The Match Factory Board Sales on Lucrecia Martel’s ‘Nuestra Tierra’

The Match Factory has taken international sales outside the North America on Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel’s hotly anticipated documentary “Nuestra Tierra” (“Landmarks”) ahead of its premiere at the upcoming Venice Film Festival.

Cinetic Media will be handling sales in North America. The Match Factory will handle all other territories on “Nuestra Tierra” that is set to launch from the Lido in an out-of-competition slot. 

Lucrecia Martel is among Latin American cinema’s most prominent auteurs. Her credits include  psychological thriller “The Headless Woman,” period drama “Zama,” and, more recently, Björk’s concert film “Cornucopia.” She presided over the main Venice fest jury in 2019.

Martel’s long-gestating “Nuestra Tierra” – which marks her first non-fiction film – is a creative documentary exploring the subject of land ownership and indigenous struggles in Latin America.

The doc reconstructs the 2009 murder of indigenous activist Javier Chocobar, leader of the Chuschagasta indigenous community in northern Argentina by a white landowner. The murder was caught on video. It took nine years of protests before court proceedings are finally opened in 2018. The film combines the voices and photographs of the Chuschagasta community with courtroom footage “to explore the long history of colonialism and land dispossession that led to this crime,” says the provided synopsis.

“Nuestra Tierra” marks the Match Factory’s second collaboration with Martel, following their tie-up on “Zama.” The doc marks a first collaboration for Cinetic Media with the Argentinian auteur.

“Nuestra Tierra” is produced by Argentina’s Rei Pictures and New York-based indie Louverture Films. The producers include Benjamin Domenech, Santiago Gallelli, Matías Roveda, Joslyn Barnes, Javier Leoz and Julio Chavezmontes.