The Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has announced the 2019 selection of its HBF+Europe: Minority Co-production Support scheme supporting six international film projects, four of them from four Latin American countries: Brazil, Chile, Ecuador and Nicaragua. Each project will be awarded a grant of €50,000 through the conduit of their European co-producers.
The supported Latin American projects are Blanquita, the third feature film by Chilean director Fernando about an 18-year-old woman who becomes a key witness of a high-profile sexual scandal and turns into a feminist martyr to some, and a villain to others; Nicaraguan filmmaker Laura Baumeister’s debut feature-film project La hija de todas las rabias about an eight-year-old girl, who struggles to survive in the poverty-stricken realms of Nicaragua; The Intrusion by Brazilian filmmakers Flore Dias and Juruna Mallon, which places its focus at the 35,000 workers supporting the operation of one of the busiest airports in Brazil; and La piel pulpo, the second feature film by Ecuadorian filmmaker Ana Cristina Barragán telling the story of a set of 14-year-old twins living on a beach, forced to move to the city for the first time.
