Award-Winning Filmmaker Sofia Garza-Barba Preps Debut Fairy Tale Feature Santos Remedios (EXCLUSIVE)
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Mexican-American filmmaker Sofia Garza-Barba made waves with her award-winning short film “Death After Pancakes,” taking prizes at the Independent Filmmakers Showcase and Lady Filmmakers Film Festival, and has shared with
Variety that it’s time to announce her debut feature outing, a supernatural fairy tale thriller “Santos Remedios,” pitching at this month’s Sanfic-Morbido Lab.
“Santos Remedios” – Holy Remedies in English – turns on eight-year-old Amapola, who idolizes her father, although she doesn’t remember ever having met the man. When she was a baby, he left for the U.S. leaving only traces of himself behind, including an audio cassette in which he promises to return to visit the girl one day.
Amazon Jungle Genre Icon Dorian Fernandez Moris Set to Produce The Sugar Girl (EXCLUSIVE)
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Director-producer Dorián Fernández Moris, the leading light on an genre production scene based out of Iquitos in the heart of the Amazon, is set to produce “The Sugar Girl,” a slice of Amazon Noir aimed squarely at international markets.
Mixing a cop drama-thriller and doses of Amazon legend and the supernatural, “The Sugar Girl” will be directed by Javier Velásquez Varela, adapting his own same-titled novel.
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“The Sugar Girl” is set to be unveiled at the Sanfic-Morbido Lab, whose pitching sessions unspool online on March 23 as part of a virtual Sanfic Industria, the industry forum of Chile’s Sanfic festival.
Six Genre Projects Set to Scare Up Interest at Online Sanfic-Morbido Lab (EXCLUSIVE)
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Chile’s Santiago International Film Festival (Sanfic), and Mexico’s top genre festival Morbido have announced the six titles set to participate at the Sanfic-Morbido Lab, held March 23, a COVID-era online rejigging of their existing co-venture.
“Although the pandemic forced us to postpone the August 2020 in-person version of Factoría Morbido-Sanfic, this did not prevent us from continuing our alliance and redesigning the space for an online version in March,” Sanfic Industria head Gabriela Sandoval explained to
Variety. “We firmly believe it is necessary to continue developing and promoting Latin American genre cinema, despite the setback.”