Gabriela Sandoval, director and co-founder of Chilean production-distribution outfit Storyboard Media, and head of industry for the Santiago International Film Festival (Sanfic), was at this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival where her new Chilean label Cine Matriz struck deals with Nathalia Videla at Argentina’s Magma Cine and Griselda González at Be Revolution Pictures in Belgium on the company’s upcoming drama feature, “After Elena.” The companies join Storyboard Media on the production.
Directed by Shawn Gary, his second feature following the multi-award winning “Desierto Sur,“ the film tells the story of Roberto, a man in his seventies who has just lost the love of his life, Elena. The typically stoic character breaks down when forced to sell his business which stands in the way of the development of a new shopping center. To get away, Roberto plans a trip which is interrupted before it has the chance to begin when his children,...
Directed by Shawn Gary, his second feature following the multi-award winning “Desierto Sur,“ the film tells the story of Roberto, a man in his seventies who has just lost the love of his life, Elena. The typically stoic character breaks down when forced to sell his business which stands in the way of the development of a new shopping center. To get away, Roberto plans a trip which is interrupted before it has the chance to begin when his children,...
- 9/24/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Chile’s Storyboard Media, a leader in production and distribution in that country, have given Variety exclusive access to the heartwarming first trailer for the sophomore feature from director Shawn Garry, “After Elena.”
The film tells the story of Roberto, a man in his 70s who has just lost the love of his life, Elena. The typically stoic character breaks down when forced to sell his business which stands in the way of the development of a new shopping center. To get away, Roberto plans a trip which is interrupted before it has the chance to begin when his children, now in their 30s with kids of their own, return home.
In the trailer we see Roberto, clearly out of sorts, as he tries to cope with the now overflowing house and mundane issues that confront large families with children, issues he hasn’t had to deal with for 15 years.
The film tells the story of Roberto, a man in his 70s who has just lost the love of his life, Elena. The typically stoic character breaks down when forced to sell his business which stands in the way of the development of a new shopping center. To get away, Roberto plans a trip which is interrupted before it has the chance to begin when his children, now in their 30s with kids of their own, return home.
In the trailer we see Roberto, clearly out of sorts, as he tries to cope with the now overflowing house and mundane issues that confront large families with children, issues he hasn’t had to deal with for 15 years.
- 10/19/2018
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
"Heleno," a biopic about Brazilian soccer star Heleno de Freitas, will be released in North America this summer by Screen Media Films, the company said Wednesday. The movie stars Rodrigo Santoro ("What to Expect When You're Expecting," "300") as the legendary athlete. Jose Henrique Fonseca directed the movie, which Felipe Braganca, Fernando Castets and Jose Henrique Fonseca wrote. Eduardo Pop and Rodrigo Teixeira produced through their Rt Features. Also read: Screen Media Sets 2012 Slate Screen Media acquired the movie at the Miami International Film Festival. "We are thrilled to bring such an exquisite film...
- 3/7/2012
- by Joshua L. Weinstein
- The Wrap
Heleno picked up by Screen Media at Miami International Film Festival. Screen Media has acquired North American rights to the film starring Rodrigo Santoro, after a successful screening at the Miami International Film Festival, announced President of Screen Media Films nm2518335 autoSuzanne Blech[/link] today. Pic produced and presented by Miami Dade College will find theatrical release in Summer this year and is a biography of the tragic life of one of Brazil's greatest soccer players, Heleno de Freitas. Santoro plays the title character, a legend whose career shone briefly, but brightly, through the 1940s. José Henrique Fonseca directs from the script by Felipe Bragança, Fernando Castets and José Henrique Fonseca.
- 3/7/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Heleno picked up by Screen Media at Miami International Film Festival. Screen Media has acquired North American rights to the film starring Rodrigo Santoro, after a successful screening at the Miami International Film Festival, announced President of Screen Media Films nm2518335 autoSuzanne Blech[/link] today. Pic produced and presented by Miami Dade College will find theatrical release in Summer this year and is a biography of the tragic life of one of Brazil's greatest soccer players, Heleno de Freitas. Santoro plays the title character, a legend whose career shone briefly, but brightly, through the 1940s. José Henrique Fonseca directs from the script by Felipe Bragança, Fernando Castets and José Henrique Fonseca.
- 3/7/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Heleno picked up by Screen Media at Miami International Film Festival. Screen Media has acquired North American rights to the film starring Rodrigo Santoro, after a successful screening at the Miami International Film Festival, announced President of Screen Media Films nm2518335 autoSuzanne Blech[/link] today. Pic produced and presented by Miami Dade College will find theatrical release in Summer this year and is a biography of the tragic life of one of Brazil's greatest soccer players, Heleno de Freitas. Santoro plays the title character, a legend whose career shone briefly, but brightly, through the 1940s. José Henrique Fonseca directs from the script by Felipe Bragança, Fernando Castets and José Henrique Fonseca.
- 3/7/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Paper Birds
As a performer who has been able to capture the pulse of the audience on both television and cinema, Emilio Aragón (full name Tomás Aragón Emilio Alvarez) sure knows how to connect with the emotions of his audiences. His debut feature film, “Paper Birds” (original Spanish title: “Pajaros De Papel”) provides ample proof of it.
Featured in the First Films World Competition of the 34thMontreal World Film Festival, where it shared the audience award with “The Day I Was Not Born” (original German title: “Das Lied in Mir”, which won the Fipresci prize), by another debutant director Florian Cossan, “Paper Birds” unabashedly pulls at the viewers’ emotional heartstrings.
The way it does so while portraying the relationship between a kid and his father-like figure who has lost his son and wife during the Spanish Civil War, makes one immediately compare it with Roberto Benigni’s much-awarded international hit...
As a performer who has been able to capture the pulse of the audience on both television and cinema, Emilio Aragón (full name Tomás Aragón Emilio Alvarez) sure knows how to connect with the emotions of his audiences. His debut feature film, “Paper Birds” (original Spanish title: “Pajaros De Papel”) provides ample proof of it.
Featured in the First Films World Competition of the 34thMontreal World Film Festival, where it shared the audience award with “The Day I Was Not Born” (original German title: “Das Lied in Mir”, which won the Fipresci prize), by another debutant director Florian Cossan, “Paper Birds” unabashedly pulls at the viewers’ emotional heartstrings.
The way it does so while portraying the relationship between a kid and his father-like figure who has lost his son and wife during the Spanish Civil War, makes one immediately compare it with Roberto Benigni’s much-awarded international hit...
- 1/13/2011
- by Utpal Borpujari
- DearCinema.com
Imagina International Sales which is based in Madrid, Spain, has picked up worldwide rights to distribute the dramedy "Pajaros de papel" ("Paper Birds") outside Spain. The film marks the directorial debut of Emilio Aragón. The story is set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in the early 1940s and follows the adventures of a group of very poor Spanish vaudeville performers. Film cost $8.3 million and stars Lluís Homar, Imanol Arias and Carmen Machi. Antena 3 Films and Versatil Cinema produce. Aragón writes alongside Fernando Castets. Pic opens on March 12th in Spain.
- 2/11/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Imagina International Sales which is based in Madrid, Spain, has picked up worldwide rights to distribute the dramedy "Pajaros de papel" ("Paper Birds") outside Spain. The film marks the directorial debut of Emilio Aragón. The story is set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in the early 1940s and follows the adventures of a group of very poor Spanish vaudeville performers. Film cost $8.3 million and stars Lluís Homar, Imanol Arias and Carmen Machi. Antena 3 Films and Versatil Cinema produce. Aragón writes alongside Fernando Castets. Pic opens on March 12th in Spain.
- 2/11/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Madrid -- Imagina International Sales in Berlin has picked up international rights to one of Spain's hottest titles for the coming season, "Paper Birds," written, directed and produced by Spain's consummate showman Emilio Aragon.
Aragon's $9 million directorial debut is produced by Madrid-based Versatil and Globomedia, with Hispano Fox handling Spanish theatrical and DVD rights. Antena 3 holds free-to-air rights, while Sogecable's Canal Plus holds pay-tv rights.
Written by Aragon with Argentine "Son of the Bride" scriptwriter Fernando Castets, the choral film pools some of Spain's blue-chip television talent in the cast, like Imanol Arias and Carmen Machi, in addition to "Broken Embraces'" Lluis Homar and "The Orphanage's" Fernando Cayo and Roger Princep.
"Birds" tells of a vaudeville troupe down on its luck in post-war Spain and is due for release March 12 in Spain.
Versatil is a film production label of content powerhouse Imagina, a joint-venture between Barcelona-based Mediapro and...
Aragon's $9 million directorial debut is produced by Madrid-based Versatil and Globomedia, with Hispano Fox handling Spanish theatrical and DVD rights. Antena 3 holds free-to-air rights, while Sogecable's Canal Plus holds pay-tv rights.
Written by Aragon with Argentine "Son of the Bride" scriptwriter Fernando Castets, the choral film pools some of Spain's blue-chip television talent in the cast, like Imanol Arias and Carmen Machi, in addition to "Broken Embraces'" Lluis Homar and "The Orphanage's" Fernando Cayo and Roger Princep.
"Birds" tells of a vaudeville troupe down on its luck in post-war Spain and is due for release March 12 in Spain.
Versatil is a film production label of content powerhouse Imagina, a joint-venture between Barcelona-based Mediapro and...
- 2/11/2010
- by By Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It's not too early to start anticipating that this outstanding Argentine-Spanish co-production will be one of the Academy Award nominees for foreign film. Close to perfection in every regard, provoking more laughs and tears than all the films one sees in any given season combined -- and a movie that would make such masters as Frank Capra and Billy Wilder proud -- "Son of the Bride" (El Hijo de la Novia) earned the Special Grand Prix of the Jury award in main competition at the World Film Festival of Montreal (HR 9/4).
Director and co-writer Juan Jose Campanella worked for much of the past decade in the United States in television and won two Emmy Awards for directing. He co-wrote the screenplay of "Son" with Fernando Castets after the pair collaborated on Campanella's 1999 feature "Same Love, Same Rain". While the Spanish-language "Son" has strong appeal to mature audiences, a smart domestic distributor could take it on the art house circuit, where the film could achieve a resounding success.
Rafael (Ricardo Darin) is a 42-year-old restaurant owner and divorcee who wants to change his life. Always on his cell phone dealing with work problems, he's got a beautiful girlfriend (Natalia Verbeke) and a loyal staff, but money problems and pressures to sell his business are taking a toll. He has a young daughter who lives most of the time with his ex-wife, while his aging father, Nino (Hector Alterio), who started the restaurant Rafael took over, is a gentle, supportive soul.
The title refers to Nino's desire to grant the decades-long wish of his wife, Rafael's mother (Norma Aleandro), who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, to have a church wedding. In scene after exquisite scene one gets to knows these characters and sympathize with them. Rafael is a man in crisis who does not judge others and does not blame the world for his problems. But he's also not always aware of how much love and support he has to help him get to the next stage of life.
When he has a heart attack but recovers to nearly his former energetic self, Rafael decides he needs more "freedom" and sells the restaurant, while also contemplating a move to Mexico. Fortunately, those around him, including a childhood friend-turned-actor (Eduardo Blanco), are not altogether behind him, and the lead makes the best of what he's already got.
From the constant stream of little jokes and bittersweet moments involving his parents, work and the women in his life to the unabashedly emotional peaks, Rafael's story is so uncommonly rendered with cinematic skill that it frankly leaves one delirious with admiration. The cinematography, music, editing and, most of all, the performances cannot be praised too much.
SON OF THE BRIDE
Pol-ka Prods., Patagonik Film Group
Jempsa, Tornasol Films
Director: Juan Jose Campanella
Screenwriters: Juan Jose Campanella, Fernando Castets
Producers: Adrian Suar, Fernando Blanco
Director of photography: Daniel Shulman
Production designer: Juan Vera
Editor: Camilo Antolini
Music: Angel Illaramendi
Color/stereo
Cast:
Rafael: Ricardo Darin
Nino: Hector Alterio
Norma: Norma Aleandro
Juan Carlos: Eduardo Blanco
Naty: Natalia Verbeke
Running time -- 123 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Director and co-writer Juan Jose Campanella worked for much of the past decade in the United States in television and won two Emmy Awards for directing. He co-wrote the screenplay of "Son" with Fernando Castets after the pair collaborated on Campanella's 1999 feature "Same Love, Same Rain". While the Spanish-language "Son" has strong appeal to mature audiences, a smart domestic distributor could take it on the art house circuit, where the film could achieve a resounding success.
Rafael (Ricardo Darin) is a 42-year-old restaurant owner and divorcee who wants to change his life. Always on his cell phone dealing with work problems, he's got a beautiful girlfriend (Natalia Verbeke) and a loyal staff, but money problems and pressures to sell his business are taking a toll. He has a young daughter who lives most of the time with his ex-wife, while his aging father, Nino (Hector Alterio), who started the restaurant Rafael took over, is a gentle, supportive soul.
The title refers to Nino's desire to grant the decades-long wish of his wife, Rafael's mother (Norma Aleandro), who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, to have a church wedding. In scene after exquisite scene one gets to knows these characters and sympathize with them. Rafael is a man in crisis who does not judge others and does not blame the world for his problems. But he's also not always aware of how much love and support he has to help him get to the next stage of life.
When he has a heart attack but recovers to nearly his former energetic self, Rafael decides he needs more "freedom" and sells the restaurant, while also contemplating a move to Mexico. Fortunately, those around him, including a childhood friend-turned-actor (Eduardo Blanco), are not altogether behind him, and the lead makes the best of what he's already got.
From the constant stream of little jokes and bittersweet moments involving his parents, work and the women in his life to the unabashedly emotional peaks, Rafael's story is so uncommonly rendered with cinematic skill that it frankly leaves one delirious with admiration. The cinematography, music, editing and, most of all, the performances cannot be praised too much.
SON OF THE BRIDE
Pol-ka Prods., Patagonik Film Group
Jempsa, Tornasol Films
Director: Juan Jose Campanella
Screenwriters: Juan Jose Campanella, Fernando Castets
Producers: Adrian Suar, Fernando Blanco
Director of photography: Daniel Shulman
Production designer: Juan Vera
Editor: Camilo Antolini
Music: Angel Illaramendi
Color/stereo
Cast:
Rafael: Ricardo Darin
Nino: Hector Alterio
Norma: Norma Aleandro
Juan Carlos: Eduardo Blanco
Naty: Natalia Verbeke
Running time -- 123 minutes
No MPAA rating...
It's not too early to start anticipating that this outstanding Argentine-Spanish co-production will be one of the Academy Award nominees for foreign film. Close to perfection in every regard, provoking more laughs and tears than all the films one sees in any given season combined -- and a movie that would make such masters as Frank Capra and Billy Wilder proud -- "Son of the Bride" (El Hijo de la Novia) earned the Special Grand Prix of the Jury award in main competition at the World Film Festival of Montreal (HR 9/4).
Director and co-writer Juan Jose Campanella worked for much of the past decade in the United States in television and won two Emmy Awards for directing. He co-wrote the screenplay of "Son" with Fernando Castets after the pair collaborated on Campanella's 1999 feature "Same Love, Same Rain". While the Spanish-language "Son" has strong appeal to mature audiences, a smart domestic distributor could take it on the art house circuit, where the film could achieve a resounding success.
Rafael (Ricardo Darin) is a 42-year-old restaurant owner and divorcee who wants to change his life. Always on his cell phone dealing with work problems, he's got a beautiful girlfriend (Natalia Verbeke) and a loyal staff, but money problems and pressures to sell his business are taking a toll. He has a young daughter who lives most of the time with his ex-wife, while his aging father, Nino (Hector Alterio), who started the restaurant Rafael took over, is a gentle, supportive soul.
The title refers to Nino's desire to grant the decades-long wish of his wife, Rafael's mother (Norma Aleandro), who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, to have a church wedding. In scene after exquisite scene one gets to knows these characters and sympathize with them. Rafael is a man in crisis who does not judge others and does not blame the world for his problems. But he's also not always aware of how much love and support he has to help him get to the next stage of life.
When he has a heart attack but recovers to nearly his former energetic self, Rafael decides he needs more "freedom" and sells the restaurant, while also contemplating a move to Mexico. Fortunately, those around him, including a childhood friend-turned-actor (Eduardo Blanco), are not altogether behind him, and the lead makes the best of what he's already got.
From the constant stream of little jokes and bittersweet moments involving his parents, work and the women in his life to the unabashedly emotional peaks, Rafael's story is so uncommonly rendered with cinematic skill that it frankly leaves one delirious with admiration. The cinematography, music, editing and, most of all, the performances cannot be praised too much.
SON OF THE BRIDE
Pol-ka Prods., Patagonik Film Group
Jempsa, Tornasol Films
Director: Juan Jose Campanella
Screenwriters: Juan Jose Campanella, Fernando Castets
Producers: Adrian Suar, Fernando Blanco
Director of photography: Daniel Shulman
Production designer: Juan Vera
Editor: Camilo Antolini
Music: Angel Illaramendi
Color/stereo
Cast:
Rafael: Ricardo Darin
Nino: Hector Alterio
Norma: Norma Aleandro
Juan Carlos: Eduardo Blanco
Naty: Natalia Verbeke
Running time -- 123 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Director and co-writer Juan Jose Campanella worked for much of the past decade in the United States in television and won two Emmy Awards for directing. He co-wrote the screenplay of "Son" with Fernando Castets after the pair collaborated on Campanella's 1999 feature "Same Love, Same Rain". While the Spanish-language "Son" has strong appeal to mature audiences, a smart domestic distributor could take it on the art house circuit, where the film could achieve a resounding success.
Rafael (Ricardo Darin) is a 42-year-old restaurant owner and divorcee who wants to change his life. Always on his cell phone dealing with work problems, he's got a beautiful girlfriend (Natalia Verbeke) and a loyal staff, but money problems and pressures to sell his business are taking a toll. He has a young daughter who lives most of the time with his ex-wife, while his aging father, Nino (Hector Alterio), who started the restaurant Rafael took over, is a gentle, supportive soul.
The title refers to Nino's desire to grant the decades-long wish of his wife, Rafael's mother (Norma Aleandro), who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, to have a church wedding. In scene after exquisite scene one gets to knows these characters and sympathize with them. Rafael is a man in crisis who does not judge others and does not blame the world for his problems. But he's also not always aware of how much love and support he has to help him get to the next stage of life.
When he has a heart attack but recovers to nearly his former energetic self, Rafael decides he needs more "freedom" and sells the restaurant, while also contemplating a move to Mexico. Fortunately, those around him, including a childhood friend-turned-actor (Eduardo Blanco), are not altogether behind him, and the lead makes the best of what he's already got.
From the constant stream of little jokes and bittersweet moments involving his parents, work and the women in his life to the unabashedly emotional peaks, Rafael's story is so uncommonly rendered with cinematic skill that it frankly leaves one delirious with admiration. The cinematography, music, editing and, most of all, the performances cannot be praised too much.
SON OF THE BRIDE
Pol-ka Prods., Patagonik Film Group
Jempsa, Tornasol Films
Director: Juan Jose Campanella
Screenwriters: Juan Jose Campanella, Fernando Castets
Producers: Adrian Suar, Fernando Blanco
Director of photography: Daniel Shulman
Production designer: Juan Vera
Editor: Camilo Antolini
Music: Angel Illaramendi
Color/stereo
Cast:
Rafael: Ricardo Darin
Nino: Hector Alterio
Norma: Norma Aleandro
Juan Carlos: Eduardo Blanco
Naty: Natalia Verbeke
Running time -- 123 minutes
No MPAA rating...
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