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Italian sales outfit The Open Reel also racked up further deals on its slate.

Italian sales and production company The Open Reel unveiled a raft of deals including sales of Valentin Merz’s debut feature De Noche Los Gatos Son Pardos (At Night All Cats Are Black) to Matchbox Films for the UK and Ireland, and Out Screen Pty for Australia and New Zealand.

De Noche Los Gatos Son Pardos, which is set during the shoot of a costume drama film in the countryside and follows events taking an odd turn after the director mysteriously disappears, premiered in competition at...

Petit Mal Tribeca Festival Viewpoints Selection Reviewed for Shockya.com by Abe Friedtanzer Director: Ruth Caudeli Writer: Ruth Caudeli Cast: Ruth Caudeli, Ana María Otálora, Silvia Varón Screened at: Village East Cinema, NYC, 4/10/22 Opens: June 9th, 2022 All relationships don’t look the same. The specifics of a particular arrangement may feel foreign to some and […]

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As New York’s Tribeca Film Festival ceded its traditional springtime slot for a decidedly more summery one this June, it will coincide with Pride month — when just about everything in New York gets a little more gay. With queer audiences excited to be together again and looking for events to feel proud of, the festival’s new time could be just the thing to kick off the celebratory month. Between TV pilots and in-person talks from beloved gay comedians John Early and Tig Notaro and the premieres of independent queer films from around the world, Tribeca’s robust slate of LGBTQ programming has something for every cultural palate.

“When I joined the team, it was [with] the intention of making sure the festival made space for queer representation, and making sure that their stories were not limited to queer bubbles, that they were being appreciated my mainstream audiences as well,...

It’s the fifth feature from Caudeli and is a largely autobiographical story about polyamorous relationships.

Leading Italian sales outfit The Open Reel has boarded Petit Mal, the new film from Spanish director Ruth Caudeli, ahead of this year’s EFM.

It’s the fifth feature from Caudeli and is a largely autobiographical story about polyamorous relationships. Petit Mal also explores the relationship between Caudeli and the actresses she has worked with the most, Silvia Varón and Ana María Otálora, who also feature in the film.

Producing is Colombian company Ovella Blava Films, which also produced Caudeli’s previous films...

Improvisation is a great way to tell a story onscreen. It feels natural, fluid, human. Why isn't it why it used more frequently? One major reason is that it leads all too easily to characters contradicting each other, and it makes it hard to produce multiple takes which can be edited seamlessly together. But what if that's the effect you want>/i>?

For a long time, scientists studying memory assumed that it ran like a film. Today we know that what our brains actually do is to retain what seem like the most important pieces of memory and then fill in the gaps. As a consequence, we don't all remember things in the same way. Told in five segments, each one with its own leading lady, Ruth Caudeli's follow-up to Second Star On The Right (which also starred Diana Wiswell and Silvia Varón) plays out like five memories of the same dinner.