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Writer-director Martín Rejtman’s La Práctica skillfully eases us into a world where yoga is a lifestyle and not just an exercise. This is a world that promises health for the health-conscious, an improvement of one’s life through strict scheduling discipline, and freedom from earthly troubles thanks to the influence of Hinduism that can still be felt in yoga’s practice. Pity, then, that Gustavo (Esteban Bigliardi), an Argentinian yoga instructor living in Chile, is no longer grounded in his connection to that practice, as his separation from his wife, Vanesa (Manuela Oyarzún), prompts a series of life changes that a Vinyasa pose can’t fix.

Despite his dedication to exercise and a vegan diet, Gustavo’s health is threatened by a series of stretching accidents and pratfalls, forcing him to teach his yoga classes with a limp. He lives, at first, with Vanesa’s brother and the man’s wife,...

Filmmaker’s credits include Hidden In The Woods, Downhill.

Patricio Valladares, the Chilean genre ace and market mainstay behind Hidden In The Woods and Downhill, is looking to attach a sales agent to his later film, the crime dark comedy PerKings.

Production wrapped recently in Chillán in the Ñuble region in southern Chile on the story of a small-time thug in his 50’s who embarks on a spree of bank robberies to pay back a drug baron after a rival cartel steals his goods.

Rodrigo Huepe, Cristian Cuentrejo, and Giordano Rossi star in PerKings. Vittorio Farfan and Valladares are serving...

Producers targeting release in second half of 2022.

Principal photography on Patricio Valladares’s low-budget survival thriller film Hidden In The Woods Part 2 has wrapped in southern Chile.

The sequel takes place 10 years after events in the 2012 original and sees Anny trying to lead a new life in a new town as a cleaner after she and her sister were terrorised by their abusive father and crime boss uncle.

Anny’s peaceful existence is shattered when gangsters turn up at her employer’s lake house to collect a debt. Production took place in Las Aguadas, Yumbel.

Priscilla Olguín, Giordano Rossi, Christian Cuentrejo,...

Producers targeting release in second half of 2022.

Principal photography on Patricio Valladares’s low-budget survival thriller film Hidden In The Woods Part 2 has wrapped in southern Chile.

The sequel to the 2014 horror takes place 10 years after the original and sees Anny trying to lead a new life in a new town as a cleaner after she and her sister were subject to the whims of their abusive, drug-dealing father.

Her peaceful existence is shattered when gangsters turn up at her employer’s lake house to collect a debt. Production took place in Las Aguadas, Yumbel.

Priscilla Olguín, Giordano Rossi, Christian Cuentrejo,...

Stars: Romina Perazzo, Domingo Guzmán, Carolina Escobar, Cristian Cuentrejoa, Evelyn Belmar, Paulina Facuse, Yuri Caceres, Giordano Rossi, Serge François | Written by Patricio Valladares, Barry Keating | Directed by Patricio Valladares

The synopsis for Embryo only really explains a hint of the film even if it seems to give away quite a lot. It explains that the movie follows a couple who while camping are abducted by aliens and woman, Evelyn is impregnated. Since that abduction she is having cravings for human flesh.

But this isn’t the only story in Embryo, a film that is some kind of strange anthology as we see a couple of other creepy tales that all link together eventually. Not only this but it’s a mix of sub genre that all umbrella under the same horror/sci-fi link. We see found footage, news stories, a normally shot film and even snuff film-like moments and if...