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‘Small Town,’ the Awaited Comeback of Animation Legend Walter Tournier, Swooped on by Latido for International (EXCLUSIVE)
A parable of greed, ‘Small Town’ also weighs in as an prototype of building Spain-Latin American animation collaboration.
One of the most active of sales agents at this week’s Ventana Sur, Madrid-based Latido Films has closed international rights on adventure-comedy “Small Town” (“Pueblo Chico”) a parable of greed and instance of the building scale and ambition of Latin American animation co-production whether regional or reaching out to Spain. Focus at Annecy’s Mifa’s market, Tournier co-directs with another acknowledged Latin American master of stop-motion animation, Brazil’s Quirino winner Cesar Cabral (“Angeli the Killer,” “Bob Spit – We Do Not Like People”). Written by Tournier and Abano’s Chelo Loureiro, director of “Valentina,” “Small Town” will “start now the process of building more than 200 pieces in an extremely well planned system where Uruguay and Brazil will collaborate, producing an amazing stop motion film,” said Saura.
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