‘Victoria Small’ Screenwriter Mara Pescio on Her Directorial Debut, Sanfic Industria Title ‘Ese Fin de Semana’

Anna Marie de la Fuente Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks Int’l has picked up worldwide rights to sci-fi-horror film “Virtual Reality” by Argentine terror meister Hernan Findling who has directed and produced a slew of genre films.“We’d been chasing this title ever since we saw it at the 2020 Sitges Film Festival’s Coming Soon section, a preview of upcoming genre films, and were up against tough competition,” said FilmSharks CEO, Guido Rud.

EXCLUSIVE: Three-time Oscar nominated screenwriter John Logan will make his feature directorial debut with Blumhouse’s new horror movie Whistler Camp.

Randall Park is set to make his directorial debut with a feature film adaptation of the Bay Area-set graphic novelShortcomings. Adrian Tomine is behind story that followsa trio of young urbanites — Ben Tanaka, Miko Hayashi and Alice Kim — as they navigate a range of interpersonal relationships, traversing the country in search of the ideal connection.

Also Read: Randall Park Loved Jimmy Woo's Card Trick Mastery in 'WandaVision' Just as Much as You DidRoadside Attractions and Imminent Collision will team on the adaptation, which Park will also produce alongside Michael Golamco and Hieu Ho’s Imminent Collision.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterRandall Park is stepping behind the camera for the first time, set to take on directing duties for the upcoming film “Shortcomings.”Based on Adrian Tomine’s graphic novel, the comedic drama follows a trio of young Bay Area urbanites — Ben Tanaka, Miko Hayashi and Alice Kim — as they navigate a range of interpersonal relationships, traversing the country in search of the ideal connection.

Fresh Off the Boat star Randall Park is set to make his feature directing debut with an adaptation of the graphic novel, Shortcomings, by famed cartoonist Adrian Tomine, who also penned the screenplay. Roadside Attractions’ Howard Cohen, Eric d’Arbeloff, Jennifer Berman, and Ryan Paine, who brought the project to the company, will produce the comedic drama in collaboration with Park, Michael Golamco, and Hieu Ho’s Imminent Collision.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Four Latin American women producers, each of them leading voices in their respective countries, found kinship and solidarity at the Sanfic Industry panel Women Film Producers: Expanding Gazes.They also realized that there were still many issues to resolve, especially gender parity in the entertainment sector.Hosted by Chile’s premier audiovisual industry event on March 25, the panel included Sanfic Industry Head and Storyboard Media producer Gabriela Sandoval of Chile

The Life That’s Left,” Costa Rica’s “Crono-Capsulas” and Chilean drama series “Silver Bridge” and “La Vida de Nosotros” ran out as four of the big winners at a vibrant and packed online 2021 Sanfic Industria that also underscored the depth of new talent in Latin America.Running March 18-25, Sanfic Industria, the constantly expanding industry arm climaxed a day later with the announcement of a huge haul in industry prizes, the largest from Mexico’s genre powerhouse Mórbido, plus the lineup for

Jamie Lang Having just pitched at the Sanfic-Morbido Lab, Chilean slasher flick project “Matria” will head to South Korea’s Bucheon (Bifan) in June on behalf of Ventana Sur’s Blood Window, where the project pitched to great success in late 2020. In the midst of its pandemic online market run, “Matria” has added two new key castings in award-winning Chilean actor Benjamin Vicuña (“Fuga,” “Locked Up”) and Argentina’s Gabriel Schultz (“Kryptonite,” “La Suerte en Tus Manos”).

Toronto-born filmmaker Emma Seligman was “honoured” her coming-of-age comedy “Shiva Baby” had its world premiere at home at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2020.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Expanding Frontiers in a Pandemic World, an online Sanfic Industry panel discussion held March 23, can likely be summed up by a Charles Dickens quote: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….”Moderated by Storyboard Media producer Gabriela Sandoval, co-founder of the Santiago, Chile-based Sanfic, the panelists included Guadalajara Film Festival head Estrella Araiza, Ventana Sur co-executive director Bernardo Bergeret and Mar del Plata executive producer

Also Read: Jon M Chu's 'In The Heights' Gets New Summer 2021 Release DateWhile directing was new territory for Basco, the film’s subject wasn’t.“The Fabulous Filipino Brothers” stars Basco and his three real-life brothers: Derek, Dionysio and Darion. The extended Basco family (cousins, second cousins, uncles, and aunts) also play themselves.

Sanfic Industria, the high-energy industry part of Santiago de Chile’s Sanfic festival, runs March 18-26. Given its context, it bids to play an even more crucial role in Latin America’s industry re-set after experiencing a more punishing pandemic impact than any other part of the world.Sanfic Industria: More Growth, Despite COVID-19Over the last 12 months, film and TV events, whether virtual or on-site, have almost all slimmed.

Jamie Lang Chilean filmmaker Leticia Akel Escárate will be pitching her highly anticipated and well-studied debut feature project “Shadow” at this year’s online Sanfic Industria Lab: Ficción.

In the age of quarantine and pandemics, connection is desperately needed, loneliness is its own epidemic, and mental health and tragedy issues are all-too-relevant, sad byproducts of the COVID-19 era.

Emerald Fennell made her feature film directorial debut with Promising Young Woman, and on Monday, she earned her first Oscar nomination, becoming one of only seven women to ever earn a nomination in the directing category. The U.K.-based writer-director also earned noms for screenplay and best picture.

Today is a day that we celebrate the very best in film from the past year, as we all scour the Oscars nominations and figure out which films deserved the praise and which deserved a bit more, perhaps. But today is also a day that we can discuss some previously-released, acclaimed works of cinema that don’t really need to be argued about, as Criterion unveils the June 2021 additions to the Criterion Collection.

Indigenous Australian actress and writer Leah Purcell is set to debut her first feature as a director, The Drover's Wife (Legend of Molly Johnson), at SXSW's Narrative Spotlight this month. The film, one of three Australian projects screening as part of the annual festival's online program, in its basic form tells the story of a woman raising her children in the outback while her husband is absent, though its themes of gender, identity and class make it a robust character study.