By Benjamín Harguindey The president of the Argentinian INCAA Film Institute, Lucrecia Cardoso, has recently created a specific kind of funding for horror movie production in Argentina. A call for applications will launch shortly, after which two projects will be selected by the state for financing. Recent genre pieces include vampire movie Darkness by Day (2013), … Continue reading
By Benjamín Harguindey Argentina is considered a “tastemaker” market in South America, coveted for positioning films for favorable runs around the continent. But currency restraints have recently prevented Hollywood studios like Disney and Paramount from cashing in on box office blockbusters distributed around the country, a result of Argentina’s devalued currency. Consequently, many of these US … Continue reading
By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey Walter Salles’ production house VideoFilmes will be co-producing Santiago Mitre’s second film “La Patota”, a remake of Daniel Tinayre’s classic 1960 social thriller. The international co-production is a result of a 2010 film fund intended to finance four co-productions a year between the countries of Argentina and Brazil. Salles, the … Continue reading
By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey It’s been no secret that Argentine crime thriller The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos in Spanish) would be getting a US remake after winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2010. As of May 13th the cast and crew have been finally revealed: the … Continue reading
By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey Metegol (lit. Foosball) was Argentina’s biggest hit in 2013, a 3D animated family film by Juan José Campanella – director of the Academy Award-winning The Secret in Their Eyes (2009) – that earned a record-breaking 700,000 viewers in its opening week, over 2 million viewers overall and a spot in … Continue reading
By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey Variety reported in an article last week that Cepa Audiovisual (Argentina) is teaming with Epicentre Films (France) to co-produce Argentinian filmmaker Julia Solomonoff’s new film Nobody’s Watching, which will be shooting in both New York City and Buenos Aires “about 50/50 in English and Spanish”. This will mark Solomonoff’s first … Continue reading
By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey Variety reported last week of Argentinian filmmaker Pablo Fendrik’s new movie production starring Gael García Bernal and Alice Braga, a “modern tale of survival and revenge” to follow up Fendrik’s Cannes champ Blood Appears (La sangre brota, 2008). The Ardor (El ardor) will be Fendrik’s third film and ostensibly mark … Continue reading
by Lauren Pringle, contributing blogger Funding for television content in Argentina has always been a challenge: the few private broadcasters that commission do so mainly in house or with associated production companies. This has kept independent producers out of the market, and limited the quantity of hours produced. A new initiative has been created by … Continue reading
by Rob Sykes, contributing blogger What have the United Kingdom, France, Morocco, Prague and Buenos Aires got in common? Well, according to a recent survey in Variety magazine, they are the top five destinations to shoot cutting edge cinema on the entire planet! The result of conversations with a variety of top US producers, the … Continue reading
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