Rome-based 102 Distribution is placing two of its key upcoming catalog titles on the open market at this year’s Ventana Sur market and festival: Argentine Soccer doc “Xeneizes – Boca: the Origins” and Mexican coming-of-age drama “Oliver and the Pool.”
L.A.’s 1844 Entertainment will handle U.S. distribution on both titles.
Documenting one of the best-know sociological phenomena from the world of top-tier soccer: “Xeneizes” pulls at the threads on the edge of the tapestry that is the fanatical Boca Juniors fanbase. Set in Buenos Aires’ barrio La Boca, founded in the mid-1800s by Genoese immigrants, the doc unspools in the shadow of one of world soccer’s most famous stadiums, La Bombonera, and examines how a soccer club has, over the years, has come to be a symbol of Genoa in Argentina.
Boca’s ultras – an organized group of superfans – are seen as a trans-Atlantic and...
L.A.’s 1844 Entertainment will handle U.S. distribution on both titles.
Documenting one of the best-know sociological phenomena from the world of top-tier soccer: “Xeneizes” pulls at the threads on the edge of the tapestry that is the fanatical Boca Juniors fanbase. Set in Buenos Aires’ barrio La Boca, founded in the mid-1800s by Genoese immigrants, the doc unspools in the shadow of one of world soccer’s most famous stadiums, La Bombonera, and examines how a soccer club has, over the years, has come to be a symbol of Genoa in Argentina.
Boca’s ultras – an organized group of superfans – are seen as a trans-Atlantic and...
- 11/29/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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