The Málaga Film Pageant held the closing ceremony for its MAFIZ commerce half on Friday evening. Enterprise-accredited representatives attended, celebrating the tip results of 5 days of intense networking and pitching.
The massive winner from this 12 months’s MAFIZ Work in Progress half was Carlos Saiz’s “Lionel,” produced by Bluconic Films, Blur and Icónica in Spain and Promenade Films in France. The film acquired the Cine y Tele, Sideral, Yagán and REC Pageant prizes.
“‘Lionel’ is a story of reconciliation between a father and son after 20 years apart. By the use of an intimate freeway journey, the film explores the complexity of family bonds and the lasting scars of Lionel’s paternal absence,” Saiz outlined to Choice ahead of this 12 months’s MAFIZ. “Impressed by the real-life story of my buddy Lionel and his family—who portray themselves inside the film—this mission originated from a journey he as quickly as recounted to me. Now, we’ve transformed it proper right into a freeway movie between Spain and France that questions the very essence of what it means to be family.”
Álvaro Samper, worldwide product sales at Sideral, which awarded “Lionel” a €10,000 distribution prize, talked about of the film: “‘Lionel’ is a kind of unusual tales that touches the heart. A ravishing and shifting journey of reconnection between a father and son that speaks to widespread emotions in a way we haven’t seen sooner than. From the first second we spoke with director Carlos Saiz and the producers [Blur, Iconica], we knew it was a great match, and now we’re excited to share it with the world.”
Carlos Sánchez Giraldo’s “No Journey With out Return,” produced by Peru’s Rima Rima Cine, acquired the Málaga Pageant prize for an Ibero-American WIP, the Chemistry Prize and the Yagán Prize. The operate follows Amito, an individual drawn by the choice of his targets, happy he ought to return to his origins. Lizandro, a youthful cameraman, follows him, wanting to review. Nonetheless as their journey unfolds, Amito discovers he’s not who he thought he was, whereas Lizandro is pressured to confront himself for the first time.
The Málaga Pageant prize for a Spanish WIP went to Santiago Esteves’ “The Reborn,” about two estranged brothers and a darkish enterprise: serving to people faux their very personal lack of life. “A complicated operation locations their lives at stake and forces them to stipulate the way forward for their family’s legacy,” reads the film’s synopsis. Argentina’s Le Tiro, Spain’s Zabriskie Films and Chile’s El Otro Film produce the film, which moreover scored MAFIZ’s Rio Bravo Award.
Honors had been break up broadly all through this 12 months’s MAFF half, with “The Queers Riot,” “Tenants” and “Goodbye Berta” each scoring two prizes.
Directed by Wincy Oyarce, a Chilean LGBT pioneer celebrated for 2008’s “Empaná de pino” and 2022 breakout doc-feature “Tan Inmunda y Tan Feliz,” this fiction story choices documentary parts to chart the first recorded homosexual demonstration in Santiago, Chile, organized in April 1973 by a gaggle of youthful boy intercourse workers. Creas Films is producing.
One amongst two MAFF titles from María Paz Barragán, this time as co-writer, director and producer, “Tenants” is an immigration horror operate exploring class, racism and xenophobia nevertheless by way of fashion, establishing to what appears to be like a chilling finale. Appreciated at Iberseries Platino Industria and Ventana Sur’s Proyecta, it’s produced by Batiak Films, behind Berlinale Fipresci winner “The Human Hibernation,” Final Abierto and Elora Submit House co-produce.
Produced by Galicia’s Kraken Media, Tornasol Media and Abano Producións, Fernando Tato’s “Goodbye, Berta” is an development of Tato’s 17-minute wanting the equivalent determine. Throughout the operate, when sister Berta is thrown out of her rehab coronary heart, sister Alicia, who has stable a comfortable life inside the Galician capital of Santiago de Compostela, feels obliged to return to Pobra do Caramiñal, the place she was born. “This reunion marks the beginning of an emotional journey for the two sisters, the place love and resentment intertwine, and the earlier turns right into a burden too heavy to miss,” the logline ends.
The ceremony concluded with emcee Annabelle Aramburu asserting that Panama can be the customer of honor on the twenty ninth model of the Pageant, inside the presence of Panama’s Deputy Minister of Custom, Arianne Benedetti, and the Ambassador to Spain, Héctor Infante de Seda.
MAFIZ AWARDS
MÁLAGA WORK IN PROGRESS
Málaga Pageant Prize (Spain)
“The Reborn,” (“Los Renacidos,” Santiago Esteves, Spain, Argentina, Chile)
Málaga Pageant Prize (Ibero-America)
“No Journey With out Return,” (“No hay ida sin retorno,” Carlos Sánchez Giraldo, Peru)
Arcane Digital Cinema Prize
“Caro nanni,” (Pablo Maqueda, Spain)
Chemistry Prize
“No Journey With out Return,” (“No hay ida sin retornom,” Carlos Sánchez Giraldo, Peru)
Cine y Tele Prize
“Lionel,” (Carlos Saiz, Spain, France)
E-28 Prize
“Water Under no circumstances Hurt,” (“El agua nunca dolió,” Ana Clara Bustelo, Uruguay, Argentina)
Latamcinema.com Prize
“Lack of life and Life Madalena,” (“Morte e Vida Madalena,” Guto Parente, Brazil, Portugal)
Music Library Prize (Spain)
“Future Fog,” (“Futura, La niebla,” María Abenia, Spain)
Music Library Prize (Ibero-America)
“Tropical Fragance,” (“Fragancia tropical,” Alexander Viola, Dominican Republic)
Rio Bravo Award
“The Reborn,” (“Los Renacidos,” Santiago Esteves, Spain, Argentina, Chile)
Sideral
“Lionel,” (Carlos Saiz, Spain, France)
Yagán Prize (Spain)
“Lionel,” (Carlos Saiz, Spain, France)
Yagán Prize (Ibero-America)
“No Journey With out Return,” (“No hay ida sin retorno,” Carlos Sánchez Giraldo, Peru)
Abycine Lanza Participation
“Future Fog,” (“Futura, La niebla,” María Abenia, Spain)
FIDBA Doc Participation
“The Voice of God,” (“A voz de Deus,” Miguel Antunes Ramos, Brazil)
REC Pageant Participation
“Lionel,” (Carlos Saiz, Spain, France)
SANFIC Participation
“The Evening time is a Farce,” (“A noite é uma farsa,” Lucas Weglinski, Brazil)
MÁLAGA FESTIVAL FUND CO-PRODUCTION EVENT (MAFF)
Music Library (Ibro-American)
“Goodbye Berta,” (“Adeus, Berta,” Fernando Tato, Spain)
Music Library (Latin America)
“The Queers Riot,” (“La Rebelión de las Raras,” Wincy Oyarce, Creas Films, Chile)
Music Library Ladies Show Enterprise
“I’m Not Widespread,” (“No Soy Widespread,” Celia de Molina, Spain)
Bolivia Lab. Participation
“Three Summer season Days,” (“Tres días de verano,” Álvaro López Alba, Spain)
Cántico Producciones First Prize
“A Decorous Lady,” (“Una Señorita de Buena Presencia,” Natalia Luque, Chile, France)
Cántico Producciones Second Prize
“Forest Stroll,” (“A Estirada,” Sérgio de Carvalho, Pedro von Krüger, Brazil)
ECAM Dialogue board Prize
“A Decorous Lady,” (“Una Señorita de Buena Presencia,” Natalia Luque, Chile, France)
FIDBA Participation
“The Queers Riot,” (“La Rebelión de las Raras,” Wincy Oyarce, Creas Films, Chile)
SANFIC Participation
“Anoche creí que nadaba,” (Catalina Torres, Eugenia Olascuaga)
Sideral Prize
“Tenants,” (“Se buscan inquilinos,” María Paz Barragán, Peru, Spain)
Térrea Prize
“Claros de bosque,” (Alejandro Salgado e Irene Hens)
“Tenants,” (“Se buscan inquilinos,” María Paz Barragán, Peru, Spain)
MÁLAGA SHORTS CORNER
Festhome Biggest Temporary
“La sangre,” (Joaquín León)
Sarajevo Temporary Endeavor Prize
“Mi casa en una maleta,” (Andrea Torres Sánchez)
“Mar a noite,” (Pablo Garví)
Festivalito Prize
“De Madrid al cielo,” (Pablo Pérez)
“Ya están viniendo,” (Miguel Guindos, Mario Alejandro Arias)
