Fandango picks up award-winning “Hotel Cambridge”September 20, 2016 - 11:36 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Rome-based Fandango Sales, the sales arm of Domenico Procacci’s production shingle Fandango, has taken all international rights on Eliane Caffè’s “Hotel Cambridge” which world premiered Sept. 19 at the San Sebastian Festival’s Horizontes Latinos, a Latin America showcase. The first reactions from audiences in the theater were upbeat, Variety said. Wanda Films has taken rights for Spain. It will be released in 2017, Wanda topper José María Morales confirmed. “Cambridge” will bow in Brazil in February via distribution house Vitrine. “Cambridge” is produced by São Paulo’s Aurora Filmes in co-production with Paris’ Tu Vas Voir, Madrid’s Nephilim Producciones and I Apoio. A vivid portrait of homeless in São Paulo, “Cambridge” took the Industry Award at San Sebastian’s 2015 pix-in-post showcase Films in Progress, one of festival’s main industry events. “Hotel Cambridge” is the fourth feature of São Paulo-born Caffè who after her debut “Kenoma,” which won a Golden Sun at the Biarritz International Festival of Latin American Cinema, has gained an international reputation especially from her second outing, “The Storytellers,” winner of a Fipresci award at the Fribourg Festival and an Audience Award at the Rio de Janeiro Fest). Fandango’s lineup largely offers Italian and other-European filmmaker, but it now showing an increasing interest in Latin American cinema. The company is handling sales on Sergio Mazza’s “El Guri” and Victor Gaviria’s “The Animal’s Wife.” “’Cambridge’ is a very powerful film not only because of the subject, which is contemporary, crucial and international, but also for the strength of the direction and the personal style,” Raffaella Di Giulio, Fandango head of international sales, told Variety. “The industry readily recognised these qualities last year in San Sebastian. It was the first time I saw the film and the impression was truly strong,” she added. Top stories Ara Aivazian said Azerbaijan continues the traditions of Turkey after seizing territories and forced Armenians out. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | Viva sees growing demand for cloud services In recent years, medical institutions are starting to make use of Viva’s cloud services Turkey replacing term "Central Asia" with "Turkestan" in textbooks The Turkish Ministry of Education is replacing the term "Central Asia" with "Turkestan" in textbooks. Armenian, German presidents meet in Berlin Armenian and German Presidents Vahagn Khachaturyan and Frank-Walter Steinmeier met in Berlin. Armenia assumes presidency of Mediterranean Network of Regulatory Authorities The Commission on Television and Radio of Armenia said it expects productive cooperation in various formats. |