In one of many later offers pacted on the San Sebastian Pageant, Spain’s David Matamoros of Doce Leisure boarded Matías Rojas’s adaptation of Chilean cult novel “Canine Legs” (“Patas de perro”), becoming a member of 4 different producers from Chile, France, Germany and Colombia.
With this, “Canine Paws” enters the ultimate part of its financing and is anticipated to shoot in Valdivia, Chile through the second half of subsequent 12 months. Chile’s ever widespread Alfredo Castro (Pablo Larraín’s “The Depend,” “The Membership”) is connected to star.
“Spain’s involvement decisively strengthens the challenge and places us in a really sturdy place to finish its financing,” mentioned Federico Durán, the movie’s Colombian producer by way of his new firm El Sol Ermitaño. Durán, who has produced such notable movies as “The Squad” and “Alias María,” simply received a serious publish manufacturing award for his WIP challenge “Lovers Go Residence!” at San Sebastián.
“’Canine Legs’ is an formidable challenge, each technically and artistically, nevertheless it additionally goals to achieve a broad viewers,” he informed Selection.
Matamoros, whose credit embody “The Platform” and “The Virgin of the Quarry,” was additionally a producer at Zentropa Spain, the corporate based by Lars von Trier.
Chile’s A Easy Vista, led by Tomás Gerlach, first started creating “Canine Legs” some 4 years in the past. This 12 months, Actuality Movies, the manufacturing arm of French distributor Epicentre Movies, which distributes Colombia’s Cannes-winning movie “A Poet” and submission to the 98th Academy Awards worldwide function class, got here on board on the 76th Berlinale, becoming a member of German firm Klinker Movies, a co-producer of “A Place Known as Dignity,” Rojas’ earlier movie.
Visible results will likely be dealt with by French firm MPC, whose credit embody Thomas Cailley’s “The Animal Kingdom,” winner of Greatest VFX on the 2023 Sitges Movie Pageant and the French César Awards.
Rojas’s ties to San Sebastian run deep. He premiered his debut function, “Root,” on the pageant 13 years in the past. He later returned to its Europe-Latin America Co-Manufacturing Discussion board along with his second fiction function, “A Place Known as Dignity.”
All through his profession, he has offered his movies and tasks at main worldwide festivals together with Cannes’ Administrators’ Fortnight, the Berlinale and the Tallinn Black Nights Movie Pageant (PÖFF).
Printed in 1965, “Canine Legs “is a landmark of Chilean literature…radical, highly effective, and nonetheless deeply unsettling. Six many years later, its themes of exclusion, abuse and violence stay strikingly related. The story follows Bobi, a 12-year-old boy born with literal canine’s paws, hidden away by his household till Carlos, a lonely, childless man, takes him in. His act of compassion turns the city towards them, casting Carlos as a madman and Bobi as a monster and setting them on a devastating path towards violence.
