LOS CABOS GOES TO CANNES 2017
LOS CABOS GOES TO CANNES 2017 Los Cabos International Film Festival in partnership with Marché
du Film, Festival de Cannes is proud to present for the second time in a row, four Mexican films in progress from some of the country’s most promising filmmakers.
These films are young spirited, independent productions that look to connect with potential partners as producers, sales agents and festival programmers to enrich their current stage from this Goes
to Cannes experience.
SCREENING SUNDAY, MAY 21ST PALAIS K LEVEL 4 PALAIS DES FESTIVALS 14:00 – 16:00 HRS. 1. SEX PANCHITOS PUNK 15 minutes
2. EL SEGUNDO ADVENIMIENTO / THE SECOND COMING 15 minutes
3. MI HERMANO / MY BROTHER 15 minutes
4. AYER MARAVILLA FUI / YESTERDAY WONDER I WAS 15 minutes
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Director’s statement I’m filming this documentary because I found in The Panchitos an honest truth about life. They are border decadent characters who are sensitive and passionate about their lives even though they barely have anything. They cling to their past and these memories dignify them. I found honesty and hope in them even in the middle of their terrible life conditions, they found something to carry on and struggle to improve their lives. They were a criminal organization that terrified the middle and high classes in Mexico City in the mid 80’s. They kidnapped buses and robbed shops to get booze and food for their poor neighbours, still there is no record about them. Now, more than thirty years later, they are paying the consequences either in prison, hospital or in the graveyard. This characters I found keep clinging to that past and to their convictions just to get through their lives.
SEX PANCHITOS PUNK
Ulti awaits his wife’s release from jail to rebuild his family. Chivo Loco –with more years inside prison than out of it– will seek to become an actor once freed this year. Canon wants to be a social avenger to give other Panchitos what he never had. Characters defeated by the city with a past in common that dignifies, but also haunts them. Prison, hospital, graveyard: such is the fate of a Panchito. Sex Panchitos Punk, 30 years later.
DIRECTOR Gustavo Gamou Producer Chantal Elise Guedy, Tatiana Graullera Production company Tatiana Graullera
Genre Documentary Country Mexico Estimated Length 85 min Language Spanish
Current status Advanced shooting stage Pending steps Finish shooting and post-production Goals To find sales agents or distribution outside Mexico. Estimated budget 223,219 USD Money in place 202,000 USD
Contact information: Tatiana Graullera +52 1 55 27374052 tatiana.graullera@gmail.com
Director’s Bio
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PRODUCER’s Bio
Gustavo Gamou graduated from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC) in Mexico. His first documentary La Palomilla Salvaje, premiered at FICCO 2006, won the Best Mexican Documentary Award. In 2013 his documentary feature El Regreso del Muerto, won the Splendor Omnia Award at Los Cabos International Film Festival. In 2015 he obtained the Gabriel Figueroa Film Fund Development Award at Los Cabos International Film Festival for Sex Panchitos Punk (aka FBI).
Tatiana Graullera is an independent producer with special interest in authorial and personal artistic proposals of both documentaries and feature films. Graullera produced, among other films, A Secret World by Gabriel Mariño premiered in Berlinale 62, and her most recent documentary, Guerrero by Ludovic Bonleux premiered in Ambulante 12 this year. She is currently producing A Wild Stream by Nuria Ibañez and Gunpowder Seeds by Arturo González Villaseñor.
Chantal Elise Guedy has a Communications degree and specialized in film production. She has studied Edition at EICTV in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, with Cuban editor Nelson Rodríguez. Since 2005 she has produced more than 10 short films, such as The Room of the Lost Things by director Juliana Fanjul and in 2007, and directed the animation short film Masacre, included in the DVD of The Science of Sleep by Michel Gondry. In 2008 she produced the documentary How To Cross A Border by Tim Parsa.
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Director’s statement I believe that human beings are ever more distanced from nature, to the point that we have stopped considering ourselves a species within the animal kingdom; we see ourselves as separate from any ecosystem. With The Second Coming I seek to make evident the complexity of human relationships presented through the lens of the laws of survival in the animal world. The most basic instincts, we think we’ve left behind as we’ve evolved, are still latent, especially in the way we relate to other human beings and in the constant search for a mate. My research of falconry for over 20 years has led me to understand the attraction a person can develop for a bird of prey, to the point that a symbiotic relationship is generated. This project is based on the experiences of falconers who thanks to their birds manage to find meaning in their lives and operate within the structures imposed by society as well as visually exploring the excessive growth of Mexico City and the repercussions this has on the lives of its inhabitants. The Second Coming will explore the lives of three real characters who practice falconry and depend on it as if it were an anxiolytic in order to face their harsh reality.
el segundo advenimiento THE SECOND COMING
The Second Coming intimately explores the lives of three falconers and how their birds help them survive their harsh reality, researching the possibilities of the connective relationship with animals that can exist beyond words.
DIRECTOR Miguel Calderón Producer Tatiana Graullera Production company Tatiana Graullera
Genre Documentary Country Mexico Estimated Length 90 min Language Spanish
Current status Advanced shooting stage Pending steps Finishing shooting, editing and post-production Goals To find funding to complete shooting and finish film by the end of 2017. To connect with sales agents, distributors and festival programmers.
Estimated budget 159, 816 USD Money in place 63,924 USD
Contact information: Tatiana Graullera +52 1 55 27374052 tatiana.graullera@gmail.com
Director’s Bio Miguel Calderón, (Mexico City 1971) works in various mediums such as photography, writing, experimental film and video. He was co-founder of the non-profit art space, “La Panadería”, which helped promote new art tendencies in Latin America, starting in 1994. His exhibitions include The Sao Paolo Biennial, Museo Tamayo, The Yokohama Triennial.
PRODUCER’s Bio Tatiana Graullera is an independent producer with special interest in authorial and personal artistic proposals of both documentaries and feature films. Graullera produced, among other films, A Secret World by Gabriel Mariño premiered in Berlinale 62, and her most recent documentary, Guerrero by Ludovic Bonleux premiered in Ambulante 12 this year. She is currently producing A Wild Stream by Nuria Ibañez and Gunpowder Seeds by Arturo González Villaseñor.
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Director’s statement How to trust in new bonds of affection when others in the past have already failed? Alexey, a child who is not fully aware of what happened in his past, but whose emotional memory is overwhelming, opens new horizons for bringing value and meaning to life. His vital drive to transform himself is an early trait of maturity that calls for sharing. His body and dance, which are Alexey’s refuge, are the elements that allow his strength to come forth. This film explores the relationship between two brothers, who constantly trust and mistrust the solidity of their bonds. At the same time it explores the relationship of a young artist, Alexey, with his only weapon and his only home: his body. I rely more on showing the condition of abandonment in the daily life of these children and focusing on the dilemmas it inflicts upon their relationships; only then it is possible to touch the orphanhood we all bear inside as humans. Years ago, I centered my attention on Alexey’s motivation in looking after his brother Mateo. I see this relationship, which I have followed for years, as the purest manifestation of affection: the elected brotherhood, the shared orphanhood.
MI HERMANO MY BROTHER
DIRECTOR Alana Simões Producer Nicolás Celis, Sebastián Celis, Alana Simões, Alejandro Durán
Production company Cinematrópodos / Pimienta Films / Gavilan Cine
Genre Documentary Country Mexico Estimated Length 70 min Language Spanish / Russian Alexey was born in Russia where he was adopted by Gabriela, a single woman. Later, the family adopted another child. Doomed from the start by abandonment, mother and children struggle everyday to build reciprocal bonds of trust. Despite the siblings’ internal crises, their shared sense of “orphanhood” is also the key to their strength; and the way they navigate the world is through their mutual support.
Current status Post-production Pending steps Sound mix, music clearance Goals To complete financing. To find an international festival to premiere in.
Estimated budget 200,000 USD Money in place 160,000 USD Contact information: Nicolás Celis +52 1 55 56153925 nicolas@pimientafilms.com www.pimientafilms.com
Director’s Bio
Alana Simões has filmed several and awarded short films as Dual-Me, Marti, Free Taxi and From Wine To The Arctic. She was International Manager at DOCMA Documentary Film Association of Madrid and Co-creator of the cultural event 3XDOC CREATORS MEETING. Currently she is finishing her feature documentary My Brother, produced by Pimienta Films. She is also developing Third Act, her new film and Mexican Dream, a documentary TV series, both produced by Cinematópodos.
PRODUCER’s Bio
Nicolás Celis, founder of Pimienta Films, is a Mexican producer who has gained a reputation for working on original projects of high artistic content and great impact. He has worked with major directors including Jonas Cuarón (screenwriter of the acclaimed film Gravity), Amat Escalante (winner Cannes Film Festival Best Director award for Heli), and Tatiana Huezo (awarded with the Best Documentary Fenix Award for Tempestad). He is currently in post-production for Alfonso Cuarón’s new film.
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Director’s statement This project sprang from my fascination with Mexico City and my obsession with the human body. For me this city is like a diseased entity, that pathologically keeps existing without direction, nor destiny; a weary place yet ready to explode, violent and tender, cruel and funny, heartless and full of compassion. I’ve seen almost supernatural things here, everyone adapts to the city, if you don’t you’re dead, so I began imagining the existence of a changing entity, maybe an essence that slips through the shadows and keeps a big secret, a hex, a condition that condemns him to be alone and aside; but still capable of falling in love. I like to imagine the human body as the last frontier, the end of my senses and my physical existence, the shell that contains my chaos. I’ve always fantasized with changing bodies for a day, to feel and see from the inside of another skin, other eyes. All those fantasies came together in this project. This film had no script. I wrote a fifteen-page story as a blueprint to begin a search into improvisation, pushing my own ways to make cinema. For me this film is a crazy and intimate letter to my own obsessions and to the city that I hate and love equally.
AYER MARAVILLA FUI YESTERDAY WONDER I WAS
DIRECTOR Gabriel Mariño Producer Gabriela Gavica, Gabriel Mariño, Isaac Montecillo Production company UnMundo Genre Fiction Country Mexico Estimated Length 87 min Language Spanish Current status Close to Final Cut (this status could change based on further counseling)
The existence of a lonely figure in Mexico City is endured by uncontrollably usurping bodies every so often, making his essence travel through the bodies of men and women. The boredom and hopelessness of this being are confronted by the love for Luisa and the need to be with her. He begins a struggle to communicate that love through differents faces and bodies hoping to be with her in spite of his condition.
Pending steps Image and sound post-production Goals To connect with investors to finish the film. To meet festival programmers, sales agents and distributors.
Estimated budget 300,000 USD Money in place 270,000 USD Contact information: Gabriel Mariño +52 1 55 37313180 ayermaravilla@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/Ayer-Maravilla-FuiUn-Mundo-Secreto-119885774733107/
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PRODUCER’s Bio
Gabriel Mariño was born in Puebla, Mexico. He studied Film at Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC), graduating with honours (2007) with his acclaimed documentary Bardo. His first feature film, A Secret World, was supported by the Visions Sud Est production grant (2011), selected in San Sebastian’s films in progress and had its world premiere at Berlinale’s Generation (2012). He has been grant recipient of FICCO, TyPa Foundation and IBERMEDIA and featured by Variety as one of nine Latin American filmmakers to follow.
Gabriela Gavica studied a B.A. in Communications and an M.A. in Film Production at Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC). She worked in film and television, heading production of Top Chef Mexico (2015) for NBC Universal and Sony Mexico. She is currently a partner of the production and distribution company MANDARINA CINE. She produced Gabriel Mariño’s Ayer Maravilla Fui and the musical documentary series Bands in Construction. Her upcoming production will be the second feature film by Álvaro Curiel, Vagoneros.
Isaac Montecillo was born in Celaya, Guanajuato. He studied a B.A. in Communication at Lasallista Benavente University. From 2003 to 2006, he was part of the Organizing Committee of several film festivals in Mexico, including Guanajuato, Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara, Chihuahua and Morelia. He has wide experience in different roles in TV and Film production. Currently, he produces and directs personal projects through his production company ‘Open House’. In 2016 he directed the short film Mixcoatl.