Paris-based Pulsar Content has taken on world sales rights to Colombian director Camila Beltrán’s debut feature Mi Bestia, which is making its world pemeire in Cannes’ Acid 2024 line-up.
Set in Bogotá in 1996, the film follows a 13 year-old girl grappling with adolescence as everyone around her grows frightened of an approaching red moon lunar eclipse said to bring the devil to earth.
Mi Bestia is produced by the filmmaker’s Colombia-based production house Felina Films with France’s Films Grand Huit, and Colombia’s Inercia Películas and Ganas Producciones. Beltrán, whose experimental short films have been shown across festivals including Locarno and Clermont-Ferrand,...
Set in Bogotá in 1996, the film follows a 13 year-old girl grappling with adolescence as everyone around her grows frightened of an approaching red moon lunar eclipse said to bring the devil to earth.
Mi Bestia is produced by the filmmaker’s Colombia-based production house Felina Films with France’s Films Grand Huit, and Colombia’s Inercia Películas and Ganas Producciones. Beltrán, whose experimental short films have been shown across festivals including Locarno and Clermont-Ferrand,...
- 4/16/2024
- ScreenDaily
When “Embrace of the Serpent,” a psychedelic exploration of Colombian tribes in the Amazon, was released in 2015 to great acclaim and was shortlisted for the foreign-language Oscar, it instantly launched director Ciro Guerra onto the international film stage. The Colombian filmmaker, along with his ex-wife and producer Cristina Gallego, then had enough industry support to make their long-gestating passion project, “Birds of Passage.” The film, which became Colombia’s Oscar submission in 2018, uncovers the roots of Colombia’s drug war in the rise of illegal trading within the remote Wayyu tribes.
Working with a new set of collaborators, Guerra’s newest project is a mystery thriller for Netflix, which follows a disturbing string of femicides in the Amazon. “Green Frontier,” which also bears the Spanish-language title “Frontera Verde,” was shot on location in Colombia and filmed entirely in Spanish. The newly released first trailer promises stunning cinematography, gorgeous landscapes and...
Working with a new set of collaborators, Guerra’s newest project is a mystery thriller for Netflix, which follows a disturbing string of femicides in the Amazon. “Green Frontier,” which also bears the Spanish-language title “Frontera Verde,” was shot on location in Colombia and filmed entirely in Spanish. The newly released first trailer promises stunning cinematography, gorgeous landscapes and...
- 8/1/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Tagline: “Kill or Be Killed.” ExPatriot is an action thriller from director Conor Allyn. To be released by Monarch Home Entertainment, this title involves a whistleblowing CIA agent and Riley's (Valene Kane) escape to Colombia. Even here, she is chased by her past. ExPatriot also stars: Charlie Weber (Vampires Suck, 2010), Mariio Espitia, Marcela Mar and David Valencia. The film's official DVD artwork is hosted here, along with several film stills. For more on the story, Riley is followed by her former coworkers. She is offered one more job, involving a money laundering scheme. She trusts her coworkers, only to be betrayed. Now, she must fight with these rogue CIA agents and with members of a Columbian syndicate. There is no escape, this time! ExPatriot will be available in late February. On February 20th, ExPatriot will show in an unrated version on DVD. The film has a runtime of 97 minutes. And,...
- 2/12/2018
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Exclusive: Desperate Housewives alumna Eva Longoria is returning to ABC for another soapy drama, this time as a producer. ABC has bought Trust, an hourlong soap based on the popular Colombian telenovela Pura Sangre, which is produced by Longoria’s UnbeliEVAble Entertainment, Berman/Braun and Universal TV. Written by Katie Lovejoy (Dracula), Trust centers on David Montenegro, a humble attorney in Miami who is given the chance to become the Trustee of the Lagos estate. David takes the job to try and rekindle a romance with his first and only love, Rosella Lagos – who is now engaged to another man – but before long, he finds himself sucked into her dysfunctional family and discovers that, in a world of so much money, the only true currency is trust. The project stems from UnbeliEVAble’s first-look deal with Uni TV. UnbeliEVAble’s Longoria and Ben Spector executive produce with Gail Berman, Lloyd Braun and Gene Stein.
- 9/19/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
San Sebastian International Film Festival
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain -- This first feature by Andres Baiz, representing Colombia in the Best Foreign Language Oscar derby, purports to explore the so-called Pozzetto Massacre in Colombia in which when a former Vietnam veteran killed 29 people in unexplained circumstances. The U.S. army vet went berserk with a gun in a crowded restaurant in 1986 after writing a literary criticism of "The Strange Case of Dr, Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Lewis Stevenson. No one knows why.
While the movie itself is a well-made crime drama that packs a punch, Baiz fails to coherently link the killer's case with questions about the fatal urge of people's deepest desires. Indeed the filmmaker leaves himself open to charges of exploitation.
Satan has good boxoffice potential in Latin America and other Spanish-speaking markets. It's lack of subtlety and obscure subject matter may limit its potential elsewhere.
The movie examines several stories: A priest who struggles with his secret lust for his housekeeper; a woman who lures wealthy businessmen into the hands of robbers; and the Vietnam vet Eliseo (Damian Alcazar), who harbors desires for his English student. These three stories appear unrelated until right at the end when all main characters find themselves in the same restaurant just as Eliseo starts blasting. Even then their meeting feels forced.
The film is spiced with extreme violence that bears seemingly little connection to the plot. A rape is played for maximum impact and minimum relevancy. If the revenge by Paola (Marcela Mar) against her rapists is meant to show how she gives in to her a base instinct, it is not clear. Similarly, when the priest attacks a tramp, it seems a simple shock tactic from the director.
If Baiz wants the audience to meditate on how man is tempted to sin, this Faustian question seems at odds in a film that never gives an audience time to ponder such matters. He seems keen to pack so much extreme violence and sex as to give his audience no time to draw a breath, much less ponder a deeper meaning.
Baiz does know how to put together a slick product. Though the film's three stories appear to have little connection, he slips from one to the other with ease. Mauricio Vidal's photography is excellent. Opening shots of the market in bustling downtown Bogota are stark and in vivid colors. A haunting score by Angelo Milli lingers in the mind long after the credit crawl.
SATAN
Rionegro Producciones D.F (Mexico) with the Little Film Company
Credits:
Writer/director: Andres Baiz
Based on the novel by: Mario Mendoza
Director of photography: Mauricio Vidal
Production design: Jual Carlos Acevedo
Music: Angelo Milli
Costume designer
Luz Helena Cardenas
Editor: Alberto del Toro
Cast:
Eliseo: Damian Alcazar
Blanca: Teresa Gutierrez
Valeria: Patricia Castaneda
Irene: Isabel Gaona
Tendero: Alvaro Garcia
Taxista: Hector Garcia
Natalia: Martina Garcia
Paola: Marcela Mar
Padre Ernesto: Blas Jaramillo
Pablo: Andres Parra
Alicia: Marcela Valencia
Alberto: Diego Vasquez
Beatriz: Vicky Hernandez
Running time -- 95 minutes
No MPAA rating...
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain -- This first feature by Andres Baiz, representing Colombia in the Best Foreign Language Oscar derby, purports to explore the so-called Pozzetto Massacre in Colombia in which when a former Vietnam veteran killed 29 people in unexplained circumstances. The U.S. army vet went berserk with a gun in a crowded restaurant in 1986 after writing a literary criticism of "The Strange Case of Dr, Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Lewis Stevenson. No one knows why.
While the movie itself is a well-made crime drama that packs a punch, Baiz fails to coherently link the killer's case with questions about the fatal urge of people's deepest desires. Indeed the filmmaker leaves himself open to charges of exploitation.
Satan has good boxoffice potential in Latin America and other Spanish-speaking markets. It's lack of subtlety and obscure subject matter may limit its potential elsewhere.
The movie examines several stories: A priest who struggles with his secret lust for his housekeeper; a woman who lures wealthy businessmen into the hands of robbers; and the Vietnam vet Eliseo (Damian Alcazar), who harbors desires for his English student. These three stories appear unrelated until right at the end when all main characters find themselves in the same restaurant just as Eliseo starts blasting. Even then their meeting feels forced.
The film is spiced with extreme violence that bears seemingly little connection to the plot. A rape is played for maximum impact and minimum relevancy. If the revenge by Paola (Marcela Mar) against her rapists is meant to show how she gives in to her a base instinct, it is not clear. Similarly, when the priest attacks a tramp, it seems a simple shock tactic from the director.
If Baiz wants the audience to meditate on how man is tempted to sin, this Faustian question seems at odds in a film that never gives an audience time to ponder such matters. He seems keen to pack so much extreme violence and sex as to give his audience no time to draw a breath, much less ponder a deeper meaning.
Baiz does know how to put together a slick product. Though the film's three stories appear to have little connection, he slips from one to the other with ease. Mauricio Vidal's photography is excellent. Opening shots of the market in bustling downtown Bogota are stark and in vivid colors. A haunting score by Angelo Milli lingers in the mind long after the credit crawl.
SATAN
Rionegro Producciones D.F (Mexico) with the Little Film Company
Credits:
Writer/director: Andres Baiz
Based on the novel by: Mario Mendoza
Director of photography: Mauricio Vidal
Production design: Jual Carlos Acevedo
Music: Angelo Milli
Costume designer
Luz Helena Cardenas
Editor: Alberto del Toro
Cast:
Eliseo: Damian Alcazar
Blanca: Teresa Gutierrez
Valeria: Patricia Castaneda
Irene: Isabel Gaona
Tendero: Alvaro Garcia
Taxista: Hector Garcia
Natalia: Martina Garcia
Paola: Marcela Mar
Padre Ernesto: Blas Jaramillo
Pablo: Andres Parra
Alicia: Marcela Valencia
Alberto: Diego Vasquez
Beatriz: Vicky Hernandez
Running time -- 95 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 12/12/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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