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Sanfic 2024: More Festival and Industry Growth, Chile’s Film Prowess and This Year’s Highlights and Deals
From a slew of arresting debuts to a flurry of industry news, Sanfic and Sanfic Industry delivered a vibrant 2024 edition.
*Adapting Chilean author Isabel Allende’s career-launching novel, Prime Video Original “The House of the Spirits’ has gone into production, with Francisca Alegría and Fernanda Urrejola (“The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future”) writing and also showrunning the series alongside seasoned local director/producer Andrés Wood (“News of a Kidnapping”). *Chile’s Los Bunkers, one of the most admired of Latin America’s rock bands, has signed on to score “The Last Witness” (“El Ultimo Testigo”), a doc feature portrait of Luis Poirot, who has snapped Allende on the campaign trail, a radiant Victor Jara and Pablo Neruda at his writing desk down to the 2019 social protest Estallido and to this day. *Santiago Lab Fiction entry “Cupid’s arrow,” the directorial debut of Chile’s Ernesto Melendez, winner of the Guadalajara Co-Production Meeting Award, has signed key cast in Aline Kuppenheim (“1976”), Alejandro Goic (“1976”) and Francisca Gavilán (“Violeta Went to Heaven”).
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