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John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent In terms of stars — Cate Blanchett, Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Tilda Swinton, Pamela Anderson — and auteur power — Pedro Almodóvar, Sean Baker, Costa Gavras, Edward Berger, Mike Leigh, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Joshua Oppenheimer, François Ozon, Lupita Nyong’o, Mohammad Rasoulof, Walter Salles, Maite Alberdi — this year’s San Sebastián Festival promises one of its biggest editions ever. Yet it’s the Spanish festival’s wealth of new talent and rising names in its industry competitions sets it apart. Here are 10 things to expect from the fest, which runs Sept.

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Beta Fiction Spain, Distributor of ‘Emmanuelle,’ ‘We Live in Time,’ Taps Director Arantxa Echevarría for ‘Dolores’ (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent SAN SEBASTIAN — Beta Fiction Spain, the distributor of the opening and closing films at this year’s San Sebastian Festival, Audrey Diwan’s “Emmanuelle” and John Crowley’s “We Live in Time,” has tapped Arantxa Echevarría to direct its banner Spanish feature, “Dolores.” Echeverría has already helmed for Beta Fiction “La Infiltrada,” about a police infiltrator in Basque terrorist org ETA, which bows Oct. 11 starring Luis Tosar and Carolina Yuste.

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Isaki Lacuesta and Isa Campo’s La Termita, Sara Gonzalo’s Accidental Launch Production Alliance (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent La Termita Films, the production label of double San Sebastian Golden Shell winners Isaki Lacuesta and Isa Campo, has struck a production alliance with Accidental Films, the newly formed label founded by Sara Gonzalo, managing director over 2011-24 of production powerhouse Bambu Producciones. The alliance catches Lacuesta and Campo at new career highs, Lacuesta having directed Berlin competition player “One Year, One Night” and “Saturn Return,” a Spanish Film and Direction winner at March’s Malaga Festival which has just been selected as Spain’s entry in the International Feature Oscar race; Campo co-wrote Iciar Bollain’s anticipated “I’m Nevenka,” which world premieres in San Sebastian main competition this weekend.

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CAA Media Finance, San Sebastian Team for 3rd Creative Investors’ Conference With Netflix, Mubi, Anton Corp, Charades, Goodfellas, The Match Factory

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent CAA Media Finance’s Roeg Sutherland, Goodfellas’ Vincent Maraval and Recorded Picture Company’s Jeremy Thomas look set to attend the San Sebastian Festival’s 2024 Creative Investors’ Conference, co-organised for the third year running in collaboration with CAA Media Finance. The Conference will run Sept. 24-25 at San Sebastian’s Tabakalera center.

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Argentina’s Natalia Smirnoff to Direct ‘(Im)perfect Mom,’ Inspired by Penguin Random House Bestseller (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Argentine helmer Natalia Smirnoff, director of “Puzzle,” a 2010 Berlin main Competition contender, and “Lock Charmer,” selected for the 2014 Sundance Festival, is attached to direct international co-production project “Mamá (Im)perfecta” (“(Im)perfect Mom.”) The project teams Colombian production outfits Laberinto Producciones and Ganas Producciones with Argentina’s Tarea Fina and Canada’s Fait Divers Media. In development and scheduled for a May 2025 shoot, “(Im)perfect Mom” is inspired by Penguin Random House bestseller “Drunk Mom: A Memoir,” by Polish-born writer Jowita Bydlowska.

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Watermelon Takes Mahdi Fleifel’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Hit ‘To a Land Unknown’ for North America (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Chicago-based Watermelon Pictures has acquired North American distribution rights to Danish-Palestinian writer-director Mahdi Fleifel’s “To a Land Unknown,” which world premiered to extensive acclaim at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. Sold by Salaud Morisset, “To a Land Unknown” saw a P&I screening on Friday at Toronto where it has its North American premiere in Toronto’s Centrepiece showcase, packing an impressive double-punch for Salaud Morisset with a second Centrepiece title, “Under the Volcano,” which it also represents.

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‘Senna’ Producer Gullane Preps Sequel to Animated ’Noah’s Ark’ (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent São Paulo production shingle Gullane, which is behind upcoming Netflix series “Senna,” has moved into development on a sequel to the animated feature “Noah’s Ark.” Produced by Gullane and Walter Salles’ Videofilmes, “Noah’s Ark” has been sold to 45 countries by Edward Noeltner’s CMG Management. It has grossed $4.25 million in territories in which it’s been released. Imagem Filmes will bow “Noah’s Ark” in Brazil on more than 1,000 screens, a huge spreading a country of 3,300 screens.

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TrustNordisk Adds Sales on ‘The Quiet Ones’ (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent TrustNordisk has added more key territory sales for “The Quiet Ones,” a heist action drama from Denmark’s Zentropa and director Frederik Louis Hviid premiering in TIFF. Starring Gustav Giese, Amanda Collin and Reda Kateb, “The Quiet Ones” has closed Spain (Flins & Piniculas), Poland (MediaSquad), former Yugoslavia (Cinemania Group) and the Baltic states (Europos Kinas). Further deals are under negotiation.

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16 Buzzy International World Premieres at This Year’s Toronto

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent The Toronto Film Festival is awash with international titles. Led by Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed Of The Sacred Fig” and Gints Zilbalodis’ “Flow,” the festival’s huge Centrepiece spread alone has 38 titles from outside Canada and the U.S. The Discovery section has another 18.

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Beta Film, Robert Lantos Epic ‘Rise of the Raven’ Set to Premiere at Mipcom Cannes, Drops Teaser (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent “Rise of the Raven,” the anticipated European event series from Beta Film, behind “Babylon Berlin” and “The Swarm,” and producer Robert Lantos (“Sunshine,” “The Sweet Hereafter,” “Eastern Promises”), will world premiere at Cannes content trade fair Mipcom on Oct. 22. Beta Film has shared in exclusivity with Variety a first teaser to the series, which is a bracing introduction to the scale and ambition of “Rise of the Raven’s” production values, as well as the brutality of its battles scenes as it tells in an 10-part epic the extraordinary real-life feat of Hungarian army commander Janos Hunyadi, played by discovery Gellért L.

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APC Kids Sells Live Action Family Fantasy Series ‘Walter’s Christmas’ to Canal+ France (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent APC Kids, part of energetic French production-distribution group APC Studios, has sold to Canal+ France the first season of “Walter’s Christmas: Keeper of the Forest,”aDanish live action fantasy family series. The deal kicks off sales on the series which APC Kids is introducing to buyers this week at this Unifrance Rendez-Vous at Le Havre in Normandy, Northern France.

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ZDF, France Televisions Greenlight for Production Cottonwood Media’s Animated Ballet Adventure ’20 Dance Street’

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Two of the biggest TV companies in Europe, Germany’s ZDF and France Televisions, both public broadcasters, have boarded CGI animated comedy drama “20 Dance Street,” which has been greenlit for production. France Televisions has acquired the series as a pre-sale. In another deal, Belgium public broadcaster RTBF has picked up the series for Belgium.

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France TV Distribution Brings to Market Season 2 of Endearing Spy Drama Comedy ‘The Aerobics Project’ (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Adding to its new scripted TV offer, France TV Distribution is launching sales on Season 2 of OCS Signature drama-comedy “The Aerobics Project” (“Toutouyoutou”), a fun, light dramedy set in a 1982 France in thrall of American pop culture, including aerobics. Created by writing team Maxime Donzel and Géraldine de Margerie as well as David Coujard, the first season of “The Aerobics Project” began with dowdy fortysomething housewife Karine (Claire Dumas), living in Blagnac, a humdrum suburb of Toulouse, southern France, save for being the birthplace of French aeronautics. One day she stumbles open-mouthed on an aerobics class taught be a rangy instructor Jane (aLEXIA Barlier), who’s just arrived from the U.S.

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Chile Selected as the Venice Production Bridge 2025 Focus Country (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Making good on a recent slew of awards at Venice for Chilean films, Chile will be the Venice Production Bridge’s Focus Country in 2025. The announcement will be made Thursday from the Venice Film Festival by Carolina Arredondo, Chile’s Minister of Culture, Arts, and Heritage as Chilean director Pablo Larraín’s “María,” starring Angelina Jolie as the legendary opera singer Maria Callas, world premieres on Venice’s Lido.

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Netflix to World Premiere ‘The Platform 2’ at San Sebastian

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s high-anticipated “The Platform 2,” the Basque director’s follow-up to Netflix mega-hit “The Platform,” will world premiere this September at the San Sebastián film festival, closing its culinary section. Subject of a high-profile acquisition by Netflix at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival, engineered by CAA Media Finance, XYZ Films and Latido Films, “The Platform” has gone on to shoot to the near top of Netflix’s chart of non-English film hits on record, now featuring as No.

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France TV Distribution Launches Sales on ‘A Night to Live’ (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent France TV Distribution, the sales and co-production arm of public broadcaster France Televisions Group, is launching young adult drama “A Night to Live” at the upcoming Unifrance Rendez-Vous which runs Sept. 2-6 in Le Havre.

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Sanfic 2024: More Festival and Industry Growth, Chile’s Film Prowess and This Year’s Highlights and Deals

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent SANTIAGO, Chile — Climaxing Saturday night with an awards, ceremony, where Santiago Maza and Diego Luna passion project “State of Siege” took top honors, Santiago de Chile’s Sanfic and industry arm Sanfic Industria delivered a vibrant edition, confirming the joint event as one of the three key festival-markets in South America. This year’s double event also reflects larger change at work coursing through industries in Latin America and much of international. Following, seven takeaways and highlights from the 2024 event, which runs Aug.

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Tribeca, Guadalajara, Tallinn, Rio, Sanfic Execs Map Out How Festivals Are Evolving in a Post-Pandemic Context (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent SANTIAGO, Chile — This is the age of turbulence and film festivals are not immune. Decimated in many cases by public-sector cuts or COVID-19, they haven’t stopped evolving after the pandemic as they hone new priorities, react to both a sometimes volatile political context and the state of cinemagoing worldwide if a round table at Chile’s Sanfic Industria last week, titled Film Festivals’ Present and Future, was anything to go by. Panel speakers took in honchos at three top Latin American events – Sanfic artistic director Carlos Nuñez, Rio de Janeiro Film Festival director Ilda Santiago and Estrella Araiza, managing director of Mexico’s Guadalajara Festival.

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Sanfic Industria Standout ‘Concert For A Single Voice’ Tackles Peru’s Recent Past: ‘Despite Everything, Human Beings Are Able to Connect’

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Locarno’s Open Doors: Paz Encina, Ernesto Bautista Triumph at Awards Ceremony as Showcase Preps 2025-28 Focus on Africa

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent LOCARNO, Switzerland — Paraguay’s Paz Encina (“Eami”) and three first time fiction feature directors – El Salvador’s Enrique Bautista, Cuba’s Rosa María Rodríguez Pupo, Peru’s Fernando Mendoza – split the big prize on offer at this year’s Locarno Open Doors with Encina and Bautista taking the lion’s share of a CHF50,000 ($58,000) cash prize. The grant was sponsored by Visions Sud Est and the City of Bellinzona.

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Dominican ‘Sensory’ Drama ‘Beyond the Mist’ Kicks Off Sales With Latin Quarter (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent LOCARNO, Switzerland — The Dominican Republic’s Cronos Films & Production has clinched its first pre-sales deal on “Beyond the Mist,” (“Después de la Niebla”), a flagship example of the company’s drive into what is described as a “sensory cinema” which does not “shy away from the social and political struggles of the Dominican Republic.” In a first distribution deal on the title, brought to market this weekend at Locarno’s Match Me! networking forum, the Hague-based sales-distribution company Latin Quarter has closed all-rights for the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. A burgeoning force on the Latin American, Spanish and Latinx diaspora auteur pic scene, Latin Quarter has a direct distribution operation in the Netherlands, as in the U.K., Germany and Spain.

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