TEMPORADA DE CAZA (Hunting Season) wins the Audience Award of the 32nd Venice Critics' Week

Natalia Garagiola wins the SIAE Audience Award for TEMPORADA DE CAZA (Hunting Season), her first feature film co-produced by Argentina, USA, Germany, France and Qatar at the 74th Venice Film Festival.
 

Today, Friday September 8, the Venice International Film Critics’ Week (SIC), the independent and parallel section organized by the National Union of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI) during the 74^th Venice International Film Festival (30th August – 9th September, 2017), conferred the awards of its thirty-second edition.

Eighteen years after the victory of Mondo Grúa, the film that revealed the talent of Argentinean Pablo Trapero, Argentina triumphs again in the Venice International Film Critics’ Week thanks to Temporada de Caza (Hunting Season), winner of the SIAE -- Italian Society of Authors and Publishers -  Audience Award of this 32nd edition.

The General Delegate Giona A. Nazzaro commented: "An edition marked by women. An edition that celebrated the many diverse forms of talent and of new cinema. An edition embraced with great esteem and affection by the audience. An edition that revealed seven new filmmakers that will be talked about for years to come. This is the work and the mission of the Venice International Film Critics' Week".

Temporada de caza, will screen at 2pm on Saturday, September 9, Sala Perla, Palazzo del Casinò.

The selection of the 32^nd Venice International Film Critics’ Week is curated by the General Delegate of the Venice Critics’ Week Giona A. Nazzaro together with the members of the selection committee Luigi Abiusi, Alberto Anile, Beatrice Fiorentino and Massimo Tria and includes a selection of seven debut films in competition and two special events out of competition, all presented in world premiere screenings.

 

HUNTING SEASON (Temporada de Caza)
Argentina/USA/Germany/France/Qatar – 110 min. – Language: Spanish
[Settimana della Critica – Competition]

 
HUNTING SEASON (Temporada de Caza) by Natalia Garagiola had its world premiere in the competition of the 32^nd Settimana Internazionale della Critica.
 
Hunting Season is the first feature film from Argentinian director Natalia Garagiola, after her shorts films Rincón de López (2011) shown at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, Yeguas y Cotorras (2012) premiered at the Critic’s Week at Cannes, and Sundays (2014) codirected with Kræsten Kusk (Denmark) and selected at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes.
 
The film tells the story of a respected hunting guide in Patagonia faced with the education of his biological son recently expelled from school. In a wild environment, the father tames his son and teaches him how to respect nature and human relationships.
 
Hunting Season is an intimate film with a central focus on an impossible father and son relationship. Set in the particular context of hunting, there is a wordless exchange, a silent dialogue that cuts across everything and takes it to a primal, common level.
 
The film features Lautaro Bettoni (Nahuel), Germán Palacios (Ernesto), Boy Olmi (Bautista) and Rita Pauls (Clara).
 
This Argentinian-French-USA-German-Qatari film is produced by Rei Cine SRL (Argentina) with Gamechanger Films (USA), Augenschein Filmproduktion (Germany), Les Films de l’Étranger (France), and supported by INCAA (Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales), Torino Film Lab (Production Award), Doha Film Institute, World Cinema Fund, Strasbourg Eurométropole, Buenos Aires Lab, Toulouse Cinéma en Construction, Cannes Nordic Factory, Rotterdam Lab, BrLab, TyPA.
 
Screenplay: Natalia Garagiola. Cinematography: Fernando Lockett. Sound: Santiago Fumagalli. Production Design: Marina Raggio. Music: Juan Manuel Tobal. Costume Design: Victoria Nana. Cast Lautaro Bettoni, Germán Palacios, Boy Olmi, Rita Pauls. Production: Matias Roveda, Santiago Gallelli, Benjamin Domenech - Rei Cine SRL. Co-production: Mynette Louie - Gamechanger Films, Jonas Katzenstein, Maximilian Leo, Catharina Schreckenberg - Augenschein Filmproduktion, Philippe Avril - Les Films de l’Étranger. Executive Production: Julie Parker Benello, Dan Cogan, Geralyn Dreyfous, Wendy Ettinger. Executive co-production: Abigail Disney, Regina K. Scully.