Buena Onda Americas, the new U.S.-based Latino-focused production shingle, is rapidly raising its ante, launching three ambitious productions: “Anarcomarca,” (Pink Cocaine) “Morro velho” (The Old Mountain) and “Capitaes de areas” (Captains of the Sands)…

… Set in the epic highland of Minas in central Brazil, “Old Mountain” is billed as a Brazilian “Novecento,” charting the childhood friendship and adult-life confrontation of a rich landowner’s son and the son of his humble black foreman.

Rodrigo Santoro is in advanced talks to play the heir. Clara Bellar will play the love interest.

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