Projects
The Winter / El Invierno
Director: Emiliano Torres
Screenplay: Emiliano Torres and Marcelo Chaparro
Language: Spanish
Status: 2016
STORYLINE: Evans, the old foreman at an estancia in Patagonia receives a new group of workers who come to participate in the shearing season. Within the group of laborers, Jara, a young man from the northeastern part of Argentina, stands out. The owners of the estancia see him as a possible new foreman. When the season’s work comes to an end Evans’ worst fears come true: after a lifetime of dedication to that work and place he is fired from the estancia and replaced by Jara. The change won’t be easy for either of them and each one must find their own way to survive the coming winter.
The Promised Land / La Tierra Prometida
Director: Emiliano Torres
Screenplay: Emiliano Torres and Marcelo Chaparro
Language: German, Spanish, Guaraní
Status: in development
STORYLINE: A paraguayan police detective has to return to the Mennonite religious congregation from which he was expelled to conduct a complex investigation. In that hostile scenario, the challenge will force him to confront a dangerous intrigue of interests, but above all his own history.
The Good Thief / El buen Ladrón
Director: Emiliano Torres
Screenplay: Emiliano Torres and Marcelo Chaparro
Language: French – Spanish.
Status: in development
STORYLINE: Juan Cruz (35) is a police officer of Latino origin who makes a living catching pickpockets in the Paris metro. With a tough and uncompromising reputation, he has become the best among his peers, a true hunter. Cruz has much in common with his prey, as almost all of them are foreigners. No one is better than him at catching them. But fate will force him to reconnect with his roots, betray his own, and after many years, he will become a fugitive, at a crossroads between good and evil.
Rona
Director: Emiliano Torres
Screenplay: Emiliano Torres and Marcelo Chaparro
Language: Norwegian, English, Spanish
Status: in development.
STORYLINE: After a mountain accident in Patagonia in which she is left for dead, Rona decides to leave behind her life in Norway and wander aimlessly with her backpack and camping tent. But fate forces her to rescue a young woman lost in the mountains, thereby exposing herself to the risk of revealing her identity.
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