El verano de los peces voladores

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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). In 2013, her first feature film The summer of flying fish, produced by Jirafa Films and Cinéma Defacto was presented at the Director’s Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival. It was presented at Toulouse Films in Progress. In 2014, she was a resident director at the Cinéfondation, the Festival de Cannes’ Residency, and at the Sundance Screenwriter Lab, where she wrote her second feature film, Los Perros.

Filmography

2013 – El verano de los peces voladores – feature film
2011 – El Mocito – documentary
2001 – I Love Pinochet – documentary

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
Original version: Espagnol
Production: Jirafa
Coproduction: Cinemadefacto
Distribution France: Cinemadefacto
International Sales: Alpha Violet