Bruno Santamaria, Selman Nacar High San Sebastian Trade Awards

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Mexico’s Bruno Santamaría, Argentina’s Martín Benchimol and Turkey’s Selman Nacar proved three of the large winners amongst San Sebastian Trade Awards, introduced Wednesday.

João Paulo Miranda, already a younger star on Brazil’s movie scene after “Reminiscence Home,” in the meantime received the Ikusmira Berriak Award.

A Chicago Golden Hugo winner for doc characteristic “Issues We Dare Not Do,” Santamaría swept two awards on the fest’s Europe-Latin America Co-Manufacturing Discussion board, a Mecca for Latin America auteurs and their producers searching for very important co-production companions as state funding prospects have plunged throughout the area.

Additionally written by Santamaría, its closely autobiographical story, set within the ’90s, follows 10-year-old boy Bru, whose father is recognized with HIV, sparking his mother and father break up.“I need to movie the glances and conversations that my mother and father had in silence and which I couldn’t observe as a toddler and discover some sense [in what happened],” Santamaría informed Selection.

Armando Espitia (“Heli”) and Sofia Espinosa (“Gloria”) are hooked up to star within the comedy drama with a tragic undertow,

In additional Discussion board awards, Sofía Quirós’ “Madre Pájaro” – reuniting the identical artistic group behind her characteristic debut, 2019 Cannes Critics’ Week participant “Land of Ashes” – received the Artekino Worldwide Award for a narrative about Oliver, 7, who, when his mom falls gravely in poor health, turns into more and more hooked up to Paloma, a 25-year outdated neighbor. Producers are Mariana Murillo at Costa Rica’s Sputnik Movies and Sazy Salim of Argentina’s Murillo Cine.

The Movie Middle Award went to “The Fireplace Doll,” from Chilean director-to-track Niles Atallah (“Rey”), a couple of nine-year-old lady who battles to assist her father free himself from ghosts of the previous. Chile’s Globo Rojo Movies produces with Raphael Berdugo’s Paris-based Cité Films, which handles world gross sales.

In San Sebastian’s pix-in-post competitions, the large winner in WIP Latam was “The Fortress,” by which Justina is given a colossal mansion deep within the Argentinian Pampa on the situation that she by no means sells it. Produced by Gema Juárez Allen at Gema Movies, which has “Pornomelancholy” in important competitors, the movie marks the fiction characteristic debut of Benchimol whose “The Dread,” co-directed by Pablo Aparo, scooped finest medium-feature doc at 2017’s IDFA.

“A Unusual Path,” from Brazil’s Guto Parente, (“The Cannibal Membership”), received a Projeto Paradiso First Prize from the non-profit promotion org for Brazilian expertise and flicks. Its Second Prize went to Davi Pretto (“Castanha”), one other social subject rural drama for Pretto after “Rifle,” which received the Grand Prize at Jeonju Movie Pageant.

Nacar received his second WIP Europa award in three editions for “Hesitation Wound,” an moral thriller set amongst Turkey’s center class, a wining set-up in 2020’s WIP Europa laureate “Between Two Dawns.”

Catching consideration with “Reminiscence Home,” the one Latin American film in Cannes 2020 Official Choice, “Bandeira” (“Flag”) from João Paulo Miranda received a coveted post-production award from prime Basque manufacturing home Irusoin, given to one of many tasks at San Sebastian’s prestigious Ikusmira Berriak growth residency.

SAN SEBASTIAN INDUSTRY AWARDS 2022

XI EUROPE-LATIN AMERICA CO-PRODUCTION FORUM AWARDS

XI Europe-Latin America Co-Manufacturing Discussion board Award

“Six Months within the Pink and Blue Constructing,” (Bruno Santamaría Razo, Mexico)

Dale! Award (Improvement Latin America-Europe)

“Six months within the Pink and Blue Constructing,” (Bruno Santamaría Razo, Mexico)

Artekino Worldwide Prize

“Madre Pájaro,” (Sofía Quirós Ubeda, Costa Rica, Argentina)

Movie Middle Serbia Award

“The Fireplace Doll,” (Niles Atallah, U.S., Chile, France)

WIP LATAM

WIP Latam Trade Award