‘La Jauría’ Director Castro San Martín’s ‘Spiritual Journey’ ‘A Thousand Pieces’ Teams Latente, HD Argentina, Orinokia (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comEmiliano De Pablos Chile’s Latente Films is teaming with Argentine outfit HD Argentina and Germany’s Orinokia to produce Chilean writer-director Sergio Castro San Martin’s project “Mil pedazos” (“A Thousand Pieces”), selected for the San Sebastian Festival’s Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum this September.
A creator and co-director of TV series such as Amazon Original “La Jauria” and Disney+’s “Llévame al cielo” – both produced by Pablo and Juan de Dios Larraín’s Fábula – Castro San Martín’s feature debut, “The Mud Woman,” had its world premiere at the 2015 Berlinale. “A Thousand Pieces” marks Castro San Martín’s return to the San Sebastian co-production forum after attending in the 2017 edition with “The Saddest Goal.” In development, and scheduled to shoot first half 2024 in the Chilean region of Coquimbo, “A Thousand Pieces” is produced from Chile by Eduardo Pizarro at Latente, a company based in La Serena, Coquimbo’s capital city, alongside Matías de Bourguignon and Cristóbal Güell.
From Germany, producers take in Rodolfo Cova – behind multi-awarded titles such as Lorenzo Vigas’ Venice Golden Lion winner “Desde Allá” and Jorge Thielen Armand’s “La Fortaleza”– and Jurgen Jencquel at Hamburg-based Orinokia.
Lucía Van Gelderen and Gonzalo Bubis, both from HD Argentina, also produce. Chilean thesps Daniel Muñoz (“Rara,” “Brujería,” “Taxi para tres”) and Julieta Figueroa (“El Cielo, la Tierra y la LLuvia”, “Verano”, “Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos”) are attached to star.
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