Miami– Gaumont USA, producer of “Narcos,” is powering up new series from both Oscar-winning “Birdman” co-writer Armando Bó and also Spain’s Manuel Martin Cuenca, director of Toronto winner “The Motive,” as well as multiple other talents. It is also readying it first movie slate.
Gaumont USA already co-produced the Bó showrun Amazon Original “El Presidente,” with Pablo and Juan de Dios Larraín’s Fabula and Argentine powerhouse Kapow, both partners on “La Jauría.”
News of new series projects comes as Gaumont USA is advancing on Lucía Puenzo’s near future android family saga “Futuro Desierto” (“Desolate Future”), part of a 2020 multi-project development pact with the Argentine writer-director.
Gaumont USA is currently developing titles with Jimena Montemayor (“Wind Traces”), Pedro Amorim (“The Dognapper”), Sebastian and Emiliano Zurita (“How to Survive Being Single”), Katina Medina Mora, Belen Macias (“Verano en Rojo”), among other top-level filmmakers. Other projects are from screenwriters Ruth García...
Gaumont USA already co-produced the Bó showrun Amazon Original “El Presidente,” with Pablo and Juan de Dios Larraín’s Fabula and Argentine powerhouse Kapow, both partners on “La Jauría.”
News of new series projects comes as Gaumont USA is advancing on Lucía Puenzo’s near future android family saga “Futuro Desierto” (“Desolate Future”), part of a 2020 multi-project development pact with the Argentine writer-director.
Gaumont USA is currently developing titles with Jimena Montemayor (“Wind Traces”), Pedro Amorim (“The Dognapper”), Sebastian and Emiliano Zurita (“How to Survive Being Single”), Katina Medina Mora, Belen Macias (“Verano en Rojo”), among other top-level filmmakers. Other projects are from screenwriters Ruth García...
- 1/24/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Programme is for film directors making first move into scripted TV.
Projects by directors Juho Kuosmanen, César Díaz and Beatriz Seigner have won the inaugural prizes of Seriesmakers, a development programme for filmmakers making their TV series debut.
Led by Series Mania Forum and supported by European studio Beta Group, the first edition of Seriesmakers had 170 submissions, and saw 10 TV series projects participate in a programme for feature film directors who are moving into the world of series.
Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen and producer Jussi Rantamäki’s Yours, Margot won one of two €50,000 Beta development awards. The 8x45-minute series...
Projects by directors Juho Kuosmanen, César Díaz and Beatriz Seigner have won the inaugural prizes of Seriesmakers, a development programme for filmmakers making their TV series debut.
Led by Series Mania Forum and supported by European studio Beta Group, the first edition of Seriesmakers had 170 submissions, and saw 10 TV series projects participate in a programme for feature film directors who are moving into the world of series.
Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen and producer Jussi Rantamäki’s Yours, Margot won one of two €50,000 Beta development awards. The 8x45-minute series...
- 3/22/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Lille, France — “Yours, Margot,” from “Compartment No 6’s” Juho Kuosmanen, Guatemalan Cannes Camera d’Or winner César Díaz (“Our Mothers”) and Brazil’s Beatriz Seigner (“Los Silencios”) have won the three prizes on offer at the first edition of Seriesmakers.
A mentoring program for filmmakers making their TV creator debut, after an inaugural edition delivering one of the most talent-packed project lineups at any festival, film or TV, in 2023, Seriesmakers backers Beta Group and Series Mania opened on Wednesday a call for admissions for a second edition.
Though all three series range hugely in setting and creators, all three see their protagonists go back to a recent past to explore events that have impacted their family, their modern-day country (“The Invisible Ink”), or traumas in the present (“Amigas”).
Doing so they form part of one of the biggest trends in current issue-driven series, through the resort to an alternative, future...
A mentoring program for filmmakers making their TV creator debut, after an inaugural edition delivering one of the most talent-packed project lineups at any festival, film or TV, in 2023, Seriesmakers backers Beta Group and Series Mania opened on Wednesday a call for admissions for a second edition.
Though all three series range hugely in setting and creators, all three see their protagonists go back to a recent past to explore events that have impacted their family, their modern-day country (“The Invisible Ink”), or traumas in the present (“Amigas”).
Doing so they form part of one of the biggest trends in current issue-driven series, through the resort to an alternative, future...
- 3/22/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
A project from Finland and a Belgium-Uruguay co-production have won the Seriesmaker initiative here at Series Mania.
The projects, Yours, Margot and The Invisible Ink, both bag €50,000 each after winning the Beta Development Awards.
They were announced minutes ago at Lille’s Series Mania Forum event, which is into its second day.
Yours, Margot is an eight-part drama from Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen and producer Jussi Rantamäki. The logline is: “After discovering her father’s letters to an unknown lover, Vilja unearths her family’s traumatic past in 1980s East Berlin.”
Kuosmanen’s 2021 road movie Compartment No 6 won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival official competition, and his biographical film The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki won Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival.
The Invisible Ink comes from director César Díaz and producer Fernando Epstein, and also runs to eight parts. It...
The projects, Yours, Margot and The Invisible Ink, both bag €50,000 each after winning the Beta Development Awards.
They were announced minutes ago at Lille’s Series Mania Forum event, which is into its second day.
Yours, Margot is an eight-part drama from Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen and producer Jussi Rantamäki. The logline is: “After discovering her father’s letters to an unknown lover, Vilja unearths her family’s traumatic past in 1980s East Berlin.”
Kuosmanen’s 2021 road movie Compartment No 6 won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival official competition, and his biographical film The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki won Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival.
The Invisible Ink comes from director César Díaz and producer Fernando Epstein, and also runs to eight parts. It...
- 3/22/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Series Mania, Europe’s biggest TV fest, and German film-tv powerhouse Beta Group has revealed the 10 projects in the first edition of Seriesmakers, unveiling what must be one of the most talent-packed project lineups at any festival, film or TV, in 2023,
A mentoring program for filmmakers making their TV creator debut, Series Mania features in development drama series from “Compartment No 6’s” Juho Kuosmanen, ‘Bang Gang’s’ Eva Husson and “Birds of a Passage’s” Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego.
Also in the mix is “Amigas,” the first TV project of Beatriz Seigner (“Los Silencios”), one of Brazil’s foremost young movie directors, “The Invisible Ink,” teaming Cannes best first feature winner César Díaz (“Our Mothers”)and New Uruguay Cinema founding father Fernando Epstein; and Indian arthouse filmmaker Pushpendra Singh, who scored with Berlin Encounters’ title “The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs.”
All in all, Seriesmakers, which is just...
A mentoring program for filmmakers making their TV creator debut, Series Mania features in development drama series from “Compartment No 6’s” Juho Kuosmanen, ‘Bang Gang’s’ Eva Husson and “Birds of a Passage’s” Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego.
Also in the mix is “Amigas,” the first TV project of Beatriz Seigner (“Los Silencios”), one of Brazil’s foremost young movie directors, “The Invisible Ink,” teaming Cannes best first feature winner César Díaz (“Our Mothers”)and New Uruguay Cinema founding father Fernando Epstein; and Indian arthouse filmmaker Pushpendra Singh, who scored with Berlin Encounters’ title “The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs.”
All in all, Seriesmakers, which is just...
- 3/13/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Intimate Queer Coming of Age Stories, Sci-Fi and the Supernatural: Ventana Sur’s Punto Genero Lineup
“The Marriage,” the feature-length fiction debut from Brazilian documentary filmmaker Maíra Bühler (“Let It Burn”), and a pair of intimate and revelatory queer films “The Way You See Me,” and buzz-title “Diamond,” backed by Argentina’s Maravilla Cine (“That Weekend”), are among the selections set for Ventana Sur’s 2022 Punto Genero Pitching Sessions.
They’re joined by mystical, lore-centered projects like Julia Rotundi’s “A Woman Gazed At The Night Sky,” sci-fi-laced “I’ve Held This Sadness For So Long That My Chest Will Explode,” by Mexico’s Nicolasa Ruiz Mendoza and dystopian thriller, “Kill To Marilyn,” by Chilean director Alejandra Gonzalez Painemal.
In keeping with tradition, this year’s films push boundaries, set to pull in viewers from varied demographics, shining a light on Latin American cinema, spanning the whole of the continent and centering communities whose narratives discuss wholly human issues with passion and textured perspectives.
“We care about equity,...
They’re joined by mystical, lore-centered projects like Julia Rotundi’s “A Woman Gazed At The Night Sky,” sci-fi-laced “I’ve Held This Sadness For So Long That My Chest Will Explode,” by Mexico’s Nicolasa Ruiz Mendoza and dystopian thriller, “Kill To Marilyn,” by Chilean director Alejandra Gonzalez Painemal.
In keeping with tradition, this year’s films push boundaries, set to pull in viewers from varied demographics, shining a light on Latin American cinema, spanning the whole of the continent and centering communities whose narratives discuss wholly human issues with passion and textured perspectives.
“We care about equity,...
- 11/14/2022
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
Each project will receive €10,000 in funding.
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)’s Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf) has selected 10 projects, all from female filmmakers, for its 2022 Script and Project Development Support scheme.
Each of the 10 projects receives a grant of €10,000 to be spent on development.
The selection includes Iranian filmmaker Rakhshan Banietemad, whose previous flm Tales picked up best screenplay at Venice Film festival in 2014, and Tamar Shavgulidze, the Georgian director of Comets which screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019.
Two Brazilian projects, Everlane Moraes’ The Secret Of Sikán and Maíra Bühler’s The Marriage, are featured and will...
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)’s Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf) has selected 10 projects, all from female filmmakers, for its 2022 Script and Project Development Support scheme.
Each of the 10 projects receives a grant of €10,000 to be spent on development.
The selection includes Iranian filmmaker Rakhshan Banietemad, whose previous flm Tales picked up best screenplay at Venice Film festival in 2014, and Tamar Shavgulidze, the Georgian director of Comets which screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019.
Two Brazilian projects, Everlane Moraes’ The Secret Of Sikán and Maíra Bühler’s The Marriage, are featured and will...
- 5/23/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Each project will receive €10,000 in funding.
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)’s Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf) has selected 10 projects, all from female filmmakers, for its 2022 Script and Project Development Support scheme.
Each of the 10 projects receives a grant of €10,000 to be spent on development.
The selection includes Iranian filmmaker Rakhshan Banietemad, whose previous flm Tales picked up best screenplay at Venice Film festival in 2014, and Tamar Shavgulidze, the Georgian director of Comets which screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019.
Two Brazilian projects, Everlane Moraes’ The Secret Of Sikán and Maíra Bühler’s The Marriage, are featured and will...
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)’s Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf) has selected 10 projects, all from female filmmakers, for its 2022 Script and Project Development Support scheme.
Each of the 10 projects receives a grant of €10,000 to be spent on development.
The selection includes Iranian filmmaker Rakhshan Banietemad, whose previous flm Tales picked up best screenplay at Venice Film festival in 2014, and Tamar Shavgulidze, the Georgian director of Comets which screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019.
Two Brazilian projects, Everlane Moraes’ The Secret Of Sikán and Maíra Bühler’s The Marriage, are featured and will...
- 5/23/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Berlin — Produced by Primo Filmes in co-production with Mpm Film, Tabuleiro Filmes and Sp Cine, “Shine Your Eyes,” warmly received at Berlin, tells the story of Amadi (Oc Ukeje), a Lagos musician who flies to Sao Paulo to track down his older brother Ikenna (Chukwudi Iwuji), who’s gone missing, and bring him back home.
As he immerses himself in a city of simmering life, following the scarce trail that his brother’s left behind, Amadi encounters a multitude of characters and, despite language barriers, starts seeing the possibility of a new life.
The debut fiction feature of Matias Mariani who had made the documentary ‘I Touched All Your Stuff,” “Shine Your Eyes” is a highlight of Brazil’s recent drive into diversity via its cinema. A movie that, by both celebrating the culture of its protagonists, the Igbo people, an ethnic group of South-Eastern Nigeria and the exuberant life of Sao Paulo,...
As he immerses himself in a city of simmering life, following the scarce trail that his brother’s left behind, Amadi encounters a multitude of characters and, despite language barriers, starts seeing the possibility of a new life.
The debut fiction feature of Matias Mariani who had made the documentary ‘I Touched All Your Stuff,” “Shine Your Eyes” is a highlight of Brazil’s recent drive into diversity via its cinema. A movie that, by both celebrating the culture of its protagonists, the Igbo people, an ethnic group of South-Eastern Nigeria and the exuberant life of Sao Paulo,...
- 2/27/2020
- by Emiliano Granada
- Variety Film + TV
The organizers of the True/False Film Fest, taking place in Columbia, Missouri, on February 28 to March 3, are announcing their lineup exclusively to IndieWire. The 36 feature films and 18 short films (full list below) were culled from “roughly” 1,100 submissions.
Among the 36 new features, four of the films announced are world premieres. “The Hottest August,” is from director Brett Story and explores the anxieties of a “sweltering” New York City. “Midnight in Paris,” the directorial feature debut from Roni Moore and James Blagden, follows the Flint Northern High School’s senior class of 2012 as the Michigan students prepare for prom. Brazil-based filmmaker Maíra Bühler will screen “Let it Burn,” described as a tender portrait of addicts housed in a converted hotel in São Paulo’s notorious Cracolândia neighborhood. And the fourth T/F world premiere is director Jeffrey Peixoto’s exploration into what attracts members to the Church of Scientology in “Over the Rainbow.
Among the 36 new features, four of the films announced are world premieres. “The Hottest August,” is from director Brett Story and explores the anxieties of a “sweltering” New York City. “Midnight in Paris,” the directorial feature debut from Roni Moore and James Blagden, follows the Flint Northern High School’s senior class of 2012 as the Michigan students prepare for prom. Brazil-based filmmaker Maíra Bühler will screen “Let it Burn,” described as a tender portrait of addicts housed in a converted hotel in São Paulo’s notorious Cracolândia neighborhood. And the fourth T/F world premiere is director Jeffrey Peixoto’s exploration into what attracts members to the Church of Scientology in “Over the Rainbow.
- 2/6/2019
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production forum received record number of submissions.
New films by Daniel Ribeiro (The Way He Looks), Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov (The Lesson) and Tudor Giurgiu (Of Snails And Men) are among 22 development projects - 12 fiction feature films and 10 documentaries - which will be presented at the sixth edition of Trieste’s When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production forum (Jan 24-26).
According to Wemw’s organisers, a record 301 projects were submitted by producers to participate in the event which will be attracting 150 international decision-makers including representatives from Wild Bunch, Fandango, Latido Films, Zdf/Arte, Loco Films, New Europe Film Sales, Eurimages and East West Film Distribution.
A total of 18 countries are represented in the 2016 line-up of projects ranging from Turkey and Lithuania through Serbia and Poland to Romania and Italy as well as the ‘guest countries’ of Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.
Giurgiu will be in Trieste with producer Bogdan Craciun to look...
New films by Daniel Ribeiro (The Way He Looks), Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov (The Lesson) and Tudor Giurgiu (Of Snails And Men) are among 22 development projects - 12 fiction feature films and 10 documentaries - which will be presented at the sixth edition of Trieste’s When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production forum (Jan 24-26).
According to Wemw’s organisers, a record 301 projects were submitted by producers to participate in the event which will be attracting 150 international decision-makers including representatives from Wild Bunch, Fandango, Latido Films, Zdf/Arte, Loco Films, New Europe Film Sales, Eurimages and East West Film Distribution.
A total of 18 countries are represented in the 2016 line-up of projects ranging from Turkey and Lithuania through Serbia and Poland to Romania and Italy as well as the ‘guest countries’ of Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.
Giurgiu will be in Trieste with producer Bogdan Craciun to look...
- 1/22/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production forum to host record number of projects.
New films by Daniel Ribeiro (The Way He Looks), Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov (The Lesson) and Tudor Giurgiu (Of Snails And Men) are among 22 development projects - 12 fiction feature films and 10 documentaries - which will be presented at the sixth edition of Trieste’s When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production forum (Jan 24-26).
According to Wemw’s organisers, a record 301 projects were submitted by producers to participate in the event which will be attracting 150 international decision-makers including representatives from Wild Bunch, Fandango, Latido Films, Zdf/Arte, Loco Films, New Europe Film Sales, Eurimages and East West Film Distribution.
A total of 18 countries are represented in the 2016 line-up of projects ranging from Turkey and Lithuania through Serbia and Poland to Romania and Italy as well as the ‘guest countries’ of Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.
Giurgiu will be in Trieste with producer Bogdan Craciun to look...
New films by Daniel Ribeiro (The Way He Looks), Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov (The Lesson) and Tudor Giurgiu (Of Snails And Men) are among 22 development projects - 12 fiction feature films and 10 documentaries - which will be presented at the sixth edition of Trieste’s When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production forum (Jan 24-26).
According to Wemw’s organisers, a record 301 projects were submitted by producers to participate in the event which will be attracting 150 international decision-makers including representatives from Wild Bunch, Fandango, Latido Films, Zdf/Arte, Loco Films, New Europe Film Sales, Eurimages and East West Film Distribution.
A total of 18 countries are represented in the 2016 line-up of projects ranging from Turkey and Lithuania through Serbia and Poland to Romania and Italy as well as the ‘guest countries’ of Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.
Giurgiu will be in Trieste with producer Bogdan Craciun to look...
- 1/22/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Twenty-nine films from twelve countries have been nominated in the sixth annual edition of the Cinema Tropical Awards, honoring the best of Latin American cinema of the year in six different categories: Best Feature Film; Best Documentary Film; Best Director, Feature Film; Best Director, Documentary Film; Best First Film; and Best U.S. Latino Film.
The five films competing for the Cinema Tropical Award for Best Feature Film of the Year are: The Club by Pablo Larraín (Chile), Jauja by Lisandro Alonso (Argentina), Los Hongos by Oscar Ruiz Navia (Colombia), The Princess of France by Matías Piñeiro (Argentina), and White Out, Black In by Adirley Queirós (Brazil).
The five nominees for Best U.S. Latino Film of the Year are: The Book of Life by Jorge Gutierrez, East Side Sushi by Anthony Lucero, Mala Mala by Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, and We Like It Like That by Mathew Ramirez Warren.
The winners of the 6th Annual Cinema Tropical Awards will be announced at a special evening ceremony at The New York Times Company headquarters in New York City on Wednesday, January 20, 2016. The winning films will be showcased as part of the Cinema Tropical Festival at Museum of the Moving Image, February 25-28, 2016, celebrating the organization’s 15th anniversary.
The candidates were culled from a comprehensive list of films created by a nominating committee composed of 12 film professionals from Latin America, the U.S., and Europe. All the films under consideration had a minimum of 60 minutes in length and premiered between April 1, 2014 and March 31, 2015.
Complete List of Nominations:
Best Feature Film
• "The Club"/ "El club" (Pablo Larraín, Chile, 2015)
• "Jauja" (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina, 2014)
• "Los Hongos" (Óscar Ruiz Navia, Colombia, 2014)
• "The Princess of France" / "La princesa de Francia" (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina/USA, 2014)
• "White Out, Black In" / "Branco Sai, Petro Fica" (Adirley Queirós, Brazil, 2014)
Best Director, Feature Film
• Nicolás Pereda, "The Absent" / "Los ausentes" (Mexico, 2014)
• Gabriel Mascaro, "August Winds" / "Ventos de Agosto" (Brazil, 2014)
• Pablo Larraín, "The Club" / "El club" (Chile, 2015)
• Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas, "Sand Dollars" / "Dólares de arena" (Dominican Republic/Mexico/Argentina, 2014)
• Paz Fábrega, "Viaje" (Costa Rica, 2015)
Best First Film
• "600 Miles" (Gabriel Ripstein, Mexico, 2015)
• "The Fire" / "El incendio" (Juan Schnitman, Argentina, 2015)
• "Ixcanul" (Jayro Bustamante, Guatemala, 2015)
• "She Comes Back on Thursday" / "Ela Volta Na Quinta" (Andrés Novais Oliveira, Brazil, 2014)
• "Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes)" / "Videofilia (y otros síndromes virales)" (Juan Daniel F. Molero, Peru, 2015)
Best Documentary Film
• "A Committee Chronicle" / "Crónica de un comité" (José Luis Sepúlveda and Carolina Adriazola, Chile, 2014)
• "Identification Photos" / "Retratos de Identificaçao" (Anita Leandro, Brazil, 2014)
• "Invasion" / "Invasión" (Abner Benaim, Panama, 2014)
• "Last Conversations" / "Últimas Conversas" (Eduardo Coutinho, Brazil,2015)
• "Monte Adentro" (Nicolás Macario Alonso, Colombia/Argentina, 2014)
Best Director, Documentary Film
• Maíra Bühler and Matias Mariani, "I Touched All Your Stuff"/ "A Vida Privada dos Hipopótamos" (Brazil, 2014)
• Karina García Casanova, "Juanicas" (Mexico, 2014)
• Betzabé García, "Kings of Nowhere"/ "Los reyes del pueblo que no existe" (Mexico, 2015)
• Aldo Garay, "The New Man" / "El hombre nuevo" (Uruguay, 2015)
• Christopher Murray, "Propaganda" (Chile, 2014)
Best U.S. Latino Film
• "The Book of Life" (Jorge Gutierrez, USA, 2014)
• "East Side Sushi" (Anthony Lucero, USA, 2014)
• "Mala Mala" (Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles, USA/Puerto Rico, 2014)
• "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon USA, 2015)
• "We Like It Like That" (Mathew Ramirez Warren, USA, 2015)
2015 Jury: Amalia Córdova, film programmer and scholar; Aaron Cutler, film critic and programmer; Paul Dallas, film critic; Vanessa Erazo, Film Editor, Remezcla; Michelle Farrell, film scholar; Sandra Kogut, filmmaker; Dominic Davis, film programmer, Rooftop Films; David Schwartz, Chief Curator, Museum of the Moving Image; Diana Vargas, Artistic Director, Havana Film Festival New York.
2015 Nominating Committee: Fábio Andrade, Revista Cinética, Brazil; Juan Pablo Bastarrachea, Cine Tonalá, Mexico; Consuelo Castillo, Doctv Latinoamérica, Colombia; Fernando del Razo, Riviera Maya Film Festival, Mexico; Vanessa Erazo, Film Editor, Remezcla, USA; Luis Gonzalez Zaffaroni, DocMontevideo, Uruguay; James Lattimer, Berlinale's Forum, Germany; Alicia Morales, Lima Film Festival, Peru; Joel Poblete. Sanfic, Chile; Andrea Stavenhagen, San Sebastian Film Festival, Spain; Charles Tesson, Critics' Week, Cannes, France; Raúl Niño Zambrano, International Documentary Film Festival - Idfa, Netherlands.
The five films competing for the Cinema Tropical Award for Best Feature Film of the Year are: The Club by Pablo Larraín (Chile), Jauja by Lisandro Alonso (Argentina), Los Hongos by Oscar Ruiz Navia (Colombia), The Princess of France by Matías Piñeiro (Argentina), and White Out, Black In by Adirley Queirós (Brazil).
The five nominees for Best U.S. Latino Film of the Year are: The Book of Life by Jorge Gutierrez, East Side Sushi by Anthony Lucero, Mala Mala by Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, and We Like It Like That by Mathew Ramirez Warren.
The winners of the 6th Annual Cinema Tropical Awards will be announced at a special evening ceremony at The New York Times Company headquarters in New York City on Wednesday, January 20, 2016. The winning films will be showcased as part of the Cinema Tropical Festival at Museum of the Moving Image, February 25-28, 2016, celebrating the organization’s 15th anniversary.
The candidates were culled from a comprehensive list of films created by a nominating committee composed of 12 film professionals from Latin America, the U.S., and Europe. All the films under consideration had a minimum of 60 minutes in length and premiered between April 1, 2014 and March 31, 2015.
Complete List of Nominations:
Best Feature Film
• "The Club"/ "El club" (Pablo Larraín, Chile, 2015)
• "Jauja" (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina, 2014)
• "Los Hongos" (Óscar Ruiz Navia, Colombia, 2014)
• "The Princess of France" / "La princesa de Francia" (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina/USA, 2014)
• "White Out, Black In" / "Branco Sai, Petro Fica" (Adirley Queirós, Brazil, 2014)
Best Director, Feature Film
• Nicolás Pereda, "The Absent" / "Los ausentes" (Mexico, 2014)
• Gabriel Mascaro, "August Winds" / "Ventos de Agosto" (Brazil, 2014)
• Pablo Larraín, "The Club" / "El club" (Chile, 2015)
• Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas, "Sand Dollars" / "Dólares de arena" (Dominican Republic/Mexico/Argentina, 2014)
• Paz Fábrega, "Viaje" (Costa Rica, 2015)
Best First Film
• "600 Miles" (Gabriel Ripstein, Mexico, 2015)
• "The Fire" / "El incendio" (Juan Schnitman, Argentina, 2015)
• "Ixcanul" (Jayro Bustamante, Guatemala, 2015)
• "She Comes Back on Thursday" / "Ela Volta Na Quinta" (Andrés Novais Oliveira, Brazil, 2014)
• "Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes)" / "Videofilia (y otros síndromes virales)" (Juan Daniel F. Molero, Peru, 2015)
Best Documentary Film
• "A Committee Chronicle" / "Crónica de un comité" (José Luis Sepúlveda and Carolina Adriazola, Chile, 2014)
• "Identification Photos" / "Retratos de Identificaçao" (Anita Leandro, Brazil, 2014)
• "Invasion" / "Invasión" (Abner Benaim, Panama, 2014)
• "Last Conversations" / "Últimas Conversas" (Eduardo Coutinho, Brazil,2015)
• "Monte Adentro" (Nicolás Macario Alonso, Colombia/Argentina, 2014)
Best Director, Documentary Film
• Maíra Bühler and Matias Mariani, "I Touched All Your Stuff"/ "A Vida Privada dos Hipopótamos" (Brazil, 2014)
• Karina García Casanova, "Juanicas" (Mexico, 2014)
• Betzabé García, "Kings of Nowhere"/ "Los reyes del pueblo que no existe" (Mexico, 2015)
• Aldo Garay, "The New Man" / "El hombre nuevo" (Uruguay, 2015)
• Christopher Murray, "Propaganda" (Chile, 2014)
Best U.S. Latino Film
• "The Book of Life" (Jorge Gutierrez, USA, 2014)
• "East Side Sushi" (Anthony Lucero, USA, 2014)
• "Mala Mala" (Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles, USA/Puerto Rico, 2014)
• "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon USA, 2015)
• "We Like It Like That" (Mathew Ramirez Warren, USA, 2015)
2015 Jury: Amalia Córdova, film programmer and scholar; Aaron Cutler, film critic and programmer; Paul Dallas, film critic; Vanessa Erazo, Film Editor, Remezcla; Michelle Farrell, film scholar; Sandra Kogut, filmmaker; Dominic Davis, film programmer, Rooftop Films; David Schwartz, Chief Curator, Museum of the Moving Image; Diana Vargas, Artistic Director, Havana Film Festival New York.
2015 Nominating Committee: Fábio Andrade, Revista Cinética, Brazil; Juan Pablo Bastarrachea, Cine Tonalá, Mexico; Consuelo Castillo, Doctv Latinoamérica, Colombia; Fernando del Razo, Riviera Maya Film Festival, Mexico; Vanessa Erazo, Film Editor, Remezcla, USA; Luis Gonzalez Zaffaroni, DocMontevideo, Uruguay; James Lattimer, Berlinale's Forum, Germany; Alicia Morales, Lima Film Festival, Peru; Joel Poblete. Sanfic, Chile; Andrea Stavenhagen, San Sebastian Film Festival, Spain; Charles Tesson, Critics' Week, Cannes, France; Raúl Niño Zambrano, International Documentary Film Festival - Idfa, Netherlands.
- 12/27/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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