Anna Marie de la Fuente France’s Caractères Productions and Chile’s Planta Prods. have boarded Argentine Hernán Rosselli’s “Hard Boiled School,” a multi-country production that includes lead producer Un Puma (Argentina) alongside co-producers from Austria (Nabis Filmgroup), Uruguay (Tarkiofilm), Brazil (Multiverso Produções) and Portugal (Oublaum Filmes).
Selected to participate in the San Sebastian Film Festival’s Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, “Hard Boiled School” (“La escuela pesada”) underscores the surge in cooperation among international producers as they face a number of headwinds in their respective countries, including higher production costs, state fundings in flux and reduced budgets.
Currently at the financing stage, the drama follows real-life legendary Argentine thief Pedro Palomar who has been released from prison after serving a 10-year sentence for armed robbery.
Once he gets out, he is surprised to learn that he is now in charge of a former partner’s daughter. Said its helmer-scribe Rosselli: “Like ‘Mauro,’ my previous film, and ‘Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed,’ recently premiered at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight, ‘Hard Boiled School’ combines professional actors with people whose real selves and their characters don’t have such clear boundaries.
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