Mexican Rigoberto Pérezcano’s “Lovers Fare Goodbye,” a poignant, exquisitely shot story of star-crossed younger love dominated prizes at Primer Corte, Ventana Sur’s key arthouse pic competitors. The prize and dozens of others had been introduced Friday at Latin America’s most vital film-TV mart-meet.
Organizers confirmed a complete Ventana Sur attendance of 4,300 delegates, some 30% up on only a 12 months in the past.
Lensed in black-and-white and set within the Oaxaca valley, “Lovers” was at all times the frontrunner Primer Corte, which, with parallel part Copia Final, focuses a lot of the eye of patrons at Ventana Sur.
“Lovers” six prizes appears to be like like a historic report. So do the whole 88 business awards at 12 of 14 sections – and Variety is perhaps lacking some – dolled out at Ventana Sur’s kudos ceremony. That serves testomony to simply how a lot the market has grown from 2009 when it launched at Buenos Aires’ former Harrods constructing with, of sections, simply Primer Corte and a Thierry Frémaux-presented European Film Week.
Following, very temporary notes on a number of the main winners within the largest sections:
Primer Corte
A triumph for producer Cristina Velasco at Paloma Negra Films,
with “Lovers Fare Goodbye,” from “Northless” director Pérezcano snagging the essential Cine+Plus Award which bids truthful for a sale to France. It wasn’t the one act on the town, nonetheless, with horror-laced psychological thriller “The Drowned,” from rising Ecuadorian auteur Juan Sebastián Jácome (“Cenizas”) and Victor Mares scored three nods.
Copia Final
Costa Rican Antonella Sudasassi Furnis’s “Memories of a Burning Body” close to swept the board, due to a hybrid fiction-doc peppered by reconstruction of previous occasions, as Ana (68), Patricia (69), and Mayela (71) within the current open up about their hidden sexuality, breaking the silence they shared with moms, sisters, daughters, and granddaughters.
Memories of a burning physique
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Netflix Award at SoloSerieS
Unarguably the toughest fought plaudit at Ventana Sur, with winner “Impermanence” proving one 5 finalist screenplays chosen from 62o submissions from girls screenwriters. The line to easily attend the 5 finalists’ pitches snaked deep down a hall of Buenos Aires’ Universidad Católica Argentina; finalists introduced to one of many market’s liveliest since younger audiences in one among Ventana Sur’s most spirited classes. “Impermanence,” a peripatetic examine of the stigma of menstruation from Colombia’s Laura Otálora, received maybe for having probably the most unique and social concern skewed premise.
Impermanence
Prizes went to extremely contrasting packages; Peru’s son-mother coming of age drama “Tell Me How Much You Love Me” from Camila Zavala Chocano, just about off the radar earlier than making its market debut at Ventana Sur; and Brazilian-Cuban co-production “Moa,” from Marcel Beltrán, which was the most important winner at Locarno’s 2022 Open Doors, María Farinha Films now boarding as a co-producer in one other promising signal of a standout proposition.
Animation!
In probably the most simpático moments on the awards ceremony, Silvina Cornillón, the excessive revered head of Animation! stopped in her tracks speaking on stage when she realized that she was addressing the largely Spanish-speaking viewers in English, and had been speaking to the part’s English-speaking jury in Spanish.
Her confusion is very comprehensible. Under Cornillón, Animation! has constructed into Latin America’s most linked animation area, working with Annecy and a part of La Liga, a three-way alliance of Animation!, Mexico’s Pixelatl, and Spain’s Quirino Awards.
Two titles stood out by profitable double, each plaudits associated to those axes. Series “Knightmares,” a horror comedy for 8-12s directed by Mexican award-winning publicist and radio novela scribe Juan Sotelo, scored an invite to pitch at Animation!’s particular focus program at Annecy’s MIFA Market and full entry accreditation for the Co-Production & Business Forum at subsequent 12 months’s Quirino Awards.
Each episode framing a poetic fable and a small journey of self-knowledge, “Tales of Mungará,” from Brazil’s Carnaval Filmes, scooped an accreditation from MIFA and a La Liga Ibero-American Animation Award, comprising a full invitation to the Quirinos and Pixelatl.
Knightmares
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Paradiso WIP Award
Won in 2021 by Gabriel Martins’ household drama “Mars One,” which went on to be chosen for Sundance, this 12 months’s $10,000 money prize went to a different deserving title, “The Cuban Doctor,” a movie turning on a way of company and a high quality not that widespread in films: kindness.
The Cuban Doctor
“O Deserto de Akin,” (“The Cuban Doctor”) (Courtesy of Ventana Sur)
Honors had been broadly unfold between a clutch of titles with two titles profitable double nods: “Spittle,” a frenetic gore motion film from Argentina’s at all times intriguing and altering Martin Desalvo (“The Hunter’s Silence,” “El Ciego”) and “The Woman Who Dreamt Under Water,” a psychological tragedy-thriller the directorial debut of screenwriter Carla Sierra and producer Ale García, behind “This Is Not Berlin” and “Dead Man’s Hand.” “Woman’s” win scooped the most important whoops of applause on the complete ceremony, a reminder of an even bigger than regular Mexican presence at this 12 months’s Ventana Sur.
Two different winners, Ximena García Lecuona’s “No Me Sigas” and Caye Casas’ “Malamuerte” had been among the many largest buzz titles at this 12 months’s Ventana Sur.
At the Blood Window Screenings, “Charming,” the fourth characteristic from Argentinian maverick José María Cicala, reigned supreme with a small city story of serial murders, psychosis and corruption.
Tinta Oscura
Now in its second 12 months and backed by Buenos Aires unbiased Del Toro Films (“Auxilio”), a high-caliber competitors was received by Mexico’s terribly prolific and multi-prized horror author Sandra Becerril (“Desde tu infierno”) with “All Your Fears,” a nightmarish story of possession and even worse. Del Toro is now prepared to provide, will replace on manufacturing particulars at Cannes.
VENTANA SUR’S 2023 PRIZES:
PRIMER CORTE
Cine+Plus Award
“Lovers Fare Goodbye,” (Rigoberto Pérezcano, Mexico)
Le Film Français/Cannes Film Market Award
“The Drownings,” (Juan Sebastián Jácome, Victor Mares, Ecuador, Uruguay)
Sofía Films Award
“Lovers Fare Goodbye,”
NMF / Color Front Award
“Seeds,” (Eliana Niño, Colombia, Spain)
LaMayor Cine Award
“The Drownings,”
APCLAI Award
“Lovers Fare Goodbye,”
CAACI Award
“Lovers Fare Goodbye,”
Dolby Vision Atmos
“The Drownings,”
Visom Digital
“The Cuban Doctor,” (Bernard Lessa, Brazil)
“Lovers Fare Goodbye,”
Stone Milk
“Lovers Fare Goodbye,”
COPIA FINAL
Cine+Plus Award
“Memories of a Burning Body,” (Antonella Sudasassi Furniss, Costa Rica, Spain)
Le Film Francais/Cannes Film Market Award
“Memories of a Burning Body,”
APCLAI Award
“Memories of a Burning Body,”
Percepciones Textuales Award
“A House with Two Dogs,” (Matias Ferreyra, Argentina)
Ibero-American Film Festival Miami Award
“Memories of a Burning Body,”
Special Mention
“Tiger,” (José María Cabral, Dominican Republic)
SOLOSERIES
Netflix Award
“Impermanence,” (Laura Otálora, Colombia)
Flixxo Awards
“Callback,” (Juan Francisco Chapur, Argentina)
“The Magical Jonson,” (Franco Dadone, Peru)
“Apparently,” (Carlos Indriago, Spain)
PROYECTA
WEMW Award
“Tell Me How Much You Love Me,” (Camila Zabala, Peru)
Sørfond Award
“Moa,” (Marcel Beltrán, Cuba, Brazil)
BLOOD WINDOW LAB
Sitges, Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia Award
“Spittle,” (Martín Desalvo, Argentina)
Bifan/NAFF Award
“Don’t Follow Me,” (“No Me Sigas,” Ximena García Lecuona, Mexico)
Fantasolab
“Spittle,” (Martín Desalvo, Argentina)
Terror Molins Film Festival Award
“The Woman Who Dreamt Underwater,” (Ale García, Carla Sierra, Mexico)
“At the End of the Night,” (Jorge Navas, Colombia)
Cine Qua Non Lab Award
“Malamuerte,” (Caye Casas, Spain)
FANT.LATINA
Woman In Fan
“The Woman Who Dreamt Underwater,” (Ale García, Carla Sierra, Mexico)
SCREENINGS
La Mayor Award
“Do Not Enter,” (Hugo Cardozo, Paraguay)
Sofia Films Award
“Charming,” (José María Cicala, Argentina)
Chemistry Award
“Charming,” (José María Cicala, Argentina)
Lahaye Media Award
“Charming,” (José María Cicala, Argentina)
Sitges, Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia Award
“Deep Argento,” (Giancarlo Rolandi, Italy)
“Marisa y Gomoso,” (Pablo Parés, Argentina)
Hypnotic VFX
“Charming,” (José María Cicala, Argentina)
TINTA OSCURA
Del Toro Films Award
“All Your Fears,”(Sandra Becerril, Mexico)
ANIMATION!
Mifa/Annecy Award
TV Series
“Bolla,” (Ariadna Galaz, Jorge Peralta Calladitos, Mexico)
“Knightmares,” (Juan Pablo Sotelo, Mexico)
Feature Films
“If I Die,” (Esther Vital, Brazil, Spain)
“Seed,” (Andrés Sehinkman, Federico Carlini, Argentina)
Mifa/Annecy Special point out
“Tales of Mungará,” (Nara Aragão, Renata Roberta Azevedo , Brazil)
“Lucila,” (Bernardita Ojeda, Chile)
Pixelatl Award
“Electro Andes,” (Damián Fernández Gómez, Rojo Mc Gil, Argentina)
Weird Market Award
“Astropackers,” (Luisa Velásquez, Felipe Rodriguez, Colombia)
Premios Quirino Awards
“Knightmares,” (Juan Sotelo, Mexico)
“La Veta del Diablo,” (Germán Acuña, Chile)
La Liga de la Animación Iberoamericana Award
“Tales of Mungará,” (Nara Aragão, Renata Roberta Azevedo, Brazil)
LatinX in Animation Award
“Kolaval,” (Karla Velázquez, Mexico)
PUNTO GENERO
Género-Dac Award (Argentine Film Directors)
“Mom Lulú,” Mar Rivera (México, Estados Unidos, Honduras)
“Where We Belong,” (Obeida Benavides, Colombia
Apima Género Award
“Lonely Hearts,” (Caru Alves de Souza, Brazil, France)
AND Género Award
“Orgasms, Sex and All That,” (Teresa María Saporiti, Argentina)
EL PRINCIPIO DEL FILM
Final Draft Award
“Wild Horse,” (Mariana Chiesa, Juan Sabio, Argentina)
“Before The Future Comes,” (Gabriel Di Giacomo Rocha, Brazil)
“Uky and Lola within the land of Fire,” (Fabian Andrade, Chile)
“Electric Angel,” Carlos Franco Esguerra, Colombia)
“Birthing,” (Sireneé Limon-Lason Blanco, Mexico)
“The Escape,” (Rolando Meléndez, Puerto Rico)
“Valizas,” (Rodolfo Santullo, Uruguay)
Fantástica Audiovisual
“Before The Future Comes,” (Gabriel Di Giacomo Rocha, Brazil)
Noche Americana
“Spellbound,” (Lucila Las Heras, Matías Alejandro Gamio, Argentina)
MAQUINITAS
Most Promising Game
“Ghostless,” (Coffeenauts, Brazil)
Best Art
“Hollow Flowers,” (Ruido Amigo, Argentina)
Best Design
“Tempus Vitae,” (Whiteboard Games, Argentina)
Best Technical Challenge
“Airborne Arena,” (Fireborne Games, Uruguay)
DOCSUR
Festival de Trieste APCLAI Award
“Lost Mariachis,” (Francisco Ohem, México)
APIMA DOC Award
“3000 KM by Bike,” (Ivan Vescovo, Argentina)
DOCU DAC Award
“A World Imagined,” (Marcos Rodríguez, Argentina, Taiwan)
Edgar Allan Post Award
“Rita Lee – B Side,” (Oswaldo Santana, Brazil)
El Cono del Silencio Award
“Jorge Polaco,” (María Onis, Argentina)
Guateque Cine Award
“Lost Mariachis,” (Francisco Ohem, México)
Percepciones Textuales Award
“3000 KM by bike,” (Ivan Vescovo, Argentina)
“Troubles in Paradise – The Myth of Motherhood,” (Patricia Fróes, Brazil)
Cannes Docs, Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes Award
“3000 KM by bike,” (Ivan Vescovo, Argentina)
Doc.co Poster Award
“Negror,” (Joyce Prado, Sidney Santiago Kuanza, Brazil)
“3000 KM by bike,” (Ivan Vescovo, Argentina)
RECAM Award
“Troubles in Paradise – The Myth of Motherhood,” (Patricia Fróes, Brazil)
Conicet Documental Award
“Ayvu – to Speak My Forbidden Language,” (Joaquin Pedretti, Argentina, Paraguay)
A+E History Channel
“Love Does Not Exist,” (Fermín de la Serna, Argentina, U.S.)
Special Mention DOC SUR 2023
“In Deep Waters Travels a Dream,” (Inti Jacanamijoy, Colombia)
“Bonpland, Naturalist and Spy,” (Francisco de Santis, Argentina)
“The French Girl’s Crime,” (Miguel Ángel Rocca, Maximiliano Mastrángelo, Argentina)
FANTASMATICA
Weird Animation, Video Games & New Media Market Award
“The Uncle’s Song,” (Miguel Otálora, Colombia)
“Hollow Flowers,” (Daniel Yepes, Argentina)
“Black Bird,” (Esteban Pérez Ojeda, Chile)
“A-347,” (Milton Andrés Cruz Rojas, Colombia)
Cine Qua Non Lab Award
“Black Bird,” (Esteban Pérez Ojeda, Chile)
Study Boards Award
“Black Bird,” (Esteban Pérez Ojeda, Chile)
