Spurred by modest state funds, growing TV support and co-production pacts, filmmaking in Peru is on the rise and with it, a rousing presence on the international stage.
Peruvian pics snagged six awards at March’s Malaga Film Festival and industry component Mafiz, an unprecedented haul for the event’s country guest of honor.
Plaudits went to Mauricio Frey’s “Estados generales,” Francesca Canepa’s “La otra orilla,” Ximena Valdivia’s “4eber,” documentary “Hatun Phaqcha” by Delia Ackerman and Leonardo Barbuy’s “Diogenes.”
“This is the first time that Peru has brought back so many awards from a single event,” notes Erika Chavez, head of the culture ministry’s audiovisual directorate, Dafo, who points out both national and regional films funds have ticked up since launching alongside Peru’s 2019 Film Law.
“More of us have been actively participating in markets, development labs and co-production forums,” says Enid “Pinky” Campos of Chullachaki Cine,...
Peruvian pics snagged six awards at March’s Malaga Film Festival and industry component Mafiz, an unprecedented haul for the event’s country guest of honor.
Plaudits went to Mauricio Frey’s “Estados generales,” Francesca Canepa’s “La otra orilla,” Ximena Valdivia’s “4eber,” documentary “Hatun Phaqcha” by Delia Ackerman and Leonardo Barbuy’s “Diogenes.”
“This is the first time that Peru has brought back so many awards from a single event,” notes Erika Chavez, head of the culture ministry’s audiovisual directorate, Dafo, who points out both national and regional films funds have ticked up since launching alongside Peru’s 2019 Film Law.
“More of us have been actively participating in markets, development labs and co-production forums,” says Enid “Pinky” Campos of Chullachaki Cine,...
- 5/20/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
This year’s Malaga Festival and its industry section’s Latin American Focus are celebrating Peruvian cinema and talent.
A number of Peruvian films are screening in the festival and industry section, including “El Caso Monroy,” by Josué Mendez, and Leonardo Barbuy’s debut feature “Diógenes,” which unspool in the fest’s main section and Zonazine sidebar.
As a meeting point for producers and directors from Latin American and investors from Spain and the rest of Europe, the Malaga Festival Industry Zone (Mafiz) serves as a key hub that promotes the co-production of Latin American projects aimed at the international market.
For Barbuy, the premiere of “Diógenes” in Malaga brings it full circle.
“The project passed through Mafiz in 2019, which opened up a series of opportunities for us,” the director tells Variety. “It was clearly an important showcase for the project. We were able to make contacts that bolstered the project.
A number of Peruvian films are screening in the festival and industry section, including “El Caso Monroy,” by Josué Mendez, and Leonardo Barbuy’s debut feature “Diógenes,” which unspool in the fest’s main section and Zonazine sidebar.
As a meeting point for producers and directors from Latin American and investors from Spain and the rest of Europe, the Malaga Festival Industry Zone (Mafiz) serves as a key hub that promotes the co-production of Latin American projects aimed at the international market.
For Barbuy, the premiere of “Diógenes” in Malaga brings it full circle.
“The project passed through Mafiz in 2019, which opened up a series of opportunities for us,” the director tells Variety. “It was clearly an important showcase for the project. We were able to make contacts that bolstered the project.
- 3/16/2023
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Inspired by director Marcel Beltrán’s walking on a dry, polluted lake in his hometown, Moa, in Cuba, “Moa” won the biggest prize on offer at this year’s Open Doors, a Locarno Fest co-production and talent hub dedicated, in an inspired choice, to smaller territories in Latin American and countries in the Caribbean. The focus lasts three-years, over 2022-24.
The territories boast world class filmmakers with urgent stories to tell. Equally it is distinguished by fragile or non-existent state support in most places, with exceptions such as Dominican Republic and Costa Rica.
“Moa” took the biggest cash prize on offer, a CH35,000 Open Doors grant from Swiss production support fund Visions Sud Est and the City of Bellinzona.
“Kids Swimming in the Lake,” from Venezuela’s Michael Labarca, snagged the second biggest plaudit, a CH15,000 Open Doors grant. Bolivia’s Yashira Jordan’s “Diamond,” won an €8,000 development grant, adjudicated...
The territories boast world class filmmakers with urgent stories to tell. Equally it is distinguished by fragile or non-existent state support in most places, with exceptions such as Dominican Republic and Costa Rica.
“Moa” took the biggest cash prize on offer, a CH35,000 Open Doors grant from Swiss production support fund Visions Sud Est and the City of Bellinzona.
“Kids Swimming in the Lake,” from Venezuela’s Michael Labarca, snagged the second biggest plaudit, a CH15,000 Open Doors grant. Bolivia’s Yashira Jordan’s “Diamond,” won an €8,000 development grant, adjudicated...
- 8/9/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Peruvian, Colombian and French co-production “Diogenes” has played at Ventana Sur’s Primer Corte selection, for films in post-production.
It marks Leonardo Barbuy’s debut after he garnered attention with his first short film “Alana” (2017), winning Peru’s National Short Film Award. Backed by Mosaico – the same production company who produced “Alana” – and in close collaboration with creative producer Illari Orcottoma, Barbuy has another film already in development as “Diogenes” is being finished.
“Diogenes” is on its way to being completed, after having already won a variety of awards such as moneys from the 2021 Berlinale World Cinema Fund, as well as a development award given by France’s Cnc film agency at the Cartagena Film Festival.
Co-produced with France’s Dublin Films and Colombia’s La Selva Cine, the film follows a sister and younger brother who live in near total isolations with their father, Diógenes, in Peru’s high Andes.
It marks Leonardo Barbuy’s debut after he garnered attention with his first short film “Alana” (2017), winning Peru’s National Short Film Award. Backed by Mosaico – the same production company who produced “Alana” – and in close collaboration with creative producer Illari Orcottoma, Barbuy has another film already in development as “Diogenes” is being finished.
“Diogenes” is on its way to being completed, after having already won a variety of awards such as moneys from the 2021 Berlinale World Cinema Fund, as well as a development award given by France’s Cnc film agency at the Cartagena Film Festival.
Co-produced with France’s Dublin Films and Colombia’s La Selva Cine, the film follows a sister and younger brother who live in near total isolations with their father, Diógenes, in Peru’s high Andes.
- 12/2/2021
- by Emiliano Granada
- Variety Film + TV
New films from Oscar laureate Vanessa Ragone (“The Secret in Their Eyes”) and Camera d’Or winners Edher Campos (“Leap Year”) and Juan Pablo Miller (“Las Acacias”) are among attractions at this year’s Ventana Sur’s Primer Corte and Copia Final, the pix-in-post industry centerpieces at Latin America’s biggest film-tv market.
Ragone co-produces “The Face of the Jellyfish,” from Argentina’s Rotterdam-prized Melisa Liebenthal. Campos unveils “Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara,” Mexican Federico Cecchetti’s follow-up to the multi-prized “Mara’akame’s Dream.”
Miller introduces “Sublime,” one of the section’s buzz titles, along with “Diogenes,” from Peru’s Leonardo Barbuy, and two titles from Brazil: Gregorio Graziosi’s “Tinnitus” and Gabriel Martin’s “Mars One,” winner of Ventana Sur’s prestigious Paradiso Wip Award.
Titles brim with talent, observes Eva Morsch-Kihn, curator of Primer Corte and Copia Final along with Mercedes Abarca and Maria Nuñez.
Ragone co-produces “The Face of the Jellyfish,” from Argentina’s Rotterdam-prized Melisa Liebenthal. Campos unveils “Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara,” Mexican Federico Cecchetti’s follow-up to the multi-prized “Mara’akame’s Dream.”
Miller introduces “Sublime,” one of the section’s buzz titles, along with “Diogenes,” from Peru’s Leonardo Barbuy, and two titles from Brazil: Gregorio Graziosi’s “Tinnitus” and Gabriel Martin’s “Mars One,” winner of Ventana Sur’s prestigious Paradiso Wip Award.
Titles brim with talent, observes Eva Morsch-Kihn, curator of Primer Corte and Copia Final along with Mercedes Abarca and Maria Nuñez.
- 11/2/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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