{"id":12592,"date":"2025-06-05T20:53:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T20:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/2025\/06\/05\/cannes-and-certain-attention-from-the-jury-award-winner-a-poet-ends-up-us-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T20:53:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T20:53:41","slug":"cannes-and-certain-attention-from-the-jury-award-winner-a-poet-ends-up-us-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/2025\/06\/05\/cannes-and-certain-attention-from-the-jury-award-winner-a-poet-ends-up-us-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannes and Certain attention from the jury award winner &#8216;A poet&#8217; ends up US Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>New Movie Acquisition<\/h2>\n<p>1-2 Special announced on Thursday that it had acquired another premiere from Cannes, obtaining all North American rights to Sim\u00f3n Mesa Soto&#8217;s film, <em>A Poet<\/em>. This movie is a winner of the UN Certain Regard Jury Prize.<\/p>\n<h2>Movie Plot<\/h2>\n<p>The young distributor plans to release the film in theaters, which tells the story of a failed writer who tries to promote a young poet and learns to live in the process. The movie features a cast including Ubeimar Rios, Rebeca Andrade, Guillermo Cardona, Allison Correa, Margarita Soto, and Humberto Restrepo. The film was shot in Medell\u00edn, Colombia, with a lineup that mostly consists of non-professional actors.<\/p>\n<h2>Filmmaker&#8217;s Background<\/h2>\n<p>Soto, along with Juan Sarmiento G. and Manuel Ruiz Montastrre, served as producers for the film. The filmmaker&#8217;s first feature, <em>Protection<\/em>, premiered at the 2021 Cannes Critics&#8217; Week and won seven awards at the 2022 Macondo Awards of the Colombian Film Academy, including Best Director and Best Film. His short film, <em>You Allow<\/em>, won the 2014 Cannes Palme d&#8217;Or.<\/p>\n<h2>Acquisition Details<\/h2>\n<p>1-2 Special negotiated the deal with Luxbox on behalf of the filmmakers. This acquisition is not the only recent purchase by 1-2 Special, as the company announced earlier in the week that it had acquired the fourteenth selection of the Cannes Directors&#8217; Fortnight, <em>SPIEGEL No. 3<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Movie Acquisition 1-2 Special announced on Thursday that it had acquired another premiere from Cannes, obtaining all North American rights to Sim\u00f3n Mesa Soto&#8217;s film, A Poet. This movie is a winner of the UN Certain Regard Jury Prize. Movie Plot The young distributor plans to release the film in theaters, which tells the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12594,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12592\/revisions\/12594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}