Autoc has joined as the world sales agent for the documentary “Fantasy of Eternal Summer”, which will have its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival’s Filmmaker of the Present competition. Variety premiered a clip from the film here.
The film was partially financed by Mubi, which holds the UK/Ireland and North American rights.
Fantasy of Eternal Summer is photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti’s feature debut and was shot over 25 years. The story of Guillermina and Belinda, inseparable cousins who grew up on neighboring farms in the Pampas, Argentina.
Starting in 1999, when the girls were just nine years old, Sanguinetti captures the pretend play of childhood as it slowly gives way to the weight of adulthood: work, family, motherhood, and diverging paths. The film, set in the countryside of Argentina’s Pampas, “offers an intimate, female-centered counterpoint to the region’s male-dominated gaucho mythology and becomes a deep meditation on time, friendship, and what endures,” according to a statement.
The film is produced by Julia Solomonov and co-produced by Mubi and Impact Partners.
Sanguinetti is a Guggenheim Fellow and the recipient of a Hasselblad Grant, a Sundance Grant, and the L’Encontre d’Arles Discovery Prize. Her books include “On the Sixth Day,” “The Adventures of Guille and Belinda” (Volumes 1 and 2), “Some Say Ice,” and “Sorry Welcome.”
Her work has been collected and exhibited by MoMA, SFMOMA, MFA Houston, Museo de Bellas Artes Buenos Aires, and Fondation Cartier-Bresson. She has been a member of Magnum since 2007.
Solomonov was the dean of New York University’s Tisch School of Film, where he still teaches. She wrote and directed the feature films Sisters (Toronto and San Sebastian), The Last Summer of La Boita (Cannes ACID winner), No One Watching (Tribeca), the Paramount+ limited series 15 to the Hour, and the documentary series Paraná, A River Biography and Aerocén Pacha: A Sustainable Utopia.
As a producer, Solomonov focuses on emerging talent from Latin America. Her credits include Alejandro Landes’ Cocalero (Sundance), Julia Murat’s Found Memories (Venice, Toronto, San Sebastian), Julia Murat’s Pendular (Berlin), Lucia Murat’s A Memoria que me contan, Anna Peterberg’s Everybody Has a Plan (starring Viggo Mortensen), and Serena. Murga’s “The Third Bank of the River” (Berlin), Lucrecia Martel’s “Zama” (Venice, Toronto, NYFF).
