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The world premiere of Spanish social drama La Deuda, thethird feature from actor-director Daniel Guzmán, will open the Malaga International Film Festival (Miff) on March 14.

Guzmán stars as a man living with an elderly woman, plaayed by Itziar Ituño, in a city apartment, while she struggles with her health and he has to confront a precarious job situation. The film is produced by Spain’s Acqu y Alli Films.La Deudatranslates as ‘The Debt’ but no English-language title has been confirmed.

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Miff showcases Spanish and Ibero-American films to the local and international industry...

Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks subsidiary The Remake Company has closed a remake deal with Italy’s Marco Belardi and his new label Bamboo Prod. for Ariel Winograd’s latest film “Today We Fix the World” (“Hoy se Arregla el Mundo”).

Produced by powerhouse shingle Patagonik, the family dramedy was picked up by Netflix for several key territories after its theatrical release by Disney’s Star early this year.

Mexico’s BH5 has also acquired the remake rights and is about to produce its version while talks are underway with Korean and French companies, said FilmSharks founder and CEO, Guido Rud. Winograd is already a known quantity in Italy. His last film “Ten Days Without Mom” topped the box office in Italy when it was released.

Dramedy stars Leonardo Sbaraglia from “Wild Tales” and “Pain and Glory” who finds out that he’s not the biological father of the nine-year-old boy at home.

Argentina’s Rodrigo de la Serna leads the cast in the latest Paramount+ original film for Latin America, “El Salto de Papá,” based on the memoir of Argentine author-journalist Martin Sivak.

Daniela Goggi, who co-wrote the script with Andrea Garrote, will direct the pic which is set to begin shooting in Argentina in upcoming weeks. Vis, Paramount’s international studio, is producing the drama in association with two of Argentina’s leading producers, Infinity Hill and Rei Cine.

The film is one of multiple Paramount+ original projects underway in Latin America and Spain as the streamer seeks to rev up its local slate. Competition for premium culturally-specific content among streaming giants and studios in Latin America continues to heat up as they source more original productions locally. This June, at its U.K. launch, Paramount+ announced plans to commission more than 150 international originals by 2025.

De la Serna is best known for his role as Palermo,...

The miraculous prospects of international funding initiatives and the opportunities and pitfalls offered by streaming platforms were among the topics discussed by leading Argentine producers during an online Ventana Sur panel on Thursday.

Diego Dubcovsky of Varsovia Films, Santiago Gallelli of Rei Cine and Paula Zyngierman of Maravillacine also looked back at the dynamic New Argentine Cinema wave that characterized the 1990s, and addressed the role of state funding for the sector, and the silver lining of the Covid-19 crisis.

Already racked by crippling inflation and a plunging peso, the Argentine film industry has been hit hard by the pandemic, which has led to a sharp decline in the cinema admissions and TV advertising that fund the country’s Instituto Nacional de Cinematografia y las Artes Audiovisuals (Incaa).

Dubcovsky, whose credits include “The Motorcycle Diaries,” Daniel Burman films like “Lost Embrace” and “Empty Nest,” as well as such recent pics...

New York-based sales company Visit Films has acquired worldwide rights for Mexican feature “Summer White,” world premiering in Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition on Sunday Jan. 26. Visit will also be screening the film at Berlinale’s European Film, Market.

Now a key North American sales company for Latin American films, Visit’s catalog includes other major Sundance titles such as Lucía Garibaldi’s World Cinema Directing Award-winner “The Sharks,” World Cinema Jury Prize-winners “The Queen of Fear” from Valeria Bertuccelli and Fabiana Tiscornia and “Time Share” from Sebastián Hofmann, and Cristián Jiménez and Alicia Scherson’s “Family Life.”

From debut director Rodrigo Ruiz Patterson, “Summer White” features newcomer Adrián Rossi as 13-year-old Rodrigo, a lonesome teenager living on the outskirts of Mexico City who has an unhealthily close relationship with his mother Valeria, played by Mexican Academy Ariel Award-nominated actress Sophie Alexander-Katz (“The Darkest Days of Us”).

When Valeria...

Mubi's retrospective Melancholy & Deadpan: The Films of Martín Rejtman is showing September – November, 2019.The Magic Gloves“I can’t go on. I’ll go on,” Samuel Beckett wrote in The Unnamable. A similar motto underlines the sly, darkly humorous films of the Argentine filmmaker Martín Rejtman. In an interview with Film Comment, after the premiere of his film, The Magic Gloves (2003), at the Locarno Film Festival, Rejtman commented on the stupendous amounts of anti-depressives that his characters take in the movie: “It’s a way of showing how in life you go on, and things don’t affect you so much, and you still go on, and you still go on.” Asked whether his characters are depressed, Rejtman noted that a personal echo of his father’s manic-depressive illness might, in a small way, tinge his films. The depression is certainly a recurring theme; it re-appears in Rejtman’s latest short,...

Buenos Aires — In a return to film production after serving as president of Argentina’s National Institute of Film and the Audiovisual Arts (Incaa) and then as a member of parliament, film producer Liliana Mazure is teaming with prestigious counterparts in Mexico and Brazil on a three-part, pan-regional dark comedy, “Mental Health Not Included.”

Lead produced by Mazure’s Arca Difusión in Argentina, Laura Imperiale’s Cacerola Films and Carlos Sosa’s Viento del Norte in Mexico and Beto Rodrigues Panda Filmes in Brazil, “Mental Health” will be directed by Martin Salinas, writer of 2003 Diego Luna starrer “Nicotina” and writer-director of the Diamond-distributed and then Netflix-released “Ni un hombre más,” with Valeria Bertuccelli.

Also written by Salinas, “Mental Health Not Included” kicks in with the president of the United States, Donald Cramp, announcing an end to international trade: the U.S. will henceforth function as a self-sufficient economy. He...

Madeline’s Madeline, Maze among roster to draw buyers.

Visit Films has announced further deals that closed in the run-up to and during Afm on a slew of films including Locarno Golden Leopard winner A Land Imagined, Tribeca Film Festival triple winner Diane, and SXSW selection 1985.

Chinese mystery A Land Imagined has closed in Taiwan (Cineplex) and China (Jetsen), while cinesky picked up airline rights to the drama Diane, which stars Mary Kay Place (pictured) and won best narrative feature and best dramatic screenplay honours in New York for Kent Jones, as well as best cinematography honours.

Family drama 1985 starring Cory Michael Smith,...

San Sebastian — Denmark’s Snowglobe is teaming with Argentina’s Rei Cine to produce writer-director Pablo Fendrik’s “Hermano Peligro” (Brother Danger).

Currently at first-draft screenplay, the title weighs is as one of the big potential crossover project propositions at this year’s San Sebastian Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum, which tales place Sunday Sept. 23.

The co-production also links two of the most prestigious and internationally energetic upscale film companies currently working in the Spanish-speaking world.

Headed by Benjamin Domenech, Santiago Gallelli, and Matías Roveda, Buenos Aires-based Rei Cine, “Hermano Peligro’s” lead producer, has over the last year produced Lucrecia Martel’s “Zama” and Natalia Garagiola’s “Hunting Season,” both 2017 Venice hits, then Sundance-selected “The Queen of Fear,” from Valeria Bertuccelli and Fabiana Tiscornia, and Gonzalo Tobal’s 2018 Venice competition player “The Accused.”

A Copenhagen-located co-producer of some of the highest-profile and boldest Latin American movies in the last two years – Carlos Reygadas’ “Our Time,...

by David González, Cineuropa.orgTolga Karaçelik’s film has won the World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize, while Talal Derki has triumphed again in the World Cinema Documentary Competition

Butterflies by Tolga Karaçelik

The Sundance Film Festival came to an end yesterday, after the list of films awarded by the jury (which included Ruben Östlund) was unveiled at a ceremony on Saturday evening. Curiously enough, the World Cinema competitions, which included a handful of European productions and co-productions, witnessed the triumph of two films hailing from the Middle East.

Turkish filmmaker Tolga Karaçelik’s Butterflies, the follow-up to his award-winning Ivy, received the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition. The film follows three siblings who do not know each other or anything about their late father, as they wait to bury his body in a rural Turkish village.

Furthermore, the World Cinema Dramatic Competition saw victory for European talent,...

The 2018 Sundance Film Festival drew to a close this evening with the announcement of the annual fest’s award winners, care of a free-wheeling ceremony hosted by Jason Mantzoukas, who stars in Hannah Fidell’s Sundance comedy “The Long Dumb Road.”

The Grand Jury Prizes, considered Sundance’s biggest honor, went to Desiree Akhavan’s “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” (U.S. Dramatic), Derek Doneen’s “Kailash” (U.S. Documentary), Tolga Karaçelik’s “Butterflies” (World Cinema Dramatic), and Talal Derki’s “Of Fathers and Sons” (World Cinema Documentary).

Read More:The 2018 IndieWire Sundance Bible: Every Review, Interview, and News Item Posted During the Festival

Each year, the festival’s juries give out directing prizes in each of the four competition categories. This year, each directing prize went to a female filmmaker, including Sara Colangelo, Alexandria Bombach, Sandi Tan, and Isold Uggadottir. The festival’s dedicated screenwriting prize, the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award,...

The Guilty, Shirkers claim Park City honourees on Saturday night.

Sundance 2018 wrapped on Saturday (January 27) with juried awards for The Miseducation Of Cameron Post (pictured) in the U.S. Dramatic programme, Kailash in U.S. Documentary, Of Fathers And Sons in World Cinema Documentary, and Butterflies in World Cinema Dramatic.

In other highlights, Gustav Möller’s acclaimed Danish selection The Guilty won the World Cinema Audience award, while Sandi Tan collected the World Cinema Documentary directing award for Shirkers. Festival Favorite, A new award voted on by audiences, will be announced in the coming days.

The Sentence by Rudy Valdez was the audience favourite in the U.S. Documentary category, capping a fine day that saw HBO acquire Us rights from Cinetic Media.

“The scope and scale of this year’s festival – films, events, conversations – were invigorating,” Sundance Institute executive director Keri Putnam said. “I can’t wait to see how our incredible community will leverage these ten days...

An Argentine star actress reaches her own personal age of anxiety in the drama The Queen of Fear (La reina del miedo), written by and starring actual Argentine star actress Valeria Bertuccelli, who also co-directed the film with experienced assistant director Fabiana Tiscornia. This Sundance World Dramatic Competition entry takes the idea of stage fright and extrapolates it as the pic explores the crippling “life fright” of a famous actress in early middle age while she’s preparing for a one-woman theater show that remains frustratingly vague in its outline and contents — even for the actress herself.

This is clearly a personal...

The directorial debut of Argentine actress Valeria Bertuccelli, The Queen of Fear holds its world premiere at Sundance 2018 as part of the World Cinema Dramatic Competition. The film was co-directed by Fabiana Tiscornia and stars Bertuccelli as an actress set to open a one-woman show. Matías Mesa, the film’s cinematographer, has Dp’d a number of Spanish-language shorts and features in addition to his camera operator work on Okja, Triple 9 and The Road. Below, Mesa speaks with Filmmaker about lighting a blackout sequence and the visual influences on The Queen of Fear. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the cinematographer of […]...

Ryan Kampe will introduce films to Efm buyers in Berlin next month.

Source: Visit Films

New York-based Visit Films has acquired rights to two Sundance premieres, taking the world excluding Latin America and Scandinavia to The Queen Of Fear and the world excluding North America, Mexico, and Benelux to Time Share.

After their world premieres in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section, Visit president Ryan Kampe and his team will present the films to Efm buyers in Berlin.

Argentine actress Valeria Bertuccelli (Xxy, A Boyfriend for My Wife) and Fabiana Tiscornia directed The Queen Of Fear (Argentina-Denmark), which premieres on Sunday.

Bertuccelli wrote the screenplay and stars in the Rei Cine and Patagonik production as a neurotic actress who attempts to distract herself from the fast-approaching opening night of her one-woman show. Diego Velázquez, Sary López, Gabriel Goity, and Dario Grandinetti round out the key cast.

Santiago Gallelli, Benjamin Domenech, and Matias Roveda produced...

Ryan Kampe will introduce films to Efm buyers in Berlin next month.

Source: Visit Films

New York-based Visit Films has acquired rights to two Sundance premieres, taking the world excluding Latin America and Scandinavia to The Queen Of Fear and the world excluding North America, Mexico, and Benelux to Time Share.

After their world premieres in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section, Visit president Ryan Kampe and his team will present the films to Efm buyers in Berlin.

Argentine actress Valeria Bertuccelli (Xxy, A Boyfriend for My Wife) and Fabiana Tiscornia directed The Queen Of Fear (Argentina-Denmark), which premieres on Sunday.

Bertuccelli wrote the screenplay and stars in the Rei Cine and Patagonik production as a neurotic actress who attempts to distract herself from the fast-approaching opening night of her one-woman show. Diego Velázquez, Sary López, Gabriel Goity, and Dario Grandinetti round out the key cast.

Santiago Gallelli, Benjamin Domenech, and Matias Roveda produced...

Exclusive: New York-based festival veteran Laurence Asseraf is launching the invite-only Be Film International Features Festival as a platform to enable global films to find Us distribution.

This year’s inaugural event runs from October 24-26 in New York and will feature global films with a focus on Argentina.

“What we are trying to accomplish here, is bring home, in an intimate, relaxed, but highly professional setting certain foreign films that might have escaped the eyes of Us distributors while on their tour to all major festivals abroad,” said Asseraf (pictured).

“I knew Argentina very well since I lived there as a child,” said the French industry veteran, who also founded Be Film The Underground Film Festival. “Their cinema is very European and speaks to the world.”

The Argentinian Consulate will sponsor the opening night reception.

The line-up of screenings includes:

Muerte En Buenos Aires (Argentina) – Natalia Meta’s 1980s set mystery-drama in Buenos Aires starring [link=nm...

Exclusive: New York-based festival veteran Laurence Asseraf is launching the invite-only Be Film International Features Festival as a platform to enable global films to find Us distribution.

This year’s inaugural event runs from October 24-26 in New York and will feature global films with a focus on Argentina.

“What we are trying to accomplish here, is bring home, in an intimate, relaxed, but highly professional setting certain foreign films that might have escaped the eyes of Us distributors while on their tour to all major festivals abroad,” said Asseraf (pictured).

“I knew Argentina very well since I lived there as a child,” said the French industry veteran, who also founded Be Film The Underground Film Festival. “Their cinema is very European and speaks to the world.”

The Argentinian Consulate will sponsor the opening night reception.

The line-up of screenings includes:

Muerte En Buenos Aires (Argentina) – Natalia Meta’s 1980s set mystery-drama in Buenos Aires starring [link=nm...

Victoria Galardi's I Thought It Was a Party has added guests Elena Anaya of The Skin I Live In, Valeria Bertuccelli (A Boyfriend For My Wife) and The Student's Esteban Lamothe Variety reports that Argentinian helmer Victoria Galardi, known for Mount Bayo, directs and scripts the drama which tells of Ana (Anaya) who sparks a passionate relationship with her close friend Lucia's (Bertuccelli) ex-husband (Lamothe) while house-sitting for her and looking after her daughter. Lucia feels betrayed about the relationship.

Victoria Galardi's I Thought It Was a Party has added guests Elena Anaya of The Skin I Live In, Valeria Bertuccelli (A Boyfriend For My Wife) and The Student's Esteban Lamothe Variety reports that Argentinian helmer Victoria Galardi, known for Mount Bayo, directs and scripts the drama which tells of Ana (Anaya) who sparks a passionate relationship with her close friend Lucia's (Bertuccelli) ex-husband (Lamothe) while house-sitting for her and looking after her daughter. Lucia feels betrayed about the relationship.

Many stabs at a charming and funny rom-com do not add up to one coherent film. Accomplished director Daniel Burman should have known better. Directed by Daniel Burman, written by Daniel Burman and Sergio Dubcovsky in Argentina, .All In. had its international premier at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York in April of 2012. Filmed the hip Federal District of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the slick mis-en-scene of this film fails to make up for the mish-mash of a plot. Yes, it is a romantic comedy and the two leads Valeria Bertuccelli as Gloria and Jorge Drexler as Uriel are as romantic as it gets. At least if one considers an airbrushed nude romantic. Uriel is a professional poker player...

HollywoodNews.com: The 2012 Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), presented by American Express®, today announced the World Narrative and Documentary Competition film selections, along with selections for the out-of-competition Viewpoints section—the program established last year that highlights personal stories in international and independent cinema. Forty-six of the 90 feature-length films were announced. The 11th edition of the Festival will take place from April 18 to April 29 at locations around New York City.

The Festival was curated by a new programming team this year. Frédéric Boyer has joined Tff as Artistic Director, having most recently served as Artistic Director and Head of Programming for the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. Geoffrey Gilmore, Chief Creative Officer of Tribeca Enterprises, has expanded his role in overseeing the Festival program. Genna Terranova has been promoted to Director of Programming and Cara Cusumano returns as Programmer.

“It’s been so gratifying to watch the new programming...

The Tribeca Film Festival announced half of this year’s movie showcase, the 11th edition of the New York celebration set for April 18-29. James Franco’s behind-the-scenes General Hospital feature, Francophrenia, will have its North American premiere in the Viewpoints section – the program established last year that highlights more personal stories. “He’s kind of constructed this really interesting and well-crafted film about that experience that plays with the boundaries of documentary,” says Genna Terranova, Tribeca’s director of programming. “It’s a bit tongue in cheek, as James himself can be. He’s a bit enigmatic and the film is as well.

With The Five-Year Engagement set as the opening title for the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival, they’ve announced more of the line-up today with World Narrative & Documentary Features as the Viewpoint titles. We’ve got the next film from The Exploding Girl director Bradley Rust Gray, Jack and Diane (as well as a first look about featuring Juno Temple, thanks to Styd).

There is a new Harmony Korine short as well Kate Bosworth‘s While We Were Here and The Girl, starring Abbie Cornish. James Franco also has his latest film, Francophrenia, featuring footage from his performance on General Hospital. Nothing sticks out too greatly yet, but if I see something as interesting as Beyond the Black Rainbow or Magic Valley like last year, I’ll be a happy man. Check it out below and come back Thursday for the rest of the announcement.

World Narrative Feature Competition

• All In (La Suerte En Tus Manos...

SXSW kicks off later this week, but once your done slurping the BBQ sauce off your fingers, pack your backs and head north to Manhattan as the Tribeca Film Festival is gearing up to unspool in April. To whet cinephile appetites, organizers have dropped the lineup for the World Narrative Feature Competition, World Documentary Feature Competition and Viewpoints lineups and there are plenty of titles to take note of.

Among the narratives, the anticipated "Jack And Diane" from Bradley Rust Gray will make its world premiere. Starring Juno Temple and Riley Keough, the film takes a teenage lesbian love tale and twists the formula, with one of them revealing she's a werewolf. Add to that a cast rounded out by Dane DeHaan, Jena Malone and pop star Kylie Minogue (as a tattooed lesbian, of course) and you can see why this will be one of the hottest tickets at the fest.

The 2012 Tribeca Film Festival will attack eyeballs from April 18-29, and they’ve launched their first offensive by declaring some of the movies they’ll have in their arsenal. That group includes James Franco and Ian Olds‘s Francophrenia (or Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is) which was filmed during tapings of Franco’s appearances on General Hospital. It also boasts new work from Harmony Korine and several of the most interesting-sounding flicks from the European Film Market. Check out the full list below: World Narrative Feature Competition All In (La Suerte En Tus Manos), directed by Daniel Burman, written by Daniel Burman and Sergio Dubcovsky. (Argentina) – International Premiere. Professional poker player Uriel has been on a real hot streak—with the ladies—since his marriage fizzled out. But in between growing his online gambling business and helping to raise his kids, Uriel has rediscovered his old pre-marriage flame, Gloria...

Valeria Bertuccelli is wooed by Gabriel Goity in A Boyfriend for my Wife.

Olive Films will deliver the popular 2008 Argentine romantic comedy A Boyfriend for My Wife (Un Novio Para Mi Mujer in its native language) on DVD on Oct. 4, for a list price of $29.98.

The movie concerns Tenso (Adrian Suar), a stressed man who goes to unusual lengths to get out of his unhappy marriage after realizing that he lacks the courage to ask his wife Tana (Valeria Bertuccelli) for a divorce. He seizes the idea to hire a womanizer nicknamed “The Crow” (Gabriel Goity) to romance Tana and woo her away, hoping that she’ll be the one who asks for the divorce once she realizes she no longer loves him.

Juan Taratuto (It’s Not You, It’s Me) directed this Spanish-language comedy, which was Argentina’s top-grossing film of 2008.

The movie wasn’t released in theaters in the U.

Warner Bros. Pictures has optioned the U.S. remake rights for the Argentinean comedy .A Boyfriend for My Wife.. According to Variety, the deal was negotiated by Alejandro Cacetta of Disney-backed Patagonik Film Group, which produced the film, and Guido Rud of Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks International..Boyfriend,. starring Adrian Suar and Valeria Bertuccelli, is about a husband who tries to get his wife to fall in love with another man so he can leave her. Pablo Solarz wrote the script.