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Breaking News : Screen // Reel Suspects to run ‘Amok’ at Cannes, announces ‘Vampyres’ sales

May 9, 2016/in NEWS/by Matteo Lovadina

Reel Suspects to run ‘Amok’ at Cannes, announces ‘Vampyres’ sales

21 April, 2016 | By Melanie Goodfellow

EXCLUSIVE: UK’s Soda Pictures has picked up remake of cult classic Vampyres.

Paris-based Reel Suspects has acquired Macedonian director Vardan Tozija’s crime-drama Amok [pictured] about an introverted, abandoned teenager who goes on to lead a gang of violent, feral lost boys.

“It’s a really powerful film, a Macedonian version of theCity of God. It came to me through my network and I’ve been following it since the project stage,” says Reel Suspects CEO Matteo Lovadina, who is aiming for a Toronto international premiere for the film.

The picture stars first-time actor Martin Gjorgoski as Phillip, a rough, marginalised teenager, who is forced to participate in a terrifying encounter by a corrupt policeman while in the care of social services.

Irrevocably damaged, he is hell-bent on seeking violent revenge on society, enlisting the other “lost boys” in the tough juvenile adoption centre he calls home.

Skopje-based film and TV production outfit Dream Factory Macedonia produced the film. The company’s previous credits include Monument To Michael Jackson, which premiered at Karlovy Vary in 2014 and won the jury award at the Santa Barbara International Festival, and Tozija’s short film The Man In The Habit Of Hitting Me On The Head With An Umbrella.

Vampyres Sales 

In other Reel Suspects news, Lovadina announced a string of sales on Victor Matellano’s erotic horror remakeVampyres, starring cult British Hammer Films actress Caroline Munro alongside Christian Stamm, Veronica Bacorn and Marta Flich.

The title has sold to Japan (New Select), the UK (Soda Pictures), South Korea (Alto Media), Taiwan (Moviecloud), Scandinavia (Njuta Films) and Munich-based Donau Films has acquired it for Germany and Austria.

A remake of Joseph Larraz’s 1974 English-language cult classic of the same name, the picture revolves around two vamps who lure men to their dark manor with the promise of group sex and then massacre them.

Reel Suspects will market screen both Amok and Vampyresat Cannes.

Other titles on its Cannes slate include Babak Jalili’s Radio Dreams, which won the top Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam this year, and Mexican Emiliano Roche Minter’s We Are The Flesh.

The latter has also been generating strong buzz since world premiering at Rotterdam and gaining the endorsement of compatriot directors Gonzalez Iñarritu, Alfonso Cuaron and Carlos Reygadas

It will screen in Cannes as one of the Blood Window Galas, the joint initiative between the Marché du Film and Ventana Sur showing a selection of horror films from Latin America in late night screenings.

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Breaking News : Variety // Cuaron and Gonzalez Iñarritu-endorsed Mexican debut to screen at Cannes’ Blood Window

May 4, 2016/in NEWS/by Matteo Lovadina

Cannes: Reel Suspects Rolls Out ‘We Are the Flesh’ Sales (EXCLUSIVE)

By John Hopewell, 

Elsa Keslassy

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MAY 4, 2016 | 05:37AM PT

Cuaron and Gonzalez Iñarritu-endorsed Mexican debut to screen at Cannes’ Blood Window

PARIS — Paris-based Reel Suspects has kicked off major territory sales on Emiliano Rocha Minter’s “We Are the Flesh,” one of the most talked-about of Mexican feature debuts in recent years.

Counting with the rare distinction of endorsement from not only “The Revenant’s” Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, who talked the film up on a Mexuco press tour, but also “Gravity’s” Alfonso Cuaron, plus co-production by Carlos Reygadas (“Post Tenebras Lux”), “We Are the Flesh” has closed the U.K./Ireland, which plans a theatrical run, Germany, where distributor Donau Films will release it at the end of the year, and France, where it has been acquired by Blaqout. Moviecloud has acquired rights for Taiwan.

“We are thrilled to bring this startling and fresh debut to UK audiences. With its stunning visuals, provocative subject matter and assured direction, we are sure that it will connect with film fans on a variety of platforms,” said Arrow’s Francesco Simeoni.

He added: “With this film Emiliano Rocha Minter shows he is certainly an incredible emerging talent.”

“We Are the Flesh” is “a film that can’t leave you untouched. It’s a love or hate relation that surges between the audience and Emiliano’s vision. Being screened in Cannes will certainly put more attention on Emiliano’s work and we are sure to close further deals during the Marché,” commented Reel Suspects CEO Matteo Lovadina.

World premiering at the Rotterdam Fest, and seemingly set at its get-go in some kind of starved, ruinous post-Apocalypse world, the drama, which is lead produced by Julio Chavezmontes production-distribution company Piano, with Moises Cosio’s Detalle Films, has an ageing satyr-man offer food to a teen sister (Maria Evoli) and brother (Diego Gamaliel) if they transform his building into a womb-like cave. He then pressuring them to abandon any inhibitions, indulging in acts of incest, bloodlust, rape, murder, onanism and cannibalism.

Iñarritu told Mexican newspaper Reforma that “We Are the Flesh” “is a very personal, very powerful film that deeply impressed me. Emiliano Rocha is part of a new generation [of filmmakers] with a potent talent and voice.”

“I loved this film. ‘Tenemos la Carne’ takes over our waking thoughts, like a recurring dream we try to forget, because we are fearful of finding out it may be a memory,” Cuaron wrote in a quote to support the film.

L.A.’s Paradigm Talent Agency signed up both director Rocha Minter and lead actress Maria Evoli. L.A.-based production-management company Benderspink has also signed on as Rocha Minter’s manager.

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