Figa Films has snapped up international sales rights to “Frogs,” by Clara Linhart. Her previous film “Domingo,” (2018), co-directed with Fellipe Barbosa, premiered at the 75th Venice Festival in Venice Days.
The Brazilian production centers on a woman, in her late thirties, invited to an old friends’ get together at a country house. She arrives to find there is no get together and is left instead to spend her weekend with two couples in partial crisis. In her statement about the film director Linhart says, ‘I want the spectators to recognize themselves in these characters or in the situations they experience. I want people to both laugh and cringe because they can relate. I want to use the camera as a microscope capable of visualizing looks, gestures, and whispers that denote desires, fears, and insecurities.”
Paula is played by Thalita Carauta, who put in an award-winning turn in “Narcos” director Fernando Coimbra...
The Brazilian production centers on a woman, in her late thirties, invited to an old friends’ get together at a country house. She arrives to find there is no get together and is left instead to spend her weekend with two couples in partial crisis. In her statement about the film director Linhart says, ‘I want the spectators to recognize themselves in these characters or in the situations they experience. I want people to both laugh and cringe because they can relate. I want to use the camera as a microscope capable of visualizing looks, gestures, and whispers that denote desires, fears, and insecurities.”
Paula is played by Thalita Carauta, who put in an award-winning turn in “Narcos” director Fernando Coimbra...
- 11/25/2022
- by Callum McLennan
- Variety Film + TV
Miami-based international sales agent FiGa Films has swooped on worldwide rights to satirical comedy “Love & Mathematics” by Claudia Sainte-Luce ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival. In February, the busy Sainte-Luce debuted her previous film, “The Realm of God” (“El Reino de Dios”), at the Berlinale.
Produced by Christian Kegel of Jaqueca Films, “Love & Mathematics” turns on the ambitions and aspirations of upper-middle-class Mexican society and stars Roberto Quijano, Diana Bovio and Daniela Salinas.
Penned by playwright and screenwriter Adriana Pelusi, “Love & Mathematics” marks the first time Sainte-Luce has directed from someone else’s screenplay. This is her fifth feature. Set in the city of Monterrey, Mexico, the wry comedy follows Billy Lozano, who’s suffering from an existential crisis as his glory years in a hit boy band are now past him. In his late 30s and miserable in his marriage, his daily routine consists...
Produced by Christian Kegel of Jaqueca Films, “Love & Mathematics” turns on the ambitions and aspirations of upper-middle-class Mexican society and stars Roberto Quijano, Diana Bovio and Daniela Salinas.
Penned by playwright and screenwriter Adriana Pelusi, “Love & Mathematics” marks the first time Sainte-Luce has directed from someone else’s screenplay. This is her fifth feature. Set in the city of Monterrey, Mexico, the wry comedy follows Billy Lozano, who’s suffering from an existential crisis as his glory years in a hit boy band are now past him. In his late 30s and miserable in his marriage, his daily routine consists...
- 9/9/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Sandro Fiorin’s Figa Films has snapped up international sales rights to Pavel Giroud’s “El Caso Padilla,” which, selected for the San Sebastian highly competitive Horizontes Latinos, bids fair to become one of the most notable Latin American doc features of 2022.
Variety has also shared in exclusivity a first trailer to the film.
The follow-up to Giroud admired 2015 fiction film “El Acompañante,” which won San Sebastian’s Co-Production Forum, “El Caso Padilla” turns on the so-called Padilla Affair. That climaxed with arrest on March 30, 1971 of Heberto Padilla, one of the most exquisite and trenchant of modern Cuban poets whose 1968 poetry collection “Fuera de Juego” constituted a scathing attack on the lack of liberties in Fidel Castro’s Cuba.
Padilla’s arrest signalled the end of a honeymoon between Europe’s left and Castro’s revolution, prompting a letter published in Le Monde – signed by Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir,...
Variety has also shared in exclusivity a first trailer to the film.
The follow-up to Giroud admired 2015 fiction film “El Acompañante,” which won San Sebastian’s Co-Production Forum, “El Caso Padilla” turns on the so-called Padilla Affair. That climaxed with arrest on March 30, 1971 of Heberto Padilla, one of the most exquisite and trenchant of modern Cuban poets whose 1968 poetry collection “Fuera de Juego” constituted a scathing attack on the lack of liberties in Fidel Castro’s Cuba.
Padilla’s arrest signalled the end of a honeymoon between Europe’s left and Castro’s revolution, prompting a letter published in Le Monde – signed by Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir,...
- 8/31/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Miami-based sales and distribution company FiGa Films has snagged world sales rights to Bolivian filmmaker Martin Boulocq’s fourth pic, “The Visitor.”
Described as a “somber meditation on family relations, class, and the increasing power of evangelism in Latin America,” “The Visitor” world premieres in June at the 2022 Tribeca Festival where it competes in the festival’s international narrative section.
One of the prominent talents in Bolivia’s burgeoning filmmaking industry, Martín Boulocq is best known for his feature debut “The Most Beautiful and My Best Years,” hailed by Bolivian critics as one of the twelve most notable films in Bolivian film history.
Set in the city of Cochabamba in central Bolivia, “The Visitor” follows Humberto (newcomer Enrique Aráoz), an ex-convict who earns a decent living by singing at wakes. He’s anxious to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter but his in-laws, powerful Evangelical pastors, refuse to give...
Described as a “somber meditation on family relations, class, and the increasing power of evangelism in Latin America,” “The Visitor” world premieres in June at the 2022 Tribeca Festival where it competes in the festival’s international narrative section.
One of the prominent talents in Bolivia’s burgeoning filmmaking industry, Martín Boulocq is best known for his feature debut “The Most Beautiful and My Best Years,” hailed by Bolivian critics as one of the twelve most notable films in Bolivian film history.
Set in the city of Cochabamba in central Bolivia, “The Visitor” follows Humberto (newcomer Enrique Aráoz), an ex-convict who earns a decent living by singing at wakes. He’s anxious to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter but his in-laws, powerful Evangelical pastors, refuse to give...
- 5/24/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Miami-based FiGa Films has picked up worldwide sales on Andrés Kaiser’s found-footage doc “Time Theorem” (“Teorema de Tiempo”), which will have its world premiere at Dok.Fest München on May 8.
Doc will also receive a market screening at the Cannes Marché du Film on May 18.
“We could not believe that ‘Time Theorem’ was a documentary when we first watched it,” said FiGa Films CEO, Sandro Fiorin, adding: “Fiction could only hope for such a twisted story.”
“Andrés is supremely talented, the way he and his producer put this film together is truly remarkable. We are lucky to be part of the team,” he continued.
According to Kaiser, the doc relates the story of his grandparents and their lives as amateur filmmakers between Mexico and Switzerland from the 1940s to the 1980s. “It’s a story that reflects on how we use images as a tool to build our own personality,...
Doc will also receive a market screening at the Cannes Marché du Film on May 18.
“We could not believe that ‘Time Theorem’ was a documentary when we first watched it,” said FiGa Films CEO, Sandro Fiorin, adding: “Fiction could only hope for such a twisted story.”
“Andrés is supremely talented, the way he and his producer put this film together is truly remarkable. We are lucky to be part of the team,” he continued.
According to Kaiser, the doc relates the story of his grandparents and their lives as amateur filmmakers between Mexico and Switzerland from the 1940s to the 1980s. “It’s a story that reflects on how we use images as a tool to build our own personality,...
- 5/5/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Miami-based FiGa Films has announced a flurry of sales and acquisition activity during the EFM. Among its stellar pics is ‘Nudo Mixteco,” the first indigenous film it has handled, which HBO Max has picked up for the U.S., to bow in May.
Uruguayan doc, “Straight to VHS,” winner of the prestigious critics award, the Fipresci, at the Buenos Aires indie film fest, Bafici, has been sold to IndiePix for the U.S. It also acquired the film on which the doc is based upon, “Act of Violence on a Young Journalist,” that will be released as an extra on home video.
“We are delighted to collaborate with IndiePix and with their enthusiasm for ‘Straight to VHS,’” said FiGa Films’ Sandro Fiorin, adding: “Their plans for a home-video release full of extras sounds like an instant collectible item. Long live physical media!”
World premiering in the Fantasia sidebar Documentaries from the Edge,...
Uruguayan doc, “Straight to VHS,” winner of the prestigious critics award, the Fipresci, at the Buenos Aires indie film fest, Bafici, has been sold to IndiePix for the U.S. It also acquired the film on which the doc is based upon, “Act of Violence on a Young Journalist,” that will be released as an extra on home video.
“We are delighted to collaborate with IndiePix and with their enthusiasm for ‘Straight to VHS,’” said FiGa Films’ Sandro Fiorin, adding: “Their plans for a home-video release full of extras sounds like an instant collectible item. Long live physical media!”
World premiering in the Fantasia sidebar Documentaries from the Edge,...
- 2/16/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Miami-based sales and distribution company FiGa Films, led by Sandro Fiorin, has picked up worldwide sales rights to Brazilian AIDS inception drama “The First Fallen” (“Los Primeiros Soldados”) by Rodrigo de Oliveira.
Set to world premiere at the Mannheim-Heidelberg Int’l Film Festival, where it will also vie for the top prize, “The First Fallen” traces the beginning of the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s when the first wave of the AIDS epidemic hit Brazil.
The story begins in 1983 in a small Brazilian town where a group of Lgbtqia+ men and women are celebrating the New Year and have no idea of the looming health crisis approaching. Suzano, a biologist, knows that something terrible is ravaging his body. Uncertain of his future and desperate at the lack of information, he reaches out to transsexual artist Rose and video filmmaker Humberto, both just as ill. Together, they’ll try to survive the emerging AIDS epidemic.
Set to world premiere at the Mannheim-Heidelberg Int’l Film Festival, where it will also vie for the top prize, “The First Fallen” traces the beginning of the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s when the first wave of the AIDS epidemic hit Brazil.
The story begins in 1983 in a small Brazilian town where a group of Lgbtqia+ men and women are celebrating the New Year and have no idea of the looming health crisis approaching. Suzano, a biologist, knows that something terrible is ravaging his body. Uncertain of his future and desperate at the lack of information, he reaches out to transsexual artist Rose and video filmmaker Humberto, both just as ill. Together, they’ll try to survive the emerging AIDS epidemic.
- 11/1/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
It’s been worth the wait. Mexican indigenous filmmaker Angeles Cruz and her producing team could have bowed her feature debut “Nudo Mixteco” at one of the many virtual film festivals last year, but they decided to wait for an in-person film festival to launch it to the world.
“Premiering ‘Nudo Mixteco’ during the maelstrom of last year did not feel appropriate,” said Cruz. “In my community, there has never been a movie theater so when I first saw a film projected in a cinema, it completely changed my outlook,” she asserted.
So more than a year after it participated in the 2019 San Sebastian Film Festival Films in Progress showcase, “Nudo Mixteco” world premieres at the 38th Miami Film Festival, which will run a hybrid virtual and in-person event over March 5 -14.
“Nudo Mixteco” is also one of only eight films vying for the big prize at Belgium’s Mooov Film Festival in April.
“Premiering ‘Nudo Mixteco’ during the maelstrom of last year did not feel appropriate,” said Cruz. “In my community, there has never been a movie theater so when I first saw a film projected in a cinema, it completely changed my outlook,” she asserted.
So more than a year after it participated in the 2019 San Sebastian Film Festival Films in Progress showcase, “Nudo Mixteco” world premieres at the 38th Miami Film Festival, which will run a hybrid virtual and in-person event over March 5 -14.
“Nudo Mixteco” is also one of only eight films vying for the big prize at Belgium’s Mooov Film Festival in April.
- 2/4/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Miami-based FiGa Films has picked up worldwide sales rights outside Brazil to “Kevin,” an unprecedented co-production between Brazil and Uganda.
FiGa Films will be taking the documentary to this week’s American Film Market and early December’s Ventana Sur as part of its slate.
By newcomer Joana Oliveira, the doc pivots on her long-time friendship with a vibrant Ugandan mother of three called Kevin whom she met while studying in Berlin some two decades ago.
“Kevin and I have been friends since 1999 and the idea of attesting her importance in my life through a film has only been possible because someone else also saw it as a story to be told,” said Oliveira, adding that the film was shot in Uganda and Brazil and boasted an international crew from both countries as well as from Germany, Kenya and the U.S.
The film is lead produced by Luana Melgaço...
FiGa Films will be taking the documentary to this week’s American Film Market and early December’s Ventana Sur as part of its slate.
By newcomer Joana Oliveira, the doc pivots on her long-time friendship with a vibrant Ugandan mother of three called Kevin whom she met while studying in Berlin some two decades ago.
“Kevin and I have been friends since 1999 and the idea of attesting her importance in my life through a film has only been possible because someone else also saw it as a story to be told,” said Oliveira, adding that the film was shot in Uganda and Brazil and boasted an international crew from both countries as well as from Germany, Kenya and the U.S.
The film is lead produced by Luana Melgaço...
- 11/11/2020
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Miami-based sales and distribution company FiGa Films launches streaming service FiGa en Casa on June 25 with the world premiere of Argentine medium-length film “Rompiente” by Juan Schnitman whose 2015 debut feature, “The Fire,” was hailed by Variety as a “riveting chamber piece of subtle shifts and evenhanded power struggles…”
In “Rompiente,” a director shooting a sex scene in an indie film manipulates his young actors to show more flesh and be more intimate until tensions between the actors and the director reach a breaking point.
“I like to think about this film as a Los Ramones song: Short, fast and urgent,” said Schnitman in a statement, who bases “Rompiente” on what he’s heard about abusive directors and awkward shoots of sex scenes. “Nobody spoke about these issues that we all knew happened. I took this idea to friends, producers and a month later we were shooting,” he added.
“‘Rompiente’ talks...
In “Rompiente,” a director shooting a sex scene in an indie film manipulates his young actors to show more flesh and be more intimate until tensions between the actors and the director reach a breaking point.
“I like to think about this film as a Los Ramones song: Short, fast and urgent,” said Schnitman in a statement, who bases “Rompiente” on what he’s heard about abusive directors and awkward shoots of sex scenes. “Nobody spoke about these issues that we all knew happened. I took this idea to friends, producers and a month later we were shooting,” he added.
“‘Rompiente’ talks...
- 6/17/2020
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Leading Miami-based international sales and distribution company FiGa Films has picked up worldwide sales rights to Agustin Banchero’s drama, “Las Vacaciones de Hilda” (“Hilda’s Short Summer”).
“The film was part of this year’s San Sebastian Int’l Film Festival’s [work in progress section] Cine en Construcción and blew us away,” said FiGa Films’ Sandro Fiorin, adding: “It is the most mature first feature I’ve seen in years.”
Produced by Virginia Bogliolo and Juan Alvarez Neme of auteur-driven Uruguayan shingle, Tarkiofilm, “Hilda” centers on the titular character whose self-imposed solitary life is upended when she hears that her son, whom she hasn’t seen in years, is coming to visit. The abrupt cancellation of his visit triggers memories of a past summer.
“Her memories of a particular summer spark an emotional pivot for the character,” said Banchero whose inspiration for his film primarily stemmed from his need to understand people close to him.
“The film was part of this year’s San Sebastian Int’l Film Festival’s [work in progress section] Cine en Construcción and blew us away,” said FiGa Films’ Sandro Fiorin, adding: “It is the most mature first feature I’ve seen in years.”
Produced by Virginia Bogliolo and Juan Alvarez Neme of auteur-driven Uruguayan shingle, Tarkiofilm, “Hilda” centers on the titular character whose self-imposed solitary life is upended when she hears that her son, whom she hasn’t seen in years, is coming to visit. The abrupt cancellation of his visit triggers memories of a past summer.
“Her memories of a particular summer spark an emotional pivot for the character,” said Banchero whose inspiration for his film primarily stemmed from his need to understand people close to him.
- 11/29/2019
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Leading international sales agency-production-distribution company, FiGa Films, has snagged all worldwide rights to “This is Cristina” (“Ella es Cristina”), the directorial debut of Chilean scribe Gonzalo Maza, who has co-written four of Sebastian Lelio’s films, including his Oscar-winning “A Fantastic Woman” and Berlin Festival winner “Gloria.”
“It’s a pleasure to collaborate with Gonzalo, whose writing we’ve admired so much in the past. He’s got a great future as a director and we’re fortunate to be behind his lovely feature,” said FiGa’s Sandro Fiorin who has already sold it to China’s Beijing Hualu NewMedia.
Produced by Primate Lab, Noise Media and Maza’s Mar Humano, the black and white dramedy revolves around the titular Cristina and her best friend, played by Mariana Derderian and Paloma Salas, who are both in their 30s. After a major bust up between them, Cristina’s life spirals just...
“It’s a pleasure to collaborate with Gonzalo, whose writing we’ve admired so much in the past. He’s got a great future as a director and we’re fortunate to be behind his lovely feature,” said FiGa’s Sandro Fiorin who has already sold it to China’s Beijing Hualu NewMedia.
Produced by Primate Lab, Noise Media and Maza’s Mar Humano, the black and white dramedy revolves around the titular Cristina and her best friend, played by Mariana Derderian and Paloma Salas, who are both in their 30s. After a major bust up between them, Cristina’s life spirals just...
- 10/17/2019
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Sandro Fiorin’s FiGa Films has picked up worldwide sales rights to “Contactado,” the upcoming feature by Sudaca Films’ Marité Ugás and Mariana Rondón, the duo behind San Sebastian 2013 Golden Shell winner, “Pelo Malo.”
The Sudaca partners are attending San Sebastian to pitch Rondón-helmed project “Zafari” at the 8th Europe-Latin American Co-production Forum.
Directed by Ugás, who co-wrote the script alongside Rondón, “Contactado” (“Contactee”) is at its final post-production stage, planned for a 2020’s first quarter release.
The film is set in Perú and focus on a false prophet, enticed by a young man who claims to be a follower into preaching again.
He is weary of reliving his past as a Contactee, the leader of a famous UFO cult. As vanity overcomes his fear, the ambitious young man turns the tables on him.
“Contactee” marks Sudaca Films follow-up to “Pelo Malo” (“Bad Hair”), a coming-of-age tale directed by Rondón,...
The Sudaca partners are attending San Sebastian to pitch Rondón-helmed project “Zafari” at the 8th Europe-Latin American Co-production Forum.
Directed by Ugás, who co-wrote the script alongside Rondón, “Contactado” (“Contactee”) is at its final post-production stage, planned for a 2020’s first quarter release.
The film is set in Perú and focus on a false prophet, enticed by a young man who claims to be a follower into preaching again.
He is weary of reliving his past as a Contactee, the leader of a famous UFO cult. As vanity overcomes his fear, the ambitious young man turns the tables on him.
“Contactee” marks Sudaca Films follow-up to “Pelo Malo” (“Bad Hair”), a coming-of-age tale directed by Rondón,...
- 9/22/2019
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Two documentaries, two narratives invited to interactive programme.
The New Works-in-Progress (Wip) forum at the Seattle International Film Festival has announced its 2019 film teams and industry mentor line-up.
Four feature films – two documentaries and two narratives – have been invited from across the world to participate in the interactive event.
“The mission of the New Works-in-Progress Forum is to bring together the three vital parts of the cinema experience at a critical junction before the film has locked picture: filmmaker (as artist), industry (as conduit), and audience,” said Wip curator Kathleen McInnis. “We create a safe intersection near the end of...
The New Works-in-Progress (Wip) forum at the Seattle International Film Festival has announced its 2019 film teams and industry mentor line-up.
Four feature films – two documentaries and two narratives – have been invited from across the world to participate in the interactive event.
“The mission of the New Works-in-Progress Forum is to bring together the three vital parts of the cinema experience at a critical junction before the film has locked picture: filmmaker (as artist), industry (as conduit), and audience,” said Wip curator Kathleen McInnis. “We create a safe intersection near the end of...
- 4/24/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Guadalajara, Mexico — In keeping with its mandate to acquire films that explore present-day, topical issues, leading Latin American sales agency FiGa Films has snagged all worldwide rights to Samuel Kishi Leopo’s immigrant drama “Los Lobos.”
“It’s a privilege to continue our collaboration with Mr. Kishi Leopo,” said FiGa’s Sandro Fiorin. “We worked together on his first feature “Somos Mari Pepa” [“We Are Mari Pepa”] and his new one is just as fresh and heartfelt,” he noted.
Inspired by Kishi Leopo’s own childhood memories of coming to the U.S. with his young mother and brother under the pretext of visiting Disneyland, “Los Lobos” turns on two brothers, ages five and seven, who are taken to New Mexico by their mother. Left at home while their mother works, the pair look out from a window onto a world inhabited by Latino and Asian immigrants. Seeing them alone most of the day,...
“It’s a privilege to continue our collaboration with Mr. Kishi Leopo,” said FiGa’s Sandro Fiorin. “We worked together on his first feature “Somos Mari Pepa” [“We Are Mari Pepa”] and his new one is just as fresh and heartfelt,” he noted.
Inspired by Kishi Leopo’s own childhood memories of coming to the U.S. with his young mother and brother under the pretext of visiting Disneyland, “Los Lobos” turns on two brothers, ages five and seven, who are taken to New Mexico by their mother. Left at home while their mother works, the pair look out from a window onto a world inhabited by Latino and Asian immigrants. Seeing them alone most of the day,...
- 3/14/2019
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Antonella Sudasassi will present her feature debut “Hormigas” in the Berlinale Forum.
Produced by Amaya Izquierdo at Costa Rica’s Betta Films, and José Esteban Alenda at Spain’s Solita Films, “Hormigas” portrays a humble Costa Rican family. The story is told from the point of view of the mother, who sees her dreams put on hold due to her husband’s desire for a third child. The situation will explore the feelings the mother (Daniella Valenciano) develops and her new perspectives on her femininity and sexuality, and the unsuspected micro-machismo surrounding her.
Sudasassi participated in the Berlinale Talents program at the Guadalajara Intl. Film Festival (Ficg) with the film when it was a project. She was trained in Media Management and Audiovisual Production at the University of Costa Rica.
Sandro Fiorin’s FiGa Films, the prestigious Miami and Brazil-based company with a keen eye for emerging talent, manages international sale rights.
Produced by Amaya Izquierdo at Costa Rica’s Betta Films, and José Esteban Alenda at Spain’s Solita Films, “Hormigas” portrays a humble Costa Rican family. The story is told from the point of view of the mother, who sees her dreams put on hold due to her husband’s desire for a third child. The situation will explore the feelings the mother (Daniella Valenciano) develops and her new perspectives on her femininity and sexuality, and the unsuspected micro-machismo surrounding her.
Sudasassi participated in the Berlinale Talents program at the Guadalajara Intl. Film Festival (Ficg) with the film when it was a project. She was trained in Media Management and Audiovisual Production at the University of Costa Rica.
Sandro Fiorin’s FiGa Films, the prestigious Miami and Brazil-based company with a keen eye for emerging talent, manages international sale rights.
- 2/12/2019
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Tla Releasing has snared U.S. and U.K. rights while Optimale has acquired all French rights to Bani Khoshnoudi’s “Fireflies” (“Luciernagas”), from Sandro Fiorin’s sales and distribution company, FiGa Films.
“Some of the best Queer cinema right now is undoubtedly coming out of Central and South America, and ‘Fireflies’ is the perfect example of this,” said Adam Silver, Tla Releasing Manager – U.K. operations and acquisitions, who expects an international release for later this year.
“Apart from its social and political statements, ‘Fireflies’ is a strong film, and heralds the birth of a very talented female director whose personal story echoes the film,” said Optimale distribution head, Cyril Rota.
Optimale aims to slot the film into as many French film festivals as possible this year and for a theatrical release by the end of 2019 or early 2020, he added.
Written and directed by Khoshnoudi, an Iranian-born Mexico City resident,...
“Some of the best Queer cinema right now is undoubtedly coming out of Central and South America, and ‘Fireflies’ is the perfect example of this,” said Adam Silver, Tla Releasing Manager – U.K. operations and acquisitions, who expects an international release for later this year.
“Apart from its social and political statements, ‘Fireflies’ is a strong film, and heralds the birth of a very talented female director whose personal story echoes the film,” said Optimale distribution head, Cyril Rota.
Optimale aims to slot the film into as many French film festivals as possible this year and for a theatrical release by the end of 2019 or early 2020, he added.
Written and directed by Khoshnoudi, an Iranian-born Mexico City resident,...
- 2/1/2019
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Eurimages prize goes to ’Stillborn’.
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) held the awards ceremony for its Pro industry section on Wednesday January 30, with Days Of Cannibalism and Lotus Position winning the inaugural Dutch post-production awards of €50,000 each to be spent in the Netherlands.
The new awards, launched in November last year and delivered with an additional €5,000 each in kind, are a collaboration between the Hubert Bals Fund, the Netherlands Film Fund and the Netherlands post-production Alliance.
Jury members programmer Sandro Fiorin, filmmaker Gurvinder Singh and head of industry at TorinoFilmLab Jane Williams described Teboho Edkins’ Days Of Cannibalism as a ‘smart,...
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) held the awards ceremony for its Pro industry section on Wednesday January 30, with Days Of Cannibalism and Lotus Position winning the inaugural Dutch post-production awards of €50,000 each to be spent in the Netherlands.
The new awards, launched in November last year and delivered with an additional €5,000 each in kind, are a collaboration between the Hubert Bals Fund, the Netherlands Film Fund and the Netherlands post-production Alliance.
Jury members programmer Sandro Fiorin, filmmaker Gurvinder Singh and head of industry at TorinoFilmLab Jane Williams described Teboho Edkins’ Days Of Cannibalism as a ‘smart,...
- 1/31/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Sandro Fiorin’s Miami-based FiGa Films, a leading sales agent on the independent Latin American scene, has announced the acquisition of Brazilian doc “Landless,” and released a trailer for the Costa Rican-Spanish drama “El despertar de las hormigas.”
Both features will play at this year’s Berlinale Forum and come from young Latin American filmmakers making their feature debuts.
FiGa typically backs seven-to-eight features a year which demonstrate a strong social conscience and explore contemporary, hot-button themes. Typically the company looks to board early on in a film’s lifecycle, employing its expertise to help find the festivals and exhibitors around the world that offer the best fit for each film.
“El despertar de las hormigas” comes from Costa Rican director Antonella Sudasassi Furniss, and is a direct follow-up to her short debut “El despertar de las hormigas: la niñez.” It’s produced by Amaya Izquierdo.
The film turns on Isabel,...
Both features will play at this year’s Berlinale Forum and come from young Latin American filmmakers making their feature debuts.
FiGa typically backs seven-to-eight features a year which demonstrate a strong social conscience and explore contemporary, hot-button themes. Typically the company looks to board early on in a film’s lifecycle, employing its expertise to help find the festivals and exhibitors around the world that offer the best fit for each film.
“El despertar de las hormigas” comes from Costa Rican director Antonella Sudasassi Furniss, and is a direct follow-up to her short debut “El despertar de las hormigas: la niñez.” It’s produced by Amaya Izquierdo.
The film turns on Isabel,...
- 1/21/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Canada-born with roots in Uruguay, Croatia and Argentina, Katherine Jerkovic split her childhood between Belgium and Uruguay. At 18, she settled in Montreal and studied film at Concordia University. After a few shorts (“The Winter’s Keeper”) and some video-installations, she has finished her first feature, “Roads in February.”
The film is a co-production between Nicolas Comeau (“Catimini”) at Montreal-based 1976 Productions and Micaela Solé (“Norberto’s Deadline”) at Montevideo’s Cordon Films.
Since 2002 there has been a bilateral co-production agreement between Canada and Uruguay. In fact, Canada has similar agreements with eight Latin American countries. “I believe that the key has essentially been a mutual and respectful understanding among all the people involved in the feature; all Uruguayan and Canadians enthusiastically feel part of it,” Solé said, adding: “The feature explores, in a very personal way, looking at the ‘Other,’ and allows the viewer to reflect from their own perspective. This...
The film is a co-production between Nicolas Comeau (“Catimini”) at Montreal-based 1976 Productions and Micaela Solé (“Norberto’s Deadline”) at Montevideo’s Cordon Films.
Since 2002 there has been a bilateral co-production agreement between Canada and Uruguay. In fact, Canada has similar agreements with eight Latin American countries. “I believe that the key has essentially been a mutual and respectful understanding among all the people involved in the feature; all Uruguayan and Canadians enthusiastically feel part of it,” Solé said, adding: “The feature explores, in a very personal way, looking at the ‘Other,’ and allows the viewer to reflect from their own perspective. This...
- 12/13/2018
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Morelia, Mexico — In 2010, Switzerland’s Locarno Festival, Europe’s biggest mid-summer movie event, held its inaugural Locarno Academy with the intent to develop emerging industry talents from multiple industry disciplines such as sales, distribution, exhibition and production. In 2014, Morelia became the first festival to partner with the Academy for what has since become a yearly event backed by the Mexican Film Institute (Imcine).
“One thing we discuss here is that in Latin America we all do many things,” said Locarno Academy moderator and Interior Xiii founder-director Sandra Gomez.
“We are producers, but also distributors, we try to make deals with exhibition companies and so we end up in many parts of the business because that’s how it has to be done here. We don’t have many sales agents in Latin America, for example,” she added.
Joining Gomez on the Academy team was Marion Klotz, who has long collaborated...
“One thing we discuss here is that in Latin America we all do many things,” said Locarno Academy moderator and Interior Xiii founder-director Sandra Gomez.
“We are producers, but also distributors, we try to make deals with exhibition companies and so we end up in many parts of the business because that’s how it has to be done here. We don’t have many sales agents in Latin America, for example,” she added.
Joining Gomez on the Academy team was Marion Klotz, who has long collaborated...
- 10/27/2018
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Morelia, Mexico – Miami-based FiGa Films has sold Berlinale Teddy Award-winning docu “Bixa Travesty” to French arthouse distributor Arizona Films at Morelia.
The Brazilian docu-feature world premiered at this year’s Berlinale before participating in more than 100 festivals. It opened the 16th Morelia Int’l Film Fest’s Sexual Diversity+ Program, curated by Antonio Harfuch.
“With this first Brazilian acquisition for Arizona Distribution, we are proud and thrilled to start with a documentary combining art and politics in such a sparkling form; we’re confident this generous documentary will meet its audience in France,” said Arizona’s Bénédicte Thomas.
Co-helmed by Claudia Priscilla and Kiko Goifman, “Bixa Travesty” turns on black transwoman Linn da Quebrada who is known for her electro-pop concerts in chainmail and black netting costumes, punctuated by lots of twerking. She is also a champion for queers of color from the slums.
The multi-prize winning docu will next...
The Brazilian docu-feature world premiered at this year’s Berlinale before participating in more than 100 festivals. It opened the 16th Morelia Int’l Film Fest’s Sexual Diversity+ Program, curated by Antonio Harfuch.
“With this first Brazilian acquisition for Arizona Distribution, we are proud and thrilled to start with a documentary combining art and politics in such a sparkling form; we’re confident this generous documentary will meet its audience in France,” said Arizona’s Bénédicte Thomas.
Co-helmed by Claudia Priscilla and Kiko Goifman, “Bixa Travesty” turns on black transwoman Linn da Quebrada who is known for her electro-pop concerts in chainmail and black netting costumes, punctuated by lots of twerking. She is also a champion for queers of color from the slums.
The multi-prize winning docu will next...
- 10/26/2018
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Miami-based FiGa Films has snared all rights to “Fireflies” (“Luciernagas”), its first acquisition on the eve of the 16th Morelia Int’l Film Festival. Drama world premieres on Sunday, Oct. 21 and competes with nine others in Morelia’s official Mexican feature film category.
Written and helmed by Iranian-born Mexico City resident Bani Khoshnoudi, “Fireflies” turns on a young gay Iranian who finds himself stranded in Vera Cruz, Mexico after boarding the wrong cargo ship in Turkey. After escaping persecution in Iran, he now faces a different set of challenges, including a new language, customs and relationships. Variety has had exclusive access to the trailer and film poster.
“We are fortunate to be working with Bani; she’s a rising star,” said FiGa Films’ Sandro Fiorin, adding: “ ‘Fireflies’ is such a unique Mexican film; it’s a reflection of her background and multiple talents.”
“The particular story of Ramin was something...
Written and helmed by Iranian-born Mexico City resident Bani Khoshnoudi, “Fireflies” turns on a young gay Iranian who finds himself stranded in Vera Cruz, Mexico after boarding the wrong cargo ship in Turkey. After escaping persecution in Iran, he now faces a different set of challenges, including a new language, customs and relationships. Variety has had exclusive access to the trailer and film poster.
“We are fortunate to be working with Bani; she’s a rising star,” said FiGa Films’ Sandro Fiorin, adding: “ ‘Fireflies’ is such a unique Mexican film; it’s a reflection of her background and multiple talents.”
“The particular story of Ramin was something...
- 10/18/2018
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
San Sebastian — Chilean director Ignacio Jurucic will world premiere his debut feature “Enigma” in the Horizontes Latinos section of the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Ssiff) on Thursday afternoon. Variety has been given exclusive access to the film’s first trailer.
Sold by Sandro Fiorin’s Miami-based FiGa Films and produced by Santiago-based Inefable, “Enigma” comes to San Sebastian as a highly-anticipated title from a director whose 2015 short, “Lost Queens,” won a Queer Palme and was runner-up for the Cinefondation Prize at the 2015 Cannes Festival. Juricic was also selected as one of Variety’s 10 Chilean Directors to Track ahead of the 2017 Sanfic Festival held each August in Santiago, Chile.
“Enigma” turns on Nancy, a dowdy 54-year old hairdresser, who is offered to appear on a true-crime TV show which could shed light on the violent death of her lesbian daughter 8 years prior, when she was beaten to death after leaving a gay club.
Sold by Sandro Fiorin’s Miami-based FiGa Films and produced by Santiago-based Inefable, “Enigma” comes to San Sebastian as a highly-anticipated title from a director whose 2015 short, “Lost Queens,” won a Queer Palme and was runner-up for the Cinefondation Prize at the 2015 Cannes Festival. Juricic was also selected as one of Variety’s 10 Chilean Directors to Track ahead of the 2017 Sanfic Festival held each August in Santiago, Chile.
“Enigma” turns on Nancy, a dowdy 54-year old hairdresser, who is offered to appear on a true-crime TV show which could shed light on the violent death of her lesbian daughter 8 years prior, when she was beaten to death after leaving a gay club.
- 9/27/2018
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Santiago, Chile — Miami-based international sales, production and distribution company FiGa Films has picked up worldwide sales rights to Chilean Ignacio Juricic’s “Enigma,” which will world premiere at the 66th San Sebastian Int’l Film Festival in September.
FiGa Films founder Sandro Fiorin closed the deal with Juricic while attending Chile’s Santiago Int’l Film Fest (Sanfic) where he served as a juror in the festival’s Chilean Short Film Competition.
“We are very happy to represent this amazing new talent from Chile,” said Fiorin, who’s been more than impressed by the “hot” talent emerging from the country.
“Enigma” is the much-anticipated feature debut of Juricic whose 2015 short, “Lost Queens,” won a Queer Palme and was runner-up for the Cinefondation Prize at the 2015 Cannes Festival, .
“Enigma” centers on Nancy, a hairdresser in her 40s, as she struggles to decide whether to participate in a cold case TV show...
FiGa Films founder Sandro Fiorin closed the deal with Juricic while attending Chile’s Santiago Int’l Film Fest (Sanfic) where he served as a juror in the festival’s Chilean Short Film Competition.
“We are very happy to represent this amazing new talent from Chile,” said Fiorin, who’s been more than impressed by the “hot” talent emerging from the country.
“Enigma” is the much-anticipated feature debut of Juricic whose 2015 short, “Lost Queens,” won a Queer Palme and was runner-up for the Cinefondation Prize at the 2015 Cannes Festival, .
“Enigma” centers on Nancy, a hairdresser in her 40s, as she struggles to decide whether to participate in a cold case TV show...
- 8/26/2018
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Santiago, Chile –- The second feature from Argentina’s Agustín Tsocano, “The Snatch Thief,” was the big winner at this year’s Santiago International Film Festival (Sanfic), snagging best picture and two best actor plaudits.
The closing ceremonies were held Saturday night at Chile’s CorpArtes Cultural Center.
The Argentina, Uruguay and France co-production, sold by The Match Factory, participated in this year’s Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, where the tale of a guilt-ridden purse snatcher received unanimous strong reviews, including one by Variety’s Jay Weissberg who described it as a “a nicely plotted, unpretentious film… exactly the type of small-scale Latin American indie product that sees significant festival play.”
Marcelo Martinessi, one of Paraguay’s most high-profile filmmakers, won best director for his latest feature “The Heiresses,” which won the Silver Bear for best picture at Berlin in February. Eliran Elya’s “Doubtful” received a special mention.
In the Chilean competition,...
The closing ceremonies were held Saturday night at Chile’s CorpArtes Cultural Center.
The Argentina, Uruguay and France co-production, sold by The Match Factory, participated in this year’s Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, where the tale of a guilt-ridden purse snatcher received unanimous strong reviews, including one by Variety’s Jay Weissberg who described it as a “a nicely plotted, unpretentious film… exactly the type of small-scale Latin American indie product that sees significant festival play.”
Marcelo Martinessi, one of Paraguay’s most high-profile filmmakers, won best director for his latest feature “The Heiresses,” which won the Silver Bear for best picture at Berlin in February. Eliran Elya’s “Doubtful” received a special mention.
In the Chilean competition,...
- 8/26/2018
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Locarno — The 71st Locarno Festival kicks off today, Wednesday Aug. 1, its Industry Days on Aug. 3. It commands the biggest industry attendance of any mid-summer film event in Europe. Following are ten industry takes on this edition.
1.Locarno: The Paradox
Locarno frames an industry paradox. ”Sales agents never retire. They just print up new business cards.” Or so the saying goes.
A lot may now also be changing their job descriptions. For the 2018 Locarno Festival frames a paradox: 87% of first-run titles playing the Piazza Grande, a venue for crowd-pleasers, have sales agents. That may be par for the course. But as many as 73% of the far more auteurist, sometimes out-there competition, also have agents on board coming into Locarno, which “could be something of a record,” said Nadia Dresti, Locarno artistic director and head of Locarno Pro, its industry division.
Yet, in many territories in the world, theatrical arthouse audiences are...
1.Locarno: The Paradox
Locarno frames an industry paradox. ”Sales agents never retire. They just print up new business cards.” Or so the saying goes.
A lot may now also be changing their job descriptions. For the 2018 Locarno Festival frames a paradox: 87% of first-run titles playing the Piazza Grande, a venue for crowd-pleasers, have sales agents. That may be par for the course. But as many as 73% of the far more auteurist, sometimes out-there competition, also have agents on board coming into Locarno, which “could be something of a record,” said Nadia Dresti, Locarno artistic director and head of Locarno Pro, its industry division.
Yet, in many territories in the world, theatrical arthouse audiences are...
- 8/1/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid — Continuing its strong line in Brazilian films, often from first feature or emerging talent, Sandro Fiorin’s Miami-based FiGa Films has acquired world sales rights to ‘Temporada,” directed by André Novais Oliveira, one of Brazil’s foremost young social realists.
FiGa Films will introduce “Temporada” to buyers at next week’s Locarno Festival, where it world premieres in the Swiss festival’s Filmmakers of the Present section, reserved for newer auteurs. Variety had had exclusive access to the film’s first international trailer.
Sneak-peeked in rough cut at Toulouse’s 33rd Films in Progress, “Temporada,” Novais Oliveira’s second feature, follows on shorts “About a Month” and “Quintal,” both chosen for Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, and his feature debut, “Ela Volta na Quinta” (She Comes Back On Thursday), which won a Special Jury Prize in main competition at Argentina’s 2015 Bafici festival.
“She Comes Back on Thursday” was set in the suburbs of Belo Horizonte,...
FiGa Films will introduce “Temporada” to buyers at next week’s Locarno Festival, where it world premieres in the Swiss festival’s Filmmakers of the Present section, reserved for newer auteurs. Variety had had exclusive access to the film’s first international trailer.
Sneak-peeked in rough cut at Toulouse’s 33rd Films in Progress, “Temporada,” Novais Oliveira’s second feature, follows on shorts “About a Month” and “Quintal,” both chosen for Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, and his feature debut, “Ela Volta na Quinta” (She Comes Back On Thursday), which won a Special Jury Prize in main competition at Argentina’s 2015 Bafici festival.
“She Comes Back on Thursday” was set in the suburbs of Belo Horizonte,...
- 7/23/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The Miami Film Festival unveiled its industry sidebar Encuentros, a selection of Latin American feature films produced partially or entirely by Ibero-American-based production companies currently in the postproduction stage.
Curated by Sandro Fiorin, from LatAm-specialty sales agent FiGa Films, the program selected the films Tigre (Argentina), directed by Silvina Schnicer and Ulises Porra Guardiola and produced by Pucara Cine (The Movement); Eugenia (Bolivia), directed by Martin Boulocq and produced by Cq; Camocim (Brazil), directed by Quentin Delaroche and produced by Ponte Producoes; and Los debiles (Mexico), directed by Raul Rico and Eduardo Giralt Brun, and produced by Mendicante.
The projects will be matched with...
Curated by Sandro Fiorin, from LatAm-specialty sales agent FiGa Films, the program selected the films Tigre (Argentina), directed by Silvina Schnicer and Ulises Porra Guardiola and produced by Pucara Cine (The Movement); Eugenia (Bolivia), directed by Martin Boulocq and produced by Cq; Camocim (Brazil), directed by Quentin Delaroche and produced by Ponte Producoes; and Los debiles (Mexico), directed by Raul Rico and Eduardo Giralt Brun, and produced by Mendicante.
The projects will be matched with...
- 2/6/2017
- by Agustin Mango
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Sandro Fiorin and his team has concluded key territory sales on Francisco Varone’s road movie.
Rodrigo de la Serna and Ernesto ‘Flaco’ Suarez star in the story of a journey from Buenos Aires to La Paz involving an older man out to fulfil a lifelong promise and trip and a young companion who struggles to make sense of his existence.
The Gema Films feature was a co-production with No Problem Cine and Concreto Films of Argentina, Habbekrats (Netherlands), and Hanfgam & Ufer Filmproduktion (Germany).
Road To La Paz premiered in Busan, won awards in Thessaloniki and Mar del Plata.
Deals have closed in Spain (Monesc Seven Entertainment), France (Visionfeir Distribution), Germany (Farbfilm), Greece (Danaos), Turkey (Filmarti Films), and Brazil (Lume Filmes).
Gema Juárez Allen, Varone, Omar Jadur, Dolores Llosas, Juan Taratuto, Julius Ponten, Philip Harthoorn, and Gunter Hanfgam produced.
Allen and Sebastián Perillo erved as executive producers
Fiorin told Screendaily he expects to confirm deals in North...
Rodrigo de la Serna and Ernesto ‘Flaco’ Suarez star in the story of a journey from Buenos Aires to La Paz involving an older man out to fulfil a lifelong promise and trip and a young companion who struggles to make sense of his existence.
The Gema Films feature was a co-production with No Problem Cine and Concreto Films of Argentina, Habbekrats (Netherlands), and Hanfgam & Ufer Filmproduktion (Germany).
Road To La Paz premiered in Busan, won awards in Thessaloniki and Mar del Plata.
Deals have closed in Spain (Monesc Seven Entertainment), France (Visionfeir Distribution), Germany (Farbfilm), Greece (Danaos), Turkey (Filmarti Films), and Brazil (Lume Filmes).
Gema Juárez Allen, Varone, Omar Jadur, Dolores Llosas, Juan Taratuto, Julius Ponten, Philip Harthoorn, and Gunter Hanfgam produced.
Allen and Sebastián Perillo erved as executive producers
Fiorin told Screendaily he expects to confirm deals in North...
- 4/13/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Distributor acquires North American rights to Israel Cárdenas & Laura Amelia Guzmán’s drama starring Geraldine Chaplin.
Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to Sand Dollars.
Written and directed by Israel Cárdenas and Laura Amelia Guzmán, the drama centres on an older European woman who becomes enchanted with a young Dominican woman struggling to make ends meet.
Sand Dollars premiered at Toronto last year and stars Geraldine Chaplin. A theatrical release at the end of 2015 is planned.
Breaking Glass co-president Richard Ross commented: “The film is a gorgeous meditation on old age, loneliness and love, anchored by a luminous performance by the exquisite Geraldine Chaplin. We’ve been pursuing the film since Tiff and Ventana Sur and are overjoyed to bring its beauty to North American audiences.”
“We couldn’t be happier to partner with Breaking Glass on Sand Dollars. They have the sensibility we were looking for,” added Sandro Fiorin, vice president...
Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to Sand Dollars.
Written and directed by Israel Cárdenas and Laura Amelia Guzmán, the drama centres on an older European woman who becomes enchanted with a young Dominican woman struggling to make ends meet.
Sand Dollars premiered at Toronto last year and stars Geraldine Chaplin. A theatrical release at the end of 2015 is planned.
Breaking Glass co-president Richard Ross commented: “The film is a gorgeous meditation on old age, loneliness and love, anchored by a luminous performance by the exquisite Geraldine Chaplin. We’ve been pursuing the film since Tiff and Ventana Sur and are overjoyed to bring its beauty to North American audiences.”
“We couldn’t be happier to partner with Breaking Glass on Sand Dollars. They have the sensibility we were looking for,” added Sandro Fiorin, vice president...
- 3/10/2015
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
FiGa Films sells Forum world premiere to Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Pro-Fun Media has acquired Beira-Mar from FiGa Films for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Filipe Matzembacher & Marcio Reolon’s coming-of-age drama world premiered on Friday [Feb 6] in Forum and follows two young men who travel to a nearby coastal city to visit one of their distant relatives.
Sandro Fiorin, co-head of FiGa Films, commented: “So far, we have had a good Efm this year and we are in promising talks with a number of buyers for other territories.”
Beira-Mar screens again tonight [Feb 7].
Pro-Fun Media has acquired Beira-Mar from FiGa Films for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Filipe Matzembacher & Marcio Reolon’s coming-of-age drama world premiered on Friday [Feb 6] in Forum and follows two young men who travel to a nearby coastal city to visit one of their distant relatives.
Sandro Fiorin, co-head of FiGa Films, commented: “So far, we have had a good Efm this year and we are in promising talks with a number of buyers for other territories.”
Beira-Mar screens again tonight [Feb 7].
- 2/7/2015
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
New Brazilian cinema label kicks off with Locarno competition title.
Sandro Fiorin and Alex Garcia’s Latin American specialist sales company FiGa Films is launching its new label devoted to Brazilian cinema, FiGa/Br, by boarding sales for Locarno competition title August Winds (Ventos De Agosto).
Gabriel Mascaro’s film will have its world premiere in Locarno on Friday. Set in a small coastal village in Brazil, the story is set during the tumultuous weather of late summer, when a researcher arrives to study trade winds. There is a surprise discovery that take two young lovers on a journey exploring life and death.
Mascaro previously directed the documentary Housemaids.
Sandro Fiorin and Alex Garcia’s Latin American specialist sales company FiGa Films is launching its new label devoted to Brazilian cinema, FiGa/Br, by boarding sales for Locarno competition title August Winds (Ventos De Agosto).
Gabriel Mascaro’s film will have its world premiere in Locarno on Friday. Set in a small coastal village in Brazil, the story is set during the tumultuous weather of late summer, when a researcher arrives to study trade winds. There is a surprise discovery that take two young lovers on a journey exploring life and death.
Mascaro previously directed the documentary Housemaids.
- 8/5/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Film-maker Kleber Mendoça, who won the Fipresci Prize at Rotterdam and Wroclaw’s New Horizons for his fiction feature debut Neighbouring Sounds in 2012, will be in Locarno next month as part of an almost 60-strong Brazilian delegation.
Mendoça, who is also the director of Recife’s Janela International Film Festival, will be joined by, among others, festival director colleagues Renata de Almeida and Ivan Melo of the Sao Paulo Iff as well as Manoel Rangel and Eduardo Valente of film funder Ancine, André Sturm of Cinema do Brasil, producers Sara Silveira (Dezenove Som et Imagem), Eliane Ferreira (Muiraquita Filmes) and Elias Ribeiro (Urucu Media), distributors Jean-Thomas Bernardini (Imovision) and Marcos De Oliveira (Europa Filmes), and sales agent Sandro Fiorin (Figa Films).
Carte Blanche focus on Brazil
The fourth edition of Locarno’s Carte Blanche showcase will be the focus of the Brazilian presence at the Swiss festival with the presentation of new Brazilian features and documentaries by their...
Mendoça, who is also the director of Recife’s Janela International Film Festival, will be joined by, among others, festival director colleagues Renata de Almeida and Ivan Melo of the Sao Paulo Iff as well as Manoel Rangel and Eduardo Valente of film funder Ancine, André Sturm of Cinema do Brasil, producers Sara Silveira (Dezenove Som et Imagem), Eliane Ferreira (Muiraquita Filmes) and Elias Ribeiro (Urucu Media), distributors Jean-Thomas Bernardini (Imovision) and Marcos De Oliveira (Europa Filmes), and sales agent Sandro Fiorin (Figa Films).
Carte Blanche focus on Brazil
The fourth edition of Locarno’s Carte Blanche showcase will be the focus of the Brazilian presence at the Swiss festival with the presentation of new Brazilian features and documentaries by their...
- 7/29/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
A Alegria (The Joy) , playing in Directors Fortnight today is from Brazil as is Sandro Fiorin. Alex Garcia is Cuban-American. A Alegria is the second of a trilogy Coracao no Fogo (Hearts on Fire) about youth, joy, anger and freedom on filmmaking in Brazil in the beggining of the 21st Century. It is fairy tale about a girl in Rio de Janeiro who is tired of hearing about the end of the world. On Christmas Eve, her cousin is shot in a…...
- 5/20/2010
- Sydney's Buzz
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