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Brazil’s Maya Da-Rin, Argentina’s Julia Rodríguez Win Lucrecia Martel Mentorship From Projeto Paradiso, Fondosa Foundation (EXCLUSIVE)
Argentina’s Fondosa Foundation, Brazil’s Projeto Paradiso announce first winners of their screenwriting program.
At least in its version presented in 2022 to the IFF Rotterdam’s CineMart it was described by Da-Rin as a “sensorial and dreamlike experience” set in an environment devastated by soy monoculture, and turning on the growingly deep friendship between Helena, the young daughter of field workers, and Poñy, a solitary Guarani indigenous lady. An increasingly dark comedic parable exposing the limits of human tolerance, Rodríguez’s “Los Zorros Grises” is set in a wealthy gated community in Argentina which is suddenly invaded by a pack of grey foxes which foul gardens, anything left outside and could be a threat, the more fearful residents argue, for pets and even babies. “Through fiction, I want to ask, and for us to ask, about the limits we are capable of crossing when our own interests are at risk,” says Rodríguez, who cites as possible inspirations both the Javier Bardem starrer “The Good Boss,” from Fernando León de Aranoa – in its evolution from laugh-out-loud humor to its revelation of jus how low human despicability can reach, as well as the Argentinian touch of “Wild Tales.”
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