Tag: Cinefondation
Kaplan, Uruguay-Spain Co-prod’n, Brechner’s Followup to Bad Day to Go Fishing
Producer Mariana Secco and writer-director Alvaro Brechner, two leads in Uruguay’s up and coming production scene, are collaborating on Kaplan, another Brechner quixotic movie.
Brechner, producer, director and writer of several shorts, starts new project that is followup to awarded Bad Day to Go Fishing, his debut feature length film. The story turns around a 70 year old Kaplan which attempts to bring to trial former Nazi who now runs a restaurant out of Montevideo.
Discussing at Mexico’s Guadalajara Film Festival, Secco said Kaplan turns on a quixotic man who wants to achieve something in his life. The feature was “a fable with dramatic and comic touches,” she added, quite like Bad Day.
Cannes Film Festival – L’Atelier 2008
The Atelier is one of three Cinefondation initiatives aimed at spotlighting and accelerating the careers of up-and-coming cineastes. Since 1998, the Cinefondation has organized a selection of film school works that are presented to a jury of five filmmakers and actors, who award a prize to the best three. Launched in 2000, the Cinefondation Residence du Festival welcomes 12 filmmakers per year and arranges mentoring for the writing and production of their features.
