The Summer of Flying Fish for Alpha Violet

by Fabien Lemercier

03/05/2013 - The French company will handle sales of the film by Chilean director Marcela Said, coproduced by Cinéma Defacto and selected for the Directors’ Fortnight

The young French international sales company Alpha Violet has decidedly created strong ties with films from Latin America coproduced by Europe. After Aquí y allá [+see also:
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Produced by the Chilean company Jirafa Films and the French company Cinéma Defacto (Tom Dercourt), The Summer of Flying Fish won the Ciné+ Special Prize at Cinéma en Construction at the end of March (which enabled the movie to finalize its post-production) during the Cinélatino Festival in Toulouse (news). This first feature film focuses on Manena, a 16 year-old girl who is spending the summer with her sister in the big family home at the heart of the Chilean countryside. Surrounded by many guests, their father is obsessed by the extermintion of carps in his artificial pond. Only Manena seems aware of the dreadful futility of the situation, due to the growing threat of the Mapuche guerrilla, who are slowly encircling them.

Alpha Violet’s team (managed by Virginie Devesa and Keiko Funato) will also be placing their bets on 2 Automnes, 3 Hivers by French director Sébastien Betbeder, to be unveiled as part of the ACID selection (news) at the Marché du Film. Managed by Envie De Tempête Productions, the cast of this third feature film by the director who was noticed in 2007 in Locarno with Nuage, and then in 2012 in the Discovery section in Toronto with Nights with Theodore [+see also:
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