EXCLUSIVE: Darren Aronofsky-produced Brazilian drama Pacified tonight won the Golden Shell top prize at Spain’s San Sebastian Film Festival. We spoke to the Black Swan and Mother! director ab…
director about how he came to the project, which is his company Protozoa Pictures’ first foreign-language film, and what’s next for him.charts the relationship between a street-smart 13 year-old girl and her ex-trafficker father as they try to find peace in a Rio favela. U.S. filmmaker Paxton Winters was inspired to direct the film after moving to live in the same favela.
Aronofsky’s initial connection to the project was a personal one, “I have known Paxton for a long time,” the Oscar-nominated filmmaker told us today. “He’s an old friend. We met almost 20 years ago at the Istanbul Film Festival when I was there with. He moved from Turkey to Rio, ultimately living in the favela where the movie was shot. He became part of the community and as the years went by he started to realize there was a film there.
“Helping foreign filmmakers through the American system can be fun and rewarding,” Aronofsky told me. “We’re not hunting for foreign language films, per se, but we want to make films with young and exciting filmmakers.”as Protozoa gets deeper into producing and TV. Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne-starrer— which has acclaimed Danish writer Tobias Lindholm aboard to direct from a script by emerging U.S. writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns — is among movies heading into production for the firm.
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