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Three name Latin -American helmers - Uruguay’s Cesar Charlone, Mexico’s Arturo Ripstein, and Brazil’s Marcelo Gomes will direct films in TVE’s Libertadores movie collection. All the eight movies in the collection turn on Latin America’s freedom fighters who wrestled independence from Spanish domain, or died or were exiled in the attempt.
One of pubcaster Spanish pubcaster TVE’s most ambitious fiction productions, Libertadores was presented Monday at the San Sebastian Festival in one of the confab’s biggest indystry events.
Libertadores is produced by RTVE, Jose Maria Morales’Wanda Films and actor Sancho Gracia’s Lusa Films.
Uruguay’s Charlone (The Pope’s Toilet) will direct Artigas, about the indominatable Jose Gervasio Artigas,who struggled from 1806 to 1820 to wrestle independence for Uruguay - despite the opposition of Great Britain,Spain,Portugal and eventually Argentina. Pic, which shoots from Oct. 12, turns on a journalist sent to murder Artigas. It is toplined by Uruguayan- Spanish actor Rodolfo Sancho.
Vet auteur Ripstein (Deep Crimson) will helm a film about Mexican merchant Pedro Moreno and Spanish liberal Javier de la Mina, who led an aborted revolution against Spanish rule in Mexico in 1817.
Brazilian Marcelo Gomes (Movies, Aspirin and Vultures) will focus on Brazil’s Tiradentes, hung by Portuguese colonial rulers in Brazil in 1792.
“It’s a collection, not a series. And each movie is different.They’re not bios. They turn on a defining moment in the life of Latin America’s freedom fighters,” Morales said at San Sebastian.
The first two movies in the collection are Marti, an intimist portrait of the adolescence of Cuba’s Jose Marti, Directed by Cuba’s Fernando Perez (La vida es silbar) and now in post, Marti will be ready for delivery in December,Morales said.
Second feature turns on Argentina’s Jose de San Martin,played by Rodrigo de la Serna, who liberated Chile and Lima.
Featuring the general’s epic passage over the Andes with 6,200 men,San Martin is “a susense film, sometimes a western,” co-director Leandro Ipina said Monday at San Sebastian.
Each individual movie costs at least Euro1 million ($1.4 million). Films have and will be produced in co-production with the pubcastets of Latin American countries, cutting costs substantially. Further funding has come from the Ibermedia Latin American co-production
fund.
International rights outside countries of production will be held by TVE, signalled TVE’s Ferrada.
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