First Look, the works-in-progress strand of the Locarno movie competition’s business part, has revealed the six titles chosen for its 2024 version.
This yr First Look will spotlight impartial initiatives from Spain. The competition stated initiatives had been “chosen out of over 40 submissions.” The chosen works-in-progress, none of which at present have gross sales illustration, will probably be offered to accredited business professionals on the Cinema Rialto throughout the Locarno Movie Pageant. The initiatives may even be accessible within the digital library of Locarno Professional On-line, the platform for accredited business professionals.
Among the many titles is Prefiro condenarme, a documentary directed by Spanish filmmaker and tutorial Margarita Ledo-Andi. The movie is produced by Olaia Ledo and Carmen Ciller. The synopsis reads: 1972: The Ecclesiastical Court docket of Santiago de Compostela convicted Sagrario Fra, a shellfish harvester in Ferrol, for committing adultery. On the time, many ladies had been being imprisoned or locked up in a psychological hospital for what is taken into account a female-specific felony act. However Sagrario Fra experiences love as insubordination. Just like the birds, flying between heaven and earth, Antigone is latent in Sagrario.
This yr’s worldwide First Look jury options Beatrice Fiorentino, (Creative Director of Venice’s Worldwide Movie Critics’ Week), Kerem Ayan (Istanbul Movie Pageant Director), and Mercedes Martínez-Abarca (Programmer for the Worldwide Movie Pageant Rotterdam). The trio will hand out a number of awards: the Antaviana Movies First Look Award protecting post-production providers as much as € 50,000; an award by Spanish post-production firm Laserfilm cine y vídeo price € 5,000, which may be spent on subtitles, audio descriptions, recognizing lists, transcriptions or a DCP; and the Music Library & SFX/Acorde Award price €45,000 in music supervision.
The winners will probably be introduced throughout the Locarno Professional Award Ceremony on Sunday, 11 August.
Locarno’s First Look has beforehand highlighted movies from Colombia, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Israel, Poland, the Baltic nations, Portugal, Serbia, Switzerland, Germany, and, final yr, the UK.
This yr’s chosen initiatives are:
L’Aguait
Directed by: Marc Ortiz
Produced by: Paloma Mora (TV ON Producciones, ADMIRABLE FILMS), Marc Muñoz (lamalanga Produccions Audiovisuals)
Type: Fiction
Teresa Pla, an intersex baby assigned feminine at delivery, struggles to be acknowledged as a person inside the archaic Spanish society of the start and center of the twentieth century whereas he’s persecuted by guerrillas, bandits and the Guardia Civil (Civil Guard).
Bodegón con fantasmas
Directed by: Enrique Buleo
Produced by: Alejandra Mora (Quatre Movies Audiovisuales SL), Alicia Yubero (Cuidado con el perro), Snezana van Houwelingen (This and that), Roberto Butragueño (Sideral)
Type: Fiction
Distressed by the troubles and difficulties of life and demise, ghosts and people of the small city of La Mancha will do the inconceivable to place an finish to their issues and won’t hesitate to hold out excessive and determined plans to realize it.
Dream of One other Summer season
Directed by: Irene Bartolomé
Produced by: Pere Marzo (Colibrí Studio), Irene Bartolomé (I.B. Movies) and Elie Kamal (The Attic Productions)
Type: Experimental
Dream of One other Summer season tells the story of the encounter between a lady collapsing and a metropolis in ruins to be able to discover how the areas we inhabit relate to us, and to mirror on the mortality and survival of a metropolis.
Mares (Mums)
Directed by: Ariadna Seuba
Produced by: Carles Brugeras, Marieke van der Bersselaar (Polar Star Movies), María Nova López (Intactes Movies)
Type: Documentary
Mares takes the viewers on an intimate and emotionally charged journey with director Ari (32), and her associate Anna (41), who need to have a baby collectively. Anna is the primary to start assisted copy, while Ariadna captures each step along with her digicam.
Prefiro condenarme
Directed by: Margarita Ledo-Andión
Produced by: Olaia Ledo, Carmen Ciller (Nós Produtora Cinematográfica Galega.)
Type: Documentary
1972: The Ecclesiastical Court docket of Santiago de Compostela convicted Sagrario Fra, a shellfish harvester in Ferrol, for committing adultery. On the time, many ladies had been being imprisoned or locked up in a psychological hospital for what is taken into account a female-specific felony act. However Sagrario Fra experiences love as insubordination. Just like the birds, flying between heaven and earth, Antigone is latent in Sagrario.
Río abajo, un tigre
Directed by: Víctor Diago
Produced by: Montse Pujol Solà (Boogaloo Movies)
Type: Fiction
Júlia fled to Glasgow to start out anew, however years later, she’s caught. By day, she pursues images; by night time, she washes dishes. One afternoon, whereas photographing pedestrians, her eyes start to fail. As sickness spreads, Júlia delves into her previous and that of the town, recalling a mysterious group that retrieved objects from the river, and Shubham, an Indian boy who, like her, got here right here for a brand new starting.
