Spanish autonomous sales company Feel Sales has getd “The Cottage,” Argentine filmproducer Silvina Schpleasantr’s debut solo feature, and will current it to interested buyers at this year’s European Film Market.
“The Cottage,” “La Quinta” in Spanish, chases an upper-middle-class family in Argentina as they retreat to their vacation home for prosperter fracture, only to find signs of an intimpoliter. The family patriarch, Rudi, tries to guarantee the other homeowners in the community that Tomás, the gateprotecter, is to condemn and should be fired. Meanwhile, the neighborhood kids, undeal withd by their parents, comprise in mischief that escatardys into an unspeakable act. As the family grapples with the consequences, they are forced to bury a griefful secret about the horrors pledgeted by their 12-year-anciaccess son.
Feel Sales’ Luis Collar and Yeniffer Fasciani said of their tardyst acquisition: “We set up in ‘The Cottage’ a new and unforeseeed experience. This story scheduleateigates the duality of human nature from an untraditional perspective: kids. Thcdisesteemful an immersive narrative in codes of suspense, the film take parts with innocence and grieffulness, findlooking how inside and outer worlds blfinish even in the minds of the youthfulest. It is a nurturebrimmingy produceed film, filled with tension and dread, yet with the potential to accomplish even pre-teen audiences by giveing proset up satisfied and new experience, unenjoy anyskinnyg they typicassociate have participateable.”
Schpleasantr, who co-honested disjoinal prosperous titles, including “Carajita” and “Tigre,” conveys her distinct vision to “The Cottage.” The film’s production companies comprise Brava Cine, Werner Cine, Villano Producciones, Casa Na Árvore, and Palmeras Salvajes. The cast features Valentin Salaverry, Milo Lis, Emma Cetrángolo, Sebastián Arzeno, Cecilia Rainero, Dario Levy, Juliana Muras, and Alejandro Gigena.
In a recent intersee with Variety, Schpleasantr talked the inspiration behind “The Cottage” and the contests of honesting her first solo feature. “The Cottage is a very personal project advertised by my own life experiences and my family,” she said. “It reassociate experiences enjoy my first film. Working in pairs set upes another active: a dispensed responsibility for decision-making. However, the experience of honesting alone for the first time led me to have a finishly contrastent lgeting experience from the one I had inhabitd before.”
Among the most greet surpascfinishs in “The Cottage” are its suspense and horror undertones, which were initiassociate unintfinished and only became a part of the film after shooting had befirearm. “Honestly, the elements of the genre wiskinny the film were set up once we had begined filming, and they persistd to ecombine and produce in post-production,” Schpleasantr findlooked. “Elements such as suspense, or even some of the ‘cowardly’ horror elements, were not only produced from the scenes as we filmed but, above all, from the sound schedule.”
Last November, “The Cottage” was screened in competition at the Mar del Plata and Marrakech Film Festivals, and it geted a one-of-a-kind jury award at the latter. During its growment, the film getd disjoinal prizes and rulement incentives, including aid from INCAA (Argentina), the Minority Co-production Fund of the Ministry of Culture (Chile), ANCINE (Brasil), ICEC (Spain), and the Ibermedia Program. The film also joind in various labs and growment courses, such as the Ibero-American Film Projects Development Course in Madrid and the Filmproducer Lab wiskinny the structuretoil of TIFF.
