Mekincine Sells Elegant to Cinephobia, Picks up Tarea Fina’s ‘Alemania’

BUENOS AIRES —  Buenos Aires-based Meikincine Leisure, probably the most energetic gross sales brokers at this yr’s Ventana Sur, has closed the U.S. and Canada with Cinephobia Releasing on “Elegant,” produced by Buenos Aires’ Tarea Fina and a standout at Ventana Sur’s 2021 Copia Closing pix-in-post competitors.

“Elegant” went on to world premiere at Berlin’s Technology 14-Plus strand this February. 

In parallel, Meikincine has picked up world gross sales rights exterior Argentina to Tarea Fina’s newest characteristic, “Alemania,” directed by Maria Zanetti (“Furia”), which wraps its shoot on Dec. 2.  

A coming of age story “Elegant” marks the characteristic debut of Argentina’s Mariano Biasin, who scored a Crystal Bear for greatest brief movie on the 2016 Berlinale Technology KPlus for “El inicio de Fabrizio.”

“Elegant” activates Manuel, 16, as he struggles with need, tangled relationships and a coalescing identification in a coastal Argentinian city. 

“Anchored by a soundtrack performed out on display by Manuel’s band, the movie tackles the challenges of recent youth via its characters’ endearing awkwardness and unbounded hope – and simply sufficient teenage brooding,” based on Selection.

“Elegant is a young and fascinating coming of age movie that splendidly exemplifies right now’s vibrant Argentinian movie scene. We’re excited in bringing the movie to North American audiences.” stated distrib veteran Raymond Murray, founding father of TLA Releasing and Artsploitation Movies and now president of Cinephobia Releasing, his new distribution firm. 

The characteristic debut of Zanetti, a commercials, vid-clip movie director, and a teen woman’s coming of age drama set for essentially the most half in a city close to Buenos Aires, “Alemania” was offered at San Sebastian’s 2021 Co-Manufacturing Discussion board the place it received the Artekino Worldwide Prize. 

Lead produced by Juan Pablo Miller at Tarea Fina with Jose Alenda at Spain’s Solita Movies, the dramedy activates Lola, 16, a struggling highschool pupil who all of a sudden has the possibility to review a time period in Germany. However her dad and mom can’t afford her journey, having gone deep into debt to pay psychiatric therapy for Ella’s older sister, as soon as good, now affected by bipolar despair.

As her dad and mom battle to treatment their daughter, Lola is left to her personal gadgets, struggling to discover a sense of identification, and pained on the the growing distance from her sister and the tip of her childhood. 

Primarily based on Zannetti’s private expertise, “Alemania” was written as means of catharsis, with “actuality reworked by reminiscence,” captured by means of classic lenses, Bresson model, she says in a director’s assertion. 

“Alemania” stars Maite Aguilar, Miranda de La Serna, Maria Ucedo, Walter Jacob  and Andy Pruss. 

Miller’s Tarea Fina produced “Las Acacias,” directed by Pablo Giorgelli,  which was awarded the Cannes Competition’s Digital camera d’Or for greatest first characteristic by a jury presided by “Parasite’s” Bong Joon Ho. 

Additional Tarea Fina’s prizes absorb greatest movie on the 2015 Berlin Competition’s Technology KPlus (“Pure Sciences,” by Matias Luchessi); the TCM Youth Award on the 2019 San Sebastian Competition (Ana Garcia Blaya’s “The Good Intentions”); and greatest movie on the 2019 Havana Movie Competition (“The Sleepwalkers”). 

Tarea Fina’s productions additionally produced Ariel Rotter’s “Incident Gentle” which swept the Argentine Academy Awards in 2016, successful greatest movie, director and artwork director.