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Roberto Doveris’ werewolf tale “Blood Red Nails,” two doc-features – Cristobal Valenzuela’s Black Cocaine” and Agustín Flores’ “The Curve” – and Málaga Fest hit “The Night is a Farce” look like potential standouts at a wide-ranging Sanfic Wip Iberoamericana, which underscores new production models on the rise in Latin America and beyond.

Part of Sanfic Industria, the industry arm of Chile’s Santiago International Film Festival (Sanfic), the pix-in-post spread also provides a significant platform for movies from Latin America and Spain aiming to hit the festival circuit later this year or first half 2026.

Probably the biggest industry package in this year’s Sanfic Wip and a step in Doveris’ consolidation as one of Latin America’s prominent genre auteurs, “Blood Red Nails” marks his third feature after 2016 debut “Plants” which won best film at the Berlinale Generation14+ while 2022’s “Phantom Project premiered in main Tiger Competition at Rotterdam.

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Bizarrap is highlighting the future of Latin rap with his newest Music Session collaboration. On Wednesday night, the Argentine producer released “Vol. 60″ of the series, alongside “Subió La Temperatura,” alongside rising Dominican rapper Lismar.

The producer debuted the pair of songs onstage during Biza’s Terminal 5 show Wednesday night. “I just released a song a few minutes ago. Are you ready to hear it for the first time live or not?!” Biza told the crowd, per Billboard. “I brought a special guest. Her name is Lismar from the Dominican Republic.

Chosen as one of Variety’s 10 Screenwriters to Watch 2022, Ximena García Lecuona, the Mexico City-based writer of Billy Porter’s “Anything’s Possible,” has set her directorial debut “No Me Sigas,” a Spanish-language chiller with a shocking final twist.

Also writer of “The Kiss List,” García Lecuona will direct with brother Eduardo Lecuona. The smart genre horror thriller is set up at Mexico City’s Maligno Gorehouse, which co-produced “Huesera,” a double Tribeca winner and XYZ pick-up.

Also written by García Lecuona, “No Me Sigas” turns on Carla, 26, who dreams of becoming a big influencer. To achieve this she decides to fake a haunting in her apartment. However, in playing with these dark forces, she accidentally lets in a real malignant entity.

“Although a horror movie instead of a romantic comedy, ‘No Me Sigas,’ [like ‘Anything’s Possible” and “The Kiss List”] also falls in the Young Adult genre, it has that coming-of-age feel.

Already Brazil’s biggest film and TV hub — indeed, after Mexico City, Latin America’s second-largest shoot locale — São Paulo is now launching a production incentive revolution.

The city of São Paulo’s film-tv agency Spcine is readying Brazil’s first-ever cash rebates for international and national productions and international co-productions.

These will be introduced as soon as the Covid-19 crisis subsides, most likely after July, when productions are projected to roll once more in Brazil, says Spcine president Laís Bodanzky.

Feature films, animation, series and global commercials, plus national productions with international market potential (think Netflix series) are all eligible for rebates. Tabbed at 20%-30% of local expenditure, with a minimum local spend of $500,000, the rebates’ cap will depend on the amount of money available and currency exchange rates at the time the final text of the law is released, Bodanzky adds.

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