Fantasmática: Fresh Ventana Sur Strand Features Titles with Themes of Vengeance, the Afterlife, Inner Turmoil
30.10.2023 - 18:57
/ variety.com
Holly Jones Ventana Sur’s esteemed Animation! and Blood Window forums are teaming to present a fresh competition strand, Fantasmática. Aimed at creating an industry-wide synergy between animation and genre cinema that centers short film projects in development, the initiative kicks off at this year’s Buenos Aires Ventana Sur market, held Nov.
27- Dec.1 in the bustling Puerto Madero district. “The incorporation of Fantasmática constitutes an exciting step that allows us to complete a project we’ve been developing collaboratively for some time,” Animation! manager Silvina Cornillón told Variety.
“The union of two sections with a trajectory like Animation! and Blood Window creates a space where animation and fantasy genre film professionals can collaborate and share ideas. We trust that this interdisciplinary collaboration will give rise to new techniques and creative approaches, which will enrich the field of animation and fantasy genre cinema in addition to generating diversification of the content available in Ventana Sur.” “We’ve been thinking about adding a space where both sections co-exist for some time.
We believe that in times of TikTok, there’s a growing interest in short-term content that can be echoed by independent platforms or sales agents, who, in turn, seek to differentiate themselves with their catalogs,” added Javier Fernández, head of Blood Window. He noted that, the success of series such as “Love, Death & Robots,” “Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre” and the Latin American series “Fantasmagoria,” released on HBO, creates an ideal setting for Fantasmatica.” All-in, there were 70 submissions from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru,
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