Jirafa readies Leiva's 'Groenlandia'

Bruno Bettati's Jirafa Films, whose "The Summer time of Flying Seafood" reaches the Berlinale Co-Production Market, is preparing "Groenlandia," helmer Jose Luis Torres Leiva third film.Occur the Valdivia mountain tops in the lakeside village of Puerto Fuy, pic follows a 73-year-old retired person whose much more youthful g.f. announces she's pregnant."The landscape is again a personality in Torres Leiva's film, but 'Groenlandia' could be more dramatic and actor-driven, and employ professional stars," Bettati stated.A black-humored family dramedy, "Flying Seafood," may be the fiction debut of Chilean-French helmer-scribe Marcela Stated, whose third documentary, "The Youthful Butler," performed Berlin's 2011 Forum."Seafood" has drawn lower Chilean subsidy funding plus gold coin from France's " new world " Movie theaters Aid plan. It'll begin lensing in November, stated Bettati, who, with Sergio Gandara, has walked lower as professional director at film promotion board CinemaChile. Chilean TV producer Constanza Arena has changed them.Chilean cinema appears to become transitional phase with projects including "Groenlandia," Pablo Larrain's Gael Garcia Bernal-starrer "No" and Alicia Scherson's "The Near Future,Inch with Rutger Hauer, which Jirafa co-produces, mixing art along with a commercial tilt. Bettati noted that "5 years ago, i was searching for funding and funding and funding and purchasers were something you accomplished later on."Now, he stated, Chilean producers secure sales representatives before a movie is completed. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com