Z365" or "Festival all year round" is the new strategic point of the Festival in which converge investigation, accompaniment and development of new talents (Ikusmira Berriak, Nest); training and cinematic knowledge transfer (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Zinemaldia + Plus, Filmmakers' dialogue); and investigation, disclosure and cinematic thought (Z70 project, Thought and Discussion and Research and publications).
Edgar Ramirez (“Vantage Point,” “The Bourne Ultimatum”) will topline “Viene El Jaguar,” playing a tortured ex-priest trailing an exorcist into a “Heart of Darkness” Colombian jungle.
Produced by Colombia’s Antorcha Films, “Jaguar” reteams the talent behind Sundanceplayer “Perro come perro".
Carlos Moreno will direct, with Antorcha partners Diego F. Ramirez and Jhonny Hendrix producing. “Perro” scribes Alonso Torres and Moreno are finishing the screenplay; Juan C. Gil reups as cinematographer.
“Jaguar” is based on the real - and recent revelation that a group of under-age Colombian para-militaries, Los Cruzados, painted their nails black, practized satanic rites and ate human flesh to exorcize the spirits of villagers they’d killed, Moreno explained at San Sebastian.
Antorcha’s first fully-produced feature, “Perro,“ Colombia’s Oscar candidate, was picked up for international by Celluloid Dreams and sold to IFC in the U.S. It established Antorcha as a company-to-watch.
Moreno and Ramirez are at San Sebastian to talk up a new production slate.
Antorcha has teamed with El Salvador’s 205N Producciones for “Uno", now in post.
Directed by Moreno and Gerardo Muyshondt, the rapid-paced docu feature on the El Salvador national soccer team, which played Spain’s 1982 World Cup final, momentarily halting its civil war.
Juan David Restrepo, one of the leads in “Our Lady of the Assassins,” will topline “En Coma,” co-directing with Venezuela’s Henry Rivero. The tragic drama, about a Medellin thug in love, rolls Nov 1.
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