Supernatural Stories, Dark Humor, Hostage Plotlines Converge in 2024 Sanfic-Morbido Lab Lineup: Projects From Caye Casas, Guillermo Amoedo Headline Bold Slate (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comHolly Jones Titles from Caye Casas, whose jarring film “The Coffee Table” earned a nod from Stephen King, and a comeback project from former Eli Roth co-scribe Guillermo Amoedo (“The Inhabitant”), figure into a six-title slate for the fifth edition of the Santiago Int’l Film Festival’s Morbido Lab.
According to Sanfic co-founder Gabriela Sandoval, the competition was tight this year as the strand “had many more applications than in 2023.” Morbido founder and CEO Pablo Guisa Koestinger will be on the ground to advise the talent, both established and budding, leading them towards full development and financing for their chilling projects.
Director Luis Javier Henaine, who recently released genre highlight and Morbido Fest Bronze Skull Winner, “Disappear Completely” and veteran scribe, producer and director Adrian Garcia Bogliano, whose 2012 Title “Here Comes The Devil” swept the Austin Fantastic Fest, will provide additional mentorship.
This year’s selections center on the fantastic, the spiritual and the zany with dark humor in sharp focus in a campy title from Casas, “El Show del Gran Luciferio,” and Marco Caltieri’s executive thriller, “Variable Capital.” The vicious mortal realm and its inherent violence are represented through a chilling kidnapping narrative in Diego Ayala’s “Delivery” and a cannibal-conundrum in Daniel M.
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