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“No Me Sigas,” the directorial debut of “Anything’s Possible” writer Ximena García Lecuona, and “Malamuerte,” from Caye Casas, a rising star of pitch black Spanish comedy, both feature in a rich and far-ranging 2023 Blood Window Lab, the project platform of Ventana Sur’s genre forum, which unspools Nov. 27-Dec. 1. The projects are joined by …
On Tuesday, two Latin American Revolution films won an award at the Locarno Open Door prize ceremony. These two films showed the altered mindset of cineasts as they questioned wisdom among new inventions. Pantasma, directed by Gloria Carrión and produced by Leonor Zuñiga, won the biggest cash prize of CHF25,000
Leandro Grillo’s ‘Desidia,’ Carlos Zerpa’s ‘LOA. Kill Your Masters’ also in the prize mix.
Dominican project Tres balas (Three Bullets) has dominated the awards handed out by Open Doors, Locarno Pro’s talent development program for artists from underrepresented communities. The pic, directed by Génesis Valenzuela and produced by Wendy Espinal, picked up three awards, including a CHF 20,000 ($22,000) Open Doors cash grant alongside a €8,000 development grand handed …
The film tells the story of Spain’s first official hate crime.