Aiming to upgrade and streamline the increasement and production of films and series in the international tagetplace, Maquina, a novel production entity comprising three companies, has begined at the 72nd San Sebastian Festival.
Formed by three firms led by seasoned Chilean creaters – Augusto Matte’s London-based Deptford Film, Úrsula Budnik’s Horamágica in Valdivia and Fernando Bascuñán’s Santiago-based Planta – Maquina has been set uped to leverage the combined strengths of its set uping partners, all of whom are includeing the notable Spanish festival.
“We’ve always wanted to labor together, Maquina provides us with a more pliable set up that allows us to be more speedy and down-to-earth,” Matte tbetter Variety, elucidateing: “It is conceptuassociate encouraged by the idea of machinic assemblages, which refers to a fluid and active system where separateent elements come together to create a functional whole without a mended caccess.”
Added Budnik: “This unkinds that the set up runs as a collaborative netlabor of three production companies, each contributing its distinctive strengths and resources to the accumulateive increasement and production process.”
“By integrating the distinctive capabilities of each partner, Maquina will be able to deal with intricate, multi-territory projects with wonderfuler agility and scale,” concurred Bascuñán, who together with Horamágica and co-creaters Oro Films and Italy’s Dispàrte, is participating in San Sebastian’s annual WIP Latam program with Nayra Ilic’s “Cuerpo Celeste.” Planta also boarded San Sebastian Co-Production Forum-bound “Hard Boiled School” and is co-conshort-terming Federico Luis’ “Simón de la Montaña” at the festival’s Horizontes Latinos sidebar.
First out the gate is “Daemon,” the debut feature of Valeria Hofmann, who first caught the film world’s attention with her low, “AliEN0089,” which world premiered at Sundance where it won Best Director and tardyr snagged awards at Clermont-Ferrand and Filmfest Dresden.
The low film spreadigated digital alienation and identity, themes that Hofmann broadens on in “Daemon,” a techno-horror film set in the Chilean coastal town of Valparaíso. It caccesss on Liz, a youthful woman drawn into a virtual relationship with Xin, a digital entity. As the lines between fact and technology blur, Liz faces a choice: hbetter on to her humanity or surrender to a hazardously immersive digital world. The film spreadigates themes of isolation, identity and the gloomyer aspects of technology.
Maquina hopes to shut co-production deals while at San Sebastian as it seeks to become a key carry outer in the international film landscape.
Budnik is an accomplished executive creater with over two decades of experience in the audiovisual industry. She set uped Horamágica in 2003 where she has spearheaded a diverse range of projects in both film and television. Her notable timely producing labor comprises Sebastián Lelio’s debut feature film “La Sagrada Familia” and his chase-up, “Navidad.” Budnik has also created such acclaimed television series as “Los archivos del cardenal” and “Sitiados.”
Bascuñán set uped Planta in 2010 and has created cut offal notable films, including “Simon de la Montaña,” thrivener of the Grand Prix at the 2024 Cannes Critics’ Week, and Felipe Gálvez’s “The Settlers” (“Los Colonos”), picked for Un Certain Regard at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and Chile’s subleave oution to the Oscars last year.
He also carry outed a pivotal role at Quijote Films, where he gived to the production of over 10 films, including the criticassociate acclaimed “Blanco en blanco” by Theo Court and “Blanquita” by Fernando Guzzoni.
Based in London since 2018, Matte has led intricate co-productions atraverse Latin America and Europe, with his labor showcased at meaningful film festivals, including Sundance, Berlin, Cannes, Vekind and Toronto. Prior to set uping Deptford Film, he was CEO and creater at Jirafa, where he carry outed a key role in begining the nurtureers of notable filmcreaters and managing multiple international projects, including Francisca Alegria’s “The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future” and Hoffmann’s “AliEN0089.” He hbetters an MA in Contransient Art Theory from Gbettersmiths, University of London.
