PUENTES project MATAR UN MUERTO now in post-production
In post-production September 2018
PUENTES project MATAR UN MUERTO (KILLING THE DEAD) by Hugo Giménez, producer: PUENTES graduate Gabriela Sabaté is in post-production.
Paraguay 1978, during Stroessner’s dictatorship, Pastor and Dionisio work burying bodies illicitly. In Argentina, the World Cup is being held. One morning, among the bodies, they find Mario, who is still alive. They know they must kill him but the problem is: in spite if what they are doing, they have never killed anyone before. A storm indicates that the winter is coming while the destiny of the three men is determined during the World Cup final. Both Pastor and Dionisio are the last link of a chain in the terrible system that has as a result in all the missing people. The film is supported by the Hubert Bals Fund, the World Cinema Fund and the Secretaría Nacional de Cultura of Paraguay.
THE LAST SERB IN CROATIA by Predrag Licina, producer: EAVE graduate, group leader and Croatian National Coordinator Ankica Juric Tilic and EAVE graduate and Serbian National Coordinator Miroslav Mogorovic is in post-production.
The plot: Croatia, seven years after the country declared bankruptcy. The small group of the rich is even richer, and the poor are even poorer, but a more important battle is waged around the world – water has become more precious than oil, and power and authority depend upon the number of water sources and water availability. In order to get water, the world power-wielders stop at nothing: they declare wars, destroy, conquer – and even slip in the zombie virus! The Croatian/Serbian zombie comedy is produced by Kinorama in co-production with Art & Popcorn. The project is supported by both the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC) and Film Center Serbia (FCS). Shooting took place on location in Zagreb and its surroundings in the summer of 2018.
A WHITE, WHITE DAY by Hlynur Palmason, producer: EAVE graduate Anton Mani Svansson, co-producers: PUENTES graduates Kathrin Pors and Nima Yousefi, and TTB graduate Mikkel Jersin is in post-production.
In this “mystery drama about deception, grief, sacrifice and unconditional love“, an off-duty police chief starts to suspect a local man of having an affair with his wife, who recently died in a car accident. As he builds a house for his daughter and granddaughter, his obsession with finding out the truth intensifies, and inevitably begins to endanger both him and his entourage. The film is being produced by Join Motion Pictures, Slowglobe, Hob Ab and Film i Väst, support comes from the Icelandic Film Centre. Filming will be completed by the end of September, and the premiere is scheduled for autumn 2019.
Page published 28 September 2018.
