With over a dozen acting credits (she began as a teenager) under her belt most notably works with Sebastián Lelio, Martín Rejtman and Andrés Wood’s Machuca (which premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight in 2005), Chilean filmmaker Manuela Martelli‘s first short film efforts Apnea (2014) and Land Tides (2015) which premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight the same Cannes section that welcome her back to world premiere her feature debut 1976 in 2022. The possible thematic strategy appears to include thematic element of disappearance and the backdrop or sentiment of Chile’s Pinochet dictatorship. Here is everything we know so far … for Manuela Martelli‘s The Meltdown (El deshielo)
Slowly chipping away at funding with prizing at 2022’s Ventana Sur and 2023’s Torino Film Lab, production would have taken place in late 2024.
Set in 1992′ Chile, 9 year-old Inés is spending time at her grandparents’ hotel, at the foot of a ski resort. Her parents are on a trip, they are members of the delegation that takes an iceberg to the Seville Expo. 15 year-old Hanna, is a skier who is staying at the hotel (with her grandparents), and becomes Inés’ platonic love. The two strike up a friendship until one night Hanna disappears under mysterious circumstances.
Maya O’Rourke, Saskia Rosendahl and Maia Rae Domagala star.
A Chile-US-Spain-Mexico co-production, Martelli re-teams with her producer Alejandra García (Ronda Cine) adding Alex C. Lo at Cinema Inutile in the U.S. and Andrés Wood at Wood Producciones as well.
The Cannes section programmers of Critics’ Week, Un Certain Regard and Directors’ Fortnight will all be taking a close look with Locarno, Venice, Toronto and San Sebastian as legit premiere unspools as well. Losange Films are repping world sales.
