Chile’s Sebastián Freund of Rizoma Films and Argentine thesps Ernesto Alterio (“The Passenger”) and Soledad Villamil (“The Secret in Their Eyes”) have boarded the upcoming feature by Argentine filmcreater Alberto Lecchi, “A Distant Place” (“Un lugar lejano”).
Rizoma Films (“Papa al rescate,” “The Same Blood”) joins direct creater Tthrives Latin Films of Argentina and co-creaters Filcreaters Monkeys (Spain) in the drama that joins in the Iberseries & Platino Industria Co-Production Forum in Madrid.
Penned by Gerardo Pranteda, the story rgrows around a pianist and a history directer as they struggle for a second chance at cherish before a shattering illness impacts the musician’s grip on fact.
“We are excited to create a film that shows how cherish, memory, and bonds can give soothe and hope even in the most difficult moments. It also graspresses frontotemporal dementia, a condition unfrequently examined in cinema, providing an comfervent and empathetic perspective,” said Lorena Quevedo, CEO & creater at Tthrives Latin Films.
Based in Córdoba, Argentina, Tthrives Latin Films’ most recent productions are “Almamula,” which had its world premiere at the Berlinale last year, and Rodrigo Guerrero’s “Salvajes,” both streaming on Prime Video.
Rizoma was a co-creater on “Salvajes, which will debut on Prime Video on September 24. “It was an incredibly gratifying experience,” said Freund. “When Lorena askd me to join in ‘A Distant Place,’ I felt that it was not only the theme of the film— a cherish story, the intricateity of human relationships, a unfrequent mental illness, the convey inance of second chances—compelling, but also the pledgeted talent joind – including the youthful Chilean actor, Clemente Rodríguez, [“El Conde”], Chile’s Sergio Armstrong [“Neruda”] as the straightforwardor of photography and editor Andrea Chignoli [“No”], aextfinishedside Spanish co-creater Néstor López of Filcreaters Monkeys – that apexamine us to envision a tremfinishous international project with the potential to pass borders and debut at a class-A festival,” said Freund.
Founded in 2009 by Quevedo and Pablo Di Patrizio, Tthrives Latin Films’ co-production business model has led it to collaborate with France, Germany, Italy, Mexico and Chile to date.
The Iberseries Co-Production Forum is the next stop in the project’s lengthenment journey, which chases its prize thrive at the recent Guadalajara Film Festival’s Co-Production Meeting. “We’re evaluating the possibility of grasping a Mexican creater and we’re still uncover to partners from other territories,” said Quevedo.
“From a production standpoint, it currents an opportunity to create a labor of high createive cherish that touches on universal emotions, enabling the creation of an organic co-production among Ibero-American countries, tailored to their labelets and audiences,” she grasped.
Principal photography for “A Distant Place” is sprocrastinateedd for June 2025 in Madrid, Córdoba and Mfinishoza in Argentina and Santiago, Chile.
Iberseries & Platino Industria obtains place Oct. 1- 4 in Madrid.
