes place online from Sept. 19-21.
Depicting “contemporary mayhem from the point of view of a young man with nothing to loose,” said Naishtat, “Pobres Pibes” will be an “unnerving, fast-paced, urban tale that could make you both laugh and feel uncomfortable,” he added.
“This somewhat existential noir,” he says in a presentation, “is built on the basis of a fascination for irredeemable losers and their preferred emotion, the one that governs our time: Resent.
- 9/14/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Amazon Studios has picked up the rights to “The Boy From Medellín,” a documentary about Colombian musician J Balvin that’s directed by Matthew Heineman and will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
The film is a deep-dive into the life of Balvin and how he rose to stardom in his home of Colombia, all leading up to a massive concert he would perform in Medellín, Colombia. No release date has been set.
“Representing my country, my city and Latin culture globally is a lifelong pursuit and I’m so proud to be a son of Medellín. I’m honored to be able to tell my story in this beautiful way and working with Matthew on this project was an incredible experience. Thank you to Amazon for making sure this story can be seen around the world,” Balvin said in a statement.
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The film is a deep-dive into the life of Balvin and how he rose to stardom in his home of Colombia, all leading up to a massive concert he would perform in Medellín, Colombia. No release date has been set.
“Representing my country, my city and Latin culture globally is a lifelong pursuit and I’m so proud to be a son of Medellín. I’m honored to be able to tell my story in this beautiful way and working with Matthew on this project was an incredible experience. Thank you to Amazon for making sure this story can be seen around the world,” Balvin said in a statement.
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- 8/31/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
The world is about to be immersed in the life of musician J Balvin. Amazon Studios has acquired the worldwide rights to the documentary The Boy From Medellín ahead of its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. Directed by Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman and backed by Endeavor Content, the docu puts a spotlight on the reggaeton superstar that is one of the most influential Latinx musicians of our time.
The Boy from Medellín gives audiences unprecedented access to J Balvin as he prepares for the biggest concert of his life — a sold-out performance in his hometown of Medellín, Colombia. The docu dives deep into the musician’s life as he takes us behind the scenes to show us a pivotal and emotionally charged moment of his life.
“Representing my country, my city and Latin culture globally is a lifelong pursuit and I’m so proud...
The Boy from Medellín gives audiences unprecedented access to J Balvin as he prepares for the biggest concert of his life — a sold-out performance in his hometown of Medellín, Colombia. The docu dives deep into the musician’s life as he takes us behind the scenes to show us a pivotal and emotionally charged moment of his life.
“Representing my country, my city and Latin culture globally is a lifelong pursuit and I’m so proud...
- 8/31/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
J Balvin is on the mend after battling coronavirus. On Thursday, Aug. 13, the superstar singer shared news of his health in a video message that aired during the Premios Juventud 2020. While accepting the award for Video With A Purpose for "Rojo," the 35-year-old told fans that he's currently in recovery. "At this moment, I'm just getting better from Covid-19. These have been very difficult days, very complicated," Balvin said in the video message, according to Billboard. "Sometimes we won't think that we'll get it but I got it and I got it bad." The Grammy nominee went on to encourage fans to take precautions amid the ongoing global pandemic. "My message to those that...
- 8/14/2020
- E! Online
Three of Argentina’s foremost auteurs – “Rojo’s” Benjamin Naishtat, “The Third Side of the River’s” Celina Murga, and “Two Shots Fired’s” Martin Rejtman – will present new movie projects at a 9th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, the industry centerpiece at this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival.
They will be joined by up-and-coming directors such as “The Heiresses’” Marcelo Martinessi, “The Sharks’” Lucia Garibaldi and “The Future Perfect’s” Nele Wohlatz in a lineup that is long on strong and fairly established Argentine talent, has a clutch of new Colombian directors, and presses the urgent social-issue concerns that have come to characterize Latin American cinema.
Catapulted to fame when Martin Scorsese executive produced “The Third Side of the River,” Murga will present “The Smell of Freshly Cut Grass,” a high-concept gender drama starring “Paulina’s” Dolores Fonzi and co-written with partner and fellow film director Juan Villegas (“Las...
They will be joined by up-and-coming directors such as “The Heiresses’” Marcelo Martinessi, “The Sharks’” Lucia Garibaldi and “The Future Perfect’s” Nele Wohlatz in a lineup that is long on strong and fairly established Argentine talent, has a clutch of new Colombian directors, and presses the urgent social-issue concerns that have come to characterize Latin American cinema.
Catapulted to fame when Martin Scorsese executive produced “The Third Side of the River,” Murga will present “The Smell of Freshly Cut Grass,” a high-concept gender drama starring “Paulina’s” Dolores Fonzi and co-written with partner and fellow film director Juan Villegas (“Las...
- 8/13/2020
- by John Hopewell and Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
A total of €395,000 awarded to projects from Argentina, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Egypt, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, the Philippines, Senegal, Turkey and Venezuela.
Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund (Wcf) has awarded a combined €395,000 ($455,000) to 14 projects in its latest funding round.
The recipients hail from Argentina, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Egypt, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, the Philippines, Senegal, Turkey and Venezuela.
Selected directors that previously participated in Berlinale Talents include Amanda Nell EU (Tiger Stripes), Laura Citarella (Trenque Lauquen), Khavn de la Cruz (Love Is A Dog From Hell) and Katy Léna Ndiaye (Une Histoire Du Franc Cfa).
The latest funding round includes...
Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund (Wcf) has awarded a combined €395,000 ($455,000) to 14 projects in its latest funding round.
The recipients hail from Argentina, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Egypt, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, the Philippines, Senegal, Turkey and Venezuela.
Selected directors that previously participated in Berlinale Talents include Amanda Nell EU (Tiger Stripes), Laura Citarella (Trenque Lauquen), Khavn de la Cruz (Love Is A Dog From Hell) and Katy Léna Ndiaye (Une Histoire Du Franc Cfa).
The latest funding round includes...
- 7/22/2020
- by 1101184¦Orlando Parfitt¦38¦
- ScreenDaily
J Balvin dropped his latest Colores visual, “Gris,” on Wednesday, directed by Colin Tilley. The clip sees J Balvin dealing with heartache in some very surreal scenarios: floods, fires, scorpion infestations, and a storm featuring a giant flying whale. The more negative thoughts he has, the more real-world disasters they bring.
All of it, of course, is done in grayscale to match the song’s title. It is the fifth Tilley-directed video for Colores following “Rojo,” “Morado,” “Blanco” and “Amarillo.” Colores, J Balvin’s fourth album, is the follow-up to his 2018 full-length Vibras,...
All of it, of course, is done in grayscale to match the song’s title. It is the fifth Tilley-directed video for Colores following “Rojo,” “Morado,” “Blanco” and “Amarillo.” Colores, J Balvin’s fourth album, is the follow-up to his 2018 full-length Vibras,...
- 4/9/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
J Balvin has released three collaborative performance videos with Vevo, with songs taken from his latest album Colores. He kicked off his mini-series of performances last week with “Amarillo.”
In his latest clips, the Latin music star performs inside of a tarp-covered set. His outfits and the color of the set change depending on which song he’s performing: “Azul,” “Negro” and “Rojo.” J Balvin is the latest artist to participate in Vevo’s live performance series, following Khalid, Future, Karol G, Miley Cyrus, Chika and more.
Colores, released earlier this month,...
In his latest clips, the Latin music star performs inside of a tarp-covered set. His outfits and the color of the set change depending on which song he’s performing: “Azul,” “Negro” and “Rojo.” J Balvin is the latest artist to participate in Vevo’s live performance series, following Khalid, Future, Karol G, Miley Cyrus, Chika and more.
Colores, released earlier this month,...
- 4/3/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
U.K. cinemas remain shuttered due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and while some of the large chains with deep pockets have the wherewithal to ride out the crisis, independent cinemas are suffering. Some U.K. distributors have come up with solutions to remedy this.
Modern Films was due to release Haifaa Al-Mansour’s festival favorite “The Perfect Candidate” theatrically on March 27, but instead released it online on Curzon Home Cinema, the BFI Player and its own website. Customers choosing to rent the film via Modern’s website will see a drop-down menu at the purchase point that allows them to select and support a cinema of their choice. Part of the proceeds will go directly back to the cinema.
Similarly, 606 Distribution, which has released Nora Fingscheidt’s Berlin winner “System Crasher” online via Vimeo, gives renters the option to select a cinema of their choice who will receive 10% of the after-tax profit.
Modern Films was due to release Haifaa Al-Mansour’s festival favorite “The Perfect Candidate” theatrically on March 27, but instead released it online on Curzon Home Cinema, the BFI Player and its own website. Customers choosing to rent the film via Modern’s website will see a drop-down menu at the purchase point that allows them to select and support a cinema of their choice. Part of the proceeds will go directly back to the cinema.
Similarly, 606 Distribution, which has released Nora Fingscheidt’s Berlin winner “System Crasher” online via Vimeo, gives renters the option to select a cinema of their choice who will receive 10% of the after-tax profit.
- 3/31/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
In English, Spanish, or any other language you can throw at him, Colombian superstar J Balvin has a sixth sense for a smash hit. Between 2016’s Energía and 2018’s Vibras, the singer-songwriter established himself as the globe-trotting James Bond of reggaeton with chart-toppers like “Ginza” and “Mi Gente.” He then upped his game as a vocalist opposite Bad Bunny in 2019’s Oasis. But on Balvin’s fourth studio album, Colores, Balvin seems more dedicated to fine-tuning his signature sound than to crafting the Next Big Hit.
Don’t let the...
Don’t let the...
- 3/20/2020
- by Suzy Exposito
- Rollingstone.com
Colombian superstar J Balvin had slated his upcoming fourth studio album, Colores, for a March 20th release. However, the artist announced that he would expedite its release for Thursday, 7 p.m. Est — or 6 p.m. in his native Medellín.
Colores will be available for streaming exclusively on Spotify Thursday night and presented as a visual album dubbed the Colores Experience. For each of the 10 songs, all named after colors, Balvin himself will lead a guided meditation that channels the color and explain its relationship to the music.
“The idea of...
Colores will be available for streaming exclusively on Spotify Thursday night and presented as a visual album dubbed the Colores Experience. For each of the 10 songs, all named after colors, Balvin himself will lead a guided meditation that channels the color and explain its relationship to the music.
“The idea of...
- 3/19/2020
- by Suzy Exposito
- Rollingstone.com
After enjoying much fanfare at his Super Bowl halftime performance, Colombian superstar J Balvin has dropped a gory new visual for his latest single, “Rojo.” The new song, as well as previously released songs “Blanco” and “Morado,” will feature on his upcoming album Colores, which is set for release in March and is available for pre-order.
The Colin Tilley-directed video serves as a cautionary tale to not be distracted while driving and to remain present. In the affecting clip, Balvin is en route to witness the birth of his daughter at the hospital.
The Colin Tilley-directed video serves as a cautionary tale to not be distracted while driving and to remain present. In the affecting clip, Balvin is en route to witness the birth of his daughter at the hospital.
- 2/28/2020
- by Suzy Exposito and Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Mexico’s Piano, which is the producer of Abel Ferrara’s “Siberia” and upcoming films from Leos Carax, Mia Hansen-Love and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, is expanding into Germany and Colombia, incorporating Diana Bustamante and Ingmar Trost as producer partners.
Julio Chavezmontes heads Piano.
Piano’s initial focus will be to establish itself as a creator of premium television content for international audiences, and as a provider of top-level production services in all three countries, said Chavezmontes. It was also continue to make high-profile, auteur-driven, festival-winning movies.
Both Bustamante and Trost are well-known figures on the international production scene. Bustamante — whose credits include “The Wind Journeys,” “Crab Trap” and Cannes Camera d’Or and Critics’ Week winner “Land and Shade” — will head up Piano Colombia.
Trost, producer of Ilian Metev’s Locarno Golden Leopard winner “3/4,” Benjamin Naishtat’s San Sebastian-prized “Rojo” and Kristi Jacobson’s News & Documentary Emmy-winning “Solitary,” will run Piano’s German office in Cologne,...
Julio Chavezmontes heads Piano.
Piano’s initial focus will be to establish itself as a creator of premium television content for international audiences, and as a provider of top-level production services in all three countries, said Chavezmontes. It was also continue to make high-profile, auteur-driven, festival-winning movies.
Both Bustamante and Trost are well-known figures on the international production scene. Bustamante — whose credits include “The Wind Journeys,” “Crab Trap” and Cannes Camera d’Or and Critics’ Week winner “Land and Shade” — will head up Piano Colombia.
Trost, producer of Ilian Metev’s Locarno Golden Leopard winner “3/4,” Benjamin Naishtat’s San Sebastian-prized “Rojo” and Kristi Jacobson’s News & Documentary Emmy-winning “Solitary,” will run Piano’s German office in Cologne,...
- 2/22/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Maura Delpero’s drama premiered in competition at Locarno.
Paris-based Charades has sold northern American rights to Argentinian filmmaker Maura Delpero’s drama Maternal to Los Angeles-based distribution and production company 1844 Entertainment
The drama, about a young nun working in a religious shelter for unmarried teenage mothers in Buenos Aires, premiered in competition at Locarno last year and has since played at a number of festivals.
1844, which specialised in arthouse features, especially hailing from Latin America and Italy, has previously released Marcelo Martinessi’s The Heiresses and Benjamin Naishat’s Rojo.
In other deals, Charades has also sold German and Austrian rights to Berlin-based missingFILMS.
Paris-based Charades has sold northern American rights to Argentinian filmmaker Maura Delpero’s drama Maternal to Los Angeles-based distribution and production company 1844 Entertainment
The drama, about a young nun working in a religious shelter for unmarried teenage mothers in Buenos Aires, premiered in competition at Locarno last year and has since played at a number of festivals.
1844, which specialised in arthouse features, especially hailing from Latin America and Italy, has previously released Marcelo Martinessi’s The Heiresses and Benjamin Naishat’s Rojo.
In other deals, Charades has also sold German and Austrian rights to Berlin-based missingFILMS.
- 2/22/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Mexico City — Argentina’s Manuel Abramovich, a 2019 Berlinale Silver Bear winner for “Blue Boy,” has tapped French funding for its follow-up, “Pornomelancholia,” one of the highest-profile projects at Mexico’s Los Cabos Film Festival, which kicks off today with a gala screening of “The Irishman,”
Financing from the Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine, a building film-tv hub in South West France, has been secured by the film’s French co-producer, David Hurst at Dublin Films, which is based out of Bordeaux.
As equity finance from production partners has come to dominate over pre-sales in art film financing, and bring far more funding to the table, the number of producers involved on a project is often a good sign of not only its scale but excitement and perceived potential.
Lead produced by Gema Juárez Allen at Argentina’s Gema Films, “Pornomelanholia” is also co-produced by Rachel Daisy Ellis at Brazil’s Desvia, co-writer and...
Financing from the Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine, a building film-tv hub in South West France, has been secured by the film’s French co-producer, David Hurst at Dublin Films, which is based out of Bordeaux.
As equity finance from production partners has come to dominate over pre-sales in art film financing, and bring far more funding to the table, the number of producers involved on a project is often a good sign of not only its scale but excitement and perceived potential.
Lead produced by Gema Juárez Allen at Argentina’s Gema Films, “Pornomelanholia” is also co-produced by Rachel Daisy Ellis at Brazil’s Desvia, co-writer and...
- 11/13/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Since 2007, the Morelia International Film Festival (Ficm) has organized an annual Indigenous People Forum in the Michoacán capital during the fest. This year, for the first time, it dedicated two days the Mexican Indigenous Women Filmmakers: Identity and New Narratives forum.
Daniela Michel, general director of the festival; Marina Stavenhagen, forum coordinator; and María Novaro, director of the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (Imcine) hosted the two-day event which included seven hours of debate and discussion, as well as ten screenings – six shorts and four features, including two features in competition, “Tio Yim” and “Tote/Abuelo.”
First-day speakers included Magda Cacari of the Purépecha community; Mixtec filmmakers Ángeles Cruz and Dinazar Urbina Mata; Totzil director Dolores Sántiz Gómez; Amalia Córdova, curator of digital and emerging media at the Center of Popular Arts and Cultural Heritage of the Smithsonian Institute; and María Candelaria Palma of the Afro-Indigenous community of San Antonio in Guerrero,...
Daniela Michel, general director of the festival; Marina Stavenhagen, forum coordinator; and María Novaro, director of the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (Imcine) hosted the two-day event which included seven hours of debate and discussion, as well as ten screenings – six shorts and four features, including two features in competition, “Tio Yim” and “Tote/Abuelo.”
First-day speakers included Magda Cacari of the Purépecha community; Mixtec filmmakers Ángeles Cruz and Dinazar Urbina Mata; Totzil director Dolores Sántiz Gómez; Amalia Córdova, curator of digital and emerging media at the Center of Popular Arts and Cultural Heritage of the Smithsonian Institute; and María Candelaria Palma of the Afro-Indigenous community of San Antonio in Guerrero,...
- 10/24/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Morelia, Mexico — Paris-based Luxbox has picked up international sales rights to Guadalajara native Lorena Padilla’s debut feature “Martinez,” toplining Francisco Reyes who starred opposite Daniela Vega in Chile’s Oscar-winning “A Fantastic Woman.”
“We have totally embraced the singularity of this project which brings to our eyes the potential of a film that can entertain and move the audience,” said Luxbox CEO, Fiorella Moretti. “The film is a mix of different preoccupations of our contemporaries: Time passing, loneliness, isolation and the eternal quest for love, all depicted through a subtle and entertaining angle,” she noted, concluding: “The process of an audience-driven film.”
Reyes plays the titular of Martinez, an embittered Chilean in his sixties who has lived in Mexico for the past 40 years and is being forced to retire from his job. As he struggles with life changes, a neighbor suddenly dies and, as he sifts through her diary and her things,...
“We have totally embraced the singularity of this project which brings to our eyes the potential of a film that can entertain and move the audience,” said Luxbox CEO, Fiorella Moretti. “The film is a mix of different preoccupations of our contemporaries: Time passing, loneliness, isolation and the eternal quest for love, all depicted through a subtle and entertaining angle,” she noted, concluding: “The process of an audience-driven film.”
Reyes plays the titular of Martinez, an embittered Chilean in his sixties who has lived in Mexico for the past 40 years and is being forced to retire from his job. As he struggles with life changes, a neighbor suddenly dies and, as he sifts through her diary and her things,...
- 10/22/2019
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Fiorella Moretti and Hedi Zardi’s Paris-based sales agency Luxbox has closed several territory deals on Carlos Sironi’s “Sole,” which screened in Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti section and Toronto Film Festival’s Discovery sidebar. The film just won the audience award at Pingyao Intl. Film Festival in China and a Special Jury Mention for the lead actors at Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal.
The film, which will be released in Italy this week by Officina Ubu, has been picked up in France by Damien Megherbi and Justin Pechberty’s Les Valseurs. In the U.S., the film has been acquired by 1844 Entertainment, which previously enjoyed success with Luxbox’s “The Heiresses” and “Rojo.”
Luxbox also sealed deals on “Sole” with Fabula in Turkey and Cine Colombia in Colombia. Further deals will be announced soon.
In “Sole,” Sandra Drzymalska and Claudio Segaluscio star as a couple who pose as parents to be,...
The film, which will be released in Italy this week by Officina Ubu, has been picked up in France by Damien Megherbi and Justin Pechberty’s Les Valseurs. In the U.S., the film has been acquired by 1844 Entertainment, which previously enjoyed success with Luxbox’s “The Heiresses” and “Rojo.”
Luxbox also sealed deals on “Sole” with Fabula in Turkey and Cine Colombia in Colombia. Further deals will be announced soon.
In “Sole,” Sandra Drzymalska and Claudio Segaluscio star as a couple who pose as parents to be,...
- 10/21/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
This year’s Morelia Intl. Film Festival (Ficm), with support from a FilmWatch scholarship awarded by the U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, will host a Mexican Indigenous Filmmakers: Identity and New Narratives forum for women directors.
Issues such as diversity, identity, gender equity, inclusion and broader topics such as the challenges of film production, perspective, theme and narrative forms will be discussed over the forum’s two-day program, running Oct 22 and 23.
The forum also received support from the Metropolitan Autonomous University – Cuajimalpa Unit and the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (Imcine).
Each morning will kick off with conversations dedicated to analysis and collective reflection, followed by afternoon exhibitions of relevant work from or about indigenous peoples, attended by the filmmakers.
“We want to encourage reflection on what it means to be an indigenous filmmaker today in Mexico,” said event coordinator and screenwriter Marina Stavenhagen. “What are the stories they tell?...
Issues such as diversity, identity, gender equity, inclusion and broader topics such as the challenges of film production, perspective, theme and narrative forms will be discussed over the forum’s two-day program, running Oct 22 and 23.
The forum also received support from the Metropolitan Autonomous University – Cuajimalpa Unit and the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (Imcine).
Each morning will kick off with conversations dedicated to analysis and collective reflection, followed by afternoon exhibitions of relevant work from or about indigenous peoples, attended by the filmmakers.
“We want to encourage reflection on what it means to be an indigenous filmmaker today in Mexico,” said event coordinator and screenwriter Marina Stavenhagen. “What are the stories they tell?...
- 10/21/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Italian drama recorded an average of 3.4 stars from the six critics.
Pietro Marcello‘s Martin Eden has taken the top position of Screen’s complete 2019 Toronto Platform jury grid.
The Italian drama secured an average of 3.4 stars out of four across the six international critics. A score of three stars on the grid represents ‘good’.
Martin Eden won this year’s Toronto Platform Prize worth Cad $20,000 and stars Luca Marinelli as a sailor who struggles to reinvent himself as a writer and escape privation.
In close second with 3.2 was Rocks, the UK drama from Sarah Gavron which opened Platform. Rocks...
Pietro Marcello‘s Martin Eden has taken the top position of Screen’s complete 2019 Toronto Platform jury grid.
The Italian drama secured an average of 3.4 stars out of four across the six international critics. A score of three stars on the grid represents ‘good’.
Martin Eden won this year’s Toronto Platform Prize worth Cad $20,000 and stars Luca Marinelli as a sailor who struggles to reinvent himself as a writer and escape privation.
In close second with 3.2 was Rocks, the UK drama from Sarah Gavron which opened Platform. Rocks...
- 9/17/2019
- ScreenDaily
Madrid — Diego Lerman’s “Literature Teacher,” Asier Altuna’s “Karmele,” Benjamín Avila’s “The Cardinal” and Mariana Rondón’s “Zafari” will pitch at the 8th San Sebastian Europe-Latin American Co-production Forum, now firmly established as, along with Ventana Sur, the key art film meet exploring that axis.
Featuring new projects from other name auteurs from the region- Pablo Giorgelli, Neto Villalobos, for example – as well as top producers working Europe Latin American production – Tu Vas Voir, Campo Cine, Patagonik, Malbicho Cine, Tarea Fina – the Forum, running Sept.22-25, will attract most of San Sebastian’s now 2,000-plus industry delegates, while offering a glimpse of the market trends now forging the regions’ filmmaking.
Here, for starters, are three:
1.Step Up In Scale Or Mainstream Ambitions
One is a step up in scale, or move towards the mainstream. After winning the Cannes Festival’s Camera d’Or for best first feature with “Las Acacias,...
Featuring new projects from other name auteurs from the region- Pablo Giorgelli, Neto Villalobos, for example – as well as top producers working Europe Latin American production – Tu Vas Voir, Campo Cine, Patagonik, Malbicho Cine, Tarea Fina – the Forum, running Sept.22-25, will attract most of San Sebastian’s now 2,000-plus industry delegates, while offering a glimpse of the market trends now forging the regions’ filmmaking.
Here, for starters, are three:
1.Step Up In Scale Or Mainstream Ambitions
One is a step up in scale, or move towards the mainstream. After winning the Cannes Festival’s Camera d’Or for best first feature with “Las Acacias,...
- 8/13/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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