Argentine writer-director-producer Luciana Piantanida is taking her completed sophomore pic, “All the Strength” (“Todas las fuerzas”) to Ventana Sur’s Copia Final where it will seek a sales agent, distribution and festival berths.
Best known for her lauded debut feature “Los Ausentes,” Piantanida is a partner at production company Pensar con las Manos alongside Andrea Testa and Francisco Márquez whose co-directorial debut “The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis,” world premiered at the 69th Cannes Film Festival.
“All the Strength” follows 47-year-old migrant caregiver Marlene who lives in the home of her employer, an elderly woman. Although her job is full-time, when she discovers that a friend has gone missing, she begins sneaking out at night to investigate. The clues lead her to nocturnal workplaces where she meets other women who, like her, have honed their gifts into supernatural powers.
Marlene is played by Bolivian non-pro Celia Santos who is supported...
Best known for her lauded debut feature “Los Ausentes,” Piantanida is a partner at production company Pensar con las Manos alongside Andrea Testa and Francisco Márquez whose co-directorial debut “The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis,” world premiered at the 69th Cannes Film Festival.
“All the Strength” follows 47-year-old migrant caregiver Marlene who lives in the home of her employer, an elderly woman. Although her job is full-time, when she discovers that a friend has gone missing, she begins sneaking out at night to investigate. The clues lead her to nocturnal workplaces where she meets other women who, like her, have honed their gifts into supernatural powers.
Marlene is played by Bolivian non-pro Celia Santos who is supported...
- 11/12/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Francisco Márquez’s feature premiered at the Berlinale in 2020.
Sovereign Film Distribution has acquird UK and Ireland rights to Francisco Márquez’s Argentinian thriller A Common Crime from Dubai-based Cercamon.
The film premiered in the Panorama at the Berlinale in 2020 and screened at the BFI London Film Festival later in the year.
Sovereign is aiming for a day-and-date release on April 9 if cinemas are open. The distributor is also making the title available for virtual cinema release and is closing agreements with several sites.
The story centres on a teacher, played by played by Elisa Carricajo, who is disturbed one...
Sovereign Film Distribution has acquird UK and Ireland rights to Francisco Márquez’s Argentinian thriller A Common Crime from Dubai-based Cercamon.
The film premiered in the Panorama at the Berlinale in 2020 and screened at the BFI London Film Festival later in the year.
Sovereign is aiming for a day-and-date release on April 9 if cinemas are open. The distributor is also making the title available for virtual cinema release and is closing agreements with several sites.
The story centres on a teacher, played by played by Elisa Carricajo, who is disturbed one...
- 2/11/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Sheffield Doc/Fest, the U.K.’s leading documentary festival, has unveiled its 2020 selection, with a line-up of 115 films, including 31 world premieres.
Due to coronavirus, this year’s festival is largely taking place online. The June event is also extending its activities throughout the rest of the year both in Sheffield and virtually.
The festival is launching a VOD platform, Sheffield Doc/Fest Selects, on June 10 with pay-per-view and subscription options for U.K.-based public audiences including Q&As with filmmakers.
The Doc/Player, a film industry-oriented video library, is also being made available to festival passholders globally from today to August 31.
The festival is also organising weekend screenings in Sheffield cinemas in October – November.
In addition, Doc/Fest has partnered with BFI Player, Doc Alliance Films, The Guardian, and Mubi which will host its curated programmes at various points between July and November.
As announced previously, Sheffield Doc...
Due to coronavirus, this year’s festival is largely taking place online. The June event is also extending its activities throughout the rest of the year both in Sheffield and virtually.
The festival is launching a VOD platform, Sheffield Doc/Fest Selects, on June 10 with pay-per-view and subscription options for U.K.-based public audiences including Q&As with filmmakers.
The Doc/Player, a film industry-oriented video library, is also being made available to festival passholders globally from today to August 31.
The festival is also organising weekend screenings in Sheffield cinemas in October – November.
In addition, Doc/Fest has partnered with BFI Player, Doc Alliance Films, The Guardian, and Mubi which will host its curated programmes at various points between July and November.
As announced previously, Sheffield Doc...
- 6/8/2020
- by Tim Dams
- Variety Film + TV
Rodrigo Reyes’s 499 (Mexico/USA) wins Special Jury Prize – International Feature Documentary.
Elizabeth Lo’s Stray about stray dogs roaming the streets of Turkey has won Best International Feature Documentary Award at the Hot Docs as top brass announced C$42,000 in cash prizes on Thursday (May 14).
Festival organisers selected winners from this year’s official competition at the postponed festival and additionally honoured Canadian filmmakers. More than 140 official festival selections and most of the winners will be made available to Ontario audiences online from May 28 on Hot Docs at Home Tvod here.
Special Jury Prize – International Feature Documentary honours went...
Elizabeth Lo’s Stray about stray dogs roaming the streets of Turkey has won Best International Feature Documentary Award at the Hot Docs as top brass announced C$42,000 in cash prizes on Thursday (May 14).
Festival organisers selected winners from this year’s official competition at the postponed festival and additionally honoured Canadian filmmakers. More than 140 official festival selections and most of the winners will be made available to Ontario audiences online from May 28 on Hot Docs at Home Tvod here.
Special Jury Prize – International Feature Documentary honours went...
- 5/14/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Rodrigo Reyes’s 499 (Mexico/USA) wins Special Jury Prize – International Feature Documentary.
Elizabeth Lo’s Stray about stray dogs roaming the streets of Turkey has won Best International Feature Documentary Award at the Hot Docs as top brass announced CA $42,000 in cash prizes on Thursday (May 14).
Festival organisers selected winners from this year’s official competition at the postponed festival and additionally honoured Canadian filmmakers. More than 140 official festival selections and most of the winners will be made available to Ontario audiences online from May 28 on Hot Docs at Home Tvod here.
Special Jury Prize – International Feature Documentary honours went...
Elizabeth Lo’s Stray about stray dogs roaming the streets of Turkey has won Best International Feature Documentary Award at the Hot Docs as top brass announced CA $42,000 in cash prizes on Thursday (May 14).
Festival organisers selected winners from this year’s official competition at the postponed festival and additionally honoured Canadian filmmakers. More than 140 official festival selections and most of the winners will be made available to Ontario audiences online from May 28 on Hot Docs at Home Tvod here.
Special Jury Prize – International Feature Documentary honours went...
- 5/14/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Argentinean filmmaker Francisco Márquez revealed his latest work titled A Common Crime in Berlinale´s Panorama section after his 2016 feature debut The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis, which he co-directed with Andrea Testa. The debut was a politically charged drama against the Argentinean dictatorship during the junta rule and its despotic government prone to persecutions. While Márquez moves from 1977 to the present time in his solo effort A Common Crime, he does not leave the political lens behind instead he refocuses them on the current topic. From the onset, Francisco along his co-writer Tomás Downey, makes it clear the protagonist Cecilia, a sociology professor, belongs to the privileged upper-middle class. She lives in an affluent bubble preoccupied with son´s birthday party and her own...
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- 4/20/2020
- Screen Anarchy
Shoring up artistic director Orwa Nyrabia’s commitment to showcasing more women’s stories and platforming more women’s voices, Idfa has announced that this year’s festival features the highest percentage of female filmmakers in the event’s 31-year history: 64% of competition titles and 47% of the total program.
“Reaching a fairer representation was much easier than it seemed to be,” noted Nyrabia. “We only had to keep our goal in mind. The outstanding films that found their way to us this year was a humble reminder that we are in the presence of exceptional female filmmakers.”
The festival opens with the world premiere of Mehrdad Oskouei’s “Sunless Shadows,” which depicts five young Iranian women complicit in the murders of abusive husbands, fathers, or brothers-in-law. Oskouei’s film competes in the Feature-Length Documentary Competition alongside Jørgen Leth’s “I Walk”; Heidi Hassan and Patricia Pérez Fernández’s “In a...
“Reaching a fairer representation was much easier than it seemed to be,” noted Nyrabia. “We only had to keep our goal in mind. The outstanding films that found their way to us this year was a humble reminder that we are in the presence of exceptional female filmmakers.”
The festival opens with the world premiere of Mehrdad Oskouei’s “Sunless Shadows,” which depicts five young Iranian women complicit in the murders of abusive husbands, fathers, or brothers-in-law. Oskouei’s film competes in the Feature-Length Documentary Competition alongside Jørgen Leth’s “I Walk”; Heidi Hassan and Patricia Pérez Fernández’s “In a...
- 10/24/2019
- by Damon Wise
- Variety Film + TV
Every so often, a film comes along without much of a “heads up” through a trailer or really even festival buzz, and absolutely punches you square in the gut. Maybe it is an exciting new filmmaker making his or her debut, or there is a revelatory lead performance from an actor you’re not well versed in. And sometimes it’s both, and so very much more.
That is the case with the new political thriller The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis. The directing debut of co-directors Andrea Testa and Francisco Marquez, the film sends the viewer back to 1977 in Argentina, where the country is under oppressive junta rule. Taking a decidedly intimate approach to engrossing the viewer in this brutal regime and its effects on the larger country, the film focuses entirely on one man, the titular Sanctis. A simple, unassuming man going about his life with wife Angelica (Laura Paredes) and two children,...
That is the case with the new political thriller The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis. The directing debut of co-directors Andrea Testa and Francisco Marquez, the film sends the viewer back to 1977 in Argentina, where the country is under oppressive junta rule. Taking a decidedly intimate approach to engrossing the viewer in this brutal regime and its effects on the larger country, the film focuses entirely on one man, the titular Sanctis. A simple, unassuming man going about his life with wife Angelica (Laura Paredes) and two children,...
- 8/24/2017
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
The Film Society of Lincoln Center
and Cinema Tropical announce
Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American CinemaJanuary 26–31: The Film Society of Lincoln Center announces the second annual Neighboring Scenes, a showcase of contemporary Latin American cinema, co-presented with Cinema Tropical
Exhibiting the breadth of styles, techniques, and approaches employed by Latin American filmmakers today, the festival highlights impressive recent productions from across the region. Featuring titles from Paraguay, Peru, and the Dominican Republic for the first time, as well as films from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico, Neighboring Scenes celebrates the expanding range of contemporary Latin American filmmaking in its second edition.
“This year, we are pleased to highlight several emerging filmmakers, with many fantastic debut and second films in a range of styles — from political thriller and bleak comedy to observational documentary,” said Film Society of Lincoln Center Programmer at Large Rachael Rakes. “Furthermore, half of the works...
and Cinema Tropical announce
Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American CinemaJanuary 26–31: The Film Society of Lincoln Center announces the second annual Neighboring Scenes, a showcase of contemporary Latin American cinema, co-presented with Cinema Tropical
Exhibiting the breadth of styles, techniques, and approaches employed by Latin American filmmakers today, the festival highlights impressive recent productions from across the region. Featuring titles from Paraguay, Peru, and the Dominican Republic for the first time, as well as films from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico, Neighboring Scenes celebrates the expanding range of contemporary Latin American filmmaking in its second edition.
“This year, we are pleased to highlight several emerging filmmakers, with many fantastic debut and second films in a range of styles — from political thriller and bleak comedy to observational documentary,” said Film Society of Lincoln Center Programmer at Large Rachael Rakes. “Furthermore, half of the works...
- 1/9/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The Costa Rica International Film Festival (Crfic) has announced its complete lineup for its fifth edition. This year, 72 films have been chosen to represent the world’s best in independent cinema, with four world premieres and three Latin American premieres taking place, and over 60 features to be presented for the first time in the region.
“At Crfic we are interested in approaching the idea of artistic diversity; covering a broad spectrum of styles and proposals found in contemporary national and international cinema,” said Marcelo Quesada, Artistic Director for the Festival. “Our identity and our program is built around a free, coherent and risky cinema that moves away from the usual places and bring us closer to different voices and world visions from over 30 countries.”
Read More: Costa Rica Selects Esteban Ramirez’ ‘Presos’ as Oscar Submission
Taking place at the capital city of San José, the festival will run from December...
“At Crfic we are interested in approaching the idea of artistic diversity; covering a broad spectrum of styles and proposals found in contemporary national and international cinema,” said Marcelo Quesada, Artistic Director for the Festival. “Our identity and our program is built around a free, coherent and risky cinema that moves away from the usual places and bring us closer to different voices and world visions from over 30 countries.”
Read More: Costa Rica Selects Esteban Ramirez’ ‘Presos’ as Oscar Submission
Taking place at the capital city of San José, the festival will run from December...
- 11/30/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
The Untamed, from Cannes best director award winner, among 13 titles.
The 64rd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 16-24) has revealed the 13 titles in its Horizontes Latinos programme, comprising some of the best Latin American films of the year to date.
Films selected may have competed or premiered at international festivals, but will have not yet been screened at a Spanish festival or had their commercial release in Spain.
The selected films compete for the Horizontes Award, decided by a specific jury and coming with €35,000, of which €10,000 will go to the director of the winning film, and the remaining €25,000 to its distributor in Spain.
The titles include The Untamed, from Amat Escalante, who won the Best Director Award in Cannes for Heli in 2013. The film, which will premiere in competition at this year’s Venice, centres on a young couple living in the Mexican lowlands whose lives are changed when a meteorite crashes into an nearby mountain.
Horizontes...
The 64rd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 16-24) has revealed the 13 titles in its Horizontes Latinos programme, comprising some of the best Latin American films of the year to date.
Films selected may have competed or premiered at international festivals, but will have not yet been screened at a Spanish festival or had their commercial release in Spain.
The selected films compete for the Horizontes Award, decided by a specific jury and coming with €35,000, of which €10,000 will go to the director of the winning film, and the remaining €25,000 to its distributor in Spain.
The titles include The Untamed, from Amat Escalante, who won the Best Director Award in Cannes for Heli in 2013. The film, which will premiere in competition at this year’s Venice, centres on a young couple living in the Mexican lowlands whose lives are changed when a meteorite crashes into an nearby mountain.
Horizontes...
- 8/17/2016
- ScreenDaily
The Festival de Cannes has announced the lineup for the official selection, including the Competition and Un Certain Regard sections, as well as special screenings, for the 69th edition of the festival:COMPETITIONOpening Night: Café Society (Woody Allen) [Out of Competition]Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar)American Honey (Andrea Arnold)Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)La Fille Inconnue (Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne)Juste La Fin du Monde (Xavier Dolan)Ma Loute (Bruno Dumont)Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)Rester Vertical (Alain Guiraudie)Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho)Mal de Pierres (Nicole Garcia)I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach)Ma' Rosa (Brillante Mendoza)Bacalaureat (Cristian Mungiu)Loving (Jeff Nichols)Agassi (Park Chan-Wook)The Last Face (Sean Penn)Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu)Elle (Paul Verhoeven)The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding-Refn)The Salesman (Asgha Farhadi)Un Certain REGARDOpening Film: Clash (Mohamed Diab)Varoonegi (Behnam Behzadi)Apprentice (Boo Junfeng)Voir du Pays (Delphine Coulin & Muriel Coulin)La Danseuse (Stéphanie Di Giusto)La...
- 4/22/2016
- by Notebook
- MUBI
As one of the highest profile events on the film festival calendar, the announcement of the film selection for the Cannes Film Festival is always greatly anticipated. A broad range of cinema is always guaranteed, and this year is no exception. With Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller already known to be President of the 2016 Cannes competition Jury, we can now take a look at the feature films that will be included in the festival – which runs from May 11th to May 22nd, 2016.
Familiar names – such as Paul Verhoeven, Park Chan-Wook, Ken Loach, Sean Penn, Pedro Almodovar, Nicolas Winding Refn and Jim Jarmusch – will be among those competing for prestigious acknowledgement from the Jury, while several directorial debuts feature as entries in Un Certain Regard – from filmmakers such as Stephanie Di Giusto, Maha Haj and Michael O’Shea.
Opening Film
Cafe Society (Woody Allen)
Official Competition
Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade...
Familiar names – such as Paul Verhoeven, Park Chan-Wook, Ken Loach, Sean Penn, Pedro Almodovar, Nicolas Winding Refn and Jim Jarmusch – will be among those competing for prestigious acknowledgement from the Jury, while several directorial debuts feature as entries in Un Certain Regard – from filmmakers such as Stephanie Di Giusto, Maha Haj and Michael O’Shea.
Opening Film
Cafe Society (Woody Allen)
Official Competition
Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade...
- 4/14/2016
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
The line-up of the 69th Cannes Film Festival in full.
At a press conference this morning, Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux and president Pierre Lescure revealed 49 films selected for inclusion in this year’s festival, set to run May 11-22.
The annoncement was delayed by a peaceful protest at the Ugc Normandie movie theatre on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. A tweet from the festival said: “Due to an intervention of Entertaintement workers, the announcement of the Selection is slightly delayed. Stay with us!”
As previously announced, Woody Allen’s Café Society will open the festival on May 11.
Also previously announced, the competition jury will be presided over by Australian director George Miller, whose Oscar-winning Mad Max: Fury Road received its world premiere at Cannes last year.
Competition
Jury chair: George Miller
Toni Erdmann, Maren Ade (Germany)Julieta, Pedro Almodóvar (Spain)American Honey, Andrea Arnold (UK)Personal Shopper, Olivier Assayas (France)The Unknown Girl (La Fille Inconnue), Jean-Pierre Dardenne & [link...
At a press conference this morning, Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux and president Pierre Lescure revealed 49 films selected for inclusion in this year’s festival, set to run May 11-22.
The annoncement was delayed by a peaceful protest at the Ugc Normandie movie theatre on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. A tweet from the festival said: “Due to an intervention of Entertaintement workers, the announcement of the Selection is slightly delayed. Stay with us!”
As previously announced, Woody Allen’s Café Society will open the festival on May 11.
Also previously announced, the competition jury will be presided over by Australian director George Miller, whose Oscar-winning Mad Max: Fury Road received its world premiere at Cannes last year.
Competition
Jury chair: George Miller
Toni Erdmann, Maren Ade (Germany)Julieta, Pedro Almodóvar (Spain)American Honey, Andrea Arnold (UK)Personal Shopper, Olivier Assayas (France)The Unknown Girl (La Fille Inconnue), Jean-Pierre Dardenne & [link...
- 4/14/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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