The Argentinan government has moved ahead with plans to withdraw all state funding from the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (Incaa), the film body that backs the majority of Argentinian films and festivals and events including Ventana Sur (with the Marche du Cannes) and the Mar Del Plata International Film Festival.
The announcement was made on March 11 via the country’s Ministry of Human Capital. It claimed the Incaa had a $4m deficit.
“Our commitment to a zero budget deficit is non-negotiable,” said the government in a statement. “The time when film festivals were financed with the hunger...
The announcement was made on March 11 via the country’s Ministry of Human Capital. It claimed the Incaa had a $4m deficit.
“Our commitment to a zero budget deficit is non-negotiable,” said the government in a statement. “The time when film festivals were financed with the hunger...
- 3/13/2024
- ScreenDaily
Shortly before a momentous vote takes place in Argentina, Deadline spoke with leading film professionals about how “devastating” reforms could derail the country’s movie sector.
On Wednesday, the country’s new far-right President Javier Milei will try to push through a legislative program in Congress that aims to deregulate industries, expand presidential powers, silence dissenters and reimagine or do away with decades-old institutions.
Often dubbed “El Loco” (The Madman) by his critics, Milei, a self-proclaimed “anarcho-capitalist,” only entered politics in 2021 after a colorful career as an economist and TV pundit. His election win late last year was seen by many as an anti-establishment vote fueled by anger over the country’s worst economic crisis in decades.
Argentina’s economy, the second largest in South America, has been in a semi-permanent state of crisis since 2018. The country’s economic woes deepened over the past year, with inflation at a record...
On Wednesday, the country’s new far-right President Javier Milei will try to push through a legislative program in Congress that aims to deregulate industries, expand presidential powers, silence dissenters and reimagine or do away with decades-old institutions.
Often dubbed “El Loco” (The Madman) by his critics, Milei, a self-proclaimed “anarcho-capitalist,” only entered politics in 2021 after a colorful career as an economist and TV pundit. His election win late last year was seen by many as an anti-establishment vote fueled by anger over the country’s worst economic crisis in decades.
Argentina’s economy, the second largest in South America, has been in a semi-permanent state of crisis since 2018. The country’s economic woes deepened over the past year, with inflation at a record...
- 1/24/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Festival director Miguel Ribeiro described a busy and joyful festival.
The 20th edition of Doclisboa closed this weekend on an upbeat note with festival director Miguel Ribeiro reporting audiences were back to pre-pandemic levels.
“We are closing the festival with a great sense of having been a big celebration of cinema, a great get-together,” said Ribeiro. ”There was a feeling of joy in the corridors of the venues and during the informal encounters, the parties at the end of each day.”
Nikita Lavretski’s A Date In Minsk won the festival’s main prize, the City of Lisbon Award for best international competition film.
The 20th edition of Doclisboa closed this weekend on an upbeat note with festival director Miguel Ribeiro reporting audiences were back to pre-pandemic levels.
“We are closing the festival with a great sense of having been a big celebration of cinema, a great get-together,” said Ribeiro. ”There was a feeling of joy in the corridors of the venues and during the informal encounters, the parties at the end of each day.”
Nikita Lavretski’s A Date In Minsk won the festival’s main prize, the City of Lisbon Award for best international competition film.
- 10/17/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
New films from Oscar laureate Vanessa Ragone (“The Secret in Their Eyes”) and Camera d’Or winners Edher Campos (“Leap Year”) and Juan Pablo Miller (“Las Acacias”) are among attractions at this year’s Ventana Sur’s Primer Corte and Copia Final, the pix-in-post industry centerpieces at Latin America’s biggest film-tv market.
Ragone co-produces “The Face of the Jellyfish,” from Argentina’s Rotterdam-prized Melisa Liebenthal. Campos unveils “Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara,” Mexican Federico Cecchetti’s follow-up to the multi-prized “Mara’akame’s Dream.”
Miller introduces “Sublime,” one of the section’s buzz titles, along with “Diogenes,” from Peru’s Leonardo Barbuy, and two titles from Brazil: Gregorio Graziosi’s “Tinnitus” and Gabriel Martin’s “Mars One,” winner of Ventana Sur’s prestigious Paradiso Wip Award.
Titles brim with talent, observes Eva Morsch-Kihn, curator of Primer Corte and Copia Final along with Mercedes Abarca and Maria Nuñez.
Ragone co-produces “The Face of the Jellyfish,” from Argentina’s Rotterdam-prized Melisa Liebenthal. Campos unveils “Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara,” Mexican Federico Cecchetti’s follow-up to the multi-prized “Mara’akame’s Dream.”
Miller introduces “Sublime,” one of the section’s buzz titles, along with “Diogenes,” from Peru’s Leonardo Barbuy, and two titles from Brazil: Gregorio Graziosi’s “Tinnitus” and Gabriel Martin’s “Mars One,” winner of Ventana Sur’s prestigious Paradiso Wip Award.
Titles brim with talent, observes Eva Morsch-Kihn, curator of Primer Corte and Copia Final along with Mercedes Abarca and Maria Nuñez.
- 11/2/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Four Latin American women producers, each of them leading voices in their respective countries, found kinship and solidarity at the Sanfic Industry panel Women Film Producers: Expanding Gazes.
They also realized that there were still many issues to resolve, especially gender parity in the entertainment sector.
Hosted by Chile’s premier audiovisual industry event on March 25, the panel included Sanfic Industry Head and Storyboard Media producer Gabriela Sandoval of Chile who also served as moderator; Brazilian producer Vania Catani of Bananeira Filmes; Peru’s Joanna Lombardi, Head of Fiction for Movistar Latin America; and Argentine producer Vanessa Ragone, whose credits include 2010 International Feature Oscar winner “The Secret in their Eyes.”
Some conclusions they drew from their 90-minute discussion:
Women need to take more leadership roles in the industry
Until there are more women with creative decision-making power, changes would be slow. “When a project is presented to me, I want...
They also realized that there were still many issues to resolve, especially gender parity in the entertainment sector.
Hosted by Chile’s premier audiovisual industry event on March 25, the panel included Sanfic Industry Head and Storyboard Media producer Gabriela Sandoval of Chile who also served as moderator; Brazilian producer Vania Catani of Bananeira Filmes; Peru’s Joanna Lombardi, Head of Fiction for Movistar Latin America; and Argentine producer Vanessa Ragone, whose credits include 2010 International Feature Oscar winner “The Secret in their Eyes.”
Some conclusions they drew from their 90-minute discussion:
Women need to take more leadership roles in the industry
Until there are more women with creative decision-making power, changes would be slow. “When a project is presented to me, I want...
- 3/26/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Produced and showrun by Vanessa Ragone, an Oscar-winner for “The Secret of Her Eyes,” the Argentinian true crime miniseries dives deep into the still ongoing case of the murder of María Marta García Belsunce. “Carmel, Who Killed Maria Marta?” was released on Netflix reigniting the public’s attention and curiosity.
What was deemed an accident quickly transformed into a five-gunshot murder which has piqued the fascination of the country over the last two decades. An Agatha Christies-style murder mystery enclosed into the safe and sterilized environment of the Carmel country club.
Directed by Alejandro Hartmann, the miniseries tackles the titanic task of organizing the hundreds of hours of archive material alongside lengthy interviews with the key characters to give the audience a birds-eye view of the event. The more detailed and meticulous the series gets, the more intricate and perplexing the case becomes, leaving the viewers with just enough to make up their own minds.
What was deemed an accident quickly transformed into a five-gunshot murder which has piqued the fascination of the country over the last two decades. An Agatha Christies-style murder mystery enclosed into the safe and sterilized environment of the Carmel country club.
Directed by Alejandro Hartmann, the miniseries tackles the titanic task of organizing the hundreds of hours of archive material alongside lengthy interviews with the key characters to give the audience a birds-eye view of the event. The more detailed and meticulous the series gets, the more intricate and perplexing the case becomes, leaving the viewers with just enough to make up their own minds.
- 12/5/2020
- by Emiliano Granada
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Road-movie drama stars Gloria actress Paulina Garcia.
Raphael Berdugo’s Cité Films has closed key deals on buzzed-about Cannes Un Certain Regard drama The Desert Bride.
Deals have closed in Spain (Golem), following interest from multiple parties, Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Benelux (Cineart), Greece (Strada), Brazil (Imovision) and China (Time In Portrait Entertainment).
Multiple Us buyers have expressed strong interest. Memento previously acquired rights in France.
Cité generally only handles sales on its own in-house titles but made the call to board the project for sales ahead of the market.
The film marks the feature debut of Argentine directorial duo Cecilia Atán and Valeria Pivato.
Producers are Atán, Pivato, Chile’s Ceibita Films and, from Argentina, Eva Lauria, Raul Aragon and El Perro en La Luna.
Paulina Garcia, the best actress winner at Berlin 2016 for Sebastian Lelio’s Gloria, stars as a 54-year-old live-in-maid in Buenos Aires who mundane life is tuned upside down when she loses her job...
Raphael Berdugo’s Cité Films has closed key deals on buzzed-about Cannes Un Certain Regard drama The Desert Bride.
Deals have closed in Spain (Golem), following interest from multiple parties, Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Benelux (Cineart), Greece (Strada), Brazil (Imovision) and China (Time In Portrait Entertainment).
Multiple Us buyers have expressed strong interest. Memento previously acquired rights in France.
Cité generally only handles sales on its own in-house titles but made the call to board the project for sales ahead of the market.
The film marks the feature debut of Argentine directorial duo Cecilia Atán and Valeria Pivato.
Producers are Atán, Pivato, Chile’s Ceibita Films and, from Argentina, Eva Lauria, Raul Aragon and El Perro en La Luna.
Paulina Garcia, the best actress winner at Berlin 2016 for Sebastian Lelio’s Gloria, stars as a 54-year-old live-in-maid in Buenos Aires who mundane life is tuned upside down when she loses her job...
- 5/23/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Works in progress event crowns 2017 projects.
The Desert Bride, which stars Berlin best actress winner Paulina Garcia (Gloria) as a maid in Buenos Aires who is forced to take a job in a distant town, scooped the top two prizes at this year’s Films in Progress event in Toulouse, France.
The film, which marks the directing debut of Cecilia Atán and Valeria Pivato, won both the main Films in Progress Toulouse award, which comes with post-production services and help with promotion, and the Cine+ award, which guarantees purchase of the film from the French network for €15,000.
Atán and Pivato co-wrote the screenplay. Vanessa Ragone (The Secret In Their Eyes) is producing, Eva Lauria and Alejo Crisóstomo are executive producers.
A further prize went to Martín Rodríguez Redondo’s Marilyn, about a seventeen-year-old farm worker who discovers his sexuality in a hostile environment. The film will benefit from promotion by the Europa Distribution network and the Confédération...
The Desert Bride, which stars Berlin best actress winner Paulina Garcia (Gloria) as a maid in Buenos Aires who is forced to take a job in a distant town, scooped the top two prizes at this year’s Films in Progress event in Toulouse, France.
The film, which marks the directing debut of Cecilia Atán and Valeria Pivato, won both the main Films in Progress Toulouse award, which comes with post-production services and help with promotion, and the Cine+ award, which guarantees purchase of the film from the French network for €15,000.
Atán and Pivato co-wrote the screenplay. Vanessa Ragone (The Secret In Their Eyes) is producing, Eva Lauria and Alejo Crisóstomo are executive producers.
A further prize went to Martín Rodríguez Redondo’s Marilyn, about a seventeen-year-old farm worker who discovers his sexuality in a hostile environment. The film will benefit from promotion by the Europa Distribution network and the Confédération...
- 3/27/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Second poster for Ana Piterbarg's crime drama Everybody Has a Plan starring Viggo Mortensen. Taglined with "The Past Will Hunt You Down," this intriguing film which marks the feature-length directorial debut of Piterbarg (TV's Champions of Life), follows Mortensen's character who assumes the identity of his deceased twin in Argentina. Also known as Todos tenemos un plan, Everybody Has a Plan includes Soledad Villamil, Daniel Fanego, Javier Godino, Sofia Gala and Oscar Alegre. The film was nominated for three awards by 2012 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Argentina. Mariela Busuievski, Vanessa Ragone and Mortensen produce.
- 5/16/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Fox International Productions has purchased the rights to Everybody Has A Plan starring Viggo Mortensen. The film is the directorial debut of Ana Piterbarg, who also penned the screenplay. Distribution rights are being sold at Cannes. Piterbarg is slated to begin filming this summer on location in Buenos Aires and El Tigre in Argentina, and Ciudad de la Luz in Alicante-Spain.
The film tells the story of "Agustín (Mortensen), a man desperate to abandon his unfulfilling existence after years of living in Buenos Aires. Following the death of his identical twin brother Pedro, Agustín sets out to begin his life anew by assuming Pedro’s identity and returning to the mysterious Tigre Delta region where the brothers had spent their childhood. Soon after his homecoming, however, Agustín finds himself unwittingly embroiled in the deadly criminal underworld that his brother had been part of."
I am a huge fan of Mortensen...
The film tells the story of "Agustín (Mortensen), a man desperate to abandon his unfulfilling existence after years of living in Buenos Aires. Following the death of his identical twin brother Pedro, Agustín sets out to begin his life anew by assuming Pedro’s identity and returning to the mysterious Tigre Delta region where the brothers had spent their childhood. Soon after his homecoming, however, Agustín finds himself unwittingly embroiled in the deadly criminal underworld that his brother had been part of."
I am a huge fan of Mortensen...
- 5/5/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Danny Boyle.s .127 Hours,. David Fincher.s .The Social Network. and Joel & Ethan Coen.s .True Grit. led the Houston Area Film Critics Award nominations with six nominations each including Best Picture and Best Director. But the Houston Film Critics also chose the Worst Pictures of the year pitting "Jonah Hex" against "The Last Airbender."
Here's the complete list of nominees:
Best Picture:
127 Hours, Fox Searchlight (produced by Christian Colson, John Smithson, Danny Boyle)
Black Swan, Fox Searchlight (produced by Mike Medavoy, Scott Franklin, Arnold Messer, Brian Oliver)
Inception, Warner Bros. (produced by Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas)
Kick Ass, Lionsgate (produced by Matthew Vaughn, Brad Pitt, Kris Thykier, Adam Bohling, Tarquin Pack, David Reid)
The Kids are All Right, Focus Features (produced by Gary Gilbert, Jordan Horowitz, Celine Rattray, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Philippe Hellmann)
The King.s Speech, The Weinstein Company (produced by Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin)
The Social Network,...
Here's the complete list of nominees:
Best Picture:
127 Hours, Fox Searchlight (produced by Christian Colson, John Smithson, Danny Boyle)
Black Swan, Fox Searchlight (produced by Mike Medavoy, Scott Franklin, Arnold Messer, Brian Oliver)
Inception, Warner Bros. (produced by Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas)
Kick Ass, Lionsgate (produced by Matthew Vaughn, Brad Pitt, Kris Thykier, Adam Bohling, Tarquin Pack, David Reid)
The Kids are All Right, Focus Features (produced by Gary Gilbert, Jordan Horowitz, Celine Rattray, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Philippe Hellmann)
The King.s Speech, The Weinstein Company (produced by Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin)
The Social Network,...
- 12/15/2010
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
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