Vampires Overrun Morbido-Sanfic Lab, from Ventana Sur Triple Winner ‘Upiro’ to Documentary ‘The Window Vampire’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comAnna Marie de la Fuente Now on its fourth year, the Santiago Film Festival’s Morbido-Sanfic Lab features an ever more diverse selection from Ibero-America.
As Morbido founder-CEO Pablo Guisa said of this year’s edition: “It has projects from multiple countries, several produced or directed by women as well as one LGBTQ-themed project and, for the first time, a documentary.” Vampire creatures abound in this crop.
Humberto Mazari, the helmer-scribe-producer behind one of the six projects, psychological thriller “The Alaska Summit” (“La Cumbre de Alaska),” is developing three comic book spinoffs which will further delve into the underworld of the summit and the creatures that guard it. “In the coming weeks we expect to consolidate the visual aesthetics with three Latin American illustrators in charge of bringing these comic books to life,” he told Variety. “As Pablo comments, this space continues to grow year by year, and I dare say it houses some of the finest talent in the realm of horror/fantasy genre cinema,” said Gabriela Sandoval, head of Sanfic Industria. “Our Lab is maturing, and the projects we have supported have done so along with it.
These projects have traveled the world and now they are starting to become a reality,” noted Guisa, adding: “‘Mothers Embrace’ by 2022 Lab alumnus Cristian Ponce leads the way as the first project to reach completion and is an example of what’s coming out of Latin America.
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