SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the extended version of the series finale of Riverdale.
04.08.2023 - 06:15 / variety.com
John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent LOCARNO — Tiempo Libre, the Lima-based production house behind Peruvian Oscar candidate “Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes),” has boarded “Valves” (“Valvas”), the second feature film from Andrea Hoyos, whose feature debut “Autoerotic,” established her as one of the forthright rising stars of Peru’s still expanding film industry. Verony Centeno, a Peruvian actress with significant experience in film and dance, is attached as the film’s lead. Hoyos is at Locarno as part of its Directors’ Club at Open Doors, its major Latin American project and talent platform.
She is also screening “Autoerotic” as part of its Open Doors screenings. Hoyos’ follow-up, “Valves,” is now set up at Episodio 14, its main production company and also based in Peru, and Tiempo Libre. Peru’s Lady Vinces and Juan Daniel Férnandez Molero are serving as producers.
“Videophilia” won a Rotterdam Tiger Award. In development, and seeking further co-producers, said Hoyos, “Valves” is described as a road movie that touches on themes such as trans masculinity, relationships, and fear of the unknown. It turns on Verony, a young dancer, who is accompanying her partner, Marte, a photographer, through his gender transition process.
Both decide to take a road trip to the north coast of Peru where they spend New Year’s Eve with Marte’s family. In the north, spondylus shells are being washed up from the seas. These “awaken a connection with beings from the ‘Beyond,’” the synopsis says.
“Both Verony and Marte fear that they may need to take different paths, both in travel and in life,” it ends. “It’s a film that speaks about resistance to change and the necessity of transformation. It’s the largest project I’ve
.SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the extended version of the series finale of Riverdale.
John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Victor Erice, one of the greatest of Spanish filmmakers, will receive a prestigious Donostia Award, given for career achievement, granted by the San Sebastian Film Festival. The award will coincide with screening of Erice’s latest film, “Close Your Eyes” (Cerrar los Ojos), which world premiered at the Cannes Festival this May.
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John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent LOCARNO — Costa Rica’s Juli Films has boarded Nicaraguan Gloria Carrión’s “Pantasma,” building production partner backing for one of the most ambitious titles at a talent packed Locarno’s Open Doors Projects Hub. A stop motion doc-feature, the film will narrate how the Sandinista-Contra War of 1982-1989 in Nicaragua forced Félix, a 17-year-old revolutionary, to become an adult in the battlefield, “Pantasma” is now set up at Costa Rica’s Caja de Luz, Carrión’s label, and Juli Films, whose credits also take in documentaries “Songs from Bosawas” (2014) and “Patrol” (Mountainfilm Festival, 2023).
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Succession actor Sarah Snook has spoken about one scene that was cut from the hit show’s finale. Spoilers below.In season four, episode 10 of the HBO drama, titled ‘With Open Eyes’, the show reaches a dramatic climax when the Roy siblings – Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Roman (Kieran Culkin) and Shiv – participate in a board vote which will determine the leadership and future of Waystar Royco.Moments before Snook’s character, Shiv, is about to vote for her brother Kendall as the new CEO and her late father’s successor, she gets cold feet and exits the room mid-meeting.An explosive argument with the siblings ensues, during which she tells her brother: “I love you, but I can’t fucking stomach you.” She also tells Kendall that she can’t vote for him because he’s killed someone, referring to the moment in the season one finale when he gets into a car accident with a waiter from Shiv’s wedding.Shiv leaves the confrontation and votes against her brother, which means that Lukas Matsson’s (Alexander Skarsgård) GoJo deal goes ahead and Shiv’s husband Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) becomes the new CEO.In a new interview with Variety, Snook revealed one extra scene was filmed twice that depicted her character returning to the conference room to cast her vote, rather than it lingering on the two brothers after the argument becomes physical.She explained: “The way that [director] Mark Mylod runs the scenes, he will let it run.
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