San Sebastian Co-Production Forum: Federico Veiroj, Theo Court, Alicia Scherson, Daniel Hendler Make a Selection Signaling Sea Change in Latin American Filmmaking
variety.comFederico Veiroj, Theo Court, Alicia Scherson and Daniel Hendler head a muscular project lineup at September’s San Sebastian Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, the Spanish festival’s industry centerpiece which underscores this year a welling sea-change in the region’s filmmaking. “The Moneychanger,” the latest film from Uruguay’s Veiroj, was selected for Toronto’s 2019 Platform; “White on White,” from Chile’s Court, won a best director Silver Lion at 2019’s Venice Horizons; Chile’s Alicia Scherson’s debut “Play” snagged new narrative director at Tribeca in 2005: multi-hyphenate Hendler, from Uruguay, scooped best director at Miami for “The Candidate” in 2017.
Also making the cut are Mexico’s Juan Pablo González and Ana Isabel Fernández, director and co-writer of 2022 Sundance Special Jury Prize winner “Dos Estaciones.” Mixing top cineasts from Latin America and anticipated feature debuts – from Dominican Génesis Valenzuela and Argentine Lucila Mariani – the Forum captures Latin America filmmaking at a time of building sea change.
Two trends dominate from the projects known by Variety at this year’s Forum. One is genre: Films that are genre pics or enrol genre tropes or genre blend.
Argentina’s “The Message,” for instance, is “a Spielberg film shot by Cassavetes, a cross between an exciting sci-fi adventure film with an intimate and moving story of characters,” says director Iván Fund.Awarding grants, an ACAU Uruguay jury described Hendler’s “A Loose End” as a Western, romcom, road movie and procedural, sluiced with singular sense of humor.” Veiroj’s “Fauna,” the same jury said, “revisits classic ‘40s film noir adapted to the ‘90s.” “The Days Off” “blends genres such as horror, comedy and coming-of-age as it.
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