Sanfic Morbido Lab: Titles From ‘History of the Occult’s Cristian Ponce, ‘Huesera’s’ Edher Campos (EXCLUSIVE)

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John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent“History of the Occult” director Cristian Ponce, “The Trace We Leave Behind” producer André Pereira and “Huesera” producer Edher Campos all have projects at the 3rd Sanfic Morbido Lab, Sanfic’s genre/fantastic film showcase which looks packed with riches.Also noticeable, three of the six projects are set to be directed by female genre auteurs –  Argentina’s Laura Sánchez Acosta, Spain’s Marta Medina del Valle and French-Spanish screenwriter Elisa Puerto Aubel – as women create an ever larger number of the most exciting elevated genre movies coming out of Spain and Latin America.Appropriately enough, given Sanfic takes place in Santiago de Chile, Chile accounts for two projects at the Lab, Daniel Aspillaga’s “Plasma,” a part body horror mockumentary, and Cristián Grez Donoso’s “Magic Word,” turning on an aged and crazed former amusement park actor.

The potential impact of projects is underscored by recent events. On “A Mother’s Embrace,” Pereira at Brazil’s Lupa Filmes – whose “The Trace We Leave Behind” was the highest-grossing Brazilian horror movie in the last 30 years, –  produces Ponce, whose “History of the Occult” was the highest rated horror for Letterboxd’s  2021 Year in Review.Campos , producer of Cannes Festival winners “Leap Year” and “La Jaula de Oro,” produced “La Huesera,” acquired by XYZ Films for U.S.

theatrical release.Many projects draw a bigger social picture.“’Caw’ is a film in which fantasy and genre are not simply tools to tell and preserve folkloric myths and aboriginal monsters but also expose, criticize and denounces an urgent reality in northeastern Argentina: Kidnapping and human trafficking,” said Sánchez Acosta.“I was raised in Soria, the most.