Colombia’s Federico Durán, long associated with Rhayuela Films (“Alias María”) where he remains a shareholder, has officially launched his new company El Sol Ermitaño at the San Sebastian Film Festival where the first of its slate, “Lovers Go Home!” participates at the festival’s pix-in-post program, WIP LatAm.
“Co-production is the best way to ensure that Ibero-American cinema can be seen in our own countries,” Durán said in previous interviews.
“Lovers Go Home!” screens on Tuesday, Sept. 22 at the Tabakalera and is among several other feature films in the new company’s pipeline.
Also in post is “La Unión,” the debut feature of Catalan director Cordelia Alegre, which has recently wrapped. The project is a co-production with Rara Colectivo Audiovisual (Colombia), Dos Soles Media and WKND (Spain).
El Sol Ermitaño’s slate includes fiction series and feature films in development with Ibero-American creators that include Matías Rojas-Valencia, Carlos Mariño, Rodrigo Triana, Jorg Hiller, Andrés Borda and OpenVizor, among others.
The 74th San Sebastian Film Festival runs Sept. 18-26.
