Ignas Jonynas, Payal Kapadia, Francisco Vargas Projects Hit Locarno’s Match Me!
variety.comFrance, Match Me! focuses on emerging producers. Featuring new projects from tracked auteurs – Lithuania’s Ignas Jonynas, India’s Payal Kapadia and Mexico’s Francisco Vargas – and winners at Cannes, San Sebastian and other major meets, many producers look only a title or two from full emergence.
If the fulsome slates of some producers are anything to go by – DR’s Leticia Brea, Estonia’s Tallifornia and Kask Films, for instance – production is a going concern in countries outside traditional production centers. (Distribution, whether to platforms or in theaters, may be another matter).
Out of necessity or ambition, producers are scaling up, pushing ever more into genre and reaching out to production partners and talent from around the world.
Some producers produce more foreign than domestic directors.A brief drill-down on the producers, companies, projects and productions at this year’s Match Me!:Dominican RepublicLeticia Brea, Menos es Más ProduccionesIt says much about the pulling power and ambitions of Dominican Republic that Menos es Mas can lead produce a film by celebrated Mexican auteur Francisco Vargas – “Fronteras,” now in post.
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