Brazilian actors Alice Braga (“Queen of the South”) and Bianca Comparato (“3%”) have joined forces to launch South, a new production label based in Los Angeles, New York and São Paulo. The company was founded with financial backing from FLAGCX, the largest independent creative services holding company in Latin America.
Alice Braga and Bianca Comparato launch the South with 'She, Crocodile'
South will debut her first feature film, Gabriela Amaral Almeida's body horror tale "She, Crocodile," at the 12th edition of the San Sebastian Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, taking place September 25-27.
Described by its producers as a "horror fable," "She, Crocodile" tells the story of a young woman, the sole heiress to a luxury real estate agency in Rio de Janeiro, who slowly transforms into one of the titular reptiles. As a project, it received support from the MacDowell Institute Residency Program, where Amaral wrote a full-length, 50-page treatment.
According to Amaral, an emerging genre filmmaker behind fan and festival favorites like Fantasia Cheval Noir winner “The Father's Shadow” and six-time Cinema Brazil Grand Prize nominee “Friendly Beast,” “'She, Crocodile' came from my need to portray violence from the perspective of capitalism and women's issues. The film is my love letter to body horror, David Cronenberg and Douglas Sirk. Blood, guts and heart.”
