San Sebastian – “Samuel and the Light” snagged the main prize for best project at San Sebastian’s 26th Lau Haizetara‘s Documentary Co-production Forum.A co-production between Brazil’s Sendero Filmes and France’s Le-loKal follows an initially five-year-old kid over five years in Brazilian fishing village Ponta Negra depicting his growth and awareness of the complex reality of his native country, and its contradictions –modernity and tradition, luxury and waste, nature and technology.The Treeline Award –a Consultancy Award regarding distribution and festivals– went to Martina Matzkin and Gabriela Uassouf’s “The Caretaker,” an emotional but analytical insight in two seemingly incompatible and historically marginalized worlds –transsexual women and senior adults –the first taking care of the second.
Argentina’s Groncho Estudio produces.Projects sparking large interest took in “Robin Bank” from Spain and Argentina’s “Ocho cuentos sobre la hipoacusia.”Directed by Anna Giralt and produced by Barcelona and Bogotá-based Gusano Films,
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