Animation! at Ventana Sur: Climate Change Titles, Multiple Women’s Voices and New Films by Hugo Covarrubias and Pablo Aguëro
variety.comAnimation! Pitching Sessions which take part at Ventana Sur, staged in Montevideo over Dec. 2-6. The showcase of animation titles from Latin America also features a project, “Gravityland,” from Argentina’s Pablo Aguëro, director of upcoming “Saint-E,” starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger y Louis Garrel, as well as “Hua Awakens,” the multiple producers of which include Magdiela Hermida Duhamel whose credits include “Trollhunters.” Also in this year’s Animation!
mix is Coty Luzoro, writer of Oscar winning outfit Punkrobot Studio’s “Wow Lisa” and Ecuador’s Keila Cepeda, behind fest fave “Chimborazo.” “Baptism” marks the feature film debut of Chile’s Covarrubias whose scored an Academy Award-nomination for best animated short in 2022 for “Beast.” The feature looks set to explore the same sense of disavowed disconnect between daily life under Augusto Pinochet and the ghastly deeds carried out by his regime.
Drawing projects from nine countries across the breadth and length of Latin America, from Costa Rica to Chile – which “underscores the growth of animation production hubs beyond traditionally dominant markets,” says Animation!
head Silvina Cornillón – this year’s lineup features multiple ecology-themed titles. These range, however, from eco mystery thriller “The Factory Beyond the Hill” to allegory, such as “Foldara,” which won the Animation!
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