On May 11, Uruguay became the first country in Latin America to resume shooting following shutdowns. Several international productions relocated to the country where revenues from commercial shoots have already surpassed 2019’s, says Roberto Blatt, director of Uruguay’s Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual.
Hernán Musaluppi, producer at Cimarrón, confirms its first production service begins Sept. 21. A month later, the company will roll on two new original shows and initiate production services on an unnamed project for a major international platform.
Shooting has also resumed in the Dominican Republic, with the first international production kicking off Aug. 17 and two more scheduled in September. Local producer-director Jose Maria Cabral (“Woodpeckers”) pointed out that with a 25% transferable tax credit for international shoots and no caps on cast fees, the country’s financial appeal for international shoots is “second to none.”
In Colombia, shooting has resumed regionally, with local governments establishing health and safety protocols.
Hernán Musaluppi, producer at Cimarrón, confirms its first production service begins Sept. 21. A month later, the company will roll on two new original shows and initiate production services on an unnamed project for a major international platform.
Shooting has also resumed in the Dominican Republic, with the first international production kicking off Aug. 17 and two more scheduled in September. Local producer-director Jose Maria Cabral (“Woodpeckers”) pointed out that with a 25% transferable tax credit for international shoots and no caps on cast fees, the country’s financial appeal for international shoots is “second to none.”
In Colombia, shooting has resumed regionally, with local governments establishing health and safety protocols.
- 9/9/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Cimarrón, an ambitious pan-Latin American production shingle, is readying new high-profile features by Cannes-prized Agustín Toscano and Sundance best director winner Lucía Garibaldi as it gears up to shoot its first drama series in Mexico and Brazil, backed by two global platforms.
Cimarrón, headquartered in Uruguay’s Montevideo and with offices in Brazil and Argentina and service company operations in Mexico, is working on four international productions to be shot over the next few months.
Apart from Toscano and Garibaldi, the company has projects in development – movies or series – with Israel Adrián Caetano, Anahí Berneri, Marina Meliande, Gustavo Taretto and Manuel Abramovich – some of the most courted of South American directors.
Toscano’s “Perro Feroz,” scheduled to shoot in May 2021 and produced by Argentina’s Rizoma and Cimarrón in co-production with France’s Gloria Films, is set in rural Argentina in 1974 and turns on Sergio, an illiterate rural laborer who...
Cimarrón, headquartered in Uruguay’s Montevideo and with offices in Brazil and Argentina and service company operations in Mexico, is working on four international productions to be shot over the next few months.
Apart from Toscano and Garibaldi, the company has projects in development – movies or series – with Israel Adrián Caetano, Anahí Berneri, Marina Meliande, Gustavo Taretto and Manuel Abramovich – some of the most courted of South American directors.
Toscano’s “Perro Feroz,” scheduled to shoot in May 2021 and produced by Argentina’s Rizoma and Cimarrón in co-production with France’s Gloria Films, is set in rural Argentina in 1974 and turns on Sergio, an illiterate rural laborer who...
- 6/23/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Uruguay’s relatively new cash rebates, which attracted the likes of Keanu Reeves-produced Netflix series “Conquest” to shoot in the capital of Montevideo, is primed for expansion by the new film-friendly government led by new President Luis Lacalle Pou, who was sworn in on March 1.
“The government is deeply committed to supporting the audiovisual industry, which it believes is an ideal medium to promote the country’s culture, exports, image and other industries,” said Roberto Blatt, director of national film institute Icau.
“Regional projects from Amazon, HBO and Netflix as well as other major players originally designed to be shot in the region are already spilling over to Uruguay, where, besides the containment of the pandemic, they enjoy special fiscal incentives, technical and creative proficiency, legal security, financial flexibility and political stability,” he asserted.
Swift and efficient health and safety protocols implemented by the government has allowed productions to...
“The government is deeply committed to supporting the audiovisual industry, which it believes is an ideal medium to promote the country’s culture, exports, image and other industries,” said Roberto Blatt, director of national film institute Icau.
“Regional projects from Amazon, HBO and Netflix as well as other major players originally designed to be shot in the region are already spilling over to Uruguay, where, besides the containment of the pandemic, they enjoy special fiscal incentives, technical and creative proficiency, legal security, financial flexibility and political stability,” he asserted.
Swift and efficient health and safety protocols implemented by the government has allowed productions to...
- 6/22/2020
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Pablo Stoll’s “Summer Hit,” Matías Lucchessi’s “Las rojas,” Joaquín Peñagaricano and Pablo Abdala’s “Mateína” are some of the Uruguayan projects at different stages participating in a spotlight at Cannes’ Producers Network on the Marché du Film’s digital platform on Tuesday 23.
Five Uruguayan companies, Tarkiofilm, Cimarrón, Montelona, Nadador and Salado, have been selected by the country’s national film body Icau to pitch their production slates at the new format French market.
Recently appointed general director at Icau, Uruguay’s film-tv agency, Roberto Blatt told Variety that Uruguay shows a “maturity in its cinema, backed by a great diversity of formats, genres and styles, and the high creative and technical levels of our professionals.” He went on to say, “That was made evident by the success of titles made free through Vera TV [Uruguayan broadcaster Antel’s digital platform] during the pandemic.”
Blatt pointed out that the Uruguayan public...
Five Uruguayan companies, Tarkiofilm, Cimarrón, Montelona, Nadador and Salado, have been selected by the country’s national film body Icau to pitch their production slates at the new format French market.
Recently appointed general director at Icau, Uruguay’s film-tv agency, Roberto Blatt told Variety that Uruguay shows a “maturity in its cinema, backed by a great diversity of formats, genres and styles, and the high creative and technical levels of our professionals.” He went on to say, “That was made evident by the success of titles made free through Vera TV [Uruguayan broadcaster Antel’s digital platform] during the pandemic.”
Blatt pointed out that the Uruguayan public...
- 6/22/2020
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
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