Joanna Lombardi: Last News

Holly Jones Award-winning Peruvian multi-hyphenate Joanna Lombardi (“In House,” “How To Get Over a Breakup”), formerly in charge of heading Movistar’s original content slate for Latin America, dives into documentary with her latest feature “Stay Still” (“Quédate Quieto”), selected to screen in competition at the upcoming Málaga Festival, running Mar. 1-10. Produced by Lombardi alongside Hernán Musaluppi co-headed Cimarrón Cine (“El Motoarrebatador”) and Enid “Pinky” Campos (“Dioses”), the film – selected for San Sebastian’s Co-Production Forum in 2021 – centers on a gravedigger and two young women vying for security and a place to settle down.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Spurred by modest state funds, growing TV support and co-production pacts, filmmaking in Peru is on the rise and with it, it’s seeing sometimes a rousing presence on the international stage. Peruvian pics snagged six awards at March’s Malaga Film Festival and industry component MAFIZ, an unprecedented haul for the event’s country guest of honor. Plaudits went to Mauricio Frey’s “Estados generales,” Francesca Canepa’s “La otra orilla,” Ximena Valdivia’s “4eber,” documentary “Hatun Phaqcha” by Delia Ackerman and Leonardo Barbuy’s “Diogenes.”

Anna Marie de la Fuente Four Latin American women producers, each of them leading voices in their respective countries, found kinship and solidarity at the Sanfic Industry panel Women Film Producers: Expanding Gazes.They also realized that there were still many issues to resolve, especially gender parity in the entertainment sector.Hosted by Chile’s premier audiovisual industry event on March 25, the panel included Sanfic Industry Head and Storyboard Media producer Gabriela Sandoval of Chile who also served as moderator; Brazilian producer Vania Catani of Bananeira Filmes; Peru’s Joanna Lombardi, Head of Fiction for Movistar Latin America; and Argentine producer Vanessa Ragone, whose credits include 2010 International Feature Oscar winner

Emiliano Granada Movistar initiated production in Chile on Jan. 4 on its most ambitious original series to date – about seminal Chilean band Los Prisioneros which hit its heights under one of the bloodiest dictatorships in modern Latin American history, giving voice to unheard youth across the region.Shown by Movistar exec Joanna Lombardi and produced by Movistar and Parox – the Chilean TV production house behind 2019 MipTV hit “Invisible Heroes,” produced with Finland’s YLE – “Los Prisioneros” will hit Latin American pay TV service Movistar TV and OTT platform Movistar Play during the second semester of 2021.The punk band saga examines the life of its three members during key moments of their careers.

Latin America’s Movistar, the brand of giant Madrid-based telecom Telefonica, has dropped a first teaser for “Los Prisioneros,” a portrait of the legendary Chilean punk band as it creates its greatest hits under Augusto Pinochet’s oppressive military dictatorship.Set to go into production in January, and showrun by Joanna Lombardi, Movistar Latin America’s head of fiction, “Los Prisioneros” marks the first Movistar Original in Chile.