More than 70 Films from Around
the World, Including the Critically Acclaimed ‘Burying the Ex’ and Asia
Argento’s ‘Incompresa,’ Have Been Selected To Screen During the 2015 Riviera Maya Film
Festival
LOS ANGELES, CA (April 13, 2015) – The Riviera Maya Film
Festival (RMFF) today announced its official program of domestic and
international films to be screened at this year’s annual event (April 23rd–29th).
Continuing its mission to promote and distribute the most outstanding
productions of the global film industry, the fourth edition of the RMFF will
feature three Mexican-production world premieres, 53 international premieres in
Mexico, a wide variety of Latin American premieres and about 200 free screening
sessions compose our program.
The competitive
sections of the Festival are Mexican Platform, in which the jury bestows two
Kukulkan Awards endowed with 300,000 MXN each and a Kukulkan Youth Jury Award,
endowed with 100,000 MXN; the RivieraLAB/Co-production Forum, where two
selected projects will receive a financial incentive of 200,000 MXN each; and
the RivieraLAB/Work in Progress, where two selected projects will receive a
financial incentive of 100,000 MXN each. In total, the Festival grants
1,300,000 MXN in awards and prizes.
"We are constantly
trying to create a festival that has what is important: a solid program with
guests that represent it. We will have 70 films, from which 53 are premiering
nationwide. Thus, RMFF brings an added value to the people and visitors of
Riviera Maya", said Paula Chaurand, director of the festival.
"What is important about festivals, film shows and events that
promote national film production, is not for them to be numerous, but to have
an identity of their own,” said Cristina Prado Arias, Director for Cultural
Film Promotion. “That is the match point of this festival –RMFF, as it was born
with an identity that has respected and reinforced.”
"The importance of RivieraLAB lies in the fact that, through its
activities, incentives and support for creators, it has achieved to get films
released in and out of the country.” Said Sandra Gómez, RivieraLAB chief coordinator.
The Riviera Maya Film Festival will
take place in Cancun, Puerto Morelos, Playa del Carmen, and Tulum, from April
23rd to the 29th.
Below you can find a selection of the
films which will be shown at the 2015 Riviera Maya Film Festival:
GALAS
· Burying
the Ex (2014, United States) Director: Joe Dante
· Elvira,
te daría mi vida pero la estoy usando (2014, Mexico)
Director: Manolo Caro
· Incompresa
(2014, Italy / France) Director: Asia Argento
MEXICAN PLATFORM
The
board composed by Maximiliano Cruz, Fernando del Razo and Claudio Zilleruelo
has chosen 14 films from a total of 71 national films entering the call. All
corresponding screenings will include special guests. The selected films are:
· Alexfilm
(2015, Mexico) Director: Pablo Chavarría
· El
regreso del muerto (2014, Mexico) Director: Gustavo
Gamou
· El
señor de las 3 caídas (2015, Mexico) Director: Roberto
Olivares Ruiz *World Premiere
· El
silencio de la princesa (2014, Mexico) Director: Manuel
Cañibe
· Ícaros
(2015, France / Mexico) Director: Pedro González Rubio
· Juanicas
(2014, Canada / Mexico) Director: Karina García Casanova
· La
maldad (2015, Mexico) Director: Joshua Gil
· Los
muertos (2014, Mexico) Director: Santiago Mohar Volkow
· Lucifer
(2014, Belgium / Mexico) Director: Gust Van den Berghe
· Me
quedo contigo (2014, Mexico) Director: Artemio Narro
· Memoria
oculta (2014, Mexico) Director: Eva Villaseñor
· Muchachas
(2015, Mexico) Director: Juliana Fanjul
· Noche
de resurrecciones (2015, Mexico) Director: Raúl Rico *World Premiere
· Plan
sexenal (2014, Mexico) Director: Santiago Cendejas
PLANETARIUM
The
selected films deal with the juncture issues of today’s social structure. Planetarium
takes a stand before aspects of the world: political, cultural, historical,
social and environmental. The selected films are:
·
Atlas
(2014, France) Director: Antoine d'Agata
· La
obra del siglo (2015, Argentina/Cuba/Switzerland/Germany) Director:
Carlos Machado Quintela
· Of
Men and War (2014, France Switzerland/United States) Director:
Laurent Bécue-Renard
· Over
the Years (2015, Austria) Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
· The
Postman's White Nights (2014, Russia) Director: Andrei
Konchalovsky
· Violencia
(2015, Colombia / México) Director: Jorge Forero *Screening will be attended
by special guests
WIDE AUDIENCE
A
showcase of diverse outlooks aimed to mass audiences. Films arriving from
diverse territories proffer ways, perhaps unheard, to entertainment. The
selected films are:
·
3 Hearts
(2014, France/Germany/Belgium) Director: Benoît Jacqot
· Among
the Living (2014, France) Directors: Alexandre Bustillo and Julien
Maury
· Buzzard
(2014, U.S.A.) Director: Joel Potrykus
· Caprice
(2015, France) Director: Emmanuel Mouret *Screening will be attended by
special guests
· Cub
(2014, Belgium) Director: Jonas Govaerts
· Don't
Go Breaking My Heart 2 (2014, Hong Kong/China) Director:
Johnnie To
· Fires
on the Plain (2014,
Japan) Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto
· Girlhood
(2014, France) Director: Céline Sciamma *Screening will be attended by
special guests
· Goodnight
Mommy (2014, Austria) Directors: Severin Fiala, Veronika
Franz *Screening will be attended by special guests
· Los
hongos (2014, Colombia/France/Argentina/Germany) Director:
Óscar Ruiz Navia *Screening will be attended by special guests
· Queen
and Country (2014, Ireland/France/Rumania) Director: John Boorman
· Results
(2015, EEUU) Director: Andrew Bujalski *Screening will be attended by
special guests
· The
Golden Era (2014, China/Hong Kong) Director: Ann Hui
· The
Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq (2014, France) Director: Guillaume
Nicloux
· The
Midnight After (2014, Hong Kong) Director: Fruit Chan
· Tokyo
Tribe (2014, Japan) Director: Sion Sono
· Victoria
(2015, Germany) Director: Sebastian Schipper *Screening will be attended by
special guests
· Slow
West (2015,
United Kingdom-New Zeland) Director: John Maclean
AUTHOR PANORAMA
A
film panorama for international film creators. The section exhibits alternative
ways to tell stories, produce films and approach film language and diverse film
genres. The selected films are:
•
Big Father, Small Father and Other
Stories (2015, Vietnam/France/Germany/Holland) Director: Phang
Dang Di
•
Fort Buchanan (2014,
France/Tunisia) Director: Benjamin Crotty *Screening will be attended by
special guests
•
Heaven Knows What (2014,
United States) Directors: Joshua and Ben Safdie *Screening will be attended
by special guests
•
Hide and Seek
(2014, United Kingdom/United States) Director: Joanna Coates
•
In the Basement
(2014, Austria) Director: Ulrich Seidl
•
Iris
(2014, United States) Director: Albert Maysles
•
La mujer de los perros (2015,
Argentina) Directors: Laura Citarella and Veronica Llinás
•
Le Paradis (2014,
France) Director: Alain Cavalier
•
Lulú
(2014, Argentina) Director: Luis Ortega *Screening will be attended by
special guests
•
Mar
(Chile / Argentina) Director: Dominga Sotomayor
•
Meurtre à Pacot
(2014, Haiti/France/Norway) Director: Raoul Peck *Screening will be attended
by special guests
•
Near Death Experience
(2014, France) Directors: Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern
•
Red Amnesia (2014,
China) Director: Wang Xiaoshuai
•
Saint Laurent
(2014, France/Belgium) Director: Bertrand Bonello *Screening will be
attended by special guests
•
Taxi
(2015, Iran). Director: Jafar Panahi
•
The Forbidden Room
(2015, Canada) Directors: Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson *Screening will be
attended by special guests
•
The Kindergarten Teacher
(2014, Israel/France) Director: Nadav Lapid *Screening will be attended
by special guests
•
The Smell of Us
(2014, France) Director: Larry Clark *Screening will be attended by special
guests
RivieraLAB PRESENTS
A
showcase for films that went through former editions of RivieraLAB, as
projects. This fourth edition outstands the world premiere of the Mexican
documentary Los días no vuelven, directed
by Raúl Cuesta. The selected films are:
•
Adventure
(2014, Kazakhstan) Director: Nariman Turebaev
•
El tiempo nublado
(2014, Switzerland/Paraguay) Director: Arami Ullón
•
Feguibox
(2015, Equatorial Guinea/Spain) Directors: Rubén Monsuy and Gabriel Amdur
•
La princesa de Francia
(2014, Argentina) Director: Matías Piñeiro
•
Los días no vuelven (2015,
Mexico) Director: Raúl Cuesta. * World
Premiere *Screening will be attended by special guests
•
Ruined Heart! Another Love Story Between
a Criminal & a Whore. (Philippines/Germany) Director: Khavn
De la Cruz *Screening will be attended by special guests
•
The Iron Ministry
(2014, China) Director: J. P. Sniadecki
SELECTION - RivieraLAB 2015
RivieraLAB is
the project laboratory and the production incentive platform of the Riviera
Maya Film Festival. It presents, in its two sections, Coproduction Forum and Work
in Progress, film projects in stage of development and post-production,
accordingly. In addition to pursuing coproduction, sales agency, international
funding, distribution and alternative financing, the chosen projects compete
for economic and in-kind support.
RivieraLAB/ Coproduction Forum 2015:
From
94 projects entering the call from 20 countries, the members of the board, Sandino
Saravia, Rebecca de Pas, Jorge Forero and Sandra Gómez, chose 9 projects in
stage of development. The selected projects are:
•
Am I Demon
(United States) Director: Joel Potrykus
•
Carroña (Mexico)
Director: Sebastián Hiriart
•
Tiempo vertical
(Spain) Director: Lois Patiño
•
Rojo
(Argentina) Director: Benjamín Naishtat
•
Nona
(Chile) Director: Camila José Donoso
•
Soy una estrella del rock
(Mexico) Director: Raúl Fuentes
•
Mis violentas flores (Mexico)
Director: Tin Dirdamal
•
Pistolero anónimo
(Mexico) Director: Leo Marz, Angel Marz
•
Mariana
(Colombia) Director: Chris Gude
RivieraLAB / Work in Progress 2015:
From
93 projects that entered the call from 22 countries, the members of the board, John
Campos, Gonzalo de Pedro, Susana Santos, Sandra Gómez and Maximiliano Cruz, chose
7 projects with a cut in post-production stage. The selected projects are:
•
La balada del Oppenheimer Park
(Mexico) Director: Juan Manuel Sepúlveda
•
Lazar
(Macedonia/Croatia/Bulgaria/France) Director: Svetozar Ristovski
•
I, Olga Hepnarova
(Czech Republic/Poland Slovakia/France) Directors: Petr Kazda and Tomas Weinreb
•
El rastreador de estatuas
(Chile) Director: Jerónimo Rodríguez
•
¿Dónde estás?
(Mexico) Director: Maricarmen Merino
•
Maquinaria Panamericana
(Mexico) Director: Joaquín del Paso
•
Silenciosa
(Argentina) Director: Sofía Medrano
PENINSULAB: Training workshop for producers and directors of the
Mexican Southeast
PENINSULAB was created by RivieraLAB to
enable counseling and follow up for 3 projects selected from the CAI Audiovisual
Itinerating Camp, given by lecturers and special guests of RivieraLAB
2015.
CAI
is an initiative that promotes production and development of audiovisual
projects for communities of the State of Oaxaca. The program arranges workshops,
training, meeting, and exhibition of the projects.
PENINSULAB together with CAI share the
purpose of contributing to decentralization of the film culture in Mexico. We
believe that quality films can and should be accessible to everyone. Beyond
technical effort and high budget, the most important aspect of filmmaking is
the common language and the stories to be told.
TEACHINGS/RMFF 2015
In
order to take the next step regarding the exchange between film creators and
audiences, the Riviera Maya Film festival has created TEACHINGS/RMFF 2015, a
program for gatherings, conversations and master classes that will be held on
April 26 and 27 in Playa del Carmen.
It
intends to bring the audience closer to the experience of filmmaking, through
the teachings of important creators. TEACHINGS/RMFF 2015 brings a complete schedule of
academic activities, lecturers and disciplines such as direction, performance,
production, sound design or scriptwriting.
Among
the lecturers that will be attending the event, we have: Asia Argento, Joshua
Safdie, Gust van den Berghe, Pedro González Rubio, Evan Johnson and Nathalia
Acevedo. The complete list of lecturers will soon be announced.
For
further information please visit www.rmff.mx
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About the
Riviera Maya Film Festival
The Riviera Maya Film Festival was
created in 2012 with the goal to meet one of the greatest needs of the film
industry in Mexico and perhaps in the entire world: the distribution of quality
international cinema.
By bringing this sort of films to a
larger number of people we reaffirm our belief in the transforming power of
cinema due to its ability to show different glances and ways of thinking.
That’s why we decided the festival should be for free and that is also why we
decided to revitalize the experience of watching a film by organizing
screenings in all kinds of stages and contexts, such as at the beach or in
public squares.
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