Rio de Janeiro Film Festival E-Show Daily Number Three

TOP STORIES: Brazil's Total, Mexico's Alebrije Team For Brazilian Remake of 'Instructions Not In...

Rio de Janeiro Film Festival eSHOW DAILY NUMBER THREE 10.01.14

TOP STORIES Brazil's Total, Mexico's Alebrije Team For Brazilian Remake of 'Instructions Not Included' (EXCLUSIVE) By John Hopewell RIO DE JANEIRO  -- In a mega co-production pact announced out of the RioMarket, Walkiria Barbosa’s Rio-based Total Filmes and Monica Lozano’s Alebrije Cine y Video have inked for a Brazilian remake of “Instruction... Read Full Story at Variety.com → F&ME Completes Production on 'Breathe - Umphefumlo' (EXCLUSIVE) By John Hopewell RIO DE JANEIRO -- With productions spread around much of the globe, and an enduring focus of social issues, Film and Music Ent. (F&ME), the London-based production company set up 15 years ago by Mike Downey and Sam Taylor, has concluded ... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Danny Glover, Maya Rudolph to Star in Diego Luna's 'Mr. Pig' (EXCLUSIVE) By John Hopewell Actor-director-producer Danny Glover (“Lethal Weapon,” “The Color Purple,” “Blindness,” “2012”) and Maya Rudolph (“Bridesmaids”) will star in Diego Luna’s English-language &ld... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Argentina's Daniel Burman Abandons Co-productions With Brazil (EXCLUSIVE) By John Hopewell RIO DE JANEIRO -- Nixing – momentarily, at least - one of the most promising of new pan-Latin American production partnerships, Daniel Burman, director of Berlin Grand Jury Prize and Silver Bear winner “The Lost Embrace,” s... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Fox Brazil Ramps up Domestic Production By Martin Dale The number of hours of Brazilian independent productions shown on the country’s payTV channels has more than tripled since the enactment of the 2012 law that obliges channels to screen at least 3.5 hours of domestic independent product... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Rio Signs First U.S. City Pact With Atlanta By John Hopewell RIO DE JANEIRO -- Two of Rio de Janeiro’s key film authorities – film-TV investment fund RioFilme and the Rio Film Commission – inked Tuesday in Rio a film/TV co-operation pact with Atlanta, Georgia, its first such agreemen... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Brazil, Europe Co-productions Hampered by Bureaucracy By Marcelo Cajueiro Rio de Janeiro – Brazilian and European companies involved in feature co-productions continue to face bureaucratic, administrative and legal obstacles that slow down and raise the cost of productions, agreed participants at the Rio Fes... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Colombian Helmer-Producer Oscar Ruiz Navia Talks About 'Los hongos' By Emiliano De Pablos Founder of Colombian outfit Contravia Films, Oscar Ruiz Navia's acclaimed directorial debut, “Crab Trap,” was Colombia's first ever Oscar candidate and won a Fipresci Prize at the 2009 Berlin festival. Ruiz Navia's helming follow... Read Full Story at Variety.com → REVIEWS Film Review: 'Ardor' By Peter Debruge The spirit of Sergio Leone hovers above Argentine director Pablo Fendrik’s “Ardor,” a spooky south-of-the-equator oater — or “machete Western,” if you will — that trades open desert horizons for dens... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Film Review: 'Long Distance' By Justin Chang Technology at once helps and hinders the connection between two far-apart lovers in this sensitive, moving drama. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Film Review: 'Holiday' By Jay Weissberg A gentle, attractive coming-out story of modest ambition and zero pretension. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Film Review: 'Men, Women & Children' By Justin Chang "Troubled Teens & Clueless Parents" might have made a more honest title for Jason Reitman's "Men, Women & Children," a carefully diagrammed thesis movie about The Way We Live Now. Read Full Story at Variety.com → 'Movie Life,' 'Forest,' 'Last Stand' Feature in Films from Rio By John Hopewell Brazilian actor-turned-director Selton Mello has is following up his milestone art film “The Clown,” Brazil’s Oscar entry, with “A Movie Life” adapting the book “A Distant Father” by Chilean Antonio ... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Martin Rejtman on 'Two Shots Fired' By John Hopewell LOCARNO -- In a world where man’s best friend finds new amigos – or so it appears – most anything can happen, and sometimes so it seems in quietly absurdist comedy “Two Shots Fired,” the fiction feature comeback... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Uruguayan D.P. Arauco Hernandez Talks About Moving Into Direction By Emiliano De Pablos The anticipated directorial debut of Uruguay's d.p.-turned-director Arauco Hernandez, “The Enemies of Pain” world preemed in Locarno Festival’s Filmmakers of the Present and now plays the Rio Festivals Latin Premiere. Produ... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Tweet this Forward this

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