John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Temps Noir, the French documentary production powerhouse behind Mediawan Rights sales hits “Kubrick by Kubrick” and “Cinecittà: Making of History,” has boarded “Passengers for the Last Trip,” the fiction feature debut of Cuba’s Marta María Borrás (“Atardecer en el Trópico”).
It will hit Spain’s Malaga Festival Fund & Co-Production Event (MAFF) this March as the most laureled of Latin America’s projects in the showcase.
Put through a near-dozen development programs, and scooping plaudits at Guadalajara’s Co-Production Meeting and Ventana Sur’s Punto Género, it has won at least six prizes.
Now in advanced development, “Passengers for the Last Trip” (“Los pasajeros del último viaje”) is produced by Dany Celeiro Rodríguez, a Cuban Mexico-based visual artist, executive producer and alum of Cuba’s San Antonio de los Baños International Film-TV School (EICTV).
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