Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, Spain’s Isabel Coixet and Chile’s Bernardita Ojeda, director of “Petit,” feature among the first recipients of funding from Ibermedia Next, a pioneering attempting to fund development on pioneering new IPs which yoke large artistic ambition and cutting edge tech.
García Bernal and Luna’s Mexico-based label La Corriente del Golfo co-produces one of the 14 winning submissions, “El Origen De La Experiencia,” which offers a VR immersive experience of Mexican mysticism and trance culture. Both will also voice characters.
Coixet is set to direct “Sophia (Sofía),” with Milena Smit, star of Pedro Almodóvar’s “Parallel Mothers.”
Bernardita Ojeda, director on milestone Chilean toon series such as “Petit,” the International Emmy-nominated and Quirino Awards winner, produces two titles.
Also in the mix is Portugal’s David Doutel, whose shimmering, mottled social realist mood piece “Garrano,” proved a standout at Annecy and Sundance, and UniKo,...
García Bernal and Luna’s Mexico-based label La Corriente del Golfo co-produces one of the 14 winning submissions, “El Origen De La Experiencia,” which offers a VR immersive experience of Mexican mysticism and trance culture. Both will also voice characters.
Coixet is set to direct “Sophia (Sofía),” with Milena Smit, star of Pedro Almodóvar’s “Parallel Mothers.”
Bernardita Ojeda, director on milestone Chilean toon series such as “Petit,” the International Emmy-nominated and Quirino Awards winner, produces two titles.
Also in the mix is Portugal’s David Doutel, whose shimmering, mottled social realist mood piece “Garrano,” proved a standout at Annecy and Sundance, and UniKo,...
- 11/29/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Latin America’s biggest audiovisual market runs November 27-December 1.
The 15th edition of Ventana Sur, the biggest audiovisual market in Latin America, is showcasing some of the best completed films, projects and works in progress (WiP) from across the continent from November 27-December 1.
Genre, animation and WiPs form the main axis of the five-day event in Buenos Aires, which is a collaboration between Argentinian film agency Incaa and Cannes’ Marché du Film. Further sections include Maquinitas, which is dedicated to video games, and Remakes, which reimagines older projects with a contemporary sensibility.
The Blood Window genre section incorporates market...
The 15th edition of Ventana Sur, the biggest audiovisual market in Latin America, is showcasing some of the best completed films, projects and works in progress (WiP) from across the continent from November 27-December 1.
Genre, animation and WiPs form the main axis of the five-day event in Buenos Aires, which is a collaboration between Argentinian film agency Incaa and Cannes’ Marché du Film. Further sections include Maquinitas, which is dedicated to video games, and Remakes, which reimagines older projects with a contemporary sensibility.
The Blood Window genre section incorporates market...
- 11/24/2023
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
Prominent Chilean TV producer Maria Elena Wood, a producer on “News of a Kidnapping,” “Dignity” and “Mary & Mike,” is teaming with multi-prized TV toon series director Bernardita Ojeda, helmer of two-time Intl. Emmy nominee “Petit,” to make 2D “Lucila,” both Wood and Ojeda’s first animated feature.
“I am amazed at [animation’s] narrative possibilities,” Wood enthused to Variety.
In a Chilean power package, Patricio Pereira, EP on “Dignity” and “Mary & Mike,” and Alvaro Ceppi, director of “Zumbástico Fantástico” and 2Paper Port,” have also boarded “Lucila” as exec producers.
Written by Argentine live action director Fernando Salem (“How Most Things Work”) and Chilean author Álvaro Bisama, “Lucila” is set to make its market debut at this year’s Animation! Pitching Sessions. Part of Buenos Aires’ Ventana Sur, backed by the Cannes Film Festival and Marché du Film and Argentina’s Incaa film-tv agency and organized with the Annecy Film Festival,...
“I am amazed at [animation’s] narrative possibilities,” Wood enthused to Variety.
In a Chilean power package, Patricio Pereira, EP on “Dignity” and “Mary & Mike,” and Alvaro Ceppi, director of “Zumbástico Fantástico” and 2Paper Port,” have also boarded “Lucila” as exec producers.
Written by Argentine live action director Fernando Salem (“How Most Things Work”) and Chilean author Álvaro Bisama, “Lucila” is set to make its market debut at this year’s Animation! Pitching Sessions. Part of Buenos Aires’ Ventana Sur, backed by the Cannes Film Festival and Marché du Film and Argentina’s Incaa film-tv agency and organized with the Annecy Film Festival,...
- 10/23/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Jose Zelada and Richard Claus’ “Ainbo: Spirit of the Amazon”, Cesar Cabral’s “Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People” (Brazil) and Hugo Covarrubias’ Oscar-nommed “Beast” (Chile) are some of the animated works in the running for the 5th Quirino Awards, the biggest prize event on Spain, Portugal and Latin America’s burgeoning animation scene.
In addition to a ceremony, the Quirino Awards includes an industry co-production and business forum for animation titles from the region.
The Quirino event will also host meetings including one of the Ibero-American Caaci state film-tv agencies, and another of Ibermedia, the region’s key international co-pro and distribution fund.
Brazilian feature “Bob Spit” and Chilean short “Beast” nabbed the highest number of nominations, each securing four. Mexican TV series “Frankelda’s Book of Spooks” and Peruvian movie “Ainbo” follow with three and two noms respectively.
“Beast” is the second Chilean short running for the Oscars.
In addition to a ceremony, the Quirino Awards includes an industry co-production and business forum for animation titles from the region.
The Quirino event will also host meetings including one of the Ibero-American Caaci state film-tv agencies, and another of Ibermedia, the region’s key international co-pro and distribution fund.
Brazilian feature “Bob Spit” and Chilean short “Beast” nabbed the highest number of nominations, each securing four. Mexican TV series “Frankelda’s Book of Spooks” and Peruvian movie “Ainbo” follow with three and two noms respectively.
“Beast” is the second Chilean short running for the Oscars.
- 3/24/2022
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
“Petit,” the best series winner at May’s Quirino Ibero-American Animation Awards, will have a third season.
Employing 2D cutout animation, the third season will have 26 episodes more episodes, bringing the current total episode count to 65.
The short format will again be backed by Chilean production house Pájaro, Colombian public broadcaster Señal Colombia, Argentine kids TV channel Paka Paka and Non Stop. Also boarding as co-production partners for season three are Barcelona animation studio Wknd, and Spanish state TV networks Tve and TV3.
Targeting pre-schoolers, “Petit” is the fifth animated show directed by Chile’s Bernardita Ojeda. Director (“How Most Things Work”) and scriptwriter Fernando Salem pens the scripts; Gustavo Pomeranec (Fernando Spiner’ “Six Shooters”) and Simón Ramírez Vera lead the animation team.
“‘Petit’ is a series where kids can feel represented. It is creative, original and funny. We think it will be a great success on Clan,” Tve Head...
Employing 2D cutout animation, the third season will have 26 episodes more episodes, bringing the current total episode count to 65.
The short format will again be backed by Chilean production house Pájaro, Colombian public broadcaster Señal Colombia, Argentine kids TV channel Paka Paka and Non Stop. Also boarding as co-production partners for season three are Barcelona animation studio Wknd, and Spanish state TV networks Tve and TV3.
Targeting pre-schoolers, “Petit” is the fifth animated show directed by Chile’s Bernardita Ojeda. Director (“How Most Things Work”) and scriptwriter Fernando Salem pens the scripts; Gustavo Pomeranec (Fernando Spiner’ “Six Shooters”) and Simón Ramírez Vera lead the animation team.
“‘Petit’ is a series where kids can feel represented. It is creative, original and funny. We think it will be a great success on Clan,” Tve Head...
- 6/7/2021
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Eduardo Rivero’s debut feature “A Costume for Nicholas,” Bernardita Ojeda’s “Petit Season Two” and Alberto Vázquez’s “Homeless Home” won big at Saturday’s 4th Quirino Awards, which prize animated films and series from Latin America, Spain and Portugal.
Winners picked up their plaudits at a on-site ceremony held at La Laguna in Spain’s Canary islands.
“A Costume for Nicholas,” from Mexico, took best feature, winning out in a category whose four nominees included three Mexican productions.
The third movie from Mexico’s Fotosintesis Media, a social a cause-driven entertainment label set up by the Mantarraya Group and producer-director Miguel Uriegas (“The Stone Boy”), the toon movie is co-produced by Mexico’s Pēek Paax animation studio.
Marking Uriegas’ debut as screenwriter, the feature follows Nicholas, a 10-year-old orphan with Down syndrome who dons magical costumes from his mom to save his brother from nightmares and the world from chaos.
Winners picked up their plaudits at a on-site ceremony held at La Laguna in Spain’s Canary islands.
“A Costume for Nicholas,” from Mexico, took best feature, winning out in a category whose four nominees included three Mexican productions.
The third movie from Mexico’s Fotosintesis Media, a social a cause-driven entertainment label set up by the Mantarraya Group and producer-director Miguel Uriegas (“The Stone Boy”), the toon movie is co-produced by Mexico’s Pēek Paax animation studio.
Marking Uriegas’ debut as screenwriter, the feature follows Nicholas, a 10-year-old orphan with Down syndrome who dons magical costumes from his mom to save his brother from nightmares and the world from chaos.
- 5/29/2021
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
“Nahuel and the Magic Book” and “A Costume for Nicholas” and TV shows “Petit Season 2” and “I, Elvis Riboldi,” are nominated for the 4th Quirino Ibero-American Animation Awards.
The Awards will be held in the Spanish Canary Island city of La Laguna, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife over May 27-29.
Targeting family audiences, German Acuña’s fantasy movie “Nahuel and the Magic Book” is produced by Chile’s Carburadores, Brazil’s Levante Films and Chile’s Punkrobot, which won a best animated short Academy Award for “Bear Story.” Sold by Spain’s Latido Films, it mixes adventure, myths and legends from the Southern Chilean island of Chiloé while telling the story of a Nahuel, 12, who has a deep fear of the sea. When his father is captured by a malignant sorcerer, he sets out to rescue him, overcoming his fears along the way.
Eduardo Rivero’s “A Costume for Nicholas...
The Awards will be held in the Spanish Canary Island city of La Laguna, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife over May 27-29.
Targeting family audiences, German Acuña’s fantasy movie “Nahuel and the Magic Book” is produced by Chile’s Carburadores, Brazil’s Levante Films and Chile’s Punkrobot, which won a best animated short Academy Award for “Bear Story.” Sold by Spain’s Latido Films, it mixes adventure, myths and legends from the Southern Chilean island of Chiloé while telling the story of a Nahuel, 12, who has a deep fear of the sea. When his father is captured by a malignant sorcerer, he sets out to rescue him, overcoming his fears along the way.
Eduardo Rivero’s “A Costume for Nicholas...
- 3/17/2021
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Pitched at Annecy, “Primeras” (Firsts) is a 2D TV project which underscores how the industry is driving ever more into issues of gender and inclusion.
Part of the La Liga Focus, and produced by Chile’s Typpo Creative Lab –co-developed along Bernardita Ojeda’s Pájaro Studio,– the 13-episode anthology series turns on Latin American and all-over-the-world women pioneers in fields of knowledge, sports and culture which had historically been reserved for men. Tatiana Calderón, the first woman tester in Formula One, Japan’s Junko Tabei, the first woman to top the Everest, Prudencia Ayala, a first female presidential candidate and Eloísa Díaz, Chile’s first female doctor, make the cut.
Also included are Gabriela Mistral – all Latin American Nobel Prize winners before her had been men,– Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexico’s ground-breaking 17th century female poet, South African Desiré Wilson, first and only woman to ever win a Formula One race,...
Part of the La Liga Focus, and produced by Chile’s Typpo Creative Lab –co-developed along Bernardita Ojeda’s Pájaro Studio,– the 13-episode anthology series turns on Latin American and all-over-the-world women pioneers in fields of knowledge, sports and culture which had historically been reserved for men. Tatiana Calderón, the first woman tester in Formula One, Japan’s Junko Tabei, the first woman to top the Everest, Prudencia Ayala, a first female presidential candidate and Eloísa Díaz, Chile’s first female doctor, make the cut.
Also included are Gabriela Mistral – all Latin American Nobel Prize winners before her had been men,– Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexico’s ground-breaking 17th century female poet, South African Desiré Wilson, first and only woman to ever win a Formula One race,...
- 6/18/2020
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Annecy, France – Three projects created and produced by young Latin American talent, Nadia Ronquillo and Bernardita Ojeda’s ‘Tally Molly,’ Arturo and Roy Ambriz’ “La balada del Fénix” and “Distrito Yorudan” will be pitched on June 12 at Annecy’s Mifa, brought onto the market by Animation!, the Ventana Sur animation forum.
A 7-minute 26 episode show, “Tally Molly” follows a cheerful 7-year-old girl who’s able to change her size to be as little as bacteria or as big as a mountain. Series deals with ordinary situations which becomes extraordinary, via the discovery of new worlds and friends. Chile’s Pájaro Estudio produces, in collaboration with development studio Kaleidos.
A comedic adventure created by children’s book illustrator and animator Ronquillo, Marta Gennari and Paulina Ziółkowska, “Tally Molly” “springs from the feeling that we have when kids of wanting to be big and small at the same time, something that we...
A 7-minute 26 episode show, “Tally Molly” follows a cheerful 7-year-old girl who’s able to change her size to be as little as bacteria or as big as a mountain. Series deals with ordinary situations which becomes extraordinary, via the discovery of new worlds and friends. Chile’s Pájaro Estudio produces, in collaboration with development studio Kaleidos.
A comedic adventure created by children’s book illustrator and animator Ronquillo, Marta Gennari and Paulina Ziółkowska, “Tally Molly” “springs from the feeling that we have when kids of wanting to be big and small at the same time, something that we...
- 6/12/2019
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
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