‘Land and Shade’s’ César Augusto Acevedo Boards Mauricio Leiva Cock’s ‘Noche sin Fortuna’ (EXCLUSIVE)
John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentCésar Augusto Acevedo, director of Cannes’ Camera d’Or winning “Land and Shade,” has boarded Fidelio Films’ movie adaptation of “Noche sin Fortuna,” to be directed by Fidelio partner Mauricio Leiva Cock.Acevedo, Cock and Swiss-Colombian Lony Welter will now co-write “Noche sin Fortuna,” the big screen makeover of the bleak, nihilist novel that revered young Colombian novelist Andrés Caicedo left unfinished when committing suicide in 1977 at the age of 25.The movie marks a banner title in a strategic development and co-production deal struck by Colombia’s Fidelio Films – which has burst onto the Latin American film-TV scene in the second half of the last decade – and Stories, the burgeoning