“Lonely Hearts,” the highly-anticipated third feature from Brazil’s Berlinale-winner Caru Alves de Souza (“My Name Is Baghdad”), named among 10 Next Gen Talents to Track from the country by Variety in February, and a pair of additional homecoming narratives from burgeoning creatives, Uruguayan director Paula Botana’s“The Burned Women” and Dora Gomez’s “Blanca” out of Paraguay, are among the titles selected for Ventana Sur’s 2023 Punto Genero pitching sessions.
Histories unearthed and intimate interpersonal relationships are dominant themes in the remaining selections with films like Argentina-Spain co-production “Brücher. Unaudited Botanical Chronicle,” from Mariana Guzzante and Camila Menéndez,Natalia Solórzano title “She Was Covered In Sequins” and Marta María Borrás’s “The Passengers For The Last Trip.”
“This year, the juries wanted the projects to represent Latin America. We selected eight projects from Latin America, excluding the four projects from Argentina, and the juries decided on one project per country,...
Histories unearthed and intimate interpersonal relationships are dominant themes in the remaining selections with films like Argentina-Spain co-production “Brücher. Unaudited Botanical Chronicle,” from Mariana Guzzante and Camila Menéndez,Natalia Solórzano title “She Was Covered In Sequins” and Marta María Borrás’s “The Passengers For The Last Trip.”
“This year, the juries wanted the projects to represent Latin America. We selected eight projects from Latin America, excluding the four projects from Argentina, and the juries decided on one project per country,...
- 11/30/2023
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
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