Having focused since 2016 on emerging film talent in lesser-known parts of South and South East Asia, Open Doors, the Locarno Festival’s flagship co-production forum and talent incubator, is turning its focus to Latin America and the Caribbean.
Of the 24 directors featured at this year’s edition, 15 identify as female or gender non conforming, led by Ecaudor’s Ana Cristina Barragán whose 2016 debut “Alba” won nods at Rotterdam and San Sebastián and Yanillys Pérez whose documentary “Jeffrey” scooped a Discovery Awards at the Toronto Festival.
Both have new projects at the Open Doors Co-Production Hub, as does Yashira Jordán with “Diamond,” a coming of age tale about a Quechua trap artist last glimpsed at Málaga this year.
Men directors take in Michael Labarca a winner at Cannes’ Cinéfondation film school shorts competition in 2016, and Guatemala’s Mauricio Escobar whose “Los Invisibles” is a social realist tale wrapped around the phenomenon of domestic migration in Guatemala.
Of the 24 directors featured at this year’s edition, 15 identify as female or gender non conforming, led by Ecaudor’s Ana Cristina Barragán whose 2016 debut “Alba” won nods at Rotterdam and San Sebastián and Yanillys Pérez whose documentary “Jeffrey” scooped a Discovery Awards at the Toronto Festival.
Both have new projects at the Open Doors Co-Production Hub, as does Yashira Jordán with “Diamond,” a coming of age tale about a Quechua trap artist last glimpsed at Málaga this year.
Men directors take in Michael Labarca a winner at Cannes’ Cinéfondation film school shorts competition in 2016, and Guatemala’s Mauricio Escobar whose “Los Invisibles” is a social realist tale wrapped around the phenomenon of domestic migration in Guatemala.
- 6/2/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Eight projects and nine producers to receive showcase.
TIFF award-winning filmmaker Yanillys Pérez and up-and-coming Ecuadorian director Ana Cristina Barragán are among those set to present projects at this year’s edition of the Locarno Film Festival’s Open Doors programme.
The initiative, aimed at supporting independent cinema from the global south and east, is entering the first of a three-year cycle focused on Latin America and the Caribbean.
It will present eight projects in its co-production hub and a further nine participants will join its producer lab. Countries represented in this first year include the Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Paraguay,...
TIFF award-winning filmmaker Yanillys Pérez and up-and-coming Ecuadorian director Ana Cristina Barragán are among those set to present projects at this year’s edition of the Locarno Film Festival’s Open Doors programme.
The initiative, aimed at supporting independent cinema from the global south and east, is entering the first of a three-year cycle focused on Latin America and the Caribbean.
It will present eight projects in its co-production hub and a further nine participants will join its producer lab. Countries represented in this first year include the Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Paraguay,...
- 6/2/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Chicago – The 32nd edition of the Chicago Latino Film Festival Kicks Off on Friday, April 8, 2016, with the Mexican film “Illusions S.A.” (“Illusiones S.A.”). All films are at the AMC River East 21 in Chicago.
This year’s festival promises another huge array of films originating from Latino countries all over the world, and runs from April 8th through the 21st. The kick-off film “Illusions S.A.” will be followed by a reception at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Chicago. For details and to purchase tickets click here.
’Illusions S.A.’ is the Opening Night Film at the 32ndst Chicago Latino Film Festival
Photo credit: Chicago Latino Film Festival
The Opening Night Capsule and the highlights of Week One are as follows…
Opening Night: “Illusions S.A.”
Starring Jaime Camil (“Jane the Virgin”) and set in Campeche, México in the 1950s, “Illusions S.A.” centers around an agency that turns your deepest fantasies,...
This year’s festival promises another huge array of films originating from Latino countries all over the world, and runs from April 8th through the 21st. The kick-off film “Illusions S.A.” will be followed by a reception at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Chicago. For details and to purchase tickets click here.
’Illusions S.A.’ is the Opening Night Film at the 32ndst Chicago Latino Film Festival
Photo credit: Chicago Latino Film Festival
The Opening Night Capsule and the highlights of Week One are as follows…
Opening Night: “Illusions S.A.”
Starring Jaime Camil (“Jane the Virgin”) and set in Campeche, México in the 1950s, “Illusions S.A.” centers around an agency that turns your deepest fantasies,...
- 4/7/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Organisers behind Ventana Sur’s genre works-in-progress sidebar have announced their selections.
The titles comprise one from each of Argentina, Brazil and Ecuador and three from Mexico.
Joe Houlberg’s Ecuadorian title Thirst (Sed) centres on a blind woman and her friends who must confront ghosts and hidden desires.
Argentina’s Intimate Witness (Testigo Intimo) by Santiago Fernández concerns a fight between brothers for the love of a woman that leads to a bloody and unexpected conclusion.
Petter Belestorf and Joel Caetano’s sequence of Brazilian vignettes The Black Fables (As Fábulas Negras) pays homage to genre cinema.
From Mexico comes Diego Cohen’s tale of romantic obsession Honeymoon (Luna De Miel); Isaac Ezban’s profile of an apocalyptic Mexico in The Similar (Los Parecidos); and Adrián García Bogliano’s Here Comes The Devil follow-up Scherzo Diabólico, about a kidnap plot that goes awry.
Several prizes are available to the entries, including the Roma...
The titles comprise one from each of Argentina, Brazil and Ecuador and three from Mexico.
Joe Houlberg’s Ecuadorian title Thirst (Sed) centres on a blind woman and her friends who must confront ghosts and hidden desires.
Argentina’s Intimate Witness (Testigo Intimo) by Santiago Fernández concerns a fight between brothers for the love of a woman that leads to a bloody and unexpected conclusion.
Petter Belestorf and Joel Caetano’s sequence of Brazilian vignettes The Black Fables (As Fábulas Negras) pays homage to genre cinema.
From Mexico comes Diego Cohen’s tale of romantic obsession Honeymoon (Luna De Miel); Isaac Ezban’s profile of an apocalyptic Mexico in The Similar (Los Parecidos); and Adrián García Bogliano’s Here Comes The Devil follow-up Scherzo Diabólico, about a kidnap plot that goes awry.
Several prizes are available to the entries, including the Roma...
- 11/16/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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