Scheduled for launch in 2025, “Dying of a Comic” (“La Muerte de un Comediante”), renowned Argentine actor Diego Peretti’s first operate film as director, has been acquired for world product sales by FilmSharks.

Breaking out in TV sequence “The Pretenders” (2001-04), directed by Damián Szifrón, Peretti obtained most fast uncover for comedy, akin to “It’s Not You, However Me,” though he could be extraordinarily environment friendly in drama or Lucía Puenzo’s “The German Physician” or humour-laced thrillers like “The Heist of the Century.” 

Peretti has directed alongside Javier Beltramino, a revered decide on Argentina’s animation scene (“Rice and Matchsticks”) and a former Telefonica Studios manufacturing supervisor.  

Now in post-production, the film stars Peretti as Juan Debré, an actor who has carried out the hero of a TV sequence for his complete occupation, oblivious to his true self. Recognized with a terminal illness, he flees to Belgium, the land of his childhood hero – a forgotten comic e-book character – the place he asks if he might probably be an precise life hero, inserting his life on the street for a merely set off.

Falling in with three youthful taking part immigrants, he rapidly finds himself on a mission which can reply his question. 

Malena Villa, fast setting up a formidable curriculum – “El Angel,” “100 Days to Fall in Love,” “Matadero” and now “The Wailing,” prized at San Sebastian last yr – co-stars in “Dying of a Comic.”  

To portray the protagonist’s existential catastrophe, “we now have chosen visible and narrative assets that steer away from solemnity, counting on the aesthetics of comics to look into the abyss with the eyes of a kid,” Peretti talked about.

“The estranged standpoint of our protagonist guides us by the plot,” he added, citing surrealist René Magritte: “I wish to breathe new life into the way in which we take a look at the extraordinary issues round us. However how ought to one look? Like a toddler, the primary time it encounters a actuality exterior itself.” 

“Dying of a Comic” The film is produced by Orsai (“The Finest Coronary heart Assault of My Life,” “Extra Respect, I’m Your Mom”), which funds all its initiatives by a community-based crowdfunding model, of over 15,000 contributors. It’s headed by Argentina Hernán Casciari, a multi-tasking media decide who has branched out from radio in Spain to writing books and stage performs and finally producing and sometimes writing motion pictures (“Más respeto que soy tu madre”) and sequence (“El mejor infarto de mi vida”).    

FilmSharks worldwide product sales & acquisitions exec Federico Pascua will attend this week’s Iberseries Platino & Industria, the place he’ll introduce the film to shoppers. 

“Diego Peretti’s is without doubt one of the most renown actor’s in Latin America and we’ve  been in love with this superb challenge as his debut as a director since day 1 and teaming with Hernán Casciari’ Orsai s imaginative and prescient to provide this movie was an awesome match,” Pascua knowledgeable Selection.