The 53rd Karlovy Vary IFF will host the world premiere of Miriam Lies, a Dominican Republic’s coming-of-age drama already well received in Guadalajara Construye pix-in-post and Ventana Sur’s Primer Corte films-in-rough-cut showcases. The film directed by Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada is driven by a 14-year-old, Miriam, from a middle class world who meets her boyfriend…
Arantxa Echevarria’s feature film debut, “CARMEN Y LOLA”, has been selected for the 50th edition of Directors’ Fortnight which takes place during Cannes Film Festival. The film is one of the 17 features selected out of 1,609 films submitted. The Spanish director and scriptwriter tells the story of two young gypsy girls who fight for…
Two new recognitions for the acclaimed film by Laura Mora, ‘KILLING JESUS’. Congratulations! On Friday, in the festival’s closing ceremony, the winners for this year’s edition were announced. As one of the most prestigious events for Iberoamerican films, the Guadalajara’s Film Festival awarded KILLING JESUS with two prizes in the Iberoamerican Feature Film competition: BEST FILM and the Mayahuel award for BEST ACTOR…
At Huelva Film Festival this year, four films of our catalogue were abundantly rewarded. MIRIAM LIES, the Dominican Republic and Spanish coproduction, directed by Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada, won the Colón de Oro for Best Feature Film at the 44th Festival of Latin-American Cinema of Huelva. Another one of the big winners of this…
Latido Films received on friday the prize for Distributor of the Year, voted by all professionals attending the Cartoon Movie, for its outstanding contribution to the development of European Animation over the last year. During this year’s edition, Latido launched two animated features: Buñuel In The Labyrinth Of The Turtles directed by Salvador Simó, a film based on the true…
We are very proud to announce that THE GREAT MYSTICAL CIRCUS by Carlos Diegues is the Brazilian Candidate for the Academy Awards 2019. Produced by LUZ MÁGICA (Brazil), FADO FILMES (Portugal) and MILONGA PRODUCTIONS (France), directed by the three times selected in Cannes Official Selection creator Cacá Diegues, the film is a celebration of magic, entertainment and cinema. THE GREAT MYSTICAL CIRCUS is inspired…
We are pleased to announce the CARTOON MOVIE decision to nominate LATIDO FILMS for the 2018 CARTOON MOVIE TRIBUTES in the category “European Distributor/Sales of the Year”. Cartoon Movie Tributes rewards the outstanding achievements that have had a positive and dynamic influence and contribution to the development of European animation over the last year. All professionals attending the Cartoon Movie will vote…
Latido is bringing onto the Toronto market “The Weasels,” the first live-action film from Argentina’s Juan José Campanella since he won a foreign-language Oscar for “The Secret in Their Eyes” in 2010. Campanella had said of “The Weasels” that it continually counterpoints and flows between suspense, drama, comedy and romance. “The Secret in their Eyes”…
«SOUTH», Latido’s latest TV Series adquisition is making its appearance today, February. 21 at the CoPro Series, part of the 2018 Berlinale Co-Production Market. The thriller is directed by IVO M. FERREIRA (“Letters From War”: Portugal’s entry in the race for the 2017 Academy Awards) and produced by Edgar Medina’s Arquipélago Filmes. “We have placed a crime noir fiction in the most exciting…
CHAMPIONS, the Spanish Box Office of the year, has been selected to compete for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2019 Oscars! The news came up this morning, the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences chose CHAMPIONS to represent Spain for this great Ceremony. What an honour, congratulations to all of them! The film…
During Berlinale, Marysia Nikitiuk and Igor Savychenko had the opportunity to talk with Variety about «WHEN THE TREES FALL» which participates this year in the Panorama Programme «Marysia Nikitiuk has delivered a genre-blender, a coming-of-age tale laced with a local mob sub-plot, vignettes of misery, in country and city alike and a magic realism» Nikitiuk talk about her experience…
THE PLATFORM by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia just won People’s Choice Award at TIFF in the section Midnight Madness. An amazing news for this film and the whole team, which is amplified by the honour to be the first Spanish film in winning an Award in this section. Congratulations to everyone! For more info about the film: http://latidofilms.com/the-platform/…
«Netflix has acquired worldwide rights excluding select Asian territories to the Spanish TIFF Midnight Madness sci-fi hit The Platform», wrote Screendaily. Indeed, we are very proud to announce that during TIFF, a deal has been closed to Netflix for holding the rights of THE PLATFORM. The film is directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia and is now…
In the nominations for the 2018 Premio Sur we can find JOEL by Carlos Sorín, A TWELVE YEAR NIGHT by Álvaro Brechner, THE LAST SUIT by Pablo Solarz and MY MASTERPIECE by Gastón Duprat! The Ceremony will take place around September/October. Fingers crossed! For more info: https://academiadecine.org.ar/premio-sur/premio-sur-2018/nominaciones-ps-2018/
THE REALM by Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen has been selected at the Lux Film Prize in the Official Selection. We are very proud of this selection and congratulate the whole team. Below the synopsis of the film: Manuel López-Vidal is a beloved politician in his region: he enjoys a good social position, has a loving…
BUÑUEL IN THE LABYRINTH OF THE TURTLES by Salvador Simó recently won the Jury Distinction and the Best Original Music at Annecy Film Festival. Two beautiful awards for this successful animation film. Here for more info! The director Salvador Simó answered to a few questions for Variety, check the following link: Annecy: Spain’s Salvador Simó…
We are thrilled to announce our latest acquisition: HOTEL COPPELIA, directed by the Dominican José Maria Cabral. «Cabral’s “Hotel Coppelia” is inspired on the true stories of five women who, during the 1965 Dominican Civil War, made tremendous personal sacrifice to protect their own liberties. The female-lead cast includes Platino Award-nominated actress Nashla Bogaert, Lumy…
«Announced at the Cannes Film Market, L.A.’s Samuel Goldwyn Films acquired the North America rights to Hari Sama’s semi-autobiographical “This is Not Berlin.” The deal was negotiated between Samuel Goldwyn Films’ Meg Longo, and Jason Ishikawa and Shane Riley from Cinetic Media on behalf of Madrid’s Latido films, which handles international sales. Sama co-wrote the film with Rodrigo Ordóñez…
The Premios Platino took place on Sunday May 12th in Mexico. On that occasion THE REALM got rewarded twice: Antonio De La Torre won the Award for Best Actor and Alberto Del Campo for Best Editing. CHAMPIONS received an Award for Film and Educacion Values. Check the following link for more info: http://www.premiosplatino.com/PPla_Premiados.aspx
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/bunuel-in-the-labyrinth-of-the-turtles-wins-european-film-award-183477.html A Spanish-Dutch co-production, Buñuel is rooted in the true-life story of film director Luis Buñuel’s expedition to the poverty-stricken Las Hurdes region of Spain in the early 1930s. The filmmaker intended to depict the region’s poor living conditions, albeit through the lens of surrealism, the movement in which he’d made his name. In the event,…
