Pereda gears up for 'Greatest Hits'

GIJON, The nation -- Mexico City-based Interior 13 Cine is creating tragic comedy "Finest Hits," helmed by Mexican Nicolas Pereda, whose "Summer season of Goliath" assigned Venice Horizons this season.Within 13 Cine, which produced 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 contains distribution rights for Benelux."Hits" toplines Gabino Rodriguez, the star of Pereda's features, and also the other Pereda regular, Teresa Sanchez . It triggers a parent or gaurdian and street bootlegger boy whose harmony is shattered with the return in the extended absent father.According to Pereda, he was elevated in the Mexican society where plenty of males desert their loved ones either from need or sheer irresponsibility. The dad figure is absent in several of his films. In "Hits," he pictures the father's return. Pereda's fifth feature, "Hits" is available in 72 hours, Interior 13 co-mind Maxiliano Cruz mentioned 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 with the Media Program's Eave, a workout initiative for completely new producers, as well as the Buenos Aires Festival of Independent Film's Buenos Aires Lab.It has a stylish bevy of projects, some from title company company directors, shingles or producers, no less than for cognoscenti of Latin American film. Chile's Forastero, producers of Golden Globe-nominated "The Maid," can be a moving lady-in-crisis drama "I Am Sorry Mother," being helmed by Sebastian Lelio ("The Season in 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 Nearly All Things Work," an awareness-good comedy road movie getting a pop-art aesthetic. Utopica is fielding multiple European co-production offers, "Things" producer Paula Massa mentioned at Gijon. Puentes experts include UDI's Frederic Corvez ("The Shades in the Mountain"), Jean des Forets at Petit Film ("Cold Water in the Sea"), The earth the planet pandora Filmproduktion's Christoph Friedel ("Medianeras") and Michel Ruben at Colombia's Dynamo ("Blind Alley"). Puentes runs November.22-24. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com