El verano de los peces voladores

Pancho is a land-owner busy putting up fences and inventing new ways of exterminating hateful carps from his artificial lagoon. Stubborn in such effort, he doesn’t hesitate to go to extreme levels, risking the life of Pedro, his indigenous employee. Family and friends are amused by Pancho’s eccentricity; Mane, one of his daughters, seems to be the only one able to perceive the tension building up with the nearby Mapuche community.

Marcela Said

Marcela Said (1972). En 2013, son premier long-métrage de fiction, L’été des poissons volants – produit par Jirafa Films et Cinéma Defacto – a été montré en première mondiale à la Quinzaine des réalisateurs. Il avait été accompagné par Cinéma en Construction. En 2014, Marcela Said a été résidente de la Cinéfondation au Festival de Cannes puis du Screenwriter’s Lab de Sundance, où elle a écrit son second long-métrage, Los Perros.

Filmography

2013 – El verano de los peces voladores – long-métrage
2011 – El Mocito – documentaire
2001 – I Love Pinochet – documentaire

Production notes

JIRAFA (Chile). We have first-hand experience in low-budget feature films as well as major international co-productions. We are a leading film company in terms of exports, making a crucial contribution to the international career of prominent Chilean film directors: José Luis Torres Leiva, Cristián Jiménez, Alejandro Fernández Almendras, Alicia Scherson, Sebastián Silva, Christopher Murray. CINEMA DEFACTO (France) is a human-scale company, created to provide the producers we support with the necessary attention and tools to crystallize their ambitions.

Support

The project has received the following supports: CORFO, FFA, FONDS SUD 2011, Arte Cofinova.

Original title
El verano de los peces voladores
Direction
Marcela Said
Country
France, Chili
Année
2013
Scenario
Marcela Said, Julio Rojas
Picture
Inti Briones
Cutting
Jean De Certeau
Music
Edouard Henriquez, Caroline Chaspoul
Actors
Gregory Cohen, Francisca Walker, Roberto Cayuqueo, Bastián Bodenhofer, Guillermo Lorca, Paola Lattus, Emilia Lara
Spoken language
Array
Production
Jirafa
Coproduction
Cinemadefacto
Distribution France
Cinemadefacto
International Sales
Alpha Violet