Director Pablo Malek
Producer Jorge Constantino
Peru
Synopsis
Lucho (22) is a young Peruvian who grew up on the outskirts of Paris, far from his native culture. After a problem with the police, his mother decides to send him back to his country. In Lima, Lucho discovers a new reality and, thanks to his cousin Martin, joins the activist hip-hop movement. Together with his new friends, Lucho travels to the Andes to participate in a social conflict, where he gets even closer to his roots and discovers, thanks to rap, a part of his identity that he rejected.
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Director´s Biofilmography
Pablo Malek is a screenwriter and director.
He began making music videos for Latin American rappers in the early 2010s. In 2017, he made his first self-produced documentary about counterculture in the suburbs of Lima, focusing more specifically on the organized Hip-Hop movement.
Since his return to France in 2019, he dedicates himself to fiction. He joined the Kourtrajmé film school (founded by director Ladj Ly), where he co-directed several short films shot in the suburbs of Paris between 2020 and 2022.
In 2023, he premiered his first fiction work made in Peru, the short film El Último Carreo, which won the Audience Choice Award at the Lima Film Festival.
He is currently working between France and Peru on the development of his first feature film project LATITUDES that join both countries.
Total budget 1 600 000 euros
Funds secured 100 000 euros
Objectives to be achieved
Coproducers and allies from Europe and Latin America
Co-production´s interesting countries
We aim to collaborate with production companies from Latin American countries where the film industry is more established and solid than in Peru (Mexico, Colombia, Chile) to seek national minority co-production funds to complement our budget.
"Latitudes" story and project connects Latin America (Peru) and Europe (France) so we are also looking for european partners to help it grow in this territory and market.
PRODUCER’S BIOFILMOGRAPHY
Jorge Constantino is an executive producer with a degree in Audiovisual Communication. He received a scholarship from the Ibermedia Program for an International Diploma in Executive Production in Medellín. His work includes the development and production of more than twenty films, some of them co-produced with Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, and Spain.
He worked for more than ten years at the Tondero production company as Production and Project Development Manager, and he is currently producing various independent film projects that have won awards from the Peruvian Ministry of Culture and Ibermedia and have been featured at various festivals, forums, and laboratories (Berlin Film Festival, San Sebastian, Cartagena, Guadalajara, Fundación Carolina, Maff, Industria Ficg, Filmarket, Cima Impulsa, Bolivia Lab, Nuevas Miradas, Sanfic)
