Paris-based MPM Premium has snagged the international sales rights to French-Colombian documentary “Transfariana” ahead of its world premiere in the Berlinale’s Panorama section.
The documentary, by French director-cinematographer Joris Lachaise, explores the unusual collaboration between the since-disbanded Colombian guerrilla group Farc and the trans activist movement in Colombia that led to changes in local laws.
A TV version running 1.5 hours was acquired by European culture TV channel, Arte.
In a trailer bowing exclusively in Variety, it opens with Jaison Murillo introducing himself as a political prisoner and Farc guerrilla member. He relates how Trans Laura was transferred to his prison compound where they met and formed a relationship. He’s expelled by his group but it fires him up even more to fight for change. With the historic peace pact between the government and Farc paving the way for change, both marginalized communities find common ground in their struggle for their rights.
The documentary, by French director-cinematographer Joris Lachaise, explores the unusual collaboration between the since-disbanded Colombian guerrilla group Farc and the trans activist movement in Colombia that led to changes in local laws.
A TV version running 1.5 hours was acquired by European culture TV channel, Arte.
In a trailer bowing exclusively in Variety, it opens with Jaison Murillo introducing himself as a political prisoner and Farc guerrilla member. He relates how Trans Laura was transferred to his prison compound where they met and formed a relationship. He’s expelled by his group but it fires him up even more to fight for change. With the historic peace pact between the government and Farc paving the way for change, both marginalized communities find common ground in their struggle for their rights.
- 2/3/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Directing Penélope Cruz in Venice competition title “L’immensità,” Italy’s Emanuele Crialese is teaming with Argentina’s Nicolás Gil Lavedra to produce “Rona,” the second feature by Emiliano Torres, writer-director of San Sebastian Special Jury Prize winner “The Winter.”
Produced by Crialese’s Italy-based Now and Buenos Aires Gamán Cine, set up by Lavedra and Torres, “Rona” is being structured as a majority European production and will shoot mainly in English. Lavedra, whose recent production credits include Paz Encina’s Rotterdam Tiger Award winner “Eami,” will oversee production.
“Rona” is one of the highest-profile of 14 titles at this year’s San Sebastian Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, one of the Spanish festival’s centrepiece industry events.
Written by Torres and Marcelo Chaparro, the director’s habitual co-scribe, “Rona” returns to the Patagonia setting of Torres’’ feature debut “The Winter” (“El Invierno”) which also won cinematography at San Sebastian. This time round,...
Produced by Crialese’s Italy-based Now and Buenos Aires Gamán Cine, set up by Lavedra and Torres, “Rona” is being structured as a majority European production and will shoot mainly in English. Lavedra, whose recent production credits include Paz Encina’s Rotterdam Tiger Award winner “Eami,” will oversee production.
“Rona” is one of the highest-profile of 14 titles at this year’s San Sebastian Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, one of the Spanish festival’s centrepiece industry events.
Written by Torres and Marcelo Chaparro, the director’s habitual co-scribe, “Rona” returns to the Patagonia setting of Torres’’ feature debut “The Winter” (“El Invierno”) which also won cinematography at San Sebastian. This time round,...
- 8/31/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
EAMIThese days, as cinematic ingenuity strains to get screened in theaters, and perhaps even more so onto streaming services, film festivals are providing a most welcome ray of hope. In the film industry, many are continuing to struggle to work; many to get work made; and those lucky ones who’ve passed these hurdles, to see their work released and seen by audiences. The continued existence of a festival, despite the tremendous encumbrances of pandemic disruption and mostly undiscussed financial precarity, serves as a crucial vector of sustenance: Movies are being made; moreover they’re being shown and being seen. Even better: movies are great.That, anyway, was my take away from the second virtual International Film Festival Rotterdam, an event that had to be brought online—with one summertime in-person event for locals last June—twice already. Its most recent edition shifted virtually precariously close to its January event,...
- 2/6/2022
- MUBI
For the Ayoreo Totobiegosode people, the word “eami” means forest and world. Such twinned meaning speaks to the way this indigenous community understands the environment around them. The forest is their world. Or was. For now, the Paraguayan Chaco where the Ayoreo Totobiegosode live is the territory with the highest deforestation rate in the world. Such a statistic may not be explicitly spelled out in Paz Encina’s dreamlike feature “Eami,” but it nevertheless helps structure this fictionalized story of a 5-year-old girl called Eami (Anel Picanerai) who’s mourning the place she now must leave, like many in her family have been forced to do before. As a conduit for the history of her people, Eami conjures up other stories that make this poetic ode to the ongoing fight for the memory of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode.
From its very first image, “Eami” demands you immerse yourself in its sensory imagination.
From its very first image, “Eami” demands you immerse yourself in its sensory imagination.
- 2/5/2022
- by Manuel Betancourt
- Variety Film + TV
Paraguayan director Paz Encina, whose striking ecological fable and tale of the pain of exile, “Eami,” won the Tiger Award at this year’s Rotterdam Film Festival, is developing a slate of feature film projects, Variety can reveal.
The first project, “Sy,” follows the titular character – whose name means “mother” in the Guarani language – after she receives the news that she’ll give birth to a savior who will also be the son of her god. “In this project I would like to work on a woman’s dichotomy between motherhood and faith,” said Encina.
The second film, “El Único Tiempo,” tells the story of an elderly couple living in exile, where they await news of the son who disappeared during Paraguay’s military dictatorship. When their cat mysteriously vanishes one day, their search for it brings them closer to the life they couldn’t share with their missing son.
The first project, “Sy,” follows the titular character – whose name means “mother” in the Guarani language – after she receives the news that she’ll give birth to a savior who will also be the son of her god. “In this project I would like to work on a woman’s dichotomy between motherhood and faith,” said Encina.
The second film, “El Único Tiempo,” tells the story of an elderly couple living in exile, where they await news of the son who disappeared during Paraguay’s military dictatorship. When their cat mysteriously vanishes one day, their search for it brings them closer to the life they couldn’t share with their missing son.
- 2/5/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Paraguayan filmmaker Paz Encina’s “Eami” – being sold by MPM Premium – has won the top Tiger Award and a €40,000 cash prize at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), the festival announced Wednesday. The 51st edition of the Dutch event, forced online due to the Omicron wave, will wrap on Sunday.
The jury, made up of Zsuzsi Bankuti, Gust Van den Berghe, Tatiana Leite, Thekla Reuten and Farid Tabarki, was impressed with her complex, magical realist take on the suffering of the indigenous tribes, calling it a “powerful film.” “It gave us the opportunity to dream and, at the same time, a chance to wake up,” they stated.
Inspired by the stories of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode people, as well as their mythology, Encina created a tale about a young girl who embarks on a journey after her village is destroyed.
“All my films deal with an issue of exile, of the diaspora,...
The jury, made up of Zsuzsi Bankuti, Gust Van den Berghe, Tatiana Leite, Thekla Reuten and Farid Tabarki, was impressed with her complex, magical realist take on the suffering of the indigenous tribes, calling it a “powerful film.” “It gave us the opportunity to dream and, at the same time, a chance to wake up,” they stated.
Inspired by the stories of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode people, as well as their mythology, Encina created a tale about a young girl who embarks on a journey after her village is destroyed.
“All my films deal with an issue of exile, of the diaspora,...
- 2/2/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Filmmakers Paz Encina, Sam de Jong and Roee Rosen talked music, magic realism and fairytales.
Filmmakers Paz Encina, Sam de Jong and Roee Rosen discussed the films they have screening in the Tiger competition and the means used to convey their message onscreen at a digital press conference held by the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Monday (January 31.)
Encina’s third feature film Eami sees the Paraguayan director depict the violence committed against the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode indigenous people of Chaco, capturing a world that may soon be lost. The director said she only recently came to feel it her mission...
Filmmakers Paz Encina, Sam de Jong and Roee Rosen discussed the films they have screening in the Tiger competition and the means used to convey their message onscreen at a digital press conference held by the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Monday (January 31.)
Encina’s third feature film Eami sees the Paraguayan director depict the violence committed against the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode indigenous people of Chaco, capturing a world that may soon be lost. The director said she only recently came to feel it her mission...
- 2/1/2022
- by Alina Trabattoni
- ScreenDaily
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