Films in Progress takes an online form – Cineuropa

30/03/2020 - Industry professionals can access six work-in-progress titles currently in post-production and taken from the event that was originally scheduled to unfold within Toulouses Cinelatino Festival

Memory House by Joo Paulo Miranda Maria

The 37th Cinma en Construction session - which was supposed to unspool on 26 and 27 March as part of the Cinelatino Festival 32nd Toulouse Meetings but which was cancelled as a result of the current health crisis - is now taking place this week in digital form, with its three accompanying prizes set to be handed out on 3 April latest following the usual jury deliberations. This digital platform can be accessed, first and foremost, by partners and professionals already registered for the event, facilitating their discovery of the six selected work-in-progress titles, currently in post-production (and in search of additional finance, not to mention partners who can ensure their circulation and audience access).

For the record, Cinma en Construction is jointly organised by the San Sebastian Film Festival and Toulouses Film Meetings, with a view to lending support to Latin American films in the process of finalisation by way of two separate sessions (focusing on six films in Toulouse in March and on six films in San Sebastian in September). Its an initiative whose list of previously selected films dates back to 2002 and includes the likes of Tony Manero by Pablo Larran, Gloria[+see also: trailerfilmprofile] by Sebastin Lelio, Sangre[+see also: trailerfilmprofile] by Amat Escalante, La sombra del caminante by Ciro Guerra, Mariana[+see also: filmreviewtrailerfilmprofile] by Marcela Said, Ixcanul[+see also: filmreviewtrailerinterview: Jayro Bustamantefilmprofile] by Jayro Bustamante, La familia[+see also: filmreviewtrailerfilmprofile] by Gustavo Rondn Crdova and The Sharks[+see also: filmreviewtrailerfilmprofile] by Luca Garibaldi, not to mention Los silencios[+see also: filmreviewtrailerfilmprofile] by Beatriz Seigner.

Shining bright among the six candidates selected for this Toulouse-based session of the Cinma en Construction event are two films co-produced by Europe: Memory Houseby Joo Paulo Miranda Maria (read our article produced by Parisian group Maneki Films and Brazilian outfit Bossa Nova Filmes) and Karnawal by Juan Pablo Felix, produced by Argentine firm Bikini Films and co-produced by Norways Norsk Filmproduksjon, Frances Melocoton Films, Brazils 3 Moinhos, Bolivias Londra Films, Chiles Picardia Films and Mexicos Phototaxia Pictures.

Also featuring in the showcase are El otro Tomby Mexican director Rodrigo Pl (the 2007 winner of Venices Best First Film award for La zona, proprit prive, where he was also selected in 2015s Orizzonti section for Un monstre mille ttes, and who likewise unveiled The Delay[+see also: trailerfilmprofile] in the Berlinale Forum 2012), Desasosiego by Paz Fbrega (Costa Rica/Mexico), who won a Tiger in Rotterdam 2010 for Agua fria, La chica nueva by Micaela Gonzalo (Argentina) and 50 o dos ballenas se encuentran en la playa by Jorge Cuch (Mexico).

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