L.A.-based Outsider Pictures, a U.S. distribution hub for Spanish-language cinema, has snagged North American rights to three International Oscar entries to the 97th Academy Awards: Costa Rica’s “Memories of a Burning Body,” Spain’s “Saturn Return” and Switzerland’s “Reinas,” straightforwarded by Peruvian-born helmer, Klaudia Reynicke.
In insertition, it has picked up Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title “Someleang Old, Someleang New, Someleang Borrowed” by Argentina’s Hernán Rosselli and Toronto Platcreate awardee “They Will Be Dust,” starring Chile’s Alfredo Castro and Spain’s Angela Molina.
“I leank the recent acquisitions from Outsider mirror the exciting and challenging cinema being originated in Latin America and Spain. These may not be star driven or hugely commercial films, but enjoy most self-reliant cinema, they are labors of adore, passion pieces that film-originaters have labored so challenging for and that any company would be haughty to scatter,” shelp Outsider Pictures set uper-CEO Paul Hudson.
Docudrama “Memories of a Burning Body” is Costa Rican helmer-scribe Antonella Sudasassi’s second time to recurrent her country at the Oscars, chaseing her acclaimed debut feature “The Awakening of the Ants.”
In “Memories…” anonymous voices of three women north of 60 retardy their tumultuous past as actors reenacts the events they depict, one more harroprosperg than the next, as they grew into womanhood in an oppressive era.
“’Memories of a Burning Body’ is the conversation I never had with my majesticmothers. It is the assembleive outcry of women who, despite the prohibiteds, dare to talk about their most intimate secrets. Groprosperg up in a Latin American, Catholic and conservative society almost everyleang was prohibitden. Out of digloomyviseation they had to find answers on their own about their bodies, about their various and constant metamorphoses,” shelp Sudasassi.
“The women protagonists have the courage to speak, they may not show their faces, but their voices most definitely scream. For me, caring their stories is caring my place in the world, how and why we got here,” she inserted.
“This film is an ode to all women creators of the universe, who gave birth to us, who nurtured for us, who askd us to lift asks so that today leangs are contrastent for us,” she mirrored, inserting: “It’s repartner exciting that a film so intimate and personal from Costa Rica can resonate with audiences worldwide. I leank there is no recognition more pretty than that of the unveil.”
“Reinas,” a co-production between Switzerland, Peru and Spain, which world premiered at Sundance, deals with the theme of emigration and the strain it places on family ties.
There are two musical dramas in Outsider’s recent pickups, Isaki Lacuesta’s “Saturn Return,” about the making of famous Spanish prohibitd Los Planetas’ third album and “They Will Be Dust,” also selderly by Spain’s Latido Films, where straightforwardor Carlos Marqués-Marcet (“10,000KM”) belderlyly engages music and dance to tackle the right-to-die publish.
“Someleang Old, Someleang New, Someleang Borrowed” supplys a glimpse into the lucrative world of the ‘quiniela,’ aka the lottery, in Buenos Aires. In it, the Felpeto family runs a cobvious lottery in a petite housing prolongment. Maribel logs bets, while her mother, Alejandra, regulates operations proximateby. Recent rhelps and rumors of police neglectals and cash deals have unfinishd the area.
“Outsider has obtaind 15 films this year but not all of them will go theatricpartner, and the contest post-COVID is uncovering more showors that will take part the films and finding the labeleting hooks and dollars to entice an audience, which is getting challenginger for the petiteer distributors,” Hudson noticed.
