After Telluride, Venice and Toronto the next biggie film festival event will be the 73rd edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival (September 19-27) and the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum still remains one of the most vital spotlights for upcoming projects from some of our favorite, mostly burgeoning Latin American filmmakers. Veteran Uruguayan filmmaker Pablo Stoll will be there, so will his fellow countryman Alvaro Brechner and Colombian helmer Andrés Ramírez Pulido. Best known for 25 Watts (2001) and 2004’s Whisky, Stoll presents Dad is No Punk Rocker. Brechner who was last in Venice with 2018’s A Twelve-Year Night arrives with The Lion’s Skin. Pulido who was launched in the Critics’ Week in Cannes back in 2022 with La Jauría (read review) will present Praise for Crime. Eleven of the fifteen projects are first or second films. The projects will be presented by their representatives to potential partners to complete funding and improve access to international markets. Look for some of these projects to come to surface at major film fests in the following next couple of years:
Athletics and Love – Alejandra Moffat (Chile)
Chile – Production: Globo Rojo Films SpA
Praise for Crime – Andrés Ramírez Pulido (Colombia)
Colombia – Production: Valiente Gracia
Daughters of the Water – Jacques Toulemonde (Colombia)
Colombia – Production: 64A FILMS
Houses Are Silent – Roxana Stroe (Romania)
Romania – Production: Atelier de Film
The Boa and the Bamboo – Maitane Carballo Alonso (Spain)
Spain – Switzerland – Production: Gariza Films
The Illusion of Paradise – Valeria Pivato (Argentina)
Argentina – Production: Fine Task
The Lion’s Skin – Alvaro Brechner (Uruguay)
Spain – Uruguay – Brazil – Production: Tornasol Media
What Follows is My Death – Laura Baumeister (Nicaragua)
Mexico – Production: Tarco Studio
Mãe do ouro / Mother of Gold – Madiano Marcheti (Brazil)
Brazil – Germany – Production: Multiverso Produções
It’s Not a River – Diego Martínez Ulanosky (Argentina)
Mexico – Argentina – Production: CAPONETO
Don’t Let Me Die Alone – Francisco Rodríguez Teare (Chile)
Chile – Belgium – Production: Axolotl SpA
Sublime Pact – Ignacio Juricic (Chile)
Chile – Production: Araucaria Cine
Dad is No Punk Rocker – Pablo Stoll (Uruguay)
Uruguay – Production: Temperamento Films
Heritage / Patrimony – María Astrauskas (Argentina)
Argentina – Production: Pablo Giorgelli Cine
Victoria in the Clouds – Ana Endara (Panama)
Panama – Chile – Production: Expansiva Cine
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