Netflix has announced the release of Homemade, a special quarantine anthology featuring short films made during the Covid-19 pandemic by 17 international filmmakers, including Chilean directors Pablo Larraín (Jackie) and Sebastián Lelio (A Fantastic Woman), Mexican director Natalia Beristáin (She Doesn’t Want to Sleep Alone), and Brazilian-American director Antonio Campos. The project is produced by Larraín and his brother and creative partner Juan de Dios Larraín, in association with Lorenzo Mieli, CEO of Fremantle-backed Italian outfit The Apartment.
“For once in our careers, this wasn’t about money, agencies, lawyers or the Hollywood structure,” Juan de Dios Larraín told Variety. “This was a simple idea of [conveying] one message in five to seven minutes, and the idea was to give that message without any pressure; it was totally open. We asked only for [each film’s] rating to be general, and not only for older audiences.”
Each of the filmmakers were instructed to work in isolation, to use equipment only found at home, with no crew, no budget, and each came up with something very different. Larraín and Lelio shot their respective short films in Santiago de Chile, Beristáin shot her film in Mexico City, and Campos in New York City.
Other featured filmmakers include Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, Japanese director Naomi Kawase, and Chinese-Canadian director Johnny Ma who filmed his short in San Sebastian del Oeste, Jalisco, Mexico. Homemade will debut on Netflix on Tuesday, June 30, and the films will available to watch individually as five to seven-minute shorts or as one long feature.
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