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CANNES 2023

Dieci produttori lettoni si dirigono verso la Croisette con una serie di nuovi progetti

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- Linda Krūkle e Inga Praņevska parteciperanno al Producers Network del Marché du Film, mentre Dominiks Jarmakovičs rappresenterà la Lettonia tra i Producers on the Move di quest'anno

Dieci produttori lettoni si dirigono verso la Croisette con una serie di nuovi progetti
(sx-dx) Inga Pranevska di KULTFILMA, Dominiks Jarmakovics di Studio Locomotive e Linda Krukle di K Films

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Ten Latvian filmmakers will be visiting this year’s Cannes Film Festival and its Marché du Film, bringing a raft of new projects and looking for new opportunities to co-produce and co-operate with international partners.

In detail, two of them – Linda Krūkle, of K Films, and Inga Praņevska, of KULTFILMA – will take part in the Producers Network,  the go-to place for producers seeking to make the most out of their time in Cannes, launched 16 years ago and welcoming over 400 producers from all around the world for “a series of meetings and events designed to create opportunities to build your peer network and get international co-production projects off the ground.” Krūkle and Praņevska will be presented along with two Estonian producers and two Lithuanian ones on 22 May.

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Since 2005, Krūkle has produced nine feature films including the first-ever Latvian-Japanese co-production, titled Magic Kimono (2017). Furthermore, two of the firm’s movies have been in the race for the Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category. K Films focuses on the making of fiction feature films, documentaries and TV series “with no boundaries,” offering a number of opportunities “in terms of chosen country, genre, language, or budget, producing multicultural projects both locally and internationally.” So far, the firm has been involved in projects with Hong Kong, the USA, Japan, Ireland and Lithuania. The outfit is currently prepping the 150-minute period drama In the Land that Sings, and the 70-minute documentary My 80 Springs.

Inga Praņevska’s KULTFILMA is an emerging Latvian studio best known for its successful war drama Blizzard of Souls [+leggi anche:
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, the best-performing title at the Latvian box office in over 30 years, which was distributed in 50 countries and was Oscars short-listed for Best Score. Boasting an international team consisting of emerging talents and experienced professionals, KULTFILMA is looking for cross-border collaboration with their new projects in the works — namely, the female-led sports drama Escape Net and the WW2-set drama Brothers’ War.

Meanwhile, Dominiks Jarmakovičs, of Studio Locomotive, will visit the Croisette as this year’s Producer on the Move for Latvia. He will bring three feature projects, all at different stages of production. The first is award-winning Signe Baumane’s (My Love Affair With Marriage [+leggi anche:
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) third animated feature Karmic Knot, described as “a personal story of the director wrapped around a strong social topic,” for which Jarmakovičs is seeking co-production partners. 

The second project is a fiction debut, Signe Birkova’s Lotus. “The film sports a unique approach and visual aesthetics of the golden age of cinema since it is shot entirely on 16mm film, and in some parts it boasts an original Debrie Parvo camera from the 1920s. It is a daring and outstanding visual journey with a strong female protagonist, already in editing and looking for distribution,” explained Jarmakovičs. 

The third project, El Lobo Leton, is Jarmakovičs’s debut as a documentary producer. The picture will investigate the unbelievable life and legend of Wolf Ruvinskis, a dissident from Eastern Europe who travelled across Latin America and managed to become a famous actor and luchador during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. The project has received production funding and is now looking for new partners ready to jump onboard. 

Alongside the aforementioned Krūkle, Praņevska and Jarmakovičs, the delegation backed by the National Film Centre of Latvia includes seven more prominent filmmakers, namely Matīss Kaža, Gints Zilbalodis, Alise Ģelze, Guntis Trekteris, Andrejs Ēķis, Alise Rogule and Juris Poškus.

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