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Aeden O’Connor’s “Sun Falls,” Manuela Martelli’s “The Meltdown” and Tomás Corredor’s “November” feature among 15 projects to be presented at Ventana Sur’s 5th Proyecta co-production forum, a wide-ranging showcase of emerging and already consolidated filmmakers plus new talents to track from Latin America and Europe.

Producer Ana Isabel Martins at Honduras’ Pulsar Cine is re-teaming with director Aeden O’Connor, whose feature debut “90 Minutes” won the Audience Award at the 37th Miami Film Festival. Their new project, “Sun Falls,” follows a passionate young man dreams of making films to denounce the corruption, poverty and violence in Honduras that succumbs to the support of the leader of a local gang.

Chile’s Manuela Martelli, director of 2022 Cannes Director’s Fortnight premiere “1976,” returns with “The Meltdown,” produced by Wood Producciones’ Alejandra García, of Sundance player “The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future.”

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Proyecta is Ventana Sur’s Euro-Lat Am co-pro market.

The fifth edition of Proyecta, a Ventana Sur sidebar in association with Marché du Film and San Sebastian, will present 15 projects with the aim of fostering co-productions between Latin America and Europe.

The in-person event is taking place in Buenos Aires from November 28 to December 2.

The line-up includes The Meltdown by Chilean actor-director Manuela Martelli whose debut film 1976, her depiction of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship from the point of view of a woman, premiered in Director’s Fortnight at Cannes earlier ths year and was sold widely by Luxbox.

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“King of the Worlds,” “The Painting” and “City” are just three productions from Argentina pitching at Snack & Screen Argentina!, taking place Oct. 17 at Cannes’ Palais des Festivals.

Thrillers stand out as the genre of the day, with three of the ten projects promising something spooky.

“King of the Worlds” is an anime-style production from Caramba Estudio in co-production with Canada’s Copernicus Studios. Project won 2nd prize at New Series for Cartoon Network Latam, a contest hosted by Santiago Chile’s toon-market Chilemonos, and was pitched at Pitching Sessions Kids at Rio Content Market.

“The idea is that an everyday life object hides a world full of fun and fantasy. Who dwells in the windows, the olives, the staples?” says Caramba’s producer Marilina Sánchez. The Ariel López Verdesco-directed show follows Brian King, a kid gifted with the skill to enter into all these inner worlds.

“City” is a sci-fi...

On the occasion of its 25th edition, Argentina's Mar del Plata Film Festival (site) is teaming up with Mubi to present five films from its competition lineup online for free through November 21. Viewable as of today is Juan Baldana's Arrieros (Muleteers), a documentary on the life of one family living in Cajón del Maipo, up in the Chilean Andes (see the trailer above, the festival's interview with Baldana and his blog).

On Tuesday, Lucas Blanco's Buenos Aires-set comedy Amor en transito (Transit Love) will be available to viewers in Argentina, while Tamae Garateguy's Pompeya, a playful, gangster-ridden take on the movie-within-the-movie, goes worldwide.

Then on Thursday it's Nicolás Carreras's El camino del vino (The Ways of Wine), about a sommelier who loses his pallet, followed on Friday by Fernando Spiner's Aballay, based on a story by Antonio Di Benedetto set in 19th century Argentina: the western goes gaucho.