'Arijuna,' 'Virgin,' 'Wolves' stick out at Huelva

HUELVA, The country -- Three Colombian projects -- "Lost Baby wolves," "Arijuna -- Whitened Males" and "Virgin exotica" -- demonstrated to become one of the most popular projects in the twelfth Huelva Co-Production Forum, which wrapped Friday. The eye sparked through the first couple of game titles came as no real surprise. An intimate thriller plus hit-males redemption story, "Baby wolves" may be the latest project in the director-producer axis of Carlos Moreno and Diego Ramirez, accountable for "Dog Eat Dog" and "All Of Your Dead Ones," which both performed Sundance. Co-created by Maja Zimmermann's German shingle Motivo Films and co-director Jorg Hiller's Bogota-based Tonal Ing., "Arijuna" considered along with Rafa Lara's "5 p mayo, tiempo p valientes" -- a standout Mexican title -- because the Forum's biggest-scale Latin American project. Compiled by film writer Hiller ("Sonar no cuesta nada"), it's a romantic thriller in regards to a Nazi U-boat crew who clean on Colombian shores. The pic's producers have been in talks with Peru's Magaly Solier ("The Milk of Sorrow") to experience the co-lead, Zimmermann stated. Cast and possible studio work could allow "Arijuna" to be eligible for a German funds, she added. Created by Marisol Correa Vega, "Virgen exotica" appeared as if the 2-day Forum's breakout. The very first feature of Bogota's Castano Producciones, founded earlier this year, and helmer-scribe Mario Esteban Castano's feature n, "Virgin" activates some Amazon . com villagers who make believe you be reservation-bound natives untouched by modernity in order to attract vacationers. All goes well until a German tourist decides he really wants to embrace their ancient customs. "Virgin" is co-created by Eric Vogel at Oslo's Torden Films. Castano is within talks for Argentina's Aire Cine and Utopica Cine, producers of "Las acacias," to co-produce. A comedy, "Virgin" goodies a significant subject -- ethnic stereotyping -- having a light touch. "You are not where you originate from, you are where you want to go," Castano stated at Huelva. Other Huelva buzz projects suggest Latin America's gradual embrace of genre. One forum fave, now shooting, was Alfonso Acosta's "The Crack," created by Colombia's Cabecitanegra, a brooding grieving-family drama with building horror overtones, script doctored by Lucrecia Martel ("The Headless Lady"). It attracted strong telemarketer interest at July's Bogota Audiovisual Market (BAM). Cabecitanegra is within co-production talks with Hernan Musaluppi's Buenos Aires-based Rizoma, producer Carolina Mosquera stated in Huelva. Another Huelva standout, "Sealed Cargo" is "a rail movie having a social, political and environmental background," within the words of Ozcar Ramirez, at Mexico's Arte Mecanica, the Mexican producer of Kinology-offered Cannes player "Times of Sophistication." Planning the face area-off from a hidebound cop along with a communist driver with an old train filled with toxic waste bound for Bolivia's Chile border, "Cargo," a Mexico-Venezuela-Bolivia co-push, is helmed through the 70-year-old Bolivian Julia Vargas Weisse. In further signs and symptoms of Latin America's growing empowerment -- which sees it co-produce over the region instead of turn instantly to Europe or even the U.S. -- Mexico's Iria Gomez Concheiro ("The Cinema Hold-Up") is mounted on direct excessively possessive father drama "Awaiting the Barbarians." Alejandro Prieto will produce from Colombia's Cajanegra with Gomez's Ciudad Cinema. Of Huelva's 44 projects, on 32 this year, other game titles bringing in warmth incorporated Uruguay's "High Five" and "Clever," Chile's "Divine" and "To Kill a Guy," Mexico's "I Dream in Another Language" and "Pozo amargo," and Colombia's "Dust around the Tongue." The Huelva Ibero-American Festival runs November. 19-26. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com