Javier Velásquez Varela: Last News

Holly Jones Argentine production company Coruya Cine (“Nocturna: Side A”), led by Javier Díaz, has signed-on to co-produce “The Sugar Girl,” (“La Niña Del Azúcar”) alongside Peru’s AV Films (“Juego Siniestro”). The project, shooting in the remote and sprawling city of Iquitos, will utilize an Amazonian cine noir aesthetic to merge the suspenseful and metaphysical components of four parallel narratives.“The space is being given to tell the stories of others.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentDirector-producer Dorián Fernández Moris,  the leading light on an genre production scene based out of Iquitos in the heart of the Amazon, is set to produce “The Sugar Girl,” a slice of Amazon Noir aimed squarely at international markets.Mixing a cop drama-thriller and doses of Amazon legend and the supernatural, “The Sugar Girl” will be directed by Javier Velásquez Varela, adapting his own same-titled novel.“The Sugar Girl” is set to be unveiled at the first Sanfic-Morbido Lab, whose pitching sessions unspool online on March 23 as part of a virtual Sanfic Industria, the industry forum of Chile’s Sanfic festival.The new movie project also forms part of a drive by Iquitos-based AV Films, headed