REY finished an essential first step in script development at both the Binger Writer’s Lab in Amsterdam and the Script & Pitch workshop at the Torino Film Lab in 2011. The project received a Development Award at the Torino Film Lab Meeting Event, a prize that enables the project to move on to the Framework  stage at the Torino Film Lab in order to further develop the project throughout 2012.

Rey is supported by the Hubert Bals Fund, Amiens Screenplay Development Support, the Torino Film Lab, the Binger FilmLab, an Australab Award, and a Chilean Corfo development grant. The project was also selected to participate in the Pavillon Les Cinémas du Monde, Cannes Film Festival & Cinéma en développement 5, Rencontres Cinémas d?Amérique Latine de Toulouse, France, 2010 and at Australab at the Valdivia International Film Festival in Chile, 2010.

REY is produced by DILUVIO in Chile and Lucie Kalmar of Mômerade in France.

LOGLINE
In 1860, a French lawyer dreamt of becoming the King of Patagonia. And he did become just that. Or so it seems.

SYNOPSIS
In 1860, a French lawyer Orllie-Antoine de Tounens crosses the Southern frontier of Chile into a region inhabited by Mapuche tribes who have successfully defended their land from European invasion for over 300 years. He has a pacific proposition for the native leaders: he will establish a constitutional monarchy, become their king, and help them defend the kingdom from the threat of Chilean occupation.
“Rey” builds a multi-faceted inner portrait of this man: from dreams to imagination, from ambition to reality, from vision to delusion. Hallucinatory, surreal, unique, “Rey” has the spectator navigate into different currents of images and sounds, inviting him to create his own version of the story.