Ventana Sur E-Show Daily Number Three

TOP STORIES: Gustavo Hernandez Preps 'Albatros' (EXCLUSIVE); Itaca Films Colombia Prepping Amazo...

Ventana Sur eSHOW DAILY NUMBER THREE 12.04.14

TOP STORIES Gustavo Hernandez Preps 'Albatros' (EXCLUSIVE) By John Hopewell BUENOS AIRES – Bursting onto Latin America’s genre scene with the Elle Driver-sold “La casa muda,” a big hit at Cannes in 2011, Uruguay’s Gustavo Hernandez has set his next feature, sci-fi survival thriller &ldq... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Itaca Films Colombia Prepping Amazon-themed Shorts (EXCLUSIVE) By Anna Marie de la Fuente BUENOS AIRES– Bogota-based Itaca Films Colombia, the new partnership launched by former Dynamo producer/co-founder Rodrigo Guerrero and AG Studios prexy Alex Garcia, is producing five shorts in a feature format as the first of multiple... Read Full Story at Variety.com → FilmSharks Boards 'Francisco,' with Dario Grandinetti By John Hopewell BUENOS AIRES – One of Argentina’s most revered actors, Dario Grandinetti (“Wild Tales,” “Talk to Her”), will play Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, who anointed Pope Francis in March of la... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Jirafa, REI Cine, De Facto Team for Said's 'Los Perros' (EXCLUSIVE) By John Hopewell BUENOS AIRES – Benjamin Domenech’s REI Cine, producer of Lucrecia Martel’s upcoming “Zama,” a co-production with Pedro and Agustin’s Almodovar’s El Deseo, has broadening its involvement in cutting ed... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Directors' Fortnight Chile Factory Unveils Lineup By Emiliano De Pablos Chilean filmmakers Matias Rojas, Ignacio Rodriguez, Manuela Martelli and Teresita Ugarte have been selected to form part of Chile Factory, the omnibus feature project launched October by Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight and Chile's p... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Locarno Fest Launches Carte Blanche Extra By John Hopewell BUENOS AIRES – Switzerland’s Locarno Festival is creating a new platform, Carte Blanche Extra, allowing up-to-four producers from Colombia, Mexico, Brazil and Chile to present their films in development to potential co-producers ... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Primer Plano Takes Worldwide Rights to Thriller 'Witness' (EXCLUSIVE) By Emiliano De Pablos Pascual Condito's sales-distribution company, the Primer Plano Film Group, has taken worldwide distribution rights to Argentine Santiago Fernandez's psychological thriller “Intimate Witness.” Playing in Ventana Sur as one of... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Mexico's Isaac Ezban Talks Social Sci-Fi, Lovecraft, 'The Twilight Zone,' 'The Similars' By Marianne Zumberge Mexican writer-director Isaac Ezban comes to Ventana Sur with two films, “The Incident” and Blood Window’s “The Similars.” Making both films in one year was a whirlwind for Ezban, particularly since these are hi... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Brazil's Vitrine Filmes Nabs Marina Person's 'California' (EXCLUSIVE) By Emiliano De Pablos Brazilian distributor Vitrine Filmes has taken local distribution rights to Marina Person's coming-of-age drama “California,” one of the six pics-in-post vying for plaudits at Ventana Sur's Primer Corte this week. The feature deb... Read Full Story at Variety.com → One Eyed Takes 'They Returned' By Emilio Mayorga London-based One Eyed Films has taken international rights to "They Returned," directed by Argentine Ivan Noel ("¡Primaria!"). Loosely inspired by an event that took place in Memphis during the 1990s, "Returned" turns on the strange di... Read Full Story at Variety.com → IM Global's David Jourdan: 'TV Is an Area with Strong Growth Potential for Latin American Production' By John Hopewell One of the biggest Latin American film deals of 2014 was the output relationship inked by Stuart Ford’s IM Global and Alex Garcia’s AG Studios and Itaca, announced at the American Film Market. IM Global teamed two years ago to th... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Ventana Sur Puts the Focus on Transmedia By Emiliano De Pablos Jose Luis Rugeles' UDI-sold Colombian war drama “Alias Maria,” Ari Nicolosi's film adaptation of toon TV series “Zica and the Camaleons” and Jorge Caballero's “Paciente,” about terminally ill patients, fea... 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 → 'La Tirisia': Tracing the Social Causes of Mexico's Perpetual Sadness By John Hopewell It is no coincidence that when Brazil’s president Dirma Rousseff announced early July a $540 million federal financing package for film and TV in Brazil for 2014, one of the first measures she specified was coin for cultural projects i... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Tweet this Forward this

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