Adding to the momentum of Chile’s energetic push into upscale TV production, the Santiago Intl. Film Festival (Sanfic) is adding a TV strand, Sanfic Series. Focusing on drama series and part of the…
Focusing on drama series and part of the Sanfic Industry forum – after Ventana Sur now one of the biggest of any festival in South America – the section will bow at this August’s festival with the South American premiere of the first two episodes of “Invisible Heroes,” a MipTV and Conecta Fiction hit and flagship title in Chile’s drive into international co-production.
World premiering at MipTV, “Invisible Heroes” was acquired for international distribution by Eccho Rights in news announced just before market. “We wanted to create those feelings, [making them] as real as possible” so that audiences wouldn’t even notice the period production design,” he added.The screening will be followed with a Q & A with the series’ screenwriters, Finland’s Tarja Kylma and Chile’s Manuela Infante . Further activities will explore the fast-burgeoning crossover between cinema and television in Latin America, said Gabriela Sandoval, co-director of Sanfic and head of its industry program.
Sanfic Series comes as the number of Chilean high-end series builds, seen in “Invisible Heroes”; “Mary & Mike,” from Invercine & Wood, produced with Turner Latin America, bowed at Natpe last year; the upcoming “La Jauría”; a Fabula-Fremantle co-production, and soccer corruption scandal thriller “El Presidente,” made by Fabula and Gaumont for Amazon; and “Inés of My Soul,” produced by Spain’s RTVE, Chile’s broadcast network Chilevisión, Spain’s Lagardère-owned...
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