Chile’s Santiago Lab, the Santiago Film Festival’s industry initiative to support Ibero-American projects in development has selected 28 titles, 14 fiction and 14 documentaries, culled out of hundreds of entries from across Latin America and Spain.
The same goes for some of the documentaries such as “The Silence of a Patio” a gripping documentary about the dark history of the Casa de la Beneficencia of Castellón, Spain which was presented at Doc Valencia. Docu “Bloques Erraticos” is the first full-length feature doc of Thomas Woodroffe whose acclaimed shorts include “Austral Fever” and “Holding Desire.”
The documentary advisors were Colombian producer and distributor Consuelo Castillo and Rodolfo Castillo, a director, producer as well as programming director of the Guadalajara International Film Festival and DocuLab. Yashira Jordan’s debut, set in Bolivia, won the Sanfic honor to participate in its mentoring sessions at Malaga’s Mafiz. It follows Petra, a rebellious Indigenous teen who performs trap music. One day she receives a message from her estranged father and sets out to reunite with him alongside a friend she makes along the way, Leo de Vinci.The winner of the Sanfic award at Guadalajara’s Co-production Meet in June, this is Figari’s second feature after her lauded abortion drama, “Siete Semanas.