WELCOMEMARKET

TO FANTASTIC
2015

Every year, Fantastic Market sets out to gather the best and most unique genre
projects from across the world. 2015 is no exception. This years program boasts a
diverse slate of pitch projects, works-in-progress, previews and panels. The team
from SpectreVision will kick off this years market with a comprehensive keynote talk
in which they will share their insights into the film and music business. SpectreVision
have been important supporters of the market from the beginning and we are
extremely pleased to have them as our special guests.
Fantastic Market | Mercado Fantastico has become a crucial destination for international genre filmmakers. A core part of the markets mission
is to help filmmakers make substantive progress along their journey from
development to distribution.
Here are just a few recent highlights regarding films featured at past markets:
Emilio Portes film BELZEBUTH was pitched at the 2013 Fantastic Market. It is
now in production and will be completed by late 2015.
THE SIMILARS, which is Isaac Ezbans follow up to EL INCIDENTE, was previewed at the 2014 market. The film is now complete and will make its world
premiere at this years Fantastic Fest.
Jos Manuel Craviotos REVERSAL, which was previewed at the 2014 Fantastic
Market, was selected to screen at the 2015 edition of Sundance FIlm Festival.
IFC Midnight acquired U.S. distribution rights for the film.
Adrian Garcia Boglianos film SCHERZO DIABOLICO was featured as a work-inprogress at the 2014 Fantastic Market. The completed film had its international
premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2015. U.S. distribution rights for
SCHERZO DIABOLICO were acquired by Dark Sky Films.
Two Fantastic Market projects from 2014 HAVANA: VAMPIRE TERRITORY
and THE SHORE participated in the 2014 edition of Blood Window at Ventana Sur.
In conclusion, I would like to express my sincere thanks to everyone who has made
this event a success. None of the markets numerous achievements would be possible
without the hard work of the market staff, the presence of talented filmmakers and
the continued support of our partners and sponsors.

RODNEY PERKINS

Dilcia Barrera

Dilcia is a Short Film Programmer for the Sundance Film Festival and oversees the film programs
at LACMA (The Los Angeles County Museum of Art). Since 2007, she has worked for numerous
festivals, including The Los Angeles Film Festival and Outfest, and has previously served as Senior
Programmer at AFI FEST, Programmer for The Philadelphia Film Festival, and a screener for the
Sundance Institutes Documentary Film Program. A Los Angeles native, Dilcia has a Spanish/Portuguese Literature degree from UCLA.

Tom Davia

An expert on world film sales, acquisitions and distribution, as well as film festival programming
and management, Tom Davia is a seasoned veteran of the global entertainment industry. He is the
co-founder and managing partner of CineMaven Media, a unique Miami-based international film
consultancy specializing in acquisitions and sales consulting, festival and market consulting, and the
packaging and development of feature film projects. He regularly attends film festivals worldwide
scouting for innovative material and not only understands what makes good, sellable product, but
how to best deliver new cinematic content to the global marketplace. His expertise comes from
several key positions at film organizations worldwide including Shoreline Entertainment and the
Sundance, Dubai, Miami, and Atlanta film festivals, among others. A true global nomad born in
the Philippines and raised overseas in Japan, Pakistan, Thailand, Paraguay, Taiwan and Greece, Tom
brings a multinational focus and sensibility to his work, and enthusiastically believes that film is a
universal language for all peoples.

James Fler

With 20 years experience as an entrepreneur, James Flers business sense and creative eye have
allowed him to build an impressive professional portfolio and reputation. At Raven Banner, James
oversees worldwide sales, having established professional relationships with some of the industrys
leading distribution companies (Sony, IFC, Magnolia, Lionsgate, to name a few) and has direct
contact with the key players. James annually attends all major world markets and festivals such as
Cannes, Berlin, AFM, and TIFF. Most recently he has been involved with the features TURBO KID,
WOLFCOP and the upcoming IT CAME FROM THE DESERT.

SPONSORS

AMATEURS
DEVELOPMENT / MEXICO
A group of amateur pornographers is looking for a girl. Theyre led by Billy, an American
with a bad attitude. Chavira is the cameraman, a fool in charge of recording everything, and
Billys girlfriend Soraya helps them lure the girls. After failing at finding a girl in the US, they
decide to go down to the border. After failing in Mexico as well, they stop to discuss their
strategy, when Mariana, an innocent looking girl approaches them selling cupcakes. She
accepts their offer, though she suspects theres something wrong about the whole thing...
but its already too late .
Director: Santiago Cendejas (PLAN SEXENAL)
Producer(s): Gerardo Naranjo (MISS BALA; VOY A EXPLOTAR), Vanessa Perez (PARADISE)
Budget: $1M USD
Shooting Locations: Mexico and the US border (Tijuana and Southern California or
Ciudad Jurez and Southern Texas)
Contact Info: Santiago Cendejas (thasza@gmail.com)

BANDIT HEROES (HEROES BANDIDOS)

DEVELOPMENT / CHILE
Alex, a 26-year-old businessman, has not recovered from his fathers death and suspects he
was killed by Carbonaro, his dads former partner and current chairman of the corporation.
Alex works at the business, trying to find the truth. But when he discovers abuses, his out-ofcontrol nature leads to violent measures, which lands him in jail. There he meets Figueroa,
and Alex is captivated by his revolutionary philosophy, because Figueroa leads a band of
bank robbers that shares their loot with needy people. When the bandit reveals his bands
next target is Carbonaros bank, Alex decides to escape with him from jail. After a series of
events, Alex discovers that Figueroa was friends with Carbonaro. Alex returns to confront
them both, where he will solve the mystery of his fathers death and meet his mentor face-toface in an epic finale.
Director: Ernesto Daz Espinoza (REDEEMER; BRING ME THE HEAD OF
MACHINE GUN WOMAN; MANDRILL; MIRAGE MAN)
Producer(s): Diego Moral (REDEEMER)
Budget: $800K USD if shot in Chile; $2.5M USD if shot in USA
Shooting Locations: Santiago de Chile or Austin, Texas
Contact Info: Diego Moral (moralrocks@gmail.com)

BECOMING AN ACTION HERO

DEVELOPMENT / USA - MEXICO
After decades as a Hollywood B-List action star, Bob Willis, in an effort to live up to his family
legacy, invests all his money in his directorial debut...and it bombs. With angry investors on his
back and a dismissive agent ready to drop him, Bob has hit rock bottom. When hes contacted
by a famous Mexican producer, Joaco, who is risking his career to produce blockbuster action
films in Mexico, Bob seizes the opportunity to change his luck. With the future of an industry on
their shoulders, Bob and Joaco groom a promising young actor to become the first real Mexican
action hero. Along the way, theyll have to overcome their personal shortcomings as they face
the ups and downs of production, and language and cultural barriers. On their own, their dreams
remained unrealized; as a team, they might just have a shot.
Director: Maru Buendia-Senties (first feature)
Producer(s): Maru Buendia-Senties
Budget: $2.8M USD
Shooting Locations: Los Angeles, CA; Mexico City
Contact Info: Maru Buendia-Senties (me.buendia@gmail.com)

BLOOD TISSUE (TEJIDO CON SANGRE)

DEVELOPMENT / MEXICO
Sebastin Carmona, a frustrated salesman that works for a big candy company, sells
products from store to store on his daily routes. Unfortunately, his job is not enough
to provide for his wife Vania and their newborn child. Whats worse is that his absurd
cowardice is an obstacle to reaching a juicy commission if he could become the best
salesman of the month. Luckily, Sebastian has the unconditional support and love of his
perfect little family. One day, Sebastian encounters a very special kind of client on his
route. A mysterious man has arrived in Sebastians neighborhood, a retired sicario
(drug cartel criminal), who is set on a dark and secret path to revenge. Sebastians life
becomes a nightmare when the sicario puts the salesman into an impossible situation:
decide between staying alive or renouncing the love of his own wife.
Director: Fabin Archondo Arce (first feature)
Producer(s): Sergio Salazar (POLICE VIOLENCE; WILD BLOOD; FACHON MODELS)
Laura Pino (GONZALEZ), Nicole Maynard Pinto
Budget: $1M USD
Shooting Locations: Mexico City, Monterrey City, and Acua City, Mexico
Contact Info: Fabin Archondo Arce (farchondo@gmail.com)

DEMON DRIVEN (ENDEMONIADOS) - 2015 BLOOD WINDOW SELECTION

DEVELOPMENT / ARGENTINA
Its late night in Buenos Aires. A group of friends, in the midst of a wild, drug-fueled party,
are terrified when Julians girlfriend suffers a seizure after taking a highly potent hit of acid.
Calling her psychiatrist and father figure the friends are instructed to take the girl to
her house, where she begins to act even more strangely. Discovering that shes also taking
psychiatric medication, the unorthodox doctor plans to blast her with aggressive shock
treatment in order to contain her escaped demons. Things get worse, and the group decides
to take the same acid she did. They begin to see what shes seeing as ghoulish demonic
entities encircle the girl and her home, unleashed by the drug.
Director: Ramiro Garca Bogliano (PENUMBRA; THE ACCURSED)
Producer(s): Federico Ricaldoni (AGUA; ROOMS FOR TOURISTS), Mario Levit (SAL)
Budget: $750K USD
Shooting Locations: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Contact Info: Ramiro Garca Bogliano (ramirogarciabogliano@gmail.com)

DESALMADOS - 2015 BLOOD WINDOW SELECTION

DEVELOPMENT / BRAZIL
In the midst of an infected world, Estela and Nico are chased by Rex, a mercenary who has
a dictatorial reign of the only safe haven in the city. In his fortress, Rex controls the scarce
resources of survival, particularly medicines that are left after the global tragedy. In DESALMADOS, the greatest danger is not always the infected.
Co-Directors: Armando Fonseca (UPTAKE FEAR), Raphael Borghi (first feature)
Producer(s): Kapel Furman (UPTAKE FEAR; POLVORA NEGRA)
Budget: $300K USD
Shooting Locations: Brazil
Contact Info: Armando Fonseca (armando.infravermelho@gmail.com)

EL GIGANTE
DEVELOPMENT / CANADA
Marta is fueled by her passion to find out what happened to her parents. Felix is madly in
love with her and looking for the right time to propose. They head to the United States/
Mexico border to film a documentary that sheds light on the abuse of illegal immigrants
by the United States Border Patrol. After a fight, Marta goes on alone, but finds something
much worse than the Border Patrol. Shes kidnapped, taken to a house whose inhabitants
hunt the illegal immigrants and butcher them for their meat, which they then eat and serve
out of a taco truck in town. The oldest son Gustavo, aka El Gigante, is a massive, homicidal
luchador who batters his victims in a makeshift wrestling ring before slaughtering them. Felix
scrambles to find Marta, and when he does, a bloody showdown ensues.
Director: Gigi Saul Guerrero (first feature)
Producer(s): Raynor Shima, Paulina Trujillo
Budget: $300-$350K USD
Shooting Locations: Osoyoos and Keremeos, BC, Canada; Tijuana, Mexico
Contact Info: Raynor Shima (Raynorshimabukuro@gmail.com)

KIKEN
DEVELOPMENT / URUGUAY
Nina and Daniel travel to a small, remote fishing village in a desperate attempt to rekindle
their troubled relationship. A mysterious Japanese ship runs aground and releases a substance which mutates the villages inhabitants. Now the couple must face another challenge:
to survive in a mutant-infested town. Daniel manages to get to the car and drives off in
panic, leaving Fernanda to herself. She spends the night escaping from different creatures,
each more hideous and mutated than the one before, and through her suffering comes to
understand some very harsh truths about relationships.
Director: Carlos Ameglio (LA CASCARA)
Producer(s): Mariana Secco (MR. KAPLAN; HIGH FIVE; LA CASCARA)
Budget: $680K USD
Shooting Locations: Rocha, Uruguay
Contact Info: Mariana Secco (marianasecco@salado.tv)

PARADISE HILLS (COLINA PARASO)

DEVELOPMENT / SPAIN
In a dystopian future, Uma doesnt identify with the norms that define the society she lives in.
All of her female friends have been married to men who are three or four times older than them,
before they even have boyfriends. These young brides are a currency to broker deals and mergers
between corporations, in a structure that relies on an unspoken dictatorship and social networks that
rely exclusively on external social status symbols. Both men and women adhere to this social code.
Umas family, nearing bankruptcy, forces her to marry, even against her mothers doubts. When Uma
violently rejects their proposal for a fianc, the man offers a solution: send Uma to a place where
wayward girls are corrected and prepared for this type of marriage. Umas time there will forever
change her life and the lives of those around her.
Director: Alice Waddington (first feature)
Producer(s): Yadira Avalos (OPEN WINDOWS)
Budget: $1.6M USD
Shooting Locations: Canada; Spain; USA
Contact Info: Alice Waddington (alicewadd@gmail.com)

THE DUMP (EL VERTEDERO)

DEVELOPMENT / MEXICO
In the outskirts of Mexico City, people live in poverty and desolation. The lucky ones
fight every day to obtain money and food, working in the most unimaginable places. The
less fortunate simply die in oblivion. A monstrous, bleak garbage dump fills the landscape of this area. Every day, workers of the Sanitary and Health Commission deliver tons
of waste. There, a lonely old man, the garbage man, spends his daily existence looking
after the enormous place. The psychotic old bloke, surrounded by rot and pestilence,
has started to slaughter animals to control the hunger of an imaginary demonic being
living below the mountains of waste. Soon, animals will not be enough, and the garbage
man will resort to human sacrifices in his obsessive attempt to control the viciousness of
the demon. But... what if this eerie being is real?
Co-Directors: Fernando Montes de Oca (first feature), Xavier Snchez Mercado (first feature)
Producer(s): Isaac Ezban (THE INCIDENT; THE SIMILARS), Miriam Mercado (THE INCIDENT;
THE SIMILARS), Amapola Rosillo
Budget: $720K USD
Shooting Locations: Mexico City, Huehuetoca, and Ciudad Satelite, Mexico
Contact Info: Fernando Montes de Oca (fer.montesdeoca@live.com.mx)

THE TRACE (O RASTRO)

DEVELOPMENT / BRAZIL
A young, idealistic physician coordinates the transfer of patients between state-run hospitals
throughout Rio de Janeiro. A patient goes missing one night and completely disappears
from the system. As the doctor struggles to find out the truth, he uncovers many unanswered
questions about Brazils public health care system, and, in the process, must deliberate on
his own moral integrity to try to save lives.
Director: Joo Caetano Feyer (first feature)
Producer(s): Malu Miranda (ELITE SQUAD: THE ENEMY WITHIN),
Andr Pereira (THE DOGNAPPER)
Budget: $2.4M USD
Shooting Locations: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Contact Info: Andr Pereira (andre@lupafilmes.com)

THE WOLFS BREATH (EL ALIENTO DEL LOBO)

DEVELOPMENT / COLOMBIA / CHILE
On the afternoon of her mothers funeral, Mariana swore she would never return to the village. Now, 15 years later, she can hear the call echoing in her head. It is the call of the pack.
Her nights are tainted by dreams of forests, deep narrow caves, and green turbulent rivers. It
is a cold-climate village; its people are tough and reserved. They know that strangers come
and go from time to time. Strangers with huge teeth. And this village knows how to deal
with them. The bus stops. Mariana gets off. She doesnt know why she has returned; all she
knows is that she must. The old men stare at her. Her hair dyed red, and her eyes green like
her mothers, cant be ignored. She is not welcome. It is the first sign of the return of the
women and this is no town for she-wolves.
Director: Alfonso Acosta (THE CRACK)
Producer(s): Carolina Mosquera (THE CRACK)
Budget: $427K USD
Shooting Locations: Boyac and Bogot D.C., Colombia
Contact Info: Carolina Mosquera (info@cabecitanegraproducciones.com)

THE YELLOW NIGHT (A NOITE AMARELA)

DEVELOPMENT / BRAZIL
A group of seven teenagers travels to a beach house in Arco Velho, a small town on the south
coast of Paraba. The trip is more than a celebration; its a way to put aside the worries of senior
year and just have fun, drink, talk and goof around. However, the party ends at nightfall, when
Karina mysteriously disappears. The more they search, the more the situation grows strange. She
left her bags at the beach house. Theres no trace to be followed. Amid all the theories, the void
and the silence makes the situation even more unsettling. In an attempt to solve the mystery, the
kids split up and venture into the darkness.
Director: Ramon Porto Mota (first feature)
Producer(s): Lara Lima
Budget: $323K USD
Shooting Locations: Paraba, Brazil
Contact Info: Vermelho Profundo (vermelhoprofundo@gmail.com)
Lira Cinematogrfica (liracinematografica@gmail.com)

TERROR 5
POST-PRODUCTION / ARGENTINA
The events depicted happen in one night and are partly based on urban legends. Perhaps even
ordinary urban tales. The City Governor faces the accusation of responsibility for a tragedy that led
to the death of fifteen people when a building collapsed while under construction. Hernn and Gabriela, two lovers from work, go to a motel without realizing that inside the room, behind the mirror...
somethings waiting for them. Lucio and Paulo have a plan to swap girlfriends without realizing that
the trick is going to be played on them. A group of friends watches a snuff movie without realizing
that the real terror could be sitting next to them. Juan attends to a date with Sonia, thinking hes
going to get lucky, but he realizes that she has bigger plans for him. Eventually, it all explodes and
our main characters will face fear in various ways.
Co-Directors: Sebastin Rotstein (first feature), Federico Rotstein (first feature)
Producer(s): Federico Rotstein, Sebastin Rotstein, Sebastin Perillo (THE VAMPIRE SPIDER;
PHASE 7), Daniel Werner (SHOWROOM; THE TREAD IN FOG;
THE INNOCENCE OF THE SPIDER; MAYTLAND)
Shooting Locations: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Contact Info: Camargo Cine (camargocine@gmail.com)

KM 31 NO RETURN (KM 31 SIN RETORNO)

PRODUCTION / MEXICO
Seven years after being involved in the KM31 case, police officer Martin Ugalde is called to investigate a series of Mexico City kidnappings of children between 6 and 9 years old. He quickly realizes
these abductions have a special link with his case seven years earlier. With Nahum, a paranormal scientist, his son Tomas, a kid with the gift of sight, and Nuo, the Spanish man who killed his girlfriend,
Ugalde will investigate the particular case of the Presidential candidates sons abduction, and will
discover a macabre plot that could liberate centuries of rage towards our plane of existence
Director: Rigoberto Castaeda (KM 31)
Producer(s): Alexis Fridman (MEXICOS MOST WANTED; AFTER LUCIA; THE SNITCH
CARTEL; KM31), Fernando Rovzar (MEXICOS MOST WANTED; CASA DE MI
PADRE; SAVING PRIVATE PEREZ; KM31), Erica Snchez (MEXICOS MOST
WANTED; AFTER LUCIA; SAVING PRIVATE PEREZ)
Shooting Locations: Mexico City
Contact Info: Erica Snchez (erica@lemonfilms.com)

THE MONSTER WITHIN (INVUNCHE)

PRODUCTION / CHILE / ARGENTINA
Aniceto Martnez, an officer in the Chilean Army, has been sent South to work on the construction of the
Austral Route. In this remote, isolated forest setting, Anicetos paranoia over a dark past to the surface,
while his teenage daughter Rosa is led by her new friends, Aaron and Ana, into a macabre game of witchcraft, with the goal of invoking a dreadful mythological being from the local folklore called the Invunche.
After years of suffering mistreatment and abuse from their parents, Aaron and Ana find in Rosa an ally
for their vengeance: turning the Invunche into the protector of the new generation. Will this conjured
monster really help the teenagers defeat the elders and transform this place of suffering into a haven of
freedom?
Director: Rodrigo Susarte (VENTANA)
Producer(s): Florencia Larrea (AURORA; HERE I AM HERE IM NOT),
Josefina Undurraga (I AM NOT LORENA), Gregorio Gonzlez (THE MAID;
ROMANS CIRCUIT; THURSDAY TILL SUNDAY)
Hernn Musaluppi (SUNSTROKES; SIDEWALLS; GIANT; EL CUSTODIO)
Shooting Locations: Chile, Argentina
Contact Info: Florencia Larrea (florencia@forastero.cl)

THE MORPHABLE MAN

PRODUCTION / MEXICO
Adio is a young Mexican who lives in Austin TX, working as a copy editor of Soundz music magazine.
Hes spent his life trying to control, with the use of antidepressants, a unique condition that makes him
transform into random objects, from bubbles to barbed wire, depending on his emotional state. One day,
he has to abandon the safe walls of his office, in order to search for new musical talent around the city. In
his search he will meet Sophie, a mysterious, beautiful singer that will make him fall in love and hopelessly
out of control.
Director: Jonathan Ostos Yaber (First Feature)
Producer(s): Victor Shuchleib (THE INCIDENT), Isaac Ezban (THE INCIDENT; THE SIMILARS),
Jonathan Ostos Yaber, Yemile Bucay
Shooting Locations: Austin, TX
Contact Info: Jonathan Ostos Yaber (zombie@comesesos.com)
Victor Shuchleib (victorchuch@hotmail.com)

DISCO INFERNO
COMPLETED / SPAIN
A day in the life of Mephistopheles, who must enter the world of the living to rescue her
boss, who has entrenched herself inside a lavish palace accompanied by some lost souls. But
the Devil is not willing to go back to her hellish routine
Director: Alice Waddington
Producer(s): Alice Waddington, Yadira valos
Shooting Locations: Madrid, Spain
Contact Info: Alice Waddington (alicewadd@gmail.com)

EL GIGANTE
COMPLETED / CANADA
After attempting to cross the US/Mexico border in search of a better life, Armando
awakens in an unknown room, his body broken down and a Lucha Libre mask sewn into
his neck. He attempts to escape, but is surrounded by a sadistic family, who watch him
with hungry eyes. The only chance for Armandos survival in this hellish nightmare is to
last in a wrestling match against the most terrifying villain of all: EL GIGANTE!
Director: Gigi Saul Guerrero
Producer(s): Raynor Shima
Shooting Locations: Vancouver, BC; Surrey, BC
Contact Info: Raynor Shima (Raynorshimabukuro@gmail.com)

PLAN SEXENAL
COMPLETED / MEXICO
Juan and Mercedes use their makeshift generator to keep their housewarming party going
after curfew. A cop arrives to break up the rowdy noise, warning them about the unsafe
neighborhood and offering protection... for a fee. The unexpected proposition causes
tension between the couple, and when a mysterious stalker begins to prowl, theyre helpless
against an increasingly bizarre and suspenseful siege.
Director: Santiago Cendejas (first feature)
Producer(s): Gerardo Naranjo (MISS BALA; VOY A EXPLOTAR), Santiago Cendejas
Shooting Locations: Mexico City
Contact Info: Santiago Cendejas (thasza@gmail.com)