Argentine helmer Natalia Smirnoff, director of “Puzzle,” a 2010 Berlin main Competition contender, and “Lock Charmer,” selected for the 2014 Sundance Festival, is attached to direct international co-production project “Mamá (Im)perfecta” (“(Im)perfect Mom.”)
The project teams Colombian production outfits Laberinto Producciones and Ganas Producciones with Argentina’s Tarea Fina and Canada’s Fait Divers Media.
In development and scheduled for a May 2025 shoot, “(Im)perfect Mom” is inspired by Penguin Random House bestseller “Drunk Mom: A Memoir,” by Polish-born writer Jowita Bydlowska.
The story follows Jo, a 42-year-old woman, a successful photographer who gives birth to her first child. In the midst of the trance of motherhood, breastfeeding and the sensing changes in her body, she celebrates with her husband and friends the event, the most important of her life.
But despite the happiness of having become a mother, from that first sip of alcohol, an addiction awakens in her...
The project teams Colombian production outfits Laberinto Producciones and Ganas Producciones with Argentina’s Tarea Fina and Canada’s Fait Divers Media.
In development and scheduled for a May 2025 shoot, “(Im)perfect Mom” is inspired by Penguin Random House bestseller “Drunk Mom: A Memoir,” by Polish-born writer Jowita Bydlowska.
The story follows Jo, a 42-year-old woman, a successful photographer who gives birth to her first child. In the midst of the trance of motherhood, breastfeeding and the sensing changes in her body, she celebrates with her husband and friends the event, the most important of her life.
But despite the happiness of having become a mother, from that first sip of alcohol, an addiction awakens in her...
- 9/9/2024
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Mexico’s Mónica Lozano, producer of Alejandro González Iñarritu’s “Amores Perros” and Eugenio Derbéz’s “Instructions Not Included,” has boarded “Cepeda,” an envelope-pushing Mexico-set procedural, turning on a Mexican cop who’s an Indigenous woman and great at her job.
Development over the last two years has been financed by Acuña’s Chile-based Promocine. Put back, however, by the pandemic, the project is now set up at Lozano’s Mexico City production house Alebrije Producciones, one of Mexico’s most active forces in international production, behind Carlos Carrera’s Quirino Award winner “Ana y Bruno” and Fox’s “Run Coyote Run.”
“Cepeda” is written by Chile’s Julio Rojas, who has shot to global fame as creator of Podcast phenom “Caso 63.” Rojas also served as story editor on Lucía Puenzo’s “La Jauría,” and writer on Pablo Fendrik’s “El Refugio” and Matías Bize’s “The Life of Fish,...
Development over the last two years has been financed by Acuña’s Chile-based Promocine. Put back, however, by the pandemic, the project is now set up at Lozano’s Mexico City production house Alebrije Producciones, one of Mexico’s most active forces in international production, behind Carlos Carrera’s Quirino Award winner “Ana y Bruno” and Fox’s “Run Coyote Run.”
“Cepeda” is written by Chile’s Julio Rojas, who has shot to global fame as creator of Podcast phenom “Caso 63.” Rojas also served as story editor on Lucía Puenzo’s “La Jauría,” and writer on Pablo Fendrik’s “El Refugio” and Matías Bize’s “The Life of Fish,...
- 10/4/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Kristoffer Borgli’s Dream Scenario comedy, starring Nicolas Cage with a hair transformation and Julianne Nicholson, will open the Toronto Film Festival’s Platform competition program with a world premiere.
The latest film from the director of Cannes gem Sick of Myself also stars Dylan Baker, Kate Berlant, Michael Cera, Dylan Gelula and Tim Meadows, and is part of a competitive program of emerging and established directors headed to Toronto with world premieres.
“This surrealist satire-comedy has sharp, timely observations about social media culture — especially going viral — and its impact on the way that we interact with others in our day-to-day life. Cage delivers some of his finest work,” Robyn Citizen, director, programming & platform lead at TIFF, said in a statement about choosing A24’s Dream Scenario as the opening film for the competitive sidebar.
Toronto unveiled 10 features with world premieres for the festival section where international films outside the Hollywood studio orbit compete.
The latest film from the director of Cannes gem Sick of Myself also stars Dylan Baker, Kate Berlant, Michael Cera, Dylan Gelula and Tim Meadows, and is part of a competitive program of emerging and established directors headed to Toronto with world premieres.
“This surrealist satire-comedy has sharp, timely observations about social media culture — especially going viral — and its impact on the way that we interact with others in our day-to-day life. Cage delivers some of his finest work,” Robyn Citizen, director, programming & platform lead at TIFF, said in a statement about choosing A24’s Dream Scenario as the opening film for the competitive sidebar.
Toronto unveiled 10 features with world premieres for the festival section where international films outside the Hollywood studio orbit compete.
- 8/2/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Top Chilean fiction house Parox, producer of “Invisible Heroes,” has kick-started principal photography on international co-production “Los mil días de Allende”, a historical drama mini-series about the last three years in the life of Chilean President Salvador Allende.
Alfredo Castro – one of Latin America’s most respected actors and a Pablo Larraín regular, star of films such as “Karnawal” and “El Club” – leads the mini-series cast as Allende; Benjamín Vicuña plays Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
The four-episode, 55-minute fiction drama shoot is taking place entirely in Chile, lensing from May 15 for two months, under “Besieged” and “Inés of My Soul” director Nicolás Acuña.
Leonora González and Sergio Gándara, Parox co-founders, are respectively the mini-series’ showrunner and producer.
A Chile-Spain-Argentina co-production, “Allende, the Thousand Days” teams Spain’s Mediterráneo Media Entertainment and Argentine companies Aleph, Mente Colectiva and HD Argentina.
Chilean public broadcaster Tvn, Spanish nationwide group Rtve and Argentina’s...
Alfredo Castro – one of Latin America’s most respected actors and a Pablo Larraín regular, star of films such as “Karnawal” and “El Club” – leads the mini-series cast as Allende; Benjamín Vicuña plays Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
The four-episode, 55-minute fiction drama shoot is taking place entirely in Chile, lensing from May 15 for two months, under “Besieged” and “Inés of My Soul” director Nicolás Acuña.
Leonora González and Sergio Gándara, Parox co-founders, are respectively the mini-series’ showrunner and producer.
A Chile-Spain-Argentina co-production, “Allende, the Thousand Days” teams Spain’s Mediterráneo Media Entertainment and Argentine companies Aleph, Mente Colectiva and HD Argentina.
Chilean public broadcaster Tvn, Spanish nationwide group Rtve and Argentina’s...
- 5/17/2023
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Chilean bio-musical series “Los Prisioneros” had its European debut at Madrid’s inaugural Iberseries Platino Industria on Sept. 28 where it screened in the event’s Chapter One sidebar.
Taking place in the mid ‘80s, the eight-episode show kicks off with the titular iconic band Los Prisioneros playing their sardonic protest songs to a rowdy, unappreciative crowd. It’s only when they perform at Chile’s then biggest entertainment show, “Sabado Gigante,” hosted by the equally iconic Don Francisco, that their career takes flight.
Episode one shows the key moments of their debut on the show and the start of their career, which later led to their persecution by the military regime and censorship on Chilean radio and television. To this day, their songs are anthems at protest rallies in the region, most recently in Chile and Colombia.
“Their songs have become ever more relevant, they still resonate to this day,...
Taking place in the mid ‘80s, the eight-episode show kicks off with the titular iconic band Los Prisioneros playing their sardonic protest songs to a rowdy, unappreciative crowd. It’s only when they perform at Chile’s then biggest entertainment show, “Sabado Gigante,” hosted by the equally iconic Don Francisco, that their career takes flight.
Episode one shows the key moments of their debut on the show and the start of their career, which later led to their persecution by the military regime and censorship on Chilean radio and television. To this day, their songs are anthems at protest rallies in the region, most recently in Chile and Colombia.
“Their songs have become ever more relevant, they still resonate to this day,...
- 9/29/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
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- 7/7/2021
- MUBI
Screenwriter and film-maker best known for Couples and Robbers, Besieged and La Luna
When the film director Michelangelo Antonioni visited the London party circuit in the mid-1960s in preparation for his thriller Blow-Up, he met a woman named Cloe Peploe; she informed him that the person he should really speak to was her sister, Clare, who was obsessed with his work.
The film-maker called one afternoon at their house in Chapel Street, Belgravia, something of a bohemian hub. Actors were known to drop by after evening performances. Several lodgers lived there with the sisters and their brother, Mark, though no one seemed to know their names.
When the film director Michelangelo Antonioni visited the London party circuit in the mid-1960s in preparation for his thriller Blow-Up, he met a woman named Cloe Peploe; she informed him that the person he should really speak to was her sister, Clare, who was obsessed with his work.
The film-maker called one afternoon at their house in Chapel Street, Belgravia, something of a bohemian hub. Actors were known to drop by after evening performances. Several lodgers lived there with the sisters and their brother, Mark, though no one seemed to know their names.
- 7/4/2021
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
Netflix is working on getting a visa for Jorge Antonio Guerrero, the Mexican actor who played Fermín in “Roma,” so that he can attend the Academy Awards, Variety has learned.
Guerrero has applied for a U.S. visa three times, and has been denied each time. He was initially rejected for a tourist visa, and two subsequent attempts were denied despite support from Netflix and the filmmakers.
In an article published on Tuesday, Guerrero told the magazine Quien that he had been unable to attend the Golden Globes or gala screenings. He said that he had a written invitation from the producers, but that didn’t help.
“I brought a letter that they didn’t want to read,” he told the magazine. “On my second try, they said that I was going to work, and I answered no, that I was going as a guest. And that last try was a little memorable,...
Guerrero has applied for a U.S. visa three times, and has been denied each time. He was initially rejected for a tourist visa, and two subsequent attempts were denied despite support from Netflix and the filmmakers.
In an article published on Tuesday, Guerrero told the magazine Quien that he had been unable to attend the Golden Globes or gala screenings. He said that he had a written invitation from the producers, but that didn’t help.
“I brought a letter that they didn’t want to read,” he told the magazine. “On my second try, they said that I was going to work, and I answered no, that I was going as a guest. And that last try was a little memorable,...
- 1/25/2019
- by Gene Maddaus
- Variety Film + TV
Buenos Aires — Oscar-winning Chilean producer Juan de Dios Larraín (“A Fantastic Woman”), Sebastián Freund, co-creator of Chile’s biggest ever B.O. hit, “Stefan vs. Kramer,” and Gabriela Sandoval, co-director of Sanfic, Chile’s biggest film event, Sanfic festival, are joining forces to haul Chile’s much vaunted cinema into the 21st century.
They will be joined by Sergio Gándara, Chile’s top TV producer, Macarena Cardone, from Invercine&Wood, and Gastón Chedufa, from Las Minas.
A hint of their roadmap looks likely to be heard Wednesday evening at Ventana Sur, when Freund and Sandoval deliver a short speech before a CinemaChile cocktail, traditionally a mid-market social milestone at Latin America’s biggest movie-tv market. If it ain’t broke….? Since a new generation of filmmakers, making up the so-called Newest Chilean Cinema – Sebastián Lelio, Alicia Scherson, Matías Bize – burst onto the scene at the 2005 Valdivia Festival, Chilean filmmakers have won...
They will be joined by Sergio Gándara, Chile’s top TV producer, Macarena Cardone, from Invercine&Wood, and Gastón Chedufa, from Las Minas.
A hint of their roadmap looks likely to be heard Wednesday evening at Ventana Sur, when Freund and Sandoval deliver a short speech before a CinemaChile cocktail, traditionally a mid-market social milestone at Latin America’s biggest movie-tv market. If it ain’t broke….? Since a new generation of filmmakers, making up the so-called Newest Chilean Cinema – Sebastián Lelio, Alicia Scherson, Matías Bize – burst onto the scene at the 2005 Valdivia Festival, Chilean filmmakers have won...
- 12/12/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid — Women fighting back. Three of the six titles in Ventana Sur’s Copia Final this year picture women confronting outrage or tragedy – gender violence (“Do You Like Me?”), the abduction of a new born baby (“Song Without a Name”) or the death of a husband (“Venezia”) – and reacting, in multifarious fashions.
“Do You Like Me?” has a thriller edge. Three more, underscoring Latin American cinema’s current broad range, show Latin American filmmakers enrolling mainstream beats to appeal beyond traditional arthouse audiences in more accessible titles, whether in an unusual immigration drama (“Marionette”), or via empathy with a challenged protagonist (“The Friendly Man”) or a straight-up coming of age tale (“This Is Not Berlin”).
Set in Buenos Aires’ housing projects, “Do You Like Me?” starts as a crime thriller, then bucks generic commonplaces as it delivers a numbing gender violence and revenge drama. Authentic in setting, observance of daily...
“Do You Like Me?” has a thriller edge. Three more, underscoring Latin American cinema’s current broad range, show Latin American filmmakers enrolling mainstream beats to appeal beyond traditional arthouse audiences in more accessible titles, whether in an unusual immigration drama (“Marionette”), or via empathy with a challenged protagonist (“The Friendly Man”) or a straight-up coming of age tale (“This Is Not Berlin”).
Set in Buenos Aires’ housing projects, “Do You Like Me?” starts as a crime thriller, then bucks generic commonplaces as it delivers a numbing gender violence and revenge drama. Authentic in setting, observance of daily...
- 11/26/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Santiago De Compostela, Spain — Gael García Bernal’s political thriller “Aquí en la tierra” (“Here on Earth”), a searing indictment of Mexico’s ruling elite, has been re-upped for a second season by Fox Networks Group Latin America.
The announcement of the renewal comes as, at Spain’s Conecta Fiction, Fngla senior vice president Mariana Pérez unveiled a new thriller, “Buenas Intenciones,” whose development is set up at Fox Telecolombia, confirmed a third season of “Sitiados” (Besieged) and sneak peeked “The Host,” an innovative non-scripted format starring Adrián Suar, one of Fox’s first two non-scripted shows in Latin America.
Pérez’s presentation underscores various trends at Fox Networks Group Latin America, a driving force behind new generation TV in the region:
*Fng Latin America is upping the volume. It has 10 series in production for 2018, more than last year, said Pérez, and “three-to-four times” as many series in development. Fox needs ever more contents,...
The announcement of the renewal comes as, at Spain’s Conecta Fiction, Fngla senior vice president Mariana Pérez unveiled a new thriller, “Buenas Intenciones,” whose development is set up at Fox Telecolombia, confirmed a third season of “Sitiados” (Besieged) and sneak peeked “The Host,” an innovative non-scripted format starring Adrián Suar, one of Fox’s first two non-scripted shows in Latin America.
Pérez’s presentation underscores various trends at Fox Networks Group Latin America, a driving force behind new generation TV in the region:
*Fng Latin America is upping the volume. It has 10 series in production for 2018, more than last year, said Pérez, and “three-to-four times” as many series in development. Fox needs ever more contents,...
- 6/19/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
From Palme d’Or winner “Amour” to the latest offerings from some of the biggest names of world cinema such as Alain Resnais, Abbas Kiarostami, Bernando Bertoluci, Manoel de Oliveira , Brillante Mendoza, Ken Loach, Jacques Audiard, 14th Mumbai Film Festival has a lot to offer to the filmbuffs.
The festival offers an exciting lineup of more than two hundred films, spread over about a dozen screen and seven days! To help our readers decide we’ve picked up the most talked about films from festival circuit.
14th Mff runs from October 18th-25th, 2012 at the National Centre for Performing Arts (Ncpa), and Inox, Nariman Point, Liberty Cinemas, Marine Lines as the main festival venues and Cinemax, Andheri and Cinemax Sion as the satellite venues.
To get delegate pass for the festival, you can register here:
1) Beast of the Southern Wild
Dir.: Benh Zeitlin (USA/ 2012 /Col./ 92’)
Section: International Competition for...
The festival offers an exciting lineup of more than two hundred films, spread over about a dozen screen and seven days! To help our readers decide we’ve picked up the most talked about films from festival circuit.
14th Mff runs from October 18th-25th, 2012 at the National Centre for Performing Arts (Ncpa), and Inox, Nariman Point, Liberty Cinemas, Marine Lines as the main festival venues and Cinemax, Andheri and Cinemax Sion as the satellite venues.
To get delegate pass for the festival, you can register here:
1) Beast of the Southern Wild
Dir.: Benh Zeitlin (USA/ 2012 /Col./ 92’)
Section: International Competition for...
- 9/27/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Inaugurating a change for the festival, Festival de Cannes will now present an honorary Palme d’Or each year, kicking off the 2011 edition of the festival on May 11, 2011 with a presentation to Bernardo Bertolucci.
Past honorary Palmes have been awarded to Clint Eastwood (2009) and Woody Allen (2002), and this year’s honor is bestowed upon the Oscar-winning director of “The Last Emperor.” Bertolucci had been nominated for the Academy’s top prize for directing “The Last Tango in Paris” (1972) and for writing “The Conformist” (1970).
With other titles in his arsenal including directing “Stealing Beauty,” “The Dreamers,” “Besieged,” “The Sheltering Sky,” and a co-writing credit on “Once Upon a Time in the West,” Bertolucci has previously been awarded a career Golden Lion from the Venice Film Festival.
The only strange part of this news, especially for the significantly more productive former honorees Eastwood and Allen, is that Cannes festival president Gilles Jacob,...
Past honorary Palmes have been awarded to Clint Eastwood (2009) and Woody Allen (2002), and this year’s honor is bestowed upon the Oscar-winning director of “The Last Emperor.” Bertolucci had been nominated for the Academy’s top prize for directing “The Last Tango in Paris” (1972) and for writing “The Conformist” (1970).
With other titles in his arsenal including directing “Stealing Beauty,” “The Dreamers,” “Besieged,” “The Sheltering Sky,” and a co-writing credit on “Once Upon a Time in the West,” Bertolucci has previously been awarded a career Golden Lion from the Venice Film Festival.
The only strange part of this news, especially for the significantly more productive former honorees Eastwood and Allen, is that Cannes festival president Gilles Jacob,...
- 4/11/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Inaugurating a change for the festival, Festival de Cannes will now present an honorary Palme d’Or each year, kicking off the 2011 edition of the festival on May 11, 2011 with a presentation to Bernardo Bertolucci.
Past honorary Palmes have been awarded to Clint Eastwood (2009) and Woody Allen (2002), and this year’s honor is bestowed upon the Oscar-winning director of “The Last Emperor.” Bertolucci had been nominated for the Academy’s top prize for directing “The Last Tango in Paris” (1972) and for writing “The Conformist” (1970).
With other titles in his arsenal including directing “Stealing Beauty,” “The Dreamers,” “Besieged,” “The Sheltering Sky,” and a co-writing credit on “Once Upon a Time in the West,” Bertolucci has previously been awarded a career Golden Lion from the Venice Film Festival.
The only strange part of this news, especially for the significantly more productive former honorees Eastwood and Allen, is that Cannes festival president Gilles Jacob,...
Past honorary Palmes have been awarded to Clint Eastwood (2009) and Woody Allen (2002), and this year’s honor is bestowed upon the Oscar-winning director of “The Last Emperor.” Bertolucci had been nominated for the Academy’s top prize for directing “The Last Tango in Paris” (1972) and for writing “The Conformist” (1970).
With other titles in his arsenal including directing “Stealing Beauty,” “The Dreamers,” “Besieged,” “The Sheltering Sky,” and a co-writing credit on “Once Upon a Time in the West,” Bertolucci has previously been awarded a career Golden Lion from the Venice Film Festival.
The only strange part of this news, especially for the significantly more productive former honorees Eastwood and Allen, is that Cannes festival president Gilles Jacob,...
- 4/11/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
September 24, 2010: When an African dictator jails her husband, Shandurai goes into exile in Italy, studying medicine and keeping house for Mr. Kinsky, an eccentric English pianist and composer. She lives in one room of his Roman palazzo. He besieges her with flowers, gifts, and music, declaring passionately that he loves her, would go to Africa with her, would do anything for her. "What do you know of Africa?," she asks, then, in anguish, shouts, "Get my husband out of jail!" The rest of the film plays out the implications of this scene and leaves Shandurai with a choice.
Besieged is a 1998 film by Bernardo Bertolucci starring Thandie Newton and David Thewlis.
It is based on the short story "The Siege".
Besieged is a 1998 film by Bernardo Bertolucci starring Thandie Newton and David Thewlis.
It is based on the short story "The Siege".
- 9/24/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
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