Madrid-based Paz Lázaro of Amore Cine collaborated on Sergio Castro San Martín’s “A Thousand Pieces” (“Mil pedazos”) at the Venice Film Festival for “Kill the Jockey” by Luis Ortega and “Quiet Life” by Alexandros Avranas. which is currently filming in Chile.
Amore Cine joins Argentina’s Bikini Films and Pan Contenidos, Spain’s Maluta Films and Castro San Martín’s Chile-based company Latente Films, co-founded with Eduardo Pizarro, in the co-production that will wrap in early October.
Roadmovie follows Isabel (43) and Miguel (53) as they prepare for a holiday with their only daughter Emilia (9). Miguel is the most excited and hopes that this trip will be an opportunity to bridge the gap with his wife. But for Isabel there is no way out of the crisis they face. Emilia, excited about the adventure, captures the desert landscape with her Cybershot camera, but everything comes to a standstill when a tragic accident occurs halfway through.
The cast is led by Daniel Muñoz who plays Miguel, Paola Giannini (Isabel) and Emilia Rodriguez (Emilia).
Victoria Lammers, whose credits include Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden’ and Asghar Farhadi’s ‘Everybody Knows’, is on board as editor.
Castro San Martín will also shoot his next film in Turin, Italy, “Il Cileno”, a co-production between Chile’s Equeco, Italy’s Disparte and Switzerland’s Cinédokké.
Set in 1976 during a wave of mining protests, “Il Cileno” follows Aldo, a young Chilean militant skilled in explosives who is exiled from his home country. Aldo is forced to leave his home, his wife and his newborn son behind to make ends meet in low-paid jobs in Turin. His life takes a turn when he meets a doctor involved in anarchist groups. She offers him the chance to bring his family to Italy, but only if he agrees to return to his former profession: making bombs for revolutionary purposes.
Since his 2009 directorial debut ‘El Paseo’ (2009), Castro San Martín has written and directed a number of films and TV shows, most notably the critically acclaimed limited series ‘La Jauria’ for Fabula and Fremantle. His 2015 feature film ‘The Mud Woman’ (‘La mujer de barro’) was shown at the Berlinale Panorama, where Lázaro was a long-time programmer. “We’ve been in touch ever since,” says Castro, who is thrilled that Lázaro has joined the production.
Lázaro is former head of content and acquisition for Exile Content Studio, one of the co-producers of the two films in Venice that she co-presents on the Lido: the absurdist comedy ‘Kill the Jockey’, in the battle for the Golden Lion, had its world premiere on August 29, where it counts on a whole series of producers led by Argentina’s Rei Pictures (“Zama”, “The Settlers”) and Infinity Hill (“Argentina, 1985”), while “Quiet Life” by Greece’s Weird Wave exponent Avranas takes part in Venice’s Horizons sidebar and also had its world premiere on August 29.
“Kill the Jockey,” which reportedly received a five-minute standing ovation at the Venice Biennale, will make its North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival (TIFF).
Castro San Martin is represented by Constanza Arena of Agencia de Luz.