San Sebastian’s WIP Latam: Grounded Tales & Genre From a Chilean True Horror Tale to the Return of the Antichrist in Colombia
variety.comLatAmCinema.com. Yet genre surfaces in disparate ways: the mix of coming of age, apocalypse and fantasy in “Mi Bestia”; the true-life horror of “Maybe It’s True What They Say About Us”; the sense of surreal in Colombia’s “Jungle.” As LatAmCinema.com notes, multiple titles are co-productions, a fact martín hazards, could be for the reduction in moneys from Argentina’s INCAA film institute, with Argentine titles dominating in the selection.
This year, of the total six films at WIP Latam, four come from Argentina, one from Chile and one from Colombia. They will compete for the WIP Latam Industry and the EGEDA Platino Industry awards.
As ever, WIP Latam serves as a new talent showcase. Four of the WIP Latam contenders are first or second features. Debutants take in Beltrán, director of the awaited “Mi bestia,” which as a project snagged the ArteKino International Award in the San Sebastian’s Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum in 2020. “Reas,” another WIP Latam competitor, marks the second film by Argentine playwright and writer Lola Arias (“Theater of War”), winner of the HEAD Pitchings du Réel Award at Visions du Réel in 2020.
Co-produced by Gabriela Sandoval and Carlos Nuñez’s Storyboard in Chile and La Jauría Comunicaciones in Argentina, “Maybe It’s True What They Say About Us,” directed by Camilo Becerra and Sofía Paloma Gómez, turns around Chile’s horrific Colliguay sect.
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