Los Cabos Film Festival E-Show Daily Number Two

TOP STORIES: Horror Romance 'Spring' Sells to Latin America (EXCLUSIVE); CAA Clout Making Los Ca...

Los Cabos Film Festival eSHOW DAILY NUMBER TWO 11.14.14

TOP STORIES Horror Romance 'Spring' Sells to Latin America (EXCLUSIVE) By Pat Saperstein Italy-set romantic horror pic "Spring," which had its Latin American premiere Thursday at the Los Cabos Film Festival, has been acquired by CineTren for Latin America. Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead ("Resolution") direct the love stor... Read Full Story at Variety.com → CAA Clout Making Los Cabos Festival a Must-Stop for Hollywood By Pat Saperstein CAA's co-head of film finance of sales Micah Green was talked into going to the first Los Cabos Film Festival in Cabo San Lucas three years ago mostly as favor for an actor client who was working with the founders to try to ma... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Witherspoon, Odile, Ebert Center Attention at Los Cabos By John Hopewell LOS CABOS – Two forces of nature - Reese Witherspoon, and the far less benevolent hurricane Odile – took center stage at the opening ceremony of the 3rd Los Cabos Festival, along with the slaughter of 43 students in Ayotzinapa an... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Paradigm Signs Mexican Rising Star Luis Gerardo Mendez By John Hopewell LOS CABOS, Mexico -- Continuing deal making at Mexico’s Los Cabos Festival, Paradigm has signed up Luis Gerardo Mendez, one of Mexico’s fastest-rising stars. Deal was signed at Mexico’s Los Cabos Festival, the fest announce... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Los Cabos Fest Prizes Tobar, Zunino, Marquez By John Hopewell LOS CABOS - Marcelo Tobar’s “Man by Man,” Max Zunino’s “Jumble” and Alejandra Márquez Abella’s “Easter” are among the first winners at Los Cabos, scooping three of its nine Gabriel... Read Full Story at Variety.com → World Talent House: Bridging the Talent Gap between the U.S., Mexico and Iberoamerica By Anna Marie de la Fuente World Talent House (WTH), which launched in Los Angeles in February 2013, is planning to add producers to its roster of behind-the-camera talent from Latin America and Spain next year. CEO/Founder Fabiola Pena (pictured) is in talks wit... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Media Luna Takes 'Internet Junkie' (EXCLUSIVE) By John Hopewell LOS CABOS – Adding to its already fulsome line-up of Latin American titles, up, Germany’s Media Luna has acquired world sales rights to Alexander Katzowicz’s “Internet Junkie,” produced by Monica Lozano (“... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Mexico's Camara Carnal and France's Noodles Join Chema Rodriguez's 'Seven Hours' (EXCLUSIVE) By Emiliano De Pablos Mexican filmmaker Francisco Vargas, the driving force behind international fest hit “The Violin,” is teaming with Spanish companies Producciones Sin Un Duro and Jose Nolla's Iconica plus French outfit Noodles Prods to co-produce ... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Crime Thriller 'Wolverine Hotel' Finds Financing (EXCLUSIVE) By Pat Saperstein "Wolverine Hotel" from director Patricia Chica is howling closer to production with a recent financing commitment from Jean-Guy Després, who will serve as exec producer. The edgy crime thriller is produced by Canada-based By... Read Full Story at Variety.com → REVIEWS Film Review: 'Asteroid' By Guy Lodge Sibling rivalry is kept at a low, slow simmer in "Asteroid," a fractiously intimate family drama in which the scabs of adult orphanhood are rather savagely picked. 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 → Venice Film Review: 'Words With Gods' By Guy Lodge Viewers from different religious backgrounds may reach contrasting interpretations of the nine shorts that make up spiritually themed portmanteau pic "Words With Gods," but most are likely to agree on one key point: It's altogether a bit of ... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Film Review: 'Listen Up Philip' By Scott Foundas So rueful and wise is writer-director Alex Ross Perry’s “Listen Up Philip," it comes as a shock to discover that Perry himself is not yet even 30. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Sundance Film Review: 'The Overnighters' By Justin Chang The difficulties of helping one's fellow man in post-recession America are scrutinized with heartrending intimacy in "The Overnighters," director Jesse Moss' powerful documentary portrait of a North Dakota town that has seen a massive influx... Read Full Story at Variety.com → 'Boyhood' By Peter Debruge Filmed in sequence across 12 years, this unprecedented experiment in longterm storytelling attempts to capture child actor Ellar Coltrane’s coming-of-age oncamera. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Los Cabos Festival: Baja Seafood Shines at Area's Restaurants By Pat Saperstein Chocolate clams. Tongue carpaccio. Venison tacos. These are just a few dishes diners in Baja California are trying these days beyond familiar favorites like fish tacos, lobster and margaritas. The food of Baja has evolved into ... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Billion Dollar Film Agency Funding Analyzed at Los Cabos By John Hopewell LOS CABOS – Not only providing production subsidies on national films but development, training, marketing, and even distribution and international festival attendance, the national government agencies – think Telefilm Canada, Fr... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Documentary Filmmaker Gustavo Gamou: 'All of My Shoots Have Been Punk Rock' By James Young “The Return of the Dead” (El Regreso del Muerto) takes a hard-hitting look at another facet of Mexico's destructive drug war. Filmed over three years, Gustavo Gamou's documentary has its world premiere Friday at the Los Cabo... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Tweet this Forward this

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