Voir, Niko, Oceano link for 'Escafandra'

BUENOS AIRES -- Edgard Tenembaum, Paris-based producer of Walter Salles' "The Motorcycle Journals," is making his latest incursion into Latin American filmmaking with "Escafandra." Directed and put together by Pablo Reyero, whose multi-valued 1997 shanty existence portrait "South Pier" established him just like a seminal estimate the completely new Argentine cinema, "Escafandra" is structured becoming an worldwide co-production between Tenembaum's shingle Tu Vas Voir, Reyero's Oceano Films and Germany's Niko Film. It is simply tied lower a higher-notch Argentine cast: Leonardo Sbaraglia ("Red-colored-colored Lights"), Carlos Belloso ("The Holy Girl") and Mariana Anghileri ("Aballay"). Within it, Sbaraglia plays Pedro, who returns to his childhood town to be ready for that violent suicide of his father (Belloso), while his mother (Cecilia Rossetto) and sister wage a basic war along with his father's concubine (Anghileri). One of the Argentina's most artistically ambitious films set to shoot in 2012, "Escafandra" mixes past, present and future, Greek myths, magicians, monsters together with an aspiration-like narrative, Reyero mentioned. "An intimist story with facets of sci-fi, eroticism and horror," in Reyero's words, "Escafandra" might be the director's try to exorcize their very own father's violent suicide and also the own painful and surrealistic encounters dealing with it, he added. "Escafandra" will roll September in HD in Apartment Gesell, Buenos Aires province. Film uses "realistic" effects within the kind of "Let the most appropriate one In," Tenembaum mentioned. Reyero's "The Southern Mix," a hard drug heist fall-out drama, carried out Cannes 2003 Not Sure Regard. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com