Malaga Movie Projects: Highlights and Details
variety.comMAFF) provides a forum for Latin American film projects to seek international production partnerships. Costa Rican productions will be highlighted by subsection Costa Rica Guest Country.
The socially impactful film “Silence of the Earth” will feature in the MAFF Social subsection. Female directors earn special emphasis in the Women Screen Industry section.
Following, the profiles of MAFF production.“All My Journey Are Journeys of Return,” (Manuel Ponce de León, Colombia)A time-jumping, genre-blending “delirious adventure,” say its makers, from Los Niños Films and Vorágine, currently in production on the World Cinema Fund-backed “Carropasajero.” It depicts a journey which begins in the Rio Magdalena, in the early 19th century, during a search for poet Gaspar de la Noche, who has gone missing in northern Sweden.
Carolina Zarate produces. “Before the Memory,” (“Antes del recuerdo,” Joaquín González, Uruguay)Shepherded by Agustina Chiarino, one of Uruguay’s most ambitious film producers (“Giant,” “So Much Water,” “Monos”), González’s follow-up to feature debut “Alter: The Amazing Story of Luismi Evans,” in which he films his child’s first four years of life.“Diamond,” (Yashira Jordan, Bolivia-Argentina)A Proyecta title at 2021’s Ventana Sur, lead produced by Bolivia’s Empatia Cinema, framing a coming-of-age drama of a rebel with a cause: Petra, a teen singer who combines her indigenous language of Quechua with hip hop sub-genre trap.
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