Welcoming foreign shoots while the rest of Latin America was in COVID lockdown, Uruguay has benefited from a growing influx of international productions, with local talent and crew gaining invaluable on-set experience. National production has increased to nearly pre-pandemic levels, 33 features in 2023, on
Just a few days after market kick-off in Berlin, sales and agregator outfit LevelK has closed a raft of deals on its two female-helmed pics “Sudden Outburts of Emotions” and ”Dancing Queen In Hollywood.” The Finnish sex-positive dramedy “Sudden Outbursts of Emotions” was sold to
As the entertainment world continues to evolve post-pandemic, Ampere Analysis’ Guy Bisson offered a compelling look at the global film industry’s current state and its trajectory in 2025 during a presentation at the European Film Market. With the global box office still recovering from the
Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks has pacted with TelevisaUnivision-affiliated Videocine to handle the international sales on horror pic “Don’t Leave the Kids Alone” by Emilio Portes (“Belzebuth,” “Pastorela”). Among the leading distribution and production companies in Mexico, Videocine has slated the high concept pic’s theatrical release for
Vying for the Berlinale Panorama’s prestigious audience award, Eva Libertad’s “Sorda” (“Deaf”) sheds light on the world of deaf women and how motherhood shapes their relationships. Picked up by Latido Films in December, Libertad’s debut feature is an expansion of the eponymous Goya-nominated short she
Taking a significant step towards becoming a South American film-TV powerhouse, Brazil’s State of São Paulo is launching an Audiovisual Industry Development Plan. Among its initiatives are grants for movies that must be made in international co-production and a first São Paulo Audiovisual Hub event
The camera operators behind ‘A Complete Unknown” and ‘Yellowstone” won Society of Camera Operators’ Awards for camera operator of the year in film and television, respectively, during the annual SOC Lifetime Achievement Awards. Saturday at the Loews Hollywood Hotel, the SOC honored P. Scott Sakamoto
In “Cicadas,” top German actress Nina Hoss (who also serves as executive producer) reunites with filmmaker Ina Weisse, the director of her 2019 drama “The Audition,” in which she played a tightly wound woman whose life is unraveling. That same logline could also describe Weisse’s