Director-producer Dorián Fernández Moris, the leading light on an genre production scene based out of Iquitos in the heart of the Amazon, is set to produce “The Sugar Girl,” a slice of Amazon Noir aimed squarely at international markets.
Mixing a cop drama-thriller and doses of Amazon legend and the supernatural, “The Sugar Girl” will be directed by Javier Velásquez Varela, adapting his own same-titled novel.
“The Sugar Girl” is set to be unveiled at the Sanfic-Morbido Lab, whose pitching sessions unspool online on March 23 as part of a virtual Sanfic Industria, the industry forum of Chile’s Sanfic festival.
The new movie project also forms part of a drive by Iquitos-based Av Films, headed by brothers Dorián and producer Chicho Fernández Moris, to broaden Av’s genre productions beyond horror titles. Four of these have already sold to Netflix: 2013’s “Cementerio General,” which marked Dorián Fernández’s breakout as a director,...
Mixing a cop drama-thriller and doses of Amazon legend and the supernatural, “The Sugar Girl” will be directed by Javier Velásquez Varela, adapting his own same-titled novel.
“The Sugar Girl” is set to be unveiled at the Sanfic-Morbido Lab, whose pitching sessions unspool online on March 23 as part of a virtual Sanfic Industria, the industry forum of Chile’s Sanfic festival.
The new movie project also forms part of a drive by Iquitos-based Av Films, headed by brothers Dorián and producer Chicho Fernández Moris, to broaden Av’s genre productions beyond horror titles. Four of these have already sold to Netflix: 2013’s “Cementerio General,” which marked Dorián Fernández’s breakout as a director,...
- 3/12/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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