Blood Window: Hugo Cardozo, Angeles Hernández Debut New Films as Latin Genre Builds as a Sales Agent’s Go-To Option (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comVentana Sur Blood Window Screenings. Both are sold, and Cardozo’s “Do Not Enter” produced by Guido Rud’s FilmSharks as sales agents, as this week’s American Film Market attests, are driving ever more into horror genre.
Unlike action thrillers and romantic comedies, the other go-to movie types in a market ever more attuned to streamer tastes, that could be that horror doesn’t need name actors.
Mister Smith Ent.’s David Garrett said before the AFM. Latin American genre is not so much as fitting into market trends as a push-phenomenon driven by genre fanboys and girls.
Two at least make the cut, with Argentina’s Jose María Cicala, who will introduce his “Charming,” and Peru’s young Farid Rodríguez, who multi-tasks as a film and fest director, in town to talk up “Omnipresents.” Launched in 2013 as the first major bespoke forum created by Ventana Sur, Blood Window runs parallel to the film-TV market, unspooling Nov.
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