San Sebastian — As many people talk the talk, some companies are walking the walk – acquiring and selling women’s films as part of a growing business.
In the latest move, announced Sunday at San Sebastian as the festival, the biggest in the Spanish-speaking world, signed a gender parity charter, Latido Films has acquired international rights to films by two first-time Latin American women filmmakers: Camila Urrutia’s “Polvora en el corazón,” and “La Casa de los Conejos,” from Valeria Selinger.
That’s not charity. Rather, it reflects Latido’s conviction there’s really a market for movies by striking new women directors, following on what it describes as “a string of successes,” headed by Chilean Pepa San Martín’s “Rara” and Colombian Laura Mora’s “Killing Jesús.”
“We do not look at the gender of a talented director, we look for talent,” said Latido director Antonio Saura.
But it’s no coincidence,...
In the latest move, announced Sunday at San Sebastian as the festival, the biggest in the Spanish-speaking world, signed a gender parity charter, Latido Films has acquired international rights to films by two first-time Latin American women filmmakers: Camila Urrutia’s “Polvora en el corazón,” and “La Casa de los Conejos,” from Valeria Selinger.
That’s not charity. Rather, it reflects Latido’s conviction there’s really a market for movies by striking new women directors, following on what it describes as “a string of successes,” headed by Chilean Pepa San Martín’s “Rara” and Colombian Laura Mora’s “Killing Jesús.”
“We do not look at the gender of a talented director, we look for talent,” said Latido director Antonio Saura.
But it’s no coincidence,...
- 9/24/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The rough Argentinian horror film She Wolf sounds like a pretty simple proposition: it's about a young woman who "prowls" the night, searching for men, whom she promptly entices, seduces, and murders. Street corners, dance clubs, subway trains, she doesn't seem to care where the men come from -- just as long as she can get her thrills and dole out some gruesome punishment before the night is through. Oh, and this crazy lady may or may not be some sort of wild werewolf woman who simply cannot control her impulses. So already there's enough material, both on the screen and in the "subtextual" department, to make a fairly compelling horror film: instead of the painfully familiar "rape/revenge" template, She Wolf simply has a beautiful woman as the predator. Simple stuff, perhaps, but surely the sort of themes that lend themselves well to horror cinema: sexy stalk and slash...
- 10/15/2013
- by Scott Weinberg
- FEARnet
Argentinian director Tamae Garateguy's latest project 'She Wolf' (Aka 'Mujer lobo') is set to seduce audiences. And after checking out the sexually active and Nsfw trailer for the new project it'll certainly be bringing viewers a South American feature with plenty of butt as well as bite. Garateguy helms from a script provided by Diego Fleischer and it stars a trio of vicious lovelies played by Lujan Ariza, Guadalupe Docampo and Monica Lairana shown featured below all cuddled up in the nude. Edgardo Castro and Nicolas Goldschmidt also star. Check out the trailer, poster and the naked still below....
- 5/13/2013
- Horror Asylum
You know... after looking at the stars of the new werewolf flick She Wolf, or Mujer Lobo for you purists out there, we are all in agreement on one thing: Yeah, they can attack us whenever they want... as many times as they want.
Directed by Tamae Garateguy, She Wolf stars Mónica Lairana, Luján Ariza, Guadalupe Docampo, Lujan Ariza, Edgardo Castro, and Nicolás Goldschmidt.
"This is an erotic police story featuring some edgy situations,” says the director. The she wolf of the title is a multi-faced serial killer (played by three actresses- Lairana, Ariza, Docampo). She’s somehow doomed by that homicidal drive, in which she seduces men, takes them to bed first, then immediately to the grave, and later continues on her way. Until, of course, she bumps into a difficult problem.
Check out the Not Safe For Work trailer and more below.
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Directed by Tamae Garateguy, She Wolf stars Mónica Lairana, Luján Ariza, Guadalupe Docampo, Lujan Ariza, Edgardo Castro, and Nicolás Goldschmidt.
"This is an erotic police story featuring some edgy situations,” says the director. The she wolf of the title is a multi-faced serial killer (played by three actresses- Lairana, Ariza, Docampo). She’s somehow doomed by that homicidal drive, in which she seduces men, takes them to bed first, then immediately to the grave, and later continues on her way. Until, of course, she bumps into a difficult problem.
Check out the Not Safe For Work trailer and more below.
Visit The Evilshop @ Amazon!
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- 4/30/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Cannes Film Festival, Critics' Week"Blood Appears" ("La Sangre Brota") is Argentine director Pablo Fendrik's follow-up to his well-regarded debut "The Mugger", which premiered in Cannes' Critics Week last year. Like that film, this intriguing short (67 minutes) feature takes place virtually in real time, "Blood" has an experimental feel, but whereas "Mugger" was broadly comprehensible and engaging, Fendrik's latest effort is too fragmented and elliptical to appeal to mainstream audiences. The festival circuit beckons.
"Mugger" star Arturo Goetz plays a peaceable taxi driver, Arturo, whose son Ramiro phones up from Houston demanding $2,000 to enable him to fly home after a four-year absence. Meanwhile his younger son Leandro is planning to steal his savings in order to buy a stock of ecstasy that he can re-sell at a profit. With the proceeds he'll fly to Houston to join his brother.
Leandro falls in with Vanesa, an attractive streetwise 15-year-old who earns pocket money handing out fliers. Her mother Sandra carries a small baby who she tries to abandon. Arturo then picks up a wealthy businessman who invites him to play bridge for money.
With a jerky camera style, allusive dialogue and frequent close-ups that withhold as much as they reveal, Fendrik makes few concessions to the spectator. He hands out information in a piecemeal manner, and the motivation of the characters is mostly left to conjecture. Fendrik is clearly a considerable talent who sooner or later will produce a major work, but this is not it. He is intensely sensitive to street sights and sounds, and the picture he paints (mostly in blue) of Buenos Aires as a violent, dangerous place is impressive. "Blood" is a triumph of style over content, accomplished but frustrating. There is surely better to come.
Production companies: Magmacine, Acrobates Films, Neue Cameo Film.
Cast: Arturo Goetz, Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Guillermo Arengo, Stella Galazzi, Ailin Salas, Guadalupe Docampo, Susana Pampin.
Director/screenwriter: Pablo Fendrik.
Director of photography: Julian Arpezteguia.
Production design: Pablo Maestre.
Music: Juan Ignacio Bouscayrol.
Editor: Leandro Aste.
No rating, 100 minutes.
"Mugger" star Arturo Goetz plays a peaceable taxi driver, Arturo, whose son Ramiro phones up from Houston demanding $2,000 to enable him to fly home after a four-year absence. Meanwhile his younger son Leandro is planning to steal his savings in order to buy a stock of ecstasy that he can re-sell at a profit. With the proceeds he'll fly to Houston to join his brother.
Leandro falls in with Vanesa, an attractive streetwise 15-year-old who earns pocket money handing out fliers. Her mother Sandra carries a small baby who she tries to abandon. Arturo then picks up a wealthy businessman who invites him to play bridge for money.
With a jerky camera style, allusive dialogue and frequent close-ups that withhold as much as they reveal, Fendrik makes few concessions to the spectator. He hands out information in a piecemeal manner, and the motivation of the characters is mostly left to conjecture. Fendrik is clearly a considerable talent who sooner or later will produce a major work, but this is not it. He is intensely sensitive to street sights and sounds, and the picture he paints (mostly in blue) of Buenos Aires as a violent, dangerous place is impressive. "Blood" is a triumph of style over content, accomplished but frustrating. There is surely better to come.
Production companies: Magmacine, Acrobates Films, Neue Cameo Film.
Cast: Arturo Goetz, Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Guillermo Arengo, Stella Galazzi, Ailin Salas, Guadalupe Docampo, Susana Pampin.
Director/screenwriter: Pablo Fendrik.
Director of photography: Julian Arpezteguia.
Production design: Pablo Maestre.
Music: Juan Ignacio Bouscayrol.
Editor: Leandro Aste.
No rating, 100 minutes.
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