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Fantasy comedy The Blond Arrow, by Spanish director Rafael Alcázar, and Venezuelan Gustavo Hernández Pérez’s thriller El Silbón proved standouts at the second Tareula Co-production Forum.
Tareula’s full-day event yesterday at San Sebastián included pitching sessions, where 11 producers presented their projects before a panel of commissioning editors. “Editors brought producers a more international take on their projects,” said Zentropa Intl. Spain’s David Matamoros, a tutor at the forum. ALife is Biutiful-style project, set in 1958 in Spain under Franco’s dictatorship,Arrow portraits the life of three Spanish young friends in a Castillian small town whose lives turn to a lage extent around Real Madrid soccer club star Alfredo Di Stéfano. Budgeted at Euros633,000 ($867,000), Silbón turns on the head of a village on the Venezuelan plains forced to investigate a series of horrendous murders committed by someone who whistles eerily in the darkness. Both film titles boast international appeal,
treating global issues via fantasy and thriller genres that travel worldwide. Highlights also included docu Sons of a Beetle, a true story of two Brazilian guys travelling to México for the 1970 Soccer World Cup, Pandora’s Box by acclaimed Spanish short-film director Arturo Ruíz Serrano, and Gaizka Urresti’s buddy crime comedy Blessed Calamity. Film projects at Tareula ranged from Euros 205,000 ($280,000) to Euros2.5 million ($3.4 million); most were at an
early financing stage. “The lack of financing is a common denominator,” said Imagina Intl. Sales head of film Beatriz Setuain,“but I found very good film ideas.”
“There were interesting projects; if they are carried out right, they can succeed,” said film exec Sophie de Mac Mahon, director of business development at Ilion Animation Studios. “Compared to the 2010 forum, projects’ quality has increased, and probably more than 50% of them will find coproduction or financing partners,” Matamoros concluded.
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