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France’s Caractères and Chile’s Planta Have Boarded San Sebastian Co-Production Forum-bound ‘Hard Boiled School’ (EXCLUSIVE)
France’s Caractères Prods. and Chile’s Planta Prods. have boarded 'Hard Boiled School,' heading to San Sebastian’s Co-Production Forum.
have boarded Argentine Hernán Rosselli’s “Hard Boiled School,” a multi-country production that includes lead producer Un Puma (Argentina) alongside co-producers from Austria (Nabis Filmgroup), Uruguay (Tarkiofilm), Brazil (Multiverso Produções) and Portugal (Oublaum Filmes). Selected to participate in the San Sebastian Film Festival’s Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, “Hard Boiled School” (“La escuela pesada”) underscores the surge in cooperation among international producers as they face a number of headwinds in their respective countries, including higher production costs, state fundings in flux and reduced budgets. “By re-utilizing old film fragments to depict the past, ‘Hard-Boiled School’ seeks to become a reference palimpsest: the careful mise-en-scene of the planning and execution of a bank heist, a classic buddy movie, Pedro Palomar’s biography and a documentary of its own production,” Rosselli explained.
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