Press release

Montreal, December 2, 2003 - Atopia is pleased to announce that A SILENT LOVE by Federico Hidalgo has been officially selected as part of the World Cinema programme of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Starring Vanessa Bauche (Amores Perros), this love-triangle comic drama unfolds both in Montreal and Mexico. A SILENT LOVE is a first feature by Argentine-Canadian writer/director Federico Hidalgo and is produced by Pascal Maeder. Bauche, Hidalgo and Maeder will attend the 2004 Sundance Film Festival to promote the film and to secure sales and distribution deals for US and international territories.

Norman (Noel Burton) is a quiet, middle-aged teacher in Montreal who meets Gladys (Bauche), a beautiful Mexican woman , through the services of an Internet agency. Hope knows no bounds: disrupting his serene life, Norman flies off to Mexico to ask Gladys to marry him and move to Montreal. The young woman agrees on one condition: that her widowed mother, Fernanda (Susana Salazar), comes along. Norman readily agrees, unaware of the unpredictable consequences about to unfold. As love eludes the couple, unforeseen feelings and desires between Norman, Gladys and Fernanda boil over. Within a complex tangle of intimate relationships, tensions mount, culminating in an emotional showdown.

Atopia is currently developing several projects with Canadian filmmakers including Federico Hidalgo’s next film. The Montreal-based company most recently produced the feature-length documentary SPIT: Squeegee Punks in Traffic, which was released to wide critical and public acclaim across Canada.

Canadian broadcasting rights have been licensed to The Movie Network, Movie Central and Showcase. The production was financed by Telefilm Canada, SODEC (Québec) and The Harold Greenberg Fund. The film was shot on location in Montreal, Canada and in Toluca, Mexico.

In March 2004, A SILENT LOVE will continue its US festival tour with a special presentation at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Further information on A SILENT LOVE can be found on its official web site at www.asilentlove.com/

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News posted Tuesday, December 2, 2003.