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This year’s Films in Progress 20 - a festival sidebar for Latin American films in rough-cut stage – includes six films from Argentina,Brazil, Chile,Colombia,Mexico and Paraguay.
A twice-yearly joint initiative between San Sebastian Festival and the Rencontres Cinémas d’Amérique Latine in Toulouse, Films in Progress is supported by over 30 institutions including Dolby,Kodak, Ibermedia, Technicolor, France’s CNC,Europa Distribution and Mediamundus. It offers postproduction awards and access to the Instituto Cervantes’world network.
Brazil’s Marcelo Gomes – whose debut feature Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures won over 50 awards after bowing at Cannes’ 2005 Un Certain Regard – will be unspooling his third feature, Once Upon a Time Veronica about the existential angst of a recent medical school grad in Recife, resulting from a co-production deal between France’s Urban Factory and Sara Silveira’s Sao Paulo-based Dezenove Som e Imagem.
Another burgeoning Latin American artpic producer with a keen eye for new talent, Pablo and Juan de Dios Larrain’s Fabula in Chile, is producing Young and Wild the feature debut of LGBT pioneer Marialy Rivas, about the bisexual daughter of strict Evangelist parents.
A young love tale set under Argentina’s dictatorship, Benjamin Avila’s Clandestine Childhood is lead-produced by Luis Puenzo’s Historias Cinematográficas.
Colombian Juan Andrés Arango’s The Beach, is a Bogota-set coming-of-age drama about racial tension. The pic’s French co-producer, Thierry Lenouvel of Ciné Sud Promotion, believes that Latin American cinema is on a roll. “There’s a lot of talent in the region, especially in Colombia where I’m working on three projects” he explains.
Juan Carlos Maneglia and Tana Schémbori’s thriller 7 Crates is a rare Paraguayan production about a 17 year-old barrow-boy, who dreams of becoming famous.
Finally,Mexican Gabriel Mariño’s road movie,A Secret World, is about the adventures of a 19-year-old girl.“This is a very interesting moment for Latin American cinema and San Sebastián is the perfect window for us,” suggests Mariño.
“Throughout the continent, we’re producing very interesting films with little money.”
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