Ventana Sur Unveils “Animation!” Sidebar Lineup

The Ventana Sur (ventana-sur.com) movie and tv market has finalized the lineup for its Animation! sidebar, presenting animated options and collection from each established and up-and-coming Latin American abilities. This yr’s occasion takes place in Montevideo, Uruguay from December 2-6.

The market established Animation! as a chance for producers from Latin America and professionals from different components of the world to attach. This system presents pitches for initiatives searching for strategic alliances, networking actions, spherical tables, workgroups with worldwide specialists and pitching coaching classes.

This yr’s animation pitching classes contains function animation debut initiatives from Chilean stop-motion animator Hugo Covarrubias, who was nominated on the 2022 Oscars for his brief, Beast, and award-winning Argentinian-Spanish director Pablo Agüero (Eva Doesn’t Sleep, Primera Nieves).

Characteristic Movies

Baptism
Dir: Hugo Covarrubias
Prod: Lucas Engel
Comp: Pista B
Chile

After dropping a VHS tape of his baptism, Héctor makes an attempt to fill-in the gaps of his childhood recollections, which ran parallel to the army dictatorship.

The Manufacturing facility Past the Hill 
Dir: Ricardo Kump & Lucas Abrahão
Prod: Lucas Pelegrino
Comp: LPB Content material & Midday Movies
Brazil & Spain

Primarily based on the brief story by J.J. Veiga set within the Brazilian countryside.

Gravityland
Dir: Pablo Agüero
Prod: Maximiliano Monzon, Nicolás Britos & María Sol Cifuentes
Comp: Cosmic Brew Studios & Mil Monos Cine
Argentina & Spain

Investigating Earth’s gravity area, a speleologist disappears — after a gravity shift, her youngsters climb into the planet’s core to seek out her.

Hua Awakens
Dir: Daniel Chang Acat
Prod: Saul Anampa Mesias
Comp: Bicicleta Casa Audiovisual
Peru

Peruvian-born Chinese language teen Cheng struggles along with his twin id. After arguing along with his father, he’s transported to an historic Chinese language village the place he battles a darkish spirit to reconcile his roots. 

Penelope’s Uncommon Journey
Dir: Luah Garcia & Franco Dadone
Prod: Tiago Grigor
Comp: Cactus Child Studio y Bullabesa Movies
Brazil & Peru

Up towards a myriad of challenges, three animals return a younger blue whale discovered within the Amazon to the ocean.

TV Collection

Dani’s Fiction Guidelines
Dir: Coty Luzoro
Prod: Kike Ortega
Comp: PATAKA
Chile

Dani, a self-aware fictional character, revels within the freedom to create her personal tales on a clean web page.

Foldara
Dir: Danna Galeano
Prod: Monique Henry-Hudson
Comp: Dream in Movement
Mexico

Three unlikely heroes enterprise by way of treacherous realms to avoid wasting their fragile origami habitat from forces decided to unravel it.

Knight TV
Dir: Nat Solis
Prod: Nat Solis
Costa Rica

A foolhardy rescue try ensues as a squire and headstrong knight deem native witch Amalia is in want of a savior. To their dismay, she’s employed a dragon to maintain them from disturbing her peace.

Married with Celu
Dir: Dalmiro Buigues
Prod: Martin Dasnoy & Ignacio Godoy
Comp: Buda.television
Argentina

A pair turns into a throuple after they convey an AI into their lives that is aware of them higher than they know one another.

Pipa and Snail
Dir: Alex Ribondi & Ricardo Makoto
Prod: Ricardo Hasebe
Comp: Mesinha Amarela
Brazil

Twins Pipa and Snail embark on adventures in a magical forest, the place a flying whale marks the passage of time and stars seem as butterflies.

Sacha
Dir: Keila Cepeda Satán
Prod: Keila Cepeda Satán
Comp: Díscolo Studio
Ecuador & Spain

Sacha, a type of Amazonian sasquatch — half-man, half-beast, half-plant, half-Greta Thunberg — and constant companion Nuna, a gullible capybara, provide you with absurd plans to make the encroaching people depart their bountiful forest dwelling. 

Display Heads
Dir: Maria Coello
Prod: Fabian Flores
Comp: Rayo Púrpura
Chile

The misadventures of greatest buddy Felipe and Diego educate younger viewers the hazards of complicated actual life with fiction.

Superchance
Dir: Juan Gallo
Prod: Micaela Tcherkassky & Itati Romero
Comp: Cine HHH & Osa Estudio
Uruguay & Argentina

In a mysterious grocery store which traps buyers who repress their wishes, a band of captives wrestle to seek out technique of escape.

Mentoring Program for Feminine Creators

The Adventures to Terraverde
Dir: Paula Verrua
Prod: Mar Civetta & Paulina Martínez
Comp: Pururú Studio
Argentina

A trio of animals displaced from their pure habitat — Huillín, a kindly river otter; Chipi, a grumpy pudú; and Guazú, a smart aguará guazú — make the lengthy journey to Terraverde, a pure reserve. Alongside the way in which, they discover new ecosystems, their wildlife.

S’Up, Xmas!
Dir: Camila Padilha
Prod: Diogo Dahl
Comp: Coqueirão Photos
Brazil

On an island the place daily is Carnaval, a mischievous lady rebels towards the adults to have fun a wierd occasion she discovers whereas rummaging by way of her deceased mom’s belongings: Christmas!

The Treasures of Marta
Dir: Antonia Venegas González
Prod: Rodrigo Venegas Vargas
Comp: Supahpure Studios
Chile

When three scouts discover the journal of their scout heroine, Marta, they embark on a hunt for the treasures she secreted throughout Chile. 

[Sources: Ventana Sur, Variety]