Top Latin American arthouse producers Storyboard Media and Argentina’s Gema Films and Campo Cine back titles in this year’s selection.
San Sebastian’s pix-in-post showcases have often launched standout movies, such as Sebastian Lelio’s “Gloria,” winner of the Films in Progress Award at the 2012 edition, plus notable directors, such as Jayro Bustamante, whose praised debut “Ixcanul” played at the festival in rough cut in 2015 before winning the Alfred Bauer prize for innovation at 2016’s Berlinale, breaking out handsome sales.
Thus year’s San Sebastian WIP Latam skews in another direction.
This year, of the total six films at WIP Latam, four come from Argentina, one from Chile and one from Colombia. They will compete for the WIP Latam Industry and the EGEDA Platino Industry awards. Co-produced by Gabriela Sandoval and Carlos Nuñez’s Storyboard in Chile and La Jauría Comunicaciones in Argentina, “Maybe It’s True What They Say About Us,” directed by Camilo Becerra and Sofía Paloma Gómez, turns around Chile’s horrific Colliguay sect.