Event to run outdoors and on digital platform; ’Malpaso’ named opening selection.
Slamdance is launching a Miami off-shoot to showcase emerging filmmakers from Central and South America, the Caribbean and Florida that will run as a hybrid outdoor event this year from October 28-30.
The festival, which Slamdance president and co-founder Peter Baxter, festival alumni and Miami arts leaders have been planning for three years, has been set up as an open air, “Covid-sensitive festival experience” at North Beach Bandshell in Miami, Florida, and will also play on Slamdance’s virtual platform.
The inaugural programme comprises 18 features and shorts from...
Slamdance is launching a Miami off-shoot to showcase emerging filmmakers from Central and South America, the Caribbean and Florida that will run as a hybrid outdoor event this year from October 28-30.
The festival, which Slamdance president and co-founder Peter Baxter, festival alumni and Miami arts leaders have been planning for three years, has been set up as an open air, “Covid-sensitive festival experience” at North Beach Bandshell in Miami, Florida, and will also play on Slamdance’s virtual platform.
The inaugural programme comprises 18 features and shorts from...
- 8/16/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Isaac Lee’s Exile Content Studio and Diego Enrique Osorno, whose “1994” must rate as one of the best series produced by Netflix in Mexico, have moved into production in Spain on “Montaña,” the first feature-length documentary to emerge from an Exile-Osorno first look deal announced in 2020.
Starting its shoot earlier this year in Chiapas, the southern-most state in Mexico, “Montaña” relates a current and historical mission by an indigenous movement, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ezln), to build alliances in Europe.
The Ezln invited Osorno and ace Uruguayan cinematographer Maria Secco to join a delegation on a Nordic ship, La Montaña, as it made what Exile describes quite correctly as a highly symbolic voyage from the so-called New World to the Old.
After 52 days at sea, during which they shot hundreds of hours of footage, Osorno, Secco and an Exile production team are now continuing production in Spain.
“Montaña...
Starting its shoot earlier this year in Chiapas, the southern-most state in Mexico, “Montaña” relates a current and historical mission by an indigenous movement, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ezln), to build alliances in Europe.
The Ezln invited Osorno and ace Uruguayan cinematographer Maria Secco to join a delegation on a Nordic ship, La Montaña, as it made what Exile describes quite correctly as a highly symbolic voyage from the so-called New World to the Old.
After 52 days at sea, during which they shot hundreds of hours of footage, Osorno, Secco and an Exile production team are now continuing production in Spain.
“Montaña...
- 7/13/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Gravitas Ventures, an independent film distributor, has acquired worldwide rights to Charlie Minn’s next three documentaries.
Those projects — “7 Murders a Day,” “Who Shot Colosio?” and “Miracle on 4th Street” — complement Minn’s background in investigative journalism. Minn directed and produced the non-fiction films, which were shot both prior to and during the coronavirus pandemic. They are set to release on video-on-demand later this spring.
Minn has worked on 32 documentaries in his career, including “Parkland: Inside Building 12,” “A Nightmare in Las Cruces” and “Es El Chapo.” He was also a producer on “America’s Most Wanted.”
“Charlie has a deep history in telling stories starting when he was a news reporter and during his time with ‘America’s Most Wanted,’ and we can’t wait to share his work,” said Gravitas executive Brett Rogalsky.
Content company Slater Brothers Entertainment co-produced the docs. “We are excited that Gravitas has partnered with us on...
Those projects — “7 Murders a Day,” “Who Shot Colosio?” and “Miracle on 4th Street” — complement Minn’s background in investigative journalism. Minn directed and produced the non-fiction films, which were shot both prior to and during the coronavirus pandemic. They are set to release on video-on-demand later this spring.
Minn has worked on 32 documentaries in his career, including “Parkland: Inside Building 12,” “A Nightmare in Las Cruces” and “Es El Chapo.” He was also a producer on “America’s Most Wanted.”
“Charlie has a deep history in telling stories starting when he was a news reporter and during his time with ‘America’s Most Wanted,’ and we can’t wait to share his work,” said Gravitas executive Brett Rogalsky.
Content company Slater Brothers Entertainment co-produced the docs. “We are excited that Gravitas has partnered with us on...
- 3/10/2021
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Los Cabos — Netflix is proving a boon to documentary creation in Mexico. That boon has not yet yielded a fully-fledged boom. The U.S. streaming giant has just released the first results of its documentary drive. The build in cinematic standard non-fiction works in, however, palpable, the biggest case in point to date, Diego Osorno’s milestone doc series “1994,” produced by Netflix and Vice Studios Latin America.
Osorno’s masterclass on “1994” proves one of the highlights of the 2019 Los Cabos Festival.
The rise of the documentary is also related to “superficiality” social media. Osorno said in his masterclass. “You go on Twitter” and massacre in Kenia, rebellion in Bolivia, slaughter in Chihuahua an you see 140 characters and think you’re keeping up to date with the new, but you don’t go into any event,” he said.
“People are seeking out non-fiction works and documentaries to understand what we thought...
Osorno’s masterclass on “1994” proves one of the highlights of the 2019 Los Cabos Festival.
The rise of the documentary is also related to “superficiality” social media. Osorno said in his masterclass. “You go on Twitter” and massacre in Kenia, rebellion in Bolivia, slaughter in Chihuahua an you see 140 characters and think you’re keeping up to date with the new, but you don’t go into any event,” he said.
“People are seeking out non-fiction works and documentaries to understand what we thought...
- 11/18/2019
- by John Hopewell and Emiliano Granada
- Variety Film + TV
Los Cabos — Woo Films, producer via Noc Noc Cinema of Netflix’s “The House of Flowers,” is preparing a new movie project from Natalia Beristáin and Diego Enrique Osorno, “Ruido.”
In a further move, Noc Noc Cinema – a TV-film production house set up by “The House of Flowers’” show-runner Manolo Caro and Woo Films’ Rafael Ley and María José Córdova – is backing the feature debut of Natalia García Agraz “ “Extraños Que Se Besan,” from a screenplay being written by García Agraz and Caro.
Portugal’s Rosa Filmes has also just boarded Lisandro Alonso’s “Eureka,” a multilateral international production on which Woo Films serves as the Mexican partner.
The news comes as Noc Noc Cinema has just announced its first production in Spain, Netflix series “Alguien Tiene Que Morir.” Adding to feature titles at Woo Films from Lisandro Alonso, Elisa Miller and Matías Meyer -the last “Modern Loves” which world premiere...
In a further move, Noc Noc Cinema – a TV-film production house set up by “The House of Flowers’” show-runner Manolo Caro and Woo Films’ Rafael Ley and María José Córdova – is backing the feature debut of Natalia García Agraz “ “Extraños Que Se Besan,” from a screenplay being written by García Agraz and Caro.
Portugal’s Rosa Filmes has also just boarded Lisandro Alonso’s “Eureka,” a multilateral international production on which Woo Films serves as the Mexican partner.
The news comes as Noc Noc Cinema has just announced its first production in Spain, Netflix series “Alguien Tiene Que Morir.” Adding to feature titles at Woo Films from Lisandro Alonso, Elisa Miller and Matías Meyer -the last “Modern Loves” which world premiere...
- 11/14/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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