Jirafa readies Leiva's 'Groenlandia'

Bruno Bettati's Jirafa Films, whose "The Summer season of Flying Sea food" reaches the Berlinale Co-Production Market, is planning "Groenlandia," helmer Jose Luis Torres Leiva third film.Occur the Valdivia hills within the lakeside village of Puerto Fuy, pic follows a 73-year-old upon the market person whose a lot more youthful g.f. announces she's pregnant."The landscape is again a personality in Torres Leiva's film, but 'Groenlandia' may well be more dramatic and actor-driven, and rehearse professional stars," Bettati mentioned.A black-humored family dramedy, "Flying Sea food," might be the fiction debut of Chilean-French helmer-scribe Marcela Mentioned, whose third documentary, "The Youthful Butler," carried out Berlin's 2011 Forum."Sea food" has attracted lower Chilean subsidy funding plus gold gold coin from France's " " new world " " Cinemas Aid plan. It'll begin lensing in November, mentioned Bettati, who, with Sergio Gandara, has walked lower as professional director at film promotion board CinemaChile. Chilean TV producer Constanza Arena has transformed them.Chilean cinema seems being transitional phase with projects including "Groenlandia," Pablo Larrain's Gael Garcia Bernal-starrer "No" and Alicia Scherson's "The Long Run,In . with Rutger Hauer, which Jirafa co-produces, mixing art together with an industrial tilt. Bettati noted that "five years ago, i had been trying to find funding and funding and funding and customers were something you accomplished afterwards.InchNow, he mentioned, Chilean producers secure sales reps before a film is finished. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com