Carlos Saldanha Forums Oscar Hopeful Animated Quick ‘Los angeles Perra’ as EP

Brazilian author, director and animator Carlos Saldanha has boarded Carla Melo Gampert’s Oscar-qualified Colombian animated quick “Los angeles Perra” to accompany the movie via its upcoming awards season run.

“Los angeles Perra” is in large part impressed by way of Melo’s personal lifestyles and tells the tale of a tender lady who leaves her circle of relatives house in Bogota, a domineering mom and her loved youth canine to discover her sexuality in a much wider global that ceaselessly pushes Latina ladies to transition from lovable little women into conventional moms, or labels them as sluts – “perras” in Spanish, therefore the movie’s identify – in the event that they don’t conform.

Co-produced by way of esteemed Colombian indie manufacturers Franco Lolli and Capucine Mahé at Bogota-based Evidencia Motion pictures and Naomi Denamur and Julie Billy at Paris’s June Motion pictures, “Los angeles Perra” was once a revelation in this 12 months’s competition circuit. It screened in festival at Cannes, Annecy, Toronto, SXSW, Tallinn Black Nights and Clermont-Ferrand and received awards at Dresden, San Francisco, Zagreb and Melbourne, amongst others. The movie additionally received the Colombian Academy Macondo Award for very best animated quick.

Saldanha has a decades-long resume operating as a author, director and manufacturer on primary U.S. animated blockbusters. He directed or co-directed two motion pictures from the “Ice Age” franchise, animated characteristic Oscar-winner “Rio,” “Robots,” “Ferdinand” and, maximum just lately, “Harold and the Red Crayon.”

“There’s one thing invigorating about witnessing a brand new wave of skill rising with such power and energy,” mentioned Saldanha of Melo’s quick and the state of Latin American animation extra extensively. “Our continent is brimming with untold, singular tales, and ‘Los angeles Perra’ embodies this in each body. Carla Melo has crafted a visually hanging narrative infused with an erotic sensibility this is as visceral as it’s refined. It’s each uncooked and subtle, a great stability of harshness and sensitivity. It’s been a very long time since a brief movie has moved me so deeply, and ‘Los angeles Perra’ does so in tactics I received’t quickly disregard.”

Becoming a member of Saldanha at the “Los angeles Perra” govt manufacturer crew are fellow Brazilians Claudia Chakmati and Gabriela Matarazzo, founders of the indie manufacturing corporate Rhiza Motion pictures. The duo just lately produced André D’Elia’s characteristic documentary “Ashes of the Wooded area.”