First Look, the work-in-progress part of the Locarno Movie Competition’s Locarno Professional trade strand, unveiled the six tasks on the verge of completion that can take middle stage throughout its 13th version this yr.
The promising function movie tasks are from this yr’s focus nation, Spain. The occasion will happen Aug. September 11 throughout Locarno Professional in partnership with ICAA, the Spanish Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts, and ICEX Spain Commerce & Funding.
“The chosen tasks, none of which at the moment have gross sales illustration, had been chosen out of over 40 submissions with a primary pre-selection made by a committee composed of Xavier Garcia Puerto (Tallinn Again Nights Competition/REC – Worldwide Competition of Cinema in Tarragona), Susana Santos Rodriguez (IndieLisboa/IFFR), and Cecilia Barrionuevo (ECAM – Escuela de Cinematografía y Audiovisual de Madrid),” organizers mentioned. The tasks will probably be offered to accredited trade professionals by the producer or producers.
The worldwide jury that can award a number of prizes is comprised of Beatrice Fiorentino, creative director of Venice’s Worldwide Movie Critics’ Week, Istanbul Movie Competition director Kerem Ayan, and Mercedes Martínez-Abarca, programmer for the Worldwide Movie Competition Rotterdam.
They embody the Antaviana Movies First Look Award protecting post-production companies as much as €50,000 ($54,076); an award by post-production firm Laserfilm cine y vídeo price €5,000 ($5,407), which may be spent on the likes of subtitles, audio descriptions, and transcriptions; the Music Library &SFX/Acorde Award price €45,000 ($48,669) in music supervision companies; an award by trade journal Le Movie Français Award price €5,600 ($6,056) in promoting area; and the Jannuzzi Smith Award, consisting of the design of a global poster price €10,000 ($10,815).
The winners will probably be unveiled in the course of the Locarno Professional Award Ceremony on Sunday, Aug. 11.
Under is a take a look at this yr’s six First Look tasks.
L’Aguait
Fiction
Directed by: Marc Ortiz
Produced by: Paloma Mora (TV ON Producciones, ADMIRABLE FILMS), Marc Muñoz (lamalanga Produccions Audiovisuals)
Description: Teresa Pla, an intersex youngster assigned feminine at delivery, struggles to be acknowledged as a person inside the archaic Spanish society of the start and center of the twentieth century whereas he’s persecuted by guerrillas, bandits and the Guardia Civil (Civil Guard).
Bodegón con fantasmas
Fiction
Directed by: Enrique Buleo
Produced by: Alejandra Mora (Quatre Movies Audiovisuales SL), Alicia Yubero (Cuidado con el perro), Snezana van Houwelingen (This and that), Roberto Butragueño (Sideral)
Description: Distressed by the troubles and difficulties of life and dying, ghosts and people of the small city of La Mancha will do the inconceivable to place an finish to their issues and won’t hesitate to hold out excessive and determined plans to realize it.
Dream of One other Summer season
Experimental
Directed by: Irene Bartolomé
Produced by: Pere Marzo (Colibrí Studio), Irene Bartolomé (I.B. Movies) and Elie Kamal (The Attic Productions)
Description: Dream of One other Summer season tells the story of the encounter between a girl collapsing and a metropolis in ruins with a purpose to discover how the areas we inhabit relate to us, and to mirror on the mortality and survival of a metropolis.
Mares (Mums)
Documentary
Directed by: Ariadna Seuba
Produced by: Carles Brugeras, Marieke van der Bersselaar (Polar Star Movies), María Nova López (Intactes Movies)
Description: Mares takes the viewers on an intimate and emotionally charged journey with director Ari (32), and her associate Anna (41), who need to have a baby collectively. Anna is the primary to start assisted copy, while Ariadna captures each step together with her digital camera.
Prefiro condenarme
Documentary
Directed by: Margarita Ledo-Andión
Produced by: Olaia Ledo, Carmen Ciller (Nós Produtora Cinematográfica Galega.)
Description: 1972: The Ecclesiastical Court docket of Santiago de Compostela convicted Sagrario Fra, a shellfish harvester in Ferrol, for committing adultery. On the time, many ladies had been being imprisoned or locked up in a psychological hospital for what is taken into account a female-specific prison act. However Sagrario Fra experiences love as insubordination. Just like the birds, flying between heaven and earth, Antigone is latent in Sagrario.
Río abajo, un tigre
Fiction
Directed by: Víctor Diago
Produced by: Montse Pujol Solà (Boogaloo Movies)
Description: Júlia fled to Glasgow to start out anew, however years later, she’s caught. By day, she pursues pictures; by evening, she washes dishes. One afternoon, whereas photographing pedestrians, her eyes start to fail. As sickness spreads, Júlia delves into her previous and that of the town, recalling a mysterious group that retrieved objects from the river, and Shubham, an Indian boy who, like her, got here right here for a brand new starting.