Funny Balloons accumulates 'Tiger'

'The Year from the Tiger'TAULL, The country -- Paris-based Funny Balloons has had worldwide privileges outdoors Chile to "The Entire Year from the Tiger," the 3rd film from Chile's Sebastian Lelio ("Sagrada Familia," "Navidad"). Created by Pablo and Juan p Dios Larrain's Chile-based Fabula, a number one Latin American arthouse label, "Tiger" world premieres in Worldwide Competition in the 64th Locarno festival, which begins Wednesday. Also compiled by Lelio, whose "Navidad" performed Cannes' Directors' Week last year, "Tiger" follows a prison inmate who escapes from his wrecked penitentiary throughout Chile's Feb 2010 earthquake. Depending on true occasions, "Tiger" shot just two several weeks following the quake, lensing in impacted areas. That gave "emergency and emotion" along with a documentary-feel to "Tiger," Lelio told Variety. The moments of devastation mirror the ex-con's mental condition, he added. Tiger" drawn on gold coin from Chile's Audiovisual Fund, a subsidy plan focusing on films with worldwide potential, and won a cash-prize in the Santiago festival's Work happening sidebar, stated producer Juan p Dios Larrain. Funny Balloons handled worldwide sales on Pablo Larrain's "Tony Manero" and "Publish Mortem," both Fabula productions. It's in discussions to shut a U.S. deal on "Publish Mortem," stated Funny Balloons' founder Peter Danner. Fabula, Funny Balloons and Wild Bunch created Abel Ferrara's "4:44 Last Day on the planet," that is competing at Venice. Funny Balloons also repped Mexican helmer Fernando Eimbke's "Duck Season" and "Lake Lake tahoe," both created by Christian Valdelievre's Cine Pantera. Produced in 2003, Funny Balloons released at any given time "whenever a new generation of Latin American filmmakers started to interrupt through," stated Danner. "There is no set plan. But i was lucky enough to get use some very gifted filmmakers at the start of their careers. Which has created associations." Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com