Fuentes-Leon preps 'Vanished Elephant'

GUADALAJARA -- Helmer-scribe Javier Fuentes-Leon is preparing "The Disappeared Elephant," the follow-as much as his debut feature, "Undertow," which won Sundance's World Dramatic Competition Audience Award this year. The film noir thriller activates crime novel scribe Edo Celeste, whose girlfriend disappeared years before. Around the fifth anniversary of her disappearance, he receives an envelope with photos that appear a part of a collage, clues as to the happened to her. The pic was initially occur L.A., and can now lense in Peru, placing aspects of classic film noir from the backdrop of Lima, "a damp, sprawling, chaotic urban area," Fuentes-Leon stated, "full of movement, excitement and sharp contrasts between your haves and also have-nots." Moving in the roads of Lima to Peru's Paracas beaches, " 'Elephant' asks constantly: What's fiction and what's reality?," and explores "the creative process, and also the loss and avoid which remains when something close or personal escapes us," Fuentes-Leon described at Mexico's Guadalajara festival. The pic's title describes an elephant-formed rock-formation off Paracas, which flattened and disappeared in to the sea throughout Peru's 2007 earthquake. Skedded to shoot fall 2012, "Elephant" is to establish at Lima's Elcalvo Films. Fuentes-Leon and Colombia's Dynamo, a producer on "Undertow," will work together to boost the financing and also to result in the film. Peru's Oscar submission, "Undertow" was acquired for U.S. distribution through the Film Collaborative for theatrical and Wolfe Delivering for DVD. The pic would be a revenue achievement for Shoreline, and made a sturdy 155,836 ($208,976) in The country. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com