Brazilian actors Alice Braga (“Queen of the South “) and Bianca Comparato (“3%”) have joined forces to launch South, a new production label based out of Los Angeles, New York and São Paulo. The company was established with financial support from FLAGCX, the largest independent creative services holding company in Latin America. South will debut its first feature project, Gabriela Amaral Almeida’s body-horror story “She, Crocodile,” at this year’s 12th edition of the San Sebastian Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, which will take place from Sept.
25 -27. Described by the producers as a “horror fable,” “She, Crocodile” is the story of a young woman, the sole heiress to a luxury real estate brokerage in Rio de Janeiro, who slowly transforms into one of the titular reptiles. As a project, it received backing from the MacDowell Institute Residency program where Amaral wrote a full-50 page treatment.
According to Amaral, a rising genre filmmaker behind fan and festival favorites such as the Fantasia Cheval Noir winner “The Father’s Shadow” and six-time Cinema Brazil Grand Prize nominee “Friendly Beast”: “‘She, Crocodile’ arose from my need to portray violence from the perspective of capitalism and women’s issues. The film is my declaration of love for body horror, David Cronenberg and Douglas Sirk. Blood, guts and heart.
” Vitrine Filmes will distribute “She, Crocodile” in Brazil. In addition to backing the film through their.