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\"\"<\/div><\/figure>[vc_column_text css=””]In addition to co-founding Puma and developing film projects, <\/span>Victoria Marotta<\/b> has participated in international training programmes such as Berlinale Talents, Rotterdam Lab and EAVE, and has collaborated as an advisor and evaluator in co-production spaces in Latin America and Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

For his part, and in his role as a director, Jer\u00f3nimo Quevedo<\/b> premiered two of his short films, <\/span>La mujer perseguida<\/span><\/i> (2013) and <\/span>Enfrentar animales salvajes<\/span><\/i> (2014), at the SSIFF (San Sebasti\u00e1n). After their screening at the San Sebasti\u00e1n festival, the films were selected for more than fifty festivals around the world.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″]

Session 01
\n13 DEC | 17:00h<\/span><\/a><\/div>[vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”pb-20″]\n

– T.R.A.P. (2018), 17\u00b4
\n– Parsi (2019), 23\u00b4
\n– Enfrentar animales salvajes (2014), 7\u00b4
\n– Siete a\u00f1os en Mayo (2019), 40\u00b4[\/vc_column_text]

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Session 02
\n14 DEC | 20:00h<\/span><\/a><\/div>[vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”pb-20″]- El novio actual (2015), 9\u00b4
\n– Arturo a los 30 (2023), 90\u00b4[\/vc_column_text]
\"\"<\/a><\/div><\/figure>[\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text css=””]Novos Cinemas celebrates its tenth anniversary with Un Puma<\/strong>, an Argentinian film production company based in Buenos Aires and co-founded in 2015 by producer <\/span>Victoria Marotta<\/b> and producer, filmmaker and screenwriter <\/span>Jer\u00f3nimo Quevedo<\/b>. The latter will visit our city and share the modus operandi of a company to which we dedicate our first European spotlight.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Founded and led by Victoria Marotta and Jer\u00f3nimo Quevedo, <\/span>Un Puma <\/b>(Buenos Aires, 2015) is the film production company responsible for feature films and short films screened and awarded at the Berlinale, Venice Biennale, Locarno FF, BAFICI, and Rotterdam IFF. Toronto IFF, New York FF, FIDMarseille, Tokyo IFF, Mar del Plata FF, Tate Modern, Harvard University, La Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que Fran\u00e7aise, among other festivals, exhibitions, museums, and universities around the world. In 2023, they released <\/span>Arturo a los<\/span><\/i> 30<\/span><\/i> (Forum – 73rd Berlinale), <\/span>El auge del humano 3<\/span><\/i> (Concorzo Internazionale 76\u00b0 – Locarno FF) and <\/span>El repartidor est\u00e1 en camino<\/span><\/i> (Special Jury Prize – Visions du R\u00e9el). They have received the Pardo d’oro from the Locarno FF (<\/span>El auge del humano<\/span><\/i>, by Eduardo \u2018Teddy\u2019 Williams) and the Golden Bear from the Berlinale (<\/span>Un movimiento extra\u00f1o<\/span><\/i>, by Francisco Lezama).\u00a0 In 2023, the Bogoshorts festival dedicated a retrospective to the short films produced by their company. Un Puma is currently developing Hern\u00e1n Roselli’s feature film project <\/span>La escuela pesada<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_separator color=”black” css=””][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=””]It does not roar, but it keeps an eye on its claws.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In just ten years, Un puma<\/strong> has become an indispensable player in the auteur cinema scene in Argentina and South America. Since 2015, Victoria Marotta<\/strong> and Jer\u00f3nimo Quevedo<\/strong> have been committed to a model that reflects a militant involvement in the processes that make up the various stages of each film, regardless of its length or genre. This approach to cinema has enabled them to build up an enviable body of work that has been screened and awarded prizes at major international film festivals.<\/p>\n

Their radical commitment to developing projects by filmmakers\u2014often emerging ones\u2014with unique imaginations, whose specific circumstances and demands require them to approach each proposal using ad hoc methodologies\u2014from the ideation process to subsequent support and promotion\u2014gives an idea of how Un Puma<\/strong> lives and conceives cinema. This experience is evident in its radical defence of a form of production that shows that aesthetics, ethics and politics can and should go hand in hand. This is revealed by a long list of filmmakers\u2014Ico Costa, Eduardo \u201cTeddy\u201d Williams, Mart\u00edn Shanly, Agostina G\u00e1lvez, Manque La Banca, Konstantina Kotzamani and Mart\u00edn Rejtman<\/strong>\u2014who now enjoy unquestionable recognition from the programming teams of festivals, film libraries and cultural and contemporary art centres, critics and the public.<\/p>\n

From our humble point of view, this unique concept brings Un Puma<\/strong> closer to the aesthetic and ideological principles of certain proposals developed in the field of literary and musical publishing. Based on this premise, it seems no coincidence that the company defines itself as an \u2018author’s production house\u2019. This sentence reflects the scope and objectives of its business. On the one hand, conceiving the company as if it were a house: a space that welcomes, protects, promotes and encourages the development of proposals of various kinds. On the other hand, expanding the concept of production and authorship: cinema emanates from a cooperative creativity that magnetises each of the phases that make up the different films, while exponentially or substantially amplifying their initial objectives.<\/p>\n

And in this context, which conceives films as living (organic) entities, the work of the production company transcends its inherent functions \u2014 the search for capital, alliances with international agents, etc. \u2014 to promote the development and delivery of projects that are extremely sensitive to any unwanted incident that could alter their future. We find ourselves, then, in the realm of politics and, therefore, faced with a purely ontological question: making cinema possible and making a possible cinema.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the selection that makes up this focus, we infer the existence of this line, as it operates on different levels: promoting synergies and conversations between films and between films and filmmakers\u2014the case of Teddy Williams and Martin Shanly is evident\u2014; between contemporary aesthetics and documentary cinema\u2014exemplified in Parsi<\/em> and its interaction between performative reading and visual immersion, or in Qu\u00e9 ser\u00e1 del verano,<\/em> a proposal that relates chance, archive, life and cinema\u2014; between the tradition of auteur fiction cinema and its derivations\u2014evidenced radically in the dislocation of expectations in T.R.A.P, in the updating of the generational narrative in a comedic key in Arturo a los 30<\/em>, or in the unique combination of auteur genre cinema, magical realism and social criticism promoted by Electric Swan<\/em>; between thoughtful cinema and practices inherited from avant-garde and experimental cinema\u2014Enfrentar animales salvajes\u2014as well as an implicit review of the medium itself as a vehicle for expression and reflection\u2014as revealed by two works as different but complementary as El novio actual<\/em> and Siete a\u00f1os en mayo.<\/em><\/p>\n

What is evident, ultimately, is the generation of a biome, of a biodiversity where jaws and claws seem to be always alert, ready for action.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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