AUDIOVISUAL PROJECTS

CIIF Market has selected the following film and audiovisual projects in development for the global market, taking into account criteria of quality, talent of producers and directors, viability of the financing plan and international projection.

 

// National and International //
CARAJITO FILMS

ALCANZANDO LA LUNA

Country: Uruguay
Director: Ana Semino, Alfonso Lourido
Producer: Alfonso Lourido, Ana Semino
Type: Feature Film
Genre: Comedy Dramatic

SYNOPSIS

Just as everyone has a way of being, we all have a way of traveling”. When her daughter embarks on a solo trip around the world, Beatriz, a recently retired woman, must face the empty nest and the pressure of a society that she feels pigeonholes her because of her age. The pending result of a biopsy and the almost magical relationship she will initiate with her daughter’s little red bike will make Beatriz question her existence, her dreams and what she may still… have time to achieve.

BATIAK FILMS

ALEGRE Y OLÉ

Country: Spain
Director: Clara Santaolaya
Producer(s): Norma Velásquez, Gustavo Sánchez, Alejandro Castillo, Clara Santaolaya
Type: Feature Film
Genre: Drama

SYNOPSIS

After a suicide attempt, Lena decides to embark with her grandfather Juan, suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, on a complicated search for an old home movie that shows a crucial moment in her grandparents’ lives. Along the way, the young woman will discover herself and also that reality is not always as we think it is.

VÉRTICE 360

DIARIO DE UN INFILTRADO

Country: Spain/Chile
Director: Saúl Valverde, Samuel León
Producer: Samuel León, Alberto Rull
Type: TV Series
Genre: Documentary Series

SYNOPSIS

In 1971 Roberto Rossellini (Yes, that Rossellini) travels to Chile to interview the newly elected Salvador Allende and while there he realizes that something serious is being prepared against the new socialist government of the Unidad Popular. Upon his return he convinces his young Spanish collaborator Miguel to infiltrate and document what is happening in Chile. With funding from Rossellini and the GDR, which provides equipment, Miguel poses as a Spanish filmmaker who wants to document the horrors of the “savage communism of the Allende regime”. He befriends the upper classes and the military whom he interviews and manages to document the preparation of a coup d’état. After the coup, Miguel continues his work and manages to interview Pinochet, who authorizes him to travel to the non-existent concentration camps. Thus he manages to document the existence of the disappeared and denounce the true face of the regime, presenting the film in Rome during the sessions of the Russell II tribunal, freeing hundreds of them from torture and certain death.

WARRIOR FILMMAKER

EL CERRAJERO

Country: Colombia
Director: Diego Rendón
Producer: Jhon Guerrero
Type: TV Series
Genre: Thriller

SYNOPSIS

Pedro Simón (40), is a man who works as a locksmith. One day Pedro is asked by a client, Juan Martínez, to open the door of his house. While Pedro is working as a locksmith, some men enter the house and kill Juan. Pedro manages to escape without being discovered by the killers, becoming a witness to the murder.

80 MUNDOS

LA ACADEMIA

Country: Argentina
Director: María Valeria Malatino
Producer: María Eugenia Lombardi
Type: TV Series
Genre: Comedy

SYNOPSIS

LA ACADEMIA is an anti-macho school of male deconstruction that operates clandestinely in a basement, under a soccer field and a bar, in the city of Buenos Aires. It is run by two men, Villamayor and Salazar, who, in association with Luis, the bartender upstairs, recruit the men who go to play soccer and who express a desire to change in some way or another.

GRITA MEDIOS

LA PUTA VIDA

Country: Chile
Director: Lucho Smok
Producer: Silvina Dell’Occhio
Type: Feature Film
Genre: Comedy

SYNOPSIS

Lore is 20 years old. Hernán, his grandfather, is a grumpy, hermit-like man with a death wish. This year they have decided to celebrate Christmas together. They embark on a journey destined for failure that seems to go on forever. During the journey, Lore finds her grandfather’s letters, Hernan has planned his death, down to the smallest detail. Faced with this, Lore decides to take an extreme decision; kidnap his own grandfather, to make him live his last adventure.

DEXIDERIUS PRODUCCIONES AUDIOVISUALES, BALANCE MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT

LA TIERRA DE AMIRA

Country: Spain
Director: Pablo Barce
Producer: César Martínez, Miguel Torrente
Type: Feature Film
Genre: Drama

SYNOPSIS

Justino (70), a widowed farmer who lives apart from the world on his lonely farm, accidentally runs over Amira (23), an illegal Moroccan seasonal worker. Feeling guilty, Justino offers him shelter in his house while he recovers. From there, a powerful friendship will grow that will overcome the constraints of their respective origins and environment, and will allow them to bring back to life the wasteland that became the old man’s farm, a reflection of their own lives.

ZAMPANO PRODUCCIONES

LOS AÑOS FRÍOS

Country: Spain
Director: Nadia Mata Portillo
Producer: Carlota Coronado
Type: Feature Film
Genre: Drama

SYNOPSIS

Iván is a fifteen-year-old boy who fulfills his grandmother’s secret plan: if he doesn’t do it, he will go to a juvenile center or end up under the guardianship of his father, an abuser. The appearance of Claudia, an Argentinean woman in her thirties, will shake the plan.

GALAXIA 311, DANY CELEIRO RODRÍGUEZ

LOS PASAJEROS DEL ÚLTIMO VIAJE

Country: Cuba/Colombia
Director: Marta María Borrás
Producer: Dany Celeiro, Ivette Liang
Type: Feature Film
Genre: Drama

SYNOPSIS

A young single mother, who has to leave the apartment where she lives because she cannot pay the rent, decides to go live with her neighbor who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, deceiving her by pretending to be her daughter, who abandoned her some time ago.

ARTE MECÁNICA

LOS ÚLTIMOS DÍAS EN LA TIERRA

Country: Mexico
Director: Bárbara Myriam Balsategui Tovar
Producer: Óscar Ramírez González
Type: Feature Film
Genre: Drama

SYNOPSIS

Nico, a suicidal fifty-something, and Liberty, a wild twenty-something, accidentally meet on the road and embark on a journey where they can help each other fulfill their destinies: he by writing his suicide manual, and she by completing her wish list before leaving earth with an alien abduction. But the mutual attraction they feel will make them doubt their purpose on earth.

MINDED FACTORY, ALINDRA CREATIVE

SAVANT

Country: Spain
Director: Javi Araguz
Producer: David Barrera, Isabel Hierro
Type: Feature Film
Genre: Science Fiction / Drama / Thriller

SYNOPSIS

Alice, a neuroscientist with a severe memory disorder, decides to go in search of Ulysses, a boy isolated on an abandoned oil rig suffering from savant syndrome to find a cure for his condition. The surprising results of their tests will lead them to cross all kinds of legal and ethical boundaries, to risk their lives and even to travel through time.

EL GATO VERDE PRODUCCIONES

TÁNGER

Country: Spain / Portugal
Director: Benito Zambrano
Producer: Mariano Baratech
Type: TV Series
Genre: Thriller

SYNOPSIS

1953, a convulsive historical moment in the permissive and cosmopolitan city of Tangier. Anna (French) with a traumatic secret in her past and a sad present, gets involved with Martin, an agent of the Secret Services of the Spanish Army, in the search for a missing shipment of chemical weapons. Their relationship will change the course of the mission and drive them to make dramatic decisions.

MORDISCO FILMS

TODOS LOS HÉROES

Country: Spain
Director: Alicia Albares, Paco Cavero
Producer: Alberto Díaz
Type: Feature Film
Genre: Drama, Comedy

SYNOPSIS

Millán is a child psychologist and Sergio is a boy with an aggressive bone marrow cancer whose deepest wish is to see the theatrical release of the latest film in the epic fantasy saga The Guardians of Sëlka. Millán, whose existence has been empty since his son died, will find in this dream a goal and will do everything possible to fulfill it.