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Launching its major new 2011 industry event, the San Sebastian Festival hosts today its first Mexico-Basque Country Co-Production Meeting. Seven new films, at different financing stages, are presented by Mexican producers, including Fara Fara Films’ Lesslye Azareth Yin Ramos, who will tubthump fantasy project Boo. Mil Nubes Cine’s Roberto Fiesco, producer of Arturo Ripstein’s San Sebastian Official Section contender Las razones del corazon, brings Julián Hernández’s noir-ish melodrama Rencor tatuado. Also at San Sebastián is Agencia Sha producer Erika Avila, who re-teams with helmer Ernesto Contreras on drama I Dream in Another Language. Avila and Contreras teamed for 2007’s Párpados azules, winner of a Sundance’s Special Jury Prize. Six of the nine projects from the Basque Country are feature docus , often social issue-themed such as Berde Produkzioak’s Jai Alai Blues, Moriarti’s The Arrieta Method or On Time Ekoizpenak’s Mujeres en tránsito. Basque fiction features include one from Alava-based toon studio Silverspace (Leo), Armonika Ent.’s suspenser The Watchamaker’s Eyes or Bitart New Media’s tragicomedy The Silly Ones and The Stupid Ones.
The Mexico-Basque Country meet serves to test the waters for a significant Europe-Latin American co-production forum, which new San Sebastián director Jose Luis Rebordinos aims to launch next year. The initiative also serves needs on both sides of the Atlantic. Both Mexico and the Basque Country boast local financing sources. Their domestic markets, however, are challenged. There have been co-prods and coprod events before, the latest pic Ruben Imaz’s drama Cephalopod, from Mexican shingle Canana and San Sebastián’s Irusoin. Last Spring, Mexico’s Guadalajara Film Festival organized a focus on Basque-Country film. The question now is if these precedents are only a beginning. Event is co-organized by the Etxepare Basque Institute and Mexico’s National Arts and Culture Council Conaculta, plus its Imcine film agency.
EMILIANO DE PABLOS, JOHN HOPEWELL
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