The film wiill be written and directed by Alex Balassa.
Mexico-based director Alex Balassa, who garnered a non-scripted Emmy nomination for 2010 project The Expedition, is gearing up to make his debut feature Dear Eszter as a Chile-Germany co-production.
It is being produced by Chilean producer María Elena Wood, whose credits include Sundance winner Violeta Went To Heaven, and Germany’s Bastian Griese of Germany’s Mmc Studio, best known for Amelie.
Dear Eszter is being presented in the Producers Pitching Their Projects, at the European Film Market this week.
Inspired by the life of Balassa’s grandmother is about a...
Mexico-based director Alex Balassa, who garnered a non-scripted Emmy nomination for 2010 project The Expedition, is gearing up to make his debut feature Dear Eszter as a Chile-Germany co-production.
It is being produced by Chilean producer María Elena Wood, whose credits include Sundance winner Violeta Went To Heaven, and Germany’s Bastian Griese of Germany’s Mmc Studio, best known for Amelie.
Dear Eszter is being presented in the Producers Pitching Their Projects, at the European Film Market this week.
Inspired by the life of Balassa’s grandmother is about a...
- 2/22/2023
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
German production outfit Mmc Studios (“Amelie”) is backing romanic drama “Dear Eszter,” from writer/director Alex Balassa.
Bastian Griese and Lucas Hamacher will produce the film for Mmc Studios in Cologne, alongside Balassa.
The film’s co-producers include Peter Seres (“World War Z”) at Hungary’s Punk Films, as well as Ondrej Beranek (“The Chronicles of Narnia”) from the Czech Republic’s Blindspot Capital.
Two of Chile’s foremost TV producers, Maria Elena Wood (“Locas Mujeres”) and Patricio Pereira from Maria Wood Producciones (Mew), serve as executive producers.
Said Wood: “We are delighted that Sebastian Griese and Mmc are joining the project from Germany.”
Balassa and partner Marisol Mijares are producing through the Balassa Films (“Sweet Little Lies”) shingle. Balassa will direct from a script that he co-wrote with a number of writers, including Mijares, Mexico’s Alejandro Orozco, and Mario P. Székely (“And Your Mother Too”).
Based on the story of his grandmother,...
Bastian Griese and Lucas Hamacher will produce the film for Mmc Studios in Cologne, alongside Balassa.
The film’s co-producers include Peter Seres (“World War Z”) at Hungary’s Punk Films, as well as Ondrej Beranek (“The Chronicles of Narnia”) from the Czech Republic’s Blindspot Capital.
Two of Chile’s foremost TV producers, Maria Elena Wood (“Locas Mujeres”) and Patricio Pereira from Maria Wood Producciones (Mew), serve as executive producers.
Said Wood: “We are delighted that Sebastian Griese and Mmc are joining the project from Germany.”
Balassa and partner Marisol Mijares are producing through the Balassa Films (“Sweet Little Lies”) shingle. Balassa will direct from a script that he co-wrote with a number of writers, including Mijares, Mexico’s Alejandro Orozco, and Mario P. Székely (“And Your Mother Too”).
Based on the story of his grandmother,...
- 2/21/2023
- by Liza Foreman
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid — Upcoming trans-Atlantic dark comedy “Villa Santa” will pitch at this year’s first edition of the Ficg TV Pitchbox at the Guadalajara Intl Film Festival, a pitching and networking event hosted by Spain’s Filmarket Hub where promising TV projects can seek out co-producers, distribution or sales.
“Villa Santa” was created and is lead-written by Sergio Siruela, a Spanish ex-pat living in Mexico, who is also tentatively set to direct an as-yet undecided number of Season 1’s 13 episodes. Currently he is directing Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Mexican adaptation of the Spanish series “Los Protegidos,” which will be called “Los Elegidos” in Mexico. Writing with him on “Villa Santa” are screenwriters Jesús Prieto and Gabriela Ivette Sandoval, who wrote and directed “Okay, It’s Fine” which scored two awards at last year’s Ficg Construye.
The series is produced by Alex Balassa’s Mexico-city based production outlet Balassa Films and...
“Villa Santa” was created and is lead-written by Sergio Siruela, a Spanish ex-pat living in Mexico, who is also tentatively set to direct an as-yet undecided number of Season 1’s 13 episodes. Currently he is directing Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Mexican adaptation of the Spanish series “Los Protegidos,” which will be called “Los Elegidos” in Mexico. Writing with him on “Villa Santa” are screenwriters Jesús Prieto and Gabriela Ivette Sandoval, who wrote and directed “Okay, It’s Fine” which scored two awards at last year’s Ficg Construye.
The series is produced by Alex Balassa’s Mexico-city based production outlet Balassa Films and...
- 3/5/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The eight selected projects set to participate in this year’s inaugural edition of the Ficg TV Pitchbox, have been announced by the event’s organizers, Filmarket Hub.
In timing and location, part of Mexico’s Guadalajara Festival, the event has the potential to become an important pit-stop in Latin America’s already vibrant circuit of TV events.
Chile features as this year’s guest country of honor at Guadalajara, and is well represented among the selected projects. In recent years the country stands out as a leader in high-end content in both film and television. The latter, however, is far less known.
Oscar wins were scored by Sebastián Lelio’s “A Fantastic Woman” and the animated short “Bear Story,” while the country’s high-end TV drama has excelled with the likes of Netflix’s “Bala Loca,” and shows further promise with the upcoming TV debut of “A Fantastic Woman...
In timing and location, part of Mexico’s Guadalajara Festival, the event has the potential to become an important pit-stop in Latin America’s already vibrant circuit of TV events.
Chile features as this year’s guest country of honor at Guadalajara, and is well represented among the selected projects. In recent years the country stands out as a leader in high-end content in both film and television. The latter, however, is far less known.
Oscar wins were scored by Sebastián Lelio’s “A Fantastic Woman” and the animated short “Bear Story,” while the country’s high-end TV drama has excelled with the likes of Netflix’s “Bala Loca,” and shows further promise with the upcoming TV debut of “A Fantastic Woman...
- 2/11/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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