Pablo Trapero, the Argentinian director of acclaimed police drama El Bonaerense, unveiled the new slate of his fledgling production house Matanza Films at the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival.
Leading the slate is his third film Familia Rodante which he hopes to shoot in August and September. " This was actually the very first screenplay I ever wrote," said Trapero. The $1.5m road movie centres on a family whose adventure begins when their grandmother is invited to become the matron of honour at her niece's wedding in her native hometown. The entire family hits the road in a mobile home.
"We seek to be in touch with a certain kind of cinema where formulas are discarded and where the story dictates its own rules," said Trapero. Matanza Films has entered into a wide spectrum of Latin American co-productions with other Latino companies.
Currently in pre production are Brazilian director Suzana Amaral's Hotel Atlantico, Bolivian director Fernando Vargas Villazon's Di Buen Dia A Papa, Chilean Alex Bowen's directorial debut Hombres De Diciembre and Argentinian Albertina Carri's Geminis whose docudrama Los Rubios is competing at the Buenos Aires festival.
Trapero is also developing his fourth project, Villa, about the religious and emotional crisis a priest suffers while working in a slum. The Matanza slate includes documentaries and shorts.
Prior to its premiere at Film Forum, El Bonaerense will participate in Latin Beat in New York , held from September 6th to 12th. El Bonaerense had its world premiere in Cannes last year. Trapero has been in the international limelight since his acclaimed directorial debut Crane World (Mundo Grua) about a 60s rock star who turns into a construction worker.
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