Guadalajara, Mexico — Chile came into this year’s Guadalajara Intl. Film Festival (Ficg) as the guest country of honor. Once here, Luis Alejandro Pérez García’s “Piola” stomped around the Guadalajara Construye Works in Progress section like it owned the place, snatching up six of a possible 13 prizes.
After the success of Juan Caceres’ “Perro Bomba” in the same competition last year – the film scored four awards – perhaps it shouldn’t have been a surprise that another Chilean feature would perform so well this time around.
“Piola” turns on the chance interaction between three young people in moments that would be recognizable to teenagers the world around. Martin’s family is moving and he can’t be bothered to involve himself. Sol is searching for her lost dog and dealing with an unrequited romance. And Charly can’t handle his miserable job and the stresses of teenage fatherhood.
The impressive...
After the success of Juan Caceres’ “Perro Bomba” in the same competition last year – the film scored four awards – perhaps it shouldn’t have been a surprise that another Chilean feature would perform so well this time around.
“Piola” turns on the chance interaction between three young people in moments that would be recognizable to teenagers the world around. Martin’s family is moving and he can’t be bothered to involve himself. Sol is searching for her lost dog and dealing with an unrequited romance. And Charly can’t handle his miserable job and the stresses of teenage fatherhood.
The impressive...
- 3/11/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Bh5 Group was in a unique position when they presented three films at recent Los Cabos International Film Festival. The burgeoning Mexican production-finance hub which co-produces Atom Egoyan’s upcoming “Remember,” has attached Alonso Ruiz Palacios, director of Güeros,"one of the most notable feature debuts of 2014, to direct “Museum.” The other Mexican production they are are behind is "You'll Know What To Do With Me," which stars Ilse Salas , one of the rising stars of Mexican cinema.
-"You'll Know What To Do With Me" is a part of the Works in Progress Competition starring award winning Spanish actor Pablo Derqui and Ilse Salas, who stars both in this year’s Oscar entry, “Cantinflas,” and big 2014 fest winner, “Güeros.”
-"Museum" is a project in development in the Co-Production Forum with Filmmaker Alfonso Ruizpalacios, whose recent debut film “Güeros” took Best First Feature in Berlin 2014 and Best New Director at Tribeca as well as multiple trophies at San Sebastian and Morelia.
-Atom Egoyan will offer a Master Class, during which the central theme will be about his new film "Remember," now in post-production. The chat will be moderated by Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of Toronto International Film Festival, and the film director will be accompanied by his producer Robert Lantos and Gerardo Gatica, CEO of Bh5 Group, the Mexican company that holds Detalle Films, which participates in the executive production of "Remember." Bh5's head of production Alberto Müffelmann will also attend the festival in search of new projects and ventures as an "Industry Guest."
“You'll Know What To Do With Me" (Sabras Que Hacer Conmigo)
Mexico
Director: Katina Medina Mora
Production: Gerardo Gatica, Alberto Müffelmann, Rodrigo Trujillo, Jacobo Nazar, Moises Cosio
Section: Works in Progress Competition
Synopsis
In a mundane hospital hallway, fine arts photographer Nicolas, epileptic since childhood, falls for the aloof Isabel, unaware she is visiting her suicidal mother. The narrative begins through Nicolas's lens then cuts back to follow Isabel prior to their meeting. Their stories merge as they're suddenly engaged in a highly charged relationship. When the intense getting acquainted period wanes, it seems worth attempting to transcend respective flaws and demons, yet commitment is not something that comes easy to either of these resolutely independent people. Nico and Isabel find the future increasingly less foreseeable and the vivid present ever more deeply affecting.
“Museum" (Museo)
Mexico
Director: Alonso Ruiz Palacios
Production: Gerardo Gatica, Manuel Alcalá, Alberto Müffelman n
Section: Co-Production Forum Competition (Mexico-u.S.A.-Canada)
Synopsis
On December 25, 1985, adding to the chaos of September's earthquake, Mexico awakened with news of the theft of 140+ pieces from the capitol city's National Museum of Anthropology. The heist was perfectly executed, bypassing the guards who were busy celebrating Christmas Eve. No one imagined that the perpetrators of the robbery slept peacefully, nightly, in the suburb of Ciudad Satélite - veterinary students and lifelong friends, Carlos Perches and Ramon Sardina. The magnitude of the theft wildly exceeded the expectations of the thieves. Carlos and Ramon depart their comfortable life for an underworld adventure that drags them into the abyss.
"Remember"
Direcor: Atom Egoyan
"Remember" stars Academy Award Winners Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau, directed by Acadamy Award Nominee Atom Egoyan, produced by Golden Globe Nominee Robert Lantos. See pertinent info on page 31 of Lcff Industry Catalogue: http://issuu.com/cabosfilmfestival/docs/catalogo-industria2014-web
* Please Note: Bh5 has a production company credit on "Remember" is through Detalle Films (a company held by Bh5 Group), which participated in the executive production of "Remember."
Bh5 Company Profile
http://www.bh5group.com/
Bh5 Group is a conglomerate integrated by many production companies specialised in different areas of the entertainment business, including Detalle Films, Balero Films, Cacao Production Services, CoCo, Detalle TV and La Rama de Teatro. These companies have jointly or independently produced dozens of feature films, including "Nos Vemos Papá" by Lucía Carreras (Karlovy Vary 2012), "The Dance of Reality" by Alejandro Jodorowski (Cannes 2013), "Rezeta" by Fernando Frías (Slamdance Winner 2014), feature film "Kite" starring Samuel L. Jackson (2014), "Remember" (2014) by Atom Egoyan, among others.
Filmography
• "La Decisión del Presidente" (2007) - Documentary directed by Lucía Kaplan and Diego Delgado
• "Arresto Domiciliario" (2008) - Feature Film directed by Gabriel Retes
• "Jimigration" (2008) - Documentary directed by Fernando Frías de la Parra
• "Allá y en Tonses" (2010) - Feature Film by Angel Flores
• "Malaventura" (2011) - Feature Film directed by Carlos Rincones
• "Nos Vemos Papá" (2012) - by Lucía Carreras
• "Rezeta" (2013) - Feature Film directed by Fernando Frías de la Parra
• "95'" (2012) - Documentary directed by Renato Ornelas
• "Inner Dragons" (2013) - Short film directed by Fernando Frías de la Parra
• "Buoy" (2013) - Short Film directed by David Higgs
• "LuTo" (2013) - Feature Film directed by Katina Medina Mora
• "Kite" (2014) - Feature Film directed by Ralph Zimman
• "Contraluz" (2014) - Feature Film directed by Katina Medina Mora
• "Remember" (2014) - Feature Film directed by Atom Egoyan
Bh5 Partners: Gerardo Gatica (CEO), Moisés Cosío (Head of Project Development and New Businesses), Alberto Müffelmann (Head of Production - Detalle Films/Production Services), Rodrigo Trujillo (Head of Production - Balero Films/La Rama de Teatro), Jacobo Nazar (CFO). All five partners of Bh5Group come from different backgrounds, ranging from law to economics to industrial engineering.
-"You'll Know What To Do With Me" is a part of the Works in Progress Competition starring award winning Spanish actor Pablo Derqui and Ilse Salas, who stars both in this year’s Oscar entry, “Cantinflas,” and big 2014 fest winner, “Güeros.”
-"Museum" is a project in development in the Co-Production Forum with Filmmaker Alfonso Ruizpalacios, whose recent debut film “Güeros” took Best First Feature in Berlin 2014 and Best New Director at Tribeca as well as multiple trophies at San Sebastian and Morelia.
-Atom Egoyan will offer a Master Class, during which the central theme will be about his new film "Remember," now in post-production. The chat will be moderated by Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of Toronto International Film Festival, and the film director will be accompanied by his producer Robert Lantos and Gerardo Gatica, CEO of Bh5 Group, the Mexican company that holds Detalle Films, which participates in the executive production of "Remember." Bh5's head of production Alberto Müffelmann will also attend the festival in search of new projects and ventures as an "Industry Guest."
“You'll Know What To Do With Me" (Sabras Que Hacer Conmigo)
Mexico
Director: Katina Medina Mora
Production: Gerardo Gatica, Alberto Müffelmann, Rodrigo Trujillo, Jacobo Nazar, Moises Cosio
Section: Works in Progress Competition
Synopsis
In a mundane hospital hallway, fine arts photographer Nicolas, epileptic since childhood, falls for the aloof Isabel, unaware she is visiting her suicidal mother. The narrative begins through Nicolas's lens then cuts back to follow Isabel prior to their meeting. Their stories merge as they're suddenly engaged in a highly charged relationship. When the intense getting acquainted period wanes, it seems worth attempting to transcend respective flaws and demons, yet commitment is not something that comes easy to either of these resolutely independent people. Nico and Isabel find the future increasingly less foreseeable and the vivid present ever more deeply affecting.
“Museum" (Museo)
Mexico
Director: Alonso Ruiz Palacios
Production: Gerardo Gatica, Manuel Alcalá, Alberto Müffelman n
Section: Co-Production Forum Competition (Mexico-u.S.A.-Canada)
Synopsis
On December 25, 1985, adding to the chaos of September's earthquake, Mexico awakened with news of the theft of 140+ pieces from the capitol city's National Museum of Anthropology. The heist was perfectly executed, bypassing the guards who were busy celebrating Christmas Eve. No one imagined that the perpetrators of the robbery slept peacefully, nightly, in the suburb of Ciudad Satélite - veterinary students and lifelong friends, Carlos Perches and Ramon Sardina. The magnitude of the theft wildly exceeded the expectations of the thieves. Carlos and Ramon depart their comfortable life for an underworld adventure that drags them into the abyss.
"Remember"
Direcor: Atom Egoyan
"Remember" stars Academy Award Winners Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau, directed by Acadamy Award Nominee Atom Egoyan, produced by Golden Globe Nominee Robert Lantos. See pertinent info on page 31 of Lcff Industry Catalogue: http://issuu.com/cabosfilmfestival/docs/catalogo-industria2014-web
* Please Note: Bh5 has a production company credit on "Remember" is through Detalle Films (a company held by Bh5 Group), which participated in the executive production of "Remember."
Bh5 Company Profile
http://www.bh5group.com/
Bh5 Group is a conglomerate integrated by many production companies specialised in different areas of the entertainment business, including Detalle Films, Balero Films, Cacao Production Services, CoCo, Detalle TV and La Rama de Teatro. These companies have jointly or independently produced dozens of feature films, including "Nos Vemos Papá" by Lucía Carreras (Karlovy Vary 2012), "The Dance of Reality" by Alejandro Jodorowski (Cannes 2013), "Rezeta" by Fernando Frías (Slamdance Winner 2014), feature film "Kite" starring Samuel L. Jackson (2014), "Remember" (2014) by Atom Egoyan, among others.
Filmography
• "La Decisión del Presidente" (2007) - Documentary directed by Lucía Kaplan and Diego Delgado
• "Arresto Domiciliario" (2008) - Feature Film directed by Gabriel Retes
• "Jimigration" (2008) - Documentary directed by Fernando Frías de la Parra
• "Allá y en Tonses" (2010) - Feature Film by Angel Flores
• "Malaventura" (2011) - Feature Film directed by Carlos Rincones
• "Nos Vemos Papá" (2012) - by Lucía Carreras
• "Rezeta" (2013) - Feature Film directed by Fernando Frías de la Parra
• "95'" (2012) - Documentary directed by Renato Ornelas
• "Inner Dragons" (2013) - Short film directed by Fernando Frías de la Parra
• "Buoy" (2013) - Short Film directed by David Higgs
• "LuTo" (2013) - Feature Film directed by Katina Medina Mora
• "Kite" (2014) - Feature Film directed by Ralph Zimman
• "Contraluz" (2014) - Feature Film directed by Katina Medina Mora
• "Remember" (2014) - Feature Film directed by Atom Egoyan
Bh5 Partners: Gerardo Gatica (CEO), Moisés Cosío (Head of Project Development and New Businesses), Alberto Müffelmann (Head of Production - Detalle Films/Production Services), Rodrigo Trujillo (Head of Production - Balero Films/La Rama de Teatro), Jacobo Nazar (CFO). All five partners of Bh5Group come from different backgrounds, ranging from law to economics to industrial engineering.
- 11/26/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
NINE MONTHS
20th Century Fox
In the good old days of the romantic comedies from the '30s, there were weddings, chases, tuxedos and delightfully conflicted characters, many of them played by a dapper chap named Grant. Writer-director Chris Columbus has stitched together a charming '90s version of such a comic delectation, also starring a guy named Grant (Hugh) whose skitty, slapstick performance does his namesake proud. ``Nine Months'' will deliver strappingly robust boxoffice numbers for 20th Century Fox and will be one of the season's biggest hits.
At once a pithy glimpse into the contradictory whirlwinds of modern romances, ``Nine Months'' is also a touching and glowingly warm tale about a couple coming together and, ultimately, the joys and responsibilities of parenthood. Wonderfully, it never lets the serious underpinnings interfere with its blithe, farcical narrative. Once again director Columbus has juiced a generally serious story line with teeming scoops of witty slapstick, the kind that film scholars might call ``Sturgean.''
Although Columbus cranks the violins and melodramatics a little high in the climax, ``Nine Months'' is a scrumptious, superbly executed movie entertainment. Its production values are a treat, including Donald McAlpine's romantically gleaming cinematography and Angelo Graham's humorously apt production design. The producers spared no expenses with the rocking soundtrack: The Rolling Stones and the Ronettes among the golden sounds (HR 7/10).
EL BULTO
Million Dollar Enterprises
Mexican writer-director-actor Gabriel Retes employs a Rip Van Winkle-like scenario in his 1991 award-winning film ``El Bulto.'' The maverick filmmaker, who created the filmmaking cooperative Rio Mexicoac in 1976 and has made 10 feature films, plays a leftist photojournalist who awakens from a coma after 20 years to find things and people ``changed.''
Nicknamed El Bulto (``The Lump'') by his siblings and family friend Adela (Lourdes Elizarraras), Lauro suddenly wakes up and soon tries to re-enter his interrupted life with predictably rocky results. Reality sets in after heartwarming scenes of his family rallying around the weak and still voiceless Lauro.
The film is most worthwhile when it concentrates on the supporting players and their lives, and lags when it turns to Lauro's search for identity in a world he at first despises because it refutes much of what he formerly believed in and fought for (HR 7/7).
THE CRUDE OASIS
Miramax
This stylish indie debut feature by USC grad Alex Graves (he served as director, writer, producer and editor) was shot, if it is to be believed, in two weeks for a cost of $25,000. ``The Crude Oasis'' is a seriously flawed effort that will hold little interest for general audiences, but it reveals a whole lot of talent, particularly for making a film look like it cost more than it actually did. In this age of nine-figure film budgets, that's a talent that should be valued more than it is in Hollywood.
The chief problem with the film is a general pretentiousness; the material has a precious quality that might have worked as a short subject, but quickly proves wearisome in a feature-length (albeit only 80 minutes) film.
This dreamlike effort somewhat resembles the current art-house release ``Safe, '' in that it also deals with the personal angst of a housewife trapped in a sterile marriage (HR 7/7).
Other reviews
Also reviewed last week was the film ``When Night Is Falling'' (HR 7/10).
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
20th Century Fox
In the good old days of the romantic comedies from the '30s, there were weddings, chases, tuxedos and delightfully conflicted characters, many of them played by a dapper chap named Grant. Writer-director Chris Columbus has stitched together a charming '90s version of such a comic delectation, also starring a guy named Grant (Hugh) whose skitty, slapstick performance does his namesake proud. ``Nine Months'' will deliver strappingly robust boxoffice numbers for 20th Century Fox and will be one of the season's biggest hits.
At once a pithy glimpse into the contradictory whirlwinds of modern romances, ``Nine Months'' is also a touching and glowingly warm tale about a couple coming together and, ultimately, the joys and responsibilities of parenthood. Wonderfully, it never lets the serious underpinnings interfere with its blithe, farcical narrative. Once again director Columbus has juiced a generally serious story line with teeming scoops of witty slapstick, the kind that film scholars might call ``Sturgean.''
Although Columbus cranks the violins and melodramatics a little high in the climax, ``Nine Months'' is a scrumptious, superbly executed movie entertainment. Its production values are a treat, including Donald McAlpine's romantically gleaming cinematography and Angelo Graham's humorously apt production design. The producers spared no expenses with the rocking soundtrack: The Rolling Stones and the Ronettes among the golden sounds (HR 7/10).
EL BULTO
Million Dollar Enterprises
Mexican writer-director-actor Gabriel Retes employs a Rip Van Winkle-like scenario in his 1991 award-winning film ``El Bulto.'' The maverick filmmaker, who created the filmmaking cooperative Rio Mexicoac in 1976 and has made 10 feature films, plays a leftist photojournalist who awakens from a coma after 20 years to find things and people ``changed.''
Nicknamed El Bulto (``The Lump'') by his siblings and family friend Adela (Lourdes Elizarraras), Lauro suddenly wakes up and soon tries to re-enter his interrupted life with predictably rocky results. Reality sets in after heartwarming scenes of his family rallying around the weak and still voiceless Lauro.
The film is most worthwhile when it concentrates on the supporting players and their lives, and lags when it turns to Lauro's search for identity in a world he at first despises because it refutes much of what he formerly believed in and fought for (HR 7/7).
THE CRUDE OASIS
Miramax
This stylish indie debut feature by USC grad Alex Graves (he served as director, writer, producer and editor) was shot, if it is to be believed, in two weeks for a cost of $25,000. ``The Crude Oasis'' is a seriously flawed effort that will hold little interest for general audiences, but it reveals a whole lot of talent, particularly for making a film look like it cost more than it actually did. In this age of nine-figure film budgets, that's a talent that should be valued more than it is in Hollywood.
The chief problem with the film is a general pretentiousness; the material has a precious quality that might have worked as a short subject, but quickly proves wearisome in a feature-length (albeit only 80 minutes) film.
This dreamlike effort somewhat resembles the current art-house release ``Safe, '' in that it also deals with the personal angst of a housewife trapped in a sterile marriage (HR 7/7).
Other reviews
Also reviewed last week was the film ``When Night Is Falling'' (HR 7/10).
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
- 7/11/1995
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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