Pereda gears up for 'Greatest Hits'

GIJON, The country -- Mexico City-based Interior 13 Cine is creating tragic comedy "Finest Hits," helmed by Mexican Nicolas Pereda, whose "Summer time of Goliath" capped Venice Horizons this year.Inside 13 Cine, which created Yulene Olaizola's Tribeca fest player "Artificial Paradises," will co-produce with Colombia's Burning Blue, run by Diana Bustamante and Jorge Ferrero. Holland's Hubert Bals Fund co-finances and it has distribution privileges for Benelux."Hits" toplines Gabino Rodriguez, the star of Pereda's features, and the other Pereda regular, Teresa Sanchez . It activates a parent and street bootlegger boy whose harmony is shattered through the return from the lengthy absent father.Based on Pereda, he was raised inside a Mexican society where lots of males desert their own families either from need or sheer irresponsibility. The daddy figure is absent in lots of of his films. In "Hits," he pictures the father's return. Pereda's fifth feature, "Hits" comes in three days, Interior 13 co-mind Maxiliano Cruz stated at Spain's Gijon festival, where "Hits" features in Puentes, a choose Europe-Latin America co-production forum.Gijon's primary industry event, Puentes is organized through the Media Program's Eave, an exercise initiative for brand new producers, and also the Buenos Aires Festival of Independent Film's Buenos Aires Lab.It boasts a stylish bevy of projects, some from title company directors, shingles or producers, a minimum of for cognoscenti of Latin American film. Chile's Forastero, producers of Golden Globe-nominated "The Maid," is really a moving lady-in-crisis drama "I Apologize Mother," to become helmed by Sebastian Lelio ("The Entire Year from the Tiger").Sara Silveira's Dezenove Som e Imagens is co-creating "Rosa F.C." helmed by Michael Wahrmann and occur the immigrant neighborhood of Sao Paulo.Ex-Wild Bunch professional Lucie Kalmar is creating Niles Atallah's "Rey" and Buenos Aires' Utopica Cine, producers of "Las Acacias," is backing Fernando Salem's "How The Majority Of Things Work," an understanding-good comedy road movie having a pop-art aesthetic. Utopica is fielding multiple European co-production offers, "Things" producer Paula Massa stated at Gijon. Puentes experts include UDI's Frederic Corvez ("The Colours from the Mountain"), Jean des Forets at Petit Film ("Cold Water from the Ocean"), The planet pandora Filmproduktion's Christoph Friedel ("Medianeras") and Michel Ruben at Colombia's Dynamo ("Blind Alley"). Puentes runs November.22-24. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com