Exclusive: Los Angeles-based Dark Star Pictures has acquired the North American distribution rights to Chilean LGBTQ Comedy Phantom Project following its North American Premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival 2022.
Dark Star is planning a September 2022 theatrical release for Phantom Project in New York City, Los Angeles and additional markets across the country, with the on demand and digital release to follow.
In Phantom Project, we follow Pablo, a young actor who dreams of starring in a film, but in order to pay the bills he has to work as a simulated patient in medical schools and in weird sessions of alternative therapies.
“Roberto has masterfully crafted a story of human affection, that we can all relate to.” Said Dark Star President Michael Repsch. “This heartwarming film connects to our times more than ever as we recover from the pandemic, and truly shows the importance of connectivity.”
The movie is...
Dark Star is planning a September 2022 theatrical release for Phantom Project in New York City, Los Angeles and additional markets across the country, with the on demand and digital release to follow.
In Phantom Project, we follow Pablo, a young actor who dreams of starring in a film, but in order to pay the bills he has to work as a simulated patient in medical schools and in weird sessions of alternative therapies.
“Roberto has masterfully crafted a story of human affection, that we can all relate to.” Said Dark Star President Michael Repsch. “This heartwarming film connects to our times more than ever as we recover from the pandemic, and truly shows the importance of connectivity.”
The movie is...
- 4/29/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Boutique sales agency Patra Spanou Film has acquired the international sales rights of Roberto Doveris’ “Proyecto Fantasma” (“Ghost Project”), an indie comedy with dramatic and spooky moments. The Chilean film will world premiere next week in the Tiger Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
It is Doveris’ second film after the youth drama ”Las Plantas,” which won Best Film in Berlinale’s Generation 14plus section. Doveris was also a producer on “El Principe” by Sebastian Muñoz, winner of the Queer Lion in Venice, and “(Im)Patient” by Constanza Fernández, Audience Award winner in Huelva. “Las Plantas” and “El Principe” are also represented by Patra Spanou.
“Proyecto Fantasma” centers Pablo, a young actor who dreams of starring in a film, but in order to pay the bills he has to work as a simulated patient in medical schools and in weird sessions of alternative therapies. And it is not just his career that becomes stuck.
It is Doveris’ second film after the youth drama ”Las Plantas,” which won Best Film in Berlinale’s Generation 14plus section. Doveris was also a producer on “El Principe” by Sebastian Muñoz, winner of the Queer Lion in Venice, and “(Im)Patient” by Constanza Fernández, Audience Award winner in Huelva. “Las Plantas” and “El Principe” are also represented by Patra Spanou.
“Proyecto Fantasma” centers Pablo, a young actor who dreams of starring in a film, but in order to pay the bills he has to work as a simulated patient in medical schools and in weird sessions of alternative therapies. And it is not just his career that becomes stuck.
- 1/20/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Robert Doveris's Plants (2015) is showing exclusively on Mubi from February 20 - March 22, 2018. Recent newspaper articles report that the generation in its late teens and early 20s, which habitually accesses online porn and uses apps like Tinder for sex talk, is having less actual sex. A similar cleft, between mediated overt sexuality and secret apprehension about real sex, is the central paradox of Chilean director Roberto Doveris’s winsome, quietly satirical debut feature, Plants (2015). The film’s young protagonist, Florencia (Violeta Castillo)—a shy, darkly brooding teenager—finds herself saddled with adult responsibilities when her mother, in the hospital and with increasingly meager means, cannot take care of her family. Meanwhile paralyzed and brain-dead, Florencia’s older brother, Sebástian (Mauricio Vaca), requires constant care. Whatever the causes of mother and brother’s illnesses may be—Doveris leaves this part ambiguous—after her aunt’s departure,...
- 3/4/2018
- MUBI
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