Rivero finds out 'Pozo amargo'

BARCELONA -- Mexico-based shingle Una Comunion will produce "Pozo amargo," the 3rd feature of Locarno Golden Leopard champion Enrique Rivero. Project was revealed in the twelfth Huelva Co-Production Forum, which closed Saturday. Finances are near $a million. "Pozo" may be the first script that Rivero has written. Zamora Films co-produces. Una Comunion is seeking finance completion from The country. Together with his first feature, Rivero grew to become among Mexico's foremost new left-of-area auteurs. Debut "Parque via" nabbed Locarno's top prize in 2008, the Ingmar Bergman Intl. Debut Award at Sweden's Gothenburg Fest, and also the Audience Award in the now-defunct Mexico City Ficco fest -- in 2009 -- among a group of kudos. Occur the The spanish language region of Castilla-La Mancha, inside a real-existence village known as Pozoamargo, pic activates Jesus, a guy who discovers he's struggling with a venereal disease, and decides to hides within the village running from their own inner devils. "Pic is definitely an analysis of guilt, an item of morality and, within the ultimate analysis, a useless sentiment," Rivero described. "The primary character will not create a feeling of audience empathy: He's an anti-hero, the alternative of Beto at 'Parque.'" "Pozo" will shoot in 2013, split up into two stages -- grape-picking in September, the olive-harvest in The month of january. Rivero will lense his sophomore feature -- "Mai Morire" -- in Feb. "Morire" is co-created by Una Comunion and Zamora Films using the support of Netherlands' Hubert Bals Fund. Pic is occur Mexico City's Xochimilco, an area whose occupants travel by boat via waterways. "Inside a place where people live like five centuries ago, a middle-aged lady returns to consider proper care of her ill mother and it is forced to take a few serious choices," Rivero described, saying "Morire" discusses "transcendence." Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com