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Bolivian filmmaker Martin Boulocq’s drama in development, “The Strange Woman” (“La Mujer Extraña”), which participates in the upcoming San Sebastian Film Festival Co-Production Forum, has tapped Uruguay’s Cimarrón Cine, part of the Mediapro Studio since 2023, as a co-production partner.

This would be the second time it has backed a Boulocq film. In 2022, it co-produced Tribeca Best Screenplay-winner “The Visitor” (“El Visitante”) about an ex-convict who returns home in a bid to restart his life and reconnect with his young daughter.

Among the leading production companies in Uruguay, Cimarrón has provided production services to Oscar-nominated “Society of the Snow” and co-produced Prime Video’s lauded series, “Iosi, the Regretful Spy,” alongside Oficina Burman, among others.

Lead produced by Boulocq and Andrea Camponovo’s Cq Films, “The Strange Woman” is set in a future Bolivia torn apart by the war over lithium, a vital component in EVs and smartphones, where...

Germany’s Weltfilm has boarded Bolivian filmmaker Martín Boulocq’s “Criminal Body,” a work in progress (Wip) at the Santiago Intl. Film Festival’s industry section run by festival co-founder Gabriela Sandoval.

Founded in 2003 by Kristina Konrad and Christian Frosch, Weltfilm has participated in co-productions with Latin America, Africa and Europe, as it seeks to produce movies of all genres, including documentaries and arthouse pics with international appeal.

It joins co-producers comprising Boulocq’s Cq Films, Argentina’s Maravillacine and France’s L’Œil Vif. The project recently secured three funds in France: Cnc, Toulouse Métropole and Procirep-Angola.

In the film within a film also written by Boulocq, locals Miguel and Marcos are involved in the production of an American horror movie set in a sub-Andean forest. Miguel, a bodybuilder, takes on the role of the monster, while Marcos, a local farmer, provides his bulls for the shoot. Together, they...

Breaking Glass Pictures has snagged North American rights to Rodrigo Bellott’s horror thriller Blood-Red Ox, reports Variety.

In Blood-Red Ox…

“A Lebanese-American journalist and his boyfriend travel to Bolivia where the trip takes a bizarre turn as one of them starts having strange visions and loses his mind over the presence of a giant blood-red ox. While trying to save his boyfriend from paranoia, the other one realizes nothing and nobody is to be trusted as he might be losing his mind too.”

The film stars Mazin Akar and Kaolin Bass as the couple who descends into madness, with Andrea Camponovo in a supporting role.

“The film is my attempt to fall in love with storytelling and cinema, inspired by the work of Bergman and the early horror films of the 60s and 70s like Polanski and Argento,” Bellott previously stated. “It attempts to play with the essence of...

Breaking Glass Pictures has snagged North American rights to “Blood-Red Ox,” the first genre pic by award-winning Bolivian director-producer Rodrigo Bellott, now playing at the 18th Santiago International Film Festival (Sanfic) sidebar Visions of the World.

“A mind-bending trip into the depths of myth and madness, Bellott has crafted a haunting tale that pays homage to classic horror films while offering commentary on contemporary environmental and social issues,” said Scott Motisko, Breaking Glass VP of acquisitions, business development and sales, who together with Breaking Glass CEO Rich Wolff negotiated the pact with Ida Martins, CEO of Media Luna.

“We have a longstanding business relationship with Breaking Glass Pictures and couldn’t think of a better outlet for “Blood-Red Ox,” said Martins, adding: “They have been doing an excellent job with all Media Luna previous titles, and we are honored to have one more title in their care.”

Shot on location...

Event to run online from November 30-December 4.

Ventana Sur 2020 Online has unveiled the selections for the annual post-production showcases Primer Corte and Copia Final sections.

The Latin American market runs from November 30-December 4 and typically takes place in Buenos Aires. This year’s event takes place online.

Argentina remains under lockdown and recently crossed one million reported cases of Covid-19.

The Primer Corte section progress includes:

A felicidade das coisas (Brazil)

Dir: Thais Fujinaga

Pdr: Thiago Macêdo Correia

Álbum para la juventud (Argentina)

Dir: Malena Solarz

Prd: Cecilia Pisano

Fogaréu (Brazil / France)

Dir: Flávia Neves

Pdr: Vania Catani

Trigal (Mexico...

Sales agent Media Luna New Films has acquired international rights to Rodrigo Bellott’s horror thriller “Blood-Red Ox.”

Bellott directed Bolivia’s Academy Award entries “Sexual Dependency” and “Tu Me Manques,” and was the producer behind Jim Mickle’s U.S. remake of Mexican horror hit “We Are What We Are.”

In “Blood-Red Ox,” which is in post-production, a Lebanese-American journalist and his boyfriend travel to Bolivia where the trip takes a bizarre turn as one of them starts having strange visions and loses his mind over the presence of a giant blood-red ox. While trying to save his boyfriend from paranoia, the other one realizes nothing and nobody is to be trusted as he might be losing his mind too.

Bellott said: “The film is my attempt to fall in love with storytelling and cinema, inspired by the work of Bergman and the early horror films of the 60s...

After a ten-year hiatus where he produced the films of other directors in the U.S. and Latin America, Rodrigo Bellott returned to directing with gay drama “Tu Me Manques,” which trumped other local contenders to represent Bolivia at the Academy Awards and Spain’s Goyas.

He confesses that the experience nearly broke him. “It was a very personal drama that took over eight weeks of production, 56 actors and 18 months to edit,” he said. It was such a painful experience, he thought he’d never direct again.

Advised to take a break, Bellott instead pulled a Wong Kar Wai, who while shooting “Ashes of Time,” allegedly took two weeks off to make “Chungking Express” before restarting his dramedy.

Bellott opted to do the same, directing his Blood Window entry “Blood Red Ox” from a screenplay he co-wrote with American genre writer Nate Atkins. Shot on location in Bolivia and upstate...