Argentine helmer Natalia Smirnoff, director of “Puzzle,” a 2010 Berlin main Competition contender, and “Lock Charmer,” selected for the 2014 Sundance Festival, is attached to direct international co-production project “Mamá (Im)perfecta” (“(Im)perfect Mom.”)  The project teams Colombian production outfits Laberinto Producciones and Ganas Producciones with Argentina’s Tarea Fina and Canada’s Fait Divers Media. In development […]

Argentine auteur Paula Hernández, helmer of “The Sleepwalkers” and “Las siamesas,” is attached to direct and co-write project series “Duarte. Evita behind the Icon,” produced by Buenos Aires-based powerhouse Kapow, the associate producer on Fabula-Fremantle hit drama “La Jauría.” In development, and scheduled for a 2025 second-half shoot, “Duarte” is structured as a 5 episode, […]

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 filmmaker Alberto Lecchi, “A Distant Place” (“Un lugar lejano”). Rizoma Films (“Papa al rescate,” “The Same Blood”) joins lead producer Twins Latin Films of Argentina and co-producers Filmakers […]

Clara Lago, best known for her roles in hit romcom “Spanish Affair” and Andi Baiz suspense drama “The Hidden Face,” will star opposite Chile’s indefatigable Alfredo Castro in the Iberseries Co-Production Forum-bound “Queen of the Woods” (“La reina del bosque”). To be directed by Luján Loioco, the drama is produced by Loioco’s Buenos Aires-based Libre […]