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San Sebastian International Film
Festival
Rencontres Cinémas d’Amérique Latine,
Toulouse
FILMS IN PROGRESS 10
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FILMS IN PROGRESS 10 will take place at the 54th
San Sebastian International Film Festival on Tuesday 26th
and Wednesday 27th September 2006
This joint meeting between the Rencontres Cinémas
d’Amérique Latine in Toulouse and the San Sebastian
International Film Festival, intended to facilitate the completion
of films by independent Latin American and Spanish filmmakers
at the post-production stage, has received in this, its 10th call,
almost 80 projects from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa
Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Spain, the USA, France, Mexico, Paraguay,
Peru, Sweden and Uruguay. |
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A casa de Alice, by Chico Teixeira (Brazil)
(new version).
In a Sao Paulo working-class district, a 40-something-year-old
woman and manicurist gets by best she can with her life and family. |
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El cielo elegido, by Víctor
González (Argentina)
A well-intended novice priest is caught in the claws of two
older clerics, rascals, colleagues and former rivals in delicate
missions of difficult confession. |
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Fiestapatria, by Luis R. Vera (Chile)
Two families meet at a country house for the patron saint’s
day and engagement between their respective offspring. The festivities
degenerate due to the explosive mixture of very different pasts
and presents.
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Una novia errante, by Ana Katz (Argentina)
After “El juego de la silla”, Ana Katz returns to
Films in Progress as director and heroine of the painful separation
from a sickened boyfriend played, on screen, by Daniel Hendler. |
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Párpados azules, by Ernestro
Contreras (Mexico)
Happy winner of a trip for two to the paradisiacal Playa Salamandra,
Marina realises she has no-one to go with and invites a complete
stranger in the shape of a potential ex-schoolmate... |
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A Via Lactea, by Lina Chamie (Brazil).
A couple, played by Marco Ricca and Alice Braga, have a violent
phone conversation. They have to talk face to face, but between
them lies the city of Sao Paulo. |
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to professionals from the different stages of the cinematographic
process (producers, distributors, exhibitors, representatives
from the technical industries, televisions, festivals and aid
funds), these films compete for several incentives:
- Films in Progress Technical Industries Award: Estudios Exa,
Kodak (Professional Film Department), Mediapro, Molinare Madrid,
No Problem Sonido, Technicolor Entertainment Services Spain
and Titra Film will assume the pending post-production of
a film until reaching the stage of subtitled 35 mm copy.
- Casa de América aid to post-production, carrying
€9,000.
- CICAE Award carrying promotion of the winning film in France’s
2,000 arthouse cinemas.
- Movies competing in Films in Progress enjoy international
circulation in the Instituto Cervantes world network.
FILMS IN PROGRESS 11 will take place on 22nd
and 23rd March 2007 at the 19th Rencontres Cinémas d’Amérique
Latine in Toulouse (France).
FILMS IN PROGRESS is sponsored by the Bruesa
Group and has the decided backing of the following entities
and companies: Ateliers du Cinéma Européen (ACE),
Casa de América, Centre National de la Cinématographie
(CNC), Confédération Internationale des Cinémas
d’Art & Essai (CICAE), Estudios Exa, FNAC, Fondation
GAN, Instituto Cervantes, Interreg III France-Spain, Kodak (Professional
Film Department), Mac Guff Ligne, Marché du Film, Mediavision,
Mediapro, Molinare Madrid, No Problem Sonido, Programa Ibermedia,
Sacem, Signis, Technicolor Entertainment Services Spain, Titra
Film, TVE and Union Latina.
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San Sebastian, 29th August 2006 |
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