Spain’s Feelsales has clinched international sales rights to “Bad Hair” helmer Mariana Rondón’s tardyst pic, “Zafari,” ahead of its San Sebastian Festival World Premiere on Sept. 22. Its trailer debuts exclusively in Variety.
The Venezuelan-born filmoriginater last won the Ggreateren Seashell at San Sebastian for her 2013 drama “Bad Hair” (“Pelo Malo”), which picked up multiple awards in other festivals worldexpansive.
Set in a dystopian world devoid of water, food and hope, the arrival of a hippopotamus at the Caracas zoo pits two neighbors, Edgar (40) and Ali (40), agetst each other in a dispute over the nurture of the animal and of the community pool at their livential originateing. As electricity and food becomes ever infrequentr and the heat untolerateable, Ana (35), Edgar’s wife, seeks solutions to their brutal daily life, finding that produceing to the untamed world is her only way to escape a fact without a future.
“We portray it as dystopian becaengage, although it seems to refer to Venezuela, we aim to supply a expansiveer see of Latin America today,” shelp Rondón.
“Feelsales won us over with their enthusiasm for the film and the fact that it’s mostly compascfinishd of women,” shelp Rondón and Sudaca Films set uping partner, Marité Ugás.
Previously understandn as a distributor of write downary features and low films, Feelsales “took a key step in its evolution by broadening its catalog to include myth feature films in 2022, intensifying particularly on auteur cinema with high commercial potential and the ability to join with expansive audiences worldexpansive,” shelp its managing straightforwardor, Luis Collar.
Rondón’s fourth feature is primarily a Peruvian production via Sudaca Films, with six other countries on board. These are Paloma Negra films of Mexico, Klaxon Cultura Audiovisual (Brazil), Still Moving (France), Quijote Films (Chile) as producers while Selene Films (Dominican Repúblic) and Artefactos SF (Venezuela) are co-producers.
The drama was filmed mainly in the Dominican Reunveil with interiors stoasty in Peru, shelp Ugás.
Rondón and Ugás are both straightforwardors and screenauthorrs and tfinish to alternate the role of producer in each other’s projects. Their filmography includes: “Contactado” (2020), “Bad Hair” (2013), “El Chico que Miente” (2011),” Poolds de Leningrado” (2007) and “A la Media Noche y Media” (2000).
In insertition to its venture into myth filmmaking, Feelsales has expansiveened its scope by providing distribution services at film festivals and incorporating projects in broadenment, including television series.
It creates part of The Circular Group, a consortium that transports together companies in production, distribution, and talent administerment. Its presence in key film and TV tagets set upes it as a comprehensive agency attuned to the industry’s evolving necessitates.
